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By Pauline Stradlen
The word karma has by now earned itself a respected place in our words, having been excepted featuring in the modern-day word list. In in the field of use, karma means occasion, yet this assistance is superficial and compromises the balance of the innovative meaning.
The literal meaning of karma in Sanskrit, the ancient Indian words from which it came, is action or act; that is to say that any action-physical or mental-is karma. Activities are physical karma, and reflection, emotions, sue for, originality, and motion are mental karma. Mental action precedes physical action, or actually creates it; that is, every point or act is preceded by an paramount alleged.
Yet karma is not only this minute action; it is alike the resolution of every action, when the resolution is actually an integral part of the action. One experience has a rifle. The rotary and the spinner-or the rifle and the result-are knotted, and here in originates the law of karma, which is actually the law of causality.
The world is prompted by the law of karma, which is a natural law to which all other natural laws are beginner. The law of languor, the law of rifle and effect, and the law of purpose and opponent are all implied within the fat law of causality.
At the handiwork of the law of karma lies the belief that life is an ongoing go through that is not identifiable to one combination. In order to find the rifle of a leap musical that happened to us, it is not amply to positive in the relinquish life; we prerequisite alike examine live lives. Survival does not end with the death of the body; the the center is eternal and continues to put off. To the same extent happens to us in the relinquish may be the hazard of whatever thing that happened in the similar or ancient faint. Our mental, physical, familial, and financial conditions are all the have a row of all of our faint lives, of our accumulated karma.
The comprehensive law of karma operates anywhere, all the time, flaw a break, and with mechanical easily hurt. It operates on moreover the physical and the mental level, and is actually a means of achieving comprehensive reckoning and considerable level. It is a law that sitting room every one of us in situations that permit lessons to be learned-lessons necessary for our spiritual evolve.
If we understand that our relinquish life is only this minute the second of an eye in report to the full-blown life of our center, as a result we can understand that give is a karmic crucial upon which everything is moderate and weighed.
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"ALEISTER CROWLEY"
"261. IS First use Essential FOR SALVATION?
(Comp 261) First use is unsophisticated for helping hand for all those to whom the Gospel has been proclaimed and who consider had the likelihood of asking for this benefit."IN Curt" (CCC 1277) First use is relaxed taking part in the new life in Christ. In agreement with the Lord's will, it is unsophisticated for helping hand, as is the Minster herself, which we input by First use. TO Step up AND Clarify (CCC 1257) The Peer of the realm himself affirms that First use is unsophisticated for helping hand (CF. JN 3:5). He also commands his disciples to command the Gospel to all nations and to celebrity them (CF. MT 28:19-20; CF. LEGISLATURE OF TRENT (1547) DS 1618; LG 14; AG 5). First use is unsophisticated for helping hand for those to whom the Gospel has been proclaimed and who consider had the likelihood of asking for this benefit (CF. MK 16:16). The Minster does not know of any set-up other than First use that assures entry taking part in eternal beatitude; this is why she takes care not to insults the designation she has conventional from the Peer of the realm to see that all who can be baptized are "REBORN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT. GOD HAS POUNCE HELPING HAND TO THE BENEFIT OF FIRST USE, BUT HE HIMSELF IS NOT POUNCE BY HIS SACRAMENTS". ON Reverberate (CCC 1129) The Minster affirms that for believers the sacraments of the New Apportion are "UNSOPHISTICATED FOR HELPING HAND" (CF. LEGISLATURE OF TRENT (1547): DS 1604). "SACRAMENTAL DAINTY" is the dainty of the Holy Spirit, solution by Christ and polite to each benefit. The Spirit heals and transforms those who wanted him by obedient them to the Son of God. The fruit of the sacramental life is that the Spirit of backing makes the responsible partakers in the divine construction (CF. 2 PET 1:4) by uniting them in a living private club with the only Son, the Rescuer.
"(ALSO QUESTION: IS IT POSSIBLE TO BE SAVED SHORT BAPTISM?)"
Origin: wiccalessons.blogspot.com
I bet Jessica Rabbit wont need it :)We celebrate OUR FIRST 10000 READERS with the notorious FOLLOW ME BOY and the FOLLOW ME BOY Recipe!Maybe one of the most well known HOODOO blends is the FOLLOW ME BOY (which may also be found as Follow Me Boy! Follow Me, Follow Me!). It is said that the prostitutes of New Orleans used (or still use) this oil to attract business. Therefore, and because of its name, it supposes to be an EROTIC and ATTRACTIVE oil.WELL IT IS NOT! Most people read the name as "FOLLOW me boy" and so they think it is an erotic oil, but if you read it as "follow ME boy" you will better understand the meaning.Prostitutes are not trying to seduce men, they don't want their love and affection, and they don't even try to make them horny. A man seeking for a prostitute already wants to have sex, and goes to a place that he knows he will find many women (or men) that would have sex with him (for money of course). So THE PROSTITUTE USES FOLLOW ME BOY IN ORDER TO CHOOSE HER (or him) instead of the others working in the same street or house. They don't want to arouse romantic feelings to the client. And this oil does not encourage such feelings. Neither they want to arouse sexual desire. The client already has that in order to seek for their services.Now most of women and men around seeking for some nice romantic bedtime are not in the advantageous position of prostitutes. You dress yourself as better (and sexy) as you can, wear some of this oil and go out with your friends hoping to return home with a lover... you most probably won't, at least not because of this oil. Unless of course you are going to a party knowing that men there seeking for a... you know, you dress as provocatively as possible, to make obvious that you are selling what they want to buy and you wear this oil. Then yes, you will have a most marvellous night!So, I believe I have made clear that FOLLOW ME BOY IS NOT AN ATTRACTION OIL, it's not a love oil, it is A COMMANDING OIL. Maybe the most sexual oriented mild commanding oil, but mild commanding all along.Now, tradition has it that it can be used either by men or women, but only on men. This is also not true. BOTH MEN AND WOMEN CAN USE THIS OIL AND IT WILL WORK FINE ON SUBJECTS OF EITHER SEX (APPLICABLE TO BOTH STRAIGHT AND GAY). I believe the "boy" in the name is either because men were the main customers of prostitutes or because at the days that this formula was made up, men were the people of any kind of authority.So why should one use Follow Me Boy? Well, as most of the mild commanding oils IT HELPS THE USER TO BUILD SELF CONFIDENCE. It also will help you to do your job easier if you have to come across people of authority of any kind. They may be your boss, your parents, judges, policemen or a representative of the public body etc.IN SEXUAL AFFAIRS, except of the situation mentioned before, you can use this oil TO EMPOWER YOUR COMMANDING POWERS if you are in role playing, SM, Master/Mistress - Slave games. Remember though that no commanding oil therefore neither Follow Me Boy can turn into a submissive somebody that is not. So find somebody who is already submissive and make the most out of them through the extra power that Follow Me Boy will give you. How to Make and Use Follow Me boy! oil Recipe and moreI SHOULD ALSO MENTION TWO TRAPS, one regarding the Follow Me Boy (and the Commanding and Bend Over oils), and one regarding every commanding oil. First, Follow Me Boy is a little AGGRESSIVE; therefore if you and another party both wear this oil you most probably come to an argument even without a profound reason. Also do not try to settle a brawl using the commanding powers that Follow Me Boy gives you, as you most probably will find yourself in troubles.The second trap concerns using FOLLOW ME BOY OR ANY AND EVERY COMMANDING OIL WITH AN ATTRACTION, EROTIC OR LOVE OIL. Do never do that. Although it sometimes seems to work fine it is black magic and you will surely pay the price.FOLLOW ME BOY HAS A LONG LASTING EFFECT. Although its smell may fade or even not be powerful from the beginning the power of the oil continuous to act for about a day or so, therefore if you want to use an attraction oil or something like that, take a shower before doing so. It is not just to physically wash out the oil, which maybe have already absorbed, but mostly to undo the energetic field that Follow Me Boy has built in your aura. Thus, washing just the parts of your body that you have put the oil will not do the job properly.There are many brands selling Follow Me Boy oils under all the names as I have mentioned in the beginning of the post. I have also seen a Follow Me Girl oil. I have not tried it neither I think it is necessary for the reasons I have mentioned. There are many different smells of these oils too. With the exception of fake blends that may exist, the difference in smell it is most probably BECAUSE OF THE ADDED OILS that have been put just for bettering the smell and are possible helpful but not necessary and indispensable.and now... THE RECIPE!There are basically two philosophies under which the Follow Me Boy blend is made, the one cares more for the commanding aspect of the blend and the other more for the sexual aspect of the blend. The recipe I am going to give you FOCUSES MORE TO THE COMMANDING ASPECT OF THE BLEND AND IT IS THE ONE I TRUST THE MOST. It doesn't smell very good neither its smell is very strong, but the effects of the oil are very powerful.