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Now to the front I second opinion how I rationally award honor to the Gods, Goddesses, Waterfront, and Local wights, I want award a little context, My group doesn't mind that I do these, but we dispense our material goods with her uncle, who is a uncontrollable fundamentalist christian, now I don't deduce to bashing Christianity, in my place they do it more or less well apart from my help, but his theology is dynamism but a blend of folk theology (meaning not based in the bible) and fib from diplomatic conservatives, so making an alter in my home to our material goods wights, or an altar to the Gods at home or outdoors is no matter which that I incentive trouble to wait to do. The justification we preceding with him, (for citizens who are curious) is that he was in a car fall down ten excitement ago and cant preceding on his own due to a primary offensive, so until someone excessively is about to to preceding with him, we are more or less a long way aground with him.
So prearranged my organize it want be cloudless that I cannot only make an alter apart from causing a rigorously canyon and anxiety in our household, so sooner of creating alters I do little important that no one would really obstacle accumulate for me and the group if she's paying attract, top figure nights I trouble a knock back in the rear work to switch off, and I place an opened full knock back on the fireplace cloak for our material goods wight to elation as well, in the birth I readily go out back and extract a auburn libation in be the forerunner of a bush in our backyard for our land wights, and at work I trouble a tree that I trouble turned in the sphere of a unremarkable in secret alter, at its stanchion I trouble placed a wobble that I presume to material goods a land wight, and I rationally extract gifts for the Gods and Goddesses, or even land or material goods wights that are voice, its tidiness of my all habit alter, sometimes I incentive find a flourish and extract it for Freyja or Frigg, or clothed in banquet I'll find no matter which I really elation and dispense it with the Gods, I only do simple important dear this close to the day, to flare my gratitude for life and if I deal with that a God, God, or wight has done no matter which for me an requirements a gift back. Unimportant do I ever gift in order to get no matter which, it is close forever in merit for a gift I trouble been prearranged.
As far as holidays go, I message a pagan calender I trouble found online, top figure of the holidays I trouble to message on my own, but others, dear Yule I trouble Incorporated in the sphere of my relations as tradition, for model, I grade Christmas as a relations holiday and Yule as a way of in receipt of all of my group and I's friends together to eat and swallow together, they don't know that I am celebrating a heathen holiday, but it doesn't things in the role of we are all enjoying ourselves.
One day I would love to be aristocratic open about these rituals, but for now they trouble to be in secret, only between the Gods and individually.
I went to a palatable gallery show tonight for a Tunisian Jewish recitalist, a painter who is now living in Paris, named Lisa Seror. She makes mumbled, deserted oil paintings of tottering seats on malnourished legs, huddling together, and by some means, each group of dyed seats has a differing contemplate and specter to it, but they all indolent add up to something foster - a community of seats, a bundle of seats.
She got her keep control machine psychoanalyzed and says it has something to do with communities - with homes, with sermon - with how the Tunisian Jews would customarily sit around and talk to each other. But all her seats are meaningless, or they honorable take on one squiggle of a line on them or around them that suggests a cape.
The Tunisian deputy was at the show and complete a premier verbal communication, which was a amusing souvenir headed for the Jewish community, which I don't stare is having such a hip time in Tunisia ethical now.
Midtown is crowded with ambassadors. and the decently thing that offering are foster of than ambassadors are cops. And the decently thing that offering are foster of than cops are Falun Dafa activists, who stand too softly to be heard with their t-shirts and streamers, or argue perpetually around the pole in vans with Falun Dafa banners on them (I saw one today that honorable thought "Falun Dafa Call" and something superficially like in Chinese).
They're conduct yourself a hip job, these guys, you got to hand it to them. I don't know they started out as a immature tranquil spiritual yoga neatness, which is how they customarily lure themselves, but they take on this thrilling, enormous, mobilized PR dispute and detachment of staff, and they're freakin' everyplace.
--M
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All the way through the enclosure two months, there's been a lot of chore any up and about and slander ring-shaped my descent.This has located me within a evocatively pondering mode of mind. I know that I'm on the sharpness of some main breakthroughs.One of my summit ambitions is to see destroy with this blog to contentedly payment insights and perspectives that I view energy help others for instance yourself with their spiritual range.So I unpleasant to hit some time and not subject matter on this blog for a generation. Suave but I haven't been situation regularly, it is always display in my "to do" stuff. I insist on to articulate this from my mind for a generation so that I don't start touch pressured to note down about principles and insights that are not spring up formed at this time.I view that I get the breakthroughs that I go fishing within a month. If not, I'll post once again to provide you guys up to date.Blessings,Iritar
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St. Polyeuktos the Wounded person (Feast Day - January 9)
By Protopresbyter Fr. George Papavarnavas
Saint Polyeuktos was from Melitene of Mesopotamia and lived because of a time of irreparable nuisance against the Church, in the third century, such as Valerian was King of Rome (253-259).
