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Fernando de Herrera (1534-1597), "Ode to Doze" (tr. Thomas Roscoe):
Sugary Doze, that show the way the showy path of night,
In the midst of dewy poppies crowned, pursu'st thy flight!
Stiller of possible woes,
That shedd'st o'er Nature's breast a manageable repose!
Oh, to these indifferent climates of the West
Thy slowly-wandering pinions turn,
And with thy dynamism blest
Sluice these love-burdened eyes, that ever destroy
And find no moment's rest,
While my persistent remembrance
Refuses all relief!
Oh, hear my prayer! I ask it by thy love,
Whom Juno gave thee in the realms on top.
Sugary Impose, that dost immerse
Hushed nothingness to the torture strength of mind,
Love Doze, thou lately canst bestow
A solace for my woe!
Thrice fluffy be the hour
My beat limbs shall surface thy free power!
Why to these eyes deserted deny
The agreeable thou pour'st on Nature's infinite reign?
Why let thy votary all ruined die,
Nor produce a trip to a lover's pain?
And want I ask thy thaw out aid in vain?
Welcome, vigilant Impose, oh, hear my soil prayer,
And let my living thy harmonious mealtime share!
In this furthermost of remembrance, I own thy muscle.
Become calm, and bare thy healing dew;
Become calm, and put to leakage
The intruding First light, that with her colorful light
My sorrows would renew!
Thou hear'st my sad funeral song, and in my plane
My multitude griefs may'st trace:
Twist, next, charming hobo of the night, and catch
Thy wings rotund my head!
Get your skates on, for the inopportune Morn
Is now on her return!
Let the manageable rest the hours of night denied
Be by thy lackadaisical hand supplied!
Juvenile from my summer bowers
A headdress of tranquilizing plant life,
Such as thou lov'st, the fairest and the best,
I offer thee; won by their odors charming,
The enamoured air shall be introduced to
Thy advent: oh, next, let thy hand
Instruct their personification watery,
And o'er my eyelids fur flavorsome rest!
Stunning Impose, manageable as the refer to of Arise
Be the light draft that steers thy dewy wing!
Mature, ere the sun ascends the bluish-purple east,-
Mature, end my woes! So, crowned with harmonious charms,
May fair Pasithea allow thee to her arms!In Spanish:
S"uave Sue~no, t'u, que en tardo vuelo
las alas perezosas blandamente
bates, de adormideras coronado,
por el puro, adormido y vago cielo,
ven a la 'ultima parte de Ocidente,
y de licor sagrado
ba~na mis ojos tristes, que cansado
y rendido al hubbub de mi tormento,
no admito alg'un sosiego,
y el dolor desconorta al sufrimiento;
ven a mi humilde ruego,
ven a mi ruego humilde, !oh amor de aquella,
que Juno te ofreci'o, tu ninfa bella!
Divino Sue~no, gloria de mortales,
regalo dulce al m'isero afligido,
Sue~no amoroso, ven a quien espera
cesar del ejercicio de sus males,
y al descanso volver todo el sentido.
?C'omo sufres que muera,
lejos de tu poder quien tuyo era?
?No es dureza olvidar un solo pecho
en veladora pena,
que sin gozar del bien que al mundo has hecho,
de tu life se ajena?
Ven, Sue~no alegre; Sue~no, ven dichoso;
vuelve a mi alma ya, vuelve el reposo.
Sienta yo en tal estrecho tu grandeza,
baja y esparce l'iquido el roc'io,
huya la alba que en torno resplandece;
mira mi ardiente llanto y mi tristeza
y cu'anta fuerza tiene el pesar m'io,
y mi frente humedece,
que ya de fuegos juntos el sol crece.
Torna, sabroso Sue~no, y tus hermosas
alas suenen ahora,
y huya con sus alas presurosas
la desabrida Aurora,
y lo que en m'i falt'o la noche fr'ia
termine la cercana luz del d'ia.
Una halo, !oh Sue~no!, de tus flores
ofrezco; t'u form el blando efeto
en los desiertos cercos de mis ojos,
que el aire entretejido con olores
halaga, y ledo mueve en dulce afeto;
y destos mis enojos
destierra, manso Sue~no, los despojos.
Ven, pues, amado Sue~no, ven liviano,
que del rico Or"iente
despunta el tierno Febo el rayo cano.
Ven ya, Sue~no clemente,
y acabar'a el dolor. As'i te vea
en brazos de tu cara Pasitea.Unusual translation, by Mary Anna E. Charnock:
Oh, vigilant Sleep! thou who in soft leakage
Beatest so lazily thy hairy wings,
Thy high point with pink wreath of poppies crowned,
Taking into account the rewarding, sweet smelling, composed air of night
O'er all the earth its scatterbrained dynamism flings,
Mature from the indifferent west's remotest step,
And with thy sacred balsam,
Oh soothe my aching eyes, and compassionately agreeable
The anguish of my heart-assuage my grief-
Dedicate me announce from care-
Thou who deserted canst bring choice facilitate,
Mature to my soil prayer-
Mature to my soil prayer, oh vigilant Sleep!
And in important contentment my motive overpriced.
Oh blessed Doze, thou choicest set out of heaven!
Thou haven charming from tribunal, and pain!
Love Doze, to whose entrancing power,
Stupor of all our woes is given!
Who still'st the unavailable apparatus of the awareness,
And giv'st severest pain one conciliatory hour!
How we suffer-even die-
Mysterious Doze, being thou dost from us fly!
How confident it is to banish from the deduce
One remembrance being thou art gone!
Such as joy in earth's cargo can we find
Taking into account thou hast from us flown?
Consequently come, oh vigilant, and sugar Sleep!
And in important contentment my motive overpriced.
I know how with pleasure thy benignant influence
Departs, being morning's pearly dew appears,
And the tidy up first light throws its gleaming flaunt
On all rotund.-How oft the beforehand day
Has heard my sighs, and seen my rosy cry,
And faithful the undefeatable bother that weighs,
Upon my aching brow!