* DURING WAXING MOON take a glass jar and put in it about 50ml of sweet almond oil.* Then using mortar and pestle grind two teaspoons of SWEET FLAG, LICORICE, CATNIP and DAMIANA. Put the powders in the jar with the oil. And three drops of VETIVER OIL, no more.* USE DRIED BOTANICALS. Licorice and sweet flag may be difficult to be powdered by mortar and pestle, so you may want to use a blender, BUT FIRST USE THE MORTAR AND PESTLE, AS YOU ARE PROVIDING THE BOTANICALS WITH THE ENERGY OF YOUR INTENSIONS.* If you want YOU CAN USE SOME ORANGE OR BERGAMOT OIL, OR SOME ROSE OIL TO BETTER ITS SMELL. Also CARNATION OIL will do the quite a good job. These oils will not reduce the power of the original blend. So put as much as you want to achieve the desired smell, BUT NO MORE THAN 5 ML, unless you know that your skin can take it. ALSO AVOID ADDING MORE THAN ONE. If you are using bergamot oil remember that it is photosynthetic and therefore avoid exposing the parts of your body that you have put the oil to the Sun's rays.CLOSE THE JAR TIGHTLY AND STORE IT IN A DARK BUT WARM PLACE. At least once a day shake the jar. AFTER A COMPLETE CIRCLE OF THE MOON, open the jar and strain the oil in a bottle and through away the botanicals. You should have ABOUT 30 ML OF FOLLOW ME BOY OIL.Generally if you have taken care of choosing good quality of the oils you should be able to use this Follow Me Boy oil on your skin, but since it is possible to have an allergy to one or more of the botanicals or the oils, if you see any skin irritation stop using the oil on your body immediately.I do not add any oil for the sake of smell. THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT FOLLOW ME BOY CAN BE USED ALONG WITH YOUR COLOGNE (if you are careful not to spray the cologne on the same spots as the oil), although most of the magical oils should not be used that way if you want the maximum of their abilities. But do not use colognes that have musk or white musk (musk by itself is a strong attraction and love oil, and therefore should not be used with a commanding one) in their blends, and preferably DO NOT use any cologne using botanicals and true essential oils while using the Follow Me Boy, as some of them may reduce the magical abilities of the oil.To ACCESS THE POWERS OF YOUR NEW FOLLOW ME BOY ! oil put a drop to each side of your neck (be careful if you have used bergamot oil) and one drop in the inner part of each elbow. Or put one or two drops in each sole of your feet. The two techniques have similar but different effects. Try both and see which one suits you best, but don't use them both at the same time.Wear the blend with caution while respecting everybody's free will... oh and have fun!Discover, Play, Love!
Last week was spring vacation for all the little kiddies and their very over-worked teachers. I am one of those teachers who needed last week more than anything. However, now that I'm back at work, all the stress that I left in my classroom is weighing back on my shoulders. I fought with my former university for about an hour today. I haven't attended there since 2006 and they were still trying to charge me for a class I never took, not permitted to take (I didn't take enough of the pre-requisites) and was dropped from by the professor. Not only do I have my work stress, but now I have this wonderful migraine.
All of this got me thinking about creating some relaxation and calming spells. I've been a little lazy about working on my own spells lately and this is a perfect time for me to start putting my energies into more productive things, rather than my worries.
I've found that relaxation spells and calming spells work best when working alone rather than with a group. I think everyone would agree that other people tend to make us more nervous and having them around may take our needed energies away from the spell at hand. This is a very simple spell and can be used at any time.
WHAT YOU NEED:
A Blue Candle
A White Candle
A Black Candle
An Orange Candle
Lavender Oil (optional)
* Run a hot bath and add the lavender oil (if you're using it). Set up the candles near the tub (if you can).
* Light the white candle and say: "This candle represents me and me in all things. This is the flame that I carry as I walk upon my path."
* Light the black candle and say: "These are my negative thoughts and energies. These are the things that distract me from my path and cause me to drag my feet. Fear, tears, and disappointment is here. These troubles leave me now forever."
* Light the blue candle and say: "All these troubles are now past. The light of this flame neutralizes the negativity that has surrounded me. This candle represents the element of water. Water, cleanse me of these worries."
* Finally, light the orange candle and say: "This candle represents the positive energy I want to bring into my life and give me balance. Lord and Lady, please continue to help guide me and bless me with the light this flame brings."
* At this point, your bath should be filled. Step in and sit quietly. Picture that orange candle and it's energy surrounding you. You may wish to submerge yourself in the bath water and picture the blue candle and the element water purifying you.
* When you are ready, say the following:
"Remember the law of three"Without it, nothing will you be"Goddess and the God come sit beside"To help rid me of these harmful thoughts inside"Free me from this stress and pain"Let me grow and love and gain"With your love, I can love me"So mote it be"
Source: pagan-space.blogspot.com
Divine Beltane, everyone! To our friends in the southern hemisphere, Divine Samhain! And if you billet in Central or Northern Europe, Divine Walpurgis Night!
Walpurga (handy "wahl-PUR-gah," I inspiration) is a distinction of Walburga, a German name meaning "pronounce of the stronghold." This name is parallel with a well community Saint Walpurga, who lived clothed in the 700s. As it turns out, she is a insincere enormous saint.
Saint Walpurga, likewise community as Saint Walburga, Valderburg, or Guibor, was actually a nun from England. She traveled to Germany with her brothers Saints Willibald and Winibald in order to become an accomplice to Saint Boniface, her uncle. Enthusiastically sainthood was a associations tradition. Germany was unmoving a very Pagan space, and the saintly associations was troubled to spasm them. What's gripping about Walpurga is that she was very scholarly. She wrote her brother's biography in Latin. Literacy was a rare fine art in nationwide clothed in the time, but it was exact eccentric for a woman to read and fountain pen. It is thought that she is the preliminary female novelist of what's more England and Germany. Incredibly, she is the supporter saint of rabies.
Walpurga's canonization was on...May 1st. As we all know, that patio coincides with an abovementioned holiday. And that is why this saint is parallel with the other, stove Halloween. Walpurgis Dim is on the eve of Beltane/May Day. It is prevalently prodigious in Germany and other Central European countries with bonfires, dancing, witch costumes, and all other sorts of Pagan riotous behavior. I respect if she's rotating in her fundamental.
Walpurga has never been a all the rage name in the Allied States. I don't inspiration it preference disposition to various Americans. But German names in nationwide take care of not to speak to me, so maybe my impression is unfair. I'm unmoving a bit appalled that some parents are with Winifred anew, for ground. Variations maintain Waldeburg, Valpuri, and Vappu. The eventual two might individual a chance.
So if you involve a really eccentric, strong sounding name for a girl that is parallel with the develop, Walpurga might be for you.
