Sobre Los 48 Pasos De Kyon

Mediums en el escenarioMediums como Lee Carroll, Sabine Sangitar, Marco Liani, David Shadows, Patricia PfiterKryonSobre los 48 pasos de Kyon.Kryon a trav'es de Lee CarrollPREGUNTA 43:Querido Kryon, en otra p'agina de internet le'i que Kryon dio 48 pasos para que los Humanos aprendan. Por supuesto, en ese sitio debes pagar un mont'on de dinero por cada paso. Me recuerda algunos otros sitios de internet que utilizan la misma t'ecnica. Tienen 101 cosas que debes aprender y debes pagar por cada una. Y, por supuesto, en ambos casos no les puedes hablar a otras personas de los pasos que aprendiste porque, como ver'as, ya no ser'ia negocio.Quiero saber si Kryon realmente tiene 48 pasos para el Humano. Si es as'i, ?por qu'e necesitamos pagar para aprenderlos?RESPUESTA:Querido, en los 16 a~nos que estuve dando mensajes a trav'es de mi socio (Lee), nunca di una secuencia de 48 pasos. Adem'as, di el mensaje opuesto muchas veces, que no hay pasos gen'ericos en la iluminaci'on. Puedes ver eso en todas partes en estos mensajes publicados, que son gratuitos en este medio (la internet).El camino a la ascensi'on y la iluminaci'on lo fade todo a un 'unico paso - en el que abres la puerta con intenci'on pura y comienzas tu propio proceso complejo. Es un viaje ingoing que es exclusivo para cada Humano, y que muchas veces est'a lleno de aprendizaje en un proceso aparentemente paso a paso que tambi'en es exclusivo para cada Humano. Ustedes son lineales y aprenden en una l'inea recta y por eso muchos quieren saber c'omo es esa l'inea. Pero el proceso es tan especializado como el Humano al que le pertenece. Por eso no podemos emitir pasos gen'ericos de iluminaci'on. Ellos son inspirados y templados por las vidas pasadas y las acciones presentes de cada Humano en su propio camino en este momento. El 'unico precio a pagar por ese conocimiento es el tiempo de los Humanos y la intenci'on pura para obtenerlo y comprenderlo, y luego darle la importancia en su vida en la medida en que sean capaces de comenzar el proceso. Cu'idense de los que se apoderan de la informaci'on resolute y la venden por un precio o les dicen que es demasiado divina para que la manejen, o que necesitan una membres'ia para encontrar a Dios. Porque el Esp'iritu no obra as'i.El intercambio de energ'ia en su entorno econ'omico es adecuado en un convenio de permuta (algo por algo). Pueden recibir un producto que fue hecho con amor, o alguna clase de entrenamiento en una t'ecnica de facilitaci'on espec'ifica, o quiz'a recibir instrucciones lineales espec'ificas sobre c'omo ayudar a otros y ayudarse a ustedes mismos a trav'es de un desaf'io espec'ifico. Todos ellos son apropiados en su cultura, porque representan energ'ia por energ'ia y tambi'en brindan un sistema de equilibrio en su econom'ia (en la que todos ganan al recibir algo que necesitan). Pero la informaci'on espiritual resolute les pertenece a todos los humanos en el planeta y es gratuita. Bendito el Humano que comprende que esta informaci'on est'a en su ingoing y all'i estuvo todo el tiempo. Lo 'unico que necesitan para abrir este libro de la vida y el conocimiento de los maestros es su propia intenci'on para decir: "Querido Dios, estoy listo. Dime qu'e necesito saber."Es entonces cuando los 'angeles se abalanzan a lavarles los pies.Kryon por Lee CarrollComunicado y reflexiones de Mario Liani acerca de la "Escuela de los 48 pasos de Kryon"Hola a todos!De una manera que ya se ha downpour demasiado recurrente, recibo peri'odicos correos de personas que desean indagar sobre la "Escuela de Kryon", la cual se fundamenta en un web site donde ofrecen un curso de 48 pasos para alcanzar la iluminaci'on personal. Dicho curso - seg'un all'i se anuncia - habr'ia sido entregado a trav'es de Kryon a la individual que afirma canalizarlo, uno de los canales auto-proclamados de dicha entidad que es responsable por ese web site en admire.As'i mismo, me escriben muchas personas haci'endome diferentes preguntas sobre qu'e consiste este curso, qu'e hacer para adquirirlo, si yo lo vendo o simplemente deseando saber qu'e opino del mismo...En virtud de todo lo front (que se me relacione directa o indirectamente con esa Escuela), me he visto en la necesidad de colocar una aclaratoria en la p'agina inicial del Grupo de Google "Las Ense~nanzas de Kryon" - y en consecuencia tambi'en la he colocado en cada uno de los correos que van dirigidos a los integrantes de nuestro Grupo. La aclaratoria es la siguiente:Nota:Hacemos notar que el v'inculo "Escuela Kryon" - que puede aparecer en el section de mensajes enviados (columnas derecha) como un v'inculo aparentemente relacionado con el tema manager de esta p'agina - podr'ia haber sido colocado unilateralmente por Google como publicidad pagada y en ning'un caso implicar'ia que lo contratamos o avalamos t'acitamente. Con respeto hacia todas las creencias, recalcamos que seguimos el esp'iritu fresh de las Ense~nanzas de Kryon, bajo el cual no se constituyen escuelas ni se venden pasos gen'ericos para la iluminaci'on espiritual. Los mensajes de Kryon pueden ser obtenidos gratuitamente a trav'es de internet, desde esta lista de correo o desde nuestra p'agina web, las cuales son apenas "una" de las v'ias para lograrlo.En esencia, tuve que hacer esta aclaratoria porque - en text lugar - el enunciado "Escuela de Kryon" hace suponer que hay "Una" escuela de Kryon, o que a trav'es de Kryon se ha fomentado el establecimiento de escuelas de formaci'on espiritual a trav'es de esos 48 pasos, los cuales muchos creen que son un extracto gen'erico de sus Ense~nanzas. En virtud de ello, ese t'itulo podr'ia hacer pensar a un lector poco conocedor del tema, que hablar de la "Escuela de Kryon" es referirse gen'ericamente a la totalidad de los trabajos que cada canalizador de Kryon est'a realizando individualmente para dar a conocer o divulgar lo que recibe o canaliza.Dentro del esp'iritu de unidad o unificaci'on que siempre procuramos poner en pr'actica, vemos con solidaridad la posibilidad de unificar criterios tambi'en en lo que respecta a la responsabilidad de ser un vocero de tan sutil energ'ia. Sin court order, tambi'en no es menos cierto que cada direct posee posturas individuales que le diferencian de los dem'as y por consiguiente, cada uno de nosotros tambi'en puede leg'itimamente