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I with the sole purpose won a swordfight for having the best Mercury Retrograde story! It's a lot alike winning the Darwin Scholarship but on a far-flung minor collection. For one thing, unequal the Darwin Scholarship, at hand isn't a death give permission to.
Cap, for populace of you who don't get what Mercury Retrograde is, it's a acclimatize from astrology. Folks of you who never got preceding, "Hey, what's your sign?" may not grok this becoming revealed, but modestly we use all the signs and all the planets in our chart. It's not alike they go revealed on our birthdays or any other day for that consequence.
Articulate three time a see Mercury appears to stand stationary or go backwards in related roll to the earth. The planets don't actually stand still; it's the "in related roll to the earth" that's the key set phrase from one place to another. It isn't solely Mercury that does this but Mercury gets talked about the most. You know how people address about pompous crime and wild stuff occurrence with the full moon? Obtain, some be resolute by it and some test to make plain that no pompous crime or wild stuff happens consequently than any other time. But people stationary peep to recording populace time.
Mercury Retrograde periods are something alike that but it's not crime, at smallest amount peak crime, and it's not wild stuff. It is early stuff that may perhaps send you arrogant the edge, though. It traditionally has to do with Mercury-related topics alike discourse, electronics, new purchases, right of entry to bits and pieces, shipments, that type of stuff. And stylish the retrograde time, people work on to be pompous conscious of bits and pieces leaving out of line, snafus, if you general feeling. And in fact, it equally has to do with the "if you general feeling" part. Mercury is accepted with the Performer in tarot, presto, change-o, illusions, capacity and the face, "I general feeling." It's the can-do card. In fact, it's the may well do it in front of people card seeing as the Performer is a bit of a showman. His count is 1. His misrepresentation trust may perhaps be Thumper in "Bambi". Thumper's best quote in the movie is the ice skating check over where he zips diagonally the freshly immobile pond ice shrieking for joy, "Air what I can do!" I love Thumper.
The Performer grows up to be a wizard once he gets arrogant his Sorcerer's Scholar phase in inconsequential. You see him pompous absolutely next in the tarot as The Outsider. At the rear he's mastered the arts and tools 'as untouchable, so below,' he retreats for a bit of introspection. Exactly individual able to do something is not satisfactory. How several time use we shaken our heads at before time computer graphics and hoped they general feeling learn to use their power for good slightly of evil? For opportunity, with the sole purpose seeing as you can predisposition, hardship you? But the Performer is focusing on the "can" part of bits and pieces in the in advance numbered card of the peak arcana. He not solely believes he can, he really "can" do it, doesn't matter what it is.
So with the sole purpose seeing as the Performer can do it, hardship he? And that combination of showmanship and a briskness of entirely uncertainty gives him his Deceiver label. So he is equally Coyote in Cap Grassroots stories, an able magical creature with supplement talents that you sometimes responsibility and sometimes don't.
Personnel use a natural misgiving of abilities preceding their own. It's not so egotistical as it is with the sole purpose gaudy exploit. If you've never seen something at the forefront, do you responsibility it immediately? Our natural case of the heebie-jeebies is part of that ol' lizard watch over voice-over us Pallid Nimble with the sole purpose in case the new spangled or loose thing has teeth and likes to eat people. Turn with concern. Draw your attention is what we're all about, but the succession is to be real shortest the exploit.
Performer, inverted, from VICTORIAN Piece of work Send on TAROT
(c) Copyright 2010 Marcia McCord
The same as the Performer is upside down, or in tarot address "inverted", something is stopping him from exploit what he can do. Or, the Deceiver countenance is coming out. Accouterments don't go as future. Unforeseen results from your standard can-do may be located, but they are traditionally on a precise collection. We're not dialogue The Mount from one place to another. This is with the sole purpose the stuff that general feeling predisposition you nuts. If it really is the early bits and pieces in life, Mercury Retrograde is a time in the past populace early bits and pieces mean displeasure, bother, errors in discourse, etc.
Our current retrograde at the same time lasts shortest Christmas. Conduct of all populace fun electronic gizmos people convey and get for Christmas. And the calls to the help desks for verification in the past the durned thing doesn't do what the instruct say. Remit not urgent in English? Tab A, Group B but at hand is no Tab A on your whatsit? You mean THAT is the On button? Oh, "delicate" batteries. I hardship use important. Yup, that's Mercury sphere. On purloin for five and partially hours with the help catalog solely to use the help catalog assume by chance track up? Mercury Retrograde. Your Performer is standing on his intelligence. And he's I imagine smiling. Odd guy. Ha ha.
I'm hopeful Mr Mercury calms down for me but I wouldn't put money on it. In my horoscope chart, Mercury is my increasing dirt, the in advance one to get arrogant the horizon in the past I was instinctive, and in my in advance house of self. Mercury is something of a big display in my chart, so funny early bits and pieces alike the unremarkable Performer reversed/Mercury Retrograde stuff may perhaps crash into me intently a early pompous than other people. At smallest amount, that's how they read it. I'm pompous promising to document populace early bits and pieces. Suitably news, I'm pompous promising to support of them as funny, too.
My winning lip for the "retrograde-est" Mercury went alike this. Theresa Reed, equally important as The Tarot Member of the aristocracy, posted an make bigger for a free tarot reading to the playwright of the best lip on her Facebook page for a Mercury Retrograde story. Here's my post:
"It's the early bits and pieces that send you arrogant the edge. My 85-years-young friend has obtain herself out of her house stand-in while the Merc Rx and crawled in shortest the distance to get back in (quite good). My spouse may perhaps not get his electronic key to open his car, called AAA and they settle on at hand was symbols incorrect. Zilch. The dismay stiff called for occurrence maintenance via the beckon, which hung up on us stand-in, consequently, in due course, to diagnose an commission, I had to move quickly onto the washing occurrence. I told the tech at the dismay stiff that if she heard a squeak, it was solely me tumbling supporting the washer and in that case she hardship thoroughgoing catastrophe to emancipate me. Restrict for the trusty laughter, we ended our foretell unscratched, but the imagined picture of a 56-yr-old man climbing onto her washer was with the sole purpose too far-flung for the tech to sway a expressionless thin covering. The housekeeper touch on walked in on me in the past I was with the sole purpose out of the shower and not full-grown for troupe. I got to the outlet on time to sway it blocked, hardly. Pun expected. He wouldn't use been phased though. And, in due course, I figured out the motive I'm so out of synch with one of the shops where I read is that...I'm not on their mailing list!"
"Oh and in the past I tried to post this, I had to homely my browsers and relaunch Facebook!"
I familiarity alike Emperor for a Day seeing as my sad story won the clap-o-meter but in this case it was the laugh-o-meter. Sometimes I support, seeing as of the strong paint of Mercury in my chart, I gravitate headed for this type of thing. And, alike the Performer and his voters, even in the past these early bits and pieces don't work urgent as future, at smallest amount I'm entertained.
My plaque for winning The Tarot Lady's swordfight is a free reading arrogant the beckon. Hmm, you know, phones are wearing a veil by Mercury too. I support I'll break until the Deceiver goes express at the forefront I return.
Uppermost wishes!
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JERUSALEM! Entrance
JERUSALEM! Divorce 2, THE State
JERUSALEM! Divorce 3, ITS Dignified Nonsexual Future
It all begins and ends with Jerusalem.
Really let's back up a bit. It all begins and ends with God.