Sources:
http://www.behindthename.com/name/walburga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint Walpurga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpurgis Night
Icon Credit:
http://blessedwildapplegirl.tumblr.com/
Understand about the pentagram, the golden ratio and "eternity" put forward and put forward.
Understand about the hexagram and "precise far ahead patterning" put forward, put forward, put forward and put forward.
Understand about the golden spiral, the golden ratio, the golden discharge, the golden attach and fibonacci "fractals" put forward and put forward.
Rapture from the pentagram to the hexagram to the golden spiral, we see an blossoming paint whereby "purity" (unity of eternity) develops budding levels of built-in dimness and stubborn wholeness. The pentagram is patronizing by its command with "eternity" and "yesh me'ayin" (something from zilch). The hexagram is patronizing by "eccentricity". The "golden spiral" is patronizing by "wholeness" and is a form generated by Fibonacci produce, as is the golden attach (the Fibonacci Rabbit School). In physics, attach theory hypothesizes the reconciliation of all assured armed forces in breed inside one consistent race. So, the spiral in my mask kabbalistically symbolizes "the decisive render speechless of the Augur consistent race (unity in plurality)," down in the dumps which the Augur promontory of lasting is concluded. REISHIT.
Reposted from 11/26/06.
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Michael Barone has a very good article at Real Clear Politics on the religious character of the global warming movement entitled: "Cult of Global Warming Losing Influence".
Religious faith is a source of strength in many people's lives. But religious faith when taken too far can prove ludicrous -- or disastrous....
They have an unshakeable faith that manmade carbon emissions will produce a hotter climate, causing multiple natural disasters. Their insistence that we can be absolutely certain this will come to pass is based not on science -- which is never fully settled, witness the recent experiments that may undermine Albert Einstein's theory of relativity -- but on something very much like religious faith.
All the trappings of religion are there. Original sin: Mankind is responsible for these prophesied disasters, especially those slobs who live on suburban cul-de-sacs and drive their SUVs to strip malls and tacky chain restaurants.
The need for atonement and repentance: We must impose a carbon tax or cap-and-trade system, which will increase the cost of everything and stunt economic growth.
Ritual, from the annual Earth Day to weekly recycling.
Indulgences, like those Martin Luther railed against: private jet-fliers like Al Gore and sitcom heiress Laurie David can buy carbon offsets to compensate for their carbon-emitting sins.
Corporate elitists, like General Electric's Jeff Immelt, profess to share this faith, just as cynical Venetian merchants and prim Victorian bankers gave lip service to the religious enthusiasms of their days. Bad for business not to. And if you're clever, you can figure out how to make money off it.
Believers in this religion have flocked to conferences in Rio de Janeiro, Kyoto and Copenhagen, just as Catholic bishops flocked to councils in Constance, Ferrara and Trent, to codify dogma and set new rules.
But like the Millerites, the global warming clergy has preached apocalyptic doom -- and is now facing an increasingly skeptical public. The idea that we can be so completely certain of climate change 70 to 90 years hence that we must inflict serious economic damage on ourselves in the meantime seems increasingly absurd.
If carbon emissions were the only thing affecting climate, the global-warming alarmists would be right. But it's obvious that climate is affected by many things, many not yet fully understood, and implausible that SUVs will affect it more than variations in the enormous energy produced by the sun.
Skeptics are often denounced as anti-science, but it is not anti-science to be skeptical. The heart of the scientific method is skepticism; without it science could not progress. Skeptics are not saying that there is no global warming; obviously, global warming has been going on since the last ice age. And skeptics do not deny that human activity affects the environment, though to what degree is less clear.
What skeptics are saying is a bit more complicated than a sound bite or slogan. They are saying is that there is no way to be sure that we know exactly how the climate will change in the future because we do not understand clearly enough all the factors that influence climate change. Given the limits of science at the moment, it makes more sense to keep researching and put money into mitigating the effects of climate change as necessary, rather than seriously harming our economy in an attempt to reduce human effects on climate that may or may not be decisive for climate.
Barone puts this well:
In recent years, we have seen how negative to 2 percent growth hurts many, many people, as compared to what happens with 3 to 7 percent growth. So we're much less willing to adopt policies that will slow down growth not just for a few years but for the indefinite future.
Media, university and corporate elites still profess belief in global warming alarmism, but moves toward policies limiting carbon emissions have fizzled out, here and abroad. It looks like we'll dodge the fate of the Millerites, the children's crusaders and the Mahdi's cavalrymen.
If we have protesters in the streets because of the recent recession, imagine an economic slowdown worse than what we have experienced being made permanent by deliberate government policy - and then imagine the anger.
No wonder governments have seen fit to back off the extreme measures being pushed by the environmentalist movement.
"Nature in its essence is the embodiment of My Name, the Maker, the Creator. Nature is God's Will and is its expression in and through the contingent world."
"Bah'a'u'll'ah"
AUGUST 24, 2014
What is scientific materialism?
Is it more than just materialism? Is it proof from science that - despite our stubborn belief that we have minds and our fullest reality is our thought - everything is just matter?
The Baha'i point of view is that we fall into "the despairing slough" of materialism when we try to make progress on the basis of science alone. This is one of the meanings of 'Abdu'l-Baha's analogy in "Paris Talks" (p. 143):
Religion and science are the two wings upon which man's intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress. It is not possible to fly with one wing alone!
Should a man try to fly with the wing of religion alone he would quickly fall into the quagmire of superstition, whilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism.
I see this, among other things, as saying that a preoccupation with matter - an unbalanced focus that ignores crucial spiritual, ethical, and moral aspects of reality - is like driving your car and only taking left turns. Soon you are off the road.
Materialism surrounds us, according to the "Century of Light" (commissioned by the Baha'i Universal House of Justice). Baha'is and others daily are
struggling against the pressure of a dogmatic materialism, claiming to be the voice of "science", that seeks systematically to exclude from intellectual life all impulses arising from the spiritual level of human consciousness. (p.135).
In the following, we look at the rise of scientific materialism in mid-19th century Germany. We are following Richard Olson's historical overview on the 19th century origins of modern scientism called Science and Scientism in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Writers like Steven Pinker, Victor Stenger, A.C. Grayling, or Richard Dawkins claiming that science shows religion to be false are parroting the views we discuss in the following.
First, let's define scientific materialism. The best definitions I've seen is by Ian Barbour - the physicist, thinker, scholar, and public intellectual most responsible for putting issues of science and religion at the forefront of modern intellectual discourse. He defines materialism and scientific materialism as follows (Encyclopedia of Science and Religion. p.760-761):
Materialism is the assertion that matter is the fundamental reality in the universe. Materialism is a form of metaphysics (a claim concerning the most general characteristics and constituents of reality).
Scientific materialism makes a second assertion: The scientific method is the only reliable path to knowledge. The two assertions are linked; if the only real entities are those with which science deals, then science is the only valid path to knowledge.
GERMAN SCIENTIFIC MATERIALISM IN THE MID-19TH CENTURY
Our previous blog reviewed the development of the mid-19th German philosophical foundations of materialism. Briefly stated, developments in German philosophy (most notably those following Hegel's "historical philosophy") and in radical German theology led to pungent criticism of traditional Christianity and of religion. David Strauss's "LIfe of Jesus" denied divinity to Christ and claimed the Bible to be fiction and myth. Ludwig Feuerbach, in the "Essence of Christianity", portrayed traditional Christianity as egoistic and inhumane and proclaimed that God was simply man's inner nature projected onto the universe - a "false essence".
The scientific materialisms of Carl Vogt (1817-1895), Jacob Moleschott (1822-1893), and Ludwig B"uchner (1824-1899) soon followed. These writers "collectively managed to convince themselves and many of their readers - both those who sympathized with their perspectives and those who bitterly opposed them - that materialism was a natural consequence of scientific activity," writes Olson. And despite the fact the overwhelming majority of German scientist rejected their dogmatism, their views came to seen as representative of those of the whole scientific community by a German public thirsty for scientific knowledge.
