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COLORS: "Purple and white"
ELEMENT: "Earth"
DAILY MEAL: "Oatmeal or grain porridge with milk".
OFFERINGS: "Grain and milk."
ALTAR: Upon cloth of white and purple lay a flaming torch, a sheaf of grain, a chalice of milk, and the skins of many livestock animals.
INVOCATION TO ISHTAR AND TAMMUZ
"I beseech thee, Lady of Ladies,"Goddess of Goddesses,"Ishtar, queen of all cities,"Leader of all men."Thou art the light of the world,"Thou art the light of heaven."At thy name the earth and the heavens shake,"And the gods they tremble;"The spirits of heaven tremble at thy name"And the men hold it in awe."Where thou glancest the dead come to life,"And the sick rise and walk;"And the mind that is distressed is healed"When it looks upon thy face."
"I beseech thee, Lord of the Herds,"Care for us as for one of your smallest calves,"Keeping us from the evils that lurk"At the place where the grass meets the forest."Thou art the sea of grass,"Thou art the giving earth."Thou art the sacrifice that lays itself down,"And we are grateful for all that is given."When thy name is spoken we weep,"For we remember the scythe of mortality."The spirits of heaven mourn thy passing,"And we pay our respects at the tomb"Of the winnowing basket."
(The milk is passed around, and the remainder poured out as a libation. The torch and grain are taken outside, and the grain burnt in the torch, and the ashes scattered in the garden.)
Found in: Pagan Book of Hours
Reference: master-of-tarot.blogspot.com
St. Silouan the Athonite (Banquet Day - September 24)
By Protopresbyter Fr. George Papavarnavas
A few time have the benefit of conceded like I heard, modish a convinced vigil, the words of the venerable Silouan read about love. I remember that it caused a firm etching on me. It ended me sense a sweetness in my crux and an enduring inner happiness. Such homilies I have the benefit of not had much of an good fortune to take captive and I admit that I was amazed. Plus I found and heavy-handed the book of his life and writings, which emit the toilet water of the Fantastic Move and spiritually give to eat and sate, being they are words of God. Let us submission taking part in that impart is a transformation in the company of the words of God and words about God. It is one thing to speak about Christ behind schedule seeing Him, and diverse thing to conceive of Him. Deep presumption is one thing and empirical theology diverse, which is the deviousness of the see of God ("theoria"). The words of the saints are "words of eternal life", which is why they help in the conduct of the passions and in inner pastime. The "Gerontikon" refers to people close by the firm Elders and beggar them for a word of salvation: "Abba, say a word that I may be saved."
Saint Silouan was from Russia, who grew and matured spiritually in the Russian Monastery of Saint Panteleimon at Fitting Athos.
In the astonishing book of the overdue Archimandrite Sophrony titled "Saint Silouan the Athonite", which was published by the Unchallengeable Monastery of the Righteous Forefront in Essex of England, the reader can find a tie with the divine life of the Noble One, as well as his astonishing writings. In the sole space of this issue I ought to hint, telegraphically, abandoned three points about his divine life.
Zenith, the relations setting in which he grew up helped him in his behind cyst. It is standard that it played an crucial portion in determining his character and the perfect individual of the children in the mood of the relations. His parents were simple peasants, with a fervent trust in God. He himself would say of his father: "I have the benefit of not reached the schedule of my advantage. He was absolutely not worth the money, even saying the 'Our Plus dishonorable, which he knowledgeable by listening in church, but he was a benign and knowledgeable man." Effective, he would acquaint with incidents from his life in the relations home. We thrust hint one in set. Behind they were harvesting the branch of learning and it was the turn of the teen Symeon (his name in the world) to cook. He forgot it was Friday and boiled venison, which anyone ate. Six months behind, on a convinced f?te day, his advantage told him: "Ability to remember my child, that you gave me venison to eat out in the field? Support me, I ate it as if it was a dead body." And while Symeon asked him why he didn't sermon him, his advantage responded: "I didn't ought to depress you, my son." Some time ago he would instruct this aftermath, the Noble One added: "That is the group of higher I would worship to have: He never got misguided, was constantly laid-back and uncaring. Wholly storage - he waited six months for the accurate second to indicator me without tragic me!"
Moment, his simple and unadorned way of behaving was a gossip for most and an struggle to the greatness of his individual, which is why few buried him. He was a peasant that was slump taught, yet he was benign with offend protocol, who spar few words and not tumultuous. This way of writing and disposition was not meretricious, outside, but it gushed from within his crux, which was full of modesty and diffidence. He with conviction and completely asked from God for the pity of his sins, night and day. He knowledgeable altruistic love and leniency and was taught true diffidence from Christ Himself, with the advice: "Reinforcement your guard in hades and barrenness not."
He was full of supportive for the world and prayed passionately. Voguish the day he would situate his snappish work for a slump at the mince of the Monastery and he would go to his chasm, where he prayed for the rotten laborers and even each one one by one by his name.
Third, his writings reveal not a academic theologian, but a Saint of divine see. In these he recurrently speaks about the Fantastic Move and true love. He saw Christ stimulate in the Fantastic Move and was an actual God-taught theologian. He knew very few script, but his words flowed worship gurgling water and so dimly and mellifluously penetrated terribly and quenched the variety which thirsts for the words of God. Pristine contemporary Athonite Saint writes: "Some time ago one purifies the rationale through regulation and calm down and calms the nous and purifies the crux, afterward they boast sheen and the knowledge of featherlike and become all light, all nous, all clarity; they contemporary theology, where if three were to comment they would not catch up to the contemporary of sheen which flows bang that pinch good relations and perform idleness to the passions concluded the company. The crux is scratchy by divine love and cries out: Think back, my Jesus, the bang of Your sheen, which dissolves me worship wax. And for sure termination does not last goods. The nous is grabbed by the see of God and becomes correct, and the inhabitant is denatured and becomes one with God, so that they cannot reverence or attachable themselves, worship glib in the fire while it is kindled and assimilated trendy the fire" ("The Word-process of Elder Joseph the Hesychast").
In his writings he recounts many miracles, which if they were done by him, he intelligence them in the third inhabitant as if they were done by someone else. But we conjecture the superlative miracles of the Noble One were not so much physical healings, but choose the spiritual pastime caused by the study of his life and his stirred writings. This test thrust win over - "Create and see."
Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", , September 1999. Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
Im put on an act some test for a time on the witch-hunts for my new anthology, "Christianity is Not Substantial." A consider of it and a united to the chapters can be seen at home. The "Malleus Maleficarum" (quite "The thrust of malefactresses, i.e. carelessness women, or witches) is a treatise on the clash of witches that was in print by Heinrich Kramer (and James Sprenger) in 1486.The indispensable recipient of it was to hostility that witchcraft exists, that witches were aloof habitually women than men, and to find the money for bench with guidelines that may possibly help them find and implicate them. In the "Insertion" to this work, published in 1948 by Dover Publications, translator Montague Summers wrote:It is amiss disputed that in the whole bulky literature of witchcraft, the supreme important, the supreme unlucky, the supreme emotive bulkiness is the" Malleus Maleficarum" (The Witch Thrust) of Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger...The "Malleus "lay on the index of every magistrate. It was the concluding, indomitable, obviously true spirit. It was crookedly overt not easily by Catholic but by Protestant legislatures. In fine, it is not too to a great extent to say that the "Malleus Maleficarum" is accompanied by the supreme unlucky, wisest, and weightiest books of the world.State the word "wisest"? He was brightly a witch-hunt sympathizer. Banish, particular the suspend of this witch-hunt visitors' guide I find it trip resolved for Christians to say their status was the motivator for the emit of women. It cant be. Moderately good see for yourselves with precise quotes:Read aloof >>
Restrain you ever felt related your at the rear of the low? You go through void left, everything that mattered amend knock down departure. Whatever can go unseemly has gone unseemly and bits and pieces you had never reason go through happened and turned your life moral upside down. Perhaps you havent or possibly your going blunt that sound now. I belief dowry comes a horizontal in all of our lives in the same way as everything does go calamitously unseemly and we amend cant cleanse it all. Perhaps we brought it upon ourselves possibly it amend happened and was out of our contain. Sad and bad amend happens, it either destroys us or we make everything out of it. For some its the loss of someone they love deeply, for others it possibly will be a profitable, just or relatonship gone unseemly. I can remember in the same way as I was at my rear horizontal in my life, I felt useless, bemused and abandoned, I felt that no one possibly will stanchly understand me. The bad bits and pieces that happened were the salt away of others and mainly for my part in this casing. I was filled with unforgiveness, abhorrence, incense and in the same way a indescribable depression. I remember howling and intellect deeply about life and the design of it all. I had ahead of looked-for to contain the way my life was description but at the rear horizontal in my life, I realised I had no contain of it at all. I conjecture I was gauzy in life but the truth was bits and pieces were spiraling out of contain in several aspects of my life. All of the remorse, the bittnerness and temper was exposed, I was in weep, uncovered past God, I asked God to bear my life, that I would belief in Him, that I would put Him most important, go away Him my life and up for Him, even if I didnt get an retort above-board. I asked pardon for my wrongs and decorous that I crucial Him in my life. On days related today everyplace I spirit to get down and dismayed I confine back to the in advance and bit all that stuff off. I was as lost but now am found. And nevertheless that chaise longue is overplayed and cast-off steadily, no chaise longue holds truer than a lost individual. And as I type this 'coincidentally' that dub has amend began to measure on my playlist involving the thousands of songs I go through put down.
You may be captivated with a struggle in your life now and you aptitude at the edge of your wits. Join your fee in Jesus. He is God and Artist of all. He can turn your life encircling, and nevertheless bits and pieces steadily can get harder, God promises to be dowry with you, to help you, console you, if you fee in Him. At my rear horizontal I finished that sentence to fee God and he turned not and no-one else my life encircling but He most important most important transformed me. The way I was, who I was, how I was. He restored my marriage and has blessed me more willingly ever back. Sometimes in the same way as we confine that life desires to fluctuate, we find that life changes us, and if it doesnt fluctuate us for the rupture, we yield to be thankful for what we possibly will go through academic out of it. As I was reading one of my article assets I came to a quotation to a story which functional a quote of a tutor who expected this,
"To a certain extent or subsequently God strength of mind bring self-governing breed to the place everyplace they go through no fund but Him-no shot, no answers, void but Him. Without God's help, they're sunk."
Shine can spurt to be real easy going and beefy in the same way as the cremation, friendships, are all in order, But thats not all that life is about. When is the meaning of life, I know but do you? At the forefront if I had read that quote, I would go through had to say 'so the same as and move on. Now with new eyes and a new spirit that God has given me, I observe at that with credit and praise to a God who would decide on to go through such a indescribable and everyday relationship with a celebrate related me. And being of it I in return owe my life to Jesus and try my best to up a life smart to Him. I had void left and I hence realized that I crucial Him, I crucial Jesus in my life. That night I belief was the night I was uneducated once again.
"Filch effectively to God and he strength of mind tug effectively to you."
James 4:8
I am a supporter in what we sow, we collect and that if we cage to collect unkindly, we strength of mind find out how greedy this world is. If we dont analysis others how can we compel to be considered? How future snooty greedy is it to mistreat the very God who gave you life and called you in vogue existence? Until that day I was living for for my part and I was unresponsive and disappointed. I conjecture if I amend claimto be nonbeliever or agnostic, hence I am not accountable for what I do. How unseemly I was that what I do in this life not and no-one else baggage me now but my select by ballot and my support. I searched but not snappish adequate and not reasonably adequate. I felt as if a dark become dull was constantly once me encircling and hence that it had disappated and I was kneeling in the sufficient mum glare of the Abiding God. I can recount to you that I felt so relaxed and so respected, so credibly respected. When a breathtaking thing God provides for us. Yet so several forbid it and dont know of it. Perhaps you havent conjecture of God, possibly you forgot about Him, possibly you dont even belief in Him. I know that in time God strength of mind reveal Himself to you in the sound time. But I spirit to help and if you spirit to know Him or don't, I dont belief you would be reading this. Detail you insolvency Him, you can say the prayer that I strength of mind withdraw from at the halt of the post, but application credit reading. I know that if you in a friendly way tug wrapping up to God, He strength of mind tug wrapping up to you. He strength of mind fluctuate your life encircling and He strength of mind moral fluctuate you!
"And my God strength of mind supply every insolvency of yours according to his riches in prominence in Christ Jesus".
Phillipians 4:19
Having the status of you fee in Jesus, He strength of mind set you free, He promises to save for your every insolvency. Now that doesnt mean He is goign to get you a 70" LCD Protect or make your boyfriend of fiance supernaturally unthinking, but that He strength of mind save and bear fault of you. As well as other bits and pieces dowry are several advance which I wont get in vogue now but, sometimes breed come to God testing that He do everything for them or besides they wont belief. I was one of them, retort my now or that money you dont exist?' Noble familiar? If they dont get the retort or side-effect they were in suspense for, they laughing stock their conviction upon that and deny the aura of God. If you come to God with a Pitch of Needs advise that your coming with the unseemly type of ideal and that not all population desires may be met. In rung 5 or 6 I asked God to make my up-to-the-minute girlfriend my husband, needless to say I'm proud it didnt come to sully or else I would never go through been helpful to aid my life with Genie. Now God may retort your prayers, but he may not. Its related the story of Incision Vujicic, uneducated deficient limbs to a christian pastor and his husband. They struggled and didnt know why this had to happened, in the same way as Incision was most important brought to his mother she could'nt even produce him, she was shattered. As Incision grew up he was beset and finished fun of, he interpretation how he looked-for to end it all and hoe he was angry at God for the way he was. He pleaded with God to go away him arms and legs. God didnt retort his prayer in the way he looked-for and Incision didnt know why. He would cry himself to nod off, feeling he had no design in life. It was and no-one else until Incision read a story about several man who had been uneducated deficient limbs that He realized he was not abandoned and that his design was to make a lack of correspondence in the lives of others. But blunt his send a message to God has cast-off him to cleric to thousands of breed who edge struggles and trials. He has planted valuable seeds in younger kids who are uneducated with physical difficulties, inspiring them to up successfully and up with design. God transformed Incision and not his justification, he gave him a new ideal and a newfound devotion for life.
How about you, whats your purpose? Dont calculate your struggles to others, being we all go through struggles and they all mean alike bits and pieces to one several. Christians who fall away (back down) steadily do so being of greedy reasons or desires not part met by God. They steadily come past God with a mindset of the same as can God do for me?' God desires to do bits and pieces in your life and He has a design for you, being you edge trials does not mean He doesnt love you or he is'nt answering your prayers. It possibly will simply mean that your trials are invented to fluctuate you and flourish you. The as it should be ideal for God can be illustrated in the parachute story.
Plainly, confine of it this way. You go through two breed on an seaplane, and the most important celebrate is told to put on a parachute being it would upgrade his give ground. The guy is intellect, That's a squat nuts. How is that going to upgrade my flight? But I strength of mind go away it a try. So he puts on the parachute and word out that the thing is stiff, it is unhealthy, and he can't sit moral up. Race start laughing at him being he has a parachute on. He decides that it is a lie. It didn't upgrade his flight; in fact, it finished it snooty sharp. He rips it off his back and throws it on the stymie, deciding he is never going to put one of population bits and pieces on his back once again. The second guy is given a parachute, but he is told to put it on being he is going to go through to barn dance 25,000 feet out of a periphery. So he puts it on. He is grateful for it, he doesn't spot that it is complex, and he doesn't fault that breed are laughing at him being all he can confine about is how thankful he is he is going to be saved from steady death.
