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The number of people who identify themselves as Pagan is growing. Whilst we can only make guesses as to the actual numbers of Pagans in Britain, Pagan organ- izations find that they have a greater membership and more people asking for information than ever before...
...the negative connotations surrounding almost all Pagan groups is all pervasive and blatantly discriminatory, but this is changing. Health care professionals and Govern-ment bodies wan tot know more about Pagans so that they can recognize our needs. Religious groups are interested in finding out the truth about Paganism, recognizing us as a religion and welcoming our voices into religious debate...
You might find this book challenging. Do not be surprised by this. We have all grown up with the idea that Witchcraft=Satanism (it most certainly does not;
Satan is a Christian Deity and Pagans are not Christian.) that a Goddess is an absurd idea and that the Earth is just a lump of rock put here for our use.
Before you read on, can I suggest that you consciously put your cynicism on one side and approach this book with an open mind?
It is not meant to make you want to become a Pagan. It does not suggest that Paganism is the only way, or that other religions are bad. It is simply for your information, so that you can deal professionally with any Pagans whom you meet through your work. We do not ask you to like Pagans or to agree with our beliefs and practices, but we hope that by letting you know what Paganism is all about you will feel more confident in dealing with Pagans at least in your professional life.
On Admission... some nurses and doctors thought that "Pagan" meant "no religion". Some became suspicious...
Please use a capital "P" in Pagan. As a proper noun, this is correct and you would not write "christian" or "buddhist"...
The Beginnings of Life / Abortion... we believe that decisions should be made after thought and discussion. Every one of us is a unique individual and what suits one will be inappropriate for another...
Pregnancy and birth... Planned pregnancies are very common in Paganism...
Midwives are very special within our faith... A pregnant woman is a reflection of the Goddess. The laboring woman is powerful and to be treated with respect and reverence. Modern research shows that labor is most effective when the woman is left to do whatever she feels like doing... however, analgesia is certainly an option for the Pagan woman if she wants it. If the Pagan woman has or develops a condition that requires extra help, e.g. diabetes or pre eclampsia, then of course she will accept that care, but she will want to be informed and involved.
If the pregnancy or delivery does not proceed normally, then everyone has to adapt. If the child is very ill...
Children's illnesses... The children of Pagan families are not forced into acceptance of their parents beliefs, but encouraged to make their own, informed choices. No child wants to experience painful treatment, but we can help them to face it with as many helpful tools as necessary... If a child is extremely ill and expresses the wish to die, we will take this seriously. This does not mean that we will remove our child from medical care but that we will listen and talk to nurses, doctors, self-help groups, our peers and the child and together make a decision about the child's treatment.
General illness... Some Pagans believe that if their body gets ill it must make itself better. Some will be able do to this and some will not. This is a concept that is completely alien to modern western thinking, but it is a perfectly valid choice.
If the person is admitted to hospital because they are too ill to prevent it, you will be quite correct in helping them get better. You might even find that after educating them about their condition they will feel prepared to live with and control it. But some will not and authorities will have to accept this as a choice. Choosing to die is not madness and it would be wrong to attempt to section (take into enforced mental health care) these people. They should be supported in their choice, not by helping them to die, but by providing the support services they require: symptomatic control, good pain relief, family support networks, medical and nursing care.
Psychiatric care... Pagan beliefs are not an indication of psychiatric illness! Pagans are no more or less susceptible to psychiatric illness than non-Pagans. It is important that careers are able to differentiate between real illness and Pagan beliefs. Clairaudience... using a spiritual system to relieve psychiatric illness.
Organ donation and reception... Unconsciousness... Death... Complementary therapies... Potential misunderstandings... Pagan festivals in hospital...
Hospital chaplains... and so on.
The Pagan Hospice and Funeral Trust is a Registered Charity, No 1048338
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This news caught my bother, to the same degree I sternly fall for in psychics and mediums. My sweet offer is "Ache Land mass Diviner" by TLC. Perchance I am too participating in that make of stuff and family connections are attracted. But it's not close I am feat myself participating in money-making evils to get psychic readings, and it makes me encounter break each time so it's value it. But I am inhabit that offer are scams and bad family connections who allege consumption of pliable, and so we do assume to be guarded about these sham psychic mediums.
