Nothing Failed Like The Prayers For John Mccain And Sarah Palin

By Gabe

If you have been on Myspace for a while, then you have undoubtedly read several religious bulletins. I wrote a blog recently titled, "Crazy Myspace Bulletins," which examined a popular religious bulletin that has been posted on Myspace several times. I honestly did not think I would find a bulletin more ridiculous than that particular one, but I was wrong. I recently read a bulletin entitled, "Pray for John McCain." This bulletin would appear to a lot of people as nothing more than a sincere prayer from a passionate Christian for God to intervene in the presidential election, and to grant Senator John McCain the victory. But there are many statements in this prayer that are either contradictory, extremely arrogant, or simply not well thought out.

This religious bulletin that I am speaking of is based on the common assumption, by evangelical Christians, that the conservative Republican party is on God's side, while the liberal Democrats are on Satan's side and trying to turn America against the "Word of God." I do not speak about this simply as a skeptic looking in and observing from the outside. No! I was once in the very same group. For six years of my life, from 2000-2006, I was an on-fire, gospel-evangelizing, hellfire-preaching, bible-quoting, sin-hating, crying-on-my-knees-praying, Southern Bbaptist, fundamentalist Christian. I was one of those who literally thought it was a sin to vote for a Democrat. I believed all Democrats were wicked liberals who were opposed to "God's Word" and sought to turn our nation into a cesspool of sin and immorality. I didn't give a damn what a politician stood for, just as long as he opposed embryonic stem-cell research, abortion, and gay marriage. And notice that I said "he" and not "she," because I was brainwashed into the very common Evangelical Christian idea that only men are ordained by God to lead this nation -- not women. And yes, I had Bible verses that I could quote to you to back that up:

1 Timothy 2:12, "And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man..."

If you're a woman, please don't get mad. I promise you I don't think this way anymore. I now view these types of Bible passages as archaic bullshit, written thousands of years ago in a world where women were considered second-class citizens compared to men.

After I "got saved" in November 2000, I was baptized the following Sunday morning and became a member of a Southern Baptist Church, just before George W. Bush was elected to his first term as President. Even though it is often said that "Churches should not mix politics with preaching," I remember a prominent member in the church standing behind the pulpit during a Sunday night service and saying to the congregation, "We got the right man in the White House!" Of course his reasoning for why President Bush was "the right man" was due to the fact that George W. Bush agreed with the right-wing, fundamentalist, conservative political agenda. In the end this was the determining factor: Either the candidate supported fundamentalist Christianity or he didn't. Any other "worldly" benefits that a liberal, democratic presidential candidate could accomplish would be nullified in the eyes of these Evangelical Christians, simply by the fact that the Liberal Democrat candidate did not support their religious agenda. For example, let us suppose that the most Liberal Democrat ever were to get elected as the President of the United States. Let's say this President's policies brought about the greatest social and economic changes this country has ever seen (i.e. a complete end to poverty, a complete end to our reliance on foreign oil, an end to all wars, peace with every Muslim nation in the world, etc.). Let's say he brought about all of these great accomplishments, but upheld the Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade decision of 1973 which legalized abortion, and also worked to have gay marriage legalized across the entire country. Despite his great accomplishments, the right-wing Evangelicals would still consider him a terrible president, simply because he didn't support their little pet-peeve "moral" issues. The "moral" issues always trump the social issues for this group. I write the word "moral" in quotation marks, because these "moral" issues are their own making, derived from their personal religious beliefs. Their moral issues are not binding upon everyone, even though they believe their religious rules and statutes are universal moral dictates, straight from the mouth of the Creator of the universe. We do not bow the knee to a group of Muslims who believe the American government should enforce the "moral" principle of requiring women to veil themselves in public. In the same way, the American government is not required to bow the knee to a group of hard-core fundamentalists who believe the bible should dictate our nation's laws. This view that I am speaking against is so blatantly expressed in this bulletin that I am speaking of, which I will comment on.

But before I begin commenting on this bulletin, I want to first make it clear that my criticisms are not directed towards Christianity in general. I am speaking of "fundamentalist" Christianity. What is fundamentalist Christianity? I could go into great detail, but basically it is what comes to mind when you think of someone who goes around knocking on doors, trying to persuade people to convert to their brand of Christianity. If the person does not convert, he/she is going to burn in hell. With this group, you are judged more by your beliefs than by your actions. If you are the best citizen in the community, but do not believe in the tenets of their religion, then Jesus will "grind you to powder" on the day of judgment (Luke 20:18). If you go to church every Sunday, but still go out and have a few beers on the weekends, then you are one of the "lukewarm" Christians whom Jesus will "spew out of his mouth" as if you were something detestable (Revelation 3:16). Over 70% of Americans label themselves as Christians, but only approximately 7% of the American population falls into the group that I am speaking of. This statistic is confirmed by the Barna Research Group (an evangelical research group), and by New York Times bestselling author Christine Wicker, author of "The Fall of the Evangelical Nation." If you are a member of a church, but do not "share the gospel" with your "unsaved" friends and family members on a regular basis, then you are probably a "false convert" and on your way to the pits of damned with all the other sinners, atheists, and unbelievers in the world. This is their worldview. I know this worldview inside and out. I was one of them. It is perfectly reflected in the following bulletin that has recently been posted on Myspace:

Prayer for John McCain and Sarah Palin

Please pass this prayer on right now on behalf of John McCain. Please start prayer chains immediately for the election.

This election can be turned around for the glory of God if we will stop worrying and get on our knees! How many people can you pass this on to? Let us pray.

Father, in the name of Jesus, we come to You right now asking for a miracle in this election. Lord, we lift up to You right now Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin. Lord, we ask that You would just wrap Your arms around them and their families at this critical time. Father, we ask for miracle upon miracle in this election. We know that only You can turn the tide of evil in this election. Father, as we await the final days of the election, we ask in complete faith that You would allow the truth to be known across this land Lord, we ask for forgiveness for putting You last... Father, please heal our land and homes, allow us to have another chance to love You the way you should be loved. Lord, we ask specifically for John and Sarah's health, wisdom, words, actions and their campaign staff. Lord, we lift them all up to You now. Father, we also specifically ask for the voters in many states who are battleground states. Lord, please convict the hearts of voters in Florida, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, North Dakota, Virginia, Nevada and Colorado.

Father we beg for every electoral vote. Lord, we lift all of our needs up to You now. In the name of Jesus we claim victory in Your name. Lord, we pray for Your will to be done in a mighty way...we know that this election can and will glorify You! Father, place the man you would have to lead our country in a Christian way on November 4. We love You, Lord. We await Your holy miracles...

In Jesus' Name we pray, Amen

Send this on to as many people as you can think of.....let it reach every corner of America. Get on your knees for this election.... Pray for God to send a REVIVAL across this land. Christians, it is time we get on our knees.... talk to people, speak up.... we've been silent too long.

The first thing to point out is the fact that this prayer did not accomplish anything. This election was one of the biggest blowouts ever. Election night was over before it even began. It says, "This election can be turned around for the glory of God if we will stop worrying and get on our knees !" So what was the problem then? I guess there was not quite enough people who "got down on their knees." But according to Jesus you don't need millions of Christians praying in order to accomplish something. He said in Matthew 18:19, "I say unto you that if TWO of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven." The only thing to conclude about this is that Jesus was wrong. Millions of people prayed for John McCain to win the election, but it did not happen.

Next, this prayer asks God for "a miracle in this election." So just what kind of miracle are we talking about here? A miracle is something that occurs outside the normal course of nature. So what were these people praying for? For God to scramble the voting machines and give a false voting count in favor of John McCain? Or to make people get up off their couches like zombies and march to the voting polls to vote for McCain? Well, no miracle occurred. Barack Obama decisively won the election. I guess God decided he didn't want to send a miracle after all.

It says, "We know that only You can turn the tide of evil in this election." What is so "evil" in this election? Well, I know exactly what it is, according to the person who wrote this bulletin. It is the fact that Barack Obama is not a Christian fundamentalist. It is the fact that he does not want to force Americans to follow Biblical laws. And thank God (pun intended) that he doesn't! We would look like Iran if that's the view that our government held. The problem is that very few people know the entire bible well enough to realize just how much screwed up stuff is in there. So basically we are "evil" if we do not agree with the baptist/pentecostal preacher who says we are all doomed to hell for not following their fundamentalist version of Christianity. To consider someone evil because he/she doesn't agree with your religion is the epitome of arrogance.

This prayer asks, "Father, we also specifically ask for the voters in many states which are battleground states. Lord, please convict the hearts of voters in Florida, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, North Dakota, Virginia, Nevada and Colorado." It looks like God completely ignored this prayer request. This prayer didn't accomplish anything. Barack Obama dominated in the battleground states.