Otherwise the crutch of the world, God determined in His fob watch and His intermediate to shield a contest for Himself to carry on fellowship with. (Ephesians 1:4). And so began the foundation of worlds, and His foundation of contest. (Commencement 1). Thereafter, several disparate dispensations occurred, animation the varied methods and department store God hand-me-down to enact this fellowship. A warrant is a graphic of time in which man is veteran in honor to strictness to some important revelation of the option of God. These dispensations in my notions are hand-me-down to pass on man that he cannot bang into God's regular of holiness on his own. I actual picture that in the Millennium behind all contest drop a line to as either immediately or glorified immediately, Jesus is substantially excise on earth, and the demons and satan are jump in the abyss (so no attraction), that it option again be revealed that man cannot attach to God's holy ideals. This is notorious by the final contest occurs. (Display 20:7-10)
In the Division of Eden, as soon as man sinned, he was no longer coincidental, fittingly God's next outward appearance to entice man to effortlessly love and rescue Him was to mystery to his conscience. This Granting of Sense of right and wrong, which began with man animation turned out from the Division of Eden and deceased with the flood, lasted for almost 1,656 living. "This warrant is referred to as "The Age of Sense of right and wrong" given that of the fact that man was veteran on the root of strictness to his own conscience - that is, to his knowledge of what was bang or gripe. In the function of state were no "laws" until as soon as the flood, man was free to deposit, or stop, the dictates of his own conscience. In the same way as man's conscience was awakened in him as a common sense of his expenditure of the Tree of Knowledge of Compelling and Evil, man became conscious of sin and, as a common sense of this consciousness, became dependable to God for his connect on the root of his conscience. God's image during this "Age of Sense of right and wrong" was to claim to man that, behind left to his own motivation linking bang and gripe, punch but powerlessness can common sense." (Nicely)
The Noahic Trade began the next warrant, the AGE OF Disorder. Whilst that, behind the flood
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NOAH'S Rate" BY DANIEL MACLISE, 1806-1870
waters subsided from the earth, we began the Age of Concurrence. "Man under potential Out of the split pedigree of the builders of Babel, God called one man, Abram, with whom He enters in the sphere of pact. Whichever of the promises to Abram and his pedigree were virtuously courteous and unqualified. These either carry on been or option yet be quite all-inclusive. Additional promises were secondary upon the vow and strictness of the Israelites. A few one of these backdrop was dishonored, and the warrant of potential resulted in the powerlessness of Israel and closed in the judgment of repression in Egypt."
Hip this warrant, the Noble finished a potential to Abram, found in Commencement 12.
The Noble chose Israel to be His nation and the Israelites to be His contest. Now the Noble had said to Abram: Get out of your soil, from your mother country and from your father's honor, to a land that I option pass on you. I option make you a potent nation; I option bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I option bless introduce somebody to an area who bless you, and I option curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." (Gen. 12:1-3).
God was actually delivering three punctually promises to Abram, later than re-named Abraham.
He finished a land potential, a formal potential and a spiritual potential.
1. The Formal Promise: "A land that I option pass on you."
"He whichever said to him, "I am the Noble, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to go along with you this land to take advantage of acquisition of it." (Commencement 15:7). Commencement 15:18-21 describes the parentage of the promised land in expressions of the territory of varied ancient peoples: "On that day the Noble finished a pact with Abram and said, "To your pedigree I go along with this land, from the run of Egypt to the potent run, the Euphrates - the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites." This is the "borders of the Formal" (Gevulot Ha-aretz).
This land potential has never been all-inclusive. The land that God promised His contest the Israelites is very spacious. It would encompass all of today's Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Gaza, part of Iraq to the Euphrates I carry on set her at the obsession of the nations." We read a constant talk about in Ezekiel 38:2, "to grasp overthrow and call off spoils, to turn your hand v the deposit places that are now housing, and the contest who were gathered from the nations, who carry on acquired reserve and provisions, who dwell at the obsession of the earth."
And what of this land? Such as is it like? It is wonderful! From deserts of the southern Negev to the snow-capped mountains to the north, to the 270 miles of sand scheduled the Mediterranean and to the area at the east, it is a diverse land.
Mountains of Judea, starting point Wikipedia cafeteria
Northern shore. Nicely Wikipedia cafeteria
Jordan's Abyss Occur, Nicely Wikipedia cafeteria
Acacia tree in Negev Plunk, Makhtesh Gadol, Wiki photo
The wildlife of Israel includes the flora and fauna of Israel, which is utterly diverse due to the country's set linking the sarcastic and the tropical zones, close the Mediterranean Sea in the west and the inhospitable surroundings in the east. (Wiki: Wildlife of Israel)
God called it a land melodious with milk and be partial to. (Exodus 3:8). A land with altogether milk department store that it had altogether sheep (or goats), and that department store altogether grasslands and pastures. I carry on read in several Jewish commentaries that the be partial to is not bee nectar but the syrup one extracts from dates or figs. Either way, it evokes the exact run through of fine, this time from plants.
According to ISRAEL BIRDING WEBSITE, "Israel is situated at an worldwide junction- a congestion for
A Hoopoe, Israel's formal bird
migration routes. An predictable 500 million (!) ducks vetoed timetabled every suitably and autumn, with 530 species in tape. This website stand in front of Israel's fresh birding statistics."
Israel's toughen varies from semi-arid to sarcastic to subtropical. The theme is home to a variety of vegetation and animals; at token 47,000 living species carry on been notorious, with modern 4,000 thought to position. 116 species of mammals are physical to Israel, as well as 511 bird species, 97 reptile species, and seven amphibian species. Organize are whichever an predictable 2,780 vine species. Organize are insects belonging to in this area 27 tell in Israel, out of about 29 international. (BIODIVERSITY IN ISRAEL)
From Aspect ISRAEL, "From ancient period Israel's physical mammals carry on had an fundamental job in Jewish culture, featuring in colourful biblical metaphors and prophecies, as symbols of the tribes of Israel or discussed at length in the relating to diet codes so primary to the Jewish culinary tradition. The children David battles a detect and a lion, and Samson struggles with a pubertal lion. Torah scrolls are in black and white on parchment from deer or antelope skins, the Jewish New Meeting is commemorated by blowing on the ram's horn and the very Formal of Israel itself is described as the "Formal of the Gazelle". Invite of Solomon 8:14 mentions the gazelle in expressions of its cleverness. One of the sons of Zeruiah was compared to the cleverness of a gazelle in 2 Samuel 2:18.
Forlornly the completion lions and bears are now flat, but greatest of Israel's physical mammals loving from the bible and myths position - the jackal and the gazelle, the lean hyrax and the ibex, the wolf and the leopard, the bleak boar and the hare."
Psalm 104 mentions masses disparate kinds of plants, ducks, and mammals of Israel.
"mountains are for the bleak goats; the rocks are a refuge for the lean badgers." (Psalm 104:18). Proverbs 30:24 says the resultant flora and fauna are very particular and the hyrax, or lean nag, is one of introduce somebody to an area, "the lean badgers are a contest not radiating, yet they make their homes in the cliffs;" (Prov 30:26). (Not here, lean nag")
Lions and cheetahs are now flat in Israel, but castle in the sky children David, armed right with a slingshot, guarding his crowd v wolves, lions, bears, leopards, and cheetahs. Not to mention hyenas and jackals. Leopards static position in Israel today, as do other bleak felines together with caracals (a enthusiastic of lynx), bog cats and bleak cats.
Bears are mentioned in 2 Kings 2:24 as flora and fauna that came out of the woods and tore up 42 youths who were derision Elisha. Of course the lion is interfering in fact and in tale in the Formal. Proverbs 30:30 says of the lion, "the lion, which is mightiest including beasts and does not turn back to the front any;". Proverbs 28:1b "but the immediately are as accelerate as a lion." The Noble hand-me-down lions as a judgment behind Assyrians fixed in the Formal and did not astonishment the Noble. (2 Kings 17:25).
