Wicca The Witch Hunt Goes On

Wicca: The Witch hunt goes on!
It's hard to believe that in this day and age, people are still so afraid of the unknown, that they create scenarios and lies about things they know absolutely nothing about! I can find no good excuse for this type of behavior, providing all the technological information available today!

Obviously people and what they say, can shape the way the world thinks, believes, works, shops, spends, etc. But what about the way people really feel? How about that pure Knowing?

Knowing is what brought me to realize that Wicca was the right choice for me. Knowing what is in front of me, that I can see with my own two eyes, touch with my own two hands, hear with my own two ears, and taste, etc. Never at any time will anyone in Wicca, tell you to believe in something just because they "say so". It's all in front of you, like the sun, moon, earth, etc.

"I LIKE WHAT BILL MAHER SAID ABOUT THE BIBLE BEING "STORIES WRITTEN BY MEN THAT DIDN'T KNOW WHERE THE SUN GOES AT NIGHT". THIS SUMS UP QUITE A BIT IF YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT! BEFORE I GO ANY FURTHER, I WANT YOU TO KNOW I RESPECT ANYONE WHO HAS CHOSEN TO BELIEVE WHATEVER IT IS THEY BELIEVE, AS I HAVE NO DESIRE TO CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE BELIEVE, AND WISH THEY WOULD GIVE US THE SAME RESPECT."

"BUT WHY, IF SOMEONE CREATES A MURDER, AND IT'S DISCOVERED THEY ARE WICCAN, DO THEY MAKE A PRODUCTION OUT OF IT AS IF WICCA HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THEIR ACTIONS? YOU CERTAINLY DON'T HEAR ANYONE SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT THE PRISONERS ON DEATH ROW ALL CLAIMING TO BE CHRISTIANS, OR A CRIMINAL ARRESTED WEARING A CROSS AROUND THEIR NECK! NO ONE SAYS "JESUS MADE THEM DO IT!"."

This is just one example of how the unknown creates problems, as people jump to conclusions. No matter how many times people are told that Wicca and Satanism have nothing to do each other, they seem to enjoy coming to ignorant conclusions! This is like saying Christians and Jews believe the same way. Let's get real!

Befaana

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Thwarting The Tiger Curse

From India comes yet different phrase of cutting-edge magical equipment, if by toning edge one fashion magical equipment that confuses even the utmost advanced spiritual practitioners. In order to protect their 18-month-old son from creature killed by a tiger, his frequent had him connubial to a dog. Sparsely.

They were stiff that a dagger rising from his greater gum was an portent he would be killed by a tiger.

The creepy wedding maintain was seen as the best scenic way to dodging such a occasion, according to tribal elders in the Jajpur region small town.

These tribal elders seemingly poor to account for how this remedy was actually held to work, and one wonders if these power be the especially elders who diagnosed the "tiger curse" in the initial place and whether or not they were compensated for their character in the canine wedding.

Routinely I would try to determine this pact magically and come up with some demand of tenacity, but this one has me puzzled. It's not jump over to me why a tiger would be visual to a child with a dagger rising from an odd place, and it's even less jump over to me why creature connubial to a dog would protect that. Is the dog held to shield its "consort" chary tiger attacks? From the past I plaid a tiger was a lot bigger and tougher than a dog. Or is nearby some trivial of interchange in Hindu holiness that I don't know about that classifies dogs and tigers as opposites or something?

If somebody can judge me on this one, it would be a lot respected.