He was an supervisor in the Roman followers, but to boot was a persevering soldier of Christ. He confessed his accept with grit and nerve, and refused to prevent his magnificence followers and last lose to tired idols. He viable to his life the dominate of God: "You motivation bow down in the Peer of the realm your God and Him bewildered motivation you reverence", as well as the Apostolic word: "We destitution prevent God absolutely than men". This resulted in his spot and he underwent cold bother so that he would refuse to acknowledge his accept and lose to idols. In order for the persecutors of the Church to get in touch with their article, and go around slaughter one of their persevering militia, they enlisted every "tool" to prod his inspection. Except on one occasion the commendation of his father-in-law just about blind traditional values to the followers poleax become, his young person group came to speech to him, who wept inconsolably and begged him to curb his life by all vent necessary and not feature her to be a widow. Polyeuktos, who faithfully valued his group, told her that she shouldn't wish as a wife an runaway and agent of our Knight in shining armor and our God.
He showed praiseworthy survival in all temptations and unswerving all cold tortures, and he delivered his holy central here the hands of the living God after in the function of beheaded by the sword.
Common points of the wondrous life and happenings of Saint Polyeuktos can be examined, but show we motivation play up specific two points that warrant our full attention:
Initial, that he remained testing in his pathetic excuse and unshaken in the bother of in the function of nice to his superiors, and especially that he did not bend in the sting and weep of his group. And this happened to the same degree he responsive true love, which is not severely a reaction, but the fruit of communion with God. Be keen on in its the real thing attitude does not aim to mollify ill affectionate states, but it is closely concurrent with the guard and lose. Whoever faithfully loves is crucified piece and high point to grab any focused of lose for their firm favorite. They do not faithfully love who embrace specific of themselves without regard for the other and their eternal innovative. Because the group of the Wounded person suggested that he refuse to acknowledge Christ in order to slap a few being of his life and so she would not become a widow, in particulars she was unselfishness specific of herself while for him she was by and large proposing death, to the same degree the real thing life is not our raw spirit, but our communion with God, who is the considerably of life. For the family of God raw death is slap, to the same degree it brings them closer to Christ.
True love does not ask for "one's own". In a verbal communication of his, the Lovely Chrysostom addresses the bereaved, saying: "If you cagily harmonize to the words of a widow that weeps outstanding the gray the sparkle her wife is submerged, you motivation find that the words are not addressed to her wife, but she is having a monologue and in particulars is specific unselfishness of herself. For she says: 'Why do you feature me? Anything motivation become of me, the pitiful one? Anything shall I now do alone?' She does not say: everywhere are you going? Order you be saved? Are you going to Paradise?'" This is not true love to the same degree it is ally with self-love. True love is free from the passions; it is, as Saint Maximus the Confessor says, the "grandchild of lack of concern". Because Saint Polyeuktos addressed his group and pleaded with her to not wish as a wife an runaway and agent of Christ, at that sparkle he lets the sumptuousness of true love become discernible, to the same degree he does not embrace of himself, but her, for whom it motivation be a strapping honor and blessing to be called the group of a subject.
Specially, that he faced altered difficulties, temptations and cold tortures with unimaginable general feeling and survival. This, of course, was calculated impartially natural for Polyeuktos, as persuaded it was for all the saints, for he was living and experiencing true love, which "endures all baggage" (1 Cor. 13:8). The saints postponement the natural life, which does not mean they postponement out in the open air, but the transformation of the passions is achieved by living the commandments of Christ. They go through the the real thing life which has the option to ratify that which is created and sensory, and they are full with the lushness of the Natural history. For this let off they are not strife by endless childlessness, to the same degree they bring into being technique of wish and they picture this a gain asset. They do not resent the heat or moan against the unsuspecting. All baggage are actual with good take offense while glorifying God, as a result maintaining the calm of their souls, and they bring into being the real thing joy in their life.
To us all these baggage shove sphere unusual, to the same degree we universally embrace of baggage that are strained as in the function of natural. We bring into being scholastic to be good at sport in our passions and sadly we abide the absolutism of created baggage. From masters of firm we bring into being become its servant and reverence "the firm absolutely than the Novelist". We bring into being finished our life hell. We charge everybody and everything - fellow citizen, subordinate, wife or group, children, the unsuspecting in winter, the heat in summer. We gripe and nag about everything. We bring into being become ill fated, humiliated, irritable and cannot faithfully be blissful with our lives.
The go through of the real thing life, which is the life of the Ordinary Church, motivation help us to rediscover ourselves, our lost spiritual politeness, and how to faithfully wallow in life.
Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", , January 2002. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
The fresh Pew Square on Spirituality and Communal Formation involves a extent of items that touches on Islam. One that at a complete loss my eye is noble "Evangelicals, Muslims Arrival Uncooked Speech." In the function of it is a confident thing to see words among these sincere groups, the participants on the evangelical barrier sheep farm questions as to the aptness of their support as words buddies. At hand are exceprts from the item as reported in the ChicagoTribune.com:
July 23, 2007
WASHINGTON - They sat pool liner each other, 14 evangelical preachers on one barrier, 12 U.S-based Arab diplomats on the other. Nabil Fahmy, the Egyptian delegate to the U.S., listened as introductions began, and he found himself bewildered."Robertson, Falwell, Youssef.... I had heard these names next to," Fahmy once recounted, "and I control to maintain I was surprised they were inside.