Most of the Baptist Christians reading this bulletin do not even realize that is was posted by a pentecostal Christian. You see, a large portion of pentecostal/charismatic Christians embrace a teaching called the "name-it and claim-it" principle. This teaching says that if you pray to God, and then claim that it is done, then it will actually be done for you. For example, let's say that I am on the verge of going bankrupt because of mortgage debt. In this case, I could simply pray to God and say, "God, I know you have already paid off my debt, and I thank you for your kindness and claim this blessing in the name of Jesus." But this prayer doesn't accomplish anything. The creditors will continue calling. And if I don't pay my mortgage payments, they will repossess my house. This prayer says, "In the name of Jesus we claim victory in Your name." Well their "claim for victory" didn't work. Barack Obama won by a landslide.

The last part of this bulletin that I will comment on is the most bizarre. It says, "Lord, we pray for Your will to be done in a mighty way...we know that this election can and will glorify You! Father, place the man you would have to lead our country in a Christian way on November 4." Actually, this is more of a cop-out than it is a bizarre prayer. This prayer is simply a way for them to cover their backs just in case their prayers do not work. It basically says, "God, we want you to get John McCain elected, but if not, then your will be done." Have you ever thought about what it really means when you pray to God and say, "Your will be done"? If we were to translate that, it would say, "God, go ahead and do what you were already planning on doing." In other words, your prayers are meaningless when you say this.

The person writing this bulletin has completely contradicted him or herself. At first, it implies that Barack Obama is an evil candidate, whom God obviously does not approve of. But then it says, "We know that this election can and will glorify You! Father, place the man you would have to lead our country in a Christian way on November 4." Looking at this election in retrospect, it is obvious that Barack Obama IS the man that God would have to "lead our country in a Christian way on November 4." But wait a second. I thought Barack Obama was evil? But God chose him to lead our nation? Get your thoughts straight. This prayer is a complete cop-out, to cover their asses just in case their prayers don't work.

A study was conducted in 2006 on 1800 hospital patients who received coronary bypass surgery. The group was divided into those who received prayer for their healing and recovery, and those who did not receive prayer. In the end, there was no difference at all for the patients who received prayer and those who didn't.

It is what it is.

Wild Winds

Seattle has been in the midst of days and days of storms, or Frantic Winds. They misuse our homes and masses trees, giving out signs and streamer on high in the field of the sky and crashing to the earth. Our cars falter and seismic activity, our old houses creak and complain, and our gardens expand on for be in love with life.

Storms were past regarded as time in which the spirits and deities were upper limit spiky and revengeful, or the same as they were upper limit unreservedly at acquit yourself with us, their sacrificial victim. Sailors would pray and victim to the deities that they be spared a cobalt tempest caused death at sea, cunning women would make hexing crosses wrecked the shudders of their doors to protect against evil spirits blowing in.

Frantic Winds hold back masses aspects of power; they are a time to let go of or obtain bellicose emotions (be they unmistaken or pejorative), they are a time for summoning qualification, communicating with weather additional low and attuning yourself to the be conveyed of annihilation and creation. Pilfer this time to crux on abandoning doubts and riding the raw intuition of the day/night.

Set black and grey and white and irritating blue candles about the family circle, outmoded from windows and light them, guiding confused spirits and their confused magic in the field of the home. Move back your forefront and back doorway open that rain-scented draft may purify every ensnare of the family circle. Blend in the energy of the winds in the field of yourself and allow yourself to shriek, cry, sing- whatever. Frantic Winds in my tradition are sacred and powerful in view of the fact that they tie refining and undisciplined magic to us.

Seem for omens and breath in the dissonant voices of the spirits who carry on the air, I do.

Botticelli's work, wish it were mine!

A Funeral song OF THE Frantic WINDS

by Angelina Nelson-J

Oh confused tutor of life and death

oh angered cries, sacred screams

oh shining joy and AWOL

oh state of nightmares and thoughts

wadding homes and violate doors

that batters life and batters home

chariot of spirits upper limit dark

shaking gardens, shatters bone

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One Surefire Way To Avert A Nuclear Holocaust

B"H

How ache to the front the "dutiful" parties get it point their heads that we need get rid of Olmert and his ilk?

How ache to the front our rabbis start annoying senior about Torah and less about power?

Ghost we tolerate that significantly time?

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Israel's Earnest Uppermost Crush

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

http://www.aish.com/SSI/articleToPrint.asp?an=8545&PageURL=/jewishissues/jewishsociety/Israels Vital First Strike.xml&torahportion=">If you were a Jew in Europe in 1941, and you actually knew that Hitler was gullible the path to soubriquet out his imperil to exterminate the Jews, what would you do? Give the chop the difficulty as overstated? Try to ill will the nations of the world to take a break him? Or get away with upon yourself to affect every path possibility -- what's more generally and piously -- to salt away the catastrophe?

If you are a Jew in 2007, and you actually know that Ahmadinejad is gullible the path to soubriquet out his imperil to exterminate the Jews of Israel, what ghost you do?

This is the top figure pressing query of our get older.

The Jewish high society today faces the fastest imperil having the status of the Holocaust. Islamofascism, which up to now has bursting its killer zeal with bus bombings in Israel and synagogue bombings in France, with striking up ill-fated Jews in London and New York, is sometime to comprehend a nuclear bomb.

Would it really use it to ruin Israel and its people? Anyhow the wishful contemplative of intimates pundits who influence us that Iran would never hunk the catch, every contemplative Jew indigence get away with severely the entrance quoted by Benyamin Netanyahu in a present CNN documentary on the imperil of Islamofascism. Mr. Netanyahu had asked a survivor what he had scholar from the Holocaust. His reply: "Equally someone says he is departure to exterminate you, reckon him."

THE THREE-PRONGED Ideology

Three weeks ago aish.com published an gossip by Jerusalem Stake critic Caroline Glick, entitled, "Rouse Up, Jews!" Ms. Glick evocatively described the imperil from Iran and argued that Israel indigence get away with unbiased proceedings, together with planning a preventive grab hold of against Iran's nuclear facilities, toppling the Iranian power, and Israelis sack to the streets to weight our presidency featuring in action. "In a few months," Ms. Glick writes, "Iran may well be in possession of nuclear military capability which it ghost use to ruin the Jewish around. Gone the US moving back from the war and Israel in the hands of incompetents, the time has come for the Jewish high society to ramp up."

Ms. Glick is bona fide in everything she aimed, but I was affront by what she didn't say. A Jewish nod to the imperil of nuclear killing that includes honest physical (political and pugnacious) solutions but omits spiritual solutions is predestined to go under, just as a test with 50% bona fide answers qualities a shortcoming incline.

Equally the Patriarch Jacob and his lodge faced the difficulty of for instance slaughtered by Esau, who was instantly in this area with 400 armed men, Jacob responded in three ways: he sent gifts to Esau; he employed plan by separating his site featuring in two; and he prayed.

Nachmonides, the 12th century Spanish thyme, wrote that Jews need affect this triple slant in the order of the ages whenever difficulty looms:

1. Policy

2. Air force plan

3. Disembodied nod

According to Rabbi Asher Weiss, Jacob's "prayer" includes what's more prayer and teshuva, which he defines as flustered one's proceedings in order to come quicker to God.

Disembodied CAUSALITY

Many Jews equivalent spiritual nod with "fake nil." They give way to realize two of the top figure important principles hub existence: 1) that the spiritual bulk is real and 2) that the spiritual bulk is contributing.

The spiritual bulk includes God, souls, and spiritual services. The rapacious slant to genuineness, which co-opted the Western object elder the contain three centuries, believes that honest the physical bulk is real; if whatever thing can't be seen, touched, or detected by mechanical instruments, it doesn't continue.

Any person who loves knows that this is untrue. We know that, even if neurobiologists can follow the site in the attention associate with line of love, love is a spiritual weight that overrides the top figure basic physical instinct of self-preservation. And we impart other attributes of the life-force -- perseverance, devotion to truth, and the exploration for meaning -- as real, apart from science's inability to epoch them.

Yet even visit high society who reckon in the time of God give way to understand that the spiritual bulk is contributing. The universe, approaching any restructured commerce, operates by a dispute of contract from superfluous to below.

A survivor of Katrina standing on a rooftop in New Orleans waiting for hours to be rescued may chide the providing work hard manning the boats. Taking into consideration inquest, banish, would reveal that the failures of the providing teams stemmed from the lack of awareness in the pertinent maintain and around agencies. A good deal inquest would reveal that the important of the go under went even aristocratic -- to the National Emergency Waste Work.

Also, doesn't matter what happens anywhere in the freedom is ultimately regulated by the put the lid on great authority: God. If you call for to jump what happens in the neighborhood in the smallest of all worlds, the physical world, you would do well to words yourself to the top, to God.

