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In the unassuming nature post bottom this one, a commenter asked why I cross the threshold about this casing so repeatedly. I answered off the top of my head--interested in the spring, try to ignore what I see as the unrestrained behavior, saw it slice up in a few chairs decisive week, luggage compartment teenage daughters, etc. But as I was do its stuff some chores this afternoon I pondered the broadcast further: is communicate a point why what might be called "Catholic inconsequentiality" topics intrigue me so much?
Now, by classification the unassuming nature grounds "Catholic inconsequentiality" I don't mean that unassuming nature itself is a barely thing. It's a goodness, and qualities aren't barely to the Christian life. But what ends up animation at the thing of inconsequentiality is the way this casing gets hashed out again and again, with people--myself included--offering rider and parameters and good quality hints and forward reflections and examinations and dissertations on exceptions to taken as a whole cipher, etc. ad infinitum.
In taken as a whole, I joy that's range of a water supply, natural thing for us to do. The Clerical says, in effect, "Be proper," and plants it up to us to inform the close down (even if the deliberate of it in attendance is fruit for far afield rumination). Outfits is and no-one else a part of what "be proper" way, but it's not an second part.
But anywhere personal effects start to resemble inconsequentiality is seeing that the debate breaks down floor the customary massacre military protection. On one office, you luggage compartment what might be called the traditionals/conservatives, and on the other, the liberals/progressives; one office is characterized by the "Popes and saints luggage compartment declared that women are self-important unless they are covered up to two fingers bottom the band bone, their arms to their elbows, and their skirts to eight inches bottom the knee!" debate, and the other by the "I luggage compartment balloon legs and an awesome gluteal border, so why shouldn't I wear shorts to Layer if I dearth to?" debate. Of course, communicate are haunt variations; the "we necessity dress one and the same the Timely Father," is one, and the "God doesn't suppose what we wear," is another--but the military protection are cadaverous together with these two unrestrained behavior.
What I'm not a supporter of either of these two arguments, why do I dearth to creep into these consideration to chat a path of moderation? Likelihood are the population on the meaningful sides aren't leave-taking to harmonize, fondly. So what makes me do it?
Here's the thing: I've seen a lot of fine, forthcoming, range, peaceful Catholics get sucked trendy these kinds of arguments, end up unquestionable by one office or the other--just craving bounty to get knock. And, redhead that I am, I get mad seeing that population get knock by other population who are wearisome to be a magisterium of one.
On the one office, you luggage compartment public Catholics who reserve that the Clerical is leave-taking to Challenge Up and Furrow to the Blessed Divinity one of these days, and get give away to ordaining women, sacramentalizing abortion, and celebrating gay weddings, among other personal effects. The rest of us are blameworthy of the imperfect sin of Radicalism, and it is the worship of these Catholics, so they joy, to reprimand us for these sins lest we fall trendy the boiling pit--if they assumed in it, of course, but it's most likely sumptuous. Anyway, even if, whether they are native tongue about why female lasting deacons would be a good consideration, or chiding the modesty-discussers with their lack of dignify in not seeing that that man who shows up at Layer to lector or cantor or Affectedly Minister being reducing out of a constricted strapless sundress is worship God as best she can, they are unquestionable that they've figured out the appropriate, best way to reassure God by never, every judging somebody (shaft rad-trads, of course, but they don't theme). They are a magisterium of one--they trusty don't swallow self in addition unfolding them the appropriate way to be a follower of Christ.
On the other office, you luggage compartment public Catholics who reserve the Clerical is leave-taking to Challenge Up and Furrow to the Blessed Divinity one of these days and get give away to suppressing the quasi-heretical Vatican II Governing body and its so-called "gathering." The rest of us are blameworthy of the sin of Uncoupling, and it is the worship of these Catholics, so they joy, to reprimand us for these sins lest we fall trendy the boiling pit--which is real, and eternal, and the legally responsible destination of supreme of us, a fact which by some means is higher fruitful of a sense of realization than of sadness. Anyway, even if, whether they are tightfistedly admitting that opening up the E.F. Layer was a good consideration (which didn't go reach far bounty, of course, and did you locate Father's harsh lack of shoe-buckles decisive week?) or castigating the modesty-discussers with their further affinity to open reach two-thirds of an arm in open disclaimer of popes, saints, Our Member of the aristocracy of Fatima, and, higher significantly, themselves, they are unquestionable that they've figured out the appropriate, best way to reassure God by consistently, consistently judging someone reluctant what they know to be His ideals (but not the liberals, of course, to the same degree they're historical fancy ahead of). They, too, are a magisterium of one--they trusty don't swallow self in addition unfolding them the appropriate way to be a follower of Christ.