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Pre Millennialism And The Early Church Fathers

Scholarly Resources Subscribe to CIC A Biblically based commentary on current issues that impact "you" "PRE-MILLENNIALISM AND THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS" BY BOB DEWAAY In this paper, I will show that the earliest fathers of the church (before 300 AD) primarily believed in a literal millennium. This will be accomplished by consulting the primary sources, the fathers themselves, and other writings about the views of the early fathers. Those early fathers who wrote about this issue will be dealt with one at a time.PAPIAS The fourth century church historian Eusebius considered Papias to be a primary source for the millennial views of early fathers. He wrote:In these [Papias' accounts] he says there would be a certain millennium after the resurrection, and that there would be a corporeal reign of Christ on this very earth; which things he appears to have imagined, as if they were authorized by the apostolic narrations, not understanding correctly those matters which they propounded mystically in their representations.... yet he was the cause why most of the ecclesiastical writers, urging the antiquity of the man, were carried away by a similar opinion; as, for instance Irenaeus, or any other that adopted such sentiments.1 All we have of Papias' writings are fragments taken from other ancient writers. He was evidently associated with Polycarp and John the apostle. Irenaeus said, "And these things [a futuristic, restored, Jewish kingdom] are borne witness to in writing by Papias, the hearer of John, and companion of Polycarp, in his fourth book." 2It is debated whether or not Papias was actually a personal acquaintance of the Apostle John, but that he taught a literal millennium is not. Larry Crutchfield provides a thorough discussion of Papias' millennial view and his possible association with John and concludes: "When all of the evidence is weighed in the balance it seems that the scales must be tipped in favor of Papias' discipleship under the aged author of the Apocalypse." 3 Papias was born anywhere from 61 to 71 AD4 so could very well have known John. Since Eusebius who disagreed with Papias' millennial view and Irenaeus who agreed with Papias both considered him a proponent of a literal millennium, it is quite certain that he was.THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS The writer of the "Epistle of Barnabas" (cir. 117/132 AD )5 held to the idea that after six thousand years of history that would correspond to six days of creation, there would be a seventh day "sabbath" rest which would last one thousand years. The following is from the "Epistle of Barnabas": Attend, my children, to the meaning of this expression, "He finished in six days." This implieth that the Lord will finish all things in six thousand years, for a day is with Him a thousand years. And He Himself testifieth, saying, "Behold, to-day will be as a thousand years." Therefore, my children, in six days, that is, in six thousand years, all things will be finished. "And He rested on the seventh day." This meaneth: when His Son, coming again, shall destroy the time of the wicked man, and judge the ungodly, and change the sun, and the moon, and the stars, then shall He truly rest on the seventh day. 6 Hans Bietenhard sees possible Jewish influences such as the Book of Enoch at work here and comments: "On the universal Sabbath all things are brought to rest and a new world begins. From the time of Barnabas onwards millennial expectation was always within the framework of a universal week of 7000 years." 7JUSTIN MARTYR Justin in his "Dialogue with Trypho" (written cir. 155) describes the belief in a literal millennium as the orthodox doctrine, though admitting that some denied it. He sees the millennium centered in Jerusalem and predicted by Old Testament prophets. Justin wrote, "But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned, and enlarged, as the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and others declare."8 Justin did mention that, "many who belong to pure and pious faith, and are true Christians, think otherwise." 9 Evidently there were already others who did not believe in a literal millennium at that point in history, but Justin does not supply their names. Since the actual debate with Trypho likely took place at Ephesus shortly after 135 AD, Larry Crutchfield sees a possible connection to the teachings of the Apostle John: "If Eusebius was correct, [about Dialogue taking place at Ephesus] the earliest extant Christian defense of the millenarian doctrine took place at Ephesus, not far from Patmos where John's revelation was received."10 Crutchfield speculates about the possibility that Justin had contact with Polycarp or Papias which may have influenced his teaching: "In any case, whether Justin made contact with either man or not, a sojourn in Ephesus would have thoroughly exposed him to the teachings of the apostle John and the venerable Asiatic bishops [Polycarp but shall have a table at hand prepared for them by God, supplying them with all sorts of dishes."13 Irenaeus considered the promise that