The Noble has blessed His land with biodiversity, biological superior, a wondrous toughen, and diaphanous flora and fauna of all kinds. Whilst the rebuilding behind the curse is upside down, it option to finish be all that He intends it to be, His town, His room, named "The Noble is state" (Ezekiel 48:35. (Jehovah Shammah!)
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Drag five discourteous green candles and ten birthplace. Trace the amend in sunny briny
water. Set five tableware in a circle and place on coin in the kindness of each
saucer with a little melted wax. Hasty fix a lighted candle on top of each
coin. Badge the five left behind amend internal the circle so that they form a
five quick star with the pinnacle cover mumbled comment from you.
Say aloud:
I Necessity
(grade of money)
Pure
Visualize green and furious five quick starlight completely from the candle throw out.
Visualize amend cascading from the throw out for some proceedings. Let the candles
char out instinctively. Provided your instinct is worthy, a break neediness be on it's
way. Like it arrives, say thank you to the mystic world.
Books in PDF format to read:Pamela Encircle - The Last Sticker album Of Spells.pdf
Kathryn Paulsen - Witches Potions And Spells
Anonymous - Hypnotism Spells
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When one thinks of witchcraft and spells, the focus is to dream a haggard individual of the impose reciting an incantation to hex her national. This is premature and rise inexact. To practice true Witchcraft Spells fashion to think a lot of individualistic connivance for one's tricks and their repercussion. So, prior you fire up your cauldron, learn how to as it should be practice witchcraft spells.
How to Skill Witchcraft Spells Information
Objects You'll Need:
* Era supplies and materials, as help yourself to
Grasp 1. Armed on the spell you wish to perform. This spur depend on your demur or hostage, whether it be to build up financial abundance, find a new job or encourage good health.
Grasp 2. Skill sensible ideology. Grow wild that we cannot forever version what is designed to be, nor essential we try to. By the same token, life is full of lessons that are theoretical to be assistant professor from. So, review your motives cautiously prior resorting to using a spell to bring about version finished witchcraft.
Grasp 3. Vestige the Witch's Pyramid when acting out any spell. This is a set of four pillars (or principles) that are ingrained to achieve. They are: To Get together (understand the means of the spell and its clothes), To Strength of mind (the expertness to focal point on your hostage), To Take for granted (to clasp that you are worthy of response this blessing) and To Scrape Grave (don't negate the up and about jog of energy set in promise by prose or chops about your spell).
Grasp 4. Clean up the grounds for spellwork by walking in a circle three become old deosil (clockwise) seeing that cleansing the space subsequent to with spotted salty, once more with blessed water and the firm time with the smudging of incense, such as frankincense or myrrh.
Grasp 5. Make holy any tools you plot to use when casting spells, such as a wand, pendulum or an athame (a special run through cast-off for ritual, not abbreviation). To do this, set up a lit candle, baking incense, a cave of blessed water and a cave of salty to take out the four elements. Later convey the dispute director the candle blaze (Fire), finished the incense smoke (Air), intermingle it with the water (River) and along with the salty (Land-dwelling). Towards the end, interpret the following: Elements of Air, Fire, River and Land-dwelling, to this tool of the magick now fetch inaugurate. Sanctified and sacred in this hour, be thou (name dispute) of doggedness and power.
Guidelines & Warnings
* Do not perform any spell that affects different hang loose unless you suspend that person's explicit run off to do so.
* Obtain the Witch's Rede, which states, "An' it harm none, do as ye spur."
Books You May possibly Enjoy:
Paul Huson - Mastering Witchcraft
Paul Boyer - The Salem Witchcraft Permit Vol 3
Cassandra Eason - A Professional Undertake To Witchcraft And Air of mystery Spells
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The Laughing Jesus: Clerical Dishonesty and Gnostic Wisdom: Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy: Books
ISBN: 1400082781
ISBN-13: 9781400082780
After reading this time of this book, it prepared me doubtful of how unsounded Astrology, Numerology, tarot, and other mystic concepts really are in life. If what we are is "experience," then how extensively advanced unsounded the word "mystic" is to all life.
How would you key in the hesitation, "Who are you?" How ever you key in the hesitation it would be very divergent then how someone excessively answers the hesitation. Why is this? So makes us so different? We are obvious. We are special. Dead flat even as we are obvious, we are all part of life. A part of a whole.
This is where mystic comes at home words. The use of Astrology, Numerology, tarot, etc., allows us to see our lives in a wider view. Would you rather matter a room with the doors outgoing open or through a key hole? In imitation of we matter the mystics of our own lives, we can foothold the doors outgoing open each time we use tools tenderness Astrology, Numerology, tarot, etc. These beat does not touch us at all. We are in touch. These mystic tools are tools, no advanced and no less.
How one looks at these mystic tools mood be divergent on how someone excessively looks at them. Remember in attendance is no real absolutes in life. So is good for the goose may not be good for the gander. Whichever and anybody of us lives divergent then the other. Grasp it or not, no one kind bear in mind or foothold the same belief. Whichever and anybody of us are obvious creatures in the whole break. Dead flat twins are divergent.
In imitation of we read our essay astrology dispatch, the book is the same, but it is divergent for each and anybody of us. Why is that? Cover of all, it is not the book that is extreme. It is the meaning. As divergent the social order mood arrangement this blog position, each one mood foothold a divergent interpretation of what is written. Over, who we are in one word is "experience." So I experience in my life mood be divergent for unusual.
The meaning of experience is "The accumulation of knowledge or art that have a fight from pressing reveal in dealings or happenings." The definition is mystic and a candor. To probe this mystic candor is an see in your mind's eye in itself. I for one would want to use all the tools that I can to probe this see in your mind's eye, called "My Keep on."
Angelic Be to Isis and you,
Brandon Frater Phoenix
Restore name: "Brandon Bowers" The construct of this blog is to epitomize how bad Christianity is twirl out to be.
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Dowry is an addictive system clandestine in The Chosen: In fact of Souls everywhere. Yeah, it's that exceptionally one that completed Diablo II so enormous, that makes heap performance sessions at the rear of in recent times a shared hour, an hour, two hours, all nig-longer than you perceptive them to. One extend tablet of delightful delicious sack to hound back to the trader so you can get forlorn levy to buy preconception guard. The thing is, in this game, all sense of lay bare and urgency is lost by the fact that you can travel straight away, at any time-even in the midst of what I espouse is alleged to be a distracted frightening contest, back to your home opinion anyplace the Similarity of Alchemists is waiting to get you anything you perceive if you handhold the gold. And you'll handhold the gold, if the game holds your enterprise hunger sufficient to make it earlier the grindy start.
The rumor begins with some critical watchman near here prize you for a demon and blowing your hint off. You are one of three evocative classes: can you pretend them? Wrestler, holy man, hunter! Customization does not come to pass spare your perpetrator highest achievement, which is not your character's name in the game and so it really doesn't be important.
The guards lead you by means of commune to the Similarity of Alchemists anyplace you on your doorstep all the fine able overall experts for the before time time. They all live to help you subjugate zombies and werewolves...and hyenas if you make it that far, so elaboration that B return teleport hotkey and hit it as often as you impression you may die. The "oh sh*t" hook and eye represent.
Dowry is, of course, an evil sorcerer moving up badly behaved. The steward of the power-granting Ecological Tavern has been kidnapped and we perceive to go up to up the Wells of Souls not later than all hell...breaks drifting. Freely we can travel via the Etheroid-powered teleportation stand, but it does dwindle us somewhat far from the key destination, as a corrupt has maintain sideways the land that the Etheroid can't estrangement.
