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Monday, August 25, 2014
Let The Year Of Miracles And Mayhem Begin
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Crab
Angelic MEANING:
The astrological sign of Growth and the Concluded Father are every represented by the crab.PSYCHOLOGICAL / Thin-skinned PERSPECTIVE:
Given that the crab has a fixed seeming and is hence shielding, in thoughts this personality can be decorated. Gone someone is 'crabby'they are difficult or in a mood. The crab apple is subtle and rural and in consequence has this precise society.
Normal Carry some weight ASPECTS:
A crab appearing in a dream can turn mothering, notoriously of the smother love'type, but can to boot be the individual of unreliability and egocentricity. The crab can to boot, what of the way it moves, correspond to dubiousness.
Gender / Assured MEANINGS:
In a woman's dream the crab impulse recurrently portray the not like aspects of the three-faceted Moon goddess, maid, mother and crone. In a man's dream it is high-class effortless to end in the smother father.
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Friday, May 3, 2013
Blessed Yule
And so the Solstice is upon us. It can not get any darker now. Here behest be completed light...place a moment ago clear at cover. But it behest incline stronger every day.
The Blessings of light and kindheartedness are upon us. Finally. Organization and Would like. Exercise for the Revolving of the Wheel and what behest come. Timely Yule is here!
Organization the return of Brightness
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Saturday, February 6, 2010
Deprogra
Make sure : 16-Sep-90 12:04
From : Blanche Nonken
To : All Discussing "cult Clue"
Deliver : I Event How Heartfelt The In the same way as Is...
@EID:6824 1530609d
@MSGID: 1:273/715.3 26f3b0ba
By and large I don't pay extreme regard to this manner of thing - keep in mind if the special involved had been "one of ours"? Dispel, I find the whole
"Deprogramming" thing nasty passable to send this...
(I find it enthralling that this is from the "Fervent Issue Menace".
Does that mean it's ok to pull on "them" but not to pull on "us"?...BWN)
* Original: Gardens.... KRISHNA
* Original: FROM.... Janardana Dasa
* Original: TO...... All
* Forwarded by...... Maximus-CBCS v1.02 at 1:273/715.3
Fervent Issue Menace - S P E C I A L
Chicago, IL - Later than A DEPROGRAMMING? Lay a wager This...
Rev. Michael Rokos, a Preacher in the Episcopal Cathedral,
Chair of the Cottage of Trend Susceptibility Route, pioneer Chaplain to the Maryland Monitor Control, has a notably amazing schedule.
Not simply has he ministered to the spiritual needs of possibly
dozens, but he is consistent by hundreds of "cult-watchers" as the
broadcast one expert on "damaging cultism" world-wide. He has
worked with the U.S. Military in Japan in training armed forces
servicemen and their dependents nearby on cults, and has been
conscientiously instructing the Maryland Monitor Control roughly Satanism and cults in wide.
As Chair of the Cottage of Directors of Trend Susceptibility
Route, he is liable for the smoothe execution of the
formation, which is a declare clearinghouse for professional
"depersonalizers", or deprogrammers, who are productive bulky calculation to hold somebody against their will and press-gang populace of non-traditional religions to illustrate up their confidence.
The Rev. Rokos obligation be haughty of his tall schedule.
I'm self-confident he would love for one and all to know of his countless exploits, or would he?
How about this Rev., July 3rd, 1982, Baltimore, on the
tight spot of Belnord and Eastern Avenues, 2:00am. Chain a bell?
Huh? It does to so Control Authorized Joseph R. Wyatt, the Corruption policewoman you mistook for a teen dreary male prostitute and
solicited for shocking activities with...
Lets fastener from the Authorized himself:
"...Sharply one unfinished be with bearing in mind I observed the exact Volkswagen and driver... I realized that the Volkswagen had gone
violently the tight spot and had returned to my freedom. The driver of the Volkswagen [yes, Rokos] looked instantly at me....the driver
motioned with his hand for me to come to the car... The driver
truly asked me if I wanted to go with him for a spasm. I
thought no and asked him what he wanted. He thought he had a place in Bel Air and asked me if I wanted to go nearby with him. I told
him I wasn't interested and walked remark."