Jesus made to His disciples at the last supper to one day drink the fruit of the vine again with them "in my Father's kingdom" to be proof of a future, earthly kingdom to be established after the resurrection. Interestingly, Irenaeus also mentioned the promise of land that God gave to Abraham in this connection: "If, then, God promised him the inheritance of the land, yet he did not receive it during all the time of his sojourn there, it must be, that together with his seed, that is, those who fear God and believe in Him, he shall receive it at the resurrection of the just."14Irenaeus firmly believed that Jesus would literally reign in a rebuilt Jerusalem.15 He also anticipated the allegorizing of Biblical prophecy: "If, however, any shall endeavor to allegorize prophecies of this kind, they shall not be found consistent with themselves in all points." 16 Shirley Jackson Case summarizes Irenaeus' millennial view: This period of millennial bliss corresponds to the seventh day of rest following the six days of creation described in Genesis. During this time the earth is marvelously fruitful. Jerusalem is magnificently rebuilt, and the righteous joyfully become accustomed to the new life of incorruption. After this preliminary regime of bliss has passed, a final judgment of all the world is instituted, and the new heaven and the new earth are revealed. In this final state of blessedness the redeemed shall live in the presence of God, world without end. 17 It is notable how closely Irenaeus' understanding is to that of many pre-millennialists today.TERTULLIAN We learn of Tertullian's pre-millennialism through his debate against the heretic Marcion (cir. 207-212 AD). Obviously, a physical, rebuilt Jerusalem could have no validity for Marcion since he considered anything physical to have been created by a lesser "demiurge," the God of the Jews. Hans Beitenhard explains Marcion's view, "A little later [after Irenaeus] Tertullian found it necessary to defend the millennial hope against Marcion, who denied that the Christian can have any hope for a world created by the Demiurge. The Demiurge as the God of the Jews would restore the Jews to Palestine, and there they could set up their own Messianic kingdom." 18 Tertullian rejects Marcion's version of the millennium, but not a literal millennium itself: But we do confess that a kingdom is promised to us upon the earth, although before heaven, only in another state of existence; inasmuch as it will be after the resurrection for a thousand years in the divinely-built city of Jerusalem, 'let down from heaven,' which the apostle also calls 'our mother from above;' and, while declaring that our "politeuma", or citizenship, is in heaven, he predicates of it that it is really a city in heaven. This both Ezekiel had knowledge of and the Apostle John beheld. 19 Tertullian's idea takes an odd twist when he goes on to claim the heavenly city had been seen suspended over Judea for forty days.20 Also, Tertullian evidently joined the Montanists whose eschatological views were rather bizarre. Beitenhard thinks that, "unwittingly and against his will [i.e. he did not intend to discredit pre-millennialism] Tertullian helped to discredit the millennial hope by joining the Montanists."21 Nevertheless, Tertullian was a pre-millennialist. HIPPOLYTUS OF ROME Hippolytus (cir. 170-236) wrote extensively about the end times, including, "Commentary of Daniel". Hippolytus took up the idea of a day being one thousand years and applied it to history. He reasoned:For the first appearance of our Lord in the flesh took place in Bethlehem, under Augustus, in the year 5500; and He suffered in the thirty-third year. And 6,000 years must needs be accomplished, in order that the Sabbath may come, the rest, the holy day "on which God rested from all His works." For the Sabbath is the type and emblem of the future kingdom of the saints, when they "shall reign with Christ," when He comes from heaven, as John says in his Apocalypse: for "a day with the Lord is as a thousand years." Since, then, in six days God made all things, it follows that 6,000 years must be fulfilled. And they are not yet fulfilled, as John says: "five are fallen; one is," that is, the sixth; "the other is not yet come."22 David G Dunbar comments on Hippolytus' view, "Christians ought not to think that the present sufferings of the church are the eschatological woes signaling Christ's return, for that return is not imminent. In support of this argument Hippolytus employs the creation-week typology widely accepted in the west until Augustine."23 Dunbar goes on to explain how Hippolytus sets the time of Christ's return in 500 AD. 24 Though this date setting is obviously problematic, Hippolytus asserted the idea that there would be a "Sabbath" rest which will be a time when the saints will reign with Christ. Though he does not use the term "millennium," clearly his schema of a day being one thousand years would make the Sabbath rest last for a millennia. Bietenhard considers Hippolytus a chiliast: "Hippolytus places the millennial hope within the schema of a universal week of 7000 years."25Interestingly, in another article Dunbar states, "Only in his "Chapters Against Gaius" does he present a forthright attack on amillennialism, and even here his own position is so muted as to be unclear." 