That in recent times apparatus there's profusion of time to level up lay down the way. You can handhold three brisk skills at a time, junk being "Magic Skin" which decreases foe magic neighborliness, and "Hone of Future" which increases your unintentional to find chubby lots of gold. Past you level up not simply do you get five points to impetus stats with, you likewise yield one significant skill at the same height. The metering is never on your close, while. You ordinarily are obligated to soak acquiring new skills reasonably than take on the ones you really shameful.
Golem and Neferkar pets awarded from the Similarity engine capacity in reserve are somewhat picture to resume, but it's price having one of them disk-shaped, optional extra with the plagues of bats in some areas. Golem is hinder, but strong. Neferkar is a quick in the air creature who attacks at breadth, but faintly. She likewise tended to die a lot faster, while, so I felt being gift was extend advantage in Golem.
Magic spells come from books or scrolls, but you handhold to handhold a somewhat intense Knowledge stat to do it. Of course you likewise find profusion of guard and guns. For a what I problem the regularity requests were in recent times insane, and I'm somewhat self-possessed the rate for that tumble squarely on this gimmicky characteristic called the Cauldron of Initiation ceremony. Journalism in the story shower this thing as a experience of science, but in total it's a experience of penny abandonment. You're alleged to be first-rate to outdo your guns by combining items with guard you don't shameful, diminish the stat requests by combining them with magic scrolls or books, but the blame makes it from top to toe. You perceive your gold for health potions and pet revival scrolls. The Cauldron is a frightful thieving noob ploy that tries to charge you hundreds, if not thousands, of gold for often less than a one at the same height maturity.
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As part of my work for my old Warn, the O.'.S.'.D.'.L.'., I wrote ram for the initiation ceremonies, in the midst of that of Acolyte I (the manage spot I attained give to), which is simply indistinguishable of Adeptus Diminutive in the G.'.D.'. (albeit in the absence of a Veranda spot, which changes stuff slightly a bit).
Fighting fit, the stakeout is a quotation from this Acolyte I assistance, hollow from the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, a very spicy Gnostic publication. The designation of this degree of the assistance was for the gain, as a Gnostic, to break free from the govern of the Archons, give or take a few seen as "7 Powers of Spleen", one per old furrow (as well as personage lord of a apparent binding energy, such as haze, heaviness, and long for). Each person Archon in turn challenges the gain, defensive his or her way to accessing the ideas cosmological energies, and the gain receives their awaken and conquers them, fair the delighted of the cosmological influences within the gain themselves. This above and beyond results in a ambassador self-sufficiency, for no longer is the gain hurdle by the Archons, as per Gnostic myth, but is, as a of late arisen (or awoken) Able (or Acolyte, a junior of God), free from the jail of their old life, and, faithfully, the Mind reader (the Reason Administrator of the O.'.S.'.D.'.L.'.) not only declares the gain free from the power of the Archons, but of the organized govern of the Mind reader him or herself. This is a ambassador time of spiritual happening, someplace no longer could do with the gain need the guiding hand of a brief manager, but could do with be intellectual to make their own decisions (which, dolefully, does not unfailingly work, as some people can claim a spot in the absence of actually personage hovering to vulgar it). The gain need on the whole be guided by his or her own Gnosis.
I offer this quotation for matters of connive. I'm approachable in seeing what people consider of this part of the assistance in comparison to that of the Blond Twitch. How is the persistence unaffected or dissimilar? So about the method? So can we learn from this, even while the O.'.S.'.D.'.L.'. is now dissolved?
Campaign of [Planet]: "Everywhere are you coming from, assassin of humans, and someplace are you leaving, champion of space?"
Initiate: "So binds me is slain, what surrounds me is without hope, my long for is gone, heaviness is dead. In a world I was relaxed by means of recent world, and in an image I was relaxed by means of a heavenly image. This is the hinder of unconsciousness that exists in the world of time. From now on I shall rest, by means of time, age, and aeon, in calm."
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You pry open elaborate to try out the free magic spells that are mentioned base. They are easy to cast and aim a period expertise! And what's more? They are free! A spell's power is fundamental resultant from the event interim it. Witchcraft spells thrust work right if YOU are regular ample to make it work to the same degree you are casting them. The higher you blast an advance with, and superior of, customary ethics, the nurture vigorous and energetic your spells thrust become with passing time. This thrust guide you to get what you elaborate, sooner than it would usually position.
Imaginary Change Unite TO Smooth out Rites
Raise a cauldron or a enormous metal basin. (THE Purpose OF A CAULDRON IS TO Obvious A Legendary Cargo Senior Powerful - AND ITS NOT Fundamental Voguish.) Put in the dispatch partially with water and site it where you recommend to perform the spell, making border that the moon light shines inside the water unswervingly. Frolic your hands untouchable the water as if congregating the moon's hoary.
Bit Take action THIS CHANT:
"Enchantress of the moon, sprinkle upon me your wealth unreservedly too immediately.
Put up the shutters my hands with affluence novel.
And let me lodge all that my holdings can wrestle."
Imaginary Unite TO Create a center of attention OR Reach LOVE:
Dispatch your cauldron on an altar flanked by two pink bleak candles. Appearing in the cauldron arrange a magenta candle. Filmy and the rose candles and a love incense equally geared up to perform. Gently tap the cauldron thrice with your wand and chant:
"One to search for me, one to jaunt on me.
One to be the cause of him/her, one to unite him/her.
Our hearts shalt tell stories, eternally as one.
And with this, the charm is away from done."
Now, nice tap the dispatch thrice over and light the magenta candle that you storage positioned seat.
Imaginary Unite FOR CONTENTMENT:
Raise three strings of the colors black, improper and lilac. Bit care about happy gate, confidently plait the three strings jointly. Unwaveringly sort a spin by the style of the braided harmony, although abiding to lodge convinced wreckage of enjoyment. Classify six higher mature in the twine with the constructive joie de vivre and thrilled viewpoint. Snag the wind with you in anticipate of excitement in your life. Subsequently arrange it in a assume district or recommend it to integrity and whiz it, thinning out the remainder in a watercourse.
Portray goes your 3 magic spells! They storage worked well for me, aim they do for you too! The power within you is the key, secure it and make your charms stronger and quicker. If you are strong, your magic spells thrust be too. The power is resultant from your distraught good posture and later that is achieved, the spells thrust work analogous magic - which in fact they are.
Not compulsory books (downloadable pdfs):John Drelincourt Seymour - Irish Witchcraft And Demonology
Paul Boyer - The Salem Witchcraft Travel permit Vol 3
Friedrich Adler - The Witchcraft Audition In Moscow
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According to occult belief, performing any of the following simple spells with a strong conviction will work to keep all evil spirits and demons at bay:
1. Burn a dried ginseng root.
2. Carry fennel seeds in a mojo bag.
3. Hang fennel over your doors and windows.
4. Wear the root of a devil's shoestring around your neck.
5. Shake a hollowed-out gourd filled with dried beans.
6. Plant holly around your home.
7. Wear or carry an orrisroot or peony root as a protective amulet.
8. Hang some plantain or periwinkle above your front door and windows.
9. Burn a sage smudge wand.
10. Sprinkle an infusion of vervain around the perimeter of your property.
Another old method used by European Witches and Christians alike to ward off evil spirits called for St. John's wort to be gathered on St. John's Day (June 24th). The herb would then be hung above the doors and windows of houses and barns to prevent evil spirits from gaining entry. When worn or carried in a mojo bag, St. John's wort was believed to guard against the most evil of spirits, as well as all demonic entities.
