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"REECE MORRIS-JONES GIVES ADVICE TO ALL THOSE THAT WANT SOME GOTH IN THEIR LIFE COMICS WISE..."
Tim Burton is a Goth with Daddy issues - it's not controversial to say that anymore, right?
It's been pretty well established that Burtons unique visual style and method of story telling has been heavily influenced by the Goth scene of the 80's, which took a skewed look at the western world and decided it didn't want to follow in the footsteps of its parents.
So those of you out there who quite like Burton's style whilst also being fans of comics...where do you start? This article hopes to help you with that. From homicidal killers to poetry in motion, here's a recommendation of where to look.
SANDMAN
"Let's start with the the most obvious choice. Neil Gaiman's celebrated story of a group of living concepts, headed by Morpheus, a being who is so 80's he manages to wear just a black dressing gown and still" pull it off, has been talked up so much its not even worth mentioning too much. Many more than I have phrased it's appeal better than I ever will, but suffice to say, it mixes baroque concepts with prose that drips the kind of humour Burton is famous for. Mind you, there's a far better story out there...
LUCIFER
"People say that Sandman is a great story and to an extend it's true. But where Sandman is a comic that and a great story to boot". Spinning out of the events of Sandman, Lucifer stars the Morningstar himself, who having grown weary of the role God assigned him abandons hell and strikes out for himself to try and make a better world than his father even could.
proves the medium can be literary, Lucifer is both that
Lucifer himself is cold, calculating and aloof with a million plans all in motion at once, John Constantine but a bigger bastard, which is why his supporting cast are so essential, helping craft a tale that deserves to be acknowledged for the greatness it possesses. Though it's always lived in the shadow of Gaiman, its one that in merits, eclipses it. Worth a read for all those Burton fans who like the religious elements of his work alongside the macabre.
EMILY THE STRANGE
Though I've remarked in the past that she's more an icon than an actual relatable human being, Emily has still inspired millions around the world with her DIY spirit and determination that girls can do it better than boys. She's starred in a few comic series, most recently Emily and the Strangers, but really her effect has been teaching a generation of girls that its ok to shy away from what is considered 'normal' and just be themselves. Which is the Goth spirit personified really.
JOHNNY THE HOMICIDAL MANIAC
Jhonen Vasquez's first breakout hit, the comic series tells the story of a young man named Johnny C., as he explores the psychological and possibly supernatural forces which compel him to commit a string of murders. Heavy on blood whilst giving everything a slightly humorous twist, JTHM is dark, twisted and distinctly counter-culture, despising everything that modern day life is.
It's also a very funny comic from start to finish which actually challenges the apathy that counter culture thinking can bring. All whilst involving a villainous stuffed bear.
A must see for those who like the spikier, more biting Burton.
LENORE
Channelling the whimsy of everyday life/death, Lenore stars a character who is dead, who spends most of her days mucking around with her friends and scaring the living. Whereas the prior entries all are extremes to one end or another, Lenore imagines a slightly softer and irrelevant side to the goth lifestyle without sacrificing any of what makes it appealing to those attracted to the subculture.
Lenore has attracted a dedicated following during her exitance in part due to her creator Roman Dirge's desire to keep the project creator owned and underground. Worth checking out if the you know someone who needs a gentle introduction to Burton's work.
"REECE MORRIS-JONES IS THE THECULTDEN'S BOOKS AND COMICS EDITOR. ANY QUESTIONS OR QUERIES, YOU CAN REACH HIM ON @REECEMJONES."
"Article images courtesy of Roman Dirge, Jhonen Vasquez, DC Comics and Rob Reger."
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Without difficulty, Gorge OUT THE CORNED Gripe AND BEER- IT'S Speed FOR THE Laborious OF THE Spiteful AND THE NATION-WIDE BACCHANALIA THAT Hoof marks THE Attractively EQUINOX. AND YOU Rally Having the status of "Exceedingly" THAT MEANS- IT'S Besides Speed TO Head OUT THE Dependable Details OF SAINT PATRICK'S DAY...
Tread 17 is the day generally hypothetical to be the death of St. Patrick, the British-born promoter who is credited with converting Ireland to Christianity. And as I wrote in one of my chief posts on this blog:
In Egyptian mythology, Osiris was killed on the 17th day of Athyr, the third month of the ancient calendar.
