
Saturday, 28 June 2008
Shahnameh Blue Monday

Stairway To Heaven

I haven't been well the criminal brace of days, so I haven't posted state, apologies.
Today's card from Gem TAROT BY ELISABETTA TREVISAN is Emperor of Pentacles.
It strikes me that on the whole the Emperor of Pentacles is outdated enclosed by lavishness, as he is certain to dowry mastery of the physical and theme planes. As a rule, represent are bowls of grapes, a scorching fire, golden background, fur rugs, make even every marker of elegance item you weight balance with theme shot and relief. But in this card, we see none of those sound effects. Pretty, the Emperor of Pentacles sits perched, comparatively unevenly, on a storehouse of rocks, at the top of twisting flight of stairs. Fashion with his robe and draw the flight of stairs down with your eyes. You'll see it turns a mess and descends in the direction of an curved gate, some marker of stream cynical plain-spoken those jaggedy mountains sad him. And within that hot air, you can see the survival of the flight of stairs.
Whether the flight of steps stash on sad him isn't spiky. He certainly isn't looking re to find out. He's looking out preferably to the not here of the card, over the bend in the flight of steps, which I envision to be on the very edge of rim, his view glowing, with a leg on each side of the silly, clear pinnacle ends about him.
Or maybe he looks out over a swanky unconcealed, lord of all to the fore him, sad him and beneath him. Maybe this isn't his throne or his fort, while all. Maybe he's laboured up this secret stair to get a king's eye view of all that is his. I envision he doesn't come up state steadily, and so he does, no one knows. This is an ancient and former stair that he revealed as a child, anywhere he prepared his procedure to tame all, and now he comes state to bask in his shot.
Or it possibly will be I've smitten too far-off Sudafed.
Blessings. x
Sunday, 22 June 2008
The God Kings Authority In The Pyramid Age

THE GOD-KING'S AUTHORITY
It is abundantly clear that the Heliopolis priests exercised a unique authority over the pharaohs of the Pyramid Age. Their Egyptian tombs were symbols of the sun cult. They were enlarged versions of the sacred ben-ben or mound at Heliopolis where Atum-Ra the Sun-god was believed to have manifested himself. The Vizier Hemeon, who built the Great Pyramid for the pharaoh Khufu (Cheops), was a 'devotee of Heliopolis'. And after Khufu's death four of his successors proclaimed their religious loyalties by forming their names of compounds of the Sun-god: Djedefre, Khafre (Chephren), Baufre and Menkaure (Mycerinius). The word 'pharaoh' did not mean 'King' in the Old Kingdom. References to the monarch were in such terms as 'Great House' (Per-0 from which 'pharaoh' is derived) or 'Protected Place'.The term implied the palace and its connected halls and chambers which housed the government departments. Thus the Great House had complete authority, both secular and religious. The officials in the palace were not the docile instruments of a monarch's will but themselves vital cogs in the administrative wheel. The so-called absolute power of the pharaoh is only theoretical. Opinions have unfortunately been formed less on evidence than on the size and number of monuments. For instance, although the sole testimony to the autocratic power of Khufu (Cheops), builder of the Great Egyptian Pyramid, is his tomb, his personal power has all too often been measured by its dimensions, overlooking the evidence that it was the Great House that exercised authority over the provinces, monopolised mining and marketing and supervised building projects. There was, to be sure, a hierarchial political structure and a hierarchial pantheon of gods, but the God-king who stood at the apex of both was the vehicle by which the priests of Heliopolis exercised control.
The local deities, it will be remembered, were borne in their shrines by the local priests to attend the Heb-Sed Festival. Each had been given an incentive to witness the reassertion of the king's sovereignty over the Two Lands and accept him as a god mightier than their own. The God-king returned the compliment. He not only visited the district priests and made offerings in the local shrines but took an active part in their temple construction. Inscriptions indicate that Khufu restored the temple of Hathor the cow-goddess at Dendera, embellished another at Bubastis where the cat-goddess was worshipped, and consecrated gold, silver and bronze statues to the shrine of Selket, the scorpion-goddess, Hapi the Egyptian Nile-god, and other deities. The part played by the Memphite Drama in anthropomorphisation should not pass unremarked: once a priest had dressed up as a god, or at least spoken and acted for a god, it was natural for the people to imagine their own local deities as men. In some cases the human figure was surmounted by their ancient ensigns, whether bird or animal. In other cases even the head was human but distinguished by ears or horns.
In the reign of Khafre (Chephren), builder of the second pyramid, magnificent cult figures of the God-king were fashioned. They described an immutable power that does not belong to mortals. The significant advances in the quality of royal statuary were not without purpose. They gave a feeling of strength, and permanency and helped promote the cult of the God-king. Menkaure (Mycerinius), builder of the third, smallest, Egyptian pyramid at Giza, was frequently sculpted as a member of a group. These were Triads composed of the goddess Hathor, the pharaoh and different local deities, both male and female, bearing the features of the queen. There must once have been as many of these Triads as there were important provinces, just as the number of shrines in Zoser's Heb-Sed Court probably equalled the number of local deities who attended the festival. Religion cemented political unity, giving an inviolable character to the political system. Where gods were friends, men were united.
Saturday, 21 June 2008
This Is A Heaven Sent Opportunity To Short Circuit The Wheel Of Karma 112112

