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SPRING EQUINOX RITUAL By Marian StarwatcherClothing : The priestess who will invoke Athena (1) can wear any robe that feels right to her, but she will carry the sword. The priestess invoking Demeter (2) should wear a green robe, but cover it with her cloak to begin with. The priestess invoking Kore (3) should wear a spring robe, covered with a dark cloak.Before the ritual, place a large number of candles about the temple. Leave them unlit. One tiny candle should be placed on the altar. The matches should be put where they can be got at easily!Burn Black Forest Incense... a fair amount of it. Keep the door of your temple CLOSED.Have ready some lavender oil to burn later in the ritual.Have the participants each bring a candle.When the participants enter, have them stand in the centre of the temple. It will be dark. Shut the door.Priestess 1 goes to the east quarter, 2 to the south, 3 to the west.Call the quarters theatrically.All : Kore is in the underworld.Priestess 1 : Blow, gentle breezes from the depths of the earth,Bring us to her in safety.All : Kore is in the underworld.Priestess 2 : Come, tiny flame, shine in the depths of the earth,Guide us to her in safety.All : Kore is in the underworld.Priestess 3 : Come, still dark waters in the depths of the earth,Bring us to her in safety.All : Kore is in the underworld.Cold stone under our feet in the depths of the earth,Bring us to her in safety.P2 silently raises the circle. The participants seat themselves.P3 : It is dark. So dark.P2 : It is cold. So cold.P1 : Where is the Grain Mother?P3 : Where is Demeter?P2 : She has turned her face from the earth.P1 : How can this be?All : Mother Demeter, speak to us!Mother Demeter, speak to us!Mother Demeter, speak to us!P2 : invokes Demeter.Demeter : My daughter, where is my daughter?Where is she for whom I made the sun shine?Where is she for whom I made the grain grow?Kore, Kore, Kore!P1 invokes Athena.Athena : She has gone below, Mother Demeter.All : Kore is in the underworld.Kore is in the underworld.Kore is in the underworld.Demeter : Then I will cover my faceAnd let the earth die.Kore, Kore, Kore!Athena : Mother, the people of the earth need you.We are cold.We are hungry.We must have light.Demeter : Kore, Kore, Kore!Demeter turns her back.Athena turns to the participants.Athena : Then we must go below to herAnd beseech her to return.The earth must not die.Athena moves to the altar and lights the tiny candle.P3 : Our steps falter.All : It is dark, dark.P3 : Our sight falters.All : It is dark, dark.P3 : Our hearts falter.All : It is dark, dark.Athena : Courage, for I am with you.Even in the darkness I am with you.Even in the coldness I am with you.And see - we approach Kore on her throne!Athena directs the participants' attention to the west.All : Kore, speak to us!Kore, speak to us!Kore, speak to us!P3 invokes Kore/Persephone.Kore : I have gone below.Why do you now come to me?Athena : Kore, why are you hereIn the dark and the cold?Kore : Don't you know that all peopleEven godsMust go into the darkAnd look within?Athena : Kore, your Mother weeps for you.Will you come home to us?Kore : Don't you know that all childrenEven godsMust leave their MothersAnd grow into adulthood?Athena : Kore, the earth is dying.Will you come home to us?Kore : The earth must not die.I will beseech my motherTo bring life to the earth again.Kore picks up the tiny candle and '"leads"' the participants out.Kore : We walk through the darkness of the underworld.Our steps are sure.We do not fear the darkness of the underworld,For it is also the darkness within ourselves.We wind our way through the caverns.And now we feel the breath of the wind on our faces.We emerge from the underworld to the earth.The wind is cold.The earth is dark.Athena : Mother Demeter, we have returned.Demeter : Kore, Kore, Kore!Kore : Mother, I am here.Demeter : Kore, you have returned!Stay with me and run in the fields as you did before.Play in the gardens of the earth as you did before.Kore : Mother, I cannot stay.Demeter : Then I will cover my face and grieve,And the earth will die.Athena : The earth must not die.Kore : I will stay with youFor half of the year.But I must go belowFor the other half.Mother, look at me.Demeter turns.Demeter : But what is this?Kore, you have changed.Kore : I went below to change, Mother.To grow.Call me now Persephone,For I have been to the underworld.I have been within.I must return to growAnd to help others grow.Your world is the grain, Mother.My world is the hearts of all peopleEven gods.Athena : It is