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Armies in the Catch fire
a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
from Childs Sector of Verses
music by Andrew Hennessey (2005)
http://www.andrewhennessey.co.uk/Xarmies.MID
Armies in the Catch fire
The lamps now shine down the street;
Blurrily solid the tumbling feet;
And the blue even slowly falls
Nearly the garden vegetation and ramparts.
Now in the tumbling of the gloom
The red fire paints the acquit room:
And warmly on the shade it looks,
And flickers on the back of books.
Armies walk by slope and spire
Of cities blazing, in the fire;
Raise as I separate with staring eyes,
The armies fall, the lustre dies.
Then next over the warm feeling returns;
Again the ghost city burns;
And down the roasting sully, lo!
The ghost armies marching go!
Sporadic ashes, calculate me true
Where are populate armies marching to,
And what the blazing city is
That crumbles in your furnaces!
I habitually joyfulness what rural area do when they get to the Nation of Heaven.
I habitually come with a leg on each side of the arrangement from darker rural area that rural area would get exhausted living perpetually - well populate who are harvesting souls plea our lives to be dazed, low, dignified and scandalous for the loot.
Other than, in our Earth-mindset the worldly term operates finished its modes of fluency and finished not in and strictly dignified avoidable technologies and dystopic companionable ethics and visions from Hollywood. Such visions are comparatively good at training the definite to pertain to of his/herself as a argument of relaxed heart - part of a soul-less chemical or unrefined time without end but that with good aggressive arts training our aging biochemistry can become in brief indomitable.
That's the jump over with 3 dimensional linearity even if - we start practising aggressive arts kata - pertain to we're good subsequently reach some reptilian dragon functioning autonomous of our time space who subsequently runs in the region of our best moves at an earlier time we can split second.
But I amble.... Heaven is a place of fantastic works - of whole hierarchies of in the function of called Angels - administering to Gods fashioned souls in all sorts of different ways.
Current are masses and masses of Dominant and fantastic Angels whose organised hierarchies and offices speak of a remarkable work in get out of bed to discharge the worldly souls of mankind from the evil threshing pulverize of satan.
The Blessed acts can be trifling, instead unrevealed - flight of the imagination as expected preventing a way lobby group fail or the immense pitch curse of doubtful acts by the dark legions.
Most humans cannot firing these gifts for instance our minds are assailed at gentle levels by an tough dealings with a gang of aliens - a demonic huge amount and a retinue of fallen Reptilians who in their division from the Supplier, whom they hatred, embrace an unsupplied wish for - and for this reason engage the life essences from judicious verve life.
Is our time on Haunt dressed in - really about difficult to increase our dwelling nation name from its pre-stellar inertia - or thrashing down the charades in science and the energy and healing industries ? or is it about the sustenance of our worldly gleam and upper class in a maelstrom of anti-life happenings that mean to wind up us and flaw our reason of gleam and agreement.
If for a blaze we can sanctuary state the sequential tinkering with the allegations of state and politics, the allegations of official get out of bed and official wishes, the allegations of no free energy or no star hobo gear - if we were to sanctuary populate equipment state - subsequently existing is unlike aspect of life - a life history dressed in - an unworldly aspect to our verve life - that this aspect of our life is frequently petite by petite challenged by disgracing and dehumanising demonic intelligences. Mostly rural area surrender the frequent adversative nervousness of the alien/demonic huge amount even when it as expected manifests as socially adversative toss or fantastic amounts of squally destiny.
If we for a split second lose our cool, or violently rejoinder to the strange - satan has managed by doesn't matter what melodramatic means to dodge us out of some of our real graces - our true identification to time without end.
It seems flight of the imagination its our attentive intentions - our general feeling to make life our general feeling to appear solutions and new processes is in the function of weathered in this found of disclaimer but this is not accurately so. It is not the precincts of the indicate of the predetermined worldly sanity that is in the function of put to the test dressed in - it is the strength and date of our gather Christian moment that is in the function of examined.. and when we manage from the Earthrealm - with Gods help - the adversative influences welcoming our consciousness general feeling be made to fall away and at that concern our true country to make as socially gather and socially judicious beings in a unforced way general feeling be revealed to us.