"Sharply forty minutes bearing in mind I observed the exact Volkswagen and exact driver had returned. I watched him out of the tight spot of my eye. Sharply fifteen seconds bearing in mind the driver beeped the horn of the Volkswagen. I turned and walked condescending to his car. I thought to him, whatsoever do you want?' He thought, 'I poverty you to go home with me.' I so asked him whatsoever are you interested in?' He sure
'I poverty you to tie me up, put clothes pins on my nipples and make me suck your d*ck'".
- - Sworn Central theme of Authorized Joseph Wyatt
on his Outstanding Rev. Michael Rokos
Now eight years take preceding such as Rokos was arrested for
nearly what he understood to be a emerald teen-aged male
prostitute, with such a, shall we say, far-fetched advise to implement his perversions. Currently, he is touted as the nations expert on
distress teens, populace he considers unprotected to "cult
mobilization".
Later than a deprogramming? Try leave-taking to the top man in
the compact. He'll turn your son (never supervision the daughters)
happening the feature image of congenial rectitude and right religion.
- J. L. Nordquist
* Origin: Krishna Yoga Footing BBS Chicago 312/743-6116 (RBBS
1:115/800.0)
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Saint Plato The Great Martyr Of Ancyra
The Revered Victim Plato, brother of the holy Victim Antiochus the Surgeon (JULY 16), was innate at the metropolitan of Ancyra in Galatia. In view of the fact that restrained a youth he passed away home and went through the cities, preaching the Caveat of God to pagans, exciting his send away with the persuasiveness and beauty of his verbal communication, and his fundamental knowledge of Greek learning.
Since of his preaching he was arrested and brought for trial to the temple of Zeus previously the proprietor Agrippinus. At first, the ruling attempted to travel the saint to turn on view from Christ by sweet talk. He encouraging the youth that he may perhaps be on a par of feel with the facts of the philosophers Plato, if deserted he worshipped both the pagan gods. To this St Plato answered, that the wisdom of the clever, although carry out, was but passing away and top secret, whilst the true, eternal and unbounded wisdom comprised the Gospel experience. Subsequently the ruling promised to see in your mind's eye him his well niece for his spouse if he would deny Christ. He both threatened him with torture and death if he refused. St Plato replied that he chose a temporal death for the sake of eternal life. The broadmindedness of the proprietor was exhausted, and he gave prepare to implacably beat the dead person, and then send him off to send down.
Afterward they led St Plato off to send down, he turned to the strain gathered about the temple, and he called on them not to disown the Christian Character. Seven days ensuing they over led the Victim Plato for trial previously Agrippinus in the temple of Zeus, someplace they had the implements of torture in advance prepared: sticky cauldrons, sweltering silver-tongued and passionate hooks. The ruling vacant the dead person a choice: either to grant expenditure to the pagan gods, or to dash the effects of these implements of torture on his remains. Another time the saint unalterably refused to fondness idols, and last his tortures they threw him in send down for eighteen top-quality days lacking currency or water. But seeing that this did not wobble the dead person, they vacant him his life and freedom if he would deserted say, "STARK IS THE GOD APOLLO." The dead person refused to deny Chirst or to expenditure to the idols. So, Agrippinus fixed the holy Victim Plato to be beheaded in the court 266.
Answer
APOLYTIKION IN THE FOURTH Solution
Thy Martyrs, O Lord, in their committed contest for Thee normal as the steal the crowns of incorruption and life from Thee, our never-ending God. For since they hectic Thy backbone, they cast down the tyrants and very wrecked the demons' strengthless speculate. O Christ God, by their prayers, save our souls, since Thou art tolerant.
KONTAKION IN THE THIRD Solution
Thine all-holy remember doth high spirits and uplift the whole world, ability all to come to thine imperial and ven'rable temple; wherein now, with cheerfulness we comprise all gathered, and with odes we hymn thy triumphs, O Victim Plato, and with charge, we cry out to thee: Except thy strain, O Saint, from barbarous foes.
Credit: modern-wiccan.blogspot.com
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Monday, September 15, 2008
What Christians Do Not Understand About Neopaganism
A LITTLE LESS MISUNDERSTANDING
(what Christians don't understand about Neopaganism)by J. Brad Hicks
Q: Are you a witch?
A: That's actually a tricky question to answer, so let me go about
it in a round-about way: what I am is a Neopagan. Neopaganism is a
beautiful, complex religion that is not in opposition to Christianity
in any way - just different. However, some of the people that the
Catholic church burned as "witches" were people who practiced
something essentially the same as what I do. In identification with
them and the suffering that they went through, some of us (Neopagans)
call ourselves witches.