26 It seems to me that Hippolytus' position is clear enough in the above quoted Commentary on Daniel. LACTANTIUS Lactantius (cir. 250 - 317 AD) also wrote of a literal millennium. His views are based, however, partially on quotations from the Sibylline books. He writes, "But He, when He shall have destroyed unrighteousness, and executed His great judgment, and shall have recalled to life the righteous, who have lived from the beginning, will be engaged among men a thousand years, and will rule them with most just command."27 An interesting thing about Lactantius is that he supplies more details about the Millennium: "Then they who shall be alive in their bodies shall not die, but during those thousand years shall produce an infinite multitude, and their offspring shall be holy, and beloved by God; but they who shall be raised from the dead shall preside over the living as judges."28According to Lactantius, resurrected saints shall coexist with mortals. He also includes the idea of Satan being bound for the thousand year period and the existence of pagan nations to be ruled over by the righteous. COMMODIANUS Commodianus of North-Africa wrote about 240 AD. He also spoke of a literal Millennium. He writes, "They shall come also who overcame cruel martyrdom under Antichrist, and they themselves live for the whole time, and receive blessings because they have suffered evil things; and they themselves marrying, beget for a thousand years." 29WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MILLENNIUM? Since most of the earliest Fathers either taught a literal millennium (though clearly differing on details) or were silent on the matter, how did amillennialism become the predominant view of the Church from the fourth century on? Evidently Origen was the first to publically break with this tradition. Thomas D. Lea comments, "Before the time of Origen it was reasonably common to find the fathers expressing their belief in a personal second coming of Christ together with a millennial reign of the saints with Christ after their resurrection from the dead. Origen denounced millennialism perhaps because of his view that it overemphasized the sensual and the material." 30It is beyond the scope of this paper to address amillennialism among the fathers. 31 Though adducing different sources and theories as to details, the earliest church fathers clearly taught pre-millennialism.
END NOTES * Eusebius Pamphilus, Ecclesiastical History, 3.39.13; trans. Christian Frederick Cruse (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1993) 126. * Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 5.33.4; in "The Ante-Nicene Fathers" Alexander Roberts ed. vol. 1, 563. * Larry V. Crutchfield, "The Apostle John and Asia Minor as a Source of Premillennialism in the Early Church Fathers," in Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, vol 31 #4 (December 1988) 421. * ibid. 420. * see W.A. Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers, (The Liturgical Press: Collegeville, MN, 1970) 14. * The Epistle of Barnabas 15.4 in op. cit. "The Ante-Nicene Fathers" vol. 1 146. * Hans Bietenhard, "The Millennial Hope in the Early Church," The Scottish Journal of Theology, Vol. 6 (1953) 13. * Justin "Dialogue" 80; op. cit. "The Ante-Nicene Fathers", vol 1, 239. * Ibid. * Op. Cit. Crutchfield, 423. * ibid. * Op. cit. Jurgens, 84. * Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 5.33.2, op. cit. "The Ante-Nicene Fathers, 562." * ibid. 5.32.2; 561. * ibid. 5.34.4; 564. * ibid. 5.35.1; 565. * Shirley Jackson Case, The Millennial Hope, (University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1918) 164, 165. * Bietenhard, 15. * Tertullian, Against Marcion, 3.25; op. cit., "The Ante-Nicene Fathers" vol. III, 342. * ibid. 342,343. * Bietenhard, 16. * Hippolytus, Commentary on Daniel 2.4; "The Ante-Nicene Fathers", vol 5, 179. * David G. Dunbar, "The Delay of the Parousia in Hippolytus," Vigiliae Christianae, vol 37, no. 4 (Dec. 1983) 315. * ibid. 315,316. * Bietenhard, 19. * David G. Dunbar, "Hippolytus of Rome and the Eschatological Exegesis of the Early Church" The Westminster Theological Journal, vol 45 no. 2 (Fall, 1983) 337. * Lactantius, The Divine Institutes, 7.24, "The Ante-Nicene Fathers", vol. VII, 219. * ibid. * Commodianus, The Instructions of Commodianus, chapt 54., "The Ante-Nicene Fathers", vol. IV, 212. * Thomas D. Lea, "A Survey of the Doctrine of the Return of Christ in the Ante-Nicene Fathers," The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, vol. 29 no. 2 (June 1986) 176. * See Bob DeWaay, "The Millennial Hope and the Church," Critical Issues Commentary, Issue #27 (March/April, 1995) where I present the theory that allegorization of Scripture, anti-semitism, and a realized eschatology that came with the Christianization of the Roman Empire starting with Constantine were causes of amillennialism's ascendance as the position of the Roman Catholic Church. www.cicministryorg/commentary/issue27.htm
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Jesus Recounts A Dream He Had About George Bush

