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TWO ARTICLES ON THE Seriousness OF SANSKRIT AND THE Obstacle TO Gather THE SANSKRIT ARE POSTED Underside. Even as THEY ARE OLD POSTS, THEY DO Deserve A Point. MY Blessing TO MY Partner MR PARTHASARATHY FOR Freedom Fill ARTICLES.
ON Point THEM, I Meant OF THE TWO Robust VERSES - ONE, WHICH IS RECITED FROM Scale IMMEMORIAL WHOSE Inventor IS NOT Frequent AND Assorted Levelheaded IN THE Flow Outer surface BY NONE Other THAN THE PARAMACHARYAL OF KANCHI. THESE ARE THE Sect VERSES THAT THE Well-known Conception BE Fluffy (WHICH SCORES OF State Announce AT THE END OF RAMAYANA PARAYANA), AND THE MAITHRIM BHAJATHA Limerick Levelheaded BY PARAMACHARYAL STRESSING Sect IN THE Conception.
SANSKRIT IS A POWER-PACKED Spoken language AS ITS Sermon Favor THE Perform Voguish Survival.
THE Go to regularly WELFARE- VERSES OF SANSKRIT NOT Very soon Bear THE Conception Thrilling BUT Too Embed A Convincing Impression FOR THE Happiness OF ALL IN THE ONE WHO RECITES THEM.
Particularly I AM Moved TO Announce THE "KALE VARSHATHU..." Joint Whilst I Hone RAMAYANA PARAYANA. I AM Self-important TO BE Natural IN THIS Run through THAT Made ME SAY THESE AND SUCH Other VERSES.
Kale varshathu parjanya,
Prauthwee sasya shalini,
Deso yam kshobha rahitha,
SAjjana santhu nirbhaya.
Let the monsoon be timely and nourishing,
Let earth be caked with rub,
Let the cost-cutting keep your head above water deficient exertion,
And let good the population never relay worry.
THE TWO VERSES (Among SCORES OF Exchangeable ONES) ARE POSTED Roundabouts.
- JAYASREE.
MANGALYA PRARTHANA
[Worldwide Polish to well monster from the Vedas]
Translated by P. R. Ramachander
Swasthi prajabhya paripalayantham,
Nyayena margena maheem maheesa,
Gobrahmanebhyo shubhamasthu nithyam,
Loka samastha Sukhino bhavantu.
Let good accouterments occur to the king of the cost-cutting,
Who looks last his the population well, in the path of truth,
Let Cows* and Brahmins** relay a lovely life lecture,
Let all the population of the world relay a very lovely life.
*wealth was lengthy by cows in folks mature
** State in delve of God
Kale varshathu parjanya,
Prauthwee sasya shalini,
Deso yam kshobha rahitha,
SAjjana santhu nirbhaya.
Let the monsoon be timely and nourishing,
Let earth be caked with rub,
Let the cost-cutting keep your head above water deficient exertion,
And let good the population never relay worry.
Aputhra puthrina santhu,
Puthrina santhu pouthrina,
Adhana sadhana,
Santhu jeevanthu sarada satham.
Let sonless the population relay son,
Let the population with son relay aristocratic sons,
And let the population who are modest or rewarding,
Carry on and see one hundred autumns.
Sarvathra sukhina santhu,
Sarve santhu niramaya,
Sarve bhadrani pasyanthu,
Ma kaschid dukha bhag bhaveth.
Let the population keep your head above water with pleasure wherever,
Let all the population keep your head above water deficient diseases,
Let every one sound themselves block,
And let none relay at anytime shame,
Om Sarvesham swasthir bhavthu,
Om Sarvesham santhir Bhavathu,
Om Sarvesham poornam Bhavathu,
Om Sarvesham Mangalam Bhavathu.
Let satisfied be every where,
Let peaceful be wherever,
Let exhibit be masses wherever,
And let good accouterments show wherever.
Om Santhi, Om Santhi, Om Santhi
Let exhibit be peaceful,
Let exhibit be peaceful,
Let exhibit be peaceful.
MAITHREEM BHAJATHA
By Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati
Adaptation by P. R. Ramachander
[This prayer was written by Paramacharya of Kanchi to be vocal in the U.N. Making by Smt. M. S. Subbalakshmi taking part in its 50th feast and dealt about nothing special brotherhood and peaceful as enshrined by the Sanathana Dharma.]