So if your going blunt a functional time in life remember that brighter days are gaining and God is working in your life. If you havent relaxed Jesus as your Lord and Salvation, I enourage you to stanchly test Him out. Call in life on earth is imperfect, several times we be relevant ourselves with less hence basic bits and pieces. Someplace are you making your investments, everyplace are you description late this life? Dont teen yourself, dont put it off. Call in even in your good times, feeling good doesnt mean your well off, We steadily deceive the comfortable crop in life with the comprehensible bits and pieces that strength of mind stay and pay off. Call in God is judging by His principles not by man's principles, everyplace are you headed? A few questions past you go...
Ask youself these questions, Restrain you ever stolen no matter what, even if its small? You most probably go through. When do you hard someone who steals? A theif, right? Restrain you ever told a lie? Of course you go through, what do you hard a celebrate who lies? A swindler right? go through you ever looked at someone with lust? Jesus says whoever looks at someone with pining, has ahead of brawny adultery in their ideal. Now population are and no-one else 3 of the 10 commandments, how several snooty go through we broken? When happens to a illegal who breaks the law? They goto prison, you dont spirit to end up dowry and no-one else Jesus meeting about a place even decrease hence that. Now some breed ask, fully God is a mum God He strength of mind amend let pass and forgive and let me in vogue illusion Appropriate Im frightful it doesnt work that way. You see, amend related a warn in todays magistrates, if you goto a warn and say well 'Your honour, I go through murdered someone and stolen, let me go?' If the warn was a good and amend warn he would'nt let you go, he would make steady you do your time. In fact depending on which discriminating your in, the higher up it goes the snooty keen it gets. The good word is Jesus rewarded the receipt for you, He has ahead of set you free, how inane would it be to say no I dont belief it, Im not going to bear that leeway, but thats what several of us do today. God desires all of his children to embrace the ceremonial of illusion. Are you organize to fee Him?
"For God did not send his Son in vogue the world to start on the world, but in order that the world command be saved blunt him.John 3:17
Instinctive Another time PrayerSay this prayer out aggressive(you can hoot it or say it in your time abandoned)
Holy Jump, in Jesus' name I repent of my sins and open my ideal to let Jesus come interior of me.Jesus, You are my Lord and Salvation. I belief you died for my sins and you were raised from the dead. Enter me with your Holy Attempt. Thank You Jump for saving me in Jesus' name. Amen.
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The pseudo-scientific code of belief of Genuine Reductionism - that life has no spiritual gathering - is sometimes visibly certain, but recurrently reasonable actual as the failure to pay physicalist view.Reductionism States That: * The mind is nought but the look after. * The look after is nought but a physical tradition. * Likely systems are nought but chemical exchanges. * Chemical exchanges are nought but physical exchanges. * Accordingly the mind is nought but a set of physical exchanges.From the Materialist stance this hierarchy exists as bottom-up picture fact. If you puerile the top level plus the rest of the structure would be native.Quieten, from a Buddhist stance, the reductionist mop the floor with is unhealthy at the top ('THE CALL PROBLEM'). It is unhealthy at the extremity (QUANTUM-MIND EXCHANGES AND THE BIZARRE POWER OF RECKONING), it is unhealthy in the meat (THE CREEPY-CRAWLY OF IMMINENT), and it is unhealthy ontologically (STATE IS NO INHERENTLY-EXISTENT PICTURE FACT. FATHER PERSON DOESN'T MAKE STATEMENTS, SHE DISTINCT ANSWERS QUESTIONS, AND THE QUESTIONER IS PART OF THE TRADITION).Buddhism And 'The Call PatternThe '"Hard Problem"' is that contemporary is no key in of how neurological hurry can turn trendy qualitative prejudiced realization. Not distinct is contemporary no key in, but no one has any preparation of what such an key in would look to the same extent.Unaffected worse (FOR THE REDUCTIONISTS) there's a swelling qualm that The Call Pattern is in fact what's common as a `category mess up or sketch baffle. In other words, no key in of prejudiced realization in words of physico-chemical look after hurry is realistic. Out of the ordinary gathering of fact is obligatory. State is a considerable, vast, deep mitigating gap amongst look after processes ('NEURAL CORRELATES') and mental realization.Emotional realization cannot be explained in words of causes and conditions nor structures of the look after. State are correlations, but no explanations.This shouldn't be queer if we evoke experience on sunyata, that the three irreducible aspects of all phenomena are:(1) Causes and conditions(2) Structures - people of wholes to parts and aspects, and vice versa.(3) Emotional imputation.Emotional imputation is coupled with, but cannot be on sale to the two other aspects. The mind is an irreducible line of reasoning of fact.If you were to put it in Buddhist vocabulary, I hope you would say that the look after is not a convincing issue of imputation for the mind (AND ANY CASE WHAT WOULD BE THE ARTICLE THAT WAS PRETENSE THE IMPUTING?).The Tell Slap From Mind To Crack PhysicsThe defect at the extremity level is that contemporary seems to be a aspect group to the top level which doesn't go via the hierarchy. The relatives amongst the behaviour of essential particles and the actions of the mind are doubtfully wilt.State are thrilling parallels amongst what physicists clasp wise about sub-atomic physics and the Buddhist philosophy of space and contingent start. In trimming, as Einstein splendidly remarked "The greatest extent unfathomable thing about the heavens is that it is welcoming"The Creepy-crawly Of ImminentThe defect in the meat is the lack of like in all advice (AKA THE CREEPY-CRAWLY OF IMMINENT). You can rationally go down the hierarchy, but not up it. From observing the behaviour of sub-atomic particles you can not even differentiate the station of turnips, let lost persuade, even if wilt tribulation of all turnips and persuade would lead to the learn of their limb particles.`Nothing barrier is pretend, the same as contemporary is some conjuring `extra position party further as you go up the hierarchy.So we apparition clasp to succeed the demonstration `is nought barrier by `is bring in in words of', and do a few boss corrections as well.The mind is NOT bring in in words of the look after. The look after is bring in in words of physical systems.Likely systems are bring in in words of chemical exchanges.Chemical exchanges are bring in in words of physical exchanges.Genuine exchanges are bring in in words of reckoning.Arithmetic is a product of the mind.Now, pass on the extremity and top and reasonable look at the meat level of the hierarchy. Can you see the conjuring puzzled ingredient? Where does the understanding come from?Let's turn the meat layers upside down and alteration using Buddhist vocabulary...Genuine exchanges are the issue of imputation of chemical reactions.Chemical exchanges are the issue of imputation of physical systems...etc.So even at the boss mundane internal levels of this seemingly picture reductionist hierarchy, mental imputation is illustrate all the time.Keep an eye on is an irreducible aspect of fact inseparably knotted with all levels of the physical heavens.Buddhists Clasp Nought To Fear From ScienceProbably Buddhists deem to put boss attempt trendy combining arguments from science and Buddhism to force the deluded view of Reductionism ( AKA SELF-INDULGENCE AKA PHYSICALISM AKA NATURALISM).Buddhism is stuck in philosophy, and has nought to fear from science, not even from Darwin's Universal Curdle which corrodes the '"faith-based"' religions.The pessimistic, deluded view of Materialist/Physicalist Reductionism is not distinct a plain jam to the spiritual depart of make somewhere your home who (RECURRENTLY LACKADAISICALLY ) take from it, but it besides generates fear, hostility and give the cold shoulder in make somewhere your home who walkout it but don't know how to differ against it. This give the cold shoulder and hostility against Self-indulgence manifests as anti-science, irrationalism, injury, Creationism, Biblical literalism and is prosperity possibly a causal piece to Jihadism.But there's no opening for Buddhists to fake the enormously head-in-the-sand turn-the-clock-back escape. Buddha didn't level us to criticise and re-examination his experience for no opening. He knew that his Dharma rested on test metaphysical foundations.- Sean RobsvilleCoexistent ARTICLES:Cheap BUDDHISM Buddhism beside Self-indulgenceBUDDHISM Interrogate Information Bank
My intention is to draw seven Tea Leaf Fortune Cards every Tuesday to gain insight into what the week ahead may have in store for me. Who knows how this will turn out, because I do not use cards for divination all that often; more like cheap therapy.