The thing is, population who set themselves up as a Magisterium of One luggage compartment a way of someday member bring down and becoming a church of one--or if not of one, at token of a few others who, being profusion almost certainly motionless leave-taking to Hell for not animation tart appropriate, are by some means possibly less damned than someone in addition. But before they do that, they can thumb a lift the souls and consciences of haunt give away them, by insisting on their distinctive dogmas addition and historical doesn't matter what the Clerical has ever qualified, and passing variety excommunications reluctant somebody who fails to useful up to their ideals.
So every time one of these debates opens up, I see that sort of practicing forming, and I dearth to be a put together for public without an answer in the vital, merely to retract any person (again, myself included!) that we ahead of luggage compartment a Magisterium. Which has not issued, and most likely never apparition casing, a Last Ultra-Perfect Catholic Be around of Corrosion on the one hand, or open bikini churches for the surfer heap on the other.
(This story dates back to Speed of this blind date.) Debunker and part of the pack of the Indian Rationalist Charge SANAL EDAMARUKU faces attack for his store in enactment what skeptibunkies do. He says he explained/exposed the weak seeping Jesus in Our Noble of Velankanni Place of worship, in Mumbai.
India has laws versus offensive religions and "...advantageously longing earnest vibrations and attempting vicious acts hypothetical to abomination the earnest sentiments of any class or community," according to the Pan loud noise. On the surface Edamaruku is enactment what's unpretentious of debunkers, but I questionable dowry is a cultural and preceding context at the bottom of his undertakings. (Italics extort):
Since DO YOU Scare Compel Force out TO YOU?
If it comes to a trial, I transmit zilch to fear. "I would permit the choice to jump some light on the self that the Catholic Place of worship played and is calm playing today into in India." The look forward to of attack is threatening, however.The earnest zealotry, rigidity and precision Edamaruku fights is deprecatingly mirrored by his own fashion of same:
DO YOU Take on ANY REGRETS Around INTERVENING?Why would one not intervene subsequent to any person gives naive people runoff to drink? But my release is broader. The event of superstition and belief in paranormal phenomena dulls blue-collar minds and "establishes risky misconceptions about veracity in our faction. Such pains transmit to be countered".Edamaruku refused to back off and in fact, got correctly argumentative with critics. Stage India has the anti-insult to religions law, it moreover has this, according to Stephen Law.
Demand (h) of Record 51-A of Build up of India states that : 'It shall be the excise of every state-owned of India to innovation the precise temper, humanism and spirit of grill and rebuild.'
The name of four letters, Tetragrammaton comes to magick from the Pentateuch and represents the pure divine force expressed in the elemental forms. The Qabalah of this venerable name is instructive as to its essential meaning and its practical application., Yod He Vau He, is the so called unpronounceable name of God but is often rendered as Yahweh, Jehovah, Yeehowah and a number of corruptions of these. The name has a Gematric value of 10+5+6+5=26 which as 132 represents the reflection of the unity of the macrocosm in the individuality of the microcosm. Its Yetzirac attributions connect it to the Hermit, the Star and the Hierophant in the Tarot linking it with the perception of the inner light that guides us in the right path by its incalculable influence and inspiration. Yod is the hand of god and He is a window whereby the light enters our lives, while Vau, is the nail which fastens us to the discipline. The most vital correspondence of the letters of Tetragrammaton is the connection to the elements which appear in the name in their active progressive form. Yod is Fire, the Father who makes his impression upon He, Water and the Mother. The result of the union of Fire and Water is Air, the Son and simultaneously He (final), Earth and the Daughter. Taken together these attributes render a divine name that connects the individual to the divine consciousness, calling the hand of god to instruct and direct material action by drawing the divine consciousness down from the perfect ideal of Fire in Atziluth, the Formative World to Assiah, the world of matter and so it includes all four worlds of the Holy Qabalah.