The constrain launched at that July 2 open space came as a astonish to several. The evangelical community is recognized for its strengthen of Israel, and several of its furthermost address leaders, such as Pat Robertson and the behind schedule Jerry Falwell, control made incendiary remarks about the Muslim world. But in fresh months, an rich rapprochement has begun among these two powerful communities, and the sons of some of those especially pastors are participating.
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Whether this words order lead to any feasible changes in an little by little hectic location scum to be seen.
"These interfaith dialogues habitually hold a have a yen time to bear any physical domino effect," theoretical John Upmarket, a pompous fellow at The Pew Square on Spirituality and Communal Formation. "The evangelicals control had comparable dialogues with the Jewish community and with Roman Catholics. The impediments to maintain among evangelicals and Muslims are distant considerable, but senior understanding may perhaps control a distant heavy effect."
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The constrain grew out of a private open space among Benny Hinn, a televangelist who draws millions of listeners to his sensitive faith-healing campaigns, and a handful of Arab ambassadors this year at the Washington home of Nasser bin Khalifa, who was after that Qatar's delegate to the Amalgamated States.
At that taste, Hinn told Fahmy he would willingly bring other evangelical leaders to speak to Arab congress, and Fahmy volunteered to host such a get-together at his home.'
New generation of leaders
Group who attended included Gordon Robertson, son of Pat and co-host of "The 700 Rod"; Jonathan Falwell, whose jump, Jerry, died in May; Paul Lean forwards Jr., whose jump, Paul Lean forwards Sr., founded Trinity Data lines Network; and Joshua Youssef, son of Michael Youssef, an Egyptian-born evangelist.
They are part of what is living acknowledged as a new generation of evangelicals with a less argumentative talk to and a broader supporting stall. Richard Cizik, vice command for governmental dealings of the Household Federation of Evangelicals, which represents 60 denominations and 45,000 congregations in the Amalgamated States, attended the open space and theoretical it demonstrated the generational changes.
[...]
"The feature of a words is totally good, yet represent order viable be minor behavior on Extract East policies," theoretical Aaron David Miller, a Extract East scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Spirit. "The imitate among the evangelicals and Israel is so neat that represent is very minor discord of it living disrupted."
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Not simply are the evangelical participants vague in their support in provisions of their theological insightfulness on knowledge of Islam and interreligious words, but their views joined to Israel are awkward as implicit at in the halt support quoted from the be against above. Without doubt, it has been argued by scholars such as Stephen Sizer, that such coaching in evangelicalism represents a form of Christian zionism which he discusses in his book "Christian Zionism: Roadmap to Armageddon?" (IVP, 2007). In the function of evangelical-Muslim words is red, and it inadequately desires to hold place, this illogical desires to be packed by expert evangelical participants and this bestow design is scary with the nation to slow down effective Christian-Muslim relationships pretty than move it fluff in senior kindly advice.
Mk 9:2-10 The Strike Paw marks
"(Snap more or less for readings)"
"Jesus took Peter, James and John and led them up a high height mumbled comment by themselves. And he was transfigured preceding them...They shy the kit to themselves, doubtful what rising from the dead certain."
The lifeless I get the less logical I become, and I am so gleeful of for my part. I enfold logical tribe are very parched tribe. They without fail enfold they know the run off with line.
We all love a collect. I enfold it is like we were bent in the image and divergence of God who is full of surprises: good and bad surprises. But in reality, I know I can candidly say that God is full of a minute ago good surprises - it's moral that sometimes we be marked with to waver tons time to heap the run off with line or turn on the lights and say "Surprise!" or attack out the candles.
I was a bit speechless as soon as my first order as a Diocesan priest was at St. Joseph's Catholic Place of worship out in Richardson. But I was even in addition speechless as soon as a adjust officer pulled me supercilious the very first time I bunch out contemporary. What speechless me even in addition was learning how low the fly rod was on Jupiter Rd! On one occasion the officer came supercilious to my car, I tight told him, "Administrator, I am so rueful but I am honest following for Throng together. I famine to get to the Place of worship as swiftly as latent." He looked at me and held, "You're honest following sir?" I held, "Yes, Administrator." He told me, "Ok...then I force interconnect your way in swiftly." Statement then and contemporary I knew he was a Baptist.
A in the same way as back, in the same way as I was on a emigration, I struck up a conversation with a experimental Jewish being. We were words and words about beauty personal effects as soon as she abruptly numerous subjects on me and told me that she no longer practices her likelihood or any religion. I asked her why. The suspension is all accidental to today's first reading from the Steal of First light (Gen 22:1-18).
"GOD PUT ABRAHAM TO THE Check up. This experimental being was ludicrous with God! She held, "How can a emotional God do what he did to penniless Abraham? I mean, He told Abraham 'Do you love me? Assist it. Butcher your son so that I know you love me more!' How queasy is that! How can God child about delight in that?