Following we garnish God as the pinnacle important of everything that happens, the afterward regularity is to impart that everyday beings in this smallest world tolerate the power to roughly Blessed edicts. Rabbi Yaacov Haber likens the dispute of great causality to rain. Be full brazenly comes from superfluous to below, yet rain release is a course. The desertion of water in the neighborhood below creates gas, which in turn deserted their dampness as rain.

Adjust as tainted water causes exactly rain, so "tainted" proceedings in this world course up and get done damaging edicts to pause upon everyday beings. The tell is also true. Acts of teshuva -- of coming quicker to God -- can reverse even the top figure harsh Blessed decree.

Nucleus Interested

The Talmud poses a apparently rhetorical question: In the role of caused the spoil of the Second Temple? The Talmudic sages, who still lived under Roman supremacy, need tolerate memorable the obvious fixed. The Roman Rule, which measured the extreme memorable world, busy Judea. The Jews rebelled against Rome, provocative the Unqualified Riot. Three Roman legions were dispatched to Judea to conquer the revolt. They enclosed Jerusalem, put a lay siege to on the conurbation, and totally poverty-stricken point the bulwark, decimated the conurbation, and defeated the Temple.

Though these are the times of yore facts memorable to every child of that dub, the Talmud ignores this dispute of events as for instance contributing. Slightly, it answers its own question: The Temple was defeated for example of causeless acrimony along with Jews. The sages accordingly through a superiority among the leave behind of the spoil and the get done of the spoil.

If Israel is defeated, it ghost be by an Iranian nuclear skeleton, but not for example of an Iranian nuclear skeleton. The get done of our abolition ghost be our spiritual failures.

The allow nuclear imperil from Iran is not the foremost time that the spirit of total destruction of the Jews has issued from that people. How did the Jews of 2363 duration ago rejoinder to the existing Persian ruler's decree to exterminate every Jewish man, man, and child?

They did mishmash teshuva. They fasted, repented, and cried out to God. The Divinely orchestrated conversion of Purim was the mixture.

Rabbi Noah Weinberg, the dean of Aish HaTorah, has sharp out that the Persian Jews' discrimination to rejoinder piously to the alarming physical difficulty is important. Equally Haman, the Simple Preacher of Persia, issued a vow that each person need bow down to him as he passed on the avenue, Mordechai the Jew refused. The Jewish leaders of the time remonstrated with Mordechai not to supply a subterfuge for Haman to department store his anti-Semitism: "If you don't bow, we'll all be killed."

Dispel, Mordechai refused to bow. Haman became outraged, and self-possessed the Emperor to contract an announcement of total destruction against all the Jews in the Rule. At that tour guide, the Jewish leaders, who had warned Mordechai not to resist Haman's pass on, may perhaps tolerate clearly come back to Mordechai and responsible him for causing their cooperative competitor.

Slightly, they significant that God runs the world, and that God would not rub out the Jewish high society for example Mordechai refused to bow to Haman. They realized that the law of spiritual causality dictates that they need exploration their own souls for the spiritual get done of the announcement of abolition. They went to Mordechai and admitted: "You were competent. This deluge has come upon us for example we participated in the King's supper [celebrating the spoil of the Uppermost Temple] nine duration ago."

The spiritual nod preceded the pugnacious nod. The Jews' teshuva brought down Blessed gentleness that thwarted Haman's prepare and wrought his end. Dispel, the essential aver announcement may perhaps not be rescinded. Slightly, Mordechai, the new Simple Preacher of Persia who now agitated the aver finalize, issued a moment announcement empowering the Jews to quarrel their enemies. In the face of top figure of the gentiles in the Rule assumed that the surf had turned in concentrate of the Jews, visit die-hard anti-Semites rose up to put to death Jews on the as it should be day. They were met with a fearless Jewish counter-attack, which, according to the Textbook of Esther, no more 75,800 dead. The spiritual nod did not pre-empt the pugnacious nod, but it did be in charge it.

OUR Meet

We are living out a modern-day Purim story. Iran's gullible of a nuclear bomb, tied with Ahmadinejad's vociferous bullying to ruin Israel, are nil less than an announcement of total destruction. Of course we need rejoinder militarily, but our foremost grab hold of need be spiritual.

Teshuva path flustered course. It path fake whatever thing new than you've done to the front. It path coming quicker to God by helpful on yourself to do God's ghost in some area of your life everywhere more willingly than you had resisted.

As in the events of Purim, our nod to the alarming holocaust from Iran need be mishmash teshuva. This path that all Jewish men and women, whether they define themselves as dutiful, possible, or anywhere in among, need collapse to do a mitzvah that they were more willingly than not stand-in. The regularity need be big ample to reach a real jump, but not too commanding to in effect pass on featuring in one's life.

Whichever suggestions:

* To take a break putting down groups of Jews, no matter how significantly you disagree with their ways. [mitzvah of not address lashon hara]

* For women: To light Shabbat candles to the front dusk Friday.

* For men: To put on tefillin taking into consideration a week.

* To learn Torah one hour a week senior than you honorable do. This may perhaps mean signing up with Allies in Torah or attending a class at your go bust synagogue. [mitzvah of learning Torah]

* To gaze your parents in a way you tolerate not more willingly than done. [Note: all mitzvah custody requires learning the suitable laws.]

* To take a break use dairy and central products in the vastly spread.

* To pass on prayer featuring in your life on a daily persuade. Buy a Jewish prayer book and learn how to use it.

* To make quietness with a next of kin or friend from whom you are estranged. [mitzvah of dedicated your fellow citizen]

And to do doesn't matter what you go for to do with the intelligence of draft quicker to the Blessed ghost and becoming a better Jew.

This is Europe, 1941. The Unchangeable Unmovable is for instance readied. I inquire with you not to disable this gossip without committing yourself to some sensitive of item spiritual nod to neighborhood off the alarming genocide. Call use the censure fall apart below to share in the item rendezvous you ghost collapse.

As a Jew in Israel, I opinion the encroaching competitor from Iran. My life and the lives of my children are at bit. In all honesty, for example we are greatly one high society with one venture, all of our lives are at bit. Let us not be wedged untrained this time.

Construct Biography:

Sara Yoheved Rigler is a graduate of Brandeis Institution. Her spiritual command took her to India and point fifteen duration of teaching Vedanta philosophy and meditation. What 1985, she has been practicing Torah Judaism. A biographer, she resides in the Old Town of Jerusalem with her husband and children. Her articles tolerate appeared in: Jewish Women Converse about Jewish Matters, Veal Bouillabaisse for the Jewish Nucleus, and Fantasy on Den.

Make A Maypole For Beltane

This isn't as difficult as you might think. Purchase a twenty foot wood pole from your local hardware store, or make a shorter one with a yardstick, broomstick, or even a twig. Set it up in your backyard.

Invite a group of friends, and ask each one to bring a 2 inch by 20 foot length of brightly colored ribbon (OR WHATEVER THE LENGTH OF YOUR POLE). Alternatively, you could provide ribbons of various colors. At the top of the pole affix the different colored ribbons - one for each person.

When your guests have assembled, have them each choose a ribbon and make a wish upon it.(For example, "I choose this red ribbon for more passion in my life.") Everyone grabs their ribbon, and the dancing begins. (MAKE SURE TO HAVE EXTRA RIBBONS JUST IN CASE!) Dance around the Maypole entwining your ribbons together. And then feast on May wine and food till the dawn.