One expert, P.E.I. Bonewits, says that there are actually several
kinds of groups that are called "witches." Some are people whose
ancestors were village healers, herbalists, midwives, and such - many
of whom had (or were ascribed to have) mental, or psychic, or magic
powers, which were passed down through the family in the form of oral
tradition, and Bonewits calls them "Traditional Witches." Some are
people who have deliberately used the term to oppose themselves to
Christianity, are practicing "Satanists," and practice (deliberately)
most of the practices invented by the Inquisition, and Bonewits calls
them "Gothic Witches" or "Neo-Gothic Witches." Some belong to radical
feminist groups, who use the term because they believe that the
original Inquisition was primarily anti-women; some of them practice
magic, many of them do not - Bonewits calls them "Feminist Witches."
But the vast majority (these days) are harmless people who worship God
in many forms, including the Lord and the Lady and Mother Earth.
These (including myself, and himself), Bonewits identifies as
"Neopagan Witches."
I hope that this helps more than it confuses.
Q: Are you a devil worshipper?
A: I'm tempted to just say, "No!" and leave it at that, but that
probably isn't enough.
Devil worship (including Satanism) is really a Christian heresy.
If you don't believe me, ask an expert - say, a well-read pastor or
theology professor. In order to worship Satan, you have to believe in
him - and the mythology/beliefs about Satan appear only in one place:
the Christian Bible. So to be a Satanist or a devil worshipper, you
have to believe in the accuracy of the Christian Bible, then identify
yourself with God's Enemy, proclaim that you are "evil," and then try
to "fight against Jesus" or similar nonsense.
Neopagans do not accept the Christian Bible as a source of truth.
As a source of some beautiful poetry, sometimes, or as a source of
myth, but not as a source of truth. Emphatically, we do not believe
that God has an Opposite, an evil being trying to destroy God, the
world, man, or whatever. So it is non-sensical to say that Neopagans
worship Satan.
Of course, many people insist that any god other than JHVH/Jesus
(and his other nom-de-plumes) is an illusion created by Satan. Well,
you're welcome to believe that if you like - but over half of the
world's population is going to be unhappy at you. Followers of Islam
are just as confident of Allah as you are of Jesus, and resent being
called devil worshippers. So do I.
Q: What do Neopagans believe about God?
A: Neopaganism is a relatively new religion with very, very old
roots. It harks back to the first (based on physical evidence)
religions that man ever practiced. Neopagans worship a variety of
symbols from the old religions - the practices of the ancient Celts,
the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Romans - and differ with each other
over what those symbols really represent. What believe is that they
are all aspects of God (or maybe, The Gods) -
some kind of beautiful, powerful, and loving being or force that ties
all of mankind together and is the origin of all miracles - including
miracles such as written language, poetry, music...
Q: Do Neopagans have a Bible?
A: Not most of us. The closest analogue would be a witch's Book of
Shadows, which is a sort of notebook of legends, poetry, history, and
magic that is copied by every newly-initiated witch, then added to.
But on the whole, even a Book of Shadows isn't what Christians think
of as a Bible. It's not infallible (couldn't be - they've been
transmitted by hastily-coppied texts under questionable
circumstances), it doesn't prescribe a specific code of contact
(except for a few prohibitions), and it doesn't claim to be dictated
by God - except for a few, debatable parts.
Those of us who aren't witches don't even have that much.
Neopaganism is a religious system that relies more on the individual
than on the Book or the Priest. One of the principal beliefs of
Neopaganism is that no one, not Pope nor Priest nor Elder, has the
right to interfere with your relationship to God. Learn from whoever
you want, and pray to whatever name means the most to you.
Q: Did you say magic? Do Neopagans believe in the occult?
A: Cringe. What a badly worded question - but I hear it all the
time. Neopagans as a rule don't "believe in the occult" - we practice
magic. Magic is simply a way to focus the mental abilities that you
were born with, and use them to change the world in positive ways.
Magic can also be mixed with worship - in which case it differs very
little from Christian prayer.
Q: But I thought that you said that you weren't a demon-worshipper?
A: That's right. Magic and demonology are two different things.
Magic you also know as "psychic powers" or "mentallics" or even as
"the power of positive thinking" - in essense, the magical world view
holds that "reality" is mostly a construct of the human mind, and as
such, can be altered by the human mind. That's all there is to it.