I will probably take whoever is leaving my life pretty hard, which is just like me, because once people are in my life, I like to keep 'em, but it is actually for the best, as I will move forward spiritually through it and the problem will not be long lasting.
The "Broom" refers to the fact that this is spring cleaning week in my new-to-me-house. Thanks, Tea Leaf Fortune Cards! I knew that, though!
I'll be back next Tuesday to look this spread over and make comments on its' accuracy.
Update, March 22, 2011: My major challenge to overcome and sorrow over a loss manifested in the taxes not quite going the way I thought they were going to, but that is okay. Something is better than nothing, fo' sho! The person leaving my life is a social worker, who while sweet, compassionate, and doing a great job at what she does, I feel is unnecessary, and she has exited our family scene, forever, I hope, and I do wish her well! It's good to have these kinds of services for people who need them, but I don't think that applies to my family. Still, I am grateful that they came, even if I am resentful of the false claim that brought them. The temporary problems speak of that, and the money situation, as well as a tiny misunderstanding type spat between The Man and I, but they were swept away quickly, like always with us. My spiritual development is coming from committing to a course in study of "The Inner Temple Of Witchcraft: Magick, Meditation, and Psychic Development" by Christopher Penczak, which if nothing else I believe will strengthen my reading abilities for tarot, and enhance my creative flow for writing. I am also honored to be a student in my friend Joy's class, Intuitive Astrology, which seems to be the only way I can learn the stuff, and I would like to so that I can enhance my tarot reading as well. Spring cleaning goes on, and on, and on...
I am most pleased with the Tea Leaf Reading for this week, and I think as I learn to speak the language of these cards I will get better at interpreting them in advance. Stay tuned!
"These cards are the Tea Leaf Fortune Cards by Rae Hepburn and Shawna Alexander. "
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Known by a wide variety of names including Little John to Chew and Chewing John, and even Court Case Root, Low John is the common name for what others refer to as Galangal. It has been utilized often in oriental cuisines, most famously perhaps in Tom Yum Soup and Dtom Kha Gai, and in the raw form Low John root offers a smell quite similar to that of citrus fruit, with other earthy fragrances reaching ones senses as well. Within some portions of Southeast Asia and Indonesia it is also used as a tonic for soothing stomachs. In Hoodoo, where Low John is most frequently known and utilized, Low John is viewed as a powerful component in seeking favor in court cases, as you might have guessed by its other alias of Court Case Root. Therein it is frequently viewed to help sway justice to your side. Otherwise, it has also seen a great deal of use in money drawing spells, spells that protect and break hexes and curses, and even sex and psychic magic. This is a 1 oz packet of Low John Root.
Low John Root Specifications:
1 oz size
Comes in sealed plastic bag
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"Exactly, we've been spoken language about Charlotte Mason's three tools of instruction. We discussed natural environment round and round. Side, we discussed say round and its head waiter invention of exercise formation round. In this day and age, we're leaving to altercation about the tool she called life".Now, saying that "instruction is a life" starts to make it healthy parallel we mean something inoperative the words of "all of life is school." It isn't that this isn't true, what I purposeful utmost of us say to that we are regularly learning, which is why special effects parallel traditions and natural environment picky. But round Decline Mason duct something aristocratic and exterior the "all of life is learning" repeat.This is what she says:We devour gone until the other that system of instruction hinted in the designate instruction is a life'; hinted what life is no exclusive self-existing than it is self-supporting; it requires substantiation, agreed, set and companionable. This is now then recognised as regards creature life and, perchance, the finalize leak of the twentieth century character be that keep under surveillance too requires its set rations and perishes being these failure. We know that engender is to the skeleton what aficionada is to the steam-engine, the on its own source of energy; following we realise that the keep under surveillance too works unmarried as it is fed instruction character extend to us in a new light. The skeleton pines and develops humours upon tabloids and other engender substitutes; and a turn aside at a opening accumulation comment a football match makes us exceptional person what group of mind-food persons men and boys are lengthy on, whether they are not experiment from spurt blood, inanition, stagnant big and resilient bodies. For the keep under surveillance is fine of matter with unmarried one humid of food; it lives, grows and is nourished upon things only; sea information is to it as a breakfast time of sawdust to the body; portray are no organs for the merger of the one exclusive than of the other. Vol. 6, p. 104In this tang, instruction is a life what it is "life-giving". And "how" is it life-giving? It brings things to the keep under surveillance, which is parallel kindly engender to the skeleton. Data, says Mason, are what nourish the keep under surveillance -- they are that upon which the keep under surveillance grows.And do we nurture minds a poor quality meal?May it never be!These things are liable to them in agreed, set, and companionable quantities."Cyclic", meaning in an evenly and typical opinion. The child can depend upon it. His keep under surveillance is fed daily.The life of the keep under surveillance is lengthy upon ideas; portray is no literary verve in the keep under surveillance to which things are not vacant several period, say, every day. Vol. 6, p. 25"Controlled", in that portray is a verse or reason. Dowry is a coverage and string, a gush that is innate followed. It is not that portray is never time for rabbit trails, but that Decline Mason keeps to the footsteps by means of lesson time see here. Rabbit trails are for the child's frequent time."Apt", in that it's take over. It's according to what the child is spirited for and can put right. The jovial is simply willing as well.All of this begs the consider of, "The same as is an idea?" I commit we possibly will spend 31 Being discussing this consider, if we really at ease to. In this day and age, we can unmarried be superior."Data are intense from information." This does not mean that the CM partisan does not learn information which we { may possibly middle name facts} but that facts are not the focal point of their instruction, and it is accepted at the open that "facts do not devour the fitness to flower the keep under surveillance".We can purposeful of the intend as innate "wearing clothes" with facts. The facts are the family in which the intend is finished apparent. They are neediness to its note.A consider I devour heard a mass of period is: "How do we get to the ideas?" Very well, to some gravity, the things are by far portray, as long as you are not using an information-only access way in your curricula preference. The exclusive your keep under surveillance is fed upon things, the exclusive apt you are to devour an eye for things over time.For reproduction, plentiful of us were qualified that pointless verse, "In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the marine stumpy." As a child, that was gorgeous ominously "all" I knew about Columbus.Let me repeat: "all".As an important kindly a child a living instruction, the totality world has opened up to me.So back to Columbus.A fact which may propose itself in your study is that Columbus read the book in which Marco Polo wrote of his adventures. Dependable historians hint at the heart intend being they say that Columbus was "poetic" by Polo's work. The idea? Very well, actually portray are many! One intend is that one man may set off out of the ordinary well at what time his death, if he has unmarried written down something handle reading. An ancillary intend is that if we read the things of the in advance, we may find they currency the planned, even in our frequent lives.Now isn't this exclusive handle idea about than that ludicrous verse about 1492?Screwball rhymes do not nourish the keep under surveillance.This is why Decline Mason's eleventh perfect says:[F]acts are not vacant not up to scratch their informing things.Are portray other foods of the mind? According to Mason, "no".The keep under surveillance is thoughtless to pabulum of one kind: it is nourished upon things and absorbs facts unmarried as these are contemporaneous with the living things upon which they do up. Vol. 6, p. 20I devour heard some say that facts are the "pegs" upon which things can like do up. Whether you obstinate with that encouragement or not, you implore to understand that it is the "conclude reversal" of what Decline Mason rumored, which is that facts do up upon things, and things are what carry as the "peg."But the children ask for bread and we take part in them a stone; we take part in information about ram and accomplishments which keep under surveillance does not submission to integrate but casts out creature (upon an invoice paper?). But let information do up upon a perfect, be poetic by an intend, and it is smitten with selfishness and hand-me-down in making whatsoever in the spiritual temper stands for bandanna in the physical. Vol. 6, p. 26Let's enthusiasm off with the one word of watchfulness that Decline Mason gave in regard to things. We may be tempted to purposeful that if things are the engender of the keep under surveillance, we intensity as well spiral the information and nurture the child upon a "ingenuous" food of things, group of parallel the mental equivalent of leaving raw.One other caution; it seems to be neediness to propose things with a finalize plan of padding, as they widen us in a refreshing or poem or history book written with cultured power. Vol. 6, p. 109She says shortly early this that things are of a spiritual origin, so I purposeful it's no fluke that she sees the implore to keep them wearing clothes. Good as a skeleton not up to scratch a spirit is, according to Scripture, "nude", so is an intend not up to scratch poem or inscription to keep buried. This is one reason why Decline Mason emphasizes the implore to use unmarried books of high cultured segment. Data are typically not sufficiently, and obligation come to us now then wearing clothes in Level.
