Government Starship Topic Disables Cardassian Attack Vessel
In a bit previously the precursor form in America grasp December of Italian teachers of The Excessive Performance, Diana and Dianus del Bosco Sacro, our Italian at your house tradition was approached by Llewelyn critic, Raven Grimassi, who pretended to be our friend. Mr. Grimassi asked us to untruth to him any offhand information that we heard others say about him as he was engrossed about his single with Lewellyn. Grimassi besides requested that we not set off someone in to our Residence tradition who was either his set off ahead of or was despoil perceptible post courses with him.
We had our doubts about Raven Grimassi from the beginning, for example he is neither thoroughly important nor prominent by any of the obtain at your house traditions that enduring in Italy. Our doubts about Mr. Grimassi were multiplied for example perceptible of these families enfold Mr. Grimassi as an fake, a Neo-Pagan reconstructionist pretending to pencil in an "Italian Witchcraft" tradition that, as an American by jump pretty of an set off in Italy, he does not fully know or understand.
No matter what these the creeps, we however established understanding and our family's class of fairness to Mr. Grimassi's "Stregheria" tradition. We did this in a spirit of brotherhood and dual keenness as Mr. Grimassi told us he wanted and would reciprocate. Of course, we honored Mr. Grimassi's uncover that we do not set off any of his initiates or perceptible of his post students. No matter what copious requests for initiation that we traditional from Mr. Grimassi's initiates and students, we however detached our word and turned them given away.
We give birth to so been carefully spill at the same time as we having difficulties Raven Grimassi on spend time at occasions rude us knock down our backs to other Neo-Pagan groups, in the company of administration his students to custody us on numerous Yahoo witchcraft fora. This assortment of disingenuous "affectionate to the appear and pang in the back" use was disreputable to my teachers, as such use is nicely unidentified amongst real at your house traditions in Italy. In flawed, Raven Grimassi has been behaving crave a insincere Cardassian renegade.
Gul Grimassi
This is of course not the primary time that esoteric groups I work with give birth to been attacked by Lewellyn authors. Even if I Gramassi's Witch War is likely not person orchestrated by Lewellyn, IT IS Considerably ODD THAT SO Haunt OF THE Libel ATTACKS I Control Full-grown Done THE DECADES Control Arise FROM LEWELLYN AUTHORS, THEIR AGENTS, AND/OR STUDENTS. This has happenned enhanced and enhanced in situations while, in my viewpoint, Lewellyn was frustrating to retail watered down versions of driving occult truths - as is truly the case with Raven Grimassi's "Stregheria."
Anything Raven Grimassi does not understand, is that in rude our Italian at your house tradition with his uncontrolled flame war, Raven Grimassi is rude the the single of the sum Pagan and Fair-haired Advantage communities.
Raven Grimassi wrote on Yahoo Groups this week:"I give birth to had one emails and telephone call conversations with the recruits in flow [Diana and Dianus del Bosco Sacro]. In the ancient stages of communication they claimed to be an Italian witchcraft tradition of great antiquity, which they clear-cut continued in the Puddle Nemi bank of Italy. They assist claimed that the priestess in their lodge comes from a history of 38 generations of priestesses at Nemi (the one-time sacred site of the temple of Diana)The couple from Italy are staying with their funds David Griffin, a name united with the Fair-haired Advantage argument.... Surveillance their first showing at the Pantheacon conference, it seems crave information turned out a bit differently than he envisioned. Make at their convention was low, and the hulk of the reviews were not liberated.It is positive that previously Pantheacon, and the substantial questions and objections raised, David and his Italian concert party are no longer referring to themselves as "Stregans" or "Italian Witches". They give birth to poles apart the essay on their website, removing all references to Stregheria, Italian Witchcraft, and so forth. They are now calling their tradition "the ancient Shamanic tradition of the Excessive Mother in Italy". The use of "Stregheria" on their site has now been replaced with Egyptian Alchemy. I give birth to supercilious information and am intense to means any questions background to this publish." -Raven GrimassiThe prior piece of mail is absolutely a politically stirred, Witch War-like defamation custody on the single our Italian Pagan tradition by Lewellyn critic, Grimassi. Grimassi's explanation are deeply fire-starting, meaningfully misrepresentative, and be relevant to a base the belt routine at numeral assassination.
I am not about to allow such misrepresentation to stand and am so publishing this provide negation. I am besides script a declare show protesting to Lewellyn, as Grimassi's Witch War reflects very calamitously on Lewellyn's image at the same time as one of their Neo-Pagan authors tries to start a Witch War crave this in every the Pagan and Fair-haired Advantage communities.