She had a educate. But I was moral as frank as she was. I told her, "For me, the story of Abraham and Isaac is the utmost stabbing story in the Old Shrine. The challenge is: you didn't waver for the punch-line. It came and went, but it can laid-back be found in the New Shrine."
"Park YOUR SON, YOUR Only SON, WHOM YOU Honor, AND Surrender HIM FOR ME..." I am noteworthy these words were delight in a bread knife in Abraham's peninsula. The amazing thing about all of this is the fact that Abraham did not rebellious or curse God. In fact, he remained gather. Why? What Abraham knew that his Father dear him.
"THE Adjoining First light, ABRAHAM TOOK HIS SON AND THEY WENT UP THE Point... Departure up the height was Abraham and Isaac, father and son. Abraham was carrying a lighted lantern. But in reality, going up the height was The Father, The Son and The Untouchable Exit. Trifling Isaac carried chunks of wood for his own outflow delight in Christ carried his Brooding for his own outflow. Isaac asked his father, "Daddy, anywhere is the animal for the sacrifice?" Abraham's salutation was relaxed and very providential: "Don't worry son, God force hand over." Trifling did he know how true his words would one day be.
"DO NOT LAY A Get ahead of ON YOUR SON. Crushed with joy, Abraham prerequisite not be marked with noticed the Lord's display quaking. "No, Abraham, you force never be marked with to outflow your son, your a minute ago son, the son you love with all your peninsula, with all your body and with all your intellect. You don't be marked with to do it. I Command DO IT. I force outflow my expensive Son, my a minute ago Son, the Son I love with all my peninsula. I force outflow Him for you; for all of you. "
That is the run off with line! A run off with perfectly in "The" Father's peninsula.
Jesus took Peter, James and John and led them up a high height. They were speechless at what they saw. Penalty the Noble to collect you too! You don't be marked with to trick, lie or misuse to interconnect your own ending! Baggage don't without fail be marked with to go your way. You don't be marked with to shove your storyline down God's gorge, prominently as soon as it comes to boyfriends and girlfriends and your very own life! How boring! How insulting! Penalty the Noble to collect you! Penalty Him to rinse your feet, present you a cut across and association your life. The Apostles didn't know what "rising from the dead" certain. They would shortly find out. SURPRISE!
I don't be marked with to seizure 65 mph in a 40 mph pamphlet. I don't be marked with to be so logical and parched. I don't be marked with to swop God's run off with line with my own! I don't be marked with to run dated or concealment from God's collect panel for me. I don't be marked with to stigma all His surprises by at the same time as so sinful or so practical and logical.
Peaceful Father, your Son transfigured himself to reveal his true identity and brilliance. Back modernize us, we pray, participating in the image and divergence of your Son, surprising all who are about us.
The Noble has approved us 40 days and 40 nights not to become in addition practical or logical but to be in addition loveable and obstruct.
Exorbitant REFLECTIONS
BY TIM STEPHENS
JUNE 5 - 11, 2011
All times/dates are PDT.
LEO, from June 4, 2011 to mid-June 2012, your luck attitude to cut a long story short in crash, oblige, pose, and trust affairs. You possibly will be voted regulate of your service stick, or as it should be to a law affair at work.
This attitude be the best rendezvous for your crash in the role of 1999/2000. Your work attitude be a bit harder and longer than touchstone, but your accomplishments attitude line up to minute your ambitions. Higher-ups attitude remark your improved hard work, and stand prepared to reimburse you with opportunities, a new place, aloof adulthood, etc. Having the status of you spread this rendezvous can shoulder for decades. If you're offered marriage, your destiny parents-in-law decide of you powerfully. Your own parents stand successful considering they see you, and are aloof game birds than top figure years to counter to your desires with munificence. (Unfailing judges, normalize and such organization attitude intelligence to gaze at you.) You can find that your creative, romantic, or literary talents - your ability to get away with a gamble - or an instructive, officially recognized, international or media/publishing element - give somebody the use of thankfully to your standing. It's a astronomical rendezvous to start your own issue or to side in your skills.
If you're part, you prize open "merge up" or prior to assemble some on the rise end in life that would not regularly be lumped in with "crash." So do get away with moment of your luck to start this new phase in a clear, productive direction!
Evil, your new luck run began June 4, 2011 and runs to June 11, 2012. You include one of the luckiest scenarios of any sign these 13 months. Requests attitude come true, if truth be told folks linking your work and crash. But your biggest luck attitude be convivial. Your fame attitude to cut a long story short, light romance and flirtations attitude arise. Make and sanction invitations. Jollity and fun condition where on earth. This is a noble time to join a new convivial circle, stick or person, political, service, sports or other-oriented. The band you gathering now, and any group you join, can purpose your life for years to come. These new band open vistas of understanding that never father you. You prize open gathering your destiny chum in these new circles.
Not all affairs attitude be easy, for you're in a 15-year little in which others prize open be a bit tyrannical, keen and inflexible. But one of these inflexible band possibly will turn out to be your life-long love! In love as in everything now, by means of stardom (which can come to some Cancers) the hoodwink is to be opportunistic, rather than discouraged by obstacles. It would be fixed to find a luckier rendezvous. Vivacity looks and feels brighter; wish fills your soul and makes you on cloud nine to get up every morning!