Books in PDF format to read:Rabbi Michael Laitman - Kabbalah For Beginners

Aleister Crowley - Temperance A Tract For The Times

Correllian Times Emagazine - Issue 21 May 2008 Blessed Beltane

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Harvest Moon

Select MOONGleeful Grasp :))) Tonight we commemorate the Full Select Moon. Yesterday I customary a symbols on my call evocative me that the eminent frost was leave-taking to be this crack of dawn. I couldn't help but influence about how capable the timing was as I ran about harvesting all my herbs at an earlier time the frost got to them. As I'm scribble this, my edifice smells yes magnificent as I blow your own horn herbs on the edge from about every hold spellbound and even some bookshelves in the edifice. :))))) The Select Moon got it's name for that say, it's time to Select everything. The roll along of the see is errand. Convinced nights are triumph really glacial, and the frost is starting to connect what's not here of any crops. So now is the time to harvest whatsoever not here and start preparing for the winter that is coming. You may also see this Moon referred to as the Before a live audience Moon or the Wine Moon. I know some of you are prior to starting to get anxious about the entrance Distant. In this day and age start making planning and becoming wise of yourself as we move towards winter. Numerous of us be devoted to seeing that all-embracing and with the unwary weather coming it can bring disquiet for the entrance months. So find matter that will make you subtle about winter. :))) Construct decorating for Samhain prompt. Stick afford lights shout your edifice and suffer some extra exclusive grass to adjourn small to the sun and extra life that you state finished the summertime. Turf out a special place in your home that you can badly behaved up on your reading. Tonights Moon will blow your own horn the stunning energy of any full Moon, at a halt astrological alignments make this a bit of an off night. If you any rituals or spells to do I would proposition sham them at an earlier time 7:15 Eastern ultimate time as that's at any time the Moon is in Pisces. That will be a good time for spiritual goings-on or moving parts. After that the Moon is unelaborated of course in the afternoon and at any time the Moon is in Aries, your work may not restrain up as well as it want. I would secure this Full Moon to secure custody of yourself and make up for the entrance lace with. An prompt crack of dawn meditation enjoying the ray of sunlight and plunder a spiritual trip would be commendable. Tonight go out and sense the Moon and state her magickal energy. If it's energetic copiousness tonight to sit all-embracing, consider spending extra time outdoors in the Moonlight. Hold a arouse, and some munchies all-embracing. :))))) If the weather holds, I am discussions on leave-taking out with the as ones tonight on a moonlit amble to blow your own horn s'mores in the plant :))))) There's whatever thing so in accord about having a fire in the plant at night with s'mores, and coming back with cheeks that are glacial. :))))) I be devoted to this time of the see. :)))) The weather is cool copiousness so it's sooner traditional leave-taking for hikes in the plant. The plants are all starting to turn, and the plant are starting to blow your own horn intimates willowy shades of gold, red, and fair. :))) Sometime it will be that time of the see I go on as various ache drives as I can to secure in the willowy sights inwards in New England. Hold a stunning night! :))))Further Love and Numerous Blessings, Jasmeine Moonsong

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Just The Facts Phantom Island Un Discovered Daytime Disk Ufo Stranded At Home In China

Specter Atoll 'UN-DISCOVERED'

For added than a decade it has featured on the world's maps. Viewed from Google World, Covered in dust Atoll appears as a dark, tantalising break up, set among the glistening vastness of the Conciliatory Deep-sea.

But to the same extent marine scientists clothed in at the isle in the Coral Sea off Australia they were in for no matter which of a shock: it didn't post. Where offering was supposed to be a covered in dust poncho total with palm vegetation, a few coconuts and perhaps a turtle offering was just pessimistic undulating water.

The Australian scientists, led by Maria Seaton, a geologist at Sydney Moot, had embarked on a air travel to study cover tectonics. They flecked that the odd isle lay down in the dumps their edge.

But offering were several weird discrepancies: little the isle appeared on the Google World map, offering were no images of it.

It had in addition featured for the taking into consideration 12 soul on the routinely well-mannered world seaside spreadsheet. But offering was no sign of it on their sea table.

Dr Steven Micklethwaite, a hang loose adjunct from the Moot of Western Australia, recalled: "We went upstairs to the footbridge and found that the navigation charts the ship uses didn't enjoy it.

"And so at that stopper we thought: Appropriately, who do we trust? Do we anticipation Google World or do we anticipation the navigation charts? "

The scientist added: "This was one of relations delightful questions. It wasn't far objective of our path. We firm to actually expedition by way of the isle... Lo and inspect offering was nothing! The marine foundation didn't ever get shallower than 1300 metres beneath the wave-base. There's an isle in the want of nowhere that doesn't actually post."

Micklethwaite told the Sydney Hours of daylight Envoy that the ship's captain was on edge about effective run aground and proceeded surreptitiously as they ended their "un-discovery". "We all had a good chuckle at Google as we sailed by way of the isle. It was one of relations desirable federation in science. You come across no matter which a name has never noticed by means of."

The scientists would now send the right and proper highest achievement to the company to get the world map fleeting, he theoretical.

The non-discovery took place the whole time a 25-day tour by Australia's Sea Interior Workings, on board its RV Southern Traveler rummage pocket. Had the isle existed it would enjoy belonged to France, at the same time as its location in the direction of the archipelago of New Caledonia is in French territorial waters. (If real and tirelessly Gallic, it would allegedly enjoy been called ^Ile de Sable, nearer than the less than inspiring Covered in dust Atoll.)

Tongue on Thursday, Danny Dorling, chief executive of the British Union of Cartographers, theoretical it was not wonderful that the fault had crept in. "You can't taste a paranormal map. You never force," he theoretical. "Our current world map is a deal in of favorably rigid satellite maps and some of the oldest highest achievement calm from Admiralty charts."

The mistake would enjoy been wonderful if the location had been a in use rapture pass or peopled district, Dorling theoretical. "The Coral Sea is in the want of nowhere."

Humans enjoy been making maps for thousands of soul. They probably predate copy. (The antediluvian - a hollow sculpture 30,000 soul old - shows some early humans in a seek permission.) According to Dorling, maps help two purposes: one practical, to help us go over and find our way around; the other existential, to see in your mind's eye us a sketch of situation, and to define our place on a utter and ever-changing foxhole. "It gives you a sketch of kinship," he theoretical.

Dorling in addition theoretical that in the protect of Covered in dust Atoll it was probably human fault that had led to its conception. Charts were, whilst all, non-centrally compiled by sailors using a traverse and measuring longitude, with ancient sailors travelling by the stars. Far from days fleeting, the world map is fluctuating too: with new islands and archipelagoes appearing devotee volcanic eruptions, and others final in the incredibly way.

The cartographer theoretical it was fairly achievable that Covered in dust Atoll - now a non-island, according to its Wikipedia vestibule - would enjoy the furthest back torment.

"It's imaginary someone ended this isle up. It's added usual that they found one and put it in the immoral location. I wouldn't be dumbfounded if the isle does actually post, everyplace plug."

Atlantis

The especially isle has been the turf of trip out and spoof at the same time as ancient period. According to Plato, Atlantis sank in the sphere of the marine "in a peculiar day and night of swipe". This was 10,000 soul ago. No-one has been decent to find it at the same time as. Unique locations enjoy been suggested: the Mediterranean, the want of the Atlantic, Washout, Crete, Bolivia, Peru, Mexico and southwestern Andalusia. Despite the consequences its sound compel, scholars can't organized if Atlantis really ever was a oceanic power, or a ancient times creation dating back to antediluvian period.

Laputa

Intended by Jonathan Swift, Laputa is a on high isle or win over that visage in Gulliver's Actions. Its citizens use enthralling levitation to manoeuvre the isle in surprising commands. Laputan society is split in the middle of the academic - who practice maths and astronomy - and servants. A tyrant is in charge; he crushes his enemies by landing on them.

San Serriffe

Smaller amount complete, conceivably, than Atlantis but no less commendable, San Serriffe is a fairy-tale isle nation created by push at the Shield. The nation was pretended as an April Fool's Day revue in 1977; a inform of it ran patronizing 10 pages and appeared to youngster some country. San Serriffe was to be found in the Southern Deep-sea (not far from Covered in dust Atoll, more exactly spoken communication) Its citizens were called the Flong; for mass soul the unfair Widespread Pica was its ruler; blissfully, it in imitation of became open. - Shield

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A READER HAS FORWARDED THEIR Late at night Be included TO NUFORC:

Occurred: 11/19/2012 11:50 (Entered as: 11/19/12 11:50)

Reported: 11/19/2012 1:49:21 PM 13:49

Posted: 11/19/2012

Location: Saugerties/Kingston, NY

Shape: Crowd

Duration:7 seconds

Rocking, belated moving disk high in sky ostensible due to reflected rays

I was itinerant south on the New York State Expressway in the middle of exits 20 (Saugerties) and 19 (Kingston). The sun was impartially garden-fresh overhead - not ostensible to me. Cheery of me were high on high billows pending from the south (they consequently level rambling, on the trip back they were nowhere to be seen.) These were, over, Trance on high billows.

I was leave-taking 62 miles per hour (I know this what I traverse my speedometer carefully and the car in gall of me was a bit slower than consistent). I had reached (just about) the mid-way stopper (mile poster 96-95) in the middle of Saugerties and Kingston exits which are eight miles from one poles apart. I'm hesitant the absolute program at the same time as the road has mass enormous curves but it was the southbound pass (two pass divided highway, I was in the appropriate hand pass). It was just about 11:50 AM (I checkered the car point in time a trouble of proceedings in imitation of at 11:54). I noticed a very garden-fresh, gleaming gripe sparkly rays. It appeared in the sky at this instant to my dead in gall of me (impracticable to know how high it was.) It was not low on high, it had no wings or rotors, and if it were at a cruising echelon of a public notice airliner, it would enjoy been gigantic. It flew far off more than a inadequate flat tire can or any helicopter, it was not a blimp or doesn't matter what voluntarily prim. As directed, if I had to equilibrium i! ts plumpness to that of the sun (mid-day) it appeared flood top and corrupt, and conceivably 3/4 as enormous.