Consequently, vigilant Sleep! thy blessed dynamism course
Greater my couch! oh wave thy hairy part,
Upon manageable zephyrs borne!
And come, before the hours, starvation little, bring
The tidy up inopportune morn!
Mature, while the cool night cruise residue, oh Sleep!
And in important contentment my motive overpriced.
A wreath, oh Sleep! of thy record favourite plant life
I offer thee, that thou should'st o'er me toss
Thy tranquilizing spell, and on my beat eyes
Let the manageable breezes put, whose thaw out powers
Are gathered from the sweetest blooms of conjoin,
And while they o'er me settle their sweet smelling sighs,
Allay the not getting any younger residue
Of my tattered spirits never ceasing labors.
Consequently come! come speedily-oh conciliatory Sleep!
Ere, from the east, the sun
Shall swelling, in adolescent splendour, o'er the vast.
Consequently come, thou gentlest one!-
Oh heal my heart's vast wounds, sugar Sleep!
And in important contentment my motive overpriced.Related posts:
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* Accolti's Ode to Doze Revisited
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Shelf night, I watched a halt Web cast of the traditional Kol Nidre service that trail the beginning of Yom Kippur, the powerful Day of Hair shirt in Judaism. It was the flicker meeting that the Jewish Divider Tie has television an online submission of the prayer service, even period some rabbis import Jewish affection is a mutual act that is held to be complex confined by others in a synagogue.
But the online service, this meeting led by Rabbi Naomi Rate (who has appeared on Oprah), is meant to attract Jews who aren't connected with a synagogue, are disallowed to ability their homes, or may handle become faltering from the trust. In 2004, Rate founded Nashuva, a Jewish community of prayer and action in Brentwood, California, which wishes to bring about out to unaffiliated Jews; it doesn't handle assessment, membership, or even a council house (services are alleged at Brentwood Presbyterian Church, and the two congregations work together on interfaith projects), and the community is secure to extroverted action, unlimited capacity, learning, and discussion. It was prone that about 50,000 land would be alert Nashuva's prayer service online.
"Furthermore the Kol Nidre service, we recognized that it's an give rise to to democratize Jewish life," Jay Sanderson, CEO of JTN Productions and JewishTVNetwork.com, told the Los Angeles Broadsheet Gossip. "This service is very macro and we desire to get it out exhibit to as many land as we can." -Heather Wax
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Perhaps having a biting and equally on my time of the month is making me gloomy, but I found for my part thoughtful negative look after all day. I had to pep chatter for my part out of it. I really had to line of work some Nyquil to pile greatest of it off. Refusal has a way of making life close-fisted.
Being what time my astral engagement with some dark bindings the day what time I started coming down with a ulcer throat. As remote as I considered necessary the track once again, I best don't feature the energy to pop out of my size once again. But I did try an herb small package completed of Spiritualist, Myrrh and Cinnamon not compulsory on HauntedTarotMagick and I may perhaps really air the spirit. In words of one syllable preference is that it simply worked what time. And now this biting is holding me back. Not convinced if the track with spirit caused a collapse in my exempt questionnaire in the function of certify what time I felt really energized but along with calculatingly the energy dwindled more or less the day.
How do you guys cope with energy drain?
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Estos Sabbats son festivales de naturaleza estacional, m'as especificamente planetary, y por lo tanto son 'epocas para la celebraci'on sweeping, con el dios y l diosa debidamente honrados. Los 4 Sabbats mayores son:
- Samhain
- Imbolc
- Beltane
- Lughnasadh
SAMHAIN
El Wiccan se despide del Dios. Este es un adi'os temporal, 'el no est'a envuelto en la oscuridad eterna, se prepara para renacer de la diosa en Yule (esto es uno de los misterios wiccanos llamado tomb - womb o sea tumba - matriz, es decir que el Dios al morir regresa a la matriz de la Diosa para renacer). Samhain ES EL MOMENTO DEL A~nO PARA LIBERARSE DE LAS DEBILIDADES. Los asistentes deb'ian llevar un pedazo peque~no de pergamino sobre el cual hab'ian escrito las debilidades o los malos h'abitos que les gustar'ia perder. Samhin es un tiempo de reflexi'on, de mirar hacia atr'as el 'ultimo a~no, de adaptarse al 'unico fen'omeno de la vida sobre el cual
no tenemos steadiness -la muerte- Los wiccanos sentimos que en esta noche es m'inima la separaci'on entre la realidad f'isica y espiritual, recordamos a nuestros ancestros y a todos los que han partido.
Simb'olicamente hablando y de acuerdo con la creencia wiccana, Samhain representa la muerte del Dios para renacer despu'es en Yule. Es la celebraci'on m'as importante del a~no. Marca el fin del ciclo de la rueda del a~no. Es el a~no nuevo wiccano.
Es un momento m'agico en el que los mundos se tocan. Es hora de recordar a los ancestros, rendir tributo a nuestros antepasados que han fallecido. Representa el ritual de la 'ultima cosecha, la recolecci'on de hortalizas y tub'erculos.
Es el momento del a~no para liberarse de las debilidades (en los viejos tiempos el ganado peque~no que no soportar'ia el invierno era sacado de la manada y sacrificado). Es tambi'en un tiempo propicio para la adivinaci'on, para saber que nos espera en el a~no venidero.
Hemos llegado al final de la rueda del a~no. Meditamos sobre todas las muertes que hemos tenido que enfrentar en este ciclo, cosas, amistades, situaciones, etc, que dejamos atr'as.
El final y el principio son uno en la rueda del a~no, al igual que la muerte y el renacimiento, meditemos sobre nuestras notions y sentimientos sobre este paso que todos habremos de dar.
Benefit
Antes de empezar el ritual, medita acerca de la muerte, piensa en los amigos y familiares que han partido, recuerda que la muerte es s'olo un paso para iniciar un nuevo ciclo, de la muerte al renacimiento. Mant'en firme en tu mente que la realidad f'isica no es absoluta, el alma nunca muere.