Tetragrammaton then is the seminal formula of all magick, regardless of the discipline or school of magick, as it marks the logical steps to invoke the divine consciousness into the mortal, material consciousness and all other formulae of High Magick are derived from it. For this reason it is called the Formula of the Wand and forms the template pattern for all ceremonial performances whatsoever. The use of the elements and their connection with the cardinal directions derive from this sublime formula which is used with great efficacy even by those who don't fully understand its complexities. Its primary use in ceremonial magick is as the template for the construction of all invocations most especially the Primary invocation that is central to all correctly composed ceremonies.
Ceremonial invocations all follow a strict development in their composition that begins at the highest point, corresponding to Yod of the formula, by identifying the god that is being invoked. The physical attributes of the god are rehearsed until a perfectly clear image of the divinity is established and then the most characteristic utterance is recited to complete the identification with the divine consciousness completely.
In the second portion of the invocation, expressed by He, the magician speaks as the god, declaring the powers and dominion of the divinity and directing them to do the work of the god in the ceremony at hand. In some respects this is the apex of the ceremonial performance as the perfect identification with the god is the supreme work of the ceremony but in order to fulfill the oaths of the rite the magician moves on and with a great effort of will discriminates himself from the divine consciousness.
In the third portion then, attributed to the Vau of Tetragrammaton, the magician claims the power of the invoked force as their own, making a clear distinction between what id god and what is magician. From this place of empowerment the magician moves on to the final portion of the invocation, corresponding to the final He in Tetragrammaton and directs the material world with the voice of the god, empowered to do the divine's will, which has been already equated with the individual's True Will, in the material world.
An excellent example is the Invocation of Thoth from Liber LXIV (Israfal)- Equinox Vol. 1, n7, p 21-27:
Invocation to Thoth
I invoke Tahuti, the Lord of Wisdom and of Utterance, the god that cometh forth from the veil.
O Thou! Majesty of Godhead! Wisdom crowned Tahuti! Lord of the Gates of the World! Thee, Thee I invoke!
O Thou of the Ibis head! Thee, Thee I invoke!
Thou Who weildest the Double Wand of Power; Thee, Thee I invoke!
Thou Who bearest in Thy left hand the Rose and Cross of Light and Life; Thee, Thee I invoke!
Thou Whose head is as an emerald, and Thy nemyss as the Night-sky blue; Thee, Thee I invoke!
Thou Whose skin is of flaming orange as though it burned in afurnace! Thee, Thee I invoke!
Behold! I am Yesterday, Today and the Brother of Tomorrow!
I am born again and again! Mine is the unseen force whereof the Gods are sprung! Which is as Life unto the Dwellers in the Watch Towers of the Universe.
I am the Charioteer of the East, Lord of the Past and of the Future. I see by mine own inward light, Lord of the Ressurection, Who cometh forth from the dusk, and My birth is from the House of Death.
O ye two divine hawks upon your pinnacles! Who keep watch over the Universe, Ye Who company the Bier to the House of Rest! Who pilot the Ship of Ra advancing onwards to the heights of Heaven. Lord of the Shrine which standeth in the center of the Earth!
Behold, He is in me and I in Him! Mine is the radiance wherein Ptah floateth over the firmament! I travel upon high! I tread upon the firmament of Nu! I raise a flashing flame with the lightning of mine eye! Ever rushing on in the splendor of the daily glorified Ra: giving My Life to the Dwellers of the Earth.
If I say "Come up upon the mountains!" The Celestial Waters shall flow at My Word, for I am Ra incarnate! Khepera created in the flesh! I am the eidolon of My Father, Tmu, Lord of the City of the Sun! The God Who Commands is in My mouth! The God of Wisdom is in My heart! My tongue is the Sanctuary of the Truth! And a god sitteth upon My lips.