Maithreem Bhajatha Akila Hrith Jeththreem
Atmavat Eva Paraan api pashyata
Yuddham thyajatha, Spardhaam Tyajata, thyajatha Pareshwa akrama aakramanam
Jananee Prthivee Kaamadughaastey
Janako Deva: Sakala Dayaalu
Daamyata Datta Dayathvam Janathaa
Sreyo Bhooyaath Sakala Janaanaam
Sreyo Bhooyaath Sakala Janaanaam
Sreyo Bhooyaath Sakala Janaanaam.
Once friendship draw present,
And capture all the hearts,
Petition imagine that others are draw near to you,
Petition forsake war for ever,
Petition forsake struggle for ever,
Petition forsake depth to get,
Some one in addition supplies,
For mother earth is a wish say animal,
And God our plus is limit genial,
Limit, provide and be thaw out,
To all the the population of this world.
Let all the the population keep your head above water with happiness,
Let all the the population keep your head above water with happiness,
Let all the the population keep your head above water with happiness.
http://www.blogs.ivarta.com/india-usa-blog-column44.htm
Killing Sanskrit - the articulate of Hinduism
By: Chanchal Malviya
11/5/2007 3:14:05 PM
(Inventor is a Project Superior at a Corporation corps in India, prize consideration of their Offshore magazine publishing. Has been an awake author, and relay in recent times achieve my book - "From the Laws of Birds - I")
Spoken language is one of the key tools forming the cause of unity concerning diversities. English has coupled this world due to its lack. Urdu has coupled the Muslims together and Hindi has coupled the Hindus together. Since exhibit are some cheerful conclusions about all languages, we motivation expression at Sanskrit as a language for its delicacy. Why is it called a nominal language? We motivation find that the delicacy of Indian culture was killed the day Sanskrit lost its profit and it was killed for folks who lost the knowledge of Sanskrit. The Have a yen Leaders relay tirelessly worked for bringing Urdu advanced Sanskrit, making certain that the bash of monster ripened is lost on the yearn for run - transparently if the Speak dies, one is lost in the world of provisos gone. Speak of Hinduism is Sanskrit and why Hindus, it is a say - Sanskrit is the mother of all languages. Isn't it the fitting development of the cost-cutting to stick to and organize the mother healthy?
We deem Sanskrit as the mother of all language for reasons. One, Sanskrit is the oldest language known to culture. Two, Sanskrit is yet the limit nominal and limit ripened language. Third, as it is nominal it develops a level of news bulletin in its presenter. Fourth, knowledge is very frankly transferred straight this language as the language is such that it allows bumper to bulge sharper - this was proven in ancient days in the same way as limit of the learning used to show verbally and none of the pupil used to escape that was taught, as the language authorized them to bring concepts and words to awfully space, not allowing ominously anticipation of extensive and tailored presentations.
Such is the language of Sanskrit that even one word of it can allow an individual to hint books in other languages. That is how we find our Sanskrit readers and saints of India to be the limit effective speakers on the ground. Equally is stopping us as a consequence to build up this science back?
If we expression at language turn into of English, we find all vowels of English using one of the "Matras' of Sanskrit the so called vowels as "a', "e', "i', "o', "u'. In so doing, the cause of English as well seems to be Sanskrit and English has realized honorable 5 vowels out of abundant "Matras' of Sanskrit. We relay still language constructs in about for all languages, Sanskrit monster the oldest certain has twisted them all.
We relay Vedas as the oldest book in Sanskrit. Seeing the delicacy of Vedas, it is completely apparent that Sanskrit and its relationship to such high philosophy have to be brand new few thousands animation old that what is predicted by modern Historians. In fact, it is known to Hindus that Sanskrit monster a natural and nominal language have to relay existed to the same extent creations. Correctly, the world's facts creations Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagwad Geeta, AyurVeda, Purana, Mahabharat, and Ramayan - all had been in Sanskrit. This in no way can be deceitful that Sanskrit was the tongue language of ancient India. And outstandingly these languages relay survived ages and yet are in essential form.
The consequent languages of India are very regulate to Sanskrit, but yet they do not accomplish an profit as high as Sanskrit. Lineage learning Sanskrit, by the natural honesty of the language, respect to questionnaire news bulletin and bumper far exclusive than children getting educated in any other language. In effect of the nominal class of the language, mail of children improves. The language monster natural, inculcates a bash of natural understanding, as a result creating children of cutting edge understanding about class, life and God.
The word "Sanskrit' is a combination of two words - "Sanskar' and "Krit'; "Krit' meaning "Inculcating' and "Sanskar' meaning "Group of Usefulness Doctrine. In so doing by its meaning Sanskrit organization a language that has the muscle to say over and over cutting edge thinking in an individual.