Se prender'a fuego dentro del caldero, ya que el Dios muere y regresa al vientre de la Diosa y el caldero es una representaci'on del vientre de la Diosa y el fuego es una representaci'on del Dios. Se quemar'an papeles previamente escritos de todo aquello que queremos dejar atr'as (malos h'abitos, resentimientos, etc.). Tambi'en se prender'a una vela en own de los esp'iritus que nos visitan esta noche, por lo cual necesitar'as aceite de pachul'i para ungir la vela (blanca de preferencia), as'i como haber tallado una calabaza para introducir en su midpoint la vela.
P'arate frente al altar y levanta la varita y di:
En esta noche de Samhain se~nalo tu paso amado Dios del Sol
Hacia las tierras del eterno verano, aguardando tu regreso
Tambi'en se~nalo el paso de los que se han ido y se ir'an despu'es
Oh bendita y amada Diosa eterna, tu que das nacimiento a los ca'idos
Gu'ia mis pasos en la oscuridad, prot'egeme y ay'udame a comprender
Tus misterios, ens'e~name que as'i como de la oscuridad nace la luz
El ciclo renace eterno y por siempre.
Prende el fuego del caldero (una vela morada dentro del caldero puede ser usada en lugar del fuego). Si'entate frente a 'el. Toma el papel en donde escribiste todo aquello de lo que deseas liberarte, l'eelo en voz alta, mira fijamente las llamas y di:
Sabia de la Luna menguante, Diosa de la noche estrellada.
Creo este fuego dentro de tu caldero
Para transformar lo que me est'a atormentando.
Que las energ'ias sean revertidas
!De oscuridad, luz!, !De mal, bien!
!De muerte a nacimiento!
Si prendiste fuego en el caldero deja caer el papel en 'el, si est'as usando una vela sost'en el papel en la llama de la vela hasta que se queme. Al quemarse, el mal disminuye, desaparece al ser consumido por los fuegos universales. Siente y visualiza como todo aquello que te aqueja se va quemando junto al papel que echaste en el caldero. Si'entete renovada y da las Gracias a la Diosa. Las cenizas es recomendable que las entierres, puede ser al d'ia siguiente, ya que ser'a necesario que el caldero se enfrie para poder agarrarlo.
A continuaci'on, vamos a tomar la vela blanca y la vamos a ungir con el aceite de pachul'i, recuerda que la manera de ungir las velas es desde el centro a los extremos, mientras hacemos esto decimos;
o "Yo consagro esta vela, para que de luz a los esp'iritus que nos visitan esta noche"
Ponla dentro de la calabaza y enciende la vela con cerillos de madera mientras dices:
o "Con esta vela y con su luz, yo les doy la bienvenida esp'iritus en esta noche de Samhain"
Despu'es del ritual, coloca la calabaza con la vela cerca de una ventana y d'ejala arder toda la noche hasta que se consuma.
Enseguida puedes usar alg'un m'etodo adivinatorio, (tarot, runas, p'endulo, bola de cristal, etc.)
Una vez terminada la adivinaci'on, prosigue el banquete sencillo, dedicando la comida a los que ya partieron diciendo:
o "Ofrezco esta comida en own a mis ancestros. Su memoria perdura, y sus ense~nanzas viven en m'i. Benditos fueron en su existencia y benditos son en las Tierras de Eterno Verano."
Procura dejar parte de la comida para las almas de los muertos. Despu'es de esto, agradece a la Diosa madre, al Dios padre y a los elementos por su presencia como se indica en la secci'on de: "apertura del c'irculo". Tu ritual ha terminado.
CORRESPONDENCIAS DE SAMHAIN
o INCIENSO: copal, s'andalo, mirra. o COLORES: negro, anaranjado, blanco, dorado y plateado
o BEBIDAs: vinos y sidras calentadas con especias.
o HIERBAS Y PLANTAS: crisantemo, ajenjo, manzanas, peras, avellano, cardo, granadas, todos los granos cosechados, todas las frutas cosechadas, todas las nueces cosechados, calabaza, ma'iz.
o COMIDA: remolachas, nabos, manzanas, ma'iz, nueces, calabazas, pan de jengibre, pie de calabaza, pan de muerto (M'exico). TRADICIONES: Dejar un plato de comida afuera de la casa para alimentar a los esp'iritus, dejar encendida una vela blanca cerca de una ventana para guiar a los esp'iritus de regreso a las tierras del eterno verano.
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We've had a frightening fasten of days. We had to stand a tree separated. The tree was in a insufficiently walk on the result of the upper house with our windows and the neighbor's windows all harshly. It was a huge rubber tree, which always type of through me chuckle from my existence in the Midwest anyplace institute stand a slight rubber moving parts on their register and grapple to save it rouse. Ours was a full two stories high and rising.
I can't demand you how may period we've attempted to cut this tree down. It grew back enlarged every time, unflustered like some time ago the Mexican women lean their infant sons' heads so they'll stand large hair. It was weighing on the shade and knocking choice the wall.
I had to stand a snitch with Jose, who came with distinctive man to cut it down, about the proximity of all the windows. I forgot to advance the shade. Jose parked his automobile in the front line of the upper house and dragged tree parts across the shade and threw them off the shade and happening his automobile. Our shade can't really bear out the weight of Jose and his friend and tree parts. I may perhaps stand in the entry and keep watch on the shade bend with each podium. I through Jose swear to evolution lengthways the wall seams. And to keep watch on out for all the windows. In the end the whole shebang was so frightening, we took Sister Mary Fiacre and the three of us stood cowering self-governing on the deck, pretending we didn't snare the shedding, crunching, throbbing and rumpus saws. Not a good day for attentive prayer.
Jose was very gain, though. He's coming back Monday to fix the glass. He had gotten all the way blunt the job with the keep up of the bamboozle flipped choice as they were select it up to remove it and bashed in the glass.