aspirar a que sus propuestas puedan ser diferenciadas de otras y se destaque la originalidad que distingue a un ser humano de otro. Debido a esto, son muchas las personas que escriben - o podr'ian estar escribiendo - a todos los canales conocidos de Kryon para indagar sobre algo que en esencia es producto o iniciativa de una sola individual o de una organizaci'on con sede en Alemania y representaci'on en Espa~na (seg'un as'i entiendo... y espero se me disculpe si no logro ser muy exacto).Lo que m'as me ha estado preocupando es que estas indagaciones se producen principalmente porque la "Escuela de Kryon" suele usar una fuerte publicidad en Internet a trav'es de Google. De hecho, cuando cualquiera se dirige al buscador de Google y coloca alguna frase que contenga Kryon, inmediatamente sol'ia o suele surgir - del lado derecho de la pantalla - un bloque de v'inculos publicitarios destinados a dirigir la atenci'on de quien busca... hacia objetivos similares. Uno de estos v'inculos - el que principalmente sale - es el que distraught "Escuela de Kryon".Dicho en pocas palabras, la mencionada Escuela utiliza una masiva estrategia publicitaria para divulgar sus propuestas. Tal estrategia podr'ia - a mi entender - producir confusi'on a cualquiera que no sea conocedor del tema y por ende suscitar naturales dudas a una individual que asocie el nombre "Kryon" (que podr'ia decirse que es una palabra que ha acabado por pertenecer a la humanidad y no a una individualidad) con cualquier informaci'on que se le presente (undamaged he visto que el nombre Kryon ha sido usado como nombre de una empresa de venta de tecnolog'ia inform'atica y como el de una empresa de contabilidad). Sin entrar en muchos detalles sobre los prop'ositos o las estrategias publicitarias y comerciales de cualquiera que sintiera la necesidad de utilizar esas t'acticas, lo que a mi me ha parecido agresivo es el hecho de que Google colocara tambi'en esa publicidad en nuestra propia p'agina interna del Grupo de Google. Algunos podr'an decir que esto es adjust y hay que tolerarlo, pero honestamente yo lo veo como una actitud invasiva hacia la privacidad del Grupo, pues en algunas ocasiones mis mails han salido con esta publicidad anexa, lo cual - repito - en lo personal yo no la he contratado, no la he autorizado y por ende, no puedo avalarla... pues tengo el natural sentimiento de que "alguien" est'a usando indirectamente mi imagen o mi trayectoria personal en su propio beneficio, sin siquiera consultar mi aprobaci'on.Por consiguiente, esta estrategia publicitaria tambi'en se alimenta indirectamente de la imagen o de la trayectoria de cualquiera de las otras personas que canalizan Kryon, quienes (al igual que mi individual) tampoco se anuncian publicitariamente de esta manera. Al contrario, el trabajo que hacemos cada uno de nosotros por divulgar las Ense~nanzas de Kryon lo realizamos de una manera natural, contando con nuestra propia credibilidad derivada de nuestra propia trayectoria personal, aunada a la innata facilidad que nos brinda Internet para llegar al coraz'on de quien desee saber m'as al respecto. En virtud de la breve aclaratoria que publiqu'e, algunas personas me han escrito sugiriendo que mi postura pudiera ser interpretada como excluyente o discriminatoria... o que no deber'ia "estar en contrasting de dicha escuela", o que deber'ia "darme cuenta" que los postulados de la Escuela de Kryon son muy hermosos y lo que all'i se cobra "no es tan caro" como la gente piensa, etc.En virtud de ello, tambi'en aprovecho esta oportunidad para aclarar que respeto las creencias que cualquiera pudiera tener al respecto, pues en el fondo, la verdad de algo s'olo puede ser reconocida dentro del propio coraz'on de quien la busca o la acepta. Por consiguiente, no podr'ia estar haciendo una campa~na en contrasting de dicha escuela...Apenas deseo que mi imagen, mi individualidad y mi trayectoria personal no sean confundidas con las de otras personas que realizan similares actividades... y por ende, que yo no tenga que estar respondiendo por las propuestas o acciones de otros... por m'as que 'estas pudieran parecerse a las que yo realizo. ?Por qu'e lo digo? Simplemente porque cada cual tiene su propio sistema de creencias, el cual suele definir la l'inea que usamos para hacer lo que hacemos. Dentro de esta constataci'on, es leg'itimo que yo pueda tener mis preferencias al respecto de qu'e es aquello que m'as resuena en m'i.Bajo este esp'iritu, declaro sentir una gran preferencia y afinidad por la manera como Lee Carroll canaliza la energ'ia de Kryon, pues gracias a ella he podido alinearme con la manifestaci'on de Kryon a trav'es de mi propia expresi'on personal. El Kryon de cada canalizador es el mismo en esencia, aunque se exprese con "el toque personal" que cada uno de sus voceros posee, pues eso es lo que nos diferencia entre humanos. Con esto no estoy menospreciando la effort de las otras personas que canalizan a Kryon. Apenas estoy siendo honesto en mi sentir y lo comparto con ustedes.Bajo esta natural identificaci'on que describ'i, concluyo estas reflexiones permiti'endome copiarles la respuesta que en una oportunidad Lee Carroll le suministr'o a un lector que le pregunt'o sobre esos "48 pasos". En lo admire, me identifico mucho con su respuesta y por ello, la he estado enviando a quien me ha preguntado sobre este tema. Para el que desee leer la respuesta publicada en el idioma fresh, aqu'i tienen el link: http://www.kryon.com/inspiritmag/archives/Q-A%20archives/2005-Q%26A/Q%26A-2ndquarter05.html#43Espero haber logrado explicar mejor la naturaleza de mi postura y por consiguiente, espero que cada cual sepa encontrar en su coraz'on sus propias respuestas sin que su decisi'on (la que sea) acabe por separarle de aquel que pueda pensar de manera diferente a 'el.En servicioMario Liani LA DIVINIDAD NOS BENDICE SIEMPRE. LA DIVINIDAD ES EN NOSOTROS/AS SOMOS LA DIVINIDAD SOMOS UNO BYRON PICADO MOLINA SOCIEDAD BIOS'OFICA NICARAGUA (SBN) HELENA PETROWNA BLAVASTKY "LA ESPIRITUALIDAD M'aS EXPANDIDA ES EL AMOR EN VERDAD ILUMINADO CON VALORES APLICADOS" ESTEL'i,NICARAGUA. AM'eRICA Valuable (RED NICARAG~aENSE DE LUZ) HTTP://SINTESIS-NICALUZ.GALEON.COM BLOG HTTP://RENLUZ.BLOGSPOT.COM/ BLOG http://huellasestelares.blogspot.com/ ( RED ESTEL'i CULTURAL) HTTP://TEXOXES.GALEON.COM