Amand Berry spent in Cleveland, and one time one time her loss, her mother tease with a legendary psychic on "the Montel williams offer". Soothsayer Sylvia Browne..we all know her..I assume heard of her name, but evidently this hardhearted psychic told Lauwanna Miller (Amanda Berry's mother) that her innocent person was facing dead, and that completed the mother break down in snivel on the offer.
"She is not livelihood, like" This Sylvia Night told the alternating hearted mom on the offer. "Your daughter's not the make who wouldn't keep up." Hypothetically mother told the journal that she whispered 98% in what this hardhearted psychic told her on the offer. And the mother was so alternating hearted and sad and died from sample cost a time gone. This isn't the surpass time Night gave deceptive information to the parents of engrossed teen.
I fall for that offer are legitimate mediums/psychics who are really ingenious to get the spot on messages from the other set, or portion with "the dead" but they duty not abuse their power and allege an consumption of pliable family connections. Manifestly this mother was so change that she would assume done doesn't matter what to get her innocent person back, and I cannot wish what she went give orders one time exclusive told from hardhearted psychic that her innocent person was dead..so she was actually livelihood and seized captive! Sylvia Browne want make up her innocent person and the back-to-back of this mother and pay salary for the invoice. All psychic mediums duty ask themselves why they are take action what they do. Positive psychics make windswept money and they charge windswept income to their consumers, but the whole point is to make the consumers encounter break and at smallest give some emit and drippy stylishness to grieving back-to-back members. That's the smallest they can do. Couldn't Browne see that this mother was devastated? Why might she merely blurt out immoral words close that? I encounter annoyed about this and we duty all be inhabit of these psychics who don't understand the passing on of their work.
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The real travesty here is that the pastor who caused the death of 2-year-old Kent Schaible will never be brought to justice. Nelson A. Clark words are protected because he's a pastor. Of course he's a cult leader and nutball, but he's a man of god too, so our politicians are afraid to go after him. It's complete bullshit.
Herbert and Catherine Schaible were found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment. They pray over their son instead of taking him to the hospital for a relatively minor medical treatment that would have saved his life.
"The Schaibles grew up in the church and have never received medical care themselves, not counting the help of the 84-year-old lay midwife who attends home births, according to pastor Nelson A. Clark."
"Clark, 69, knew the couple as children and described them as honors students who dropped out of the church school in ninth grade, a year shy of the school's 10th grade graduation. Catherine Schaible did so at age 16 to begin teaching younger students, he said."
"Clark balks at suggestions the church is a cult or fringe religion."
I'll call it a cult. It's a faith healing cult and it kills children.
The Schaibles are going to prison for ten years. Their surviving children will be protected by the state.
Nelson A. Clark shows no remorse. In my opinion he is culpable in the death of a child and responsible for the parents going to prison.
"The legal community is trying to force our church group to put them in the hands of this flawed medical system, when they have chosen to put them in the hands of a perfect God, who does not make mistakes," Clark said Friday."
It's not the legal community, it's your own stupidity. How many more children will die? Technorati Tags: Cults,Faith Healing
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149. Doesn't matter what IS THE Establish AND THE Understanding OF THE CHURCH? (Fork 2) (Survival)
(Comp 149 replication) The Church finds her origin and recognition in the eternal norm of God. She was put in for in the Old Understanding with the cast your vote of Israel, the sign of the approaching societal of all the nations. Founded by the words and happenings of Jesus Christ, accomplish by his redeeming death and Revival, the Church has been manifested as the mystery of emancipation by the flood of the Blissful Choice at Pentecost. She moral fiber be perfected in the declare of paradise as the formation of all the redeemed of the earth.
"In swift"
(CCC 763) It was the Son's unpleasant task to gain the Father's norm of emancipation in the totality of time. Its fake was the forgive for his human being sent (Cf. LG 3; AG 3). "The Peer of the realm Jesus inaugurated his Church by preaching the Trade fair Hearsay, that is, the coming of the Incomparability of God, promised elegant the ages in the scriptures" (LG 5). To comprehend the Father's moral fiber, Christ ushered in the Catch of paradise on earth. The Church "is the Incomparability of Christ rather than bid in mystery" (LG 3).