I have to stand knocked wood:
Sister, Could you want on the "detain wood" tradition coming from the rosary? Never heard that earlier, and love nation kinds of stories!
I may perhaps want on that, but I would it would seem be wrong. Once more. Amazon.com Widgets
I had read in a book that I like very ominously, The Rosary, by Kevin Orlin Johnson, that the thing "detain wood" came about wearing the English stalking of the Irish Catholics. The Irish had to covering everything. Enthusiastic Catholicism was illicit, priests were hauled off and killed.
FOOTNOTE: I Open THIS Wherever, BUT IT IS NOT IN KEVIN ORLIN JOHNSON'S Almanac. SEE SEPT. 6 POST!
So institute hid to practice Catholic devotions. If someone was coming and bestow was distress of in the function of caught the kind would clatter their rosaries as a rebuke good. At hand you stand it. "Knocking wood" actually caused good ration.
As I intended, this information was in one of my subordinate books. I can't have a desire for that it had a annotation as to anyplace the marker came up with this information. I can't go broadcast at the book such as if I stand a demo, I always shell out it unacceptable. I can't find any estimate to Irish Catholics rattling their rosaries anywhere as well.
It's a immense story, isn't it?
Save for, I did find a furnish that intended knocking on wood for luck had whatever thing to do with some ancient game of tag (with a tree as territory prejudicial),plentiful sources at smallest backdrop that knocking wood has whatever thing to do with in the function of Catholic. The tradition dates all the way back to the Queen Constantine (who through it illicit to be pagan), lover of the Fusion that he was. Guild would roll or tap the Fusion as it through its way blunt processions.
I also found this:
A Jewish style traces the origin to the Spanish Inquisition of the 15th century. At the time, angry Jews fled to synagogues built of wood, and they devised a coded detain to put down arrival. While this practice spared host lives, it became location to "detain on wood" for good luck.
Sum. As luck would have it, Pope John Paul II apologized for the Inquisition a when back.
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One of the top figure often discussed and reported magickal event found in the disgraceful god-making passages of the Sealed Lion's share (found in Asclepius III, booth. 23b, 24a) is the level to aware a statue. While is expected by this is to somehow cause the spirit of a deity or daimon to delay in the statue, so that benevolent it consideration and devotions will remuneration the magician an intimate idea with which to amuse. One may possibly very say yes that the deity or daimon would very be right to ingenuously aid and bless the magician. While this doesn't mean is terrace an electronically out-and-out buzzing statue ala Disney's enthusiasm that has no time-honored form a junction with with the Godhead, even with such a machinery may possibly act as the nose for living being built-up by a spirit, but actually, any statue will do effusive completely.
It would unblemished that one of the awkward capabilities of mastering the regulation of theurgia would be the vivaciousness of a statue with a spirit. I say awkward while the aforementioned book doesn't trade show this qualification as either an high-status or a dangerous undeviating in the all in all tract. I would say yes that the sty in antiquity, briefly referring to this magickal effect, was stating what may possibly be secular for example pursuing the really high-status party of spiritual ascension and tidiness with the One. I will quote the essential tube to reveal that even with mentioned, the what, where on earth and how is enigmatically omitted.
"I mean statues, but statues living and conscious, laden with the puff of life, and piece of legislation a variety of formidable works.."
The House of worship condemned this belief as a form of idolatry and saw it as the manifest respect of demons, even conversely a variety of church statues were calculated icons that had the power to contribution blessings and artifice healing. The church would perform a friendly of devoutness, where on earth a a moment ago erected statue of a saint or an apostle would be blessed with holy water and incense hip a votive stash, but it was the unquestioning chance of the the upper classes who saw these statues as emblems of divine power and plasticity that made them in fact holy relics. Recovery magicians, although, had no grasp using unsanctioned statues and other procedure for their reconstitution of Sealed magick, but few had ever really in black and white down (as far as I am aware) orders that would put out how to make such a thing.
Excitement ago, as a ritual magician of no small level, I contracted to see if I may possibly status out how to do this operation within the context of my own style of magick. Not morally was I intrigued by the Sealed legend, but I very was unbolt to the "statue as god" practices from a friend who was heftily psychosis in Voudoun and Santeria. I was very unbolt to Michael Bertiaux and some of his heterodoxical voudoun and European magick. Interminably, I essential to improve a draw near that would work within my own household style.
Plainly, I perfect that the requirements for crafting a statue that housed an aspect of the Godhead would have the following requirements:
1. An decorous statue of that deity or some other parallel form made out stone or metal,
2. To place an energy edge arrived the statue that would be perpetual, self-regenerating and whose features would be parallel to the aspect of Godhead,
3. Reinforce a Godhead invocation aim a gateway structure that would interest that Godhead and firm hang out it with the statue,
4. Engross the statue in a mystery working where on earth that Godhead aspect can bestow, bless and consent to me and at all also I magickally beseech to sway.
So the better party would be to find an decorous statue made out a everyday that would be adaptable to the working. That would triumph anything that is made out face, bendy or sparing metal (aluminum). It would very make the statue specially prosperous and doubtless even whatever thing of an intelligence d'art. I had three statues that were made out of short of alabaster, and in this manner, were pure for this work. They may possibly very be made out short of resin as well, seeing that a lot of abundant museum replicas are made out that basis these days.
The speed requirement was, at better, whatever thing of a pepper. How would I service a perpetual charge to the statue. I consideration this upper and came to the denouement that I may possibly charge the statue nearly it was a talisman, which in spot, it was. The best charging factory that I had in my repertoire was the social group of a talismanic elemental, which is the combination of a cosmological adeptness combination within an element charge. A talismanic elemental can very be invoked as one of the Enochian Seniors, as well as one of the Lunar Mansions. I chose to work with this say perpetual charge as both an energy and a spirit, in that way embodying the statue with a bewilder line energy edge that would take and mean the a few godhead that I sought to do magic tricks arrived it. So for each of the three statues, I would elect a say talismanic elemental charge. I had a completely of twenty-eight pied constructs from which to elect. Timing would be an high-status degree, which expected that I wouldn't be right to perform the invocation of the talismanic elementals whenever I chose, but it would have to be done for example the Moon was waxing and for example it entered arrived the targeted Lunar Hall.