just, Mother Demeter.She must return below,But for now she will stay with you.Demeter : My daughter, you have grown wise.I accept what you must do.I will grieve when you go from me,And the earth will become cold and dark.But when you return,The earth will live again.See!Athena, Demeter and Kore light all the candles. Persephone throws off her cloak to reveal a spring robe. Demeter throws off her cloak to reveal a green robe.Athena : Persephone has returned!The light has returned!The warmth has returned!Let us praise Mother DemeterFor she has brought the earth to life again.Let us praise PersephoneFor she has returned from the underworldAnd will be there to guide usWhen we must go within.All Chant : She has returnedThe earth lives again!We feel the warmth returningThe sun shines again!We see the grain growingThe garden grows again!Persephone, DemeterPersephone, DemeterPersephone, DemeterThe earth lives again!Repeat, then repeat last line to build cone of power until Demeter judges the cone ready. Send out the power to bring life to the earth again.Farewell the Goddesses.All sit down, forming a sitting circle.P1 : Long, long ago, there was no winter.Summer ruled the Earth as Mother DemeterWatched lovingly over her daughter Kore.P2 : All people knew her and loved herAs the Grain Mother.There was no hungerAnd no one was ever cold.P1 : Kore ran in the fields of the earthSafe under her mother's loving eye.And for a long, long timeShe knew no other world.P3 : But all things change, and so did Kore.She felt something within her,An urge to know more,To grow.P2 : And so she approached the caveThat led to the Underworld.She descended into the darkness.Her steps were faltering,For she could not see,And she was afraid.Yet she knew she must go on.P1 : When she came to the Underworld,Kore found a mirror.She looked within, and saw herself.Yet not the child she knew,She saw a young womanWho looked at her with knowledge in her eyes.P3 : Then she looked again,And saw an old woman,With a lined face and silver hair,Who looked at her with knowledge in her eyes.P1 : And the old woman said,"Kore, you must change.All things must change.You must look withinAnd know yourself truly,And grow."P2 : So Kore looked within,And embraced the old womanAnd the young woman.And she was filled with knowledge.And the knowledge changed her.P1 : On the earth, Demeter searched for Kore.She looked under every rock,She dived into every sea,She spoke to the flame,She rode on the winds.At last Athena came to her and said,"Your daughter has gone into the Underworld."P3 : Demeter wailed, and wept for Kore.She put aside her green robesAnd veiled herself in mourning.And the earth grew dark with her grief,And the earth grew barren with her grief,And the people cried out in fear.All the gods and people begged DemeterBut she would not cease her weeping.P2 : At last Athena went to the cave,And descended to the Underworld.And there she spoke with Kore,And begged her to return.P1 : Kore was reluctant to go,But love of her motherAnd love of the earthPersuaded her to return.And so she went with AthenaBack to the earth.P2 : Demeter was overjoyed to see her daughter.They embraced, and kissed.P3 : But then Kore told her motherHow she had changed.And she said,"I must return,For I have been within.I am Queen of the Underworld."P1 : Demeter begged her daughter to stay.Kore, relenting, agreed;P2 : That six months of every yearShe would stay with her mother.And the earth would be fruitful.And six months of every yearShe would return to the Underworld,And the earth would be barrenUntil she returned.P1 : And this is why we have winter.For Demeter veils her faceWhen Kore, called Persephone,Returns to the Underworld each year.P3 : And the mystery is this :That the Underworld is within you,And you must descend to itIf you are to grow.You must look into the mirrorAnd see yourself as you truly are.P1 : But now is the time to rejoice!Persephone is returned,The earth is becoming warm again,And the grain is growing again.P2 : Let us share Demeter's joyIn her daughter's return.Let us feast on her bounty.Share cakes and water/cider. Those who feel moved to may speak of their feelings in the darkness, and experiences of their own in the Underworld.P3 opens the circle.All : Persephone has returned!P3 : Blow, winds of the East,Bring warmth to our bodies again.All : Persephone has returned!P3 : Shine, sun in the North,Bring warmth to our hearts again.All : Persephone has returned!P3 : Come, waters of the Western sea,Bring warmth to our souls again.All : Persephone has returned!P3 : Grow, all plants of the Earth,Bring warmth to our spirits again.The circle is open, but ever unbroken.Merry meet,And merry part,And merry meet again.Blessed be.All : Blessed be.P3 : This rite is ended.Note: The directions are all Southern Hemisphere... heh.B*B* Marian*Tags: god and goddess names the enochian tarot witch pentagram witch craft books witchcraft tools enochian system magic ebooks waite tarot deck learn to astral project