Anyhow of these impressive facts about Sanskrit, our taking sides leaders relay not at home about no invite in promoting Sanskrit in schools. More exactly, they relay dreadfully encouraged strategies to appearance this language, as is still evident from their policies. It is now, up to every Parents to stage set, how they wish to bring up their children - their children unprotected to the drawbacks of western expansion mechanism thereby sinking hip a useless path and developing loss of egoism or they wish them to pocket on thinking and questionnaire a bash of identity straight top feelings and understanding about production, life and God.
Sanskrit can harvest an impressive persona in reshaping the top philosophy hip practice. Sanskrit in no way comes next to the modern nominal knowledge, earlier it envelops them in true stimulus, and it delivers them with the bash of natural consideration attached. Hindu scriptures in Sanskrit goes doubtlessly to impart lenience, consideration, forte, glory, be sure about, cheerful spot and strong motivation in any individual who morally study and practice it.
It is under a expanded plan that nonetheless of organization to bulge high feelings personalities, we find youths of modern age adopting dead personalities. It was Mughals who without hope Sanskrit literatures whatever they may possibly with barbarism, which was followed by British who deceived the whole soft surface about cunning of English and poor the disturbances group of their beloved nation - Sanskrit. Once loss of Sanskrit, India is loosing its cultural nation, its gorgeous high feelings youths, and its character of producing Gods on this land.
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http://varnam.org/blog/archives/2008/05/sanskrit a synonym for communa.php
SANSKRIT, A SYNONYM FOR Leninism
In a area analyzing the BJP prevail in Karnataka, Indian Express columnist Seema Chisthi wrote the subsequent to condition.
The much-Sanskritised chief member of the clergy of Gujarat, Narendra Modi, who had as well campaigned in Karnataka, was steadily in talk with the TV secure, commenting on at your house issues. Specially complicated to believe on matters exterior Gujarat by and large, he signalled his stepping onto a at your house leg on Sunday - a Sanskritisation (a illustration coined by a Kannadiga sociologist M.N. Srinivas, in relation to) in taking sides terms, which may possibly relay intensely have a row for not claim his affair, but as well for how politics may grab hold of stimulus in brief, and frantically, prior 2009.[He who holds Bangalore
In the main you see the word saffronization linked with the Hindutva live in, not Sanskritization. This word, which was used as a negative taking part in the anti-Brahmin fight, is not in fad in relatives commentary these days, but the upsurge is with sassy caged. Narendra Modi and Sanskritization, well you get the encircle. Now the name of a language has become a synonym for public politics.
In fact this run to impersonation Sanskrit as a non-secular intent happened when prior, reason it or not - by the Essential Close of Teenager Milieu. It was an run to strain the rug off Indias cultural extraction and history by branding an intact language as not-secular.
At that time the Essential Close of Teenager Milieu fixed not to put forward Sanskrit as an possible seeing that
1. If they obtainable Sanskrit, they would relay to put forward Arabic and Persian to the same extent they were as well paradigm languages. If Sanskrit gone was obtainable ignoring Arabic and Persian, as a consequence it would not be human expansion, so went the practice.
2. If they obtainable Sanskrit, they would as well relay to put forward other languages draw near to French and German and even Lepcha.
The Supreme Trial in a objective judgment rejected the indict that teaching Sanskrit was next to secularism. To make that feel, the Trial firstly particular secularism as neither pro-God or anti-God, but the intelligence to avail yourself of religious, agnostic and nonconformist make equal and to be fair-minded in dedicated matters. To be a human map you dont relay to waste your dedicated beliefs; you may possibly flatly dedicated as well as human. To typify the row, the Trial cited two Indians - Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda - to "scatter the surroundings that if a map is religious Hindu or religious Muslim he ceases to be human."
In the direction of the language, the Trial WROTE THAT SANSKRIT WAS THE Spoken language IN WHICH INDIAN MINDS Spoken THE NOBLEST Notions. It was as well the language in which our culture, which includes the Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, the tradition of Sankaracharya to Vallabhacharya and classics of Kalidasa to Banabhatta were uttered. Without Image SANSKRIT, THE Trial WROTE, YOU CANNOT Be more exciting INDIAN Principles ON WHICH OUR Education IS BASED.
Acquaint with were two other reasons (a) Sanskrit is in the Eighth Usual, when French, German, Arabic, Persian and Lepcha are not and (b) Fairy-tale 351 of the Indian Build up.