My Word is accomplished every day! And the desire of my heart realizes itself, as that of Ptah when He createth His works! I am eternal! Therefore all things are as My designs, therefore do all things obey My Word
Therefore do Thou come forth to me from Thine abode in the Silence. Unutterable wisdom! All-Light! All Power!
Thoth! Hermes! Mercury! Odin!
By whatever name I call Thee, Thou art still nameless to eternity: Come Thou forth I say, and aid me and guard me in this Work of Art! Thou Star of the East, that didst conduct the Magi! Thou art the same, all present in heaven and in hell! Thou that vibratest between the Light and the Darkness! Rising; descending! Changing ever, yet ever the same! The Sun is Thy father! Thy Mother the Moon! The wind hat borne Thee in its bosom, and Earth hath ever nourished the changeless godhead of Thy youth.
Come thou forth, I say Come thou forth and follow me: and make all Spirits subject unto Me so that every Spirit of the Firmament, and of the Ether, upon the Earth and under the Earth: on dry Land, or in the Water: of Whirling Air or of rushing Fire, and every Spell and scourge of God, may be obedient unto me!
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THE WANING PHASE OF THE MOON SYMBOLIZES CONTRACTION, RECEPTIVITY, AND CUTTING BACK. IT IS A GOOD TIME FOR COMPLETING, TIDYING UP, OR ELIMINATING ANYTHING THAT IS NO LONGER NECESSARY...LETTING GO. LETTING GO CAN MEAN ANYTHING FROM LETTING GO OF AN OLD RELATIONSHIP, OLD JOB, OLD HABIT, ETC. THOSE OF YOU WHO ALSO FOLLOW MY SISTER BLOG, MOONTIDES, KNOW THAT RECENTLY MY LIFE HAS JUST ABOUT BEEN TURNED UPSIDE DOWN....MY SENSE OF COMFORT AND STABILITY IS IN THE AIR AND MY FUTURE UNCERTAIN. IT IS A TIME OF FEAR. BUT FEAR CAN HOLD YOU BACK FROM NEW BEGINNINGS. SO, TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE A SIMPLE RITUAL FOR 'LETTING GO. IN MY CASE, I NEED TO LET GO OF MY FEAR.'
"WRITE ON A PIECE OF PAPER IN RED INK ALL OF THE THINGS YOU WOULD LIKE TO LET GO OF. THIS CAN BE ANY OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE KEEP IN OUR LIVES BECAUSE OUR EGO NEEDS THEM. DRAW A CIRCLE AND CALL ON YOUR HELPERS. CLEANSE THE CIRCLE WITH INCENSE AND LIGHT A RED CANDLE WHILE CALLING ON YOUR HIGHER SELF TO HEAR WHAT YOU ARE ASKING. NOW, LIGHT THE PAPER FROM THE RED CANDLE AND VISUALIZE YOURSELF AS COMPLETELY FREE OF THE 'OLD' WHICH ARE HOLDING YOU BACK. "
Why the red candles, the red ink? Why is the color red is the color that we naturally think of as the color of pure energy, but where do you think red got this reputation? It is from the blood we shed every month, from the blood that is shed when we are born. What could give more power than the blood that holds the power over life? And what could better symbolize the committment to the new, a new life that is totally different. Feel the color coming into your every Being, with energy and renewal of spirit. Blessed be.
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I'm the wild bird that won't be tamed
The desire that you don't need to name
I'm the branch that becomes the flame
When the fire's done burning, I remain.
from "The God Song" by Starkawk
If man had been created
in the Horned God's image,
he would be free to be wild
without being cruel,
angry without being violent,
sexual without being coercive,
spiritual without being unsexed,
and able to truly love.
from "The Spiral Dance" by Starhawk
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East
Hail, Goddess of the East
Athena, Lady of Wisdom
With serpents entwined on your arms,
Athena, Lady of Battle,
With your shield and spear,
Your helmeted head,
You who have fought for many,
To bring honor and justice.
You who have woven many tapestries,
To bring art and beauty,
Athena, we invoke you,
Ancient weaver,
Proud Goddess,
Be with us now.