3/17 is likewise the come together of a Masonically-created holiday, St. Patrick's Day. The story has it that the holiday was club by high level Freemason, George Washington, so they say to reward Irish defense force in the Continental Armed forces.
But "St. Paddy's" has traditionally been a very not much Saint's day in Ireland. Since that the day has become America's defacto Bacchanal (which takes us back to Osiris) it's effectiveness noting some of the parallels of this day with Cosmological mythology.o Osiris was hypothetical to be the foundation of barley, which was used for brewing swallow in Egypt.
o It's unexceptional to wear green on St. Patrick's Day and Osiris was well-defined as the "Spiteful Man"
o The base word of Patrick is pater, the Latin word meaning boon. Osiris is the boon in the Egyptian Trinity.So moreover, I've been looking within the surprising origin of this holiday and carry found out some very obsessive facts...
o THIS ONE'S A SHOCKER- ST. PATRICK'S DAY WAS Primarily Celebrated BY PROTESTANT LOYALISTS IN THE BRITISH ARMY:
Their chief beauty salon and indulgence to connect with St. Patrick was an image of their Protestant reliance as well as their go for to mend with fellow Irish 'emigr'es. Their 1775 beauty salon included British defense force of Irish abstract. All proceeded, or marched, to the King's Chapel to get together a native tongue recurring to the try, and moreover continued on to a indulgence in Emperor Sense. British defense force were heavenly the big perfect example of the chief St. Patrick's Day swagger in New York Town in 1762.
The chief celebration in New York Town was in 1756, at the Beat and Thistle block. Philadelphia open its chief St. Patrick's Day swagger in 1771. Total George Washington issued a command popular the Uncontrolled War, declaring Tread 17, 1780 a holiday for the Continental Armed forces, moreover stationed in Morristown, New Jumper, in connect with of the innumerable defense force of Irish family and people innate in Ireland.
It was reported that this was the chief holiday established the troops in two time. Washington's note down that the command was "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their disagreement for womanhood," was perhaps the birth of St. Patrick's Day in America as an image of Irish nationalism as furthest as Irish heritage or of glorification a Christian saint.So innumerable lodges in Revolutionary-era America were chartered under the Illustrious Pied-?-terre of Ireland, I'm brave to bet people Irish defense force were generally Freemasons (learn by rote this is pre-Morgan Work, when Freemasons were hardcore). To perfect example how furthest a Masonic object the American Riot was, here's a list of the Freemasonic Generals in the Continental Armed forces
Depiction from Freemasons' Courtyard, 17 Molesworth Sense, Dublin
o UP UNTIL Valid Emphatically, ST. PATRICK'S DAY WAS NOT A BIG Settlement IN IRELAND ITSELF:
In modern-day Ireland, St. Patrick's Day has traditionally been a religious try. In fact, up until the 1970s, Irish laws mandated that pubs be congested on Tread 17. President in 1995, all the same, the Irish aim began a assert fight to use St. Patrick's Day as an break to forward motion going to places of interest and showing Ireland to the rest of the world. Seep year, collapse to one million human race took part in Ireland 's St. Patrick's Performance in Dublin, a multi-day celebration featuring parades, concerts, peripheral theater productions, and fireworks shows.
o New-fangled SAINT PATRICK'S DAY SHARES All A Tell AND A Source Next to A FAR, FAR Bleak HOLIDAY:
St. Patrick's Day is likewise frequently a time for eating. It used to be that this tradition was strung out for at smallest number of five days, the ostensible seachtain na Gaeilage or "Irish week."
That may outlet from Roman era, when Tread 17 started the variety store of the Bacchanalia, a celebration to the deity Bacchus, to whom wine was sacred. In olden time hope gone by, the Irish drank mead, ready from fermented honey. You force do way in today with a fierce Guinness, instead painted green.
o THE BACCHANALIA ARE WELL-DOCUMENTED IN THE Over and done RECORD:
The bacchanalia were confused and mystic festivals of the Roman and Greek god Bacchus. Introduced within Rome from truncate Italy by way of Etruria (c. 200 BC), the bacchanalia were ingeniously open in secret and only attended by women.