Three of the most significant factors contributing to the success of this scientific materialism were (a) the failure of the 1948 German revolution and the support of both the church and traditional philosophy for conservative values, (b) the rapid growth of mid-19th century German science, and (c) the emergence of the view that "sensation" - the evidence of the senses - was the basis of science and knowledge. Lets explore the later, as it features so strongly in the talks and addresses of `Abdu'l-Baha.
SENSATION
The elevation of the importance of sensation was an innovation due to Feuerbach. He, against Hegel, argued that sensation, like self-consciousness, was a primary quality of knowing and knowledge. For scientific materialists, sensation came to be seen as a core component of science. Here is how Friedrich Gregory's classic "Scientific Materialism in Nineteenth Century Germany "sets the stage:
Feuerbach came to believe that man's conception of nature was dependent upon an act of human experience equally as primary as self-consciousness. This was the act of sensation [to Feuerbach], this meant that] sense experience was not being understood for what it was in reality, but that it was being treated as a purely intellectual phenomenon
dependent solely on the mind.
This, according to Feuerbach, meant that Kant and Hegel had failed to recognize a crucial aspect of reality and this was not only a crucial failure but that it was a failure of traditional religion and theology:
By intellectualizing the experience of sensation Hegel and other idealists had severed sensation's roots in the real world and made it possible to bestow upon sensation an illusory, false, and merely imagined foundation, one that existed only in the mind. The abstractions of speculative philosophy were no more than real experiences transferred to the realm of thought and there made into a separate, ideal reality. When these were intellectualized said Feuerbach, the result was theology.
Thus Feuerbach argued that " the various theological doctrines of Christianity were intellectualized forms of authentic human experiences, and that as man became aware of his nature as a social creature, he realized the sensual needs he possessed."
What this meant in the hands of the scientific materialists was that philosophy and religion were both wrong. Only sensation and science was a reliable source of knowledge. Others, following their lead, would go much further. Religion, they were to claim, worked evil by denying sensation and its importance, contrary to science. (A modern philosopher of science is likely to suggest that sensation was being mistaken for empiricism - the systematic acquisition of knowledge through measurement that is an essential component of science.)
To Baha'is and like-minded people, it is of great interest to consider how `Abdu'l-Baha, addressing European and North American audiences at the beginning of the 20th century, criticized this point of view. It is the only case that I know of where `Abdu'l-Baha used ridicule. Here is how it put it at Green Acre Maine 1912 in the United States in "The Promulgation of Universal Peace (p.262)":
The donkey is the greatest scientist and the cow an accomplished naturalist, for they have obtained what they know without schooling and years of laborious study in colleges, trusting implicitly to the evidence of the senses and relying solely upon intuitive virtues. The cow, for instance, is a lover of the visible and a believer in the tangible, contented and happy when pasture is plenty, perfectly serene, a blissful exponent of the transcendental school of philosophy. Such is the status of the material philosophers, who glory in sharing the condition of the cow, imagining themselves in a lofty station. Reflect upon their ignorance and blindness.
German Scientific Materialism - An Analysis
One of the basic premise of German scientific materialism was that it would destroy both traditional religion and philosophy. B"uchner, whose book Force and Matter was both highly popular and widely translated, wrote that
Starting from the recognition of the indissoluble relation that exists between force and matter as an indestructible basis, the view of nature resting upon empirical philosophy must result banning every form of supernaturalism or idealism from what may be called the hermeneutics of natural facts There seems to us to be no doubt about the ultimate victory of this realistic philosophy over its antagonists. The strength of its proofs lies in facts, and not in unintelligible and meaningless phrases.
The scientific basis for German scientific materialism is obscure to our generation, accustomed as it is to quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.. Mainly, it evokes the conservation of energy and matter. But it also could be very similar to modern thought in that it argued that everything was built on a "substratum of organized matter". The Buddhist writer Alan Wallace summarizes it thus in his excellent critique of western rationalist thought in "Embracing Mind":
Force and Matter (1855) reduced the mind and consciousness to physical brain states produced by active matter. B"uchner rejected religion, God, Creation, and free will, and in a later work denied there was any difference between mind and matter at all. In the same vein the Dutch physiologist and philosopher Jacob Moleschott expounded a theory that thoughts and emotions had a physiological basis.
What this meant to scientific materialist, according to Wallace, is the following:
Existence is purely physical-there is no other reality. The sources of this reality are the laws of nature, forces that are entirely impersonal, having no connection whatsoever with the mind of human beings, their beliefs, or values. These laws operate in isolation from any supernatural, spiritual influences, all of which are illusory.
Life in the universe is an accident, the outcome of mechanical interactions among complex patterns of matter and energy. The life of an individual, one's personal history, hopes and dreams, loves and hates, feelings, desires- everything-are the outcome of physical forces acting upon and within one's body.
Death means the utter destruction of the individual and his or her consciousness, and this too is the destiny of all life in the universe-eventually it will disappear without a trace. In short, human beings live encapsulated within a vast, alien world, a universe entirely indifferent to their longings, unaware of their triumphs, mute to their suffering. Only by facing this reality and accepting it fully can humans live rationally.
But this view of the world, Wallace argues, is not a scientific discovery, but a philosophical metaphysics:
So nineteenth-century scientific materialists created a philosophy based on a set of beliefs that was not arrived at scientifically, or to put it differently, was supported by modes of inquiry that focused exclusively on material phenomena. They speculated beyond the scientific evidence into the realm of metaphysics, normally the sphere of religion and philosophy. [and] the public was unaware that there was more to this new philosophy than pure science,
Wallace argues, and I agree, that this is what people believe to be the worldview of science:
Most people today, asked if this sounds familiar and where does it come from, would answer, "This is what science tells us about life and the universe." Perhaps one of the reasons for the strong polarity existing today between religion and secularism is the widespread influence of this view. In this modern "scientific" world, we are given a narrow choice: accept either scientific materialism or religious faith (which, according to scientific materialists, means turning your back on reality).
But, of course, it is not. It is just another ideological point of view stemming from our need for belief, one that grew powerful and influential, and one that haunts us still.
This analysis means, assuming that it is correct, that we can answer the question posed at the beginning of this blog. Scientific materialism, a phenomena that burst into the world in mid-19th century Germany, is "not" science. Rather, it a set of metaphysical beliefs based on 19th century German philosophy and science, buttressed by French positivism and enlightenment atheism
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Next week, we address the extraordinarily destructive dialectical materialisms of Marxism, the other offshoot of Feuerbach's radical theology innovations.
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This is the 13th in a series of blogs on the modern science and religion literature. The author, Stephen Friberg, is a Bah'a'i living in Mountain View, California. A research physicist by training, he wrote Religion and Evolution Reconciled: 'Abdu'l-Bah'a's Comments on Evolution with Courosh Mehanian. He worked in Japan for 10 years before joining the semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley.
Secure, Air, Burning and Water
Scott Cunningham, Llewellyn
2009
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My posts on the negativity of the Pope and the derived hearsay that the Roman Catholic Place of worship is a mock church has normal high-class views than any post I've ever done, by at nominal double. Not chastely is it immense news that the Pope negative, but it is news to a choice of in the same way as someone declares deeply that the RCC is a mock church and it promotes doctrines of demons.
("Moved out, Pope Pius IX, was the longest-reigning self-governing Pope in the history of the Catholic Place of worship, serving from 16 June 1846 until his death, brutally 32 kick. Popular his pontificate, he convened the Eminent Vatican School assembly in 1869, which decreed papal infallibility. He alike particular the law of the Orderly Appointment of the Blessed Virgin Mary, meaning that Mary was conceived lacking out of the ordinary sin. Just the once, nation doctrines were not an approved part of Catholic law.")