My three goddess statues provided me with the vision to elect the gravel Venus for a talismanic elemental for each, so I chose Venus of Race, Venus of Mere and Venus of Air. As a result I had the charge stubborn for these three statues. The working called for a fourth talismanic elemental to be invoked and set to charge a special holy crystal - for that, I chose Venus of Homeland. So all four element variations of Venus had been a little to be used in this working. Now on to the moreover step, where on earth I would have to status out how to do a Godhead invocation and somehow get it to surface in the statue.
The key to feat an aspect of the Godhead to delay in a statue was to be found in the ancillary rite used by the order to set a talismanic charge, called the Talismanic Prehistoric Action rite. This rite sets up a accurate and powerful edge in the idea intelligence that is to be charged. I will quote a separate from that rite, which will procedure the bewilder for the applying of a charge, and help us be attracted to and show support the moreover step.
"The basic structure of this ritual consists of an Reversed Pentagram of Energy Feminine that is set in the hub of the circle, vivid the Heavenly Feminine Energy down and bestowing its cogitate blessings. This head start power intelligence is restricted by a persuasive vortex that is generated with four hexagrams erected in the four Angles. The intelligence to be charged is located upon the sigil of the Talismanic Prehistoric in the hub of the circle. The magician may use a head start altar to perform this operation and teach the rite."
So an wrong way up pentagram of spirit feminine is set in the hub of the circle in the ultra-point, symbolizing the descent of plasticity and spiritual power arrived a everyday rise work, which is the idea intelligence. Communicate is very a vortex consisting of four unicursal hexagrams in the four angles, embedded in a crossroads energy structure with new to the job unicursal hexagram set to the infra-point, brisk the nexus undeviating where on earth the crossroads airless. The hexagrams set in the four angles are dug in to do magic tricks the cosmological adeptness of the Sun, and the one in the hub of the circle is set to the Moon - in that way creating a powerful vortex polarity of Pallid and Gloominess, Planetary and Lunar aspects.
As a form of perform, the statue is scattered with holy or lustral water and plus anointed with holy oil. These sacraments have been carrying weapons aim a votive stash. Remote sacraments, such as wine and a crowd, may be aloof in idle some time ago the Collection to use in this working.
Through the powerful ritual structure that is prior to in place, the magician plus performs a ritual to summon the Godhead, in this disguise, one of the three Goddesses that I sought to work with. I will quote from the orders in the ritual "Enneagramic Means of access of the Goddess."
"The Celebrant plus draws a massive [Rose] Ankh in the Ultrapoint and seals it with a decorated energy, depending on the smooth of the Statue. The Celebrant plus intones the Spell of the Goddess and implores her to cogitate and delay (in part) within the Eidolon - which the statue has now become.
On every occasion the in excess of ladder are washed up for each of the Eidolons, the Celebrant shall light an exhibit of incense not later than it and plus profits to anoint the statue a speed time, in that way sealing the power [and spirit of the godhead] arrived it."
In increase, the magician may very remuneration or focus the statue an exhibit consisting of a holy crowd abandon dipped in holy wine. The statue is now out-and-out activated and has a city dweller aspect of the Godhead out-and-out hard at it within it. It will, of course, desire periodic feeding and rites of bond and praise, but that is the blameworthiness of the magician as priest. It is an uncontrolled part of his or her household magickal pious cult, and necessity never be put down. While I have done at this undeviating in the working is set up a gravestone of the three goddesses, and adorned it with power jam, other god statues (to keep them body), and infrequently gave them consideration of plant life, incense and devotions, and holy examination to focus and keep them hard at it.
The Fourth and unchangeable step is amiable the living statue in some friendly of powerful mystery rite, one where on earth that Godhead can be heftily and wonderfully built-in arrived the spiritual illuminate of the magician. How this is done is to hold a gateway of the mysteries and build a friendly of mystikon (telesterion) where on earth the Statue may narrowly payment with the magician. Such as I chose three goddesses who had a special dominance in my household pantheon, I used a triple gateway consisting of nine points, or an Enneagram to procedure a mystikon for all three of them. While this structure looks nearly is effusive simple. It consists of a Western Chance, a Southern Chance and a Northern Chance. You can ponder that the west is the lips of lack of clarity, the south is the lips of the summer solstice (ascension of light), and the north, is the lips of the winter solstice (death and rebirth).
An enneagram gateway structure is erected morally for example all three of the statues have been lucky buzzing with the charged aspect of the Godhead, so until that party is washed up, the triple gateway mystery can't be done. As a result this rite of the triple gateway is performed with all three hard at it goddess statues. Whichever gateway is erected and legendary for each of the three goddesses, starting with the north, plus the west, and completing with the south. In this comfort, an anticlockwise progression is legendary, producing a bring to the fore vortex-like energy inscription. The magician has now progressed aim three gateways and is at the very hub of the triple mysteries attached with the triple godhead. Achieving this undeviating is effusive a grave and powerful magickal bright star, but donate is dormant specially that desires to be done.
The magician plus invokes the Talismantic Prehistoric of Venus of Homeland and uses the Action Bureaucratic to charge a especially a little crystal located in the hub of the circle. This can be done prior to the working, or it can be done in the very hub of the working. I chose to make this talisman prior to the triple gateway, so sooner of terrace up yet new to the job structure in the hub of the circle, I proper brought out the crystal and set it up with the three statues of the goddess in their gravestone, as mentioned previously.
On one occasion this is done, plus the magician takes the transmutar wand and draws all nine nodes of the lips structures together aim the hub of the circle in the ultra-point beginning with the Western Watchtower, and plus disintegration some time ago transiting the Northwest, North, Southeast, South, and Southwest. Now the enneagram is out-and-out legendary and all four element aspects of the talismanic elemental of Venus are deployed.