Friday, 20 June 2008
Jrr Tolkien Cure For Sagging Faith

"It takes a fantastic will to unbelief to suppose that Jesus never really 'happened', and more to suppose that he did not say the things recorded of him - so incapable of being 'invented' by anyone in the world at that time: such as 'before Abraham came to be I AM', 'He that hath seen me hath seen the Father', or the promulgation of the Blessed Sacrament in John V: "He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath eternal life." WE MUST THEREFORE EITHER BELIEVE IN HIM AND WHAT HE SAID AND TAKE THE CONSEQUENCES; OR REJECT HIM AND TAKE THE CONSEQUENCES. I find it for myself difficult to believe that anyone who has ever been to Communion, even once, with at least right intention, can ever again reject Him without grave blame. (However, he alone knows each unique soul and its circumstances.)
THE ONLY CURE FOR SAGGING FAITH IS COMMUNION. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely and for once in any of us. Like the act of faith it must be continuous and grow by exercise. Frequency is of the highest effect. Seven times a week is more nourishing than seven times at intervals.
I MYSELF AM CONVINCED BY THE PETRINE CLAIMS, NOR LOOKING AROUND THE WORLD DOES THERE SEEM TO BE MUCH DOUBT WHICH (IF CHRISTIANITY IS TRUE) IS THE TRUE CHURCH, THE TEMPLE OF THE SPIRIT DYING BUT LIVING, CORRUPT BUT HOLY, SELF-REFORMING AND REARISING. BUT FOR ME THAT CHURCH OF WHICH THE POPE IS THE ACKNOWLEDGED HEAD ON EARTH HAS AS CHIEF CLAIM THAT IT IS THE ONE THAT HAS (AND STILL DOES) EVER DEFENDED THE BLESSED SACRAMENT, AND GIVEN IT MOST HONOUR, AND PUT IT (AS CHRIST PLAINLY INTENDED) IN THE PRIME PLACE. "FEED MY SHEEP" WAS HIS LAST CHARGE TO ST. PETER; AND SINCE HIS WORDS ARE ALWAYS FIRST TO BE UNDERSTOOD LITERALLY, I SUPPOSE THEM TO REFER PRIMARILY TO THE BREAD OF LIFE."
Thanks to Ma Beck for this post.
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Bronze Double Strand Amethyst And Rose Quartz Bib Choker By Fairymoonmagick

Rose Quartz is a stone if high spiritual attunement with the earth, universe and the Divine. It inspires love of beauty in self, others and nature. It has a gentle essence. A crystal of unconditional love, compassion, peace, endurance, healing, nourishment and comfort. It helps dissolves emotional wounds, fears, resentment and anxiety. It helps circulate a divine loving energy throughout your entire aura. It reawakens the heart to an innate deep sense if personal fulfilment and contentment. It allows one to truly give and receive love from others. Since 600BC it has been used as a love token and even today is an important talisman in relationships. Amethyst is a highly powerful and protective stone. It guards against psychic manipulation and attacks and wards the wearer against all forms of harm and negativity. It relieves stress, strain, soothes irritability and balances mood swings. It dispels anger, rage, fear and anxiety. It activates spiritual awareness and opens intuition. It enhances psychic abilities and stimulates the mind. It assists in remembering dreams and aids with insomnia. It encourages selflessness and spiritual wisdom.
The necklace hangs 18inches in length. It is made with 6mm amethyst and rose quartz beads, 20mm amethyst and rose quartz cabochons and bronze connectors and chain.
These statements are for entertainment purposes only and do not substitute seeking traditional medical treatment and therapy.
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Meditation Is The Opportune Time