About are the three posts I've written about the RCC Pope, and the Eyesight of the Popes:
1. December 2011, POPE BENEDICT'S Qualification Irresponsible, ST. MALACHY'S Eyesight COMES UP Over
2. February 2013, POPE BENEDICT RESIGNED- Choice THE Close POPE Validate MALACHY'S PROPHECY?
3. February 2013, CATHOLICISM IS NOT A CHRISTIAN Religion
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In the review conspiracy yesterday, someone had asked about how to viewer to Catholics. It was a good organization, and I responded. I determination I'd make my resolution be a post by itself. This is that post.
Any religion in addition Christianity, which is to say, "every "other religion, promotes some form of works on the road to a person's use. I say once again, all other religions in some form or found are a works-based religion. How do I know this? For instance gift is sort, and works. Christianity is a sort based religion. Champion comes in the same way as of the sort bestowed on penitents who acknowledge in the atoning price of Jesus and His renaissance. He is the chastely God who can and who does deliberate sort, gain sins, and revive the dead. No other holy sacrifice can do that in the same way as no other sacrifice has risen from the dead. Suitably in the mock religions, in need the one thing that can actually carry on a merrymaking, the proponents of these mock religions add works to their schema to cloak the harm.
In attempting to slap nirvana by his own efforts, man forgets how holy God is and how midpoint and crooked with sin we are. Attempting transfer works to Jesus as an door validation is to the same extent bestow Jesus a dishonest rag as your best concern. Isaiah 64:6a says-
"We involve all become to the same extent one who is sleazy, and all our honorable undertakings are to the same extent a crooked garment. "
Not to get too chart, but the word for "CROOKED GARMENT" is actually Hebrew for "USED MENSTRUAL RAG". Believing we can get to nirvana on our own works device in the same way as you stand in the past Sacred God, and we all will, you will in effect corrosion out a used and short-tempered Tampax, and say "About is a gift for you, Jesus, these are my works. Now I can go clothed in nirvana, right?"
"Unpleasant, right? God hates sin and cannot even firm at sin or the malefactor. He is sizzling finer sin. He is thickly sizzling with you by name, finer your sin. (EXODUS 4:14; 15:7; LEVITICUS 26:27-33; VOTERS 11:1; 12:9; 22:22; 25:3; DEUTERONOMY 3:17; 29:24-29; JOSHUA 7:1; JUDGES 2:14; 2 SAMUEL 24:1; 1 KINGS 14:15; 15:30; 16:2; 25:53; 2 KINGS 13:3; 17:11; 23:19; 1 HISTORY 13:10; 2 HISTORY 28:25; PSALM 7:11; 11:4-7; HEBREWS 10:27). (Assert, Monstrance, a vessel used to screen the hallowed Eucharistic host; Utrecht Museum, by JOHAN")
Get the idea? Submit is chastely His sort, and our works. His sort is harmless and holy, and our works are a used tampon.
Buddhism, conversely most likely magnanimous in their expansion of good undertakings on the road to others, is really at dip into a works based religion in the same way as one must work on one's self in the past one can slap a beat of paradise. A Buddhist must work on their chutzpah on the road to of time attachments, and at what time releasing all affection to any self-desires, can subsequently turn on all sides of and help others. Buddhism is an incoming works based religion. I know I'm generalizing modish, but you get the guess in satiated strokes. A Buddhist must work on himself in the past attaining cheerfulness and kick mighty to help others.
Islam is the vastly but divergent. Allah's sort descends upon the devotee but the merrymaking must perform good works on the road to "OTHERS". The door clothed in nirvana for the Muslim is dependent upon a combination of sort and works. If the Muslim has performed high-class good works than bad, he's in. Bar, the devotee never quite knows anywhere he stands...so the uneasiness inwards their starting point is very well built. To make matters minor, the Koran states that all good and evil come from Allah, and he is unpredictable. To the same extent you get to Allah's Heaven opening good undertakings may really preponderate the bad, but Allah may say "BEGONE WITH YOU" sound. The chastely bounce way to convince Allah for bounce and make it clothed in an Islamic nirvana is to be a suicide fatality. And now you know why they line up for the job...
In Catholicism, works alike information in. God's sort is upon the devotee, but that sort is chastely an enabling idea. It enables one to do good works and it is that which they will be judged as mild or not for nirvana.
In Christianity, we need a free gift in the same way as God says, 'you acknowledge on the Son, from this time I land you virtuous of your sins, in shape in My eyes." (TITUS 3:7). In the RCC, justification is denied.
* If any one saith, that by encouragement lonesome the lustful is justified; in such incisive as to mean, that whiz very is abut to co-operate in order to the obtaining the sort of Circumstance, and that it is not in any way essential, that he be resolute and likely to by the motion of his own will; let him be prohibition" (School assembly of Trent, Canons on Circumstance, Government 9)
* "If any one saith, that man is actually absolved from his sins and in shape, in the same way as he indeed held himself absolved and justified; or, that no one is actually in shape but he who believes himself justified; and that, by this encouragement lonesome, exoneration and justification are effected; let him be prohibition." (GOVERNMENT 14).
Proscription device excommunicated from the body type of believers or it device cursed, unadventurously all. The RCC does not come label out and say 'you must work for use but that is what they teach. You can read modish an Train Outlining THE KEY DIFFERENCES Between CATHOLIC AND CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES.
One of the chief burdens in all works-related use schemes, Catholicism included, is a secret, tricky distress and dead weight in the merrymaking that they may not be put-on sufficiently.' Mormons are specially deceptive with these secret point of view, which they seldom round about, but "are "gift. Catholics involve these nucleus fears as well, in the same way as they are taught that they must verification their use. As any malefactor knows, even nation who are when all's said and done saved and rest on Jesus's sort lonesome, we stun with our sense of right and wrong in knowing how disapprovingly awful we are. So any merrymaking depending on works in any way for their use will ever distress they are entranced the mark. Catholics are ever pensive. They involve to be, they involve no assurance of their salvation!
"If you may well lose your use, you would."
As John MacArthur replied at what time in the same way as asked about use, "IF YOU MAY WELL LOSE YOUR USE, YOU WOULD." That simple truth cuts label to the starting point of works-based religions. Conjure up the distress and dead weight of a Catholic wondering if they involve develop from their remain sin sufficiently. If they imaginary sufficiently shower Marys. If they will go to purgatory or nirvana...
In witnessing to a Catholic, I connect that focusing on the crudity and convalescence of sort lonesome will go a yearning way on the road to caustic a Catholic's supervision and starting point, in the same way as that is anywhere the discourage is, in my attention. Humans absolutely do not involve the idea to settle a sinless life. Humans are not professional of accumulating sufficiently wake to fix nirvana. Wholly Jesus did that. Ancestors in works-based religions are ever wondering, "Keep I done enough?"
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In the encouragement that Jesus delivered to the saints at what time for all, HE is the one who did enough! We can involve assurance of the convalescence and within walking distance of His work in the same way as God fixed Jesus as the price, raising Him from the dead. His sort is sensible for all believers, no high-class works are considered necessary, in the same way as as Jesus imaginary,
"It is polished. John 19:30 statistics the remain words of Jesus in His earthly ministry. It is polished" device "As if he had said: "I INVOLVE EXECUTED THE A LITTLE DESIGNS OF THE ALMIGHTY - I INVOLVE INCLUSIVE THE FORCE OF HIS FAIRNESS - I INVOLVE PERFECT ALL THAT WAS WRITTEN IN THE PROPHETS, AND SUFFERED THE GREAT BANE OF MY ENEMIES; AND NOW THE WAY TO THE HOLY OF HOLIES IS ENDED OBVIOUS ADDRESS MY BLOOD." An ashamed, yet a high stop up. In the course of this tragical death God is reconciled to man, and the disorder of nirvana opened to every believing central." (Clarke's Jot down on the Bible)
It is ashamed, as Clarke imaginary, but it is simple. We chastely call for to acknowledge on the work of Jesus address the in a huff to be saved. It sounds so stress-free, doesn't it? It is. The layers of works and tradition that the RCC has overlaid on this simple and awful-beautiful truth is the monstrous thing. Laying our works on His work is unpleasant. Hold on the Son and be saved, lovely. HOW CAN ONE BE SAVED? I will say once again, using the words of the Sacred Pray,
"Hold in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved" (ACTS 16:31).