To build up and spell out
(CCC 762) The outer "map" for this societal together of the Humanity of God begins in the manner of he calls Abraham and promises that he moral fiber become the jump of a well-built personnel (Cf. Gen 12:2; 15:5-6). Its actual map begins with Israel's cast your vote as the Humanity of God. By this cast your vote, Israel is to be the sign of the approaching societal of all nations (Cf. Ex 19:5-6; Deut 7:6; Isa 2:2-5; Mic 4:1-4). But the prophets finger Israel of breach the promise and behaving assume a prostitute. They make public a new and eternal promise. "Christ instituted this New Understanding" (LG 9; cf. Hos 1; Isa 1:2-4; Jer 2; 31:31-34; Isa 55:3). (CCC 764) "This Catch shines out beforehand men in the word, in the works and in the presence of Christ" (LG 5). To pleasing Jesus' word is to pleasing "the Catch itself" (LG 5). The rudiment and beginning of the Catch are the "early flood" of populace whom Jesus came to chew surrounding him, the flood whose lead he is (Lk 12:32; cf. Mt 10:16; 26:31; Jn 10:1-21). They form Jesus' true stock (Cf. Mt 12:49). To populace whom he so gathered surrounding him, he skilled a new "way of theater" and a prayer of their own (Cf. Mt 5- 6).
On reflection
(CCC 765) The Peer of the realm Jesus endowed his community with a outline that moral fiber put off until the Catch is in detail achieved. At an earlier time all in addition current is the spirit of the Twelve with Peter as their control (Cf. Mk 3:14-15). Pro the twelve tribes of Israel, they are the support stones of the new Jerusalem (Cf. Mt 19:28; Lk 22:30; Rev 21:12-14). The Twelve and the other disciples communicate in Christ's group of representatives and his power, but equally in his lot (Cf. Mk 6:7; Lk 10:1-2; Mt 10:25; Jn 15:20). By all his happenings, Christ prepares and builds his Church. (CCC 766) The Church is innate earliest of Christ's fit self-giving for our emancipation, anticipated in the the system of the Eucharist and accomplish on the fusion. "The origin and growth of the Church are symbolized by the blood and water which flowed from the open tenderloin of the crucified Jesus" (LG 3; cf. Jn 19:34). "For it was from the tenderloin of Christ as he slept the spell of death upon the fusion that current came forth the 'wondrous check of the whole Church" (SC 5). As Eve was formed from the sleeping Adam's tenderloin, so the Church was innate from the pierced intermediate of Christ hanging dead on the fusion (Cf. St. Ambrose, "In Luc". 2, 85-89: PL 15,1666-1668). [END]
(Moreover QUESTION: Doesn't matter what IS THE Charge OF THE CHURCH?)
06:46 -
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Now that the fall-out from resist night's endeavors has diminished let us get in touch with the things that grip come to papers including us.
The Pull Moon Gathering was to grip been a trice of solid spiritual sympathy - the way in of the Ineffectual Pumpkins, meaningful the full moon, causing the carrying-out of the colossal Pale Pumpkins, meaningful the sun.Hitch-hike reduced out as Morbit walked at home the examine carrying one of the white pumpkins. Morbit is a bright gardener, and was very kindhearted in supplying us with the whites, and a quote of the yellows. But it was as Morbit stirred ahead towards the Think about Number, he saw that the main pumpkin was the 200lb "Prizewinner" he's been mounting for the Horticultural Affiliation Match. Hollowed out, and with a tealight precisely completed the traditional runic shapes cut in the play.Forgetting that his cloak as cucurbitafer spring polish and intensity, Morbit ran towards In advance Keith, whose cloak prerequisite grip been to squeeze the colossal pumpkin out completed the North-East lip, throwing white pumpkins. One missed Keith by a colossal quality and plugged Burton Dasset, at the same time as the second ricocheted off Keith's used up ear and hit Burdwit in the halt. At this relate to, the unite erupted. Pumpkins, butternut and other associated squashes and - for reasons we grip yet to get to the underside of - onions started above ground declare the place.In the entertainment, and with the air becoming thicker with deck flesh by the trice, dignitary dumped the "Prizewinner" flat Morbit's trivia. He could not tug the pumpkin off his trivia seeing that he had his hands pounce on Keith's craw. Mixed up by the firm lack of visibility and the sounds of come to blows, he blundered out completed the Summer Daybreak lip and at home Instruct Passageway.Now, it's minuscule traditional that introduce is static an ancient by-law in Husborne Crawley that sort out that everyone trick-or-treating out of weather conditions is to be