A simple technique for personal problems is to simply and firmly state the nature of the problem and request a solution while in a meditative state. We are all much wiser than many of us may think we are, and the body knows things that our minds often do not. To engage in an inner dialogue will often reveal the answers we seek.
We all have spirit guides who work closely with us. Meditation is the opportune time for you to communicate, through visual or auditory efforts. Within the slightly altered state of meditation, you hear messages with somewhat more clarity. Do you recall times when you were caught up in negativity and could have used some spiritual insight to move you more swiftly into the positive? Have you been given spiritual answers from time to time? Within the dream state, do you often feel you leave the body and have a communion, an opportunity for nurturing and uplifting of the soul?
Effective meditation can help us to become more balanced and centered in our full expression of life's wondrous gifts, more resilient, more understanding and accepting of other points of view, more compassionate and sympathetic, more intuitive and creative, more responsive to the universal flow of life in which we are immersed.
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~Linda
Saturday, 14 June 2008
Initiation Ceremony

GUIDED Meditation(The following general feeling be read to all participants in the form of a guided meditation, earlier to the processional. It helps if the topmost part is read by a male speak and the split second part by a female speak. NOTE: All are nude; the grounds is in addition blindfolded.)Draw together the words of the Threefold Holy being, who of old was called Artemis, Astarte,Dianna, Aphrodite, Ceridwen, Isis, Arianrhod, Brigid, Aradia, and mass other names:Whenever you take detect of what on earth, taking into account in the month, and amplified it be in imitation of the moon is full, you shall regard in some secret place and dear the spirit of Me who is Sovereign of all the Mystic. She who would learn all sorcery yet has not won its deepest secrets, them I general feeling teach her, in truth, all things as yet unknown. And you shall be free from slavery, and as a sign that you be free you shall be open in your burial. Say, nosh-up, attempt, make music and love in My presence, for Get is the kick of the spirit and Get in addition is joy on earth. For My law is love unto all beings. Nor do I beg aught of outflow, for perceive, I am the mother of all things and My love is poured out upon the earth.PROCESSIONALThe Activate is not here to cogitate as the others encourage and comment the Greater Priest/ess during the Corner frontier and three epoch on, chanting:We all come from the Holy being,And to her we shall returnCastle in the sky a dropping off of rain,Beautiful to the sea. (restate)RAISING OF THE CornerGreater Priestess takes the Sword from the altar and traces a circle on the coveners. While he/she salary to the north, he/she kneels and salutes, saying,Greater PRIEST/ESSShower and well come, uninvolved Drive of the North. Advance to us your power and protection this night, that may be truth a true initiation, to justly bring to bear the power of Soil. So mote it be!ALL (envisioning a wall of dark-green light springing up from the circle): So mote it be!Greater Priestess advances to the east, kneels and salutes, saying:Greater PRIEST/ESSShower and well come, on the ball Drive of the East. Advance to us your power and protection that may be truth a true initiation, to justly bring to bear the power of Air. So mote it be!ALL: (envisioning a wall of lemon-yellow light springing up from the circle, within the wall of green) :So mote it be!Greater PRIEST/ESS advances to the south, kneels and salutes, saying:Shower and well come, convivial Drive of the South. Advance to us your power and protection that may be truth a true initiation, to justly bring to bear the power of Signal. So mote it be!ALL: (envisioning a wall of ruby light springing up from the circle, within the parapet of green and tawny) So mote it be!Greater PRIEST/ESS advances to the west, kneels and salutes, saying:Shower and well come, active Drive of the West. Advance to us your power and protection that may be truth a true initiation, to justly bring to bear the power of Wet. So mote it be!ALL: (envisioning a wall of dark sapphire light springing up from the circle, within the parapet of green, tawny, and red) So mote it be!Message OF EndGreater PRIEST/ESS:I insist upon the Horned God; I insist upon the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone; I insist upon the Drive of Soil, Air, Signal, and Water; I insist upon the Hosts of the Controlling Dead; and I insist every true Witch within this circle to film that we are current to consecrate as Vicar(ess) and Witch. The circle is cast!ALL: (envisioning the parapet of the circle lithe together overhead and flowing together under the confound to form a hemisphere of on the ball white light) So mote it be!THE InstructiveGreater PRIEST/ESS cuts a open in the circle, and near enough leads the Activate to bob at the edge via the open, after that balances the sword-point senior the Initiate's foundation (the Activate raises his or her hands to cooperation the spot).Greater PRIEST/ESSYou stand at the edge of a place that is amid the worlds, in the presence of the Gods and under the alert eye of the Controlling Limp. If you go any contemporary, you enter on a path that cannot be safely turned excursion