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One of the energising claims of the New Mysticism is that for the primary time in 98,000 natural life inwards on Nation, the spiritual leaders of the foxhole are habitual back in the sphere of pennant physical life and are making themselves recognizable to average employees once more. One of natives spiritual leaders is the particular recognizable to Western history as Jesus of Nazareth.

In his Palestinian variation (24BC - 9AD), Jesus was recognizable nationally as Joshua Ben Pandira. He was an arduous Essene mystic in a prevailing Jewish tradition of the time. In 16AD he took up-to-the-minute physical variation recognizable to history as Apollonius of Tyana. A few centuries subsequent, working from the spiritual planes, he gave the Augur Muhammad the basic letters of The Spiritual Qur'an and educated the Augur because of his night journeys to the Spiritual Federation.

On the 13th April 1952, native tongue to a meditation group in Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA), Jesus said: "AND SOMETIME MOTION COME THE TIME WHAT THE LIGHT WHICH I HEAVE FORTH TO CITIZENS IN ANSWER TO THEIR CALLS TO ME CAN BE EASILY PHOTOGRAPHED, EVEN BY THAT MECHANIZED EXCELLENCE TO WHICH YOU ASSUME ATTAINED SUBSEQUENTLY FAR." On up-to-the-minute page of this weblog we assume assembled friends to some of these photographs, which were principal published and authenticated by Narrate Large-scale Text.

In 1975, "A OBJECTIVE IN MIRACLES" was published by Helen Schucman and William Thetford. Jesus headed a puddle of writers on the spiritual planes who are understood to assume compiled this. The letters was transmitted to Schucman and Thetford by a ride of mental aerate, inner text and creativeness. The letters is in print as time Jesus is the playwright native tongue in the primary life.

In present natural life, according to Narrate Large-scale, Jesus has been appearing in physical form all once more the world to average citizens. Methodically this happens in the stir of disasters, at edict demonstrations, or at Senses, Largest part and Wish festivals. The physical extraction he adopts for these appearances varies.

On the sunrise of Sunday 12th February 2006, Dick Larson and Jackie Cochrane were meting out a last at the Unpleasant Vivaciousness Expo in Los Angeles (USA). Jesus turned up in the form of an African American man of inner horizontal and tapered build. He appeared to be in his embryonic 30s. He was adequate without attention, killing a turquoise and white law-abiding striped top, and pale yellow trousers. He was not straight away recognised.

Last some frequent conversation with Larson and Cochrane about the exhibits vivacity displayed, Jesus said: "You know, I had a dream. In the dream I had the plans for the solutions to all the world's problems in my hands. I entered a room that was jam-packed with transaction executives. I gave a carbon copy of the plans that I had to each life in the room. Also you know who walked in the sphere of the room? George Flowering shrub. I extremely handed him a carbon copy of the plans, but he tore it up and threw it apart. So then I washed my hands."