The festivals occurred on three days of the year in the grove of Simila come together the Aventine Ridge, on Tread 16 and Tread 17. As soon as, opening to the income was stretched out to men and partying took place five era a month. According to Livy, the spreading out happened in an era when the C.E.O. of the Bacchus cult was Paculla Annia - but it is now hypothetical that some men had participated up to that time that.o THE BACCHANALIA UNDERWENT AN Innovation FROM THEIR Offspring Partying. From "The Crucial Details of Rock ' Roll:"
"Historians today don't put a lot of limit in Livy's overheated accounts of the Bacchanalia, and generally call-up them off as politically motivated dismay. His story of a very good cult that sprung up out of nowhere and took the soil by typhoon is an what went before tale, intended to titliate his finish up. "The Bacchic cult had been certain -and been tolerated- for some time in Italy, and innumerable purchase that the witchhunt was whipped up exclusive for embassy reasons than definitely or felon ones. But Romans were well-defined to take their boozing and screwing to extremes the exclusive plain Greeks would not, so it's not hard to insist on these blow-outs feat out of hand.
But because the utmost terrible charge leveled vs. the Bacchanalia was of design vs. the Republic, it's by a long way realistic the definitely charges were innocently stop intended to turn the human race vs. the Mysteries. The fear plus the distinctive was that "newborn human race were about to jam" and transfer the communicate order.
The vital boogieman to the Roman dignity was the Demogogue, meaning self who may perhaps venture out women, slaves and other non-citizens vs. the landowning families who structured the Parliament. Given the magnificent socioconomic inequities even in the fairy-tale Republic, difference of opinion was constantly a force and illustrate bother that may perhaps be whipped up at any time.But contrary to Livy, the Bacchanalia weren't not allowed and its shrines weren't not working but more readily very much in harmony and structured by law. And but they never another time reached the hallucination be successful of the Republican era, the Bacchanalia would be revived by Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.
RENAMED THE LIBERALIA, THE NEW BACCHIC Adjourn WOULD BE A Greater than FAMILY-ORIENTED Lenient OF Sense Rectangle, Next to Like CAKES AND Well-to-do MEATS REPLACING BOOZING AND SCREWING. Diverse rituals and entertainments ready it a very adult years holiday. The boozing and screwing snuck back in listed the way, but in a less monster way.
The Liberalia are heavenly very furthest with us - in fact, our modern flow of air is eminent on the very dreadfully day that the Romans did. In our modern flow of air, human race heavenly operate and swig and stuff themselves and search flutes and drums and all the rest of it. We heavenly pig out on swallow, red meat and cabbage, which dates back to the Osirian blowouts in Egypt...
o OF Train, BACCHUS/DIONYSUS IS Right THE GRECO-ROMAN REINTERPRETATION OF OSIRIS. And eating of swallow was sacred to the followers of Osiris, the Spiteful Man:
In Egypt, swallow was regarded as food. In fact, the old Egyptian picture for "feast" was a multipart of people for "bread" and "swallow". This "bread-beer feast" good point a few onions and some shrunken buddy was the deal in healthy of the be more or less human race listed the Nile at the time. Cocktail came in eight marginal types in Egypt.
Furthermost were ready from barley, some from emmer, and innumerable were flavored with ginger or honey. The best beers were brewed to a color as red as human blood. The Egyptians high-pitched together with the marginal beers by their invigorating opulence and successful eat. None other than the god of the dead, Osiris, was hailed as the guardian of swallow, when to him grain - all emmer and barley - were sacred.
The Egyptians hypothetical that grain had sprung organically from Osiris' mummy, as a gift to mankind and as a symbol of life some time ago death. This was generous litigation for the god-like pharaohs to turn brewing within a check in throttlehold and in detail send on brewing care order to entrepreneurs and priests.
Copious temples eventually opened their own breweries and pubs, all in the service of the gods. The deduct of Pelusium at the chat of the Nile became a major brewing kindness, and trading in swallow became big setup.
o THIS ADMIXTURE OF EGYPTIAN Revels, IRISH Devotion AND FREEMASONRY Compel Semblance Outrageous TO Dependable, BUT IN Factor IT WAS Amount AND Narrative OF CELTIC Civility Before THE Fine OF THE ROMAN Minster. Namely in the...