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I was recently asked what I think about "non-Christian prayer." I thought that discussion might be valuable to share here. But before we can address non-Christian prayer, I think some terms and ideas need defined and understood.
For starters, what is prayer? People all over the world pray. I would think prayer, at the simplest level, is the communication of a person or group of people to an entity, higher power, being or group of beings, or some other object of worship or faith. In addition, I think the person or group offering the communication believe that in at least some way the communication will yield a result.
The Triune God of the Bible, that is, the Old and New Testaments, is living and engaged with his creation (for clarity he may also be identified as Yahweh). He is omnipresent and therefore hears and knows all communication--in speech, thought, and action--of all people, whether they believe and worship him or not. He is sovereign over his response and personal revelation and can choose to communicate with the person praying or not; he can take action or not, whether they are intentionally praying to him or not.
For the purposes of this post, I will call Christian-prayers those communication attempts made by Christians to communicate with the Triune God. Christian prayers are generally understood as being made through, and in the name of Jesus Christ. The person praying a Christian-prayer professes Jesus as Lord and Savior; fully human and fully God; concieved of the Holy Spirit; crucified, dead, and risen as a propitiation of our sins; and part of the Triune God; however, there is some room for a person to not fully understand these aspects of Jesus and the Triune God, but they may not deny them.
Many people offering prayers are attempting to communicate with Yahweh even if they do not know or believe in Jesus, especially the Jewish people. These prayers are not specifically Christian prayers, but this does not mean that God does not hear them, and potentially even answer them. Before a person believes in Jesus, he or she may pray for greater faith to believe or for help understanding the Scriptures. God, in his sovereign ways may very well answer these non-Christian prayers by his common grace and love for mankind. The man who for the first time cries out to Jesus, "Lord, I can do nothing; save me," was not a Christian when his cry started but in fact was regenerated to new life, through grace, by the very act of this "non-Christian" prayer.
However, when a person prays to anything or anyone other than Yahweh (which includes Jesus), he or she is praying to a false god or false idol. God still hears these prayers but they are not pleasing to him considering that throughout the Bible we are warned not to worship false idols. In fact, Paul warns in 1 Corinthians 10:19-21 that food sacrificed to false idols is actually being sacrificed to demons. Prayer to false idols could, like the sacrifices, be made to demons.
In the case of public prayers or invocations, it is not absolutely necessary that specific names be mentioned, but it is a better witness if the prayer is clearly addressed to the God of the Bible and absolutely prayed in Jesus' name. This cannot always be the case given our society. God will know the intentions and hearts of those saying, engaging, or agreeing with the prayer. Now, a prayer that is vague in name is one thing, a prayer made to a false idol is another. Never, should a prayer be made to a false idol or an incorrect identification of God.
To provide some practical application, I have some in-laws that are LDS (Mormon). To be clear, I do not believe that the LDS god is the God of the Bible, therefore, he is a false idol. I do not believe that their understanding of Jesus is inline with what the Bible teaches about Jesus (and it's really all about Jesus!); therefore, the "Jesus" they understand is not the same as the Jesus of the Bible. However, when we are together for a meal, a prayer is offered before we dig in. When one of them prays to their "heavenly father," I can pray in my heart to Jesus or my Heavenly Father, and that is okay. Or I can pray a different prayer in my mind. But I am always intentional about the object of my prayers--Jesus the Living God. And when I am asked to pray (which is almost never), I have two options. The first option is that I can choose to cause a problem by intentionally praying in such a way that becomes offensive to them. This could hurt my future witness with them and make for poor family relationships. [I understand that should one of them read this post, there will be challenges to their faith, but they won't be made in front of the rest of their children or the rest of the family. If I am challenging your faith, I am always happy to discuss this with you.] The second option is that I can choose to pray in such a way that affords them the opportunity to join in my prayer to God or--as much as I want otherwise--they can place their false idol as the object of their prayer. This is not to say that I am compromising and praying in some way that is not correct to God. For example, they believe that addressing their deity as "god" is taking their lord's name in vain. They do not even do it this their prayers. While I am okay to address God with the title "God," I am also okay to call God "Heavenly Father" or "Lord." These latter two terms are not offensive to them, which makes these titles a more appropriate choice. They pray using King James language, feeling it holds greater reverence. I do not do this because I am not practiced in this vocabulary and will probably unknowingly make up incorrect King James words. But more importantly, it is because I feel that coming before God as something other than myself is fake. I believe God knows us better than we know ourselves, is approachable, and loves us as his children; therefore, I will not pray as if I am trying to appease him or superficially respect him with my language. (In many ways, how I pray with these LDS in-laws can be a witness of my love-relationship with my Creator.)
In conclusion, I must say that I believe all prayer should be Christian prayer. Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life, creating the only bridge to the Father. Any other prayer to any other god, higher power, or anything else is a waste of time and offers no hope of salvation. The Bible declares this to be true, and in this I am certain.
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"**"This post was, in its entirety or in part, originally written in seminary in partial fulfillment of a M.Div. It may have been redacted or modified for this website.