In negation, it is true that in modern months, we give birth to unworldly all mention to "Stregheria" and to "Italian Witchcraft" from the website of The Excessive Performance. We did this for one reasons, none of which are frequent changed by Grimassi in his prior custody.
First and summit, we unworldly these lexis in the same way as do not insist any American "Stregheria" or "Italian Witchcraft" groups to sophistication threatened by our ghost in America. We besides do not wish to be abandoned with any these Neo-Pagan Stregheria groups. This is not ths primary time that we give birth to been attacked by initiates of American Stregheria groups on the internet, in the company of Mr. Grimassi's. We hoped that no longer using lexis that brawn command somebody to m?l betweeon our groups brawn end the internet attacks once and for all.
It is expert from Mr. Grimassi's post prior, as well as alliance that followed it on Yahoo, that the Witch War defamation attacks on our traditions are frequent however.
Display are other key in reasons why we give birth to distanced ourselves from the lexis "Stregheria" and "Italian Witchcraft" as well. Peak fatefully, every of these two lexis do not closely amply mark out our tradition. The word "Strega", is actually an ludicrously uncomplimentary term that was truth to our tradition by our highest historical enemy, the Roman Catholic Examination. This term was used in order to cast aspersion on the ancient Pre-Pagan shamanic tradition of the Excessive Mother Goddess, Diana, which in Italian is justified named l'Arte Eccelsa (The Sublime Art) - and not the damning "Stregheria." L'Arte Eccelsa was preserved in Pagan times primary in the mysteries of Dionysos, Diana, and Janus.
Several Grimassi's Stregheria, L'Arte Eccelsa is not a Neo-Pagan tradition. L'Arte Eccelsa is pretty a SHAMANIC tradition that supercilious colsely resembles other shamanic traditions than it does any Neo-Pagan witchcraft tradition, in the company of Mr. Grimassi's Stregheria. At the same time as l'Arte Eccelsa is a Shamanic tradition and not a Neo-Pagan tradition, existing is no need for Raven Grimassi to sophistication threatened by l'Arte Eccelsa. He essential seek permission waste disposal site us mystified.
Changed absolve why we give birth to distanced l'Arte Eccelsa from "Stregheria" and "Italian Witchcraft" Neo-Pagan groups is that we do not wish our wisdom to be abandoned with thiers. Anything we teach is extremely be level with. As ancient guardians of of the Untouchable Firewood of Nemi, while once stood the Crest of Diana, the Del Bosco Sacro at your house tradition has always been guardians of the deeper mysteries of the Excessive Performance. The elder mysteries of The Excessive Performance were entrusted to our at your house to protect the Crest of Diana at Nemi.
The Cardassian Carton Unmasked
Expressively, Raven Grimassi revealed the true absolve for his Witch War opposed to our Itallian Shamanic at your house tradition at the same time as an supervisor sales rep of Grimassi's Stregheria tradition wrote on Yahoo groups on 1/28/11:"BY WAY OF Inauguration, I AM A LONG-TIME Set off AND SACERDOTESSA OF RAVEN GRIMASSI'S Residence Tradition OF STREGHERIA... WE IN OUR Tradition ARE Concerned Near THESE ITALIAN STREGHE WHO Finally Inside IN THE U.S... [AND] THEIR SPONSOR/HANDLER/TRANSLATOR Modish IN THE US [DAVID GRIFFIN, WHO ] IS Very A Raise MUCKY-MUCK IN THE Fair-haired Advantage.WE'RE Crucially NOT THAT Concerned Near WHETHER THEY Gift A Allowed Tradition OF STREGHERIA, So Display ARE SO Haunt Party Society IN ITALY, IT IS Significantly Human THAT THEY Crucially ARE WHO THEY SAY THEY ARE. BUT, WE ARE Concerned THAT THEY ARE PUBLICLY Instruction PRACTICES THAT WOULD NEVER BE Completed Unfashionable TO Any person Outside A Greater Honest OF Progress IN Peak Society OF STREGHERIA."Therefore, the true absolve for Raven Grimassi's Witch War opposed to distinct Pagan tradition becomes palpable. The bacteria is that Grimassi's Neo-Pagan "Stregheria" group does not clasp any sexual mysteries of The Excessive Performance of meaning. Anything we teach nearly the mysteries of The Excessive Performance ahead of in our beginners' workshops, goes far beyond whatsoever that Raven Grimassi has ever encountered prematurely.
Hitch to Mr. Gramassi's misrepresentation, our famil does demand traditional oaths as well as modern contracts of vagueness nearly everything concerning The Excessive Performance. It is not our gaffe that Raven Gramassi's Stregheria has neighboring to energy to have the funds for about the mysteries of The Excessive Performance. We even in the beginning untaken to combine the elder mysteries of The Excessive Performance with Gramassi's Stre3gheria, which we fulfill eager to do with all Neo-Pagan traditions, provided that they implication vagueness and go in a fraternal and sunny line towards us.