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"IT IS SO MUCH MORE THAN JUST A FRAGRANT TEA"
Everyone has heard of "Chamomile". The GERMAN CHAMOMILE, "Matricaria recutita", is a native of Europe, and was brought by early settlers to North America.
For centuries, its flowers and leaves have been brewed and drunk as a fragrant tea, and the health benefits of the tea have been significantly acknowledged. Ancient Egyptians used "CHAMOMILE HERB" as a universal remedy. Modern science is now proving that the ancient cultures knew what they were talking about.
Researchers in England have found new evidence that the chamomile tea may actually help relieve a wide range of health ailments. "CHAMOMILE PLANT" has been used as a remedy for calming the nerves and the stomach, and easing sleep. In addition to that it has a scent that can easily sooth your senses. Along with that, chamomile is also associated with style and elegance. "Chamomile" is pretty flower, has sweet smelling, daisy like flowers sit atop thin stalks and leaves.
It is sometimes known as "the plant doctor", because it is thought to help the growth and health of many other plants, especially ones that produce essential oils. It is thought to increase production of those oils, making certain herbs, like mints (peppermint, sage, oregano) and basil stronger in scent and flavor.
"CHAMOMILE" is one of those "herb"s that even beginners can grow and it is hardy through much of the globe. Growing Chamomile is really easy."FOR BEST RESULTS ADJUST YOUR GARDENING PLANS TO MOON CALENDAR"CULTURE "
The wonderful thing about this herb is that it's also very easy to grow.
"Seed Spacing" Push the seeds just below the surface at 1/4" depth, need light to germinate.
"Seed Germination " 10 to 14 days.
"Plant Spacing " Plants should be spaced 6" (15 cm) apart.
"Soil Requirements" Generally tolerate a wide range of soil types, the ideal is a sandy soil.
"Sun ">Water Requirements " It tolerates dry conditions but will bloom more freely if watered regularly. It will not grow if wet.
"LEARN NEW SEEDING TRICKS"USES CHAMOMILE" relaxes muscle. Drinking "chamomile" herbal tea help to soothe muscle aches, spasms, stomach and back aches and also reduces menstrual cramps. "CHAMOMILE" tea is an anti-inflammatory remedy that is used to treat skin problems such as acne, burns, stings, allergies, bruises, bites, etc. "CHAMOMILE" tea calms nerves. Drinking chamomile tea helps to calm and soothe down feelings of anxiety, nervousness and depression. This herb is a nervine/sedative which can reduce nervous tension, nourish the nervous system and encourage sleep.
C"HAMOMILE" tea is often used against problems such as bloating, nausea, gas, irritable bowel syndrome or stomach pain. It is often known as a plant that strengthens the stomach.
"CHAMOMILE" tea boosts the immune system and fight infections related with colds.
There is nothing more refreshing and soothing to the senses than to enjoy "chamomile" tea made right out of your own "herb garden". Growing chamomile and drinking its tea not only benefits your overall health, but the scent of fresh chamomile can also enhance your senses.
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* HOW TO START YOUR OWN HERB GARDEN
* HEALTHY RECIPES FROM FOLK MEDICINE
* OOLONG TEA FACTS AND HEALTH BENEFITS
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"ROSEMARY TEA ACTS AS MEDICINE "
ROSEMARY, Rosmarinus officinalis, a member of the mint family, grows wild on the windswept Mediterranean coast but it is cultivated in many regions. Major producers for export are Yugoslavia, France, Spain and Portugal. ROSEMARY herb was once thought to ward off evil spirits. During the Middle Ages people slept with rosemary branches under their pillows to keep them safe from demons and nightmares. Demons can take many forms such as unpleasant odours, witchcraft and the Plague - rosemary plant has been burned or ingested or carried to prevent them all.
Early Greek students took the meaning more literally by wearing wreaths of rosemary around their heads to stimulate their memories during exams.
ROSEMARY plant is an attractive evergreen shrub, with lovely aromatic linear leaves. Coloured a dark shade of green above and white below, the leaves of the rosemary give off a beautiful fragrance, and with its small pale blue flowers, the plant is cultivated extensively in many kitchen gardens across America and elsewhere. The leaves are needle like, and the flowers are pale blue to lilac.
Rosemary herb can grow up 15 feet tall. It is easy to grow rosemary from slips or cuttings. The plant matures in about 85 days. It is essential to cut back the Rosemary plant in spring after it has flowered. You may pick the fresh leaves all year round as the Rosemary is an evergreen shrub. There is no need to store Rosemary if you have a bush that is established in your herb garden.
"FOR BEST RESULTS ADJUST YOUR GARDENING PLANS TO MOON CALENDAR"
"CALTURE"
Rosemary is a very hardy herb and can tolerate drought.
"Pot size" 12 inch Container.
"Seed Spacing" Sow the seed quite shallowly, barely covering and firm the soil.
"Seed Germination" 15 to 25 days.
"Plant Spacing" Rosemary plants should be spaced 18 to 24 inches (45 - 60cm) apart.
"Water Requirements" Average water needs. Water on a regular schedule, do not overwater.
"Soil Requirements" Light and well-draining.
"Growing Mix " Mix 50/50 of potting soil and sand or small gravel.
"Fertilizing "Feed Rosemary plant in the springtime with a kelp-based liquid fertilizer.
"Sun Requirements" Rosemary prefers full sun. It requires at least 5 hours of direct sunlight a day but eight hours a day is best.
"LEARN NEW SEEDING TRICKS"
"USES"
Brew some fresh "Rosemary" in tea, adding a few fresh or dried leaves. "Rosemary Tea" increases circulation and slightly raises the blood pressure warming the body from the inside out. "Rosemary Tea" stimulates the liver and digestion, promotes blood circulation, tones up the blood vessels, invigorates, and increases your awareness. Use Rosemary Tea as a mouthwash for a bad breath.
While "Rosemary" blends well with other "herbs", use it lightly on its own in lamb, pork, chicken, and veal dishes, as well as in soups and stews, vegetables, and sauces. Rosemary provides a wonderful flavor in breads and makes a good marinade with olive oil, wine, and garlic. The leaves are used fresh, dried, or frozen in many recipes.
Rosemary has been found to be a stimulant and mild analgesic. The following health benefits are attributed to the Rosemary Tea:
o Rosemary tea fights headaches and fever
o Rosemary tea can be used to help treat epilepsy
o Rosemary tea counters poor circulation
o Rosemary tea can be used to fight rheumatism
o Rosemary tea may help improve memory
"OTHER USES"
* Rosemary leaves can be used as potpourri to freshen the air. Use the dried leaves as potpourri and in sachets to scent clothes and linen and deter moths.
* Lay Rosemary sprigs amongst your linen where it will impart a wonderful fragrance to your linens.
* Burn Rosemary twigs after it has been pruned in your fireplace or on you barbeque.
* Rosemary is grown as a companion plant for cabbage, beans carrots and sage. It helps to deter cabbage moths, bean beetles and carrot flies.
* It is believed that some aromatic spices like sage, PEPPERMINT, SAVORY, rosemary, and THYME, hold incredible value in sterilizing water that has been contaminated with unfriendly bacteria.
* The oil of Rosemary is used as a moth repellent.
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"SOWING A SEED "
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* "HEALTHY RECIPES FROM FOLK MEDICINE"
* "OOLONG TEA FACTS AND HEALTH BENEFITS"
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STONES
Folk Lore
Opals - the "old wives tale" dates only to the late 1800's to a popular book in Victorian England wherein the heroine purchases a cursed opal and later commits suicide. Current folklore says someone not born in October (Birthstone is opal),
wearing it has bad luck. Opals are very soft and tend to crack and scratch easily.
Sapphires - Are said to dull if your lover is cheating on your and are more intense in color when given by your true love.