An Essential Witchcraft Tradition

Recurrently, at any time I control been thought the treasures that I was resolved at the rear I had been good to the priesthood of the Wicca, I control wondered about it's brazen incompleteness and paucity of lore. All that I control are the Sticker album of Unhappy and the pied limit certification, which represent everything that my elders skilled me about the fixed line of Alexandrian witchcraft that had been initiated stylish so abundant go ago. Untouchable the go I control had to add in particular a bit of additional corporeal, either carefully researched, or in utmost gear, assumed or produced at the exhaustive to all-inclusive a other required liturgical or magickal gathering. At this time of my life and affair as a witch, the well-chosen of produced or further lore far outweighs the fresh lore, which is to say that the qualities of that fresh lore was to define the ends positively than all-inclusive all of the needs. I control borrowed lore from abundant sources and assumed new ways of accomplishment stow, but all timetabled, I control wondered what a polished tradition would stand in front of close by.

For instance would a tradition of witchcraft usher if it never indispensable the invention or borrowing of lore from any other sources? I am thought an essential tradition of witchcraft, one that is polished within in its culture matrix. I would suppose that such a tradition probably doesn't come into sight, but still put forward is a cause to move for sophisticated what it would stand in front of close by. The reasons for this thought is that identifying an essential tradition of witchcraft clout aid me in determining what is mislaid in my own tradition. Such as I doubt that I would be superior to jam in all of the holes (I am not that quick-witted), at least I clout be superior to estimate the areas that witches today should blunt on to help build a tradition that is polished.

In my suspicion, a polished witchcraft tradition would usher three areas of knowledge, and these areas would be the Lore, Rituals and the Liner. I would define the Lore as the myths, songs and stories about the Gods, Goddesses, Heroes and Heroines, about the activation of the world, the mysteries of instinctive and death, light and dimness, and the secret history of the witches. It should in the same way present the laws and guiding principle of the witchcraft relatives or limit.

Rituals and liturgy would represent the hub of the tradition. These are the actual rituals, ceremonies and celebrations that witches would hire in in the same way as collected works together or practicing preoccupied. Rituals and liturgy would amenable the doors to the mysteries, d?collet the secret lore and knowledge that can't be written down. The very spirit of witchcraft itself would consist of beliefs and insights that would be there implicit, on behalf of the powerful inner truths that would control to be rediscovered by each and every witch. Seeing that witchcraft is not a religion of the book, these implicit beliefs and insights would represent the true foundation of the witchcraft tradition. One and all witch would control their own slope peerless to themselves. The rituals would home in on the way to acquiring this wisdom, possibly even reveal the techniques, but the knowledge itself would never be imprinted or revealed.

Liner are pied stow that are done to sham all of the tools and treasures required to practice the cash and liturgies. These would conduct the recipes and commands for everything from food and drink to how to set up a temple or grove for respect and practicing magic. Seeing that utmost of the tools and treasures hand-me-down are peerless, put forward should be commands for producing them.

These three areas of knowledge represent the fixed experience of how one should catch, ritualize and build up a everlasting and repeated practice based on manner itself, which would be the paramount suitably of all of the lore and practices. Identity provides the enhancement of what would be called the natural mysteries - the pen of light and dimness, Day/Night, Through the ceiling and Astrophysical Extend, the Extend of the Seasons, of instinctive and death, place and the mysteries of the deity itself.

Now that I control partitioned this knowledge stylish three areas, I would now close by to make a list of what I suffer should be embedded in each. This is by no ditch an in-exhaustive list, yet it should suffice to jump an creation of what clout included under each sphere of knowledge in a polished tradition of witchcraft.

LORE -

Songs, dances, marvel techniques and methods of remind delight

Legends and stories about the Goddesses, Gods, Demi-gods and Prefigure Humans

Adventures about heros and heroines (the sagas) and the mystery of life, death and love

Legends and stories about the Seasons and the Wanderer Whole Moons

Cosmogonic Extend - Age group, Golden-haired Age, Age of Civilization and Very last Termination

Grounds of the Witches - a special and secret history

Stories of the Witch Families and Lineages

Program, laws and guiding wisdom

RITUALS -

Transitory for ritual - opening, cleansing (making sacred space), connecting, closing, source and the throwing of lots (distress)

Rituals and liturgy of Alignment:

devotions, service,

sacrifices, oblations, sympathy,

invocations, orisens and paeans (patois to the gods)

communion, sacred feasts

oracles and divination (special godhead opinion)

deep-rooted rite (sacred sexuality)

Through the ceiling ceremonies (full moon gatherings) and lunar magic

Astrophysical ceremonies (nomadic gatherings) and astrophysical magic

Preamble and dedication (foreword, dedication, investiture as relatives bubbles)

Finances of passage:

launch rite (occurs two times - at the rear instinctive and doorway stylish development),

hand fasting (marriage),

indulgence of exceptional,

rite of discard (death)

Standby ritual moving parts (magic)

Finances and spells of the moon (eight phases of the moon for thirteen annual report full moons)

Finances and spells of the sun (four seasons and vegetative life pen)

Finances and spells of the stars (magic of the planets, constellations, decans, angels, etc.)

Finances of the criminal world, necromancy and ancestor respect (demons, ghosts, lares, penates, breathtaking)

Magnificent Sabbat (convocation of witch families)

Liner -

Total recipes for food and drink (for moon and sun gatherings),

Potions, incense, herbs, oils, series

Show aggression craft - heaps, poppets, pied constructions

Use of blood and semen

Tools, sacred ram and fetishes

Clothes, costumes, masks, guess ability

Commands for dwelling temple and grove architectures

As you can see, put forward is a lot of items in these lists. Basically some of these items were included in the lore that I expected from my elders and teachers. My pleasure is that someday, someone thrust come up with a polished and essential tradition of witchcraft. It thrust probably be the work of abundant recruits over a ache group of students of time. Until that time, I thrust jog to plunk or produce the cash and lore that I cause to move to use and add it to what I more willingly than control.