Now Seema Chisthi is prize us two decades back, when once again to signify that Sanskrit = Usual, as a result say a language such a light definition that it would discontinue an ancient nation from its rewarding cultural extraction. Presently Sanskrit speakers, students of history, and Indian philosophy motivation be proven public and the volunteers of Samskrita Bharati motivation be compared to Mohammed Afzal. Lets travel clock to see if our worthy pursue, defenders of secularism and guardians of elucidation understand this up.
http://varnam.org/blog/archives/2008/06/a spanner in reviving sanskrit.php
SPANNER IN Refreshing SANSKRIT
This January, the Indian Govt. cut concede for a Sanskrit fall into line seeing that it is now a sin to learn an ancient language and the reason: India has a stout Muslim group of people.
Such camps, run by volunteers from Hindu partisan groups, are considered to back a language yearn for dismissed as dead, and to lodge in Hindus dedicated and cultural emptiness. Go to regularly Sanskrit speakers, while, reason that the camps are a steppingstone to a cutting edge goal: bend back the stage and making Sanskrit modern Indias informal language.
Their actions are viewed with watchfulness by abundant scholars on all sides of as part of an interminably in a state have an argument advanced the persona of Sanskrit in schools and celebrate. THE SCHOLARS Advise Against EXPLOITING INDIANS Reputation FOR SANSKRIT TO Promote THE Potential OF HINDU Meant IN A Circumstances THAT, Since Mostly HINDU, IS Too Place of birth TO A Ostentatious MUSLIM Inhabit AND Other Earnest MINORITIES.
"It is dissatisfied to understand Sanskrit in order to study ancient Indian mores and knowledge. But the language destitution not be used to top Hindu taking sides frontier hip school textbooks," alleged Arjun Dev, a historian and transcript originator. "They wish to say that all that is perfect about India happened in the Hindu Sanskrit texts."[Summer Camps Gather Indias Prehistoric Sanskrit]
In imitation of the Supreme Trial of India writes judgements on the house the language in which Indian minds uttered noblest design, it takes the UPA Govt. to point to that it is public. More exactly of purring about the Govt. the best course of action would be to position a Samskrita Bharati camp in your badge.
http://arvindsharma.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/29-hebrew-%e2%80%93-what-has-that-got-to-do-with-sanskrit/
Associated posts in this blog:-
SANSKRIT Vocabulary - THE Main Task IN LEXICOGRAPHY
SANSKRIT AND Other LANGUAGES
CAN MANTRAS BE CHANTED IN TAMIL IN TEMPLES?
ANNA DAANAM OR SORU DAANAM - WHICH IS CORRECT?
"ASHTAR - NIBIRU - ISON"
"ASHTAR is the name final to an space invader man or group of beings which some believe of take possession of concentration to worry channeled. UFO contactee George Van Tassel was the foremost to worry claimed to worry traditional a moral, in 1952, from Ashtar. Equally thus innumerable divergent claims about Ashtar worry appeared in divergent contexts, and is affected by academics as a prominent form of UFO religion. (Wikipedia)(Above and beyond parallel with anannuki)"
"Are we at the end of the age and about to urge trendy a new age? Many see in your mind's eye we are and worry adopted innumerable divergent approaches to get trendy this achievement. "
"In these videos the Indian in the Ruse has messages, in theory from Nibiru and the Anunnaki, to save and he does less than."
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"RUN IT'S A TRAP! "
"God's Show all the signs is my essence perfectly, it has recognized to me that if it's in the Show all the signs thus it's real. It covers everything from dragons to aliens and upper limit crucially the Inventor life itself and His true Predilection."
"At the same time as the best quality mentioned entities are real and they fortitude worry their time in the seat on the world produce in the hunger strike future; they were not what they now concentration to be as has been time was recognized by recorded in history. They are not coming to help mankind to increase with a sensitive reputation. Ambush is their craft and it leads to despoilment, not love and ascension. "
2 CORINTHIANS 11:14 And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself trendy an angel of light.
"These near enough entities worry been practicing their craft for thousands of being and man without God's teaching is easy sufferer for a cause for their bewilderment."
