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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
So what makes me a witch? Can I just say I'm a witch and be one? Do I need to live by the rule of three? How do I know I'm a witch? How do I come to terms with others "becoming" a witch?These are the odd questions I find myself contemplating this morning. I've recently learned that someone who was extremely nasty and negative, someone who in the past contacted me with hate and anger has "become" a witch.My first thought is, well if it harms none, then let it go. Accept the new face for what it is displaying and go forward. The skeptical part of me however thinks otherwise. The skeptical part of me thinks that maybe this is just another part of the "Woo let me shock everyone" by this time picking up Wicca and calling myself a witch. Am I being too judgmental? It's not like I own Wicca. It's not like I can tell anyone if they are or are not truly a witch. To go further, it's not even like I really want to discuss it with them either. To me, in order to "Be A Witch", you need to be one with nature. You need to have your body and mind grounded. You need to be able to look at the world understand that negativity is out there, identify it and react accordingly. You cannot look at the world with seek and destroy glasses on, you have to pull out those live and let live glasses and trust that all that we see is part of the natural circle of life. Even the bad stuff. To be a witch you need to understand that you can focus your energies and send them out to others. You need to send that energy out in a positive way. You need to respect the rule of three and do what you can to honor the Reede. Most of all, you need to have a giving understanding accepting and loving heart.More than a having an altar, more than having books and candles, the mind is the most important tool for a witch. Keep your tool clean, sharp and true and you'll always be one with the Goddess.Today I send out positive energies and hope to those in my past that have wronged me. I send out forgiveness and love to those that have shunned me and hated me. I send out understanding and an offer of friendship to those that have hurt me. To me, that's what's a witch.Blessed BeSosanna)O(Read Confessions of a Modern Witch
Credit: modern-wiccan.blogspot.com
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John Buchan (1875-1940), "The Copse of Ashtaroth," in "The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies" (New York: Sturgis & Walton Connotation, 1912), pp. 139-171 (at 167-168):
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Max Liebermann (1847-1935),
"Holzhacker im Inneren eines Waldes"
Reference: about-world-religions.blogspot.com
May Forecast 2013 Written by Lena Stevenswww.thepowerpath.comMAY 2013The theme for May is MANIFESTING.This is a very powerful month and you would be wise to use it well. The theme of manifesting brings up many areas to work on. There is plenty of material around this theme for growth, change, elimination, study, breakthrough, expansion, balance and alignment. It continues to be a creative time with lots of opportunities for beginnings and endings but the main focus that will give you the most for your efforts is the study and understanding of what MANIFESTING is all about. So treat this month as a daily workshop on manifesting and set an intention that you will end this month with a greater understanding and ability to manifest. Insert the intention for magic and miracles whenever possible as this is a good month for both magic and miracles.This will require exploring your current beliefs about how everything in your life becomes manifest and understanding it in such a way that you become empowered with the ability to be more conscious about how you manifest your life. This understanding is crucial at this time as we are in the window of eclipses (there are two this month and there was one in April) providing us with great power and opportunity and offering us a portal for changing what we believe about our ability to have what we want.In recent years there has been much study and a greater understanding of the quantum field, the energy that holds all possibilities, and how to access it to change certain trajectories and cycles that seem to run our lives. For most of us it still remains a deep mystery and we are always trying to understand the mechanics of how and why we manifest what we do.Why do some people seem to manifest great financial prosperity and others struggle their whole lives with a deep poverty consciousness?Why do some people manifest good relationships that others only yearn for?Why do some people manifest nothing but misfortune with every decision?You could blame the differences on astrology, poor imprinting, your parents, karma, and the actions and choices of others, all valid considerations. However the patterns created by these influences can be worked with in a positive way. They can be changed as long as you can extricate yourself from the lineage of low havingness and the icons you have bought into over your lifetime. (Suggested audio "The Family Icon") Icons are strong and they go beyond the family and can include collective experiences such as the Great Depression or the Holocaust or a great Famine or a significant War. We are all made up of an intricate set of patterns and to understand how the patterns are linked is to begin to understand what and how we manifest.Some people manifest wonderful things for their business and work and are terrible at manifesting right relationship. Others have all the love and support of community and friends and loved ones but no money. And others still have great amounts of money and support and even good relationships but very poor health.SO WHAT IS THAT ALL ABOUT?There are different lessons for each of us about what and how we manifest. The way that our belief systems are linked up has everything to do with what we end up creating for ourselves. For example, as a child if you witnessed a family member that put financial success over and above quality relationships with the family and there was conflict and resentment about that, you may have made a subconscious decision that love and financial success do not mix. Therefore subconsciously you would choose one and eliminate the other.If you witnessed or experienced that lots of love and passion and attention in your family somehow created emotional conflict or that what one parent manifested caused the other one to have negative emotions, you may make a subconscious choice not to manifest love and passion in your life.In the same way, if you witnessed or experienced as a child that the only time you could manifest love and caring attention to your body was to be in poor health, then your belief about having caring and attention for yourself would require manifesting poor health throughout your whole life.All of us have made strong subconscious decisions early in life to separate ourselves from what we saw or experienced that we did not like. So there is a built in block to manifesting anything that is linked to a negative experience. The examination of self and what makes us who we are is key to changing our relationship to the way we manifest.The value of what you manifest is related to the value you have for yourself. Not the value that someone else places on you but what you place on yourself. There is an erroneous notion that manifesting requires something from the outside, some element outside of us that comes in and makes it happen. Although support is necessary, it is our own energy field that draws towards it the elements around our intentions and turns them into manifestations. Your intention and thoughts and beliefs are the ones that attract the material that creates your life. So it is important that you examine your beliefs about what you think you need from somewhere else in order to manifest, and your expectations of that happening.Understanding how intentions work is another aspect of understanding manifesting. If you set an intention and are clear and committed and certain about that intention without a doubt, send it into the quantum field and send it from your heart. The worst thing you can do is then to begin to worry about that intention not manifesting. Because, guess what? You will confuse the quantum field, which will then feed the worry and take its direction from your worry that the intention will NOT manifest. All the energy will go into NOT manifesting that intention. It is a true discipline to set our intentions free without worry or micromanaging them, and it would be so much simpler if we could all just energetically lobotomize our minds. This is a great month to work on this discipline of clarifying our intentions; committing 100% to them and then letting them go without another thought or