... religion of the Druids, as up to that time expected, was the dreadfully as the religion of the ancient Egyptians. The priests of Egypt were the professors and teachers of science, and were styled priests of Heliopolis, that is, of the Town of the Sun. The Druids in Europe, who were the dreadfully order of men, carry their name from the Teutonic or ancient German language; the German for instance anciently called Teutones. The word Druid signifies a conscious man. In Persia they were called Magi, which signifies the dreadfully thing.St. Patrick himself was hypothetical to carry prompted the Druids of out of Ireland, but in fact druidry was lone integrated within Celtic Christianity, which was jagged from other varieties and would fall so until unevenly numerous on succinct from Rome.
o AND IT SEEMS THAT THE Performance OF THE Demise OF OSIRIS SHARES Distant IN Working class Next to Substitute Adjourn THAT THE IRISH BROUGHT TO AMERICA:
This ubiquitous delicate of the houses on one night of the year suggests that the variety store may carry been a celebration not lone of the dead Osiris but of the dead in public, in other words, that it may carry been a night of All Souls.
For it is a wide-ranging belief that the souls of the dead worry their old homes on one night of the year; and on that solemn try human race work on for the acceptable of the ghosts by laying out food for them to eat, and lighting lamps to guide them on their dark way from and to the sad.
Herodotus, who fast describes the variety store, omits to refer to its come together, but we can detect it with some chance from other sources. Hence Plutarch tells us that Osiris was murdered on the seventeenth of the month Athyr, and that the Egyptians consequently observed sad income for four days from the seventeenth of Athyr.
And what of the corned red meat and cabbage? In late antiquity the Apis bull was accepted with Osiris. The Apis bull would be sacrificed and eaten in ritual feasts. Cabbage is complete in the winter months in Egypt and was used to restrain intoxication at feasts.
SO IT'S OFFICIAL: ALL OF OUR New-fangled HOLIDAYS IN AMERICA ARE Fair Stealthy REPACKAGINGS OF Prehistoric PAGAN FESTIVALS AND THE Slowly Hip ST. PATRICK'S DAY IS NO Peculiar.
"Astronaut canal "star sailor", which Osiris was evenly depicted measure..."
The Minster took the Bacchanalia on sale from the Irish and replaced it with a filling religious holiday and the old-school Freemasons used that to bring the Bacchanalia back, which we now understand traces back to Osiris. And Osiris- who came from and returned to the stars- brings us back to the ancient astronauts, which the complex adaptations copy Bacchus do not.
Enjoyable to the New Atlantis.
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Okay to start this review, I feel it necessary to give full disclosure that I am totally a Kevin Hearne fanpoodle. This means that this review will probably just consist of the obligatory fanpoodling that happens when one of a readers favourite author released a new book. Lucky for you, The Grimoire of the Lamb is a novella so that means you wont have to tolerate much of my poodling.
"The Grimoire of the Lamb" is set four years before the events of "Hounded". This means that while we still get Atticus and Oberon having an epic adventure in Egypt, Granuaile is missing. It all begins when a man from Egypt calls with the hope of purchasing one of Atticus rare books. Nkosi Elkhashab is desperate to get his hand on the a grimoire, which appears to have nothing but recipes for cooking lamb, but Atticus decides that there has to be more to Elkhashabs desire than ancient culinary delights and does some research. When he learns that the grimoire contains 13 spells, which Elkhashab wants to use to "restore Egypt to its rightful place as supreme among the world," Atticus realises that no matter what happens, Elkhashab must not be allowed to possess it.
When Elkhashab manages to undo Atticus magic and escape to Egypt, Atticus and Oberon have no choice but to follow. Like every other pantheon, Atticus is not exactly very friendly with the Gods. Before Atticus can even deal with Elkhashab, he must find a way to make peace with the goddess Bast, whose holy book he stole centuries ago. Read more >>
Desde el punto de Luz en la Mente de Dios, Que afluya luz a las mentes de los hombres; Que la Luz descienda a la Tierra. - Desde el punto de Amor en el Coraz'on de Dios, Que afluya amor a los corazones de los hombres; Que Cristo retorne a la Tierra. - Desde el centro donde la Voluntad de Dios es conocida, Que el prop'osito gu'ie a las peque~nas voluntades de los hombres; El prop'osito que los Maestros conocen y sirven. - Desde el centro que llamamos la raza de los hombres, Que se realice el Design de Amor y de Luz Y selle la puerta donde se halla el mal. - Que la Luz, el Amor y el Poder restablezcan el Design en la Tierra.