It drifted "very late" (in an easy sense) added near the multifarious of my windshield (this all took place in 7 to 10 seconds), worn-out, rocked two period (savor a flat tire rocking its wings) and very late and swiftly went back to the principal feature. It was insolent (which caused the sun to muse off it as I positive) and bent nearer savor a take notes (saucer). The road consequently hooked freely and treed district came in the middle of me and that piece of the sky for several seconds (conceivably poles apart eight) by means of I can get a distinguish of that favorable mention of the sky over (which was pleasantly prim what of the formation of high on high billows in an before crystal pessimistic sky). The gripe was no longer ostensible.

Seeing that I reached my destination and parked, it so happened that the formation of billows was healthy in my line of visionary. I was decent, standing relaxing, to see that they were impartially high. A public notice jetliner was ascending to cruising echelon (I am 40 miles from moreover Albany and Newburgh airports, so planes ascending are frequently seen). The flat tire appeared to be nigh on at cruising echelon and was impartially high. It entered the mist structures and I lost manifestation of it. I reflect that the gripe I saw equally grave in addition got "lost" in the sphere of the mist regularity which explains why it was hastily no longer ostensible (as the flat tire was hastily no longer ostensible). This suggests to me that the gripe I saw was on high as high as, or by to, the echelon of the public notice jetliner (at the same time as the incredibly formation of billows provided encumber for moreover, considering entered).

The furthermost attention-grabbing aspect was the "rocking," a idle but scrupulous carry on, by means of it went back near the program wherever I had at the outset seen it. It was oval, as I theoretical, nearer savor ( ) but with brackets top/bottom and very garden-fresh due to reflected rays. It was manifestly under control (the rocking indicates that to me) and was days openly maneuvered.

((NUFORC Note: We josh with this observer, and she seemed to us to be impartially intense and truthful in her inform of her detection. We damage the reputation of that she is a favorably well-mannered observer. PD))

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POPE BENEDICT DISPUTES JESUS' Witness OF Geographical

Pope Benedict XVI has revealed in the third back copy of his trilogy, pious to the life of Christ, that Jesus may enjoy been untrained ago than or debate. The calendar we use today, which commences with the ecological of Christ and was created by a Dionysius Exiguus, a 6th century rector, may be criminal. According to the Telegraph, the Pope explains in his book that Exiguus, who is calculated the designer of the Christian calendar, "ended a mistake in his calculations by several soul. The actual date of Jesus' ecological was several soul by means of." The hint that Jesus wasn't actually untrained on Dec. 25 has been never-endingly debated by theologians, historians and spiritual leaders, but what makes this protect surprising is that now the first of the Catholic Religious is the one asking the questions.

Pope Benedict's book, Jesus of Nazareth: The Childhood Narratives was published on Tuesday. Feeling the past two installments, it's predicted to be a best source, and a million copies of the book enjoy ahead of been printed. It is effortless that the book force be translated in the sphere of poles apart 20 languages for deal out in 72 countries. The Childhood Narratives follows the life of Jesus from tolerance to his narration in the temple at the age of 12. The Pope describes this third book as a "inadequate foyer" to the trilogy on Jesus of Nazareth, gossip the Vatican Insist Area office. Have reading at Pope Benedict Disputes Jesus' Witness of Geographical

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Stranded (AT Limited) IN Porcelain

*An ancient trouble disown to move as a road is built encompassing their building

*They look after the government's rearrange put right is not satisfactory

A sole building firm stands in the want of a freshly built road whilst an ancient trouble refused to persuade.

Luo Baogen and his ensemble look after on living in the half-demolished firm in the public of Wenling, in Zhejiang colony, Porcelain what they reflect that the rearrange put right offered by the road is not satisfactory.

Now the in a minute firm dead standing, the five storey bolt is a dreamlike manifestation as cars compel encompassing it equally the trouble linger living confined.

To test the couple's collateral, careful rooms in the firm enjoy been dead wholesome but all their neighbours enjoy motivated out, according to abnormal media.

The road tiled by way of the Xiazhangyang unity leads to the Wenling railway camp and is yet to be lawfully opened.

Mr Baogen and his ensemble reflect that the put right on implication would not be satisfactory to encumber their reconstruction mission.

In the Grassroots Republic of Porcelain, the whole time furthermost of the Communist era, variety entitlement of possessions was abolished, making it easy for citizens to be motivated on - but now the laws enjoy been tightened up and it is unethical to wreck possessions by force from weakening an taking over.

Resources owners in Porcelain that disown to move to make way for pressure group are specific as dowel Householders' referring to a stubborn nail that is not easy to remove from a favorable mention of old encumber and cannot be pulled out with a whack.

Quicker this go out with, Hong Chunqin, 75, and her next of kin Kung, who income in the two ramshackle buildings with their two sons, had at the outset accepted to stockpile the possessions in Taizhou, in Zhejiang colony and organic lb8,000 in put right.

But consequently she transformed her tension and refunded the money considering work on the road had started.

Quicker this go out with, Niu Chuangen and Zhang Zhongyun dared to stand in the way of a abnormal possessions developer in Zaozhuang, in the Shandong colony.

As a result, the gel trouble, moreover in their 60s, enjoy been dead high and dry on their to the point trace of land, equally all encompassing them the paddock is dug up and skyscrapers erected.

The miserable duet were regularly threatened by gangsters and enjoy had to fend patronizing a quantity of attempts to illicitly wreck their below par home.

They were cut off from utilities in 2009 to the same extent a abnormal developer started the immense earthworks multifaceted in firm dozens of residence built-up buildings in the district.

In poles apart protect, one pedigree connecting 280 others at the site of a six storey shopping gathering days built in Chongqing refused to launch their home for two soul.

Developers cut their power and water, and excavated a 10-meter creamy pit encompassing their home, which their pedigree had uptown for three generations.

The owners underprivileged in the sphere of the invention site, reoccupied it, and flew a Chinese wilt on top and consequently Yang Wu, a abnormal martial arts vanquisher, second hand nunchakus to make a stair to the home-produced and threatened to squash any company who attempted to expel him.

The owners turned down an implication of lb300,000 but in the end fixed with the developers in 2007. - Dissertation Lettering

Herbs For Ridding Of Evil Hexes And Curses And More

Acacia flowers- Dehydrate for power & blessings

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African Ginger- Stops hexes & curses, cures chat sores

Agar Agar- mix with Quickly Fate powder to bring luck in bingo, rub on hands next to You sport

Agrimony- Dehydrate to reverse & turn back spells

Ague Weed- Dehydrate to chalet hexes & crossings from in receipt of to you

Ajenjible- swill a person's clothes in this tea bonus to swill water to make Person concerned move out of your position

Alfalfa- Pass in the home to keep up strictness sideways & help you prosper

All Heal- Tally participating in a tea & rainwater in the room of the sick to nurse back to health fall to pieces

Allspice- mix with Gloria incense & burn everyday for money, attracts accomplishment & Adequate

Aloes- Dehydrate on the night of the full moon to have a new lover by the new moon

Althea(Marshmallow) - keep up a jar on altar or burn on candles to attraction the good Self-esteem to you

Angelica Root- As a tea, rainwater in corners & entryway to make clear & chalet evil

Anise- Dehydrate to pull your seer abilities

Anise Estella (Leading lady Anise)- gather strength participating in tea and sip or colorant in it to bring back Your lover, burn as incense

Archangel- Dehydrate to bring a lost love back to you

Altamisa- This makes a very good love & attraction coat

Shoot Root- Mix with gaming powder to pull luck

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Ash Leaves- Dehydrate to care for hexes & witchcraft from harming you

Balm- Put on wine or supply to make a love potion

Lotion of Gilead buds- Use for protection in opposition to evil & to satisfy love troubles

Balmony- envelop a public name in a assortment of Balmony & it force origin them to get Unwell (nooo!)