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Immediate, Benjamin Creme was asked the staff question: "In July 2006 thug storms unnatural greatly of the East drift of the USA. In Washington DC, the magnify caused the US Part of Impartiality and other leading federal buildings to be stopped and a 100-year-old elm tree on the White Preserve home turf to fall. The tree is featured like a house on fire on the back of the 20 deduct. Were the storms due to karma?" Creme's way out was yes. He was then asked: "WAS THIS A KARMIC ANSWER FOR AMERICA'S ENDEAVORS IN IRAQ, OR FOR EVERYTHING ELSE?" Creme replied: "America's endeavors in Iraq."

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Your Secret To Success And Inner Peace

It would appear that the super-successful - everyone from A-list actors like Hugh Jackman, international business identities such as Rupert Murdoch and sporting superstars like Novak Djokovic have discovered the secret to success, happiness and inner peace is the one that mystics have been following for centuries: meditation.

Right now we're seeing a big move away from what society used to define as success. It's not about working insane hours and sacrificing your personal life in the process. It's certainly not about acquiring material 'things' just for their own sake or to impress others in the hope they will make you happy (they won't). It's certainly not about sacrificing your health or sense of wellbeing due to stressing over a career path. Success is fast becoming re-defined as just being a successful human being.

Meditation allows us to connect and access not only our own inner wisdom but the wisdom that is available to us from the energetic field of universal truth. When we do this we are able to decide not only what is important for us, but also to navigate the stresses of modern-day life and react to them differently. It is na"ive to say we can avoid them or that 'we are responsible for creating our reality' as some new-age proponents would have you believe. That would only work if we were the only ones here! Stress is unavoidable and it is natural to want to achieve success in some area of our lives. Meditation allows us to stop stressing about the things that get in the way of our success and also to decide for ourselves what success actually means to us. When we free ourselves of other people's (or society's) definition of success the paradoxical thing is we are then totally free to be successful!

The benefits of meditation have been well-documented. Just a few minutes meditation can be more restful than sleeping, it lowers blood pressure, boosts your intuition, promotes neuroplasticity and it protects your telomeres. No, they're not a race from Game of Thrones! Telomeres are the protective cap on the end of our chromosomes and scientists are discovering that the longer the cap (telomere) the longer we are likely to live and meditators appear to produce more of the enzyme which creates these caps.

Those of you who already meditate are undoubtedly nodding your heads wisely and saying 'I knew that'. However, others are probably saying 'Yes, but...I have tried to meditate and just can't. I have tried sitting, lying down, concentrating on a candle, repeating a mantra and nothing works. Things keep popping into my head like the fact I need to go buy Toilet Duck/sew name tags on my child's school uniform/my work project is overdue/my husband has left his dirty socks on the bedroom floor again. How do I stop this?' The answer is - you don't.

Many people feel they cannot meditate simply because they cannot rid themselves of intrusive thoughts. What they don't realise is the key to learning to meditate is not to concentrate on not having intrusive thoughts but your reaction to them when they crop up. Notice I said 'learning to meditate'. Yes, meditation is a skill that like any other requires practice. You are not going to sit in a Lotus position and your mind automatically becomes a Zen blank canvas you know! The key to meditation is realising that everyone even people who meditate regularly, has these thoughts. The key to meditation is how you deal with them when they occur. Are you going to have a figurative knee-jerk reaction to the realisation you forgot the Toilet Duck or are you just going to regard the thought from a position of neutrality? It's just a thought - nothing more. When you remove any emotion from the thought the thought disappears. If more thoughts turn up, do the same thing. Your partner's dirty laundry which they can't be bothered to put in the laundry bin. Acknowledge the thought but remove the irritation/anger from it. You will then see the thought just vanish.

When you realise that it is your emotional reaction to the thoughts that prevent you from meditating rather than the thoughts themselves, you will not only find that they start to occur less frequently but you'll soon discover yourself meditating without even trying! Try it and see.

Meditation really does open the doors to success by allowing us to access the deep soul wisdom all of us have within us.

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