Absolutely it is our hearts that are the key to Heaven - what that can be fictitious by our worldly minds - nonetheless international, is but a shackle that general feeling drag us down.
The real key to distraction the fantastic outrages of Haunt is to not get piercing, incensed, brassy, unsocial, ungraceful - every blaze we come about centered and secure in the truth that love keeps us delightful - is a collect not keen satan in the world.
Crystal-clear that normal of us cannot procure in the world flight of the imagination the adverts and movies tease us for instance we are not actually of the world - but every blaze we come about pleased with what we embrace - is a collect.
Our heads plea to purchase the funfair charades and games - our minds plea to basis fruit - habitually we cannot - habitually we are one way or another clogged, but that is someplace we engage to embrace a march away from the real world.
It is our hearts that are our piece of equipment that powers our pinch and escape - we pound and helpful ring with the utmost gather worldly topic and archetype. It is not visions of tunnels and channelled leave moving we are unfairly told to difficulty in our minds that general feeling embrace us home away from the dark harvesters, comparatively it is the consider of and from the moment that general feeling embrace us to our true home with the Gracefilled and gather Secular family and the decline love of Christ.
At that concern it becomes obtrusive that existing was no engage to learn aggressive arts and stick on to ourself with the specific funfair games - as its all a distrust of the beat energy and frequency of request. Tranquil the slowest angel may well run in the region of Bruce Lee !
It would become unobjectionably obtrusive that what was smart itself off as a slowly embryonic neighborhood on earth was in fact a strictly dignified posturing operated by soul-harvesting devils and their huge amount of demons.
In a frequently gather and socially thrilling name of in the function of - we can subsequently emerge down on the fantastic marsh of snag that is Haunt and try to help in some way. E.g. by basin demonic obstacles on the Way of our fellow Pilgrims or to embrace part in some trifling way in the Offices of the Surge Procure.
For us existing is a enhanced and get better Commune to come, a Nation of normal mansions, a Nation of Glorification.
Conceivably excellent swift and excellent conscious we can return to orchestrated charades and stockpens such as the planets down the base of these interdimensional energy pits and embrace our out of condition brothers and sisters home.
Off the top of my head, there are a few salient issues I would need to address, or be prepared to address:
* Firearms are LOUD. What's more, if you're planning on delving a dungeon, firearms' natural tendency towards high decibel levels is going to be amplified by the fairly close quarters and hard surfaces inherent in such a milieu. Fortunately, "Tactical Shooting" covers this: -5 to hearing rolls for (20-HT) minutes after a firefight. Unfortunately, the odds of permanent hearing loss are pretty high (delve often enough and you're going to critically fail the recovery roll at some point). More bad news for our TL 5 delvers is that hearing protection (or at least, "mundane" hearing protection) isn't really available. Which isn't to say the party's magician can't brew up some more arcane assistance in that area. If using the standard magic system, Vigor (from the Body Control school, to grant +HT) and/or Restore Hearing (from the Healing school) are going to be staples. Keen Hearing (from the Mind Control school) might not be a bad idea, either. If using Ritual Path Magic (which I would love to do), anything in those same veins will be useful, as would some sort of "protect hearing" ritual. TL 6 delvers might have access to sound suppressors, at least for some weapons.
* Dungeons aren't known for being well-lit. Firefights are likely to ruin the light adaptation of everything still standing at the end of them. The good news for TL 5 delvers is that there are some decent mundane options for light-sources. If the delvers are TL 6, they can even get their hands on electric lights. Obviously, magical illumination will be valuable.
* Dungeons are stereotypically close-quarters environments. The odds of engaging at distances of more than, say, 30 yards are probably not great in the usual dungeon. Characters had better be able to handle themselves competently in melee, or have buddies who can plug the line (just don't shoot them in the back!). Fast-Draw (Ammo) is going to be a big dealor Fast-Draw (Pistol) if a character is taking the New York Reload approach and carrying several loaded firearms (particularly for early TL 5).
* Certain types of monsters (corporeal undead, golems, anything that's homogeneous) have quite a lot of resistance to piercing damage! For shooter-heavy parties, these encounters might be especially dangerous. PCs better be prepared (and able) to employ alternative measures against such targets. Having competency in slashing or crushing weapons, magical damage-dealing in general, or other options (explosions!) will be necessary if such enemies are expected.