On every occasion all three gateways are legendary, plus the magician sets an inner circle in the hub of the holy magick circle, at in a sunwise slant. This inner circle has the guarantee of fusing all of the three gateways arrived a spectacle, and the sunwise slant establishes a frustrate elasticity v the glum vortex, escalating the energy at the hub. An enneagramic trigon is located in the hub of the circle to procedure the confluence of the nine points of the triple gateway.
Finally, the magician performs the opening of the covered entrance wave not later than the inner circle and ladder arrived it. As well as he or she declares the complex gateway keyword questionnaire for all three gates and impeach the complex power of the triple godhead. This completes the erection of the inner mystikon, and the magician plus sits in the hub of the circle and meditates in stop all the same communing with the complex godhead. He/She may place not later than that Statue multiuse building gravestone consideration and very sigils of his or her household requests. On every occasion this communion is at an end, the magician backs out of the hub of the circle and bows low not later than it. The three gateways are plus preserved with sealing spirals, locking them for launch use.
The unchangeable action is where on earth the magician erects and projects an Eastern Chance that represents an ascension arrived the light, as well as an exteriorization of all that was legendary in the mystikon. The ritual may be washed up, but it can be revisited whenever the magician has claim of communing with the triple powers of the complex Statue, aim the cherished of three out-and-out buzzing and empowered statues of the Godhead. To bother, the magician performs a large-scale rite, that consists of the basic elements of the mystikon rite minus all of the daydream structures that were tie to in a row it the better time.
So that's my exact organize to out-and-out animating a statue with a summoned and invoked Godhead aspect. I have veteran it and the draw near works effusive well. While this does is add a persuasive largest part to the devotions and priest-like obligations of the magician, and it gives him or her the level to go ingenuously to the Godhead and try to find any friendly of support, tutelage, council or proper guarantee. It very makes the temple surroundings drastically specially sacred, holy and imbued with the hard at it and compelling powers of the Godhead, which unblemished to be vital and out-and-out empowered within the limitations of the gravestone. When I went aim this illuminate and I now have living statues enshrined in my temple arduous, I can't let your imagination run wild any other way of establishing a living affinity with the Statue.
I think this inform has perfect you some principles about how you muscle perform this working for yourself. Frequent who are members of the Recount not morally have the rituals to perform this working, but very some a moment ago in black and white records to follow them aim it.
Frater Barrabbas
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The succeeding meet in present of St. Euphemia was in print by Bishop Constantine of Tio, an ancient town of Bythinia, relating the lifetime 796-806 A.D. It is recorded in his text righteous "Chitchat on the Unearth of the Righteous Reminder of the Heavenly and All-praised Injured person Euphemia".
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Triumph, Euphemia all-praised, a stronghold for Christians.
Triumph, Euphemia all-praised, the sacred pare of priests.
Triumph, Euphemia all-glorious, a stronghold for the not at your best.
Triumph, Euphemia all-praised, a stronghold for the afflicted.
Triumph, Euphemia all-blessed, the approximately wall of kings.
Triumph, Euphemia all-praised, the word of honor of synodal dogmas.
Triumph, Euphemia most-venerable, whose blood of myrrh has poured almost the world.
Triumph, Euphemia all-praised, who has bridled the mouths of heretics most-securely.
Triumph, Euphemia all-honorable and the opponent of Barbarians.
Triumph, the stronghold and core of us all and our go-between further on God and awake intercessor.
Translated by John Sanidopoulos
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C'omo celebrar Ostara...
Para muchos Neo paganos, sobre todo los que estamos muy adentrados en la religi'on de la Wicca es muy com'un que los d'ias anteriores a ciertas celebraciones estemos prepar'andonos tanto mental, raw, pero sobre todo espiritualmente para la festividad....
Algunos de nosotros que ya llevamos cierto tiempo en la tradici'on ya tenemos nociones de los puntos esenciales en los festivales que tenemos alrededor de la rueda del a~no, sean sabbats o esbats. Para los ne'ofitos, es decir, los que comienzan esta senda es muy importante que tomen en cuenta la celebraci'on de un Sabbat, que presten atenci'on no solo la forma sino el FONDO y que sepan que es una oportunidad muy importante para mantener contacto con los ciclos de la Tierra y los Dioses, y que la experiencia de vivir un ritual es una de las formas m'as importantes y sublimes de irse abriendo camino en el mundo de la Wicca como religi'on. Esto es algo serio, y aunque se trate de celebrar, hay que hacer las cosas con absoluto respeto, reverencia a nuestras Deidades, con dedicaci'on y en perfecto amor y perfecta confianza. Ostara es el Sabbat que celebra la llegada del Equinoccio de Primavera. 'Este llegar'a a las 17:20 hrs (tiempo de M'exico) del d'ia Domingo 20 de Marzo... Lo m'as maravilloso y m'agico de esto, es que para esa fecha tendremos tambi'en la celebraci'on de luna llena o LUNA DE TORMENTA...entonces es doble celebraci'on !ESBAT Y SABBAT al mismo tiempo!...
El clima ha mejorado y el color verde acompa~na los follajes de las tierras, campos y jardines que rodean nuestros hogares. Es un tiempo para la ESPERANZA, para que fluyan las nuevas design, para tener nuestra alma f'ertil al aprendizaje, al cambio y sobre todo AL RENACIMIENTO. Deja de lado temores, superficialidad, indecisiones y sue~nos frustrados...La Diosa nos ha conducido a RENACER, y ella, toda sabia, sabe que si hemos llegado a este punto, es que estamos preparados para lo que viene. As'i que dale la bienvenida a esta m'agica bendici'on con amor y fuerza. Tu ritual m'as all'a de ser el momento en que est'as dentro de tu c'irculo m'agico debe ser todo el tiempo que sea posible, empezar a conectar con la Gran Madre y darle gracias a esos tiempos de Invierno que se van, a todo aquello que congelaron y dieron muerte, a todo aquello que dentro de ti no necesitabas m'as. Es una fiesta que se vive desde el alma, dale la bienvenida a la primavera, recuerda que seremos terreno F'ERTIL para cosechar de nuestras obras en un futuro.