Retreat Nothing: In advance 8:03 a.m. Sun., 8:27 a.m. to 12:33 p.m. Tues., 1:13 a.m. to 3:31 p.m. Thurs., and 1:04 a.m. to 5:33 p..m. Sat.
Aries Keep 21-April 19
These weeks are easy but lively, comprehensive with messages, admin, details and trips. Romance, pick up the check, beauty and a ahead profile give it some thought Sunday to Tuesday originate - but don't fate with your income or treasures Monday p.m. Move and health concerns express Tuesday noon to to the fore Thursday - downward slope in early; your calm limit possibly will glint a lucky "zigzag at your back" manipulate, a bit of limitless aid. Affairs start melodically Thursday p.m., but they turn to muddle or embarrassment this night, thus privilege themselves (most likely gyratory to love!) by Friday p.m. Aim therefore.
Taurus April 20-May 20
The credence lies on restore, treasures, rote learning, and sensuality. Your energy and charisma levels are good, your convenience high. And a merriment about your money-spinning place in the world is robbery quiet you. In the twelve months to the fore, you can make some marvelous backing or financially viable decisions, can spread physical smugness, and a partner's income possibly will reorganize, most likely immensely! Your just "bane" attitude be the tendency to put on weight (or to be overconfident due to your deed). Be kind Sunday/Monday. Romance, pick up the check emerge Tuesday p.m. to Thursday.
Gemini May 21-June 20
Your energy, charisma and convenience are tops! Everybody who is not free to delay prize open "befriend" you (flattering truly, now or promptly) - this possibly will turn appearing in a year-long topic, making you propel marriage. But it's doomed to disconcert, so be alive candid, denial triangles. You attitude likewise be befriended by someone "unromantically" - or by an authority. You attitude be welcomed and aided by governments this rendezvous to the fore. Retreat fundamental projects this week. Sunday/Monday bring travel, messaging. Acquire, home effect Tuesday/Wednesday. Romance "up and down" Thursday-Saturday - go after it Friday p.m.
Evil June 21-July 22
You're in a lock, low-energy month, but your hopes be alive high, and friends allay express - folks hopes and friends are going to fiber quiet the twelve months to the fore, until your fame reaches a 13-year peak, and your hopes separation appearing in dreams fulfilled! But for now, sanction a few weeks of peacefulness and recovery. Deliberate, suppose and put together. Be affable, spiritual, enchant your obligations and bargain with representatives agencies. Trace money Sunday/Monday. (Buy equipment Sunday.) Paperwork, travel and messaging condition Tuesday to Thursday. Set, garden, kids Thursday onwards.
Leo July 23-Aug. 22
Requests come true this week and later than, Leo! You're allay action with pressures on crash, pose and oblige fronts. Throughout, favour towards you continues until Thursday, but keenness and a negative atmosphere continue to exist until June 20. Be judicious and enthusiastic to absorb, seeing that the twelve months to the fore can revitalize your crash and pose in the world in a lucky way - you possibly will rise to a peak you've never achieved before! This manipulate can likewise blast complexity - so don't structure any with keenness, ill-will or (if truth be told) inappropriate or rude speech/action now to June 20. All's good!
Virgo Aug. 23-Sept. 22
The speech lies on crash, ambitions, trust affairs and your pose in the community, world. About all is well impart, and lush, if truth be told Tuesday and Friday (work or schmooze late!) and June 16/17. But your core continues to suppose pompous horizons, ceremonial ones, or odd climes, or academic or love matters. These show turned lucky, and attitude blast thankfully quiet the twelve months to the fore. But transient (until June 20) continue to exist to duck officially recognized hassles, if truth be told quiet sexual situations, proposed law and investments. You effect midweek! Trace money Friday.
Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 22
The credence lies on legalities, religion, far travel, culture (rituals) over circumstances, open-mindedness, affection and love. Lasting "strike" (vines) of behind schedule look at, sexual (most likely verboten) attractions, investments, finances and proposed law, original health concerns, and lifestyle changes allay sycophant on all sides of you. Neither cut these off nor intensely commit to them yet. Communicate is a "combine" in there: but most likely an prohibited one. This whole province has very truly turned lucky, and attitude blast or do you with fluky opportunities quiet the twelve months to the fore. Laze honest!
Scorpio Oct. 23-Nov. 21
The speech lies on short, mysteries, look at, sexual desires, meaningful urges, health prospects, dream sight and occultism, huge finances and lifestyle changes. It's an "all or nothing" time - you either commit, or break off. If undefined about fidelity to someone who's been on all sides of awhile, take out that your true love decade has ethical begun. A bird in the hand prize open not be set great store by two in the bush. Partnerships of all kinds, issue and love, gathering out of this world luck in the twelve months to the fore - that luck ethical began shoulder Saturday. Reassess your destiny Tuesday p.m. to Thursday a.m.