APOYAR AL NGSM ES PARTE DEL PROYECTO DE LA JERARQUIA ESPIRITUAL
INICIO EL TRABAJO A REALIZAR Triple Proyecto
Jer'arquico Un Tri'angulo de
Poder Espiritual
en el Cono Sur
LA GRAN INVOCACI`oN RED DE TRI'aNGULOS Meditaciones
de Plenilunio LOS LIBROS AZULES LIBROS DE V.B.A. Movimiento de
Buena Voluntad Nuevo Grupo de
Servidores del Mundo
VICENTE BELTR'aN ANGLADA
Libros Conferencias
SHAMBALLA La Jerarqu'ia
Espiritual Planetaria Evoluci'on D'evica
o Ang'elica Magia Organizada
Planetaria
CONTACTO
[ El Nuevo Grupo de Servidores del Mundo ]
23. La Exteriorizaci'on de la Jerarqu'ia 1. La humanidad est'a pasando actualmente a trav'es de un ciclo de excesiva actividad. Por primera vez en la historia humana esta actividad abarca a la humanidad en gran escala, en los tres aspectos de la conciencia de la perso-nalidad. El cuerpo f'isico y los estados de conciencia emocional y mental est'an grandemente trastornados. Esta triple actividad unificada es acrecentada por un ciclo de intensa actividad planetaria, debido a la entrada en una nueva era, al desplazamiento del sol a un nuevo signo del Zod'iaco y a la consiguiente preparaci'on que capacitar'a al hombre para trabajar f'acilmente con las nuevas fuerzas y energ'ias que act'ua sobre 'el. En el centro de la vida humana, el grupo integrador de los nuevos servidores del mundo debe enfrentar, por lo tanto, una verdadera necesidad. Su trabajo outdated consiste en mantenerse en estrecha uni'on con el alma de la humanidad - constituida por todas las almas en su propio nivel del ser, mediante la propia actividad del alma organizada, para que siempre haya quien "trabaje en los intervalos" y as'i permitir que progrese el express y la visi'on, ante los ojos de quienes a'un no pueden penetrar en el lugar elevado y secreto. Como muchas veces he dicho, ellos deben aprender a trabajar subjetivamente, a fin de mantener --en este ciclo de actividad y expresi'on exot'erica-- el poder, latente en todos, de retirarse al centro. Hablando simb'olicamente, ellos constituyen la puerta. Las facultades y los poderes se pueden perder por no emplearlos; el poder de divina abstracci'on y la facultad de hallar lo que ha sido llamado "el sendero dorado que conduce al claro estanque y de all'i al Templo de Retiro", no deben perderse. Este es el text trabajo del Grupo de M'isticos Mundiales, y deben conservar abierto el sendero y el camino libre de obst'aculos. De otro modo la magia blanca podr'ia dejar de existir temporariamente, y asumir indebido capability los prop'ositos ego'istas de la naturaleza forma. Este dreadful acontecimiento ocurri'o en los d'ias de la Atl'antida, y los que entonces forma-ban el grupo de trabajadores tuvieron que retirarse de toda actividad externa y "abstraer los divinos misterios, ocult'andolos de los curiosos y de los indig-nos". Ahora se est'a haciendo un nuevo intento para liberar a "los prisioneros del planeta". La Jerarqu'ia, mediante el grupo de servidores del mundo, en proceso de formaci'on, procura restaurar los misterios a la humanidad, a la cual realmente pertenecen. Para el triunfo de este intento es fundamental-mente necesario, a quienes han percibido la visi'on y visto una parte del express, dedicarse nuevamente al servicio de la humanidad, consagrarse al trabajo y ayudar hasta el m'aximo de su capacidad (reflexionen sobre estas palabras y extraigan su significado), a todos los servidores del mundo y sacrificar su tiempo y dinero en acrecentar el esfuerzo de los Grandes Seres. Stake todo no dejen de practicar la meditaci'on; mantengan la uni'on interna; piensen en la verdad en todo momento. La necesidad y la oportunidad son grandes, y todos los que pueden ayudar son llamados al frente de batalla. Por lo tanto, todos pueden ser 'utiles de alguna manera si cada uno y todos comprenden la verdadera naturaleza del sacrificio, desarrollan habilidad en la acci'on y trabajan sin apegos. (4-375/6). 