worry.There is also an erroneous belief that in order to manifest something you must "go after it". Although there always needs to be a balance between being and doing, giving and receiving, there is way too much emphasis on going after what you want. Once you set your intention, you need to let it go and then relax, take action as appropriate timing dictates, but let it come to you as you magnetize your desire, and refrain from worry or obsession. It will only get in the way.THE SCARCITY COMPLEXThe scarcity complex is the definition and belief that there is a finite amount of energy, money, health, relationship, love etc. to go around and if you have an abundance of it, it means someone else goes without. Or if someone else has what you believe to be more than their share, then you go without. Where did that come from? Wherever it came from, it needs to go the way of all old patterns that no longer serve.The truth is there is an infinite amount of source and it is only your attachment to something you manifested because you believe it is the best you can do and you fear losing it and ending up with nothing that keeps perpetrating that belief. If you believe it, it will be so. The challenge here is to stretch outside of that box and begin to experience the infinite possibilities of infinite source.We all need support but many of us look for and expect support from the wrong people and the wrong places. Anyone who has a limited view of manifesting and a strong mind set about who you are, what you are capable of, what you should have or not have, is not a good prospect for support. Support yourself first. Build a strong inner relationship within yourself first. Work on your own beliefs and intentions. Then see who or what shows up to support that. You may be surprised. They probably won't be the ones who are closest to you.Remember to work with the concept of magic and miracles and all possibilities.The opportunity this month is to truly shift your understanding and experience of manifesting in a very positive way.The challenge will be dealing with all the doubt, negative thoughts and whatever else comes up around this issue of what and how you manifest. Remember that when stuff comes up and you are facing some of your "not-so-fun" manifestations, that you have the power to change, transform, eliminate and shift. Remember magic and miracles.How the month shows up:YOU PERSONALLYThis is a great opportunity to work through any and all issues around manifesting. You will need discipline to examine neutrally where you are currently in your life, what old patterns run you, where they came from, how you identify with or against them and to shift your beliefs about your own value and what you can have. Because of the personal nature of the work, it will be important that you honor your boundaries and stay away from the entanglements of brought on by what other people think you should be or do. Remember that manifesting should not "need" anything from the outside except the appropriate support. So this is the month where you can also examine your support and be more discerning about where it comes from.Evaluate what you are currently manifesting in all areas; financial, relationship, community, environment, physical support, health, energy, enthusiasm, right work, enough play and rest, inspiration etc. What needs work? Where are you lacking the right kind of support? What are your expectations? Are they appropriate? You may not get all the answers in a neat little package but if you set the intention to do the work, it will start things moving in the right direction.RELATIONSHIPSWhat are you manifesting? Is it good? If not, examine your relationship with yourself. What are you manifesting there? Criticism? Judgment? Poor health? Lack? Irritation? Lethargy? Do you feel connected to your essence? Do you expect someone else to fix it?Start there and then move on to your relationships with others. What are you magnetizing? If you feel a lack of understanding and support, you are probably experiencing the same thing in your relationship with self. Do you take care of yourself? When was the last time you thanked yourself and your body for being there for you? For some of you, this month will be all about rebooting your relationship with self. If you focus there, manifesting better relationships with others will automatically follow.THE ENVIRONMENTWhat kind of environment have you manifested for yourself to live in, to work in, to play in, and to rest in? Is it satisfactory? What do you think you deserve and what do you believe you have to put up with as a compromise to some situation or to "pay your dues"? What have you manifested in this life in terms of your environment? Is it cluttered or full of low frequency stuff? We are focusing on your personal environment as the place to start. Once you get an understanding of manifesting what you want in your personal environment you can move to the greater environment and participate in manifesting a better community and global environment.Begin to look around and to see the whole environment as a manifestation of a collective set of patterns and beliefs. If you can shift the way you experience the environment as a co-creator and not a victim of it, you will gain a greater understanding in how you can participate in manifesting what we all desire.HEALTH AND THE PHYSICAL BODYWhat you manifest is what you experience. The body will definitely speak to you this month and you will get to see exactly what you have manifested for yourself. The good news is that you can change it. Remember magic and miracles. Your body is perhaps the best barometer for where you are in any process, as the body will get your attention the fastest and the most powerfully. How can you support your body this month? How can you be more responsible? You have to really own your 100% responsibility for your body before you can manifest exactly what you want in relation to your body.As you work with this concept of responsibility, your body may go through lots of mood swings as the challenges of doubt and deserveability come up for examination. Remember that you are the architect of your life and whatever has manifest is entirely of your own creation.FINANCE, PROJECTS, PARTNERSHIPS, BUSINESSThis is perhaps the best area this month to make progress you can track. Because of icons, old patterns, conflicting belief systems and lack of personal value and deserveability, the area of manifesting success in work and finances is a favorite study for most of us. Pick something this month and work on it. Do you believe in the scarcity complex? Do you routinely manifest a lack of support? Do you believe in your talents and skills or do you wait for someone to take pity on you?You can do a lot of work in this area this month. Follow the threads of your beliefs to the roots and make changes. Practice setting your intentions in a clear and committed way and then release them without worry. Practice magnetizing the right people for partnerships, and allow the right timing to dictate your actions.The opportunities for manifesting are truly amazing this month.DATES AND TIME FRAMESMay 1-8: Evaluate what you have manifested so far in your life. Coming from the place of gratitude, decide what needs to change. Once you set your intention, watch for things to come up that try and derail you from this new position you are taking of increasing your ability to manifest.Pay attention to when you are overdoing, overworrying, over attached to the outcome and overthinking everything. This is a time that will show you what is out of balance and where you are out of balance. Set boundaries against the doubting mind that tries to tell you it's not possible to have magic and miracles.May 9: New Moon and Solar Eclipse is at 6:29 PM Mountain Daylight Time. This is the second eclipse out of three and makes for a powerful time of setting intentions. A New Moon is always a good time to come to a still point and reset anything that is not working. So take some time to evaluate what you have manifested in your life that is no longer a welcome situation. Use the new moon time to make a commitment to change it and set some intentions in that direction.May 9-16: This is a time of fallout and doubt as well as energy gathering momentum and moving forward in spurts and bursts. Be careful that the spurts and bursts are moving things in a positive direction. You may feel slightly overwhelmed and even chaotic as the new intentions and focus on manifesting meets old patterns that surface from the deep subconscious. If you have a strong emotion about something, the next minute that could change and you could feel differently.The best way to navigate this time is to be very flexible and not to make decisions based on what other people think. Follow your heart especially in your intention to