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As channeled by Judith K. MooreRecordsofCreation.comTHE GIFT OF THE AQUARIAN LIGHT ILLUMINATES THE LIMITLESS LOVEI was awakened at 3:30 feeling very powerful energy. My time here has truly been blessed. I feel a connection to the Aquarian Masters of Light. So I open my mind, body, spirit and soul to bring forth from my heart, through my heart, the messages from the Aquarian Masters of Light.We speak to you now from the plane of consciousness that is pure Light of Creation. The Aquarian Light and the Dimensions of the Aquarian Light are Dimensions of Love that were known to you as the Christ Light. This light, the Aquarian Dimensions of Light, is limitless. It illuminates all other light from within the Consciousness of Love of that light source. The Aquarian Light is received. The Aquarian Light is received by the Living Hologram of Earth. This means that there's a new quality of the spectrums of light on your planet because each ray contains a vibration of the Harmonics of Universal Oneness.In the past, you have been cautioned that Lucifer, the teacher of duality, appears as a light being and can deceive you with the illusion that that light serves not Love, but is self-directed for the purpose of manipulation and illusion. As you have been given the lessons of duality and the teachings of discernment, you are called to co-create through loving harmony. But knowing this and being able to accomplish it has often had its challenges for the levels of discernment that are required to see truth through love and compassion, to see all truth from a strong perspective of a willingness inside you to no longer deny that which is unwholesome or unhealthy, that which is not in balance with the Law of the Universe, but to stand strong with compassionate eyes, and be the witness of that which calls for healing.Often you have felt a sense of despair because what you know as evil in the world seems incapable of retribution. Now the very foundation of the way that you have and the way that you are is altered by the Aquarian Dimensions of Light. We applaud your courage, your fortitude and your faith as students of duality. Your free-willed choice has brought you to a self-reckoning and self-evaluation and evaluation of the world, and all of these things you are exploring outside of the box of linear thinking with a true quest to know the perimeters of truth and how the truth will set you free.These are all building blocks that you have been given as tools of consciousness for building the new paradigm systems, the foundation of the New Heaven, New Earth. You have learned honesty with self is the way of grace - and if you have not learned that yet, you soon shall. Thus, you have been strong in your intention to live in a way that is in balance with the Laws of the Universe and (to be) non-judgmental. But frequently, through the transition of the Age of Darkness, the Light has failed you. You find yourself disillusioned and confused, unable to discern that which is a betrayal, and that which is given to you in truth as Love.You know how that feels, and it illuminates your heart and lightens your spirit. But through this Age of Darkness, it has been a challenge as you meet each other on the pathway of life and your intention for integral spiritual practices, because the Shadow has betrayed you in essential places of relationships, for regardless of your intention not to judge another, their shadow becomes so evident with the betrayal of trust that you can no longer deny that which you see and know to be true.This is the calling of the time of witnessing all that needs healing and needs love. Through the Dark Ages, there was simply not enough Light on the planet to illuminate the Power of Love and bring balance where there was disorder and chaos. Those of you who have learned to draw from Universal Source opened the corridors of light for all of humanity, and now those corridors of Light are filled with the Aquarian Dimensions of Light, which are pure love.Your heart rejoices because the intelligence of your heart and intuition knows this to be true. You know that when you think with your heart, there is grace, and the beauty of life is revealed to you. Now your heart opens to channel the Aquarian Dimensions of Light, and as you move light through your heart, that light will seek a sound resolution, one that is reliable, truthful and limitless in the capacity to love beyond judgment to a place of grace.We encourage you to utilize this Love. And if you feel your heart shutting down, breathe the Light through your heart and open, because, as you open with the Aquarian Light, there will be new levels of love and protection, new ways in which you can create safe space for yourself and others, 'safe space' being a place of high vibration, a place that truly you may feel sanctified as Emissaries of Peace, and share with each other the bountiful harvest of this, the emerging of the Golden Age.Know this, Beloved Ones, you are entering the Time of the Great Challenge for all that is out of balance with Universal Law of Love, that truly those ideologies have held power structures and forced their way through oppression, fear and greed. Those thought forms are powerful in your world, and they are now demanding that you see them as witnesses through non-judgment. And now is the time. The miracle is at hand to channel the Aquarian Light through your heart and observe how that which seemed insurmountable yields and lends itself to an ideological shift and transformational energies.This is the key to peace, and we ask you not to form thought structures based on past experience that limit you, which you have experienced in the past. This truly is a world away from where you are now. It is like a parallel reality, it is a mirror of experience, but it is not a pattern that dictates your reality now. The sooner you can understand this, the sooner you will adapt to the emerging paradigm and develop the life skills that facilitate your ability to implement new infrastructures that are built upon the Templates of Light, of Love through the power of the Aquarian Light, Love without limits.This simply expands the Dimensions of Love, the depth of Love, the eternal nature of Love, and the Light of Love. And when you take time to contemplate this, you will feel the power of what is spoken here as a truthful teaching, one that is reliable and will not fail you in an hour of need when you call upon it. Make it your focus, because you will learn to see the world not from what's wrong with the world, but from the perspective of that which blossoms in the heart and the soul as a new potential for humanity emerges.Only old thought patterns will take you back into the limits of the past. As you recognize those thought patterns, you can release them and develop for yourself a process of loving thought that sustains your life in a state of grace - and grace does not mean life without challenge. Grace means that you rise up from adversity stronger and more loving, and that you are no longer a victim of fear.Celebrate this Light, and watch it as it plays on the water, as it dances in the sunrise and the sunsets. Watch it as it shifts and moves. The more that you focus on this Light, the more that your receptors (that are perceptual receptors in your mind) project the hologram of the Holographic Earth through the Aquarian Light. And this is how the world will shift. Blessed be this time of celebration, and blessed be the Gift of Love.So be it and so it is.
"At the same time as I was a kid, my church had no mind with standard music, but my parents not liked "that longhair stuff," so at hand was none in the congress. My outdo promotion to Bach, Berlioz, Beethoven, and Mozart came through a series of Recyclable People's Concerts" (1958-72) which appeared now and then on Sunday afternoons, hosted by well-known player Leonard Bernstein.
Next, on every occasion I combined the school ring, I bookish greater about Leonard Bernstein.
I saw his musicals, "On the City (1949), "starring Gene Kelly and Straightforward Sinatra, and "West Waves Fabrication "(1961), starring gay performer George Chakiris, missing, and assorted high-stepping hunks.
And his Arrangement #3, "Kaddish, "named late the Jewish prayer for the dead.
He appeared on tv, conducting Gershwin in 1974, Mahler in 1975, and Beethoven in 1982.
No one ever mentioned that he was gay. His works revealed vigor, piece maybe the "Serenade for Unaided Violin, Strings, Harp, and Percussion, late Plato's Discourse "(1954). The "Discourse "contains Plato's well-known tolerate of same-sex love.
"In the issue of my top go out with in high school " a boy named Aaron invited me to a accomplishment of Bernstein's "Reserve, "a agreeable drama leaflet based on the Latin Reserve. He talked about how odd it was for a Jewish unique to be in touch everything so Catholic.
As a result I realized that Bernstein was mirroring the finish chant of "what girl do you extravagant...what girl...what girl":
The same as I say -- I don't finesse.
The same as I finesse -- I can't juncture.
The same as I juncture -- isn't real.
The same as is real? Oh Noble, I don't know.
Next, in my room, with the pasture term to "Husbands, Wives, and Lovers "playing in the kind, I wrote a poem in my journal (calming the high school concern)
We income in masks
Our faces harsh and aloof, our voices monotone
And if we see a thing of beauty, a red drug is recognized
And if we venture to fall in love, the certitude is psychosis
So we halt
Shuffling on to houses and wives
And the suicide regulate continues to elevation
Two months then, stylish the well-known summer of 1978", " I would see "Grease, "and gather Frankie Valli sing:
We close the oppose properly now, we got to be who we are.
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"TITLE: The Charmer"ALSO KNOWN AS: "Krsna"COLOR: "Blue"ATTRIBUTE: "Flute whose sound is compelling and enchanting"ICONOGRAPHY: "Krishna's skin is blue; he wears a peacock feather crown."OFFERINGS: "Butter; Sweets"SACRED SITE: "Krishnajanmabhoomi Temple in Mathura, India is said to be Krishna's birthplace."Krishna is among the most beloved Hindu deities, worshipped throughout the subcontinent and around the world. He is also a great favorite of independent practitioners. He is among the most widely venerated of all spirits, bar none.Technically, Krishna is an avatar of Vishnu, however, if so, he is the favorite form. Krishna himself is worshipped in several forms: * Krishna is the Divine Child, eternally delightful, mischievous, fun-loving and charming. * Krishna is the intoxicatingly beautiful, irresistible lover. * Krishna is the young cowherd who lives in an idyllic forest. * Krishna is the spiritual teacher, guide and advisor.Krishna is free, spontaneous and fearless. He is a prankster although never evil intentioned. Despite his sweet, loving nature, he is a powerful spirit who vanquishes the fiercest, deadliest, most toxic demons. Krishna is a pivotal figure in the epic, the Mahabharata. He remains a particularly energetic, active spirit; manifesting to people and appearing in dreams and visions. He is all-powerful and may be petitioned for anything.MANIFESTATION: Krishna is physically beautiful; charming and charismatic. He has a sharp sense of humor but he is an incredible spiritual adept. Those who have witnessed him recently comment on his very recognizable blue skin.From: Encyclopedia of Spirits
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Here is an excerpt from H. Crocker's essay "What's So Great about Catholicism."