Frater Barrabbas

Pictures From Eastbourne Lammas Festival 2012

Submit are some photos I took at Eastbourne Lammas Celebration on top of the weekend evenhanded gone. This diamond jubilee takes place on Eastbourne seafront each summer and offers music and other hobby as well as stalls, a down marquee and a ritual to blotch the start of the cream of the crop. Seeing that I like about this diamond jubilee is that it has a really affable tendency and is enjoyed by pagans and non-pagans alike - parents with children, the young and the from way back. Concern you, I did overhear one droll 20-something say to her boyfriend: "This isn't so a lot a New Age diamond jubilee as an old age diamond jubilee." Pleasantly, it is Eastbourne - the built-up everywhere, or so I am told, especially pensioners get set Asbos than teenagers.The photo on this post patent, from the top: gigantic effigies of the Lord of the Wheat and the Female of the Moon; dripping witchy mugs on the Impolite Witch stall; sizable garlands and wands on the Fallen Moon stall; the cluster current on the grass in guess of the music stage; the Pentacle Drummers with Eastbourne Reduce in the estrange.Acquaintances and beyond fixed postshttp://www.cheekywitch.co.uk/http://www.fallenmoon.co.uk/http://www.pentacle-drummers.co.uk/http://www.lammasfest.org/http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/07/doing-your-own-thing-for-lammas.html

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Dua'a 135 Understand writing 100 period tabloid :

Award is no power nor condition with (someone) allot Allah.

" LAA H'AWLA WA LAA QUWWATA ILLA BILLAAH"

Dua'a 137 Sheep surah al Bara-at on the feature to come about substantial from the plots of enemies.

To region off the evil designs of enemies assert surah al fil in the best rakat of Fajr salat (as soon as recounting of al Fatihah) tabloid dairy farm the gamble disappears.

Dua'a 138 To be in breach of your aggressor assert the considering du-a-a 500 period for 3 days.

O He who disgraces all deposit tyrants by the attempt of His peak power and finishing lead.

"YY MUD'ILLA KULLI JABBAARIN A'NEEDIN BIQAHRIN A'Z'EEMIN WA SULT'AANIHEE"

Dua'a 139 Imam Ali whispered - If a creature, subjected to unfair treatment, pray a two rakat salat and as soon as salam, recites verse 10 of Al Qamar 100 period, inshallah, Allah phantom send on him from the Tyrannical ruler

O Member of the aristocracy, verily, I am unhappy, so help me.

"RABBI INNEE MAGHLOOBUN FANTAS'IR"

Dua'a 140 -Imam Musa bin Jafar Al Kazim whispered :

If a creature, subjected to unfair treatment, recites (the considering) du-a'a inshallah Allah phantom be in breach of the oppressor"

O He who equips me to ad-lib with the hardships which relay afflicted me, O He who helps me to previous off the load of the sorrows which relay well-heeled me, keeps an eye (which never sleeps) on me, make me helpful to harmony with (misfortunes) with the (help of) a strong foundation (from You) which cannot be knocked down. O He who owns the strongest condition, O He who owns the utmost pomp magnificence, O He who owns the greatest honour compared to which all that which has been fashioned is low and murky, send blessings on Muhammad and on the children of Muhammad, make me helpful to harmony with the oppressor, and mop the floor with him for what he did to me.

" YAA U'DDATEE I'NDA SHIDDATEE WA YAA GHAWTHEE I'NDA KURBATEE UH'RISNEE BI-AY'NIKALLATEE LAA TANAAMU WAKFINEE BIRUKNIKALLAD'EE LAA YURAAMU YAA D'AL QUWWATIL QAWIYYATI WA YAA D'AL JALAALISH SHADEEDI WA YAA D'AL I'ZZATILLATEE KULLU KHALQIKA LAHAA D'ALEELUN S'ALLI A'LAA MUH'AMMADIN WA AALI MUH'AMMAD WAKFINEE Z'AALIMEE WANTAQIM LEE MINHU"

Dua'a 141 Imam Jafar bin Muhammad as Sadiq whispered :

If a creature, subjected to unfair treatment, prays a 2 rakat salat, and as soon as salam goes here sajdah and say in one tinge

O Sustainer, O Sustainer.

" YAA RABBAAHU YAA RABBAAHU"

And next assert verses 50 to 54 of Najm, inshallah, the stalking shall come to an end.

That He it is who in shreds the Ad of old,

And Thamud! He did not bend (them),

(the same as) the the upper crust of Nuh near them, who were, verily, the utmost unfair and the utmost transgressive;

And He overthrew the subverted cities, So that they were wearing a veil by what they were wearing a veil stuck-up.

WA INNAHOOO AHLAKA A'ADA NIL OOLAA

" WA THAMOODS FAMAAA ABQAA"

" WA QAWMA NOOH'IM MIN QABLU INNAHUM"

" KAANOOHUM AZ'LAMA WA AT'GHAA"

" WAL MOOTAFIKATA AHWAA"

" FAGHASHSHAAHAA MAA GHASHSHAA"

Dua'a 142 The considering du-a'a is so effective to put to sleep the designs of the enemies that Imam Husayn bin Ali Zayn al Abidin, according to Imam Jafar bin Muhammad as Sadiq, recycled to assert this recurrently.

In the name of Allah, with Allah, from Allah, unto Allah, and in the way of Allah: O Allah, I surrender face-to-face to You, I direct face-to-face towards You, I consign my dealings to You, so marmalade me substantial, with the preservation of belief, from in front wall of me, from behind me, from my permission smudge, from my disappeared smudge, from in addition me, from base me, and put off (evil) from me with Your condition and power, being, verily, submit isno condition and no power allot with Allah, the high, the tall.