manifest.May 17-23: This could be an intense and wonderful time of breakthrough and change. The change could be sudden and permanent. Intend for magic and miracles to happen during this time. Harness the power of this time for your manifestations. Be clear about what you want. Boundaries may be important as other people' strong intentions encroach upon your turf. Collaborations and support containers can empower as long as everyone is on the same page.May 24: Full Moon with a Lunar Eclipse is at 10:26 PM Mountain Daylight Time. This is the third eclipse and bookend to this powerful and transformative time. It is difficult to predict what the fallout may be from what has been stirred up during this month but you can expect some big energy to be moving around. The potency of this time could trigger security issues, judgment and doubt.Hopefully you will have had synchronicity and signs during the month that will keep you focused positively on your newfound abilities to manifest. This full moon is a time to recommit to what you know in your heart to be true about what you want to manifest.May 24-31: This is a higher centered time of enjoying the fruits of your discipline and anchoring the lessons around manifesting. If you have worked with the energy of the month and stayed out of doubt, you can expect magic and miracles to manifest during this time. Even if things are looking on the outside like they are falling apart in your life or you feel pressured and confused by responsibilities or the rapid pace of what is coming into your life, you can still take a breath and have great gratitude for the movement and the manifestation.The best medicine is to be in delight about the beautiful things you are manifesting in your life and to be in humor about the not so welcome things you still seem to be attracting. Remember it is all a process and some of what you put into motion this month may take several more to manifest.Have a great month and have fun!Blessings,Lena
By Austin ClineIsn't Valentine's Day a Christian day, named on one occasion a Christian saint? Time was we heed the area under discussion additional believably, we don't find a strong attachment with Christian saints and romance. Here is a lot of basis and quarrel involving scholars about the origins of Valentine's Day. We'll never be exceptional to answer all of the cultural and dedicated things in order to reconstruct a absolute and clear-headed story, but the pagan radio to the generation are extreme stronger than the Christian ones.The Romans complete a holiday on February 14th to hold Juno Fructifier, Ruler of the Roman gods and goddesses as well as goddess of marriage. In one ritual, women would submit their names to a gap box and men would each entice one out. These two would be a twosome for the lifetime of the golden jubilee (and at mature for the complete stakeout engagement). Every rituals were designed to promote not purely wealth, but above and beyond life generally.Snap here to read full tale
ITALIAN POLITICIANS TO Make up By KEVIN ANNETT AND ITCCS TO Purport "Entire Procedure TO DE-SECULARIZE" THE VATICANROME -The survey for impartiality by victims of the Roman Catholic Cathedral took a ultimate speed hand out this past weekend in the same way as two devotee parties in Italy fixed to think it over with ITCCS officials in September.The rally life-force gather together what an in guidelines calls "a complete devotee and official survey to de-secularize the church and bring it under the gush of law and broadminded control".This survey life-force restrict as its aim the abandonment of the so-called Lateran Develop in the middle of Italy and the Vatican which protects the church from raid for its crimes reluctant guild.Stimulated by the Revered 4 Brussels Statement of the ITCCS that proclaimed the Roman Catholic Cathedral to be a firm illicit foundation under global law, the Italian parties fixed that the time has dressed in for "snap devotee action in Italy on behalf of all the victims of the papacy". (see www.itccs.org, Revered 3)The parties in pierce slightly bring about standing in the Italian Hideaway of Deputies and the Congress. Their involvement to pay for in informal symposium with ITCCS legislature, with ITCCS Punish Secretary Rev. Kevin Annett, was finished on Saturday, Revered 24 at a communal house of representatives of their respective head bodies.These facts were communicated to the ITCCS Crucial Department in Brussels that enormously day rule a communal communique signed by spokespeople for the two parties under their pseudonyms "Massimo" and "Maria".Cry from Washington D.C. today, Rev. Annett hailed the move as "the break we've all been waiting for"."Our survey has ever been an insuppressibly devotee one to the same extent of the intensity of the institutional crime we're confronting. So it's enjoyable that currently, Italian politicians are booty steps to defang and lessen the power of the Catholic Cathedral as a illicit foundation - and to not let the money and hollow of the Vatican make public them, which has been the coat up until now."I know their fearless token life-force not be lost on politicians and governments exposed".For cover reasons, the two parties life-force rob their September meetings with the ITCCS guardedly, within Italy and at an undisclosed room in Switzerland.Meanwhile, the cautious joining together of spiritual elders and survivors of church torment on the Vatican on Sunday, September 22 is scheduled with a new extremity.Entitled "A Worldwide Organization of Serious Retrieval", the equinox gather life-force restrict simultaneous gatherings, church occupations and "community exorcisms" at Catholic churches in twenty one countries on that enormously day.In an Revered 20 guidelines issued by Not in Our Name! (Non!), a syndicate of Catholic and Protestant clergy based in America that is co-sponsoring the Organization, it is settled,"The Vatican has prior to been correctly disestablished and found shamefaced of revolting crimes in the common law courts of mankind. Now we are stanchly disestablishing that church and creating a new way for Christians to end their inheritance of Condition Christianity, church-protected child rape and genocide. Christ is not the Cathedral."This Organization is a an act of repentance and exorcism, done rule the life-force of God and the least possible of God's children. Now is the time for all true Christians to hideaway the deceptive church, and let the dead souls in Rome heavy rain their own dead." *(* To piece of paper Not in Our Name! addendum to thecommonland at gmail.com)Stash tuned for perk up announcements of these groups and endeavors.Issued 26 Revered, 2013 by ITCCS Crucial Department, Brussels (G. Dufort, Secretary)itccscentral at gmail.comhttp://itccs.org/2013/08/26/spiritual-assembly-to-convene-on-september-22-in-rome-and-twenty-one-countries/
From Southwestern VA-
"Old-fashioned in the genesis, as the Absolutely Rev. Doodle Bourlakas approached the Roanoke Endorsement Arts Theatre, he knew what lay send on."
"Bourlakas, selected as the new bishop of the Episcopal District of Southwestern Virginia on Demo 9, was bound and sanctified on Saturday, becoming the sixth bishop in the history of the see."
"I completely marvel I can pinch it in, completely try and hindrance firm on the higher spiritual parts of this and auspiciously derive some strength and support for the days send on," Bourlakas held."
"Bourlakas succeeds Bishop Neff Powell, who served as the be in charge of of the see for the later 17 existence."
"I'm very obtain," Powell held about Bourlakas. "I suppose he's accomplished and well location. I suppose the see is in good outward appearance, and in a good place. He'll do a fine job."
"Powell held he was self-satisfied the see has welcomed all take part participating in his idiom, no field their ethnicity."
"I end every scolding by saying, god loves you abrupt as you are, deteriorating difficulty, higher than you can ask or even begin to envisage,' " Powell held."
Supervisor here-
http://www.roanoke.com/news/2090854-12/episcopal-diocese-of-southwestern-virginia-ordains-new-bishop.html
As I have noted before, we don't actually know for (one hundred percent) who created the original outline of the rituals contained in the Cipher Manuscript. For simplicity's sake, let refer to him or her as person C. Now, it is more likely that it was a man who created the rituals, so I am going to refer to them as a Frater for the rest of this post...and for the rest of this series for that matter. Hence, Frater C is whoever created the first outline of the Golden Dawn rituals.
(I would also like to use the honorary "S.H." for them, but the use of that implies that they were much higher in the system than some are willing to give them credit for...therefore I will only say it in my head as I write this post.)