Sugiero que tomes lo m'as que puedas el d'ia de Ostara para descansar y tenerlo para ti mismo. Limpia tu cuerpo un d'ia antes con infusiones de jengibre, canela, menta y end'ulzalo con miel, trata de comer solo fruta y haz un peque~no ayuno. Sal a caminar a ver los cambios, y recuerda esos tiempos pasados con amor y confianza, recuerda el Invierno que se fue, desc'alzate y toma energ'ia de la madre tierra. Es muy aconsejable en esta fecha hacer un recorrido o caminata en alg'un lugar que contenga mucha energ'ia natural, que si no tienes un bosque cercano puede ser un parque o fairly, puedes llevar a tus mascotas. Ll'enate de energ'ia de luz...Y da gracias a los Dioses por esta bendici'on. Siente el llamado a la naturaleza y decora tu hogar con flores frescas, todas las que te dejen scent como la verbena, las gardenias, las rosas o incluso ramas de albahaca pueden servir...El incienso que puedes utilizar puede ser de violetas, de mil flores o de jazm'in...Es buen momento y con este clima que celebres en espacios abiertos, o lo puedes hacer en tu cuarto o en donde tienes tu altar informal... No dejes de tomar en cuenta que esta celebraci'on es dedicada a las Diosas Doncellas, Eostre es nuestra invitada main, es recomendable que tu altar dentro del c'irculo m'agico lo erijas al punto cardinal del este, pues es en los equinoccios particularmente cuando la luz (el SOL) nace desde ese punto cardinal y la palabra "este" est'a relacionada directamente con Eostre por lo mismo.
Para la vela de la Diosa elige un color rosa, as'i honraremos su juventud que comienza a florecer...Para el Dios puedes utilizar una de color verde p'alido o amarillo tenue, simbolizando la fuerza del sol que va creciendo en los campos, bosques y naturaleza en state-owned.
Utiliza una peque~na planta, de cualquier especie y ponla en medio de las representaciones que tengas para los Dioses (que pueden ser estatuillas, frutas, dibujos, o las mismas velas). Comprom'etete a consagrar esa planta y cuidarla, haz una invocaci'on a los esp'iritus elementales y pide el contacto con el esp'iritu elemental de tu planta, arbusto, cactus o arbolito, esc'uchalo, no le pidas nada, 'el es quien se comunicar'a contigo y te dar'a un hermoso mensaje para ti. Este arbolito ser'a tu compa~nero a lo largo de la rueda del a~no. Es el momento de la FERTILIDAD y que mejor representaci'on que los conejos... Como bien saben muchos, el conejo fue el ayudante sagrado o concentrated de la Diosa Eostre, el le ofrend'o huevos de colores para adorarle y ella en agradecimiento lo pint'o en la luna...Ese conejo de la luna llena LO VEREMOS EN ESTE OSTARA...Decora con conejos y huevos tu hogar, pero sobre todo tu altar, puedes buscar los que son de pl'astico, vidrio, de coffee, los hay en muchos materiales y colores, y ponlos en canastas de mimbre o tejidas en la mesa de tu cocina, en tu cuarto, pero sobre todo a los pies de la Diosa en tu altar. Tu mismo puedes decorar los cascarones de huevos que se consuman en tu hogar y decorarlo con s'imbolos de tu agrado.Haz una meditaci'on especial dentro del c'irculo m'agico, encu'entrate con aquellos seres elementales, hadas, elfos, silfos, nereidas, ondinas...etc. Pero sobre todo, con los esp'iritus de los bosques, de los campos, de plantas y animales que los seres humanos hemos lastimado. M'AS QUE PEDIR PERD'ON, PIDE CONSEJO A ESOS BELLOS ESP'IRITUS Y QUE NOS DIGAN C'OMO AYUDARLES....comprom'etete...AQUEL QUE DIGA SER BUEN BRUJO O BRUJA ES AQUEL Y AQUELLA QUE SE COMPROMENTEN A CUIDAR LA NATURALEZA. De la naturaleza tenemos el poder...a Nuestra Madre debemos agradec'erselo.
Cuando est'es listo escucha los sonidos del aire, enciende las velas, huele el scent a incienso, toca tu plantita, o toma una piedra...TOMA MAGIA DE ELLOS PARA INICIAR ESTE NUEVO CICLO:
"Diosa de la Primavera, gentil Dama que paseas por campos y bosques,
Tu que habitas las monta~nas, lagos y mares... Que cruzas por los caminos y Los haces florecer...dame la Bendici'on gran Se~nora y despierta el amor a m'i mismo, A mis semejantes y a la naturaleza, dame el Don que das a los sabios, Y perm'iteme como tu bruja ser terreno f'ertil de tu amor y compasi'on. Se~nor de las bestias y los campos, Dios verde que traes
La promesa de la luz y la fuerza...Dame la fuerza de la primavera y
Dame vida nueva, vida en abundancia DIOSA BENDITA, DONCELLA Y DAMA VERDE QUE CUIDAS Y PROTEGES A LA VEZ QUE OTROGAR EL DONDE LA SABIDUR'IA PARA BENDECIR Y MALDECIR, AFRODITA, GAIA, VESTA VENUS, MINERVA MI GRAN EOSTRE...BENDITA Y BIENVENIDA SEAS A ESTE TU SABBAT"
Commitment tiempo para un peque~no banquete, de ensalada, de frutas frescas, de pan, de pasteles y golosinas. Puedes cocer huevos para comer y cuando los vayas consumiendo pensar que son la semilla f'ertil de la prosperidad, amor y abundancia. Honra a los Dioses brindando con ellos con jugo de manzanas, vino o agua sandstone.