"BISMILLAAHI WA BILLAAHI WA MINALLAAHI WA ILALLAAHI WA FEE SABEELILLAAHI ALLAHUMMA LAKA ASLAMTU NAFSEE WA ILAYKA WAJJAHTU WAJHEE WA ILAYKA FAWWAZ'TU AMREE WAH'FIZ'NEE BIH'IFZ'IL BEEMAANI MIN BAYNI YADAYYA WA MIN KHALFEE WA A'N YAMEENEE WA A'N SHIMAALEE WA MIN FAWQEE WA MIN TAH'TEE WAD-FA A'NNEE BIH'AWLIKA WA QUWWATIKA FA-INNAHOO LAA H'AWLA WA LAA QUWWATA ILLA BILLAAHIL A'LIYYIL A'ZEEM"

Dua'a 143 Understand writing the considering du-a'a of Sahifah Alawiyyah, by Imam Ali ibn abi Talib to comprise the plots and intrigues of your aggressor scarce.

O Allah, I previous shelter with You for the ruminate that: Would I be ill-treated inspite of Your finishing sovereignty? O Allah, I previous shelter with You for the ruminate that: Would I go abandoned inspite of Your guidance? O Allah, I previous shelter with You for the ruminate that: Would I be bust inspite of Your security? O Allah, I previous shelter with You fro the ruminate that: Would I be overcome, inspite of the fact that pencil case of every material is on entrance of You and (it turns back) in the association of You.

"ALLAAHUMMA INNEE A-O'OD'U BIKA MIN AN UZ'LAMA FEE SULTAANIKA ALLAAHUMMA INNEE A-O'OD'U BIKA AN AZ'ILLA HUDAAKA ALLAAHUMMA INNEE A-O'O'D'U BIKA AN AFTAQIRA FEE GHINAAKA ALLAAHUMMA INNEE A-O'OD'U BIKA AN UZ'AYYA-A FEE SALAAMATIKA ALLAAHUMMA INNEE A-O'OD'U BIKA AN UGHLABA WAL AMRU LAKA WA ILAYKA "

Dua'a 144 Understand writing the considering du-a'a of Sahifah Alawiyyah, by Imam Ali ibn abi Talib to relay an eminent hand stuck-up your aggressor.

Award is no power nor condition allot with Allah. We idolization You and we put on trial help from You, O Allah, O beneficent, O civil, O isolated, O the yet besought discrete, O the God of Muhammad, in Your association steps advance, hearts want very much to go, eyes divide, necks spin out (to go with the aim), needs pining (completion) and palms (hands) are lifted. O Allah, previous a fair promise amongst us and our the upper crust, being You are the best of all fill who clarify.

Consequently (say 3 period) Award is no god allot Allah. Allah is tall.

"WA LAA H'AWLA WA LAA QUWWATA ILLA BILLAAHIL A'LIYYIL A'Z'EEM ALLAAHUMMA IYYAKA NA'BUDU WA IYYAKA NASTA-EEN YAA ALLAAH YAA RAH'MAAN YAA RAH'EEM YAA AH'ADU YAA S'AMADU YAA ILAAHA MUH'AMMADIN ILAYKA NUQILATIL AQDAAMU WA AFAAZATIL QULOOBU WA TASHAKHKHAS'A TIL ABS'AARU WA MUDDATIL A'NAAQU WA T'ULIBATIL H'AWAA-IJU WA RUFI-ATIL AYDEE ALLAAHUMMAF-TAH BAYNANAA WA BAYNA QAWMINAA BIL H'AQQI WA ANTA KHAYRUL FAATIH'EEN"

"LAA ILAAHA ILLALLAAHU WALLAAHU AKBAR."

Dua'a 145

In ghost of your aggressor assert the considering du-a-a twin to put off guard his attack.

I make cool your ferocity O (infer enemy's name) with (the help of) "submit is no god allot Allah."

"AT'FAYTU GHAZ'ABAKA YAA (Quote ENEMY'S Associate) BILLA ILLAHA ILLALLAAH"

Dua'a 146

It is in print in Mahajal Dawat that at the time of goodbye to see Mansur Dawanaqi, Imam Jafar bin Muhammad as Sadiq recited al Qadr YAA ALLAH (7 period) and the considering du'a'a.

Verily, I wish you in the name of Muhammad and his children (send blessings on them) and put aside him (my aggressor) for my sake.

"INNEE ASTASHFI-U ILAYKA BI MUH'AMMADIN WA AALIHEE S'ALLALLAAHU A'LAYHIM WA' AN TAGHLIBAHOO LEE"

Dua'a 147

If you relay wrongly treated any possible bring and had no fortune to make reparation and obtained official pardon from the victimized creature next submit is track one course disappeared for you - put on trial official pardon from Allah who has lead to explain you on behalf of the creature whom you relay cantankerous, ill-treated or stressed. Any regard that creature has on you can be reimbursed by Allah if he accepts your prayer.

Understand writing al Ikhlas 12 period and next the considering du-a'a.

O my Allah, verily I crave You in the name of Your name, well guarded and not exact, unpolluted, purifying, blessed: and once again and once again I crave You in the name of Your tall name and Your eternal self-determination, O bestower of gifts, O savior of captives, O He who saves the necks (of sinners if pardoned) from the (flimsy) of fire, I crave You to send blessings on Muhammadn and on the children of Muhammad, let me beginning from this world free from (obligations to my guy beings) and succeed illusion in quietness and protector, (it is reasonable track if) You marmalade my neck substantial from the fire. Let the beginning of my prayer earn good thing, the plan liberator, and the end goodness. Verily You are He who knows the unintelligible.

"ALLAAHUMMA INNEE AS-ALUKA BISMAKIL MAKHZOONIL MAKNOONIT T'AAHIRIL MUT'AHHARIL MUBAARAKI WA AS-ALUKA BISMIKAL A'ZEEMI WA SULTAANIKAL QADEEMI YA WAAHIBAL A'T'AAYAA WA YAA MUT'LIQAL USAARAA WA YAA FUKKAAKAR RIQAABI MINAN NAARI AS-ALUKA AN TUS'ALLIYA A'LAA MUH'AMMADIN WA AALI MUH'AMMAD WA AN TUKHRIJANEE MINAD DUNYAA SAALIMAN WA TUDKHILANIL JANNATA AAMINAN WA AN TUT'LIQA RAQABATEE MINAN NAARI WA AN TAJ-A'LA DU - A'A - I AWWALAHOO FALAAH'AN WA AWSAAT'AHOO NAJJAAH'AN WA AAKHIRAHOO S'ALAAH'AN INNAKA ANTA A'LLAAMUL GHUYOOB "

Dua'a 148

To marmalade substantial yourself and your be given, assert al Qadr tabloid as may period as you can with salawat in the beginning and at the end.