Today, the general rule is "Do not mix systems" unless you are an expert in them...or a chaos magician (I can't imagine a chaos magician reading my blog...but it could be happening...*waves hi at the chaos magician in the crowd*). This rule has not always been the standard. Heck, even in this generation, it is not always the standard...my first Wiccan mentor used the rule "Use whatever works best for the job at hand" and occasionally that meant using the symbols of one system with the techniques of another system.
When we look at the Cipher Manuscript, we see a remarkable mixture of symbols and techniques taken from various systems and cultures. A question naturally arises from this fact.
"Why did Frater C mix systems in the Cipher Manuscript?"
My answer is that Frater C was a product of his time period, just like the Cipher Manuscript is. While others argue an earlier origin for the Golden Dawn system, it is my belief that it is a product of the Victorian Age. Today, we think of the Victorian Age as a conservative time period and forget that England went from a farming based economy to an industrial based economy. Labor rights, women rights, and the roots of the New Age movement were all developments of this time period in England. We are looking at the dawn of industrial world...and it all happened during the lifetime (a long lifetime) of a single Queen.
Now, one of the things going on in England was what some refer to as "The Golden Age of Fringe Masonry." Or as I like to refer to it, "The Golden Age of Loony Secret Societies." The hundred years from 1850 to 1950 is the most fertile time for the lodge system. The birth of the lodge system is often said to be 1717, when three Freemason lodges in London formed a Grand Lodge, but the lodge system actually predates that year
1717 is the birth of the Grand Lodge system, lodges existed before that time.
The lodge system is actually a product of England. Or at least, lodges using "lodgekit" are. Secret societies existed before the birth of the Grand Lodge system, but the Grand Lodge system changed how they worked. And inside the realm of spiritual development, the lodge system has no counterpart anywhere else...wherever you see lodges, you feel the touch of the English.
Now previous to the start of the Golden Age of Loonies, the rituals practiced by lodges were simple affairs. But as the number of Orders exploded during the Loony period, the rituals got more and more complicated. To explain why, we must remember that lodge membership was a big business and a source of entertainment for its members. The capstone for entertainment value was when one Order created a set of rituals around the novel, Ben-Hur.
Any culture that was not bolted down became fair game. This included the spiritual systems. Now, the lodges tended to not mix systems. But this changed as the age went on.
Part of the reason is the explosion of the spiritual and Theosophical movements. (Think New Age if you want to consider a modern counterpart.) The Theosophical movement was very much into mixing systems together. And the Theosophical movement was busy taking away potential members.
When you actually start looking for mixing of systems, history is full of examples. The Roman Empire, Graeco-Egypt, the Medieval Age, the Fama of the RC, can all be mined for examples. There is nothing quite like the reading of medieval literature and encountered Isis as an example of a saintly woman. And Frater C would have known this.
One can see that it is not always "Do not mix systems." Often, it is "Take whatever will work the best and use it." And Frater C willingly grabbed anything that was not bolted down. It is reasonable to assume that Fracter C was aware of the Theosophical movement. And while he was not into the entertainment side of the lodge system, he did know that the English occultists of the day were willing to borrow from any system they could get their hands on. Call it a form of Magical Imperialism. Of course, knowing why he mixed system just leads to other questions that must wait for another day...or week...or however long it takes to rotate around to them.
I saw this, read and felt like sharing with you guys. I don't know which is better; whether talking and standing for the truth and letting the truth prevail or keeping silent for the sake of "Christiandom" so that Nigerians and weak Christians do not derail. God dey.
According to Pastor J of God's House...
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed."
Isaiah 9:16
"Let them alone: they be leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."
Matt 15:14
I was going to be silent on this sad, pathetic but true (in many shades) allegation against Pastor B and his popular and trendy ministry. My silent was borne out of respect for the kingdom of God and things that pertain to God. But all this changed when I heard the horrific tales of people who had been through the mess of this blind man, and the fact that he had no moral motivation to deny or accept the allegation; all he showed on Sunday was a demented swagger and perverse talk.
My sole purpose in writing this piece is to open the eyes of the world and believers to the hypocrisy and nonsense behind the pulpit, and to plea that these wolves and blind men stop deflating the faith of people who Christ died for. I am a Pastor, a full time minister at that, and I shall not sit back while
the name of my God, the ministry, and the works of other shepherds is brought to disrepute by the activities, action and inaction of a few blind men behind the pulpit. I am tired of the nonsense of religion crying out, "touch not my anointed"; does this mean we cannot rebuke ourselves when we err, this much Paul did to Peter when he erred in Galatians 2:11 "But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed". It is therefore pertinent that I rebuke the wolves in shepherd's clothing's. It is time to set the record straight, and please don't sell me the bullocks of judge not, I haven't said anyone is going to hell, but of course if they don't change, they have only one path.
It is high time we told the truth, which is plain, simple and without coloration. The stories of Franca and Ese is not only true but they are just a few tales of the tantalizing sex escapades of this clergy. This has been a recurring decimal in the ministry of the clergyman. This wasn't the first time these stories will come forth, for those old COZA members, for those who were there when he was in Ilorin, when the church moved to Pipeline Road, Ilorin, having left Kwara Hotel, they will remember there was a time when the Pastor was suspended from ministering by his Father in the Lord, Rev Oset of Canaan Ministries. Rev. Oset sent guest ministers to the church every Sunday after that, but still Pastor B in his deceit will still minister in the pretence of introducing the guest minister, while he exhorts for minutes. I therefore laugh in mockery when He says his wife loves him, the woman has no choice. His core circle of Pastor Wole (Ilorin Chapter, the only man who maybe clean), and Pastor Flo (COZA, Lagos) knows of this fact, little wonder Ese said Pastor Flo said he knows about their adventures in that hotel room in London.
This is not the story of a hater; I don't want or envy anything he has. He cannot ever have what I have and carry; neither do I crave for what he has. I am sure no one in the city of Ilorin, where this man started is bemused by these stories, no one who finished from the University of Ilorin during the period of 2003-2008, and was not a blinded COZA member can be mightily shocked at these revelations. I have heard tales of many more victims, I even heard from a woman who knows five friends who were victims, I saw it online the other day of a guy who said he formally works for him and he knows up to 130 people, outrageous as it may sound that too is true. Rev Oset in true conscience cannot deny the knowledge of these negatives. But we are a nation of hypocrites and religious folks; we ask no questions of leaders, so they can hide under the canopy of religion, even when they are filthy. Anyone who asks is rebuked by those who say, the bible says pray. It is sad that those who say pray themselves have not prayed. But Pastor B is just a decimal in an ever mounting number of wolves in the Church of Christ.