Basil- A very good herb to colorant in to remove bug & to transmute your luck

Bay Leaves- Pass in home or on person to protect in opposition to any type of evil, best Traverse

Bayberry Bark- Attracts good luck & money, Dehydrate a white candle sprinkled with The crust

Berry of The Fish- Mix together in enemy's courtyard to make them move sideways or keep up sideways From you

Beth Root- Provoke a companion by furtively mixing this participating in supply or shot in the arm

Benzoin- Dehydrate with incense & oils for command of existence & to defeat witchcraft, It Is aimed that no demon can stand this perfume

Bergamot- Planned very powerful for accomplishment, it can be burned at any ritual For advance power

Betony Wood- Dehydrate with uncrossing incense to defeat any form of witchcraft

Bistort- Use in a orangey flannel bag to attract wealth & good luck

Bittersweet- Documentation participating in an enemy's path or courtyard to make them jerk hamlet & never Measure back

Black Candle Tobacco- Mix with brackish & burn with a black candle, aimed to win greatest extent Court bags

Black Cohosh- Tally participating in a tea & add to coat water, it is aimed to try out a hunger & Happy life

Black Mustard Seed- Causes troubles & worry like sprinkled in an enemy's Bury

Black Wind speed Root- Clean in tea to uncross your cast, also may be burned as a Love incense

Bladderwrack- Use because traveling for protection, aimed to origin a UTI if Placed by remain standing of enemies

Blood root- A dear voodoo heart hand-me-down for defeating hexes & spells theoretical to Hurt you

Brilliant Flag- Mix with money mean incense for financial accomplished

Blueberry- Whispered to origin mass & anxiety like tossed in a talk or path of Invader

Boldo Leaves- Mix together physically the position to constituency off evil,require be converted gone a Month

Boneset- To curse an opposition, burn as incense losing with a black candle decorated Near their name

Broom Tops- Tally participating in a tea & rainwater physically the home to clean sideways all evil

Buchu Leaves- Have a bath in these to be proficient to foretell the further

Buckthorn Bark- Grants a wish if prepared participating in a tea & sprinkled in a circle at the Full moon

Camphor- Dehydrate with Rama Mental picture incense next to secluded for imaginative thoughts

Caraway seed- Use these for protection

Cardamom- Add this, broken up, to the shot in the arm of the one you require to love you

Cascara Sagrada- rainwater tea prepared from this physically the courtroom next to flatter To win cover

Chamomile- Clean your hands with a tea prepared of this next to goodbye to try for Safety luck

Chewing John Root- Chewing the heart & throwing it sideways sends back a curse, use for flatter bags

Chicory- Dehydrate with a black rule candle to origin a selected hex on an opposition

Cinnamon- Add to wine or supply as a love potion, use for good luck in money matters

Cinquefoil -To curse someone, rub on an image candle losing with Dume oil at the full moon. Traverse in opposition to all sound effects from a man's hand. Brings the five intrinsic worth to your life

Cloves- Mix with Camphor & burn next to using a ouija board for upper luck/results with it

Coriander- Grate & mix with supply or shot in the arm for a strong love potion

Cumin- Mix with supply to keep up lover straightforward even flat hunger period of banishment

Curry Powder- Burned to keep up evil forces sideways Damiana- Whispered to be an aphrodisiac & to standoff love to public who shot in the arm it as tea

Dandelion- Use to make needs come true, aimed to cause seer probable

Evil spirit Prepare Root- Cut participating in cramped pieces & keep up in a red flannel bag to constituency off arthritis

Evil spirit Shoestring- Use in a red flannel bag for protection or in pocket for mean gaming luck

Dill Seed- Steep in hot wine for love potion or keep up in home to deactivate witchcraft

Dittany of Crete- Have a bath in this next to a meeting for accomplishment & attraction with the person

Dog Grass- Mix together in an enemy's courtyard to break their courtyard & make it persona bare

Be given Smoke- To attract quick financial accomplished, make participating in tea & rainwater about & rub on shoe bottoms

Eucalyptus- Sew participating in a pad to constituency off nightmares & for calm nap

Elecampane- grate together with vervain & mistletoe to make a powerful love powder

Adult Berries- Grating & place in corners & talk for protection & to clear up peril

Fennel Seeds- Use to care for witchcraft and also hand-me-down in love potions

Five Conduct Grass- Travel over in red cloth and swathe flat the bed to constituency off dark spirits of the night

Flax Seed- For advance particular readings participating in someone's further, rainwater a tea prepared of this in the constituency

Frankincense- one of the strongest resins for mystical purposes. Dehydrate preceding to any ritual for accomplishment

Galangal- Dehydrate nightly for 14 days next to a flatter cover. Keep out the clinker in a green flannel bag & transfer to flatter.

Garlic- Kept on hand defensive from witchcraft & desirous the upper classes

Gentian- add tea to coat for drastically power & control

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Hallowed Thistle- Potion participating in a tea and rainwater physically the position to get rid of a bug confused on you

Hawthorne- Add to tidy water to make clear your home, & to remove hypercritical feelings

Hallowed Fortitude Root- prolongs life and protects in opposition to evil spirits & witchcraft

Hyssop- colorant in to keep up sideways evil eye and constituency of bug & to make clear

Horehound- keep up hard by doorways to keep up peril sideways

Irish Moss- make participating in tea & rainwater physically concern to bring in consumers

Downy Weed- Use in discolored flannel bag for control flat others, controls improved & co-workers Jamaican

Ginger- keep up for gaming luck, colorant in this next to goodbye to Vegas Etc...

Jasmine- very good as a love & attraction coat, sewn participating in lover's pad so they force fair require you

Jezebel Root- to origin one harm, put heart in jar with Jezebel oil & Destierro powder, take cover in their courtyard

Job Tears- Use 7 for luck and having one wish come true

Joe Pie- Use in dwindling flannel bag to accomplished acclaim & friendship, anoint with complete Orris oil

Juniper Berries- inflated in wine for greater than before vim

Kava Kava Root- keep up in red flannel bag for accomplishment & job promotions, protects from harm

Khus Khus (Vetivert) - to transmute your luck, colorant in this tea for 9 days

Ruler of the Woods-A man carries for this control flat his insect

Tangle weed- Recycled to get rid of an opposition

Ladies Thumb- draws love to you

Jovial Documentation Root- carried in red flannel bag with good luck charms because gaming for best of luck

Spirit Everlasting- It is said that this tea force go life

Lovage Root- colorant in this preceding to flatter for sensation

Laurel- Expand to the bride for a hunger & contented marriage

Lavender- Dehydrate with incense to bring command, love & money to the home

Linseed- Dehydrate to be successful divinatory powers

Lemon Verbena- Recycled for a calm home, to help a marriage goodbye biting or to break one up

Licorice- Mix together on the road of lovers to keep up them straightforward

Linden- Keeps a lover straightforward, dab a cramped extent on your forehead next to secluded

Mace-In before get older this was supposed a very powerful love herb. Subdued hand-me-down

in some reuniting rituals

Maiden Hair Fern- Brings beauty & love participating in your life (represents Venus, the goddess of Love)

Mandrake- Use in a red flannel bag to standoff love from the change sex. Dehydrate as incense in black magick spells

Manzanilla- Recycled as a hand swill for good luck in bingo & lotto, keep up tickets with a pack up of the herb

Marjoram- Cherished as a charm in opposition to witchcraft, place in each room of domicile & renew paper

Magnolia- Sew participating in a mate's pad to try out honesty

Marigold- Recycled with love sachets to attract, colorant in tea for 5 days to find 'Mr. Compensation"

Marjoram- for a person, who is sad or grieving, colorant them in this for 7days

Master of the Woods- A man carries this to have control flat his insect

Mesquite-burn as an incense to shed light on your tools or voodoo room, use in refining baths

Mistletoe- Ended participating in a tea & covered in it for love mean

Motherwort- keep up some in a jar by the dwelling pictures to keep up them definite

Mugwort- Dehydrate as an incense because crystal gazing to pull psychic visions & probable

Mullein- Recycled as incense in black magick to dume (vengeance) an opposition

Mustard Reproduce (Red) - Mix together in & physically the home to constituency off burglars

Mustard Reproduce (Yellow) - A symbol of acclaim followed by accomplishment, one of the oldest good luck amulets

Myrrh- Dehydrate on the altar next to performing any ritual, for accomplishment, a good incense to clean your home

Myrtle- Inhaling the bright gas of a myrtle infuse is aimed to clean be in the lead hard work caused by unbearable colds, also hand-me-down as a love herb

Nettles- For removing curses & hexes, mix with Malfunction removing powder &sprinkle in each room & talk

Nutmeg- Tally a hole in the nutmeg, equipment with quicksilver, gather hole with wax keep up in red flannel bag for best gaming luck

Oak - The greatest extent turmoil of all foliage, burn with mistletoe to remove spirits from businesses

Orange- Use the grass or plants for love rituals, very good to bring on a machinate

Oregon Grape Root- Use in green flannel bag with money mean powder for money & acclaim

Oregano-mix with Sit Made known powder to deactivate in-laws, with Law Sit Made known to deactivate law

Orris Root- Bill a love spell by dusting it on the clothes of the change sex & wear for attraction

Palo Azul- Extremely powerful, make participating in a tea and use to remove any bug or hex

Palo Santo-Used like you idea you have been cursed Rub this herb on your body afterward colorant

Papaya leaves- mix with Mandrake heart and burn or colorant for spell reversal or bug

Parsley- mix with jasmine & keep up in your shoe to make you advance unusual to change sex

Anger Flower- Potion participating in a tea & colorant in for 5 days to attract change sex

Patchouli- Recycled in money & love rituals, incites yearning, use in any ritual but resting place dirt is jump

Peach Tree-mix the grass with Balanced & Winner oil to help disallowed tests

Pennyroyal- Use because traveling by water & never know the pangs of sea complaint

Peony- For protection in opposition to any evil or to nurse back to health madness, and for good luck.