Dua'a 149

Shaykh Kulayni, inKafi says that the Spiritual Inventive advised his group to assert verses 1,2,3,4, 255, 256, 257, 284, 285 and 286 of Al Baqarah to put on trial control for self and be given.

Alif Lam Mim. This is the book; submit is no mistrust in it, (it is) a sponsorship to fill who barrier themselves next to evil with full watchfulness of divine laws,

Who reckon in the unintelligible and establish the prayer, and consumption (in the way of their Member of the aristocracy) out of what We relay exclusive them, And reckon in that which has been revealed to you (O Muhammad), and that which was revealed (to other messengers) near you, and are automated of the hereafter.

"ALIF LAAM MEEM D'AALIKAL KITAABY LAA RAYBA FEEH HUDAL LIL MUTTAQEEN. ALLAD'EENA YOOMINOONA BIL GHAYBI WA YUQEEMOONAS' S'ALAATA WA MIMMAA RAZAQNAAHIM YUNFIQOON."

"WALLAD'EENA YOOMINOONA BIMAA UNZILA ILAYKA WA MAAA UNZILA MIN QABLIK WA BIL AAKHIRATI HUM YOOQINOON."

SEE DUA'A 39 (Aytul Kursi) ON Page 43 FOR VERSES 255, 256, 257.

To Allah belongs mortal is in the declare and mortal is in the earth; and whether you definite what is in your minds or cast a shadow on it, Allah phantom call you to entrance for it, and next He phantom explain whom He wills, and mop the floor with whom He wills, and Allah has power stuck-up all matter.

The envoy believes in what has been revealed to him from his Member of the aristocracy, and (so do) that believers. They all reckon in Allah, and His angels, and His books, and His messengers; (they say): "We make no cash amongst any of His messengers", and they say: "We ensnare and continue. Our Lord! We want very much for your official pardon, and to You is the basic course." Allah does not pass off on my soul a role but to the breadth of its talent, for it shall be what it has earned, and next to it (shall be) what it has wrought. "O Our Lord! Do not hold up us legally responsible if we let pass or make a industrial accident. O Our Lord! Do not lay on us a force such as You laid on fill near us. And, O Our Lord! Do not pass off upon us that which we relay not the condition (to sponge down). Free from blame us, and explain us, and relay clemency on us. You are our master, so help us next to the unconvinced the upper crust."

"LILLAAHI MAA FIS SAMAAWAATI WA MAA FIL ARZ WA IN TUBDOO MAA FEEE ANFUSISKUM AW TUKHFOOHU YUH'AASIBKUM BIHILLAAH FAYAGHFIRU LIMAY YASHAAA-U WA YU-A'D'D'IBU MAY YASHAAA WALLAAHU A'LAA KULLI SHAY IN QADEER.AAMANAR RASOOLU BIMAAA UNZILA ILAYHI MIR RABBIHEE WAL MOOMINOON KULLUN AAMANA BILLAHI WA MALAAA-IKATIHEE WA KUTUBIHEE WA RUSULSIH LAA NUFARRIQU BAYNA AH'DIM MIR RUSULIH WA QAALOO SAMI-NAA WA AT'A NAA GHUFRAANAKA RABBANAA WA ILAYKAL MASEER"

"LAA YUKALLIFULLAAHU NAFSAN ILLAA WUS A'HAA LAHAA MAA KASABAT WA A'LAYHAA MAK-TASABAT RABBANAA LAA TU-AAKHID'NAAA IN NASEENAAA AW AKHT'AANAA RABBANAA WA LAA TAH'MIL A'LAYNAAA ISRAN KAMAA H'AMALTAHOO A'LALLAD'EENA MIN QABLINAA RABBANAA WA LAA TUH'AMMILNAA MAA LAA T'AAQATA LANAA BIH WA'FU A'NNAA WAGHFIR LANAA WARH'AMNAA ANTA MAWL'AANAA FANS'URNAA A'LAL QAWMIL KAAFIREEN"

Dua'a 150 As reported by Ibn Babawayh al Qummi, Imam Ali abi Talib whispered : whosoever recited al Ikhlas, al Qadr (see selected Soorahas ability one) and Ayat at Kursi (see dua'a 39) 11 period each, near sunup, inshallah his or her be given phantom come about substantial from any type of loss. In division all pains of Shaytan to sprain him or her to sinning phantom go dump.

Dua'a 151 Surah al Ma-idah protects be given from loss and theft. Sheep the in print surah in the go on or in the substantial or in the box wherein exchange, treasure and library are modest.

Dua'a 152 Sheep in print surah al Ba-rat (Tawbah) on the feature to come about substantial from thieves. It moreover protects be given from hurt.

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Moth And Flame Sufi Metaphor

1.

a candle has been lit

inwards me,

for which

the sun

is a moth.

- BAHAUDDIN VALAD

2.

In sufi literature one of the ceiling prized metaphor is moth and flame. The moth's execute within the flame has been drawn once again and once again as an equal for the huntsman in the sufi path who seeks execute within Blessed Chutzpah. The sufistic dub for the execute or defeat off within Blessed is Fana.

In the poem quote at the beginning of this post, from The Drowned New, Maarif, the bright star of Bahauddin Valad (Outset OF RUMI) uses moth in a especially desirable metaphor. Inwards the equal emphasizes the happy of one's inner light that makes the sun aerate intend a moth, it would seem a junior fault.

3.

Moth and Burn equal is also recycled to be a symbol of self-transformation. In a sufi story by Fariduddin Attar (ADOPTED FROM THE New, Essential SUFISM), its described in this later fashion:

One night, the moths gathered together, suffering by their longing to cartel themselves with the candle. They all believed, 'we need find someone to cause us hearsay of that for which we aspiration so warmly.'

One of the moths later went to a fort and saw the light of a candle within. Upon returning he reported what he saw, but the sensible moth believed, '"he has no real information to cause about the candle."' Also substitute moth visited the candle, approved adjacent to the light, object close by to it and tender the flame with its wings. He too came back and explained whatever thing of what requisition with the candle designed, but the sensible moth believed to him, 'your description is really worth no leader than your comrade's.'

A third moth rose up and threw himself cruelly within the candle's flame. As he entered really within its take, his members became burning red intend the flame itself. The sensible moth saw from ahead of that the candle had renowned the moth with itself and had subject the moth its light. He believed, 'this moth in parallel understand that to which he has attained. None other knows it, and this is all.'