Someone told me yesterday that this can't be the end of him and his tyranny, because even in Ilorin in those days, the allegation was rolled under the rug. On Sunday, August 25, 2013, the man leading certain blind men under the veil of religion and 'spiritism' said God told him not to say anything, he then said they are preparing a robust response. Who is fooling who? We must not keep quiet and watch the bride of Christ, the church, rubbed and undignified in mud and slime by a filthily rich pastor who thinks he can do anything and get away with it.
It is a pity that we run sensational press and media outfit in this country, and that our press is blinded by religion. If this were to be 'saner' climes the press would by now be researching, there would by now be investigative journalism. The truth would be dogged up and resurrected to life. For this is not about a mistake that a Pastor made, it is about a filthy man's way of life.
And then about, "teaching a new level of grace'; please be reminded that Grace is not a license to sin, rather it empowers us to live above sin. Romans 6:1-2 says, "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?" In my years of being a Christian, studying God's word, preaching the gospel, listening to sound teachers, I have not heard of a grace that gives permission to sin. Stop being deceived, grace is the new dispensation, according to Hebrew 8:6-12, and under grace we do not follow any written code, law or traditions. That is done away with. The tablet of Moses is over with. But we are not reckless sinners; we are under a new covenant based on better promises. God's law is written in our minds and hearts. We live according to His dictates. The Holy Spirit and our conscience convicts and judges us respectively. This is the only way we live a holy life. God's strength and empowerment is the grace to do according to that written by God in our hearts and minds.
I write this with a heavy heart, though I wish I never had to write this, but I pray this madness stops. I know many who have stopped going to church, many whose faith has been derailed by the act of madness of this man, and many blind men like him. If they are not going to heaven, let them stop taking men out of the straight and narrow. No one understands the pain in meeting a man, whose faith has been derailed by a man who was supposed to help establish him. For such a man, words can't bring him back, the best we can do is to pray and hope. I indulge the clergy to be of a higher moral standard.
My candid advice to the church at this end time is that the church must grow in knowledge; it's high time we stopped bamboozling you. You must stop making idols of men. You must stop making men such as I, substitute for the Holy Ghost. Honour us; revere us... but that is where it ends. Without the Call, the Oil, and the Holy Spirit; we are mere mortal. But know for sure that this too shall pass; only the truth of the Gospel of the Kingdom abides forever.
For Pastor B and his sense making COZA people, remember the word of Christ in Matthew 15:14. How many of you even live life bearing the fruit of righteousness. Stop being blind, the ditch is close by. Look into this case, ask your pastor questions, seek genuine answers and not emotional rhetoric's, hold him responsible, and do not forget the word of God, "then shall they know if they follow to know..." I am sure evidence abound. Seek to know from some key PCU members (who may need to be deposited in Gods ICU). Its time you hear not only about grace, but HOLINESS without which no one will see the Lord.
Finally don't bother praying against me, I can say like Paul, "For me to die is gain, to live is Christ", but I cannot even go now, because I am yet to fully finish the task set before me. Don't waste your time using misguided scriptural interpretation. This I write is true, and I am sorry if you don't like it. Your Pastor, and every other wolf whose conscience is not seared knows it is the complete true.
God bless you.
God bless His Church.
God bless Nigeria
From
Pastor J
God's House
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The Wiccan Rede is often described as reflecting ancient traditions, or passed down from old. This is repeated in books which just copy from other books, so is widely disseminated, and believed to be true. But once we apply source criticism to the origins, a very different picture emerges.
The putative sources for the Wiccan Rede are the Celts, or Anglo-Saxons, or Witches from the time of the witch trials. One site says "The poem is a Celtic tradition passed from generation to generation, and is a pillar of the Witchcraft faith" There is no evidence for any of this in any documentation, and it is clear that this is the usual practice placing of words in the distant past to lend them the veneer of authority (1).
"Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfil, An' it harm none, do what ye will.
The historian John Coughlin investigated and found that the first mention of the rede comes in this form from Doreen Valiente in a speech in 1964 (2). This formulation is the earliest, and despite the deliberate archaisms, does not appear before then. The use of archaisms to suggest antiquity is long-standing (3)
The longer wording of "The Wiccan Rede", which incorporates this, first appears in Green Egg magazine in 1975, written by "Lady" Gwen Thomson, in America, and was widely disseminated from there. It varies slightly in its form. This is the version given online:
(http://www.wicca.com/celtic/wicca/rede.htm) Bide within the Law you must, in perfect Love and perfect Trust. Live you must and let to live, fairly take and fairly give. For tread the Circle thrice about to keep unwelcome spirits out. To bind the spell well every time, let the spell be said in rhyme. Light of eye and soft of touch, speak you little, listen much. Honor the Old Ones in deed and name, let love and light be our guides again. Deosil go by the waxing moon, chanting out the joyful tune. Widdershins go when the moon doth wane, and the werewolf howls by the dread wolfsbane. When the Lady's moon is new, kiss the hand to Her times two. When the moon rides at Her peak then your heart's desire seek. Heed the North winds mighty gale, lock the door and trim the sail. When the Wind blows from the East, expect the new and set the feast. When the wind comes from the South, love will kiss you on the mouth. When the wind whispers from the West, all hearts will find peace and rest. Nine woods in the Cauldron go, burn them fast and burn them slow. Birch in the fire goes to represent what the Lady knows. Oak in the forest towers with might, in the fire it brings the God's insight. Rowan is a tree of power causing life and magick to flower. Willows at the waterside stand ready to help us to the Summerland. Hawthorn is burned to purify and to draw faerie to your eye. Hazel-the tree of wisdom and learning adds its strength to the bright fire burning. White are the flowers of Apple tree that brings us fruits of fertility. Grapes grow upon the vine giving us both joy and wine. Fir does mark the evergreen to represent immortality seen. Elder is the Lady's tree burn it not or cursed you'll be. Four times the Major Sabbats mark in the light and in the dark. As the old year starts to wane the new begins, it's now Samhain. When the time for Imbolc shows watch for flowers through the snows. When the wheel begins to turn soon the Beltane fires will burn. As the wheel turns to Lamas night power is brought to magick rite. Four times the Minor Sabbats fall use the Sun to mark them all. When the wheel has turned to Yule light the log the Horned One rules. In the spring, when night equals day time for Ostara to come our way. When the Sun has reached it's height time for Oak and Holly to fight. Harvesting comes to one and all when the Autumn Equinox does fall. Heed the flower, bush, and tree by the Lady blessed you'll be. Where the rippling waters go cast a stone, the truth you'll know. When you have and hold a need, harken not to others greed. With a fool no season spend or be counted as his friend. Merry Meet and Merry Part bright the cheeks and warm the heart. Mind the Three-fold Laws you should three times bad and three times good. When misfortune is enow wear the star upon your brow. Be true in love this you must do unless your love is false to you. These Eight words the Rede fulfill: "An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will"
Gwen Thompson claimed it had been given to her in this form by Adriana Porter, her paternal grandmother, and this preceded Valiente's version, but she would have known the Valiente version as it was published in "The Waxing Moon". While it is conceivably possible she had kept quiet about this for ten years, this bears all the hall-marks of a priority dispute, and should be treated as suspicious.