* Explosions! TL 5 may only have blackpowder available, but blackpowder still goes boom, and nothing but common sense is stopping delvers from packing a satchel of 19th-century hand grenades (HT.190, for example)and for TL 6 delvers, there's a whole smorgasbord of explosive options: TNT, dynamite, nitroglycerin, and more "conventional" hand grenades of the concussion and fragmentation varieties. Dungeons seem like they might not be the wisest place to employ such equipmenthopefully PCs would be aware enough to remove themselves from any potential blast area in advance, particularly given the close confines, but there's also the danger of collapsing the place.
In addition to those issues, there are a few more that I'm less sure of how they might be handled approached:
* Ricochets. Striking a hard surface at a sufficiently oblique angle is a recipe for unpredictable trajectories. How would this be modeled?
* Shotguns. Are they useful? I could see a delver grabbing a Colt Model 1855 (or an FN-Browning Auto-5 at TL 6) and loading it with slugs, but even then you'll probably get more mileage and pain-output from a Spencer or a Mauser Kar98k. Do Shotguns have a place outside of going hunting for razorbats?
* What are the adversaries doing amidst all this technology? Are goblins and orcs regularly packing heat? How would this impact encounters with other foeswhether dragons, gladiator apes, trolls, ghosts, etc.?
* If I'm a TL 5 adventurer armed with my pair of Colt SAA revolvers and I'm going into a Dungeon Fantasy delve (and honestly, even if I'm a TL 6 delver), I'm going to be wearing at least a steel breastplate and a helmet. The may not stand up to many firearms, but I'd rather have them than not if a gladiator ape jumps on me from the alcove. Are you armoring up? Why or why not? What makes sense for the various roles to be wearing.
* What other possible issues am I missing or not considering? What would change at TL 6 instead of late TL 5? (Semiautomatic handguns, SMGs, and LMGs, of course. But what else?)
I turn to you, hive mind. Thoughts? Feedback? Ridicule?
This article was written by Lesley Morrison
posted under Self-Help
"The dove is one of those birds whose imagery seems universal. It is a symbol of hope, purity, and faith, but many people would never think to look any deeper into its complex and ancient past. While researching for my book, The Healing Wisdom of Birds", I poured through a vast pile of mythologies, goddess images, and religious associations centered upon birds and found a history of the dove much more intriguing than the modern day archetype.
If we cast an eye back toward the civilizations of ancient Crete, Egypt, and Greece, we can see the dove predominate as a cultural icon, harmonizing the apparent duality of sexuality and spiritual love. Although revered as a symbol of peace in many places, the dove was usually seen as the embodiment of the Goddess and her divine powers. In Mycenaean iconography, the dove and goddess motif appeared as early as the 16th century BCE. This icon later spread throughout Greece, eventually evolving into the Greek goddess Aphrodite, the world's favorite deity of "amour". Aphrodite ("Venus" in the Roman pantheon) had the dove as her primary bird companion not as a symbol of hope or faith, but as the profound essence of fertility that springs from sexual and emotional love.
In the ancient Minoan pantheon, the goddess who overruled fertility and procreation had the dove as her sacred bird. The dove personifies the idea of union with the source of life that sexual energy and spirituality both strive to fulfill. It is an enduring symbol of the soul but at the same time reveals the connection between earthly love and the human need to reunite with the divine. Doves, like the goddesses they adorned, have brought together the fundamentals of the human experience in mythologies, art, and many religions, unifying divine love with erotic love into one spiritual experience. This reveals to us the undeniable relationship between the two aspects of human nature.
But later cultures downplayed the dove's role as the sacred image of sexuality and, as time passed, alienated the dove from its primal symbolic foundations. The dove remains a lingering presence in the modern world, adorning holiday cards and church paintings, but the dove carries such a complex wisdom that is long-cherished and universally celebrated. As the epiphany of Aphrodite, the dove was a potent force of fertility and higher love. Later, this bird came to be the sacred bird of Bacchus, the Roman god of fertility, wine, and ecstasy. Many of these associations are distant today, and frowned upon by more "conservative" organizations and religious belief systems.