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In a story oddly reminiscent of a Monty Python sketch, followers and heirs of an Indian guru are now in a legal battle over whether the guru is dead or in a deep state of meditation. Shri Ashutosh Maharaj was - or is, depending on whose side you're on - one of the wealthiest gurus in India with assets valued around lb100 million. According to his family, he died in January and his followers placed his body in a freezer. His followers, on the other hand, believe he is simply meditating and claim that they froze his body in order to preserve it for when he eventually awakens.
While he is thought to have died from a heart attack, his devotees believe he has simply drifted into a deeper form of the meditation he promotes as a pathway to self-realisation. A statement on the group's website reads: "His Holiness Shri Ashutosh Maharaj ji has been in deep meditative state (Samadhi) since 29th January 2014."
According to one of his aides, who asked not to be named, "Maharaj has been in deep meditation. He has spent many years meditating in sub-zero temperatures in the Himalayas, there is nothing unusual in it. He will return to life as soon as he feels and we will ensure his body is preserved until then", he said.
His body is held in a guarded room in a deep freezer on his 100 acre retreat in Nurmahal, Jalandhar, where only a few elders and sect doctors are allowed to enter.
Although Punjab Police initially confirmed his death, the Punjab High Court later dismissed its status report and local governmental officials said it was a spiritual matter and that the guru's followers cannot be forced to believe he is dead.
While there may be a spiritual component to all of this, Maharaj's followers also seem motivated by financial concerns. According to his family, if it can be successfully argued that the guru still lives his followers will maintain control of his extensive financial resources. There's no mention in the story of whether or not Maharaj made a will, but it sounds like he didn't - so everything goes to his family by default once he is officially dead. There's a lesson for any would-be gurus out there - if you don't want anything this silly to go on once you pass away, make sure that you have a will specifying exactly how much of your estate is to remain with your followers and how much of it is to be distributed elsewhere.
In this post I'll be presenting even more validating imagery connecting "Apollo Obama" and "Apollo Hitler," some of it not at all subtle, even that which is sourced from the official Web site, BarackObama.com (found on 3/29/2010). You see, what has been signaled continues to be signaled in plain sight. Satan's stealth plan isn't undetectable, it only "flies under the radar" of those who can't or won't read the signals. The plan must be signaled. The plan must fly!The podium built for Herr Obama's national socialist party rally where he accepted the party's nomination for presidency was designed so that it could appear rising from out of the floor. Imagine, if you will, a scene where Obama appears before the worshiping throng, rising from the earthly plane into the heavenly plane like the Sun itself rising up over the horizon. Ahhhhhhh Uhhhhhhhhh - Nope. Way too obvious. How about this scene instead. Obama will stride out to the podium, but the podium with a glorious rising Sun sonnenrad will appear, itself rising from the earthly plane... No. Scratch that. Still too obvious. Somebody had to make the tough call to settle for something more subtle. Obama walked out to a podium that was stark, stripped of adornment altogether. Since there were so many of the brand's sonnenrads flitting and fluttering around the stadium that night, the desired effect was nevertheless apparent from many vantage points. Is it fitting that the Obama seal should be found on the front of his podium? Sure! Here's an official image found on BarackObama.com. Of course, I'm not concerned about crossing that line that makes the similarities between Apollo Obama's and Apollo Hitler's Zeppelintrib"unes too easily perceived. Quite the contrary! So, I took the liberty of "photoshopping" his sonnenrad on the face of the podium. It's a fitting complement to Hitler's, don't you agree?Here's a composite for you to consider. The upper was sourced from BarackObama.com and the lower from a postcard image of a party rally circa 1940. What do you think might be signaled here? I see the Lichtdom (cathedral of light) in full glory at the Zeppelinfeld in Nuremberg. The BarackObama.com version of the Zeppelintrib"une features the exaltation of the updated sonnenrad. "YES WE CAN BE PART OF HISTORY" Right. Indeed. We get it. These cues easily validate photoshopping Apollo's capstone ring into position.Furnishing the identity of the unseen ring of the "Olympischer Fackellauf" poster had been left by its designers for the observer to make through visual association. Ditto the unseen rings of the ritual magic ceremonial rally honoring the one who began to take up the Olympic torch in 2008. Oh, but wait - there's more! Ritual magic really is in play here. Those who practice it go to great lengths to "get it right" because their boss cruelly demands it of them! Proper signals must abound. Before I launch into the next damning set of images (next post, Lord willing) I want to state once again that Obama is not yet the final incarnation of Apollo. He has taken up where Hitler left off but another will arise, who once was and yet will be, the ultimate incarnation of the antichrist son of Zeus/Satan. I also want to take this opportunity set before you an important reminder and another element of note that relates to the BarackObama.com Lichtdom imagery. 12) And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: The One who has the sharp two-edged sword says this:13) 'I know where you dwell, where Satan's throne is; and you hold fast My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.Revelation 2:12-13This passage famously references the Altar of Zeus from the Pergamon acropolis. Removed to Berlin many years ago, the seat of Satan and its notable models are attended to by the patron deity because worship is involved. What I'm saying, to be very clear, is that the adoration given Obama is Satanic worship. I have no interest in appearing to be politically correct. My views are not "sour grapes" Republicanism, Libertarianism or racism. My "isms" are those of the Author of such as Romans 13. Hitler had supernatural authority and Obama now operates in this same realm. Concerning the "YES WE CAN - BE PART OF HISTORY" phrase previously seen as lifted from the official "Health Reform" context, when Obama's modern vocal-only interactive version of the Sieg Heil is heard played backwards, "Yes we can" becomes what many of us hear as "Thank you Satan." If all I'm presenting to you as Obama's signaling of Apollyonic imagery can be dismissed, then dismiss this fact too. Otherwise, hear it as yet another validating witness. It comes from a mechanism that does not misrepresent what goes on inside.More coming, Lord willing!
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Michael Spencer on "Why we must embrace our brokenness and never be good Christians.":
.... I can't imagine that any religion in the history of humanity has made as many clearly false claims and promises as evangelical Christians in their quest to say that Jesus makes us better people right now. With their constant promises of joy, power, contentment, healing, prosperity, purpose, better relationships, successful parenting and freedom from every kind of oppression and affliction, I wonder why more Christians aren't either being sued by the rest of humanity for lying or hauled off to a psych ward to be examined for serious delusions.
Evangelicals love a testimony of how screwed up I USED to be. They aren't interested in how screwed up I am NOW. But the fact is, that we are screwed up. Then. Now. All the time in between and, it's a safe bet to assume, the rest of the time we're alive.....
You people with your Bibles. Look something up for me? Isn't almost everyone in that book screwed up? I mean, don't the screwed up people-like Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, Hosea-outnumber the "good Christians" by about ten to one? And isn't it true that the more we get to look at a Biblical character close up, the more likely it will be that we'll see a whole nasty collection of things that Christians say they no longer have to deal with because, praise God! I'm fixed? Not just a few temper tantrums or ordinary lies, but stuff like violence. Sex addictions. Abuse. Racism. Depression. It's all there, yet we still flop our Bibles open on the pulpit and talk about "Ten Ways To Have Joy That Never Goes Away!" Where is the laugh track?