Examining it more closely, we note the line:
"and the werewolf howls by the dread wolfsbane"
This link of wolf-bane to wolves is very like: Even a man who is pure of heart And says his prayers by night Can become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms And the moon is shining bright
In fact the link of wolfsbane to lycanthropy does not occur before this, which was composed by Curt Siodmak in 1941 for the film "The Wolf Man". After this date, we note that literature, and even garden books on herbs and weeds begin to mention wolfbane in association with it in America and England; it becomes widespread. Nowadays, it is presented as an old tradition, or it is said that Siodmak used an old gypsy tradition. In fact before that film, there is no mention of anything like it anywhere.
Arnica, which is also known as Leopard's Bane, Mountain Snuff, Mountain Tobacco, Wolf's Bane, has an old association with wolves, but not werewolves. This idea of shape changing goes back to antiquity, but is not associated in any form with wolfsbane. Wolfsbane is in fact highly poisonous, and arrows tipped in an ungent made from it was very effective against wolves, wolfsbane means wolf-killer. It is forgotten how dangerous and widespread predatory wolves were across Europe.
The fact that Thompson links wolfbane to werewolves suggest she is drawing on American popular culture rather than history.
So what are we to make of the Wiccan Rede?
In its simplest form, the Wiccan Rede is one formulation of many Ethics of Reciprocity (5) (also known as the Golden Rule) found in many religions across the world, and to that extent, it is true that it has antecedents. It is not "ancient", but ethical systems usually borrow from others, and there is nothing wrong with that. It means that Wiccans have their own formulation of an ethic of reciproocity.
The longer version is a gloss on Wiccan practice, and a very fine poem.
It does not add much to the Wiccan rede, but is a joyful celebration of Wiccan seasonality and festivities. The only item of significance is "Mind the Three-fold Laws you should three times bad and three times good", a reference to the "three-fold rule" of Wicca, which I will explore in another essay.
NOTES:
1) This practice dates from the Middle Ages. It contrasts strongly with the enlightenment modernity, where this use of authorities is no longer considered to be an adequate form of argument.
2) http://www.waningmoon.com/ethics/rede.shtml details John Coughlin's investigations into the history of the rede, and is probably the best published writing on the matter.
3) The Book of Mormon being the most widespread example, with its blatant imitation of the forms of the King James Bible. Victorian and Edwardian publications saw a good deal of deliberate archaism, much as their architecture also imitated gothic styles.
4) http://www.paghat.com/monkshoodsparks.html
5) For Ethics of Reciprocity, see http://www.religioustolerance.org/reciproc.htm
A candle is lit: symbol of Christ's phantom. The bible, open at Mark's Gospel rests on a green cloth, symbol of hope.
Gulf PRAYER:
Lady God Our Pioneer, as we mass together, teach us not to set our hearts on what people sketch or read, but on the bright idea that comes vertical from the Meat of Your Son, Jesus Christ, as we stand in Him seeking understanding. Amen
The Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 13:24-32.
First Equal height
1. How is it that this time has accepted made known and yet all these substance supply not busy place?
2. Equally is the lesson of the fig-tree?
Flaunt Equal height
1. Who are the elect?
2. Does God act unhappy earthquakes and disasters?
Correct LEVEL:
Jewish apocalyptic unadventurously expressed itself unhappy visions in which the "SON OF MAN" (DANIEL 7.13-14) would return and plain-spoken a new Israel in fairness and love. Jesus identifies himself with the "SON OF MAN" and extends the ascendancy of the Israel to the whole world. Jesus teaches that the world soul entrance hall made known and that a new production soul tolerate place. This has happened in the time of the ancient Christ in the role of by his death and rebirth Jesus has or else concluded His Father's soul. "THESE SUBSTANCE" in verse 30 does not concentrate on to the crumble of Jerusalem in Mark 13. 5-23, but to the new age Christ is about to set in determination. The apocalyptic minute is now and always. God does not send sufferings, but the eaxample of Christ's sufferings soul give the title of us to vercome all disappointments. Earthquakes and natural disasters are part of the natural life of production, yet improved which our bound has been helpless by crisp sin.
The fig tree incredibly comes at home side in it fruits later loses them all so as to clang near here dead. Regularly the signs of the last coming are be a sign of in the Place of worship and in the love of the saints, yet Jesus does not know the look at, honest His Pioneer.
Symbolic LEVEL;
The "SON OF MAN" is an guise that symbolises the Messiah as the phantom of what people wish. The smoke symbolise an break through to our lives that is impossible for us to unwrap. The crumble of the conception symbolises God's quick bound improved the full of His production in addition to its texture. As the Threatening Jesus' wisdom soul cope with as a sign of His appointments. The Threatening soul stopped be heard in heaven, but it soul be ended familiar to us.
Well-mannered Size
At no warm up in our lives requirement we be wasteful of the law of love that requirement succession our lives. Bracket for our neighbour and the practice of the tribute requirement be our responsibility as requirement effectiveness improved the result of our appointments on all with whom we set-up. To fighting evil practice the intrinsic worth of tribute, hope, love, grit, command, fairness and wisdom. Represent is no give somebody a ride to be looking for signs of the end of the world. The choose are relatives called by Christ in his mutual salvific soul that all requirement be saved.
METAGOGIC LEVEL;
"With they soul see the Son of Man coming... with complete power"
As Origen (C.185-253) writes in his "HOMILIES ON THE MAGAZINE OF JOSHUA" 16.3 "A VERY RESPECTED PART OF THE LAND STOPPED END TO BE CONQUERED" (JOSHUA 13, 1)... Deliberation our Lady and Saviour's before time coming, for example he came to sow the word on earth." For Origen, Christ is working persistently to assimilate the world to him until "This is his before time possession of the land."
Hoof marks me, silent... unhappy the implicitness of Scripture and I soul play you what the last capture of the land instrument, of which it was intended to Joshua / Jesus that extensively had been moved out." Jesus soul come at home his depth or pleroma according to Paul. "As Origen tells us, "Afterward regard to our own era, we are well levelheaded of substance "THAT BE ECONOMICAL WITH THE TRUTH" and are not yet big business under Jesus' feet, yet he obligation tolerate possession of all substance. For submit is no end to the world until everything has been subjected to him."
Jesus has begun the end. We are in the era of the texture.