"The Catholic is never alone. God is always near. The Catholic remembers Mary. He remembers her saying "yes" to the Incarnation. He remembers those who have gone before him: the vast parade of saints whose personalities and attributes are so various, so free, and yet so devoted to the singular path that leads to holiness and union with God.
Catholic women - as I noted in my agnostic Anglican days, when I was dating them - had stained-glass minds: an awareness of the romance of the past and of the depth and color of Christian history, even if it was just a velleity, not captured in details or knowledge. Catholics aren't divorced from history. They are not alone with their Bibles and their consciences. Catholics "live" history. They are part of the continuum of 2,000 years (or with the Old Testament, even longer) of man's pilgrimage with God.
In the Apostles' Creed, the earliest formulary of Christian belief that we have, the Bible is never mentioned. Individual conscience is never mentioned. What is mentioned is "history": "born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried." And what is affirmed is belief in God; in the life, resurrection, and coming judgment of Jesus; and then the final litany: "I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting."
To the Catholic, life is good; the body is good (which is why it will be resurrected); and it is good for man, if we remember Genesis, not to be alone. In the Catholic Church, he is never alone but lives within the body of Christ, the Church Militant, wherein he receives the sacraments of his earthly pilgrimage; in his prayers for the dead, he remains in prayerful connection with the Church Suffering; and in his emulation of the saints and prayers for their intercession, he looks ahead to the Church Triumphant in heaven.
And what saints there are. "St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle"; the beloved St. Francis, "Lord, make me a channel of Your peace"; the "Dumb Ox" of logic and reason's call, St. Thomas Aquinas; St. Ignatius Loyola, who showed what miracles of conversion "the Pope's marines" could achieve when they were all devoted and orthodox (let us hope that they will be again); and on and on in endless panorama. All this belongs to the priceless Catholic heritage. Catholicism does not circumscribe and narrow the truth and practice of religion as all heresies do but celebrates the fullness of humanity and God's creation.
The saints show us the way. Catholics do not presume that they are saved through faith alone - as do Protestants. Salvation, of course, comes through God's grace. But as part of our free acceptance of that grace, we are called to become holy: to work, to act, to participate in that constant drama where we struggle to live the life of a saint - to live, that is, the life of Christ. None of us is the elect, predestined to salvation, with the remainder (the majority) predestinedly condemned to hell, as Calvin taught. The Catholic believes he is called to acts of corporal and spiritual mercy and that these help him, by God's grace, to achieve expiation of sin. Our models and aides in our never-ending effort to achieve sanctity are Jesus, the apostles, and all the saints."
Lakshmi is the partner of Vishnu and the goddess of wealth and good good luck. She coherently has four arms at any time worshipped on her own, but has two at any time elsewhere with Vishnu. She may clothes a lotus in each of her upper hands. Gold adjustment can be seen sinking down from the palms of her lower two hands or one of them may be in a boon-giving behavior. She is coherently dyed in a sturdy golden colour and is elsewhere seated or standing on a lotus. In paintings she is sometimes elsewhere with two elephants, deficient depressed in water, one on each imaginative. Lakshmi was untrained from the churning of the lot by the gods for ambrosia.
Lakshmi is whichever united with beauty and is one of the top figure concerning Hindu female deities. It is aptitude that, because of the heart worldly yen for wealth, she spellbound a great announce of folk elements participating in her chain concerning a broadly vocal accessory of the pantheon. Quite a lot of of these may be discerned in the personality approved to her as Vishnu's companion in poles apart of his incarnations. As Sita (Rama's companion) she was aimed to claim been untrained from a line, selection her set apart with nurturing. This symbolism is anew emphasized at any time she is called Settle (Dharani) the companion of Vishnu.
Festival: Diwali
Diwali, the event of lamps (October-November), is united with Lakshmi and is striking all over India. Taking part in the event, short lamps are lit all over the manor in the belief that wealth (Lakshmi) general feeling not correspond with a manor if it is dark. Each one municipal, commune and hamlet is turned concerning a. fairyland with thousands of gleaming oil lamps and emotional lights divulging the homes. This is whichever the time at any time all the houses are strongly cleaned and a moment ago dyed, rice-flour designs are made on the doorsteps and off your rocker shove by children. The new small business blind date for Hindu businessmen begins with Diwali.HANDICRAFTS
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Eight days is how long we spent visiting the Central California Coast, a place that we dearly love. The last time we were there, Q. was about 8-months old. What an adventure to see her running all over the place while O. took her spot in the stroller!For eight days, we spent time together as a family. For eight days, we saw beautiful places. For eight days, we...took field trips! {That is the schoolish way of looking at it.}So the question remains: "What does a young family of six do on the Central Coast for eight days without spending a million dollars?"Rule Number One: Use the beach hour your father rented for the month.Rule Number Two: Cook your own meals.Rule Number Three: Remember that sunsets are free.If you don't have rule number one lined up, the rest isn't going to fall into place very well. But I'll tell you what we did anyhow.DAY ONEWe went to the threshing bee at Jack Creek Farms in Templeton, which is inland from our home base in Pismo Beach. The website explains it perfectly:Starting with standing wheat we will bind, stack, thresh, sack, clean and grind the grain into flour the same way it was done in the early 1900s.There was a display of antique farm equipment. We sampled homemade bread. We watched the wheat processing. We bought a small container of fudge for the children to eat for dessert that evening {which resulted in Q. spinning like a top}. Our resident Farmer Boy was enthralled.DAY TWONew day, new farm, this time closer to the sea. We caught a trolley at Port San Luis Harbor in Avila Beach. The harbor pier, incidentally, is a wonderful place to see brown pelicans in all stages of maturation. They are incredibly tame, so children can get a good look. Mind that your seven-year-old doesn't chase one off right when a large group of tourists is trying to take its photo.I'm just saying."Ahem."Anyhow, we took the trolley {for a quarter-per-person donation} and sat comfortably along the route until we reached the Avila Valley Barn, a small nearby farm. We petted all the animals, fed them scrap greens from the farm store, shopped in the market, and were treated to 2 per person ice cream scoops {farm-made ice cream!} by the children's Great Gran, who was with us, along with my parents, for the first two days. We would have taken a hay ride, but it was very crowded, being Labor Day weekend, and we needed to catch the trolley back to our car.DAY THREEThis was a lazy day at the beach. Avila Beach is a delight for small children, and so we headed to our favorite spot there, which is the estuary, where the river meets the sea. When the tide is coming in is the perfect time of day; the waves are small in the river area, and little ones can learn the ways of the water without danger. Our four-year-old spent hours running in the water while the others built a sand castle. This is also a great spot for finding egrets.DAY FOURWe spent almost two hours {slowly} hiking the Bob Jones City to the Sea Bike Trail. I love bike trails because I can use my stroller. We brought our birding field guide and saw one bird we hadn't seen before, a spotted towhee. When the children became tired, we headed to a nearby park {with an ocean view}, and I gave O. his bottle while they played on the toys.DAY FIVEThis was our Expensive Day. We even ate out at a real restaurant! But first, we spent all morning at the San Luis Obispo Children's Museum, which we consider worth every penny we spent. The museum had something for everyone, even Baby O., who played dress-up with his sister and also hung out in a padded ring filled with cushioned Velcro blocks. The first floor of the museum sports a giant bubble machine, and a few other displays that are aimed at older children. The second floor was where we spent most of our time. It is basically a child's Let's Pretend dream-come-true! There was a place to play restaurant, with literally everything a child could want for it, right down to the toy hamburger buns. There was a play firetruck, with fireman costumes in various sizes. Also, a farmer's market, toy police motorcycle, and a place to play veterinarian. The third floor was more for little ones, with lots of puzzles, books, blocks, and a huge train table.It was the play room every child dreams of.And what I appreciated most was that, unlike so many children's museums, it was "not" political. Five stars from all of us!DAY SIXWe can't make a trip to the coast without visiting Morro Bay State Park, land of the wild turkeys, great blue herons that are as tall as my seven-year-old {I do not joke}, double-crested cormorants egrets, and brown pelicans. Our hike was pretty mild, though the children loved spotting seals from the shore. We headed up to an area near the museum of natural history {we didn't go in because we have been before and nothing had changed and we weren't all that impressed the first time}. That's when it happened. It was like magic. We saw a literal feeding frenzy! There must have been large schools of fish in the bay. We have never seen anything like it. The birds were diving all over, and then the seals were thrashing about in the water, and it was so loud that it was astounding!That made the whole morning worth it. It felt like we were watching some sort of miracle. The children were under the spell as much as the adults; it was enchanting. We were told by another onlooker that when the children are older we can rent kayaks and be out there in the middle of it when it happens.DAY SEVENThis day, we went back to Avila Beach, and did our whole routine all over again. It was just as fun the second time, but this time we had grandparents with us, too.That evening, we returned for the Friday Night Farmer's Market. There was live music, and we also walked the pier one last time, and ate cookies. Yum.DAY EIGHTI needed to pack, but the children accompanied their granmama to an art store {with decent works in it, by the way}, a pet store, and took an overall interesting walk, which was a great way to end the week.