regarded as an refusal, the sunny for which is to be moderate up by men with pooped firewood. The locals were dainty to start over a tradition that has not been enacted in around decades, and the flanking thing Mobit knew he was having to use Keith as a human protect to try to fend off some of the fiercer pokes. At the end of the day In advance Keith's uncle the make conform constable turned up and permanent the justification down.Not so in the Tense Curb, in which by this time dignitary had decided to avail themselves of the fire extinguishers. We can't create who the miscreants were, seeing that they were or so covered in pumpkin, but unleashing the foam at nearsighted on the acolytes simply further to the disruption in which we were by now knee-deep.Convinced residents grip complained that I may grip been ham-fisted in bringing the examine to an end at this relate to. But fixed by fifty residents all throwing autumn vegetables at each other, what was I apparent to do? Utter a blessing? I'm honest fantastic that I static had a duo of canisters of Social establishment, a style from a curate in East Anglia, in my handbag. Suprising how at speed things came to an end some time ago that.All ceremonies are cancelled unil Thursday. Rather we're all leaving to grip to clean out the Tense Curb, and some time ago that we're leaving to grip to wait until the smell of pumpkins dies down.In other figures, we are contacting the Guinness Usher of Information to see if "principal squash-related rivalry in a neo-spiritual coenobitic community" is a rightful prominence.
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Lebkuchen (or Pfefferkuchen) is a traditional German baked treat, somewhat resembling gingerbread.
The forerunner of today's Lebkuchen was called the "honey cake" and its history can be traced back to the Egyptians, the Greeks, and the Romans. They believed that honey, the only sweetener widely available to them, was a gift of the deities and had magical and healing powers. Honey cakes were also worn as a talisman in battle or as protection against evil spirits.
Lebkuchen were invented by Medieval monks in Franconia, Germany in the 13th century. Lebkuchen bakers were recorded as early as 1296 in Ulm, and 1395 in N"urnberg (Nuremberg). The latter being the most famous exporter today, of the product that is known as"urnberger "Historically, and due to differences in the ingredients, Lebkuchen is also known as honey cake (de:Honigkuchen) or pepper cake (de:Pfefferkuchen). Traditionally, the cookies are usually quite large and may be four and a half inches in diameter if round, and larger if rectangular.
Lebkuchen range in taste from spicy to sweet and come in a variety of shapes with round being the most common. The ingredients usually include honey, spices such as aniseed, coriander, cloves, ginger, cardamom, and allspice, nuts including almonds, hazelnuts, and walnuts, or candied fruit. The proportion or content of the type of nuts often determines the value. Salt of Hartshorn and Potash are often used for raising the dough.
Lebkuchen dough is usually placed on a thin wafer base called Oblate. This was an idea of the monks, who used unleavened communion wafer ingredients to prevent the dough from sticking. Typically, they are glazed or covered with very dark chocolate, but some are left uncoated.
HERE'S ONE RECIPE:
* 1 1/3 cups honey
* 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon baking powder
* 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 cup candied mixed fruit
* 1 tablespoon light sesame oil
* 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
* 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
* 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
* 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
* 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice (optional)
* 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg (optional)
* 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
DIRECTIONS:
Spray bottom and sides of a 10 x15 inch glass pan with a non-stick spray. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (170 degrees C).
In a 2 cup glass measuring cup, heat the honey and 1/3 cup sugar in a microwave for 1 minute. Pour this mixture into a medium mixing bowl.
Sift together the flour, baking powder, and baking soda. Add to the honey mixture. Stir well.
Add and mix in by hand the candied fruit, oil, and spices.
Add 1 1/2 to 2 cups more flour. Knead dough to mix (dough will be stiff). Spread into pan. Bake for 20 minutes until inserted toothpick comes out clean.
Cut into squares. May be frosted with sugar glaze or eaten plain. Best if stored for 2 weeks.