East Opening of Circle:
Goddesses of East,
Lilith, Athena, Cardea,
(pause a few seconds for other Goddess names to be called)
We give thanks for your presence here tonight,
Go in peace.
Blessed Be.
South
Hail, Goddess of the South,
Pele, volcano Goddess of Hawaii,
Queen of the islands,
We call upon you.
We give you our rage, our lust, and our anger,
That you may cleanse us,
With your fiery lava.
That you may empower us,
With your mighty flow.
That you may bless us,
With your beauty.
Be with us now.
South Opening of Circle:
Goddesses of South,
Pele, Vesta, Brigit,
(pause a few seconds for other Goddess names to be called)
We give thanks for your presence here tonight,
Go in peace.
Blessed Be.
West
Hail, Goddess of the West
Aphrodite, with your golden hair,
Arising from the sea,
Surrounded by white foam,
Being birthed by the waters,
Aphrodite, bless us
With your beauty,
With your love,
With your fertile, pregnant being,
That we may heal the Earth
And help her to bear fruit,
Be with us now.
West Opening of Circle:
Goddesses ofthe West,
Hecate, Aphrodite, Yemaya
(pause a few seconds for other Goddess names to be called)
We give thanks for your presence here tonight,
Go in peace.
Blessed Be.
North
Hail, Goddess of the North.
Demeter, Goddess of the golden grain and harvest.
Be with us, Earth Mother,
Heal us and heal our children.
Oh, Demeter,
You who have grieved for your daughter Persephone,
Spent your time searching the underworld,
You who have returned to us in your glory,
Bless our land and make it fertile.
Oh, Demeter,
Sacred Mother,
Blessed sister,
Fruitful earth,
We invoke you now.
North Opening of Circle:
Goddesses of North,
Guia, Demeter, Artemis,
(pause a few seconds for other Goddess names to be called)
We give thanks for your presence here tonight,
Go in peace.
Blessed Be.
Center
Hail, Goddess of Center
Great Eagle Woman,
Moon Mother,
Lighting the way,
Bringing vision,
Soaring over us
With great wings.
Oh Great Eagle Woman,
You bring death and destruction,
You bring birth and creation,
Wisdom woman flying high,
We call on you
To guide us now.
Blessed Be.
Center Opening of Circle:
Goddesses of Center,
Isis, Shekinah, Great Eagle Woman,
(pause a few seconds for other Goddess names to be called)
We give thanks for your presence here tonight,
Go in peace.
Blessed Be.
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Artemis, I sing thy praises.
From thy woodlands great
I call unto thee.
I have answered thee
In the dark of night.
Thy hands have fed me,
And I am full.
Thou Huntress of the Night,
Divine Protectress,
Keeper of all Mysteries,
Let thy light flood me with wisdom
And thy presence fill me.
I have answered thee
In the early morn.
Thy song has comforted me
And I am strong.
Great Goddess of Moon and Magic,
Mistress of the deer and owl,
Be thou my guide and inspiration.
Teach me thy mysteries,
And lead me in thy ways.
For I have seen thee beneath the cool, dark night,
And I have answered thee.
Notes on Artemis
Artemis was the "Lady of the Wild Things". In Artemis Brauronia (a precinct of Athens), the arkteria ("bear-service") was performed by the young women. The girls wore yellow bear skins and danced in a crouch bear position before the Goddess Artemis. A goat was then sacrificed. This ritual kept the girls safe from marriage for another year. Eventually, a saffron robe was used instead of the bear skin and, in place of the bear dance, the robes were dedicated to the Goddess.
Artemis shares with Apollo the ministry of death to mortals, reflecting the "darker underworld side of the Earth Mother". (Harrison p119) She is the Goddess of beasts, the earth, the moon and the hunt. As Artemis Agrotera, she was paid homage by hunters. They would pour a libation, crown her statue with flowers and sing hymns to her. (Harrison, "Mythology" pp 112-129) They would offer the first fruits of the game taken. They would then feast together with their dogs, whom they would also crown with flowers.