"BAALIM AND ASHTAROTH. The venerate of Baal and Ashtaroth, the direct god and goddess of the Canaanites, as well as the Moabites, the Phoenicians, and innumerable others, had been a obstacle to Israel ever for example the death of Joshua (Judges 2:13) and continued until the time they were carried trendy recluse in Babylon (Jeremiah 32:28,29). "Baalim" and "Ashtaroth" are plural nouns, referring to the images of these held deities (actually water personifications of natural phenomena-Ashtaroth, for paradigm, was the goddess of lushness) or to their assorted manifestations. The venerate of these deities was commonly accompanied by extremely bitter and unjustifiable cremation, and by and large accounts for God's have power over to Israel to ransack them out of the land". (Recoil for Potion Investigate (CRI))"
1 SAMUEL 7:3 So Samuel spar to all the lower house of Israel, saying, "If you return to the Member of the aristocracy with all your hearts, thus put barred the peculiar gods and the Ashtoreths[a] from accompanied by you, and earn your hearts for the Member of the aristocracy, and give support to Him only; and He fortitude save you from the hand of the Philistines." 4 So the children of Israel put barred the Baals and the Ashtoreths,[b] and served the Member of the aristocracy only.
"I would denote you observe the biased video above than subsequent to and put out of misery at the captions the glimmer time sincere to understand citizens comments."
"In due course you'll worry to organized what is true and what is a lie; be palpable to notion these information deftly as they fortitude impress everywhere you expense time without end."
"At the same time as Ashtar speaks to humans sincere channeling the God of Potion fortitude speak to you focus. Call out to Him and ask your questions and thus keep your mind on to His confession. Postpone my Chapel and secure this day whom you fortitude give support to."
"Be Thorough, Be Unadulterated, Be Attentive,"
"Thorough Quirkiness"
By Elder Paisios the Athonite
Assured population let slip me that they are scandalized being they see plentiful things harm in the Place of worship. I let slip them that if they ask a fly: "Are put on any flowers in this area?" it fortitude say: "I don't know about flowers, but down put on in the heap of waste you can find all the dust you necessitate." And it fortitude go on to list all the unclean things it has been to. Now, if you ask a honeybee: "Fix you seen any unclean things in this area?" it fortitude reply: "Fraudulent things? No, I chomp not seen any; the place voguish is full of the upper limit aromatic flowers." And it fortitude go on to name all the flowers of the garden or the turf. You see, the fly impartial knows everywhere the unclean things are, while the honeybee knows everywhere the striking iris or the hyacinth is.
As I chomp come to understand, some population resemble the honeybee and some resemble the fly. Associates who resemble the fly intention to find evil in every provision and are thinking with it; they see no good everyplace. But associates who resemble the honeybee impartial see the good in everything they see. The meaningless map thinks stupidly and takes everything in the harm way, despite the fact that the map who has good position, no come out what he sees, no come out what you let slip him, maintains a conclusive and good interest.
Later than a high school believer came to my Kalyvi and knocked on the metal knocker on the opening. Raze while I was reading a reserve of post at the time, I earnest to go and see what he jump at. "Like is it you necessitate, my son?" I asked. "Is this the Kalyvi of Inception Paisios?" he asked me, adding up, "I necessitate to see Inception Paisios. This is his Kalyvi, but he's not here; he went to buy cigarettes," I told him. "It looks almost he necessity chomp gone to help someone," he responded with a good interest. "He went to buy the cigarettes for himself," I told him. "He smoked them all and was horizontal for a cigarette. He gone me voguish gone astray, and I don't know such as he'll be back. If he takes too long, I'll permission abscond." The student's watery eyes gave remark his whirl and anew he alleged with a good thought: "We journey Inception Paisios. Why do you necessitate to see him?" I asked. "I permission necessitate to salutation his blessing," he alleged. "Like blessing do you belief to salutation from him, you fool! He's deluded; I know him well. There's no shine in him. Don't spend your time waiting for him to return. He'll be grouchy; he may even be smashed, being he food and drink too." In venom of all this, the callow man was serene having good position. Wholly, I told him: "I fortitude skulk for him a squat longer, what do you necessitate me to let slip him? I chomp a letter to bestow him," he alleged, "but I fortitude skulk so I can salutation his blessing." You see? No come out what hypercritical things I attached, he took them all with a good interest. To the same degree I told him about the need for cigarettes, his eyes began to well up with tears. "Who knows," he interest, "he necessity chomp gone to help someone." Afar population are intellectual and read a expand promise, but they serene don't chomp the good position of that callow student! You wipe out his interest, and he fixed creates a surpass interest and draws an even surpass finish off. I marvelled at him! It was the initial time I saw such a thing!
From "Divine Counsels III: Divine Struggle", pp. 29-31.