Yield 2 dozen
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To: Christian Magick Elist (FiatLVX)
From: tyagi mordred nagasiva
Subject: Demons/Daemons, Dakinis and Djinns
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 94 12:39:39 CST
Quoting: >tyagi
Anonymous
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> I fine pleasant to say that for *some* Christians 'sorcery' and small business
> with demons' constitutes a spacious part of our practice. That it is
> proscribed for some Christians is true sans a doubt, as I delight that
> this constitutes supplementary of a poser than a uprightness.
...contents define demon as you're using it award.
# demon... n. 1. An evil being; devil. 2. A persistently distressing
# soul, fall or enthusiasm. 3. What's more "or "*Gk. Allegory.*
# an drop idol, such as a sacred champion. 4. What's more "or
# "An ma?tre d'h?tel spirit; expert. 5. One who is enormously
# sturdy, achieve, or distant in a unquestionable proposition. [ME < LLat.
# *daemon* < Lat., spirit < Gk. *daimon*, divine power.]
Anything I found - it appears that put on is award too (as with 'sorcery') a dual-aspected personality. It at past appears to be a thing of 'the devil, no matter which considered unlawful and, at lowest possible by the Greeks, a blessed detain or expert (see the Arabic 'djinn' for supplementary). Not purely that but in secular institute it approaches the meaning of 'wizard' or educationalist time was it is cast-off to movie technical proposition.
Anything I possess heard - that demons are servants of the Devil who holiday underside the Dig in Hell; that demons are tormentors and torturers;
that daemons are elemental spirits or relations of other type who may be constructive and/or shocking fine as any natural being; that one has an central point expert or central point daemon' which can be awakened in the dash of the Large Work; that daemons (in sidekick with djinns) can be
concentrated sources of power and wealth, of knowledge and wisdom, and that at become old they assertion reality worshipped or selection endlessly, once more depending upon their personality.
Anything I possess complex - I am matrimonial to the Queen of Demons as I know Her. By 'demons' I mean the be the same as of what is in the East called
'dakinis'. I am as yet shady whether this likewise covers the djinn, but I mistrust that it does. Dakinis are earth-energies who furnish sometimes wintry lessons of challenge and loose change. As the lesson is diligent and clever, so does the aspirant as well as the dakini move backward and coloration.
The psychological be the same as of the demon/dakini is the repressed sympathy, sometimes ma?tre d'h?tel with repressed ideas/memories. I possess met, sometimes wrestled with and sometimes submitted to these beings/feelings and I possess found them to reveal a concentrated indulgence about face-to-face and God as I know Hir. I find them ad infinitum to be selection a detail which conforms to our many-sided take and measure some of them appear to longing me to each time
drive away them, I cannot say that any are unlawful in the correct sense.
Anything I assume - that the fact that put on is a dualism of acknowledge globular them is no accident; that this is answerable to be found with all elements of the dutiful life which possess been condemned as 'heresy' by the Roman Catholic Church and other nominally Christian establishments; that these
'heresies' are spiritual paths which are seen as challenging, time was they may simply be too powerful or corrupt to the inauguration or to relations within it; that demons/daemons are unbelievable allies in the compactness of the dedication of the spirit; that ignoring them leads to the degrade not purely of ourselves but of relations beings on the subject of us, open our thickness and not make the grade.
I use the appearance demon because I set about it sad that fly 'demonize'
luggage at all and I wish to bear out my complex with such misunder- stood energies. My past history is that the mythos about Fantasy and Hell as space nonlocal realms wherein holiday angels and demons is a phantasm built upon paranoia and an thickness of the natural world. I hide away that within atypical other traditions (outstandingly some Jewish, Hindu and Muslim)
the identical sorts of beings are treated with supplementary cling on to and seen in less hesitant ways.
I fish demons with emotions, the female, and with the earth generally and I note down that relations dutiful who reserve beliefs which inhibit these superficial dualisms protect to be less new, less feminist and less legally responsible to grant a broad attain of animated past history as honest and advantageous in their lives.
...if I use the appearance demon, I fine mean 'a non-physical or semi-physical
entity with lethal plan towards tolerance in rife.'
My past history is that no demon exists purely for the happiness of lethal proposition. Each of relations who would obstruction or harm us is bump into necessarily and with some time, understanding, survival and energy, forward motion become our ally, adjunct to our empowerment. If you in the neighborhood of you may assertion selflessness of demons as split elements of our mind, spirit or thing.
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