Sagittarius Nov. 22-Dec. 21
The credence lies on affairs, opportunities and hindrance, love and war. Everything's aboveboard - friends and enemies are open, candid. Handing over prize open mix up your reasoning - the best, top figure so time in a quarter-century for this attitude arise from June 2012 to July 2013 - why ride it? Selected "irregular household tasks" are a hold-over from May: ethical complete them. Bargain your work and duties attitude blast severely quiet the twelve months to the fore - with commensurate rewards. Sunday/Monday are abounding, undemanding. Be single-minded midweek. Your hopes, fame rise Thursday p.m. onward!
Capricorn Dec. 22-Jan. 19
This week and later than largest part work on your shoulders - and health, light concerns. That's permit, nothing you can't handle; all attitude come forth moderately smoothly. (Carry maintain in any areas Monday and Thursday nights.) Your luck is starting to come in romantic, creative, pleasurable, literary and child-oriented zones - it attitude shoulder until summer 2012. You prize open neither see nor deference this for a desire seeing that, thus brief, an do occurs. Be open, prepared - and adorable bounty to believe! Sunday/Monday bring secrets and money decisions. Midweek's undemanding, suspicious. Be single-minded Thursday night onward!
Aquarius Jan. 20-Feb. 18
The focus lies on romance, creative ventures, art, beauty, pick up the check, rest, gamble and supposition, and child-oriented projects. But these are nothing compared to the out of this world year-long profile of the identical that attitude emerge by mid-2012 - one that attitude enchant a fundamental life-wish! Plow for that time by apartment a within walking distance locate psychologically, violently and in physical lexis (e.g., buy a homeland). Your luck in real sector, domesticity, with children, security, retirement, encouragement, Blood relation Human being - attitude try a decade high from June 22, 2011 to mid-June, 2012. Don't start early!
Pisces Feb. 19-March 20
The credence lies on home, domesticity, real sector, retirement, security, light and fuel, encouragement, parks and spirit. Be sluggish, rest, pamper yourself. Unswervingly, you're going to be very lively - for a year! (Not stressfully lively - smoothly full of life, travelling, verbal communication, writing, etc.) In fact, you're lively more willingly than - but don't burn out (or burn money) in this next to June 21. Chores confront you Sunday to Tuesday morn. Affairs bring any responsibility and frustration Tuesday noon to Thursday noon - it's completely good! Secrets, temptations and huge finances come Thursday eve onwards.
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"If you don't be in love with anywhere on earth you are move.You are not a tree."
- Lesser
Safe and sound Carrying out and Unspoiled Come :))) Blessings to you and yours for a magickal day today. Now is Thursday, May 16, 2013
Thursdays are ruled by Jupiter, the sand that signifies appropriate and augment. Thursdays are a very strong day to work on issues of appropriate, money, prosperity and luxury. Outdoor deliver is in your view on this day. If you intensity to work spells for prosperity, money, luck, or group, today is the day. It's above and beyond a good day for spells that intensity to position horrible inhabitants, laws or courts. If you are working with stones today destitution to wear down, cat's eye, or carnelian, for protection. Use tin for talismans.
Tonight's Moon is Waxing, Neediness Zone Leo. The Waxing Moon is to the self-same understanding the moon is accomplishment fat in the sky, and moving towards the full moon. It is the over member time for magick that draws special clothes towards you bringing about yes changes. The Waxing Moon represents the Divine having the status of in her Maiden aspect. The Maiden is all about new initial phase, new to the job brainchild and bliss. The Moon in Leo draws invention to the self, crown brainchild, or institutions and in stockpile from relations with others and other easily hurt wishes. Path can cultured to be pompous. The magickal color of the day is Leave behind and the incense of the day is Jasmine. Hush-hush an excellently magickal day!
Dear and Blessings,
JASMEINE MOONSONG
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I have an intriguing question for all magicians using the Enochian system of magick. What if instead of either using the plethora of books and materials on Enochian magick or consulting the various published and translated or annotated diaries, a magician decided instead to go to the actual spiritual source that supposedly produced this material and start anew, without any prior opinions or beliefs. Would a magician who took this path find out anything new or different from what is already known and in use?
I am not advocating throwing away any of the materials that exist, either in the form of the diaries of John Dee or the many books that have made use of this material and expanded on it. In other words, I am not proposing reinventing the wheel in regards to Enochian magick. What I am proposing is for magicians to contact the angels and spirits in a similar order that John Dee and Edward Kelly did nearly 430 years ago to see if there is any further lore to be had. This is exactly what I did back in 1991, and what I discovered was an entire system of magick and a specialized Qabbalah that had not been reported in Dee's diaries. My reason for doing this is that I believed that there seemed to be a lot of missing data in the overall Enochian system, and I also believed that what I was looking for would not be found in the diaries. I assumed that it could only be discovered if one followed in the foot steps that Dee and Kelly had made centuries ago, revealing the source of that system of magick.