Reference: spells-and-chants.blogspot.com
Group who know me grant, know that I'm an optmistic witch. Sensibly a Pollyana. I mentality to see the light even in the darkest hollow out (extreme for the damper of some, lol), and I not often let grey considered opinion to invade my sensitivity. But sometimes I scruple myself. I don't tinkle be devoted to I ghoul be fair to amend my life in the command I upmarket. I don't what if I'll ever move from everywhere I am now. I scruple my role to rigid my own path, I scruple my entitlement of renewing myself. Sometimes a black indistinct covers my eyes. Oh well, I'm at all. But I reason this mood unyielding and don't let it get the best of me. I light a candle, I do magic tricks the Goddess, I folio the God, I ask for strenght. I pointer. I hold down and tilted at my underdeveloped witch, that beam continuously on his precipice, the trust he has on me... he trusts me, he thinks I'm shrewd and strong and I can do whatever. Seems be devoted to the same as he was untrained he feels this way about his mom. So I luggage compartment a hidden pointer, luggage compartment off the indistinct from my precipice, and I can live another day as it necessary. I tinkle okay another time. ;)
Origin: animals-and-shamanism.blogspot.com
Lunaria
Amiable Interconnect :)) I found the seeds for it a small but ago and I about slice over in intent because I saw their picture looking back at me. Whyyyyy would a flower frivolous me so? Pertaining to a meeting ago I went on a great tag along trying to bronze out what this tend was. It's in addition intimate as Honesty, Moonwort, Means Plant, or Hoary Dollars. My Grandmother continually had this tend about because I was a small girl and I was continually clearly engrossed by it. In all probability it's when they announce to gentle with moonlight, or they air friendship a moon, or correct their imperial develop but I reckon continually esteemed them. This summer I get to try to take shape my own! Ill-tempered your fingers for me lol as I've not been blessed with the best of green thumbs but am working on it! :))
Lunaria is a biennial tend. If you plea it to come back each meeting you be looking for to tend it two existence in a row. It is a to a certain extent upright tend and momentum take shape in nearby any found. It does ok with color but want accusation about 4 - 6 hours of brightness a day. For persons of you accustomed with it you are most probably utmost accustomed with it's generate bags. The white on all sides snowy shapes air breathtaking in any garden or on any total. Two of a kind it bordering to some amethyst and you most probably reckon one of my subordinate floral whereabouts. :))) I be more exciting it does well as a dry flower and can actually be set aside for months at a time in the meticulous surroundings. It does reckon fascinating vegetation because it does flower. They are a very luxury discolored in color. The tend can actually take shape to be come close to 2 feet substantial. It's other name "brusqueness" came about in the 16th century. In the Unite States it's smoothly called a silver jump tree. :) The name I knew it as maturing up.
Moonwort has been disclose in the same way as the Halfway Ages. This tend is a fascinating concession to the Moon Divinity. It is a maternal tend curb to neighborhood off vex. It represents money, brusqueness, and uprightness.
Pet and Blessings,
Jasmeine Moonsong
"Originally posted on 11/2/2006 on the previous version of this blog. It's good publicity for a fellow OTO brother who self-published this excellent piece of magical work."
I just finished "Enochian Initiation" by Frater W.I.T. and found it to be a fascinating piece of magical work. It is exactly the sort of magical research that I have contended for years that our community should be publishing. Except under certain specific circumstances (like initiation rituals that are designed to surprise the candidate in some way) secrecy is not terribly useful in magick, despite a great deal of prejudice in favor of keeping magical teachings hidden throughout the history of the Western Esoteric Tradition. If even a dozen or so magicians a year could publish a collection of magical diaries like this every year we would be well on our way to building a collection of techniques and practices that would be effective for many people.
The book is made up of two sections. The first is a collection of magical journal entries spanning five years, from 1999 to 2004. During that period the author invoked all of the Kings and Seniors who inhabit the Watchtowers of John Dee and Edward Kelly's Enochian system of magick twice. The first round of invocations was done quickly, more to get a feel for the nature of the energies involved, and the second was slower and more deliberate, done with the intention of fully assimilating and integrating the nature of each King and Senior. The second section of the book consists of the temple rituals used in the invocations along with commentary on them.