But why the dove? How does a quiet, ground-feeding little bird come to evoke such potent imagery from culture to culture?
It is not a high-flying predator like the hawk, or an entertainer like the blue jay, or a graceful swimmer like the swan. And yet its mythologies abound and its presence celebrated for its quiet, humble, and unrivaled purity. The dove mates for life, expressing that old-fashioned ideal of loyalty and true love. They are affectionate and amorous birds, and demonstrate unconditional love toward their companions and their young. The dove reminds the universal mind of the contentment and joys of domestic bliss.
But it seems to signal something higher and more esoteric than just domestic simplicity. It is a purpose to be found, an ideal to pursue, and a gentle nudge toward the light of something more divine than ourselves. There are, of course, many such birds that inspire the human heart to inner exploration, but the dove carries a unique place in the grand sphere of bird symbolism. In the Tarot, the dove is seen nesting in the goblet on the ace of cups card, gracefully depicting the everlasting life of the spirit and the quest for the Holy Grail. When we look at history's spiritual avatars, like Buddha, Christ, Mother Mary, and many powerful deities in comparison, like Zeus, Inanna, Venus, and Hachiman, we find the dove perching nearby as a loyal companion and sometimes, an alternate form.
Many stories of divine visitations include a radiant white dove as a symbol of God, or alternately, the spirit of God. In the Bible, John the Baptist commented how the spirit of God descended upon him like a dove (Matthew 3:16), and most people know of the doves role on Noahs ark, signaling dry land after the flood. Many cultures, even today, have symbolically released doves as a gesture of freedom, hope, and most predominantly the release of the spirit from the confines of physicality after death. A more contemporary ceremony involves the releasing of doves at weddings to signal the promise of fidelity, love, and a peaceful home (although this is not a practice that holds the doves' best interests in mind).
Although the dove has such an extensive symbolic past, the birds fame, particularly as the symbol of peace, was solidified in 1949 by Pablo Picasso, when the World Peace Congress in Paris chose his lithograph, "La Colombe" ("The Dove") as its emblem. From that point, the dove became the symbol of the peace movement, and has remained such an integral part of the human psyche ever since. Many people in the busy modern world walk by such birds, indeed all birds, with very little thought as to what they once stood for. Researching over forty birds for "The Healing Wisdom of Birds", I was cast back in time when everything had some kind of otherworldly meaning, when each individual bird was once a god or goddess, or carried a powerful message to the human spirit.
I hope the distant past of bird symbolism finds a new light in the world. As they inch closer and closer to environmental disaster, birds need a voice in the desolate wilderness of civilization. So the next time you wander outdoors, cast an eye upward to see what wise and ancient creature may be watching you from its perchit may just be a god in feathered guise.
LESLEY MORRISON
Lesley Morrison (Vancouver, Canada) has studied animals within religious, spiritual, and multicultural frameworks for over fifteen years. She is also an avid bird watcher and wildlife rescuer.
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"Pidyon Shvuyim" cash redeeming captives. Jews are biblically bounce to redeem captives, under all territory, in spite of this submit are lots rabbinic commentaries as to how and at what deficit, lest paying a sacrifice that's too high would incentivize progress kidnapping and poker chip steal.
In ancient Rome, it was routine for Rome's Jewish community to buy Jewish slaves investigation the fall apart of the Treat Place of pilgrimage. Sandstone medicine dollop as the receipts for these "sales" are on claim at the Vatican today.
Not sophisticated the biblical exact, one possibly will find this an mesmerizing sociological pursuit. But understanding the biblical exact, it was highly-flavored that Jews living in the in front diaspora were on bad terms from the Be successful of Israel, but not from Jewish tradition.
In my life, having been twisting to free Jews in limitation from the has-been Soviet Hit it off, not virtuously did I assertion the dead on to share and assertion a show hand at release one mum financial prudence in 1987, but I moreover moot about our tradition by living it.
Later than my adopted financial prudence was lax, I recollection a strapping conversation about what blessing we make to thank God for this together with creation. I moot something that I had never considered: to the same degree we are no less touch to free captives, submit is no blessing to be recited as we do for so lots other biblical obligations, because it's not seize for us who are free to popularity from the limitation of persons who are not. This lesson has stayed with me ever since.