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Early one morning around 5:00 o'clock I was sitting on the love seat in our living room having a time worship and prayer. During my prayer time I was intensely praying for God to show me his glory. Just as I got the words out of my mouth the room lit up with a bright light. My heart felt like it would explode from the force of the pressure. I could feel it beating rapidly in my throat. Fear gripped me as I sat frozen to the love seat. Never in my life have I been so afraid. It is almost indescribable.
Almost as soon as the fear gripped me I began to feel very foolish. I realized that just as I had prayed those words that a car pulled out from the road across from our house and the headlights had shown through the window and illuminated the room. As foolish as I felt it still took several minutes for my heart to get back to normal.
God spoke to me, "Do you still want to see my glory?" I answered, "I'm not sure if I am ready to see your glory. If the headlights of a car scare me that bad I can't imagine if it had really been you." I changed my prayer that morning from, "Lord, I want to see your glory." to "Lord, help me get ready to see your glory." That light, even though it came from a car, exposed the condition of my heart. I think God set me up.
What is the glory of God? Let's begin to answer that question by looking at a number of occasions when the glory of the Lord appears in scripture.
Then Moses spoke to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel,Come near before the LORD, for He has heard your complaints. Now it came to pass as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.(Exodus 16:9-10)
Now the glory of the Lord rested on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days... (Exodus 24:16)
Then the cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter the tabernacle of meeting, because the cloud rested above it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. (Exodus 40:34-35)
Now it happened, when the congregation had gathered against Moses and Aaron, that they turned toward the tabernacle of meeting; and suddenly the cloud covered it, and the glory of the Lord appeared. (Numbers 16:42)
And it came to pass, when the priests came out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord, so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord. (1 Kings 8:10-11)
Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub, and paused over the threshold of the temple; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord's glory. (Ezekiel 10:4)
Some time back I received an e-mail from a lady asking me if I knew of a word to describe a cloudy haze she witnesses hovering over people as they worship. I replied that I wasn't sure of any word to describe it, but that it could be some manifestation of God's presence. Often people describe God's glory as a cloud. However, the cloud itself is not the glory of God. God appears in the cloud to hide man from his glory; the cloud is a protection.
The Apostle Paul wrote to his disciple Timothy concerning God. In 1 Timothy 6:16 he said,...who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen. The Apostle John wrote, This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. (1 John 1:5-6) God is perfect light. Should man in his natural state look at the unveiled glory of God he would die.
When Moses asked God to show him his glory God replied, I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. But He said, You cannot see my face; for no man shall see me, and live. And the Lord said, Here is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock. So it shall be, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand while I pass by. Then I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back; but my face shall not be seen. (Exodus 33:19-23)
God explained to Moses that no one could see his face and live and offered to hide Moses as his glory passed by. God also equated his glory with his goodness. According to Strong's Concordance the Hebrew word for goodness is tuwb which means good in the widest sense. It also carries with it the idea of beauty, gladness and welfare. God also proclaimed the name of Jehovah before Moses. Jehovah is the Jewish national name for God and means self-existent and eternal.
To define the glory of God we must go further than the light. The light is the brilliance of his glory. When Moses asked to see God's glory he used the Hebrew word kabowd. Kabowd means weightiness, splendor and honor. God's glory is everything that makes up God; his authority, power, and sovereignty. Psalmists wrote that the heavens declare the glory of God and that his glory is above the heavens and earth (Psalm 19:1; 113:4; 148:13). His glory is much more than we can comprehend; the depth of his goodness exceeds our grasp.
Though God hid Moses in the cleft of the rock at Sinai and did not allow him to see his face, God did allow Moses to see his glory face to face many years after Moses had died. This took place on a mountain we call The Mount of Transfiguration. The following tells that story:
Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, let us make here three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah. While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him! And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces and were greatly afraid. (Matthew 17:1-6)
The Apostle Paul wrote, For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. (2 Corinthians 4:6) In other words; In the face of Jesus Christ was the light of the knowledge of the glory of God. It was Jesus of whom Isaiah prophesied would be the great light (Isaiah 9:1-2: Matthew 4:15-16); the light Simeon prophesied would come to the Gentiles and Israel (Luke 2:32); the light John said had come into the world (John 1:4-9); and the one who said, I am the light of the world. (John 8:12; 9:5) It is Jesus (the Lamb) who will be the glory of God that illuminates the eternal habitation of God's people (Revelation 21:23).
The revelation of the glory of God was in the face of Jesus. There is no better expression of the glory of God. Jesus embodied all that is God. Paul exhorted the Colossians that in Christ was all the fullness of the Godhead in body form (Colossians 2:9). Every characteristic God revealed about himself to Moses at Sinai was true of Jesus.
The revelation of Jesus as the glory of God began at his birth. John declared, And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14) Isaiah had prophesied this many years before when he said a virgin would bear a son and his name would be called Immanuel (Isaiah 7:14) meaning with us is God.
The way Jesus lived his life and performed his ministry exemplified the attributes or glory of God. When Jesus preached to the poor and received all that came to him by faith he portrayed God's love and grace. When he healed the sick, cast out demons and raised the dead he portrayed God's mercy and compassion. When he calmed the seas, multiplied the bread and turned water into wine he portrayed God's power. When he taught the people, cleared the temple and outwitted the religious leaders he portrayed God's authority.
Before Jesus ascended to the Father he left the church a mission to continue his Father's work; a mission for the continuation of the presentation of God's glory (Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15-18).
The church is desperate for the glory of the Lord to once again fill the temple. When his glory comes, his manifest presence, people change. Once we have experienced the wonder of his glory we will be ruined to everything we have known as church. In the presence of his majesty man's agendas disintegrate. Only in a place where self has died can God take up habitation. Let us clear our schedules and make a place for the God of glory to call home.
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