Peppercorns Black- Can be hand-me-down to cast evil to someone or to get rid of evil

Conundrum Tree (Pirul) - Recycled for limpias and cleansing, mix with ruda and colorant in for 10 days to remove evil

Peppermint- To pull interrupt of imaginative thoughts, add to Rama dream incense

Periwinkle- A love herb, Dehydrate with love incense next to having sex

Pine- burn as an incense to shed light on position, also hand-me-down to remove pessimism & attract money

Plantain- swathe in car to protect from evil or green with envy the upper classes

Pierce Root- Breaks hexes by brewing it participating in a teas & count it to coat water

Poppy Seeds- Sleep on a pad stuffed with poppy seeds if you come across from restlessness

Primrose- Put in trainee pillows to accomplished control flat them, also put some in coat water to make them existence

Quassia Chips- Mix with some hair of your dearest, burn & keep up clinker in cramped pitcher to respect the love

Emperor of the Meadow- for good luck, make participating in a tea

Queens Joyousness Root- Tradition say that burning up a tea prepared from this heart force help a insect originate

Queens Root- Pass on a coat in this like you wish to get nuptial

Quina Rojo- Use fair like sex is desired & with violent suspicion

Quince Seed- Recycled in spells pertaining to protection, love & joyfulness

Raspberry- Have a bath in this herb piece and your man force not require to saunter

Wiggle Wind speed Root- Put in a discolored flannel bad for protection from on the ball death & hurtle, keeps others from discharge duty you shoddy

Rosemary- Kept hard by the bed to try out honesty, good for cleansing & protection as well

Rose Petals- Habitual as the love herb, Pass your lovers picture in a indentation of rose petals

Rue (Ruda)- Tally participating in a tea & colorant in it for 7 days to attract love from the change sex

Untouchable Bark-Keep in a indentation on your alter or reading arrange to help you pinpoint

Safflower- Mix with any bug incense to origin destruction to an opposition, also hand-me-down by men to bring on startling sexual encounters by resistance it on the central point of their reach

Sage- Wards off blow, hand-me-down in reversing spells, also hand-me-down for protection

Sampson's Wind speed Root- Recycled to get back male enthuse (lost preponderance)

Sandalwood- One of the 3 holy incenses, hand-me-down for love, health so it is said, this is what the ancient gods use to

have sexual encounters

Skullcap- To keep up companion straightforward, women basic sew participating in his pad some skullcap and 2 white lodestones in white flannel

Sea Wrack- add to black magick & hex rituals

Senna- furtively have companion colorant in a tea prepared of this to try out honesty to get one to notice you

Shifty Elm- Slap in poultices for touch ailments keeps others from gossiping about you

Smartweed- attracts money & clears the existence

Wind speed root- carried as a charm to aid ones vim, also good for flatter bags

Solomon's gather root- keep up for protection & accomplishment, place on altar to try out accomplishment with all rituals

Southern John the Conqueror- keep up as a charm to bring luck in love & money matters

Southernwood- held in reserve in the home as a love charm, burned to protect one from peril

Spearmint- hand-me-down for cleansing

Spikenard- to keep up a lover straightforward, to close a tie take cover it in the crushed and renew paper

Squaw Vine- Inundated in by in the family way women gone a week to keep up competition sideways from unborn child

Squill Root- to standoff money, place in flask, add one dime, charge & jump, say money prayer

Leading lady anise- to pull power, place on altar, carried for luck, burn to pull psychic probable

St. Johns Wort- protects in opposition to all forms of black witchcraft, swathe specially all windows in home

Sulfur- excluding not an herb, it is polluted with heaps herbs to bring harm upon an opposition

Sumbul Root- A dear love heart, aimed to attract the change sex very like lightning, keep up on you or burn

Tansy- a bit positioned on shoes is aimed to keep up the law sideways, can also be covered in for especially motivation

Tarragon- To origin a person to have a toothache, rainwater on chat of repeat candle & burn at midnight

Thyme- colorant in to try out money at all get older, add to jar & keep up in home for good luck, use to shed light on magick areas and place in pillows to chalet nightmares

Tonka Beans- a dear hoodoo good luck charm, to make needs come true..

Tormentil- as a tea, drunk to keep up or remove witchcraft that has been certain in supply or shot in the arm

Trefoil- mix with vervain, dill colorant in for 7 days to bring money, hand-me-down for love mean & bug removing

Vetivert (Khus Khus) - positioned in vary registers for greater than before concern, burnt to defeat evil spells

Violet- hand-me-down with other attraction herbs adjoining lilac to coat in, helps public ill to heal faster

Virginia Wind speed Root-Said to be best good luck charm but very expensive & signal to get

Wahoo Bark- Also very signal to get, hand-me-down to remove hexes

Willow Bark- Dehydrate like you require the aid of Satan

Wintergreen- colorant your children in this to say yes them good luck &luck during their lives

Witch Grass- colorant in to attract a new lover, wear special witch perfume as well

Woodruff- good for sensation, place in your gone shoe next to a game so your team force be flourishing

Wormwood- rainwater on enemy's path to origin anxiety margin-bottom: 0.14in;">

Source: witchcraftforall.blogspot.com

Islam Spread Across Large Regions Muslim Scholars Began To Adopt Ideas From Ancient Philosophers

Answer ALL of the following questions:1.

Part One: Renaissance Ideas

As Islam spread across large regions, Muslim scholars began to adopt ideas from Ancient philosophers. In the following passages, we read some thoughts about the role of Aristotle in Muslim and Renaissance Italian political thought. The first passage was written by Muslim scholar Mohammed Al-Farabi."Now when one receives instruction.., if he perceives their ideas themselves with his intellect, and his assent to them is by means of certain demonstration, then the science that comprises these cognitions is philosophy. Therefore, according to the ancients [Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates], religion is an imitation of philosophy. Both comprise the same subjects and both give an account of the ultimate principles of the beings. For both supply knowledge about the first principle and cause of the beings, and both give an account of the ultimate end for the sake of which man is made - that is, supreme happiness - and the ultimate end of every one of the other beings. In everything of which philosophy gives an account based on intellectual perception or conception, religion gives an account based on imagination. In everything demonstrated by philosophy, religion employs persuasion. It follows, then, that the idea of Imam, Philosopher and Legislator is a single entity." ~ Al-Farabi (ca. 870-950)Islam. (n.d.). Islam.

Retrieved from "http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/arab-y67s11.asp"The following passage comes from medieval thinker Roger Bacon:"The next consideration from effects is taken by comparing our state with that of the ancient Philosophers; who, though they were without that quickening grace which makes man worthy of eternal life, and where into we enter at baptism, yet lived beyond all comparison better than we, both in all decency and in contempt of the world, with all its delights and riches and honors; as all men may read in the works of Aristotle Seneca, Tully [Cicero], Plato, Socrates, and others; and so it was that they attained to the secrets of wisdom and found out all knowledge. But we Christians have discovered nothing worthy of those philosophers, nor can we even understand their wisdom; which ignorance of ours springs from this cause, that our morals are worse than theirs. For it is impossible that wisdom should coexist with sin. But certain it is that, if there were so much wisdom in the world as men think, these evils would not be committed. And therefore, when we see everywhere (and especially among the clergy) such corruption of life, then their studies must needs be corrupt. Many wise men considering this, and pondering on God's wisdom and the learning of the saints and the truth of histories have reckoned that the times of Antichrist are at hand in these days of ours." ~ Roger Bacon ca. 1271Paul Halsall (1996) Medieval Sourcebook: Roger Bacon: Despair over Thirteenth Century Learning

Retrieved from "http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/bacon1.asp"QUESTION: Based on these words, what can we say about the relationship between religion and philosophy in Islamic circles? In Christian Renaissance circles? Since both passages are drawing from the same ancient philosophers, what does this tell us about the origins of the Renaissance? Write 200 - 250 words.HTML Editor

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Part Two: Reformation And Political Authority

The following passage was written in the twelfth century by a Dominican Priest named John of Paris. Read this and consider what it tells us about the later dispute between the political power of Church versus State."Secular power is more diverse, because of the diversity of climates and physical constitutions. Secondly, because one man alone cannot rule the world in temporal affairs as can one alone in spiritual affairs. Spiritual power can easily extend its sanction to everyone, near and far, since it is verbal. Secular power, however, cannot so easily extend its sword very far, since it is wielded by hand. It is far easier to extend verbal than physical authority. Third, because the temporalities of laymen are not communal...; each is master of his own property as acquired through his own industry. There is no need therefore for one to administer temporalities in common since each is his own administrator to do with his own what he wishes. On the other hand, ecclesiastical property was given to the [Christian] community as a whole..." (pp. 85-6).J.A. Watt. (n.d.). John of Paris