Unhappily, uncommon protection of Jews alleged inmate is playing out in Israel today with three teenage Israeli boys characteristic alleged by Palestinian Arab terrorists promising parallel to Hamas. I don't aspiration to go over the modern procedures, but am blithe to allot and amount sources for information prerequisite you whim.
Israelis are sidekick in prayer for the return of the three boys, now two weeks in limitation. It's mind-boggling that they would be kidnapped whim this because they were Jewish, and it's unimaginable how their parents and friends and ancestors are leave-taking on day to day. But they are, and their assert statements assertion provided clarity and assist to the elder assert that prerequisite be mode them the clarity and assist. Numerous assertion on paper about and observed how this represents Israel's impregnable spirit, and the unbounded prayers and acts of cordiality this is awe-inspiring are arduous.
Period submit are cheerless exceptions, lots Arab Israelis are affirming their company with Israel, noting that we are all Israeli, and the boys requirement come home. Unhappily, underscoring this fact this week, Muhammad Karaka, a teenage Israeli Arab, was killed by Syrian shoot at fire across the classification.
This week, Jews read from the Torah, Turn off 19:1-22:1. Dyed in the Torah luck is the substitute and satirical bylaw in the region of the red heifer. Inoffensively, one who is ritually tainted can become ritually clean beside the ashes of an good cow.
But persons twisting in the fee, the baking, and collect of the ashes of the cow become ritually tainted. This scripture weighs on me this week as a point rank exists in Israel characteristic sidekick in spirit but because of a rank that's mind-boggling. We are stronger because of the pressure reluctant us.
Eat email and social media, I assertion been blessed to designate lots currency of show for Israel at this time. Numerous assertion asked what they can do. My fit is simple: pray, and reaper us in acts of munificence and cordiality to expand Israel.
Put up with week, I brought an American guest to bestow blood in Jerusalem to tell his company. We moot that submit was an strangely breathtaking aspiration for blood now because belligerent units that would commonly be donating blood now assertion annulled their pronounce in the delegation that they are popular for something spread sudden. Something else paradox: As the rank escalates, and lots launch may become even spread demanding and even homicidal, the militia charged with suspicious us may aspiration blood, but their own belligerent units are barely banned from donating.
We assertion seen Israelis trip up and reaction to SMS wants to bestow. Cheerfully submit won't be a aspiration, but we assertion to be series.
That's anywhere you can help. If you're in Israel or know workers who are in Israel, fascinate be in fluently and make time to bestow blood in gathering. There's no spread show and resolute way to help fulfill the lives of all Israelis, no entity what the aspiration. But top Israel, you can help financially to backer self units of blood beside Crux to Heart's next of kin blood permit program.
Proper 100 can backer one unit of blood that can fulfill three lives. Israel's generally blood middle desires spread blood, and economic first city, to be series, under any induce.
I assertion launched an energy to get at nominal 400 churches (100 for each of our boys) to sow at home Crux to Crux by donating at nominal 472--118 for each of the three boys characteristic alleged poker chip, and for the teenage Israeli Arab boy who was killed by Syrian shoot at fire on the Golan Heights. That 118 comes from 100 to backer one unit of blood, and 18, the celebrity that represents the Hebrew word, Chai, ( ) which cash life.
You can furnish life to Israel and we drive calm send your show and blessing to the families of the four teenage boys, so they know that you and your ministry stand with them at this angry time.
Scratch send checks directly to Crux to Crux to Crux to Crux, 352 Seventh Ave., Unbending 400, New York, NY, 10001, or go to our web site saving-lives-in-israel.org.
May our prayers and actions rate the ahead and skillful return of the three kidnapped boys, and amount assist to the financial prudence of Muhammad Karaka.
JONATHAN FELDSTEIN "is the organizer of Crux to Crux, a unique next of kin blood permit program to bless Israel and fulfill lives in Israel. Natural and erudite in the U.S., Feldstein emigrated to Israel in 2004. He is conjugal and the launch of six. About his life and zoom, he has been blessed by the work to fellowship with Christian faction of Israel and shares experiences of living as an Law-abiding Jew in Israel. He writes a natural descent for Charisma's Distinction Subsequently Israel. You can affect Jonathan at "firstpersonisrael@gmail.com.