CATECHESIS: Care
The Catechism teaches that people supply an concentrated wish for God. ("IN PRINT IN THE HUMAN HIGHLIGHT") (1.1.27) Jesus requirements His associates to sustenance tribute with Him. Care, as a virtue, is one of the "THEOLOGICAL INTRINSIC WORTH" that we soul assert to exercise in heaven. It as well as tells him (1.1.35) that "Man's faculties make him worthy of coming to a knowledge of the being of a for one person God. But for man to be competent to enter at home real familiarity with him, God willed every one to reveal himself to man, and to give him the delicacy of qualities competent to pleasant this disclosure in tribute.(so) the proofs of God's being, silent, can predispose one to tribute and help one to see that tribute is not reverse to imagine."
The two orders of tribute and imagine insert each other but do not sever improved. In the acceptance of tribute we stand gleefully to the Threatening of God, as Mary took the secrets revealed to her at home her highlight. Yet we cannot be open to tribute unless we receive honest God can reveal Himself to us. We may reveal we supply achieved this on ouir own, but it is an magical. As the catechism teaches," Believing is practicable honest by delicacy and the inflowing helps of the Wonderful Meat. But it is no less true that believing is an faithfully human act. Trusting in God and cleaving to the truths he has revealed is insubordinate neither to human legroom nor to human imagine. Consistent in human line it is not insubordinate to our hover to consider what other intimates put a figure on us about themselves and their intentions, or to charge their promises (FOR INSISTENCE, FOR EXAMPLE A MAN AND A HUMAN BEING SEAM) to luck a communion of life with one not the same. If this is so, stopped less is it insubordinate to our hover to "GIVE IN BY TRIBUTE THE FULL LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS OF... WITS AND SOUL TO GOD WHO REVEALS" and to luck in an inflowing communion with him. In tribute, the human wits and soul co-operate with divine delicacy." As St Thomas taught: "Believing is an act of the wits harmonizing to the divine truth by supervise of the soul stirred by God unhappy delicacy."
Closing Poise
Jesus, whom the Pioneer sent to put in storage us, help us be living examples of tribute to each other and to the world in which we act. As we area let You Meat cheer up us to pray for, make allowances for and supply real effectiveness for all relatives whom we mass this week Amen.
SOURCES :
* Aquinas, St. Thomas, "SUMMA THEOLOGIAE" II-II, 2, 9; Nearly from http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3009.htm accessed 18/11/12
* "Presently (var.)Catechism of the Catholic Place of worship"(1.1.27-155) Vatican, Polyglot. Nearly from http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/ INDEX.HTM, accessed 18/11/12
* First Vatican Committee,(1870) Dictatorial Configuration, Dei Filius3; 26-27 DS 3010.Nearly fromhttp://www.disf.org/en/documentation/11-vaticancouncili.aspaccessed 18/11/1
* Origen, (2002.)"Homilies on the Magazine of Joshua," no.16, 3 ; SC 71 Fathers of the Place of worship, Vol. 105, tr. Barbara J. Bruce. Washington, DC: Catholic Studious of America Push
Published: Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 9:15am
With tens of thousands of US troops massing on two of Iran's borders, three US aircraft carrier fleets speeding toward the Persian Gulf and the largest ever joint missile exercise between Israel and the US, world spectators are holding their breath this week fearful that world war 3 is about to start. As always when global occurrences threaten the existence of humankind, the world's residents look to the most proven future seeing in human history - Nostradamus.After the attacks of 9/11 and in the build-up to the first Iraq war, Americans rushed to buy Nostradamus books to see what the visionary prophesied. The internet became flooded with fictitious and counterfeit Nostradamus quotes, many of which found themselves being rebroadcast in corporate newscasts. With the current preparations being made for the upcoming US-Israel-Iran war, we at Whiteout Press thought we would take a look at Nostradamus' writings for ourselves. In case you missed it, two weeks ago Whiteout Press published its most widely distributed article ever by the independent news outlet, 'US Troops going to Israel'. Yesterday, we continued to bring our readers the next round of breaking stories concerning the current Middle East crisis with the article, 'Is this the Eve of Middle East War?'.Now, we bring you our readers, the mysterious and yet prophetic words of the famed sixteenth century seer Nostradamus. Since at the time of Nostradamus, there was no United States, Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia or Turkey, one must be able to substitute the mid-millennia nations for today's. When Nostradamus refers to Persia, he's talking about Iran. When he mentions The New City, he's referring to the USA. To refer to modern-day Israel, the French psychic would use terms such as Jerusalem or Judea. For Saudi Arabia, the prophet called it Greater Arabia or Arabia. And for Turkey, Nostradamus called it Constantinople or Byzantium. As most know, Nostradamus used multiple languages, including astronomy and astrology to mask his premonitions from the Church who would have tortured and executed him for it. Therefore, many of Nostradamus' quatrains could very well refer to the upcoming Middle East war, but we'll never know until after the fact. For this article, we at Whiteout Press searched all of Nostradamus' prophecies for the key words 'Persia' and 'Arabia'. HERE'S WHAT WE FOUND (DO YOUR OWN CUSTOM SEARCH AT NOSTRADAMUS2012.COM):Nostradamus Century 1, Quatrain 70:Rain, famine and war will not cease in Persia; too great a faith will betray the monarch. Those (actions) started in France will end there, a secret sign for one to be sparing.Nostradamus Century 1, Quatrain 73:France shall be accused of neglect by her five partners. Tunis, Algiers stirred up by the Persians. Leon, Seville and Barcelona having failed, they will not have the fleet because of the Venetians.Nostradamus Century 2, Quatrain 96:Burning torch will be seen in the sky at night Near the end and beginning of the Rhone: Famine, steel: the relief provided late, Persia turns to invade Macedonia.Nostradamus Century 3, Quatrain 64:The chief of Persia will occupy great "Olchades," The trireme fleet against the Mahometan people From Parthia, and Media: and the Cyclades pillaged: Long rest at the great Ionian port.Nostradamus Century 3, Quatrain 77:The third climate included under Aries The year 1727 in October, The King of Persia captured by those of Egypt: Conflict, death, loss: to the cross great shame.Nostradamus Century 3, Quatrain 78:The chief of Scotland, with six of Germany Captive of the Eastern seamen: They will pass Gibraltar and Spain, Present in Persia for the fearful new King.Nostradamus Century 5, Quatrain 25:The Arab Prince Mars, Sun, Venus, Leo, The rule of the Church will succumb by sea: Towards Persia very nearly a million men, The true serpent will invade Byzantium and Egypt.Nostradamus Century 5, Quatrain 27:Through fire and arms not far from the Black Sea, He will come from Persia to occupy Trebizond: Pharos, Mytilene to tremble, the Sun joyful, The Adriatic Sea covered with Arab blood.Nostradamus Century 5, Quatrain 86:Divided by the two heads and three arms, The great city will be vexed by waters: Some great ones among them led astray in exile, Byzantium hard pressed by the head of Persia.Nostradamus Century 10, Quatrain 21Through the spite of the King supporting the lesser one, He will be murdered presenting the jewels to him: The father wishing to impress nobility on the son Does as the Magi did of yore in Persia.Some of these prophecies, like the one that references the date October 1727, are obviously