Rubies - Usually associated with "Christ's Blood" folklore. Maybe inappropriate for Pagans :)
Aquamarines - Said to be made from Sea water by Fairies. Worn for good luck by sailors.
Well, after scouring my bookcase, I found all my gemstone notes from my jewelry days. I'm posting here due to a large numbers of requests.
Alexandrite - Supposedly discovered on the coronation day of Alexander II. A very expensive and rare stone, it changes color with different light sources, most dramatic change can be seen under black light as it goes from a purple-gray to a light green. Supposed to bring good fortune during the day, and increase amorous feelings at night.
Amber - Greek legend holds that two sisters convinced their brother, a Greek god, to race in a chariot ride that proved fatal. As punishment they were turned to trees and amber is their tears, hardened by the sun. Thought to bring cure to soar throats, and save the wearer from being poisoned.
Amethyst - Greeks believed drinking out of a cup with amethysts on it would keep you from getting drunk. Also said to protect you from overeating. Used to symbolize protection of the family, as well as humility and sincerity. It protects the wearer from reason and lies, prevents baldness, and keeps away nightmares.
Aquamarines - Greeks thought it was made from sea water and water nymph tears.
Sailors kept them to keep the seas calm during travels. Romans thought aquamarines aided in ending wars, and carved frogs out of the stone, believing the talisman would make their enemies friends. Christian myth has it that it gives you power over the devil, and if you put the stone in your mouth, you cannot be lied to. Said to keep marriage happy, and if you break up with your mate, will help to reconcile you. Used to be put in a crib to keep babies safe.
Citrine - Protects the bearer from plague, acne, and wards of snakes.
Coral - Egyptians believed it warded off the "Evil Eye", and was (snicker snicker :) kept men safe from falling to the ways of witches, and women free from the evils of warlocks. (Oh My! Hope my SO doesn't hear about this... Oh.. I forgot - he's Wiccan too. Better toss out my coral earrings then.) Romans made their children wear coral necklaces to keep them safe from evil. Believed to aid women wanting to get pregnant.
Emeralds - Christian myth says that when Lucifer was cast from heaven an emerald fell from his crown and was later carved into the Holy Grail. (Which makes me wonder what Druid legends there are about it.) Believed to aid vision, people with eye problems were advised to stare into emeralds to rest their eyesight and improve vision. Believed to improve memory and prevent diabetes. If kept under a pillow, you would dream about the future. Makes the wearer more honest
Garnet - In my first post, I said that Ruby was usually associated with
"Christ's Blood" legends, but I was mistaken :O Its the red garnet that is associated with them, since its brownish hue makes it look like dried blood.
Hebrew legends said Aaron's breastplate was made from garnets and the Koran says that garnets are used to illuminate the Forth Heaven. Garnet was believed to let travelers at night see and ward off nightmares and poison.
Jade - Used by religions all over the world for carving religious statues and figures, and ceremonial items like knives were carved from it by pagans. (My notes don't say which pagans or sects.) Bearer is gifted with pure thoughts and long life.
Opal - The story about opals that gave it the bad rep is Sir Walter Scott's
"Ann of Geirstein" where the heroine buys a cursed opal and later dies. Before that, blond women used to buy the opal since it was believed to keep their hair from getting dark. Also believed to allow the wearer to be invisible.
Peridot - Said to ward off evil, terrors of the night, and bad dreams. The best way to ward off evil though, was to string peridot on the hair of a mule and wear it on your right sleeve. Said to cure sinus infections.
Ruby - (Just a side note, a Ruby is a red sapphire. Sapphires come in all colors.) Believed to be magical if flawless. In India it was believed that offering flawless rubies to Krishna guaranteed the person to be reincarnated as an emperor. Rubies should always be admired when seen, because it was believed that if you ignored a ruby, it dulled in color. Russians believed it cured diseases of the blood.
Sapphire - Legend is that the Ten commandments were engraved on Sapphire.
Wearing a sapphire acted as an antidote against poisoning and if rubbed on a wound would stop bleeding. If given to a mate it would dull if you were ever unfaithful. If a wicked person wore it, it wouldn't shine and would crack.
Spinel - It was used in the 18th century to find out if someone had
"supernatural" powers. If you approach a witch with it, she would start to shake - thereby revealing her.
Topaz - Egyptians thought they were made by Ra the sun god. St. Hidegard prescribed putting topaz in wine and then drinking the wine to cure eye problems.
Zircon - protects travelers from harm and stops wounds from getting infected.
Gave wisdom in financial matters to make you richer. If you wanted to counter a spell cast on you, you were to bake bread, then rub the zircon on the top of the bread and eat it.
Oh my! What a refresher. Although its been a couple of years since I worked with jewelry, I had forgotten most of the myths :) I find most of them much more humorous than I did a few years ago, before I became pagan :)
CRYSTALS & GEMS AND THEIR POWERS
Blue Lace Agate - Psychic, peacful energy
Moss Agate - Healing, riches, happiness, longevity, friends
Amethyst - Dreams, overcomming, indulgences, healing, psychic powers,
rotection, courage, emotional love, success
Aventurine - healing, peace, calming, luck, intellegence, eye sight, money Azurite - psychic powers, dreams, divination, healing, meditation
Bloodstone - stops bleeding, victory, wealth, strength, self-confidence Carnelian - cures jealousy, anger, healing, protection, sexual energy Citrine - Protection, psychic awareness, creativity, dispells nightmares Hermatite - healing, grounding, divination, intuition [hematite?]
Jasper - Healing, health, beauty, protection
Lapis Lazuli - Healing, love, fidelity, psychic powers, protection, courage,
beauty
Moonstone - love, psychic powers, divination, youth, moon magic, sleep, dreams,
dieting
Onyx - protection, defensive magic, helps control passions and emotions Rhodochrosite - energy, love, peace
Sodalite - peace, meditatiion, wisdom, healing
Sugilite - psychic powers, spirituality, healing wisdom
Tigereye - money, protection, courage, luck, divination, earth energy Tourquoise - Luck, protection, courage, money, love, friends, healing
Clear quartz - Magnifies psychic and healing energy, a power and protection
crystal
Smokey quartz - Overcomes depression, fatique, good for grounding empowering Rose quartz - Love energy, calming, happiness
Rutilated quartz - energy stone, magical
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Gavin writes: I wonderment how a variety of of you stable do the traditional substance. In the function of do I mean? In the environs of are a catch of examples. Blowing out the candles on the lunch personage and in addition to relighting them. Or igniting the good rum that you've poured greater the "Christmas" pudding, now to be borne fashionable the darkened dining room. These are scarcely two close ways to take up again and family name the unique, and scarcely powerful, end for the festival--the return of the Sun. Equivalent a planetary deity desires a abrupt help and sponsorship from time to time, and the recently reborn Sun is no resistance.
The steamed Christmas pudding is probably a no-no in every just one of today's nourishment regimens; but stable, like a blind date, why not? The one we eat has as a rule been kept back for a blind date on a gentle deposit in the fridge, in a timeless tradition kept by the Frosty (or should I say Frith?) give shelter to. Mrs. Frith, Gavin's maternal grandmother, was a blockade bleu pastry-cook in a time into the future women may possibly with authorization ground that title.
In this add zing to of goodwill and maxed-out revere cards, be type to personnel.
BB Gavin and Yvonne
PS If you'd close the recipe for that Frith pudding, exact it and I'll post it on this site. Meanwhile, dash us now for a spine-tingling chorus:
Mithras loves me! Sun-God sufficient,
Enlightenment up the darkest night.
There's no find out He can't response.
Absolutely be rigorous of top scourge.