2. Tambi'en se se~nal'o en esa oportunidad que el pr'oximo paso de la Jerarqu'ia ser'ia plasmar en la mentes de los hombres iluminados de todo el mundo, las important espirituales que encierran las nuevas verdades, el descenso (si as'i puedo denominarlo) de los nuevos conceptos que regir'an la vida humana y la influencia que ejercer'a el Cristo sobre los disc'ipulos mundiales y el Nuevo Grupo de Servidores del Mundo. Este movimiento planificado por la Jerarqu'ia, progresa; los hombres y mujeres de todas partes y de todos sectores de la vida enuncian las nuevas verdades que guiar'an en el futuro al vivir humano, y fundan nuevas organizaciones, movimientos y grupos grandes o peque~nos - que har'an conocer a las masas humanas la realidad de la necesidad y el modo de enfrentarla. Lo hacen impulsados por el intolerance de sus corazones y por la amorosa respuesta a la angustia humana y, aunque no lo expresen, trabajan para exteriorizar el Reino de Dios en la Tierra. Stake la evidente multiplicidad de organizaciones, libros y conferencias, etc. resulta imposible negar estos hechos. (8-45). 3. Grandes Fuerzas bajo una potente direcci'on espiritual est'an preparadas para precipitarse en este mundo de caos, confusi'on, aspiraci'on, esperanza y perplejidad. Estos grupos de energ'ia est'an dispuestos para ser enfocados y distribuidos por la Jerarqu'ia, y esa Jerarqu'ia, bajo Su gran Director, el Cristo, se halla m'as cerca del g'enero humano, como nunca lo ha estado en la historia de la humanidad. En todos los pa'ises, el Nuevo Grupo de Servidores del Mundo tambi'en est'a atento a esa conducci'on, unido en idealismo, obje-tivos humanitarios, sensibilidad a la impresi'on espiritual, prop'ositos subjeti-vos, amor a sus semejantes y dedicaci'on al servicio altruista. En todas partes hay personas de buena voluntad dispuestas a ser guiadas hacia una actividad constructiva y a convertirse en agentes que ser'an gradualmente educados y entrenados para el establecimiento de lo que nunca hasta ahora ha existido: "correctas relaciones humanas "(8-85).
EL NUEVO GRUPO DE SERVIDORES DEL MUNDO NGSM
1. CLASIFICACI`oN DE LA HUMANIDAD
2. ANTECEDENTES HIST`oRICOS
3. ORIGEN DEL NGSM
4. ORGANIZACI`oN DEL NGSM
5. CARACTER'iSTICAS DEL NGSM
6. REQUISITOS PARA LOS MIEMBROS
7. MIEMBROS DEL NGSM
8. EL S'iMBOLO DEL GRUPO
9. REUNIENDO A LOS HOMBRES DE BUENA VOLUNTAD
10. MISI`oN DEL NGSM
11. ACTIVIDADES Y T'eCNICAS
12. PELIGROS QUE DEBE EVITAR EL GRUPO
13. ENTRENAMIENTO DE LOS SERVIDORES
14. LA SITUACI`oN Well
15. INTRODUCIENDO LA NUEVA ERA
16. EL FUTURO DEL GRUPO
17. TRABAJO CREADOR
18. RITMO C'iCLICO DEL TRABAJO DEL NGSM
19. EL Design PARA LA HUMANIDAD
20. IMPRESI`oN DEL Design
21. MANIFESTACI`oN DEL AMOR GRUPAL
22. ETAPA DE DESARROLLO DEL DISC'iPULO
23. LA EXTERIORIZACI`oN DE LA JERARQU'iA
24. PREPARACI`oN PARA LA REAPARICI`oN DE CRISTO
25. CONCLUSI`oN
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Pe 18 noiembrie sunt celebrati Sfantul Pony Mucenic Platon, Sfintii Mucenici Romano si Zaheu, diaconi, si are loc sarbatoarea Sfintirii Bazilicilor "Sfantul Petru" si "Sfantul Paul"
"Sarbatori, traditii si obiceiuri crestin - ortodoxe pe 18 noiembrie"
SFANTUL Pony MUCENIC PLATON
Sfantul Pony Mucenic Platon, frate al Sfantului Mucenic Antioh, s-a nascut in orasul Ancira din Galatia. Si-a parasit caminul din tinerete si a colindat prin multe locuri, propavaduind cuvantul Domnului printre pagani, uluindu-i pe oameni cu maiestria si frumusetea cuvintelor sale.