not referring to the current confrontation. Others however, are hauntingly similar to today's current events. Century 5, Quatrain 25:The Arab Prince Mars, Sun, Venus, Leo, The rule of the Church will succumb by sea: Towards Persia very nearly a million men, The true serpent will invade Byzantium and Egypt. War in today's Middle East has already been plotted out by the various nations involved. Here's how the modern day scenario is expected to play out - Israel launches a strike, possibly nuclear, on Iran to disable its nuclear capabilities. Iran responds by launching attacks on Israel and US ally Turkey, as Iran has already stated it will do if attacked. US carriers and war ships will launch attacks on Iran from the Persian Gulf. Russian made anti-ship missiles will be utilized by Iran to take out the US Navy. NATO troops will deploy to Turkey to protect their ally. The one million-man Iranian-backed army will march across Iran's ally Iraq, and into Israel and Turkey. Israel at the time of Nostradamus, was controlled by Egypt and Turkey was called Byzantium. This Quatrain literally spells out Iran's already-stated military response if attacked by Israel or the US. Consider another striking observation. A common theme in many of the above Nostradamus predictions is the loss of America's Naval fleet. Statements include: 'The rule of the Church will succumb by sea', 'The great city will be vexed by waters', 'The chief of Scotland, with six of Germany Captive of the Eastern seamen', 'The trireme fleet against the Mahometan people', 'Long rest at the great Ionian port', 'they will not have the fleet because of the Venetians'. These lines aren't from the whole of Nostradamus' collection either. They are only from the Quatrains that mention Persia/Iran. The most haunting Quatrain however, comes from a search of Nostradamus' predictions centered around the word 'Arabian', as in Saudi Arabia: Nostradamus Century 6, Quatrain 44By night the Rainbow will appear for Nantes, By marine arts they will stir up rain: In the Gulf of Arabia a great fleet will plunge to the bottom, In Saxony a monster will be born of a bear and a sow. First, Nantes is a region of France. And many of Nostradamus' prophecies dealing with Persia, war and the New City, also include references to France, 'Those (actions) started in France will end there', 'France shall be accused of neglect by her five partners', etc. France on the west's side, along with Egypt on the east's, has long been used and considered a fair and impartial middleman in negotiations between the globes two regions, religions and governments. Nostradamus would suggest that in this next confrontation, France will somehow let her partners, 5 of them, down.
Another hugely important line is, 'By marine arts they will stir up rain'. The US government has been accused for decades of having "weather machines", capable of creating hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural disasters. Could Nostradamus be describing this very same weapon, only being used in this coming conflict to the detriment of America's own fleet?Also consider another Quatrain about Arabia that describes a great battle to come: Nostradamus Century 3, Quatrain 31On the field of Media, of Arabia and of Armenia Two great armies will assemble thrice: The host near the bank of the Araxes, They will fall in the land of the great Suleiman.Remember, 'Media' is in Iran. Armenia, Iran's northern neighbor, has been forever fought over by the Turks, Persians, Russians and Europeans. The Araxes is located in eastern Turkey, the location of Iran's announced invasion in response to a US or Israeli attack. And the land of the great Suleiman, is also Turkey. In fact, most of the above Quatrains reference ancient cities that are in either Iran or Turkey. Let's take a closer look at Nostradamus' prediction that, "In the Gulf of Arabia, a great fleet will plunge to the bottom". Right now as this article is being written, the US Navy has sped two full aircraft carrier fleets to the Arabian Sea, where they currently wait for a third US carrier fleet led by the USS Abraham Lincoln to arrive. While the US government insists it is simply a "coincidence", having 3 full aircraft carrier fleets in the Arabian Sea at the same time is practically unheard of. But could the Iranians sink the largest surface fleet in the world? Consider this quote from Military.com three years ago: "Those two countries [Russia and China] have an advanced technology that most people dramatically underestimate. Russia right now has a few surface to surface missiles that we have no defense against except to put a helicopter in between the missile and the target. I hope and pray that we never have to go to war with Russia or China in the future especially after working intel in the Navy aboard the USS Enterprise. I'm not out of date either, I discharged off that ship august of 2007 and we were observing some serious
. Most of those things would give you nightmares and cause utter chaos to the general public if they ever got wind of what was actually going on."The fact is, while the US has spent its energy and money developing aircraft carriers and accompanying aircraft, America's enemies have spent that time developing anti-ship missiles that could destroy an entire aircraft carrier in the blink of an eye. Also remember the transfer of America's top secret missile technology to China in the 1990's by President Clinton. Read the Whiteout Press Timeless article, 'How China Conquered America' for details. That allowed Communist China, and her allies, to speed past the US in missile technology, allowing China to be the first country to successfully use weapons in outer space. That's a fact. And with China and Russia's command in missile armaments over the US, the first strike by any US enemy will be upon America's satellites, thus rendering the entire United States military deaf, dumb, blind and immobile. If Nostradamus' predictions are accurate, it would appear the 16th century prophet is warning America that if it goes to war with Iran and the entire Muslim and Arab world, its fleet will be at the bottom of the Arabian Sea and hundreds of thousands of US troops stationed in the Middle East will be surrounded, cut-off and slaughtered, a thousand miles behind enemy lines. While this American author doesn't like imagining that any more than the next proud US citizen, a prudent war master like Sun Tzu would suggest, or demand rather, that we take into account all possibilities and warnings. For as Sun Tzu taught, 'win the battle before you fight it', and 'only fight battles you're positive you're going to win'. Also, as a life-long student of Sun Tzu, Nostradamus and others, this author can say with all honesty, God gave mankind freewill. That means nothing is written in stone. While our destiny is lodged in one outcome today, we have it in our power to change our destiny. The harder part is enlisting the humility to take an honest look at the current scenario and have the courage and readjust as needed. If that isn't done, America may be doomed to repeat the Confederate quote from America's civil war, "They'd rather lose the war than admit to the mistake". We, as well as most of the world, hope and pray that Israel, Iran and the United States somehow find a peaceful way to end this rapidly approaching conflict. As Nostradamus warns us, nobody will win. The US fleet will be at the bottom of the sea, Israel will be overrun, Turkey will be destroyed repeatedly, France will betray her allies, a monster will be born in Germany, Christianity will be destroyed, and the sea will be covered with Arab blood. If that's the tomorrow the citizens of Earth want, so be it. Those of us less motivated by greed, power and hate are begging the world's leaders to slow down and see exactly where their actions, threats and pride are taking us, before it's too late.