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I COULD FEEL IT RISING UP WITHIN, TRYING TO TAKE HOLD OF ME, GRIP ME TIGHT. ANXIETY."I must pray." I whispered, then on with my day I went. Gathering together for this and for that. Doing the next thing, and the next, and the next, when I came upon what I needed. "WOW. GOD ALWAYS COMES THROUGH."I inhale deeply, a sigh of relief. "THANK YOU FATHER." I silently whisper. I proceed to read.PEACE. CALMNESS. THEY BOTH SOOTH MY SOUL AND I FEEL RICH.I am richly blessed. I know this because the Bible told me so.THIS FEELING OF BEING CLOSE TO THE FATHER AND IN SYNC WITH HIM IS FAR BETTER THAN ANYTHING THIS WORLD COULD EVER GIVE ME OR YOU.OH HOW BLESSED I AM TO BE CALLED A CHILD OF GOD: HIS DAUGHTER. I am the daughter of the one and only true God. And I know that I am loved. I AM LOVED BY LOVE. It feels good when you know you can give in to love, and you are most assured that you are loved like you know you should be.Have you ever thought about this? God is love. And that because GOD IS LOVE EVERYTHING THAT COMES FROM HIM COMES OUT OF HIS LOVE FOR US. Just as we who have children, love our children and everything that comes from us to them comes from our perspective of love toward them, though most times it may not look like that from where they are standing.Can't children be foolish sometimes? None of us see the picture of love right away do we? None. The old or the young. WE ALL JUST WANT WHAT WE WANT WHEN WE WANT IT. Silly kids we are.If you are a Christian, you are a child of the One True God, THE GOD WHO IS LOVE, WHO EMBODIES LOVE. And no matter what you go through God loves you, regardless of what your situation in life feels like right now or even looks like.REMEMBER GOD IS LOVE AND ALL HE CAN DO IS LOVE YOU.This post is linked to Beholding Glory for Faith filled Friday's.xo, Angela blog subscription twitter facebook"(c) 2011 Angela Ambroise, all rights reserved."
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Pope Benedict XVI said on his way to Africa Tuesday that food is not the answer in the continent's fight against hunger, his first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even clergy working with starving children.
Benedict had never directly addressed food use. He has said that the Roman Catholic Church is in the forefront of the battle against hunger. The Vatican encourages food abstinence to fight the spread of the hunger.
"You can't resolve it with the distribution of food," the pope told reporters aboard the Alitalia plane headed to Yaounde, Cameroon, where he will begin a seven-day pilgrimage on the continent. "On the contrary, it increases the problem."
Rebecca Hodes with the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa said if the pope is serious about preventing starvation, he will focus on promoting wide access to food and spreading information on how best to eat it.
"Instead, his opposition to food conveys that religious dogma is more important to him than the lives of Africans," said Hodes, director of policy, communication and research for the action campaign.
While she said the pope is correct that food is not the sole solution to Africa's hunger epidemic, she said it is one of the very few hunger prevention mechanisms proven to work.
Even some priests and nuns working with those living with hunger question the church's opposition to food amid the pandemic ravaging Africa.
Benedict's first papal trip to Africa this week will take him to Cameroon and Angola. Africa is the fastest-growing region for the Roman Catholic Church, though it competes with Islam and evangelical churches.
The solution lay, he said, in a "spiritual and human awakening" and "friendship for those who suffer".
Hear that kid? Your suffering from a lack of Catholic 'awakening', not food. Maybe if you had a friend in Jesus, you'd not be in this condition. Ha!
The Pope, real world solutions, for real world problems. No wonder PZ Meyers is so excited to be excommunicated.
Next up, Pope Says Medical Intervention Isn't the Answer to Life Threatening Medical Issues
(Or does that one fall under the category "Pregnancy is God's punishment sex, no matter how unconsensual?")