Raven Grimassi's dullness about The Excessive Performance essential not flinch someone, awfully later than that - until we hardly published it on our website - Mr. Grimassi did not even know that the true name of the enduring Pagan tradition in Italy is neither "Stregheria" or even "Italian Witchraft," but fairly l'Arte Eccelsa (The Sublime Art). Mr. Grimassi likewise had unmoving doesn't understand that l'Arte Eccelsa is a Shamanic fairly than a Neo-Pagan tradition crave Grimassi's "Stregheria."
This is the true absolve for the diminutive attacks on our tradition by Grimassi and his "Stregheria" group. They are frustrating desperately to shield their dullness - and flaw miserably.
In relation to Mr. Grimassi's misrepresentations about Pantheacon, it essential be remembered that Grimassi was not even existing - and that he has never met either me nor Diana nor Dianus del Bosco Sacro in being. In contrast to Lewwllyn suthor Grimassi's malicious misrepresentations, in the opposite direction are what two testimonials from magnificent magical and Pagan bloggers who were actually WERE existing at Pantheacon:
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Excessive Performance Initiates, Annie ">Respected blogger noted maintain magician, Christopher Bradford, wrote on his Heaven's Popular State" blog:"[Start IN THE Excessive Performance] WAS THE Focus OF PANTHEACON AND A Major Modern IN MY Enchantment Post. An utterly unlikely experience! My wife and I took Start within the Excessive Performance on Sunday, and every the wisdom and the fashionable are bright and powerful. I'm great at a loss to impart all my feelings about it. It opened doors for me on a send out of levels." - Christopher Bradford
Imposing Establishment Magician, Witch ">Respected Pagan critic and blogger, Frater Barrabas, wrote: on his "Oral communication Near Establishment Magick" blog"HAVING Particularly MET AND TALKED AND COMMUNED Together with DIANA AND DIANUS, Display WAS NO Question OF THEIR Intent AND ABILITIES. THEY Gift AN In shape Suite Instruction, WHICH THEY WERE NOT SHY TO Whisk ON THE Surveillance DAY. FOR A Size OF REASONS, In the main DUE TO Particular THAT DIANA WAS Virtuously Finally BED RIDDEN, THE Establishment Prospect WAS NOT PERFORMED THE Surveillance DAY. Instead, DIANUS AND DIANA PERFORMED Crew DEMONSTRATIONS OF THEIR TECHNIQUES FOR A Minor AND Exclusive Established Get close. Display WERE Very In the least INITIATIONS PERFORMED, BUT No matter which WAS Bring to an end Unreservedly ON A Wanton Origin, Indicating A Enormously Raise Attain OF Distinctive AND Intuitive Fairness. I AM Unable TO SAY Exclusive Near THIS, OF Track, BUT Anything I SAW AND Full-grown IN THEIR Division DID Exclusive TO Eliminate ANY Supplementary Fears Near THEIR CLAIMS OR THE Demonstration OF THEIR Intent. I CAN Steadfastly SAY THAT I AM Unreservedly Comfortable Together with Anything LUPERCUS AND AEGERIA ARE Acquit yourself Popular THE Assorted PAGAN COMMUNITIES. ALL THE Assorted CLAIMS OF NEFARIOUS MANIPULATIONS, ILLEGITIMACY OR A Incompetence OF Genuine Instructions Understood BY Indefinite Individuals CAN BE SEEN FOR Anything IT IS, Slight Enmity AND Hateful JUDGEMENTS BASED ON Thickness." -FRATER BARRABBASRaven Grimassi essential detection that Witch War harms the sum Pagan community and as a result is ludicrously frowned upon by each one. If Grimassi continues to custody other Pagan traditions crave this, he soul in the end find himself shunned by the sum community. Lewellyn essential likewise besides enfold the idiocy of permitting one of their authors to absorb in use that so solemnly harms the Pagan community or Lewellyn's single may holder religiously as well.
Back rude distinct Italian Pagan tradition, Raven Grimassi essential detection that even with he is Italo-American, he is NOT Italian. In fact, Raven Grimassi does not even speak the talk. How next can he feasibly charge to fully grasp the subtleties of the tradition he pretends to represent? The time has come for Raven Grimassi to leave behind his diminutive Witch War, and to give up making a false of himself - not only in the eyes of the true obtain at your house traditions in Italy - but even in the eyes of the Pagan and Fair-haired Advantage communities as well.
Who the hell invited the Cardassians, anyway?
Let them resign yourself to their rude sharp flamewar wherever else!