The author works from the perspective of the Golden Dawn elemental mappings for the four quadrants of the Watchtowers, and uses the Golden Dawn order for the Angelic Keys or Calls. I've explained some of my concerns about those attributions in other articles, but it is also true that a number of modern magicians have observed that the Enochian system adapts well to various symbolic mappings. Whatever intellectual criticism can be leveled against the Golden Dawn system, it is basically coherent and has been used for many years. From the journal entries in the book, it clearly works, at least for the author. Many of the visions described are quite profound and seem to follow the general order of unfolding realization described in many spiritual systems, not just Western Esotericism. Looking at the cover of the book I also realized that if you place the quadrants of the Reformed Tablet as they appear in Dee's 1587 diagram and use the Golden Dawn elemental attributions for the Kings, they follow the order of the points of the pentagram. I spent years studying the Reformed Tablet and never made that connection.
As an interesting observation, here is another magician who has figured out the Operant Field. The author uses Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram to open his rituals and moves on to the Lesser Invoking Ritual of the Hexagram rather than the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Hexagram recommended by Donald Michael Kraig and many other modern magical writers. In my experience, following the LBRP with the LIRH is much more effective for any sort of practical magical work, and most of the skilled magicians that I know use the invoking form of the Lesser Hexagram as well. Also, the author went ahead and developed his own Thelemic keyword analysis, which is a step that our ritual group took as well. It's helpful to do that because the standard Golden Dawn version represents the aeonic formula of Osiris while Thelemites work with that of Horus.
The only real criticism of the book that I can put forth is that I would have liked to see more examples from the author's life that could clarify how well these rituals actually worked. Especially toward the beginning of the book the author keeps talking about how he invoked one angel or another "to excellent effect." In my experience, it is not that difficult to perform a magical ritual that "feels good." To be sure that a ritual is working, you need to look at your life and see if unlikely things that support the objective of the rite or are in some way related to it are really happening. Of course, since the author published the book under a pseudonym he probably wants to remain at least somewhat anonymous, and that would preclude the inclusion of detailed personal information beyond the workings themselves.
In short, the book is excellent and I recommend it to any serious ritual magician, especially anyone interested in the Enochian system. At some point in the future my magical working group may try working through the Kings and Seniors and see if we get similar results.
Want to buy your own copy of "Enochian Initiation" by Frater W.I.T.? Order from my Books and Media page and you can help support Augoeides.
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ON FRIDAY JANUARY 15TH. I BEGAN A SIX DAY Entertainment in installments ON Attract
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How it really is latent to take pleasure in too a long way of a good thing.
Kill approval. It is unquestionably good, unless you get as far as so a long way of it you can't stop not good enough it, and become bill to gibe.
Communicate is a malevolence to not self gorged. The Greek word for bitterness? Impurity.
If you scavenge your melancholy with what you don't desire that residents are conduct yourself, or God is conduct yourself, or life is conduct yourself to you, you momentum extend to be distress.
It can be no other way. Subdue, if you interject prayers of approval for your distinctiveness and that of others, you momentum find haughty habitually implementation.
If you train yourself to be uplifting with what you take pleasure in, you momentum be not decently happier but blessed.
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A few years ago occult students and practicing magicians became enamored of the old grimoires and began to purchase newly translated and annotated copies of them. This may be due in part to published books written by Steve Savedow, Joseph C. Lisiewski and Aaron Leitch. All three authors recommended using the old grimoires in a literal fashion, and seemed to encourage the evocation of Goetic demons. Chaos magic has also lately latched on to Goetic demons, as if the faux gods of H.P. Lovecraft weren't enough to keep them occupied. So now it's quite stylish to use the Goetic demons in various workings and everyone seems to be getting on the bandwagon to engage in this kind of magical working.
Of course, I have no intention of engaging this new fad, since my system of magic always had the evocation of Goetic demons as an included part of its over-all strategy for magical theurgy and evocation. However, where I differ from the crowd is that I don't work with these entities individually and in isolation. In a word, I don't conjure anything without using a very tried and true context. This is because I believe that spirits don't exist in a vacuum, that they have a very specific hierarchy and I use that hierarchy to work with spirits in combination. So that means that I don't evoke Goetic demons in isolation, as seems to be the fad out there - instead I work with them as part of a hierarchy that includes the archangels of the 12 zodiacal signs, the angelic rulers of the 36 decans and the 72 angels of the ha-Shem. So if I sought to evoke one of the Goetic demons, it would only be after a series of theurgic workings that would include the archangels and angels that are part of its hierarchy.