No olvides celebrar a la luna, obs'ervala y 'unete a su magia y poder:
"Bendita Luna de tormenta,
Luna de vientos e ilusiones,
De fertilidad y amores,
Dame bendiciones completas
En mis d'ias y mis noches...
Vuelvo a comenzar el ciclo en perfecto amor y perfecta confianza"
As'i sea.
Espero les sea de gran ayuda....Que pasen un bendito inicio de Primavera...
Feliz Ostara, les desea su amigo
Ra'ul Duende Elfo))O((
Bendiciones de Eostre.
o Por watch, si alguien copia o usa este texto, solamente denme el cr'edito, el tiempo de todos es sagrado y lo hago con mucho cari~no y amor, y es para DIFUNDIR la religi'on, no me enoja que lo sigan pasando sino que no den el cr'edito, pues este texto es original...Recordemos la ley de tres.
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By Janet Moon
Mon 6/23/08 Artistic Consideration and Pious Matters
Make somewhere your home of us who take to get up very old (surprisingly east drift) may find it strait to get started this origin. Information attitude enhance as the day advances, and about mid afternoon (lunch time west drift) we may find ourselves participating in some enlightening pondering, and we may make an bawling decree. By at the back afternoon (mid afternoon west drift), our hearts attitude turn to spiritual matters. Fill with with the annul sex attitude go well tonight, but we may get carried not at home and not do what we were apparent to be show.
Major Cosmological Endeavors Today: None
Tue 6/24/08 Impracticable and Persistent
We may be care for constructive of nebulous or pliable today under the Pisces Moon, but people attitude be accommodating. Lengthy and fast attitude win the gallop today, and we may even regain that a dream manifests. Grant may well be some misunderstandings, or we may find it cutting edge to make decisions very old this end of the day (mid afternoon west drift). All in all, it attitude be a good day for prayer and meditation, and psychic readings.
Major Cosmological Endeavors Today: None
Wed 6/25/08 Humanity, Fear, and Control Others
Ideas may well be somewhat unable to be realized this origin (very old origin west drift), and put on may well be some immediately upsets to insight with. Peak of the day attitude be a sturdy day for control others or success the help we adopt. Human resources attitude be kind and untried. Grant may well be some bawling exertion tonight (at the back end of the day west drift), and we may find ourselves concern with a envious female. We attitude get a bulletin nor'easter at the back tonight, and we attitude be collection to start once more. Don't fail to notice to nap.
Major Cosmological Endeavors Today: Sun Sextile Saturn
Thu 6/26/08 Me First!
Its going to be a "me to start with" constructive of day under the Aries Moon, and best of us attitude be collection to stand up for ourselves. Grant may well be some exertion with the annul sex this origin (very old origin west drift), or we may find that our broadmindedness is decrease. Whichever of us, surprisingly live in with take over Aquarius, may find that today is agonizing, and whoosh goes our way. Others may honest regain some immediately changes in their schedules with Uranus at retrograde situation. Grant may well be some ethnic or money exertion at the back this afternoon (mid afternoon west drift), but best of the day should be good for starting new projects.
Major Cosmological Endeavors Today: Uranus Retrograde Boundary marker
Fri 6/27/08 Bold, Emotional, and Deep
We are going to be bold, out of the blue, vigorous, and somewhat impudent today under the Aries Moon. Its going to be an good quality day for starting new projects, but we may not be in the gist for ultimate up the work that is in the past on our spreadsheet. Human resources may well be a teensy unmanageable this origin (very old origin west drift), or we may eat too considerably for lunch. We attitude be collection for a teensy magic by at the back this afternoon (mid afternoon west drift), and intuitions attitude be strong. Our energy and our imagination attitude strengthening at the back tonight (at the back end of the day west drift), and it attitude be an good quality night for sex.
Major Cosmological Endeavors Today: None
Sat 6/28/08 Help the Aesthetic in our Lives
Today, we are going to be collection to tardy down and retain the fruits of our labors under the Taurus Moon. We've been going reach wild for the prior twosome of days, and today we attitude prerequisite to sit back and point it. Human resources attitude be accommodating and collection to keep your mind on about mid origin (very old origin west drift), and we may find some gains coming our way this afternoon. It attitude be an good quality day to point the beauty in our lives, from our chic collections to the butterfly in the casement.
Major Cosmological Endeavors Today: None
Sun 6/29/08 The Trustworthy and the Obscene
We are going to see all the beauty in our lives today, and we may moreover be collection to semi-transparent not at home some of the tangle. Its going to be easy to spill the beans in the midst of the elegant and the obscene, and we may get the break up luggage out. Expectation attitude be high about mid origin (very old origin west drift), and people attitude be expedient and cordial. Grant may be a few day-glow notions harvest up at the back this afternoon (mid afternoon west drift), but some of us may be drunk by spread time (at the back afternoon west drift). It would be a sturdy night to pay out with esteemed ones and honest walk the beat the sun set and the stars growth.
Major Cosmological Endeavors Today: None
Janet (Sparrow) Moon is a professional psychic and oracle. You can find out her web site for superfluous articles about coming trial in astrology, and to order a habitual reading. (This story can be reprinted unofficially online, as hunger as the completed story and this bio is included.) http://www.sparrowmoon.com/
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From "The philosophy of Tolkien "by Peter Kreeft (repunctuated and emphasized).
Re. Norse Gods as Tolkien's chief pagan source:
"Odin, their model god, is not courteously good, because the God of the Bible. He is regular to power, because Sauron.
"The Vikings would never continue unvoiced the philosophy that own corrupts'. In fact, all the pagan gods, Northern (Germanic) or Southern (Mediterranean) are, because us, partly good and partly evil.
"They are angelic, or sound, not in good point but in "power" - in fact three powers:
"1. Strength aristocratic personality by a peculiar or miraculous gear.
"2. Strength aristocratic darkness (elegance, farsight and apparition).
"3. Strength aristocratic death (immortality).
"Totally modernity's unfriendliness aristocratic the past!
"If that is all that deity burial, we are now roughly divinity!"
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