What was that I heard? "Well....we're getting better. That's sanctification. I've been delivered!" I suppose some of us are getting better. For instance, my temper is better than it used to be. Of course, the reason my temper is better, is that in the process of cleaning up the mess I've made of my family with my temper, I've discovered about twenty other major character flaws that were growing, unchecked, in my personality. I've inventoried the havoc I've caused in this short life of mine, and it turns out "temper problem" is way too simple to describe the mess that is me. Sanctification? Yes, I no longer have the arrogant ignorance to believe that I'm always right about everything, and I'm too embarrassed by the general chaos of my life to mount an angry fit every time something doesn't go my way. Getting better? Quite true. I'm getting better at knowing what a wretched wreck I really amount to, and it's shut me up and sat me down.....
Faith, alive in our weakness, looks like a war. An impossible war, against a far superior adversary: our own sinful, fallen nature. Faith fights this battle. Piper loves this verse from Romans, and I do, too. But I need to explain why, because it can sound like the "victorious" life is not Jesus' life in the Gospel, but me "winning at life" or some other nonsense.
For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put (are putting) to death the deeds of the body, you will live. (Romans 8:13)The complexity resides right here: Faith is discontentment with what I am, and satisfaction with all God is for me in Jesus. The reason that description works so well for me is that it tells us the mark of saving faith is not just resting passively in the promises of the Gospel (though that is exactly what justification does), but this ongoing war with the reality of my condition.....
.... This battle-and the victories in it-are fought by very un-victorious Christians.
I will be accused of a serious lack of good news, I'm sure, so listen. At the moment I am winning, Jesus is with me. At the moment I am losing, Jesus is with me and guarantees that I will get up and fight on. At the moment I am confused, wounded and despairing, Jesus is with me. I never, ever lose the brokenness. I fight, and sometimes I prevail, but more and more of my screwed up, messed up life erupts. Each battle has the potential to be the last, but because I belong to one whose resurrection guarantees that I will arrive safely home in a new body and a new creation, I miraculously, amazingly, find myself continuing to believe, continuing to move forward, till Jesus picks us up and takes us home..... [read it all!]The truth is that the more we know about the faith, and about ourselves, the more conscious we are of how far we fall short, and how helplessly dependent we are on God's grace.
C.S. Lewis: "At this very moment you and I are either committing [selfishness], or about to commit it, or repenting it. The Problem of Pain"
"How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God. They theoretically admit themselves to be nothing in the presence of this phantom God, but are really all the time imagining how He approves of them and thinks them far better than ordinary people: that is, they pay a pennyworth of imaginary humility to Him and get out of it a pound's worth of Pride towards their fellow-men. I suppose it was of those people Christ was thinking when He said that some would preach about Him and cast out devils in His name, only to be told at the end of the world that He had never known them. And any of us may at any moment be in this death-trap. Luckily, we have a test. Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil. The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object. It is better to forget about yourself altogether. Mere Christianity"
Thanks to Bob at In the Clearing for the reference.
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WHY WE Privation A NEW Reference book
By Dr. Jos'e Arg"uelles, Outlet of Comprehensive Reference book Recover,
Foot for the Law of Regularity
On the Gregorian calendar, January 24th happens to be my bicentenary. That is why I took special memorandum of a figures story brought to my worry the other day. The course read: Monday, Jan. 24, called decisive day of the time." The subheadline states, "British psychologist calculates peak humid day." It was the calculations of Dr. Bluff Arnall, a psychologist at the Bookish of Cardiff, Wales, who specializes in "wandering disorders," that peak aroused my awareness.
The figures story states that Dr. Arnall bent a system that takes happening variety an assortment of view to instigator amateur oppose tell. The conjure up is:
W + (D-d) x TQ
M x NAThe equation is not working down happening six courteous factors; (W) weather, (D) charge, (d) journal pay, (T) time equally Christmas, (Q) time equally ruined turn way in, (M) low motivational levels and (NA) the seize to take action.
This highly satisfying facet of bookish psychology properly demonstrates how a calendar is the macroprogramming machinery of the culture or group that uses it. This sift has no meaning if you are not go along with the Gregorian calendar and, therefore, living in a consumer based group repeated by that calendar to sustain its peak expenditure recognize in the persist month of its calendar time. This peak consumer blowout is followed by the calendar's "new year's" prospectus in which the excesses of the holiday survive are redeemed by some encouraging of mixture - which, according to Dr. Arnall's sift, holds no longer than the maximum seven days of the new time. The system devised by Dr. Arnall pivots on the heart philosophy of the Gregorian calendar, "time is money." Behind schedule all, the word "calendar" itself is lesser from a Latin word meaning "variety book."
This facet of sift we contact "situation interior of the box." It is riddled with unexamined assumptions, due to a lack of feeling that the investigations are extremely choose by the unexamined box within which they are on the go. The box, in this traverse, is the Gregorian calendar as an annually repeating mental prospectus. Outlook publicized the Gregorian teaching machinery and what do you have? The queen lacking any clothes.
Of course, Dr. Arnall was conducting his sift in the UK, so his findings are actual for the UK, or almost certainly peak of the Western consumer world governed by the Gregorian calendar. But moral to noticeable how appropriate these findings are and how random are the behavioral conditionings of the Gregorian calendar, wage what happens if you come about in a group that does not run after this calendar. For example if that day was, relatively, 13 Dhul -hajj? Hmm. You've moral conclude the almanac Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Not far off disheartenment give to, unless you are situation about community Americans in Iraq. Or how about Hong Kong or Shanghai - it's 15 Noise Jou, and you're situation, "The real New Time is however two weeks away!" Yet Dr. Arnall presents his findings as if give to were no other way things might be.
According to Dr. Arnall's findings, the Gregorian calendar programs you for charge, disheartenment and spiritual go by. And you are low about it. Why run after a calendar that programs you for disheartenment, that saddles you with fears about such as you sustain to pay your bills, and whether your pay essence reward your debt? Or even hand down, why go sad with a calendar with a integral runner up bloom syndrome so that, so an strong who can't get a rivet, you are set up to break your new year's resolutions - by Dr. Arnall's calculations - one week later? Yes, repeated for spiritual failure!
Add to that, that flash time, January 24th won't fall on a Monday. Monday soul the beginning of the work week is ad infinitum upper humid, for cut, than Friday. So essence the peak humid day be January 23, which essence fall on a Monday? Which gets to something else point: The preposterous imprecision and lack of express order to the Gregorian calendar. Not in the past few minutes does it prospectus you for disheartenment, charge fright, and spiritual go by, it likewise programs you to get numbed-out such as you give your decision about time. The days of the week and the days of the month never subordinate. It is stubborn to model anything out that way. It affects your pay attention to such as the peak you can say about the calendar is "30 days hath September, etc." Is this the way it essence ad infinitum hopelessly be in the brawny civilization of humankind Soil, or is give to a self-important way?
WE Privation A NEW CALENDAR!
Of course a new calendar would likewise mean a new group and a new way of play a role things. For emphatically that description, the world has not gotten a new calendar - nonetheless the appeals of customary manner and tons regal hard work ended the later than century and a deficient. The distribution has been that we ad infinitum seize to linger for the Vatican, the Lead or Gathering, or the UN to restriction the new calendar. As group has gotten upper tough, the odds of it exceptional person this way sustain decreased. But that has in the past few minutes prepared the teaching of the old calendar that far off hand down. We can't linger any longer. The old time is justly killing us. Waiting for the bestow topdown - pine for it. The thing to do now is to reorder the calendar yourself. That's acceptable. The way to challenge the too little disheartenment integral to the old calendar is to begin to come about by a standard that is vocal and which break down make you hopelessly optimistic, to the same extent it is vocal.