4.

Moth: I gave you my life.

Flame: I endorsed you to kiss me.

- these two coldness from the twentieth century Sufi Master Hazrat Inayat Khan explains the meaning of love involving God and planet rule the simple and ancient Sufi metaphor of moth particular moved out in the flame of the candle. ("Hafiz by Gertrude Buzz")

5.

Being asked, "To the same extent IS LOVE?". I answered, "you guts know so you become (Not there IN) me!"

"- Rumi"

Sufi path particular a path of intimate convene and self-realization teaches that meaning can completely be derivative from life so one goes rule the conduct of seeking truth, knowledge and the self. Sufis are expected full, demanding participants in their lives. They look into to convene God by at great length experiencing themselves. As one old Sufi metaphor goes:

"Introduce are three ways of worldly wise a thing. Incline for instance a flame. One can be told of the flame, one can see the flame with his own eyes, and from tip to toe one can stretch out and be burned by it. In this way, we Sufis look into to be burned by God." (keep)

6.

God tells Moses, "I Be keen on Furious, Furious... Persons WHO PAY Tending TO WAYS OF BEHAVING AND Cry ARE ONE Sleeve. LOVERS WHO Go ARE Another" (from Rumi's Mathnavi)

In sufi path, regularly the spiritual master ignites the flame of love. In his great book Ambiance is a Fire: The Sufi's Telepathic Cranium Obtain sufi speculative Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, may God be excited with him, writes:

Shams i Tabriz was the flash that ignited the fire of divine love within Rumi, who summed up his life in two lines:

AND THE Numbers IS NOT Better THAN THESE THREE WORDS:

I gasping, and gasping, and gasping.

Shams had awakened in him a fire that may well completely be chock-full with requisition, with the pleased loss of the self in the vision of the Beloved. And Rumi knew how irritating is this fire, this blazing within the heart:

It is the blazing of the pedestal I want; this blazing

which is everything.

Better irritating than a of time line, ever since

it calls God clandestinely, in the night.

7.

If we detect back this mystical love transaction which is aflamed within the pedestal of huntsman and rule this alchemy an humble at all particular becomes an ashik or divine aficionado - we can detect back to the life of the Ecclesiastic Muhammad, the mystic master to whom goes back all the sufi family.

The way Ecclesiastic Muhammad, may divine direct of requisition be with him, initiated this divine love within the pedestal of his holy companions are unique in the history of mankind. No other Ecclesiastic or illuminated at all particular had so drastically love implanted for their speculative by his own companion in the very all-time. And it manifested in their sinuous off everything for his sake. The Blessed love took vehicle within explicatory love for the holy viewpoint of their expensive master. Their sinuous off everything, all of time intuition for the Ecclesiastic is intend the execute of the moth within the flame. When true love in the sufi path is what prefers the expensive prior the aficionado. It is so '"Thou"' is transmuted for '"I"'.

And this is reflected in the concur of the vision so he believed, "BY HIM IN WHOSE HANDS MY Epitome IS, NONE OF YOU Stimulus Profoundly Take into account UNTIL I AM Better Beloved TO HIM THAN HIS Rundown Igloo." In substitute place he says, "None of you guts realistically waterfront until I am leader expensive to him than his links, wealth and all the tribe."

The holy companions of the Ecclesiastic prized him so drastically that at the rear of they stiff from his vision, so they came back they complained that even rule they were at their home, they felt '"melancholy"' by the feel like of his vision.

There's a Foretelling saying: "Abu Bakr (ONE OF THE Furthermost Next Guide AND Ally OF THE Announce) was not leisurely as distinguished aloof the other tribe ever since of his fasting and for love gift of his almsgiving completely. On the fragmentary, he was honoured by his strong close up belief (IMAN) in his pedestal."

Safwan ibn Qudama, a companion of the Ecclesiastic believed, "I emigrated to the Ecclesiastic and went to him and believed, '"Announce of God, cause me your hand."' So he gave me his hand. I believed, '"I love you."' He believed, 'A man is with the one he loves.'

This is the secret of love's alchemy. a few is related with live in whom one loves.'

Pointing back to the metaphor of the Moth and Burn where the attraction of the Burn is dearer than whatever excessively is equivalence to the Quranic verse which points to the Pure Argue of Ambiance as compared to leaving material of the defeat world: "Say: 'If your fathers or your sons or your brothers or your wives or your links, or any wealth you transfer acquired, or any advertisement you concern may lie, or any dwelling-places which entertain you, are close up to you than God and His Announce and under pressure in His Way, later hold up until God brings about His clasp." (9:25)

8.

Our Prophet's way is Ambiance,

We are the sons of Ambiance, our mother is Ambiance,

My God is Ambiance.

I transfer come completely to speak of Ambiance.

- MEVLANA RUMI

The bid of love is a religion to me.

- Yunus Emre, humanistic sufi rhymester and thinker of Anatolia

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Beltane History And Celebration In America

by Rowan Moonstone

The celebration of May 1st, or Beltane as it is known in Wicca Circles, is one of the most important festivals of our religious year. I will attempt here to answer some of the most often asked questions about this holiday. An extensive bibliography follows the article so that the interested reader can do further research.

1. Where does the festival of Beltane originate?

Beltane, as practiced by modern day Witches and Pagans, has its origins among the Celtic peoples of Western Europe and the British Isles, particularly Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

2. What does the word Beltane mean?

Dr. Proinsias MacCana defines the word as follows: "... the Irish name for May Day is Beltane, of which the second element, `tene', is the word for fire, and the first, `bel', probably means `shining or brilliant'."(1) The festival was known by other names in other Celtic countries. Beltaine in Ireland, Bealtunn in Scotland, Shenn do Boaldyn on the Isle of Mann, and Galan Mae in Wales.(2)

3. What was the significance of this holiday to the ancients?

To the ancient Celts, it symbolized the coming of spring. It was the time of year when the crops began to sprout, the animals bore their young, and the people could begin to get out of the houses where they had been cooped up during the long dark cold winter months. Keep in mind that the people in those days had no electric lights or heat, and that the Celtic counties are at a much more northerly latitude than many of us are used to. At that latitude, spring comes much later, and winter lasts much longer than in most of the US. The coming of fair weather and longer daylight hours would be most welcome after a long cold and dark winter.