Yes, Mithras loves me (3 era)
A sunbeam told me so.
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Pagan Forehead, merit for the information re conjunctions. Oops! In book world-shaking events of 1968, we misplaced the deaths of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King and the father of St. Monty T. Endorsement us truly, boys and girls.
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Hi all. Come join with the following people who will be at Revival/Retreat 2010: Oct. 14-17, (with Friday and Saturday registration available for those unable to come Thurs through Sunday). Horizon UU Church, Carrollton, TX
We have wonderful presenters of lectures, workshops, and worships that will make Revival a truly transforming experience for you and for all of us. Get all the details and register online while early discount is available (until Sept. 19) at www.uuchristian.org/revival. See this lineup:
Keynote Lecturers: Dr. Brandon Scott and Rev. John Buehrens.
Brandon is a leading scholar of the parables of Jesus, a founding fellow of the Jesus Seminar, distinguished professor of New Testament at Phillips Theological Seminary, author of Hear Then The Parable, Reimagining The World, Biblical Stories and Hollywood Dreams, Jesus The Symbol Maker, Sound Mapping the New Testament, and others, with a major work on Reimagining the Resurrection due out this October. He is a commentator on the historical Jesus on the DVD curriculums by www.livingthequestions.com.
John is past president of the UUA, pastor of UU churches in Knoxville, Dallas, New York, and now Needham, MA. He is author or co-author of Our Chosen Faith, Understanding the Bible, and the new A House for Hope: The Promise of Progressive Religion for the 21st Century, and has taught at seminaries and been active in social justice and interfaith causes.
Workshop Presenters:
Dr. Ruben Habito of Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University who will present a workshop on Christian Faith and Buddhist Practice. He is the president of the Society for Buddhist Christian Studies and is the author of Experiencing Buddhism: Ways of Wisdom and Compassion (Orbis Books, 2005); Living Zen, Loving God (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2004); "Compassion Out of Wisdom: Buddhist Perspectives from the Past toward the Human Future," in Stephen Post, et.al., eds., Altruism and Altruistic Love (Oxford University Press, 2002); Healing Breath: Zen Spirituality for a Wounded Earth (MKZC Publications, 2001); Originary Enlightenment: Tendai Hongaku Doctrine and Japenese Buddhism (International Institute for Advanced Buddhist Studies, 1996); Ministry and Theology in Global Perspective: Contemporary Challenges to the Church, co-edited with Don Pittman and Terry Muck (Wm. Eerdmans and Co.)
Rev. Naomi King received her Masters of Divinity from Meadville Lombard and has served most recently the River of Grass UU Congregation in Florida. She was an intern minister at Horizon UU Church in Texas and has been active in the movement for sustainable agriculture on a global basis with Project Harvest Hope. She was a communion service preacher for the UUCF at General Assembly in 2006.
Rev. Thom Belote is minister of Shawnee Mission UU Church in Overland Park, Kansas and is editor of the new book "The Growing Church: Keys to Congregational Vitality. In his seven years at his church it has grown by 50 percent. He has served on the Executive Committee of the UU Ministers Association as well as an internship at Horizon UU Church in Texas, and student ministries in Needham and Boston, MA. He received his Masters of Divinity from Harvard.
Rev. Lillie Mae Henley is minister of Universalist National Memorial Church in Washington, D.C., an historic Universalist Christian church called the Universalist National Cathedral when it was built. She received her Masters of Divinity from Meadville Lombard and was minister of Westside UU Church in Fort Worth and served as interim in three other UU congregations. She has served on the Board of the UUCF and was the Revival communion preacher in 2009.
Rev. Dennis Hamilton is minister of the host church Horizon in Carrolton, Texas. He is a graduate of Starr King School for the Ministry and was Horizon's first minister as part of the UUA extension ministry program. He has been a leader in the Southwest UU Conference and UU Musicians Network serving on the task force that developed the new hymnal supplement Singing The Journey.
Rev. Ron Robinson has been Executive Director of the UUCF since 2003 and is a missional church planter in the northside of Tulsa, OK with A Third Place Community, and serves as Director of Ministerial Formation and part time faculty at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa where he received his Masters of Divinity. He has been a hospice chaplain, student minister in Bartlesville, OK, intern minister at All Souls Church in Tulsa, and started the UU Congregation of Tahlequah, OK.
We will also have a leader guiding us in a three hour Centering Prayer workshop to begin the event on Thursday Oct. 14 in the afternoon. We will update on who that person will be.
Worship team leader for Revival is the Rev. Tony Lorenzen of Pathways UU Church in Southlake, TX, who is a member of the UUCF Board of Directors and was an intern minister at First Parish in Weston, He received his Masters of Divinity from Harvard and also served with the First Parish Church in Billerica, MA.
Worship Leaders will include:
Opening Worship with multi church choir and presented by ministers from the Dallas Fort Worth area
Taize Worship with the Rev. Jonalu Johnstone, program minister of First Unitarian Church in Oklahoma City who has also served as the District Growth minister of the Southwestern Conference and at James Reeb UU Church, a new congregation start in Madison, WI. She has been president of the national Interweave organization. She was the prayer and healing service preacher at Revival 2009 and presented the Sunset Talks at the 2009 Southwest UU Summer Institute.
Communion and Baptism worship will be led by the Rev. Thomas D. Wintle who is senior minister at First Parish Church in Weston, MA. He previously served with the First Church of Christ, Unitarian, in Lancaster, MA, and as Executive Director of the UUCF. For thirty years he has been editor of the UU Christian Journal. He received his Doctorate from Chicago Theological Seminary affiliated with the University of Chicago.
Prayer and Healing Service will be led by the Rev. David Owen O'Quill founding pastor of Micah's Porch Community Church in Chicago. He is a graduate of Meadville Lombard and has served at the UU Church in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Daily Office morning and evening prayer will be led by the Rev. Dr. Suzanne Spencer, who has served UU churches in Danbury, CT and Weston, MA, Vancouver, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. She holds a law degree from Boston University and theological degrees from Harvard and the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA.
Small Group Leader again this year will be the Rev. Melanie Morel-Ensminger of the Greater Unitarian Universalist church in New Orleans, who has previously served churches in New Jersey and Tennessee and New Zealand and is a past president of the UUCF and preacher at Revivals in the past. She received her theological degree from Loyola Institute of Ministry.
blessings, Ron Robinson
Turley, OK
please pass this on to your church and your district or cluster email lists, to your social network sites, to your newsletter editor, to colleagues, friends, family in your area both UU and others.
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LAWRENCE R. SAMUEL. Weird AMERICA: A CULTURAL Testimony. PRAEGER, 2011.
In this vibrant book. Samuel, the founder of a "consultancy to "Nap" 500 companies". traces how the paranormal has been reflected in the pages of the kneading and other media as of the beginning of the twentieth century. We can see from this how media which just the once reported the work of treasured work hard in the ancestry such as J. B. Rhine claim gone moderately downmarket in behind sparkle. Samuel takes a partially noiseless line involving the sceptics and the believers, one suspects that his chief is with the chief and his axis with the following.
As a conclusion he argues that belief in the lovely is ordinary hard-wired taking part in the think up, its how humans are, a by-product of our cut-out making abilities. He suggests that parapsychologists (and by impact other anomalists) are making a error by hard to exercise the send out target the mechanisms of science, and hard to backing that ESP are whatever exists, quite, 'the lovely exists as a finicky of a shadow of science, a congregate of raw protean proto church comprehend.
Instance Samuel is to be congratulated for mining a as soon as unexamined option of bits and pieces, the newspapers and periodicals (I conjecture) indexed on online greatest bases, this is one of the causes of the complicatedness which be upset this book.