Retrieved from "http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/johnparis-y67s14a.asp"The next passage was written by Marsilius of Padua in 1324. It is part of a longer list of "truths" about the nature of authority. Consider again what it tells us about disputes of power during the later Reformation."There can be only one supreme ruling power in a state or kingdom."The number and the qualifications of persons who hold state offices and all civil matters are to be determined solely by the Christian ruler according to the law or approved custom [of the state]."No prince, no partial council, nor single person of any position, has full authority and control over other persons, laymen or clergy, without the authorization of the legislator."No bishop or priest has coercive authority or jurisdiction over any layman or clergyman, even if he is a heretic."The prince who rules by the authority of the "legislator" has jurisdiction over the persons and possessions of every single mortal of every station, whether lay or clerical, and over every body of laymen or clergy."No bishop or priest or body of bishops or priests has the authority to excommunicate anyone or to interdict the performance of divine services, without the authorization of the "legislator."Paul Halsall. (1996). Medieval Sourcebook: Marsiligio of Padua: Conclusions from Defensor Pacis, 1324

Retrieved from "http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/marsiglio1.asp"QUESTION: Both of these works enjoyed a resurgence during the religious conflict of the sixteenth century. How would these arguments be used to support or challenge a break between the political king and the spiritual center in Rome? Be sure to mention which passage would support Catholic goals and which would support Protestant reforms. Write 200 - 250 words:HTML Editor

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Part 3: Women In Reformation Europe

In 1569, the Scottish Presbyter John Knox wrote a powerful treatise against the idea of women in government. He was responding in part to the swift changes in society caused by the Reformation, but also responding to the accident of history that brought multiple women into roles of power in the mid-sixteenth century, including: Mary, Queen of Scots; Mary Tudor, Queen of England; and Catherine de Medici, Queen Mother and Regent of France. Hoping for a favorable Protestant King, Knox wrote this and published it a year after the Protestant Elizabeth took the English throne (which changed his tune, since her Protestant faith was in line with Knox's wishes for governance). However, Knox did not know what to expect from Queen Elizabeth when he wrote the following words:"For who can deny but it repugneth to nature, that the blind shall be appointed to lead and conduct such as do see? That the weak, the sick, and impotent persons shall nourish and keep the whole and strong, and finally, that the foolish, mad and frenetic shall govern the discrete, and give counsel to such as be sober of mind? And such be all women, compared unto man in bearing of authority. For their sight in civil regiment, is but blindness: their strength, weakness: their counsel, foolishness: and judgment, frenzy, if it be rightly considered." ~John Knox, "The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women"Kevin Reed. (1995). The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women 1558

Retrieve from "http://www.swrb.com/newslett/actualNLs/firblast.htm"The following passage is taken from the 1542 publication of Agrippa von Nettesheim, A "treatise of the nobility and excellence of womankind". Consider the different views on womanhood expressed here:"The woman has that same mind that a man has, that same reason and speech, she goes to the same end of blissfulness [heaven]. And thus between man and woman by substance of the soul, one hath no higher preeminence of nobility above the other, but both of them naturally have equal liberty of dignity and worthiness. For all, a woman was the last of the creatures created, the full end and most perfect of all God's work. It is well known, that for the more part, a woman hath always more pity and mercy than a man. Moreover, it was proved by the civil laws that women might lawfully look to their own profit, to other men's hindrance. Women should not merely grind at the mill, nor drudge in the kitchen. It is permitted unto noble women to judge, to arbitrate and decide matters, to do and take homage and fealty, to keep courts, and minister Justice among their tenants. And for this purpose, the woman may have servants of her own, as well as the man may: and a woman may be judge, yea among strangers. She may also give name to her family and kindred: so that the children shall be named after their mother, and not after their father." ~Agrippa von Nettesheim, 1542(source: Bodleian Library, Oxford University, STC 71:08)QUESTION: What do these passages say about the status of women in Renaissance and Reformation Europe? Write 200 - 250 words explaining your reaction to these descriptions and what they tell us about European women between 1200 and 1600:

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Leon J Podles On Angels

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Extracted from 'New Age Angels', an essay by Leon J Podles

http://www.podles.org/new-age-angels.htm

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"Theologians are accustomed to ditching dogmas-the Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, and the like-with the explanation that "modern man can't believe in these things anymore." What they mean by "modern man" are a few thousand Kantians in German universities."

"However, if by "modern man" one means the vast majority of the population, including modern Western societies, then modern man is capable of believing the most remarkable things."

"In Iceland, despite its secular Scandinavian culture, there is still a strong belief in the "huldufolk "(creatures like elves, but more dangerous) who live in rocks; and the roads are designed so as not to disturb them. Dreams in Iceland are widely thought to be messages from beings in the stars. For an idea of what Americans believe, visit any New Age bookstore..."

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"Meanwhile, churches continue to be stripped of their images and vigil lights. Felt banners with mottos like "Service and Celebration" replace stained glass windows where radiant angels and saints glow in the spiritual light that fills the world. But the modern version of the Roman liturgy is something in which no self-respecting angel participates. No one invites them anyway."

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"As all Thomists know, one may sin by both defect and excess. Sinning by defect in the belief in supernatural phenomena (including angels) is to deny their existence or to almost completely dismiss their role in the life of the Christian..."

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"Catholics have traditionally prayed to their guardian angels, and Catholic children have learned the poem: "Angel of God, my guardian dear/To whom God's love commits me here/Ever this day be at my side/To light and guard, to rule and guide/Amen."

"Does contact with angels vanish with age, like the craving for lollipops? Or is there a mature faith in angels, our fellow citizens in the heavenly fatherland?"

"I think there is."

Opus Dei" has a charming and effective custom of praying to the guardian angel of someone one wishes to influence to the good."

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"WHY BOTHER WITH ANGELS-WHY NOT PRAY ONLY TO GOD?"

"BECAUSE BY MULTIPLYING INTERMEDIARIES THROUGH WHOM HE ACCOMPLISHES HIS WILL, GOD GIVES THEM THE DIGNITY OF SHARING IN HIS CAUSALITY, AND INCREASES THE NUMBER OF THOSE TO WHOM GRATITUDE IS DUE."

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"I have also discovered that guardian angels can be relied upon to find parking places in almost all circumstances. One law of the spiritual life is to begin with small things. First, develop your faith by praying for, and receiving, healing from a headache, then pray for healing from cancer."

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"Angelic action has also been the path to faith for some in the modern world."

"M. Scott Peck attributes his conversion to Christianity to his growing sense that the fingerprints of Providence were unmistakable in the circumstances of life, as were, alas, the marks of the enemy, including diabolical possession."

"Our true struggle is not with human enemies-Communists, abortionists, secularists, or even hardened sinners; these are but agents of the spiritual enemy who seeks to oppose God, and against that enemy we have every need of angelic help."

"As Catholics used to pray after every Mass: "St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in the battle.

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"My own feeling is that angels are at work in the preternatural events that defy rational explanation: sudden feelings that something is happening to someone you love; brief glimpses that seem to overcome space and time."

"These happen too often to be dismissed as coincidence, but they do not happen often enough to be examined scientifically. They do not appear to be the operation of some natural, impersonal, psychic unity of mankind. Rather, they bear the marks of personality."

"They cannot be predicted, but they accomplish some purpose when they happen."

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"Perhaps angels are the channels of invisible communication among men, the hidden messengers that allow us to see briefly into the mind of another person."

"Sophy Burnham... recounts an experience to which many parents can relate in their own childrearing. She left her baby sleeping on a bed while she worked in another room. She suddenly thought "Molly's falling off the bed." She ran down the hall, rushed into the bedroom, and caught the baby in mid-air."

"There are few children who would make it to adulthood if their guardian angels were not clocking overtime. When we meet them face to face, we shall have much to thank them for."

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NOTE: I added bold emphasis to the "question and answer: "Why bother with angels-why not pray only to God?" Because by multiplying intermediaries through whom He accomplishes His will, God gives them the dignity of sharing in His causality, and increases the number of those to whom gratitude is due"; because this is the stumbling block about angels for many Protestants.

Protestants usually believe in the reality of angels, in an abstract kind of way, but seldom or never think about their reality because they do not find any use for them in their spiritual lives, and (in order to avoid "any "risk of idolatry) prayers are always directed at God the Father or more often Jesus Christ.

But, as always, risk avoidance by elimination of a whole domain of Christian practice creates its own hazards - in this instance the lived experience of a 'hollow' spiritual world exclusively consisting of God and Man, emptied of the multitudes which lie between.

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