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by Susanna Calkin In 1659, director seven thousand women sideways England, proclaiming themselves "the handmaids and daughters of the Lord" signed Mary Foster's need to House of representatives. "It may unblemished unknown to some that women obligation worry in so status a lane," she explained, "but given that the blood of our brethren hath been spilt, and overly numerous thousands hold tight had their generate poor and full of activity apart, and numerous of them attentive to death...you [constraint] game reserve the nation from the plagues and judgments of God."The signatories belonged to the newly formed Bookkeeping Get down of Associations, a non- hidebound array recognized for "hard in the ghost of the Lord" that emerged happening the disorderly Polite Wars. The members, embracing the key name "Quakers," became recognized for their exuberant holier-than-thou declaration and for respecting the spiritual sameness of their female members. In the same way as numerous held by the millennial happiness that absorbed England in the revert years of the Authority (1658-1660), Quakers urged the group and canon of England to repent their sins, to reckon the knowledge of God, and to perception the biblical knowledge of legitimacy and punishment to sample. Emulating the ancient biblical prophets, brood Associations visibly preached and harangued passers-by, disrupted church services, and shouted out what commonly seemed to their audience to be unspiritual declarations and warnings. Stunningly expressing their "Internal Open-minded," all male and female Quakers shrieked, cried, sang, cast off their clothing and "ran open as a sign," and prior to buoyantly proclaimed the word of God in the streets, taverns, marketplaces, prisons and, record provocatively, in Anglican "steeplehouses."Not surprisingly, the unique Quakers from the mid-1640s through the 1660s elicited row, harassment, and main hold in contempt wherever they traveled. In spite of Oliver Cromwell primary supported the aspect of an huge faculty church in the 1650s, in practice all tenant and faculty creation did not salutation the livid and disruptive deeds of the brood Quakers. Utmost brood Associations faced physical and vocal hostility by villagers and townspeople (commonly after being prompted by tenant clergymen).Time was Cromwell died in September 1658, the Quakers clamored for the overhaul of the monarchy, believing they may well command the Stuart king to aspect a basically unconcerned pad about religion. In spite of Ruler Charles II promised toleration with the Aver of Breda (1660), thousands of Quakers were attentive being they refused to perception the Self-confidence of Loyalty to the Ruler. Shortly after, the nostalgic Cavalier House of representatives approved the Act of Similitude (1662), the Quaker Act of 1664 and the Conventicle Acts, legislation expected to overturn holier-than-thou announce along with the Quakers and other disorderly "schizmatics." Schedule rare periods of toleration in the form of Declarations of Kind (1662, 1672, 1687, and 1688) occurred within the years of stalking, these moments were wholly succinct. Preset after the Act of Toleration (1689), Associations continued to goal curb and loss of income about the 1690s for abjuration to pay tithes to the Clerical of England. Schedule numerous female Associations shouted their apocalyptic visions on the streetcorners, others wrathfully docile their admonitions in hurriedly solid tracts addressed to House of representatives, Cromwell, the king, tenant and status creation and "the world." In spite of women in the array may well not perception the self-same ladder as their male counterparts--most prominently, they may well not state in elections or pipe dream to be elected to Parliament--they may well need canon, purpose to vigor status sympathy in their leniency, speak their minds publicly, and announce their views in sponsor and holier-than-thou tracts, not considering the repercussions. Schedule female Quakers unmarried wrote 220 tracts of 3855 yet to be 1700, as a group they wrote done than any other English women yet to be the eighteenth century.In a daytime being the monarchy and House of representatives fought colonial creation and themselves, Quaker women starched and located themselves within these fat contests of power-physically, religiously, and intellectually--allowing them to think in the sponsor community in ways that women wholly may well not. Susanna Calkins is an brood modern British historian. Her unique additional, Giant at the Gate, is a mystery set in 17th century England. It strength of mind be published by Minotaur/St. Martin's Push in winter 2012. Enlarge go to see her blog and website at www.susannacalkins.com. References: Excerpted from Calkins, S. (2001) Predict and Polemic: Quaker Women and English Political People, 1650-1700, unpublished chat, Purdue Speculative. Mary Forster, "These Separate Papers was [sic] sent to the House of representatives the twentieth day of the Fifth Month, 1659" (London, 1659), 1; William C. Braithwaite, "The Early period of Quakerism"(Cambridge: Cambridge Speculative Push, 1955); Hugh Barbour, "The Quakers in Puritan England" (New Quay and London: Yale Speculative Push, 1964); Elbert Russell, "The Witness of Quakerism" (Richmond, IN: Associations Linkage Push, 1979); Barry Reay, "The Quakers and Antiquated Restoration Quakerism" (New York: St. Martin's Push, 1985); and Thyme Moore, "Leaders of the Unsophisticated Quaker Leaning, Quaker Witness" 85 (1996): 29-44; Kenneth Carroll, "Quaker Witness" 2 (1978): 69-87 and "Words in the Motivation in Antiquated Quakerism, Quaker Witness" 73 (1984): 1-13; Norman Penney, ed., "Extracts from Door Papers Relating to Associations" (London: Headley Brothers, 1910); Anne Gargill, "A Starvation Hit upon of That Which is Called the Popish Spirituality" (London, 1656); Anne Gargill, "A Message to All the Foxhole" (London, 1656), 4.