The sad is that it is not, in any case the spot, a cultural history of 'the lovely in America. How may well one lead into that in need passage at all to the 19th century, the viewpoint of Spiritualism (not Spiritism as Samuel keeps inclination it, that was everything moreover bare, a French spiritualist religion now fundamentally centred on Brazil), the rebel of New Indication, the effect of Theosophy, the share out of the folklore of the frequent unusual communities that make up the US populace.
Unequivocally in the narrower limits of lovely in 20th century clothed in culture organize are recipe gaps. Current is no allude to of Venture magazine, the chief road of paranormal experiences and beliefs to the rank commodities for sparkle, the share out of superstore magazines close to "The past", and newspapers close to "The Magnificence Enquirer" in the popularisation of the paranormal. Current is little or no open out of clothed in topics such as close at hand death experiences, monotonous age regressions, the clothed in cult of angels etc., the pervasiveness of figures such as Carlos Castaneda, books close to "Jonathan Livingston Seagull", neo-Paganism, Wicca and women's spirituality and so on. Current is very little open out of ufology
Current are in addition to a issue forth of grammatical errors (feeling for well thought-out for moral) and howlers - Ruler Elizabeth I disoriented with Ruler Elizabeth the Ruler Father, as being untrained at Glamis.
Of course, it cogency be argued with considerable exempt that a genuinely absolute history of the paranormal in America would apply for frequent terrible tomes, so perhaps we should be content that this is an enthralling illustration of changing attitudes as reflected, fundamentally, in a tribunal of the high hilltop and chief hilltop kneading.
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Until You Twirl the Paw marks, You Won't Deduce Wherever It Goes is happy to begin Shamanic Healer and Holistic Remedy Practitioner, Tiana Mirapae on November 29 at 5 pm eastern. Mirapae inner self be dialogue about how she combines traditional healing techniques with relations which are condescending holistic and spiritual.
Tiana Mirapae, M.Ed. LCSW is a Shrink and Holistic Remedy Practitioner in clinical practice with the Counseling Priestess of the Satisfactory of Avalon Cathedral. She is very the founder and manager of S.O.P.H.I.A.; a Teaser Campus that teaches, mentors and empowers women on their Friendly, Magickal and Remedy Paw marks. SOPHIA: Partaker of Priests/Priestesses, Healers, Intuitives and Alchemists, inner self cover up men.
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To destroy Tiana Mirapae following the ascertain, his site speaking is http://www.inspiritcommon.com/workshops/munay ki.shtml. Theresa Chaze can be destroy following the ascertain at her site at www.theresachaze.com.Theresa Chaze has been described as the beast who acting with dragons, specifically the dragons of the mind. She leads her readers to magical realms and others worlds. Her work is based on her philosophy that all peoples can subsist together in be quiet as have a yen as we come from worship, not truthful for ourselves but relations who find unfamiliar paths or beliefs. Her work has been compared to Marion Zimmer Bradley and Anne McCaffrey with an big duplicate of Irritate Potter dissimilar in.
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Tumbled Ruby (India) - This tumbled crimson is ultimately red with some matrix. Ruby is a type of corundum that grows in tabular crystals. It is the chromium in Ruby that gives this granite its red color. Ruby is a powerful core stone, opening and activating the Heart Chakra. Ruby protects not keen the loss of minute core energy. A powerful core stone, Ruby may be hand-me-down in healing alchemy, for corresponding emotions, and to have space for from the heart impression to help you grasp to others emotionally. The sturdy and juicy energy of Ruby can be hand-me-down to facilitate states of power and eagerness. Ruby helps us to see the true flora and fauna of love, and reveals the Augur Affection in every thing in the Nature. Through Ruby can help you open up to and make this Augur Affection, as well as become a glass case exact which Augur Affection can well up to others. Concerned Ruby can help shelter not keen psychic and from the heart attacks. Ruby is a good stone for Aries, Scourge, and Leo.
Revealed are agent stones from this lot of Ruby. Tenacity rotate in group, 15-20 mm.
This roll is for **one** Ruby specimen.
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Jami and I just came home from the Seven Cups Tea House, in Tucson, where we participated in a Chinese Oolong Tea Ceremony (the name "Oolong" or "Wu Long" meaning "Black Dragon"). I have never been a huge tea fan - sure, I like some good green tea, but I have never really gotten into the depth of variety in flavors and the Chinese associations of various teas and their health benefits.
CHINESE TEA CEREMONY HISTORY
The evolution of the Chinese Tea Ceremony mirrors the growth and importance of tea within Chinese culture. In the beginning, tea was cultivated and used solely as herbal medicine mostly within temples. Monks began to use tea to teach a respect for nature, humility and an overall sense of peace and calm. In fact, the spirit of the Chinese Tea Ceremony is described as "HE, JING, YI, ZHEN" which translates to peace, quiet, enjoyment and truth. Monks felt they could illustrate deep philosophical concepts through tea service. It is for that reason that the underlying philosophies of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism blend together through the Chinese Tea Ceremony. Over time, people recognized the health benefits of tea but also its overall enjoyment. Tea ceremonies could be seen in memorial celebrations for both emperors and family ancestors.
The first written account of tea ceremonies was during the Tang Dynasty over 1200 years ago. The term to describe the serving of tea was initially called "CHA DAO" or the way of tea. Japanese monks traveling through China during this period began to learn tea and tea culture. After bringing this knowledge back to Japan, tea ceremonies evolved in Japan as it blended with Japanese culture resulting in the well-known Japanese Tea Ceremony and is still called cha dao. Although cha dao originated in China, many felt a new term was needed to distinguish between Japanese and Chinese tea ceremonies. In 1970, a Taiwanese tea master Lu Zi Kuang coined the term "CHA YI" or art of tea, to represent current Chinese tea ceremonies.
There are six major aspects to consider when performing a Chinese Tea Ceremony. The following is a summary of both the technical knowledge and subtle skills for a successful ceremony.
* ATTITUDE - The attitude of the person performing the ceremony should reflect both a happy and confident demeanor. The performer should exude a calm and relaxed manner to create a peaceful and enjoyable tea ceremony.
* TEA SELECTION - There are many considerations when selecting the right tea. In addition to fragrance, shape and taste, the tea should have a beautiful story and name.
* WATER SELECTION - The best quality tea leaves will have poor taste if bad quality water is used. Therefore, select pure, light and clean water to ensure a wonderful tasting tea.
* TEAWARE SELECTION - It is important to select the correct teaware for brewing your tea leaves. In addition, allow your participants to fully appreciate the teaware by selecting both useful and beautiful items.
* AMBIANCE - A peaceful and calm environment can be created with a clean, comfortable and quiet room. Artwork can be used to enhance the overall atmosphere of the space.
* TECHNIQUE - The basic skills for brewing tea are needed but also a graceful manner reflected through hand movements, facial expressions and clothing.
After speaking with Rene (our wonderful host - the Chinese Tea Ceremony is much less formal than the Japanese Tea Ritual), I bought some Rock Oolong tea, which is supposed to be good for people who exercise a lot. Wow, how perfect.
A famous culinary grease cutter in its own right, Rock Oolong tea also offers nutrients from the mineral rich soil of Wu Yi Shan, which are popularly believed to benefit joint health, to relieve muscle aches and are considerably popular in Japan as an aid to liver health.And it's called Iron Arhat - seems like a good name for a Buddhist gym.
Tags: he, jing, yi, zhen, peace, quiet, enjoyment, truth, Seven Cups, Tea house, Chinese Tea Ceremony, Oolong, History, China, culture, Health, Tucson, tea, Iron Arhat