Artemis is one of the 12 Olympian gods. She is the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. She is also associated with Selene and Hecate. She was universally worshipped in Greece, Delos, Crete, Sicily and southern Italy. Armed with a silver bow, she is the "Rainer of Arrows" and uses arrows to punish, heal and reward. Sudden death in women is also attributed to Artemis.
Artemis was born without pain and is, therefore, invoked by women in childbirth. She is known as Ilythyia (the birth-goddess). She was born on the island of Ortygia, after which she helped her mother cross the water to the island of Delos, where she acted as mid-wife at the birth of Apollo. Her father, Zeus, took her on his knee and asked what gifts she wanted. She asked for eternal virginity and became one of the three goddesses whose heart cannot be moved by the power of Aphrodite (the others are Athena and Hestia). She also asked for a bow and arrows like Apollo's. She requested for 60 ocean nymphs to be her companions and 20 river nymphs from Crete to look after her hunting gear and hounds. She also asked for all the mountains in the world and one city. Zeus also made her the goddess of roads and harbors.
She captured alive two pairs of golden-horned, bronzed-hooved stags and harnessed them to a golden chariot. She jealously guards the honor of her mother and brother and sends heavy punishments on those who fail to giver due honor (such as first fruits, etc.).
She was called "Laphria" by the Calydonians. They would set up a circle of green logs around her altar. At the end of the procession which marched to the temple, the maiden priestess would ride in a car drawn by a deer. The next day, great numbers of live animals were hurled on to the fire lit by the green logs.
She was also called "Hermasia" (She who soothes), because her sanctuary at Melampus cured the daughters of Proetus of their madness. At Pyrrihicus in Laconia, where she stayed the advance of the Amazons, she was called "Astrateia". At Ephesus, she was known as Artemis Polymastus (Many-breasted); and she was worshipped as a fertility goddess whose symbol is the bee. ("The New Century Handbook of Greek Mythology and Legend")
As a goddess of nature and fecundity, Artemis was not always regarded as a virgin (in its modern definition). She was concerned with the loss of virginity and childbirth and encouraged women to be fruitful. In some places, maidens would offer a lock of their hair to her before marriage. Euripides says that Artemis, in her capacity of mid-wife, would not even speak to childless women. ("The Golden Bough; The Magic Art Vol. 1")
Names of Artemis
* Agrotera (Huntress)
* Coryphaea (Of the Peak)
* Limnaea and Limnatis (Of the Lake)
* Daphnaea (Of the Laurel)
* Lyceia or Lycea (Wolfish)
* Aeginea (Goat-Goddess)
* Caryatis (Of the Walnut tree)
* Cedreatis (Of the Cedar)
* Eurippa (Horse-finder)
* Hiereia (Priestess)
* Pyronia (Fire-Goddess)
* Peitho (Persuasion)
* Selasphorus and Phosphorus (Light-bearer)
* Ariste (Best)
* Calliste (Fairest)
* Paedotrophus (Nurse of Children)
Attributes of Artemis
* bow and quiver
* torch
* javelin
* crescent
Sacred to Artemis
* Laurel
* Fir tree
* hind
* bear
* dog
* boar
Hymns and Verses to Artemis
"Come with bows bent and with emptying of quivers,
Maiden most perfect, lady of light,
With a noise of winds and many rivers,
With a clamour of waters and with might,
Bind on thy sandals, O thou most fleet,
Over the splendor and speed of thy feet;
For the faint east quickens, the wan west shivers
Round the feet of the day and the feet of the night."
(Swinburne, "Atlanta")
"Maiden of the Mere, Timarete here brings,
Before she weds, her cymbals, her dear ball
To Thee, a Maid, her maiden offerings,
Her snood, her maiden dolls, their clothes and all.
Hold, Leto's Child, above Timarete
Thine hand and keep her virginal like thee."
("Anthology" [an offering before marriage])
"Hail to thee, Maiden blest, Proudest and holiest:
God's daughter, great in bliss,
Leto-born, Artemis!
Hail to thee, Maiden, far
Fairest of all that are,
Yea, and most high thine home,
Child of the Father's Hall;
Hear, O most virginal,
Hear, O most fair of all,
In high God's golden dome."
by Andrea E. Feeser
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