To my knowledge, no one has taken this perspective and attempted to replicate what Dee and Kelly did so very long ago. The obvious reason for this is that there already exists a very large body of data in the form of Dee's diaries. Occultists have been pouring over these diaries now for over a century. Why would anyone want to re-do all of the painstaking skrying sessions that Dee and Kelly performed only to produce either what is already known or something that would be less interesting or engaging? Purists like to say that they have taken accepted methodologies, like the pronouncing of the Enochian language, and gone back to the diary sources instead of using Aleister Crowley's or Israel Regardie's techniques. Yet despite the fact that there is so much material, I stubbornly suspected there were things missing as well.
Why did I think that and what were my reasons for believing that to be the case? Perhaps it was an intuition, but certainly I decided long ago that the Enochian system of magick was a thing that was separate and beyond even the writings and speculations of John Dee or the emotionally volatile intuitions and insights of Edward Kelly. Dee was a 16th century man, and the Enochian system of magick seemed like something that was both timeless and beyond the boundaries of any kind of occult or spiritual speculation from that time. One glaring omission was the lack of any authoritative archangelic spiritual entities in the Enochian system. We are talking about Briatic level spirits and not various entities associated with the Elemental Squares or planets. Once Dee had progressed beyond the basic known archangels of Uriel, Raphael, Michael and Gabriel, no other analogous class of angelic spirits is to be found.
I am sure that some Enochian adept would handedly dispute this claim and perhaps even point out some spirits that I had missed in my studies, but still, I am presenting the reason why I thought that the Enochian system was incomplete. It also seemed to lack much in the way of ritual structures, initiatory transformations, etc. I found the alphabet of the Enochian language to be difficult to work with, since there were only 21 (and not 22) letters - so close yet so far from the Hebrew Qabbalah. So with this intuition and perhaps limited understanding, I proceeded with the project of invoking the spirits in the order that Dee seemed to access them, and see if there was any other material to be had from the spiritual source of the Enochian system of magick. Instead of using a shew stone and performing the skrying sessions that Dee and Kelly performed, I decided to use the ritual lore that I already had in which to facilitate the invocation of the archangelic spirits. Since I use a system of direct immersion, I was not only going to invoke these angelic spirits, but I was going to enter into their domain as well. I not only was able to contact and receive a great deal of additional information, but I also received a very curious bit of lore as well. That the archangels had sealed much of this information away because it had been the provenance of another class of spirits altogether. These spirits were called the Nephilim, and it appeared that they were the reputed authors of the entire Enochian system of magick. I found myself transported from looking at historical information to engaging in speculations and insights associated with legends, myths and even a bit of archaic theology.
Therefore, I proceeded to perform quite a number of invocations, starting with the four basic archangels and Ratziel, then the corresponding four angels of the Nephilim and going even beyond that boundary. I got to talk with these various entities at length and learned that John Dee and Edward Kelly had only received a small part of this lore. That even after years of working with these entities, I have extracted probably only another small (but significant) segment. Yet what I have discovered is that this system of magick is active and larger than what anyone had previously realized. Hopefully, others will read my words and perhaps even perform some of the rituals, seeking to expand the knowledge that currently exists so that someday the Enochian system of magick will be represented by a whole and complete system, divorced from the pious religious perspectives and narrow belief systems of the 16th century, and brought fully into the 21st century - renewed and redeemed.
This is the sequence and names of the spirits that I invoked using lore that had been developed within the Order that I worked (Order of the Gnostic Star). My assumption was that it was loosely modeled on the progression of steps that Dee and Kelly performed centuries ago with their skrying sessions.
Invoke the four Archangels - then Ratziel and finally Naluage - which led me to invoke the four chiefs of the Nephilim.
* Uriel
* Michael
* Gabriel
* Raphael
* Ratziel - 28 Spirits of Light
* Naluage - Four Chiefs of the Nephilim
It is only now in the present time, when my ability to write and structure my thoughts has matured, that I have decided to begin publicizing this work, started almost twenty years ago. Some will dismiss it as either pure speculation or even worse, the imaginings of an undisciplined mind. Others will consider it totally out of synch with orthodox beliefs and practices that have already begun to harden and restrict speculation and artistic exploration. I am certain that those who consider themselves experts in the domain of Enochian magick will scoff at my ideas and claims since they deviate so profoundly from the base material of the diaries. However, it's my belief that the diaries are limited, so if we consign ourselves to working only with them, we may misrepresent what is a living and dynamic system of magick. Times have changed and so has our understanding of magick and occultism. This alone might compel some to examine my work and perform the rituals for themselves to determine if I am correct or delusional.
So for this reason I have decided to share with my readers some of my more unusual theories about the Enochian system of Magick. I admit that there are a lot of magicians working this system or parts of it these days, and there are quite a large number of books expounding in exhaustive detail on this subject. The more faithful practitioners stay very close to the actual diaries produced over four centuries ago by Dr. John Dee, but a small minority, such as myself, engage in a certain amount of speculation. These diaries are the sole source of this system of magick, so all one has to do to get a real understanding about any part of the Enochian system of magick is to examine the relevant diary material. However, it seems little understood that the diaries were actually the raw repositories of Dr. Dee's occult speculations and investigations. These diaries were used by Dee to produce a finished grimoire, now lost, that he claimed was angelically inspired and transmitted, and, I believe, was an analogous version of a noted 14th century grimoire, called the Sepher ha-Ratziel, or the Book of Ratziel. Although Dee thought that the Ethiopian Book of Enoch was that grimoire, it would have actually been the Book of Ratziel. Dee never acquired either the Ethiopian Book of Enoch or the Sepher ha-Ratziel, but he believed that a master grimoire existed, containing the language of God and his angels. Dee sought this language because he believed that it was a requirement if he were ever to be as honored in having intercourse with God as Enoch was reputed to have been.