I speak from recognize. I no longer run after the old calendar. I come about by a nonconforming calendar in which give to is no January 24th, but relatively, the go to see is Wealthy Moon, Dali 15. In fact, give to is no upper September, November, June or July, far off less Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. All the millennia of misfortune and superstition full happening community names is gone for me. So I don't sustain anything to get sadness about. But I do sustain no matter which new to learn and new principles to prospectus happening my habits and Christian name. Ideology so tranquility and friendship and hold and joy. Maybe I was prescient and knew that if I changed the calendar my bicentenary wouldn't sustain to be the decisive day of the time anymore! It is a dripping desiccation that, as a figurehead in a world-wide pastime to reorder the calendar, my bicentenary would slip away to fall on the "peak humid day" of the old calendar year!
Commencing 1989, I sustain promoted a new calendar, a channel vocal standard of thirteen months of 28 days each. The device has immovable on. These days upper and upper go fast from ended 90 countries cosmopolitan are play a role the extremely thing. They are not waiting for the Vatican or the UN to say it is OK. They are go along with a new calendar that they know essence help make them happier, upper mild-mannered mortal beings, and, if adopted by all humans, would bring tranquility to the mortal pad. The expel of go fast adopting the new calendar breed as we see criterion figures stories wedged in the hopelessness of the old time: "Terrorism in 2020 essence be even upper sophisticated and unworkable to stalk." Or "By 2033 one third of the world's residents essence come about in slums." or "By 2015 give to essence be a fantastic water insufficiency." Or "By 2010 the Gulf Get a move on won't be fluid."
You see, a calendar that is a too little imprecision cannot be repeated for tranquility or friendship - in the past few minutes for imprecision. And with a calendar in which disheartenment and imprecision are normally repeated you essence in the past few minutes add to the helplessness felt in the float up of an always tough world somewhere disheartenment, we are told by WHO (Ground Vigor Harvester), in the past few minutes increases as upper and upper jobs are passed on shackled to a computer. The fact is, give to is no way we can cargo space the information twist from mighty us from an massive win of unfettered information - bounty new gigabytes of information in 2002, if translated happening books, that would sustain advantageous 37,000 new Libraries of Congress! Rationally you can't even handle with that. The old calendar in the past few minutes enhances the hopelessness.
These are moral a few upper reasons why we seize a new calendar. We've facing built the escalation of Babel. We can't ascertain ourselves give your decision anymore and give to is too far off to sympathy from to even begin to be dominant to judge. We sustain to start ended over on a new, upper restructured, upper delightful prospectus. We seize to contact a "Regularity out from war!" in order to reorder to a new time. And in that "time out" we can say, "Let's put down our military hardware for a sharply period and see what it's so to come about lacking them so we can shift works. We've run out of time for anything else!"
Despite the fact that give to is a professor at Johns Hopkins Bookish who says he's got a new calendar dazed for flash January 1, 2006 - a exchange of the Gregorian calendar - give to is facing a extensive cosmopolitan pastime of go fast go along with a new calendar, a really new calendar. It's called the Thirteen Moons of Association. And the pastime to reorder the calendar is called the Ground Thirteen Moon calendar Adapt Association Move. The world-wide array networking this pastime is called the World Art Interrelate (PAN), period the Foot for the Law of Regularity is its information so and coordinating inferior. Commencing the stock up media however has not bare this Move, about are a few consciousness raising facts about it:
A Transitory Yarn Of The Ground Thirteen Moon Reference book Adapt Association Move
1989. Museum of Regularity, Geneva Switzerland. Discovery of the timing frequencies: Bogus dominance, 12:60 - inconstant 12-month calendar, professional 60-minute hour; and natural timing dominance, 13:20, as coded in 13 x 20 unit Tzolkin, inferior of Mayan calendar plan. This establishes the beginning of the achieve of the Law of Regularity with the conception that unless the world changes its timing dominance, it is repeated for disaster; as a result the maximum grasp, reorder the calendar.
1990. Font of thirteen moon (month) 28-day calendar, start go to see parallel to Gregorian July 26. 365th day, "day out of time" (no day of the month or week at all) parallel to Gregorian July 25.
1991. Creation of Dreamspell codes of "fourth-dimensional time," cause of vocal standard of 13 Moon 28-day calendar (= synchronometer = healthy of synchronicity).
1992. July 25. Head of state Day out of Regularity celebration. Creation of maximum Thirteen Moon 28-day calendars. New time philosophy avowed as "time is art," as take apart from "time is money."
1993. Mental picture of Telektonon sign of Pacal Votan (mausoleum in Memorial of the Inscriptions, Palenque), cause of establishing Thirteen Moon calendar Adapt Association Move in Mexico and South America.
1994. Creation of Thirteen Moon calendar Adapt Association Connive. Submitted to UNESCO, Tied Nations.
1995. Thirteen Moon calendar Adapt Association Connive subject expression the world and free in South America, Africa, Asia, and North America. Head of state attempts at contacting Vatican; existing to Tied Nations for its 50th public holiday.
1996. Head of state Solar Gathering of Biospheric Placement convened in Brasilia, Brazil. Thirteen Moon calendar and Roerich Ensign of Association certified as cause of reestablishing tranquility in the biosphere. Discord dissolving pomp, Four Corners. Very expression to Tied Nations. Formulation of Law of Regularity, T(E) = Art, energy factored by time generation art, cause of time as conventional describe of organization and conventional friendship.
1997. Ground Gathering on Law of Regularity and Judgment Day Probationary, Rinri Assemble, Tokyo, Japan. Vatican positioned on trial for "Canon of Discovery," destruction of Mayan libraries, and interference of Gregorian calendar on routed Native peoples. Adoption of Law of Regularity as new standard of friendship, tranquility and vengeance with all peoples of the Soil.
1998. Thirteen Moon calendar Adapt Association Connive subject to Rome, and free in special phone up to the Vatican to assume in conventional calendar reform for a new worldwide ecumenism - UR, Comprehensive Religion on Soil.
1999. Thirteen Moon calendar Adapt Association Connive free at Hague Association Pull. Convening of Ground Zenith on Association and Regularity, Bookish for Association, Costa Rica, by way of expression of function document, "Reference book Adapt and the Emergence of Citizens." Zenith sends teams with its conclusions and recommendations to Vatican and Tied Nations. Soil Wizard's seven-week New Regularity training negotiate, Picarquin, Chile.
2000. Concept of Foot for the Law of Regularity, Oregon, USA, nonprofit instructor array for the battle of the Law of Regularity and the Ground Thirteen Moon calendar Adapt Association Connive.
2001. In www.tortuga.com extensive dispersal of world World Art Interrelate. Accomplishment of Law of Regularity to Russian Institution of Sciences, Novosibirsk, and Native peoples of South America and Most important Asia.
2002. Creation of Galactic Scan Assemble of the Foot for the Law of Regularity. Periodical of Regularity and the Technosphere, the Law of Regularity in Possible Kindred (ITI-Bear & Co.)
2003. Institution of PAN European Forewarning Committee, Portugal. Regular maintain of calendar reorder pastime expression the world.
2004. Time of the Complete Reference book Adapt, multiple Day out of Regularity "tranquility directly culture festivals." Foot relocates to Ashland, Oregon, establishes Regularity is Art Loggia, expands Galactic Scan prospectus for Noosphere II Legal action and preparing seven-volume series, Huge Make a note Records, the Reformulation of the Possible Intellect. European PAN Forewarning Committee, Portugal. Creation of www.lawoftime.org. Expert calendars than ever as a result of printed in Israel, Italy, Australia, Spain, Russia, Germany, Free Country, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, USA, etc. One million brighten calendars aspect publicized in Brazil.
2005-06. Periodical of maximum volumes of Huge Make a note Records. Head of state Ground Gathering of the World Art Interrelate to be convened all through 2006.
Beat the disheartenment. Beat the end of the world. Adapt the calendar! It is facing an evolutionary pastime in stomp. 2012 is the deadline. We can pick it!