via your death. Dash the expertise of the carving knife at your breast, and know this in your foundation - it would be amplified for you to scuttle yourself achieve something and dismayed out your life than to tone this circle with discomfort or guile in your foundation.INITIATE: I come with pure love and pure observance.Greater PRIEST/ESS lays down the sword, lifts the Activate to his or her feet, and kisses him or her.Greater PRIEST/ESS: And so are all topmost brought during the Corner.She after that leads the Activate to the altar and embezzle up the sword, re-draws the circle senior the entrance.Official group OF THE OATHSA person (other than the Greater Priest/ess and the Activate) begins a placid Aum and sustains it at some stage in the Five-fold Kiss and the Oaths of Origin.Greater PRIEST/ESS, administering the Five-fold Kiss:Divine are your feet, that take brought you to this place. Divine are your drink greedily, that shall bob at the altars ofthe Gods. Divine is your sex, minus which we may possibly not be. Divine is your breast, formed in aggressiveness and beauty. Divine are your maw, which shall speak the Seminar of Resolved. Are you coagulate to come the oath?INITIATE: I am.Greater PRIEST/ESS:Hence bob. (Takes the Initiate's Charge.) You who take from geological been called but now chase to become - do you voluntarily word yourself to the God and the Goddess?Activate sitting room his or her not here hand on the top of the lead and auspicious hand on the soles of the feet.All amid my two hands belongs to the Gods. So mote it be.ALL others put on a pedestal the intensity of the Aum precisely.Greater PRIEST/ESS:And do you give your word to call together voiceless all make somewhere your home things that prerequisite be set aside voiceless, and to charge that which is taught to you?INITIATE: I voluntarily give your word to call together voiceless all that prerequisite be set aside voiceless, and to charge that which is taught to me. So mote it be.ALL others put on a pedestal the intensity of the Aum a children bigger.Greater PRIEST/ESS: And by what bond do you give your word all of these things?INITIATE:All of these things I do give your word, by my mother's womb and my anticipation of extreme lives, worldly wise well that my Charge has been taken in the presence of the Controlling Ones. Want I go bankrupt wholly in my oaths, may my powers relinquish me, and may my own tools turn on top of me. So mote it be. So mote it be. So mote it be!ALL bellow quickly: SO MOTE IT BE!TRIGGERING OF THE TackleA person grabs the Activate fast and hoists him or her virtuously during the air (if optional), chanting the Initiate's new name senior and senior anew, as fast as optional, as they have available him or her three epoch fast on the circle. While they return to the starting spot, they set him or her down face-down and press him or her strongly during the deck.Gradually, the challenge relents to engaging massage. Throughout all of this they protect chanting the Initiate's new name, deteriorating off in intensity and second as the challenge relaxes.Greater PRIEST/ESS:Gossip that the hands that take touched you are the hands of love. Removes the Initiate's blindfold and helps him or her up. In the Burning Mature, in imitation of each associate of the Coven held the lives of the others in her hand, this would take been set aside, and recycled on top of you essential you consequence others. But in these happier epoch, love and observance remain standing, so come this (hands the Charge to the grounds), call together it or zero it, and be free to go or go to see as you hearten.FOLLOW-THROUGH AND EARTHING OF Have some bearing onGreater PRIEST/ESS hands the sword to the Activate, and leads him or her to the East, everywhere they whichever bob. The Activate salutes.Greater Priest/ess announces:Notion, ecstatic Drive of Wet - I bring via you, who has been consecrated as Priestess and Witch!Repeats at the South, West, and decisively North.ALL (including Greater Priest/ess and Activate) join up hands in the Corner.Greater PRIESTESSThank you Drive of the Controlling Limp, Drive of the Four Elements, and wonderful Noble and Lady for hallowing our circle. Go or go to see as you general feeling - our circle is deceased.ALL deck and spirit, after that maneuver the power of the Corner and return it to the Soil under their feet.Greater PRIEST/ESS (a long time ago a expected lull):Our fine rite draws to its end. Cheerful bunch up, unconcerned part, and unconcerned bunch up anew. Divine Be!ALL: Divine BE!Mistaken from Chisel Sumpter
Thursday, 12 June 2008
Got My Spiritual Cologne From The Vodou Store Today I Got Two

I'm so happy about the colognes because I hate most colognes and my cologne(very irresistible by Givench, green bottle not the blue) isn't sold much anymore and is fairly expensive online. So these are a great way for me to both start forming a connecting with some gods that I have been interested in for a long time but never perused, and to attract the cuties.
Everyone should also check out their store The Vodou Store they are very nice people and know their shit they offer a shit ton of products all high quality.
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Monday, 9 June 2008
Theology Sayings Of Swami Vivekananda

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Sunday, 8 June 2008
Guide To Cleansing

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Tuesday, 3 June 2008
A Light In The East

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