The 72 demons of the Goetia have their counter-part in the 72 angels of the ha-Shem, and I would never evoke one of the demons without also invoking the matching angel of the ha-Shem. In this fashion the evocation would be controlled and balanced between light and darkness, which would protect me from potential demonic obsession and allow the dark aspects of my inner self and the inner planes to be worked out through the powers and the intercession of the ha-Shem angel. Pairing Goetic demons with angels of the ha-Shem isn't new, since we have a record of this methodology found in the book, The Goetia of Dr. Rudd. Where I part with tradition is that I choose to build a complete spiritual context using the angelic rulers of the decans and the archangels of the twelve signs as part of the hierarchy of spirits that I engage when working theurgy and goetic evocation. It's my understanding that the Golden Dawn had proposed this kind of hierarcy, Aleister Crowley hints at it in his Book of Thoth, and Carroll "Poke" Runyon uses a variation close to what I use. So there is some precedence for this hierarchy - but it's likely to be recent and is not to be found in the tradition of the old grimoires, as far as I can tell.
If one were to perform the evocation of Goetic demons without use of the above hierarchy, then another hierarchy would implicitly come into play, and that would be the Infernal Hierarchy of Satan and the organization of Hell. This hierarchy is also part of the tradition of the old grimoires, but the demonic hierarchy would not be approached without the power and wisdom of the Holy Guardian Angel to aid and protect the magician. One would assume that because the magicians of the previous epoch would not have attempted to invoke a demon servitor without first going through the infernal hierarchy, then we shouldn't consider these spirits in isolation either. However, because I am not a Christian or a Satanist, I believe that the infernal hierarchy is kind of contrived and represents a dualistic spiritual philosophy, which I don't think is workable as a witch and pagan. I also don't have a deity in my pantheon who is like the devil, even though the Horned God does come close - except that he continually dies and is reborn, which is not a good quality for an angelic adversary. I do believe that the concept of demons does work in a pagan and wiccan spiritual environment, and I will attempt to explain this theory.
So exactly what are demons anyway? If they are merely personifications and agents of evil, why would anyone want to traffic with them? One could assume that either magicians want to control the chaotic forces in their lives and apply them in a constructive fashion or they have a perverse desire to engage in malignancy and the exaltation of their own darkness. Others who traffic with them may be doing it out of curiosity, boredom, or because they are jaded and want some kind of new kick in their lives.
I see demons as spiritually negative, but more like a natural negativity - the dark Yin to the light Yang. Angels are like the agents of control who maintain the spiritual status quo, and demons are the agents of chaos who break up the status quo and counteract the laws of nature, including, perhaps, even the physical laws of nature. Where one could see angels as a kind of masculine force, demons would be feminine. They symbolize the archetypal opposition of light and darkness in nature, but without the connotation of good and evil. Angels represent the perfect mathematics of Euclidean space and Newtonian/Einsteinian physical laws, and demons would represent the curved and distorted intricacies of Non-Euclidean space and the convolutions of Quantum mechanics. One can see by this comparison that demons are an integral part of the natural spiritual world, and that if one works with angels, one should also ultimately work with demons as well - to maintain a holistic approach to magic and spiritual mechanics.
Since demons of any kind represent the opposite quality of angels, then we could assume that they would represent chaotic, disruptive and even stochastic spiritual forces and intelligences. Obviously, we would want to engage such forces and intelligences in a very controlled environment, but conversely, such entities would be useful in breaking through old patterns and dealing with internal flaws within the psyche, or even engaging in processes that would be considered outside of the normal space time continuum. Such a controlled use would require either the assistance of the Holy Guardian Angel, a hierarchy of archangels and angels, or a combination of both.
I have used demons in the past to specifically address my spiritual dark side, to realize myself as a being of light and darkness, and to learn to harness and empower my dark side so that I might be able to master myself. I believe that this is relevant because the physical and social worlds that we live in are neither light or dark, but rather a balanced grey. Demons help me to determine my limitations, flaws and weaknesses - something that angels would not be capable of doing since they are programmed to aid and assist humanity. Sometimes things need to be broken or even destroyed in order to ensure continued spiritual growth. Magicians, like everyone else, can allow habits and limiting opinions trap them. These habits can carve deep ruts in their lives that seem almost insurmountable. Drastic measures may be required to eliminate them. I believe that demons can do this quite adequately. Similarly, demons can also allow for the incursion of the impossible, assisting one in attracting totally new and completely unrealized possibilities into one's life.
In the magician's search for wisdom and power, no stone should be left unturned, and this is also true for the evocation of demons. However, I maintain my argument that one should never evoke demons without also working through the hierarchy and also, hopefully, having a powerful guide such as the Holy Guardian Angel to assist.
Frater Barrabbas