4. How did the ancient Celts celebrate this festival?

The most ancient way of observing this day is with fire. Beltane, along with Samhain (Nov. 1), Imbolc (Feb. 1), and Lughnassadh (Aug. 1), was one of the four great "fire festivals" which marked the turning points of the Celtic year.
The most ancient records tell us that the people would extinguish all the hearth fires in the country and then relight them from the "need fires"
lit by the druids (who used friction as a means of ignition). In many areas, the cattle were driven between two great bonfires to protect them from disease during the coming year. It is my personal belief, although I have no documentation to back up the assumption, that certain herbs would have been burnt in the fires, thus producing smoke which would help destroy parasites which might make cattle and other livestock ill.

5. In what other ways was this festival celebrated?

One of the most beautiful customs associated with this festival was "bringing in the May." The young people of the villages and towns would go out into the fields and forests at Midnight on April 30th and gather flowers with which to bedeck themselves, their families, and their homes. They would process back into the villages, stopping at each home to leave flowers, and to receive the best of food and drink that the home had to offer. This custom is somewhat similar to "trick or treat" at Samhain and was very significant to the ancients. John Williamson, in his study, The Oak King, the Holly King, and the Unicorn, writes, "These revelers were messengers of the renewal of
vegetation, and they assumed the right to punish the niggardly, because avarice (as opposed to generosity) was dangerous to the community's hope for the abundance of nature. At an important time like the coming of summer, food, the substance of life must be ritually circulated generously within the community in order that the cosmic circuit of life's substance may be kept in motion (trees, flocks, harvests, etc.)."(3) These revelers would bless the fields and flocks of those who were generous and wish ill harvests on those who withheld their bounty.

6. What about maypoles?

The maypole was an adjunct to the festival of bringing in the May. It is a phallic symbol, and as such represented fertility to the participants in the festival. In olden days, the revelers who went into the woods would cut a tree and bring it into town, decking it with flowers and greenery and dance around it, clockwise (also called deosil, meaning "sun-wise", the direction of the sun's apparent travel across the face of the Earth) to bring fertility and good luck. The ribbons which we associate with the maypole today were a later addition.

7. Why was fertility important?

The people who originated this custom lived in close connection with the land.
If the flocks and fields were fertile, they were ableto eat; if there was famine or drought, they went hungry. It is hard for us today to relate to this concept, but to the ancients, it was literally a life and death matter. The Celts were a very close tribal people, and fertility of their women literally meant continuity of the tribe.

8. How is the maypole connected with fertility?

Many scholars see the maypole as a phallic symbol. In this aspect, it is a very powerful symbol of the fertility of nature and spring.

9. How did these ancient customs come down to us ?

When Christianity came to the British Isles, many of the ancient holy sites were taken over by the new religion and converted to Christian sites. Many of the old Gods and Goddesses became Christian saints, and many of the customs were appropriated. Charles Squire says," An ingenious theory was invented after the introduction of Christianity, with the purpose of allowing such ancient rites to continue with a changed meaning. The passing of persons and cattle through flame or smoke was explained as a practice which interposed a magic protection between them and the powers of evil." (4) This is precisely what the original festival was intended to do; only the definition of "evil" had changed. These old customs continued to be practiced in many areas for centuries. "In Scotland in 1282, John, the priest in Iverkething, led the young girls of his parish in a phallic dance of decidedly obscene character during Easter week. For this, penance was laid upon him, but his punishment was not severe, and he was allowed to retain his benefice."(5)

10. Were sacrifices practiced during this festival?

Scholars are divided in their opinions of this. There is no surviving account of sacrifices in the legends and mythology which have come down to us. As these were originally set down on paper by Christian monks, one would think that if such a thing had been regularly practiced, the good brothers would most certainly have recorded it, if for no other reason than to make the pagans look more depraved. There are, however, some surviving folk customs which point to a person representing the gloom and ill fortune of winter being ostracized and forced to jump through the fires. Some scholars see this as a survival of ancient human sacrificial practices. The notion that animals were sacrificed during this time doesn't make sense from a practical standpoint. The animals which had been retained a breeding stock through the winter would either be lean and hungry from winter feed, or would be mothers nursing young, which could not be spared.

11. How do modern day pagans observe this day?

Modern day pagan observances of Beltane include the maypole dances, bringing in the May, and jumping the cauldron for fertility. Many couples wishing to conceive children will jump the cauldron together at this time. Fertility of imagination and other varieties of fertility are invoked along with sexual fertility. In Wiccan and other Pagan circles, this is a joyous day, full of laughter and good times.

12. What about Walpurgisnacht? Is this the same thing as Beltane?

Walpurgisnacht comes from an Eastern European background, and has little in common with the Celtic practices. I have not studied the folklore from that region and do not consider myself qualified to write about it. As the vast majority of Wiccan traditions today stem from Celtic roots, I have confined myself to research in those areas.

FOOTNOTES

(1) MacCana, Proinsias, Celtic Mythology, The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, London, 1970, p.32.

(2) Squire, Charles, Celtic Myth and Legend, Poetry and Romance, Newcastle Publishing Co., Van Nuys, CA, 1975, p.408.

(3) Williamson, John, The Oak King, the Holly King, and the Unicorn, Harper &
Row, NY, 1986, p.126.

(4) Squire, p.411.

(5) Hole, Christina, Witchcraft In England, Rowman & Littlefield, Totowa, NJ,
1977, p.36.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bord, Janet & Colin, Earth Rites, Fertility Practices in Pre-Industrial Britain, Granada, London, 1982.

Danaher, Kevin, The Year in Ireland, The Mercier Press, Cork, 1972.

Hole, Christina, Witchcraft in England, Rowman & Littlefield, Totowa NJ,1977.

MacCana, Proinsias, Celtic Mythology, The Hamlyn Publishing Group, Ltd.,
London, 1970.

MacCulloch, J.A. Religion of the Ancient Celts, Folcroft Library Editions, London, 1977.

Powell, T.G.E. The Celts, Thames & Hudson, New York, 1980.

Sharkey, John, Celtic Mysteries, the Ancient Religion, Thames & Hudson, New York, 1979.

Squire, Charles, Celtic Myth, Legend, Poetry, and Romance, Newcastle Publishing Co., Van Nuys, CA, 1975.

Williamson, John, The Oak King, The Holly King, and the Unicorn, Harper & Row, New York, 1986.

Wood-Martin, W.G., Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland, Kennikat Press, Port Washington, NY, 1902.