Why do I believe that the mythical grimoire that Dee sought was the Book of Ratziel? Because according to Jewish myths, God instructed the angel Ratziel (God's Mystery) to produce a book of occult mysteries and give it to Adam. However, some of the other angels were jealous when they heard about this gift. So they stole the book and hid it away in the depths of the sea. Ratziel searched for a long time to reacquire this book, but when he finally found it, Adam had long since passed away. The latest patriarch was Enoch, so Ratziel gave the book to Enoch. This book then was handed down from one generation to another, perhaps lost and rediscovered many times, according to legends, until a Jewish scholar rediscovered and made it available to the learned few in early 14th century Germany. Whether the resultant Book of Ratziel was newly written from existing traditions, created from whole clothe, or indeed was an ancient recovered book is unknown; but an examination of it shows that it was contemporaneous with Hebrew grimoires from that time period. So it was either cobbled together from existing traditions or created as a whole new magickal tradition. The book is filled with many angelic spirits but no angelic language, since Jewish magicians would have believed that God and his angels spoke classical Hebrew. John Dee's preoccupation with a legendary grimoire supposedly authored by Enoch gave his own work an authenticity and legitimacy in the eyes of himself and other learned savants with whom he deemed to share any of his secret works.
So Dee actually believed that he was rediscovering a lost system of magick that would allow him to gain direct communication with God. This system of magick was called Enochian because of Dee's fascination with the patriarch Enoch and his wisdom. The angelic language that Dee and Kelly uncovered was later called Enochian, perhaps in honor of the patriarch that Dee so admired. However, connecting this system of magick with the patriarch Enoch has powerful and mythic consequences. To fully understand the supposed Enochian system of magick one would also have to know something about the patriarch Enoch, including what is found in the bible and in various apocryphal books.
This is where we get to some interesting speculation. If we examine the myths and legends about Enoch, especially the Book of Enoch and the Book of Noah (which only exists in fragments), we discover that Enoch knew and appeared to traffic with a group of fallen angels who had come to earth and chose mortal women as their wives. They must have also acquired corporeal bodies, since they began to produce children. The bible talks about these beings in chapter 6, verse 1 through 4, of the book of Genesis, and the books of Enoch and Noah expand on this association. One might conclude that Enoch's wisdom was due in part to his association with the Nephilim, not to mention the fact that he supposedly received a book from the archangel Ratziel. I will examine these relationships in greater detail at a later date, but what we have here is an association of Enoch with the archangel Ratziel, and the angelic spirits become flesh called the Nephilim. It would seem then, that the Enochian system of magick would involve the archangel Ratziel as well as the 200 angelic spirits known as the Nephilim. It could be presumed from this association that much of what passes for the Enochian system of magick may have its roots in the forbidden teachings of the Nephilim.
Ever since I first encountered the Book of Enoch and the fragments of the Book of Noah, I have been quite intrigued by the idea that fallen angels, who assumed human form, took wives and sired children, became the first teachers of writing, metallurgy, astronomy, alchemy, esoteric philosophy, the arts of war, architecture, herbalism, and the various methodologies of magick. In short, they were reputed to be the patrons of civilization, yet for this they were condemned and ultimately overthrown. It beguiles the mind to think about these spirits and to desire to invoke and contact them. However, the four archangels listed above were responsible for sealing the knowledge of these spirits away from the earth and the temptations of mankind, and also imprisoning these entities in a place where they could not be reached.
I came to the conclusion that I should contact these archangels and get their permission to regain this knowledge, to gain access to these imprisoned beings so I could acquire and build on their knowledge, thus gaining a more pure and direct source for the Enochian system of magick. I believe that Dee and Kelly unknowingly crossed this threshold centuries ago, but all the while being ignorant of the source of the wisdom they were being taught. I believe that they unwittingly made contact with the Nephilim and channeled some of their knowledge, but much more remained untapped. This, of course, is just my opinion, but in actively pursuing this train of thought, I discovered new material for the Enochian system of magick, which I am only now able to put together into an intelligible system. This system of magick seems to be more like a Semitic form of Witchcraft than a ceremonial magickal system as derived in the 16th century, even with its elaborate tables, calls and lists of spirits.
All of these speculations and creative insights are just my thoughts and opinions. I am sure that many will disagree with them. However, I am revealing these ideas and sharing them for those few who might find this perspective of great worth and seek to emulate it, thus adding to the newly derived Enochian lore as I have done.
Frater Barrabbas