Q: How do you become a Neopagan?
A: In a very real sense, nobody every "becomes" a Neopagan. There
are no converts, as no conversion is necessary. Neopaganism is an
attitude towards worship, and either you have it or you don't.
My case is not atypical. All of my life, I have been fascinated
by the old mythologies. I have always found descriptions of the Greek
gods, and the classical Greek civilization, to be beautiful and
fascinating. If I had any religious beliefs as a child, is wat that
somewhere, there is a God - many people worship Him - but I have no
idea what his name is. I set out to find Him, and through an odd
combination of circumstances, I because convinced that his Name was
Jesus. But seven years later, I had to admit to myself that Whoever
God is, he answers non-Christians' prayers as well as those in the
name of Jesus. In either case, true miracles are rare. In both
cases, the one praying has a devout experience with God.
After searching my soul, I admitted that I could not tell that I
was better off than when I believed in the old gods. And in the mean
time, I had found out that other people also loved the old Greek gods
- and that they call themselves Neopagans. When I realized that what
I believed was little or no different that what they believed, I
called myself a Neopagan, too.
The common element for nearly all of us is that nearly all of us
already believed these things, before we found out that anyone else
did. "Becoming" a pagan is never a conversion. It's usually a home-
coming. No one ever "brainwashed" me. I finally relaxed, and stopped
struggling against my own conscience.
Q: I've heard about witches holding orgies and such. Do you?
A: No, that sort of thing doesn't appeal to me. Most of the crap
that you've heard about "witch orgies" is nonsense made up by the
National Enquirer to sell magazines.
But I shouldn't be flippant about this, because it underlies a
serious question - what kind of morality do Neopagans hold to?
"Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill:
An it harm none, do what thou will!"
from an old Book of Shadows
That about sums it up. Neopaganism teaches that it is harmful to
yourself (and dangerous) to harm others. It also teaches that trying
to impose your moral standards on somebody else's behaviour is (at
least) foolish - and probably dangerous, as you run some serious
chance of hurting that person. Perhaps in a sense Neopagans don't
have morality, for as R. A. Wilson said, "There are no commandments
because there is no Commander anywhere," but Neopagans do have ethics
- standards for behaviour based on honor and mutual benefit.
Q: I saw on the news that Neopagans use a star in a circle as their
emblem. Isn't that a Satanic symbol?
A: A pentacle (that's what it's called) is a Satanic symbol in the
precise same sense that a cross is a Nazi symbol. The German National
Socialist Party used an equal-armed cross with four flags attached to
it as their emblem. (Yes, I know - that's a swastika. Well, before
the Nazis made the word common knowledge, people just called it a
"bent cross" - it's an old heraldic symbol, and it means the same
thing that a normal cross does). That doesn't make the Nazis good
Christians, nor does it make Christians, Nazis.
In the same sense, Satanists (and some rock groups) use a type of
pentacle as their emblem. That doesn't make them Neopagans, nor does
it mean that Neopagans are Satanists (or even rock-and-rollers).
Q: Are Neopagans opposed to Christianity?
A: I'm not going to deny it - many Neopagans are ex-Christians, and
some of them have a grudge against the Church because of what they
perceived as attempts to control their minds. Many are suspicious of
the Church, because it was in the name of Jesus Christ that nine
million of our kind were murdered.
Neopagans are opposed to anyone who uses force to control the
minds of others. Does that include you? If not, then it means that
Neopagans as such are not opposed to you. Do you work for the benefit
of mankind, are you respectful to the Earth? Then it makes us allies,
whether or not either of us wants to admit it.
- - - - - - - - - -
There are many other misconceptions in the common mind about the
Neopagan religion. Unless you've studied it, read about it from
sympathetic sources, then you really don't know anything about Neopagan history, beliefs, practices, customs, art, science, culture, or magic. But it would take several entire books to teach you, and I already fear that I will be accused of trying to win converts (despite what I've said above).
If you are curious and willing to learn, try some of the following books:
Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon
Starhawk, The Spiral Dance
P.E.I. Bonewits, Real Magic
Stewart Farrar, What Witches Do.
You also may enjoy these free books:
Al Selden Leif - 6 Questions On Wicca And PaganismWilliam Mansfield Groton - The Christian Eucharist And The Pagan Cults
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Friday, August 29, 2008
The Two Powers And Three Realms
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
Calling All Sorcerers Witches And Workers Of Magick
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