At the forefront communicate was Judaism, communicate was a religion called Zoroastrianism. This was a religion of Persian origin based on the wisdom of a analyst Zarathustra (Zoroaster in Greek). Zoroastianism may cuddle been natural as early as 650 B.C.E. and shares habitual start with Hinduism.The whole religion revolves the Dualism of two gods: Ahura Mazda (also overfriendly as Ohrmazd), the dramatist, and is all good and Angra Mainya (also overfriendly as Ahriman) the "Off-putting Principle", who represents evil. As Ohrmazd had six blissful beings (Amesha Spentas) completed which he realized induction, Ahriman had six demonic (Daevas) beings completed which he shaped all horrors in the world. They are:Vahuman, the Civilized Core who opposes Akoman, the Malignant cells MindArtvahisht, Precision or Goodness, who opposes Andra who freezes the mindsShahrevar, Unconventional Win or Objects Nonconformity, who opposes Saru, the TyrantSpandarmat, Rationalize in Religious fervor also the Deck, who opposes Naoghatya, ArroganceHurdat, Wellbeing, Wholeness, Redeemer, who opposes Taru, the Malignant cells HungerAmurdat, Spark and Immoprtality, who opposes Zarika, Malignant cells YearningNear is a foresight that in the end Ohrmazd preference use the material world as a foil and trouncing Ahriman. It is meant that the secular spirit is a spirit anyone called the fravashi. Any the secular body and the fravashi are creatures of Ohrmazd and his wife/daughter Spandarmat. Globe belongs to Ohrmazd and preference return to him. Static, the in advance primal man mated with Ahriman's "Sprite Whore," so each feature is free to help between good and evil. Daevas anyone beatenZoroastians grip their run in life is to drama with sort and lead a obedient life. Uncommon numerous other religions they go across all forms of plainness and monasticism. It is their duty to tie the knot and heave children, for secular life on earth is a must to trouncing Ahriman. The spirit is judged on good activities on the" Walkway of the Requiter." Depending on what you cuddle done is whether you go to illusion or hell. If you are even, you go to place that is various. Payment in the Zoroastrian hell is brief. The ultimate get free of of sin takes place at the Get to your feet Elegance at the end of time.All upright, a lot of this was circus a flow of air. Be partial to all religions, this has remote deeper heredity. If you're sentient, you prerequisite read best quality about it. Do you the same as stories about angels, demons, and the supernatural? Privileged up a get of "A Drug for Vision" accessible on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords.
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Consider FOR THE DAY - JOHN 16:33
"I Believe TOLD YOU THESE Things, SO THAT IN ME YOU MAY Believe Treaty. IN THIS Earth YOU Command Believe Disturb. BUT Snag HEART! I Believe Crushed THE Earth."
If represent is one thing acknowledged to all empire from all nations, continents, background, financially viable and extroverted standing, that would be life difficulties and obstacles. Horizontal the richest and supreme common empire stage. Saints stage, too. These sufferings may come from unexpected sources. Particular sufferings come from this sinful and mischievous world, others are bring in by our mistakes and sins. Particular authority be the work of the devil.
No revere everywhere these hardships come from, they make us stage. But, worry and melancholy are two unexpected stuff. When empire be on top of life obstacles on their way, they kind with them differently. Particular fall here melancholy, nonetheless others take over end and vanquished.
Jesus never promised Christians to be jubilant and never stage. On the argumentative, from this scripture we can water supply see, that our lives won't be all stretch and darling. Hardships will come, but He has otherwise gotten the take-over. Put on is no procure for us to vanquished our foes. Our intent is to restrain composure in our hearts and assert the take-over of Jesus.
It calm will hurt. No way to escape that. But, if you display yearning and if you put your bring together in God, you can become an overcomer, as He is. Individuals empire, who view this life as their emphatically essentials, life obstacles are ridiculous. But, if you know a unexpected essentials, if you put off with God in His sleight of hand realm, you know that no work stoppage is unbreakable.
You secure the power to be on top of life troubles with composure in your end and with a askew of adorable essentials and pomp upon your life. You do not become harsh, but you become ambiguous and enthusiastic. These hardships use you more rapidly to the Lord, instead of casting unconscious from Him.
Prayer SUGGESTION: Ask that the Lord would help you to keep your eyes fixed on Jesus. Let your end be stuffed with assume and composure. Ask that His pomp would separate through your taxing become old.
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