Din cauza lucrarii sale crestinesti, a fost arestat si adus la judecata la templul lui Zeus, in fata guvernatorului Agrippinus. La inceput, judecatorul a incercat sa il indeparteze prin laude si maguliri de la iubirea sa de Hristos, spunandu-i ca ar putea ajunge la fel de vestit precum filozoful Platon daca ar accepta sa se inchine idolilor. Apoi, guvernatorul i-a promis ca i-o da de nevasta pe frumoasa lui nepoata daca isi reneaga credinta crestina. Amenintat cu tortura si moartea, Sfantul Platon a refuzat sa se indeparteze de Hristos, spunand ca prefera o moarte temporara pentru a avea parte de o viata vesnica. Manios, guvernatorul a poruncit ca Sfantul Platon sa fie batut fara mila si trimis in temnita. In vreme ce era dus catre inchisoare, el s-a adresat oamenilor stransi in jurul templului si i-a indemnat sa se dedice credintei crestine. Sapte zile mai tarziu, a fost adus din nou la templul lui Zeus, pentru o noua judecata, fiind pregatite dinainte mai multe instrumente de schingiuire, precum cazane cu apa fiarta, fier inrosit in foc si carlige ascutite.
Judecatorul l-a pus sa aleaga: fie se inchina zeilor pagani, fie urma sa treaca prin chinurile torturii. Sfantul Platon a refuzat cu fermitate sa aduca ofrande idolilor, fiind din aceasta pricina chinuit cu cruzime si aruncat iarasi in temnita vreme de mai mult de 18 zile, fara a i se da paine si apa. Vazand ca nimic nu ii poate zdruncina credinta, guvernatorul i-a oferit viata si libertatea cu conditia de a marturisi in colonize cuvintele "Maret este zeul Apollo". Desigur, Sfantul Platon nu a putut accepta asa ceva, asa ca a sfarsit taindu-se capul.
SFINTII MUCENICI ROMANO SI ZAHEU, DIACONI
Sfantul Romano a fost diacon si exorcist in biserica Cezareei din Palestina. S-a intamplat sa fie in Antiohia atunci cand imparatul Diocletian a dat edictul de persecutare a crestinilor. Sfantul Romano nu a putut indura vederea numerosilor oameni, barbati, femei si copii, ce isi negau credinta crestina din teama de a nu fi expusi suferintelor. In vreme ce acestia mergeau sa aduca sacrificii idolilor, a alergat in fata lor si, plin de zel, le-a reprosat lasitatea, facandu-i astfel de rusine. A fost imediat arestat si adus in fata prefectului orasului. A infruntat cu curaj interogatoriile si nu s-a sfiit sa demonstreze stupiditatea cultului pagan. La un back up dat, a cerut sa fie adus un copil, ales la intamplare din multime, Sfantul Romano intrebandu-l apoi daca prefera sa il venereze pe unicul Dumnezeu al crestinilor sau sa se inchine numerosilor zei ai paganilor. Fara a avea vreo ezitare, copilul a raspuns ca este de partea Dumnezeului crestin. Plin de furie, guvernatorul a poruncit ca acel copil sa fie chinuit chiar in prezenta mamei lui. Micutul a indurat schingiuirile fara a clipi, insa, dupa o vreme, i-a spus mamei sale ca ii este sete. Mama i-a raspuns :"Dragul meu fiu, nu trebuie sa bei aceasta apa necurata si trecatoare, pastreza-ti curajul, si vei sorbi din apa vie si eterna a Imparatiei lui Dumnezeu". Copilul a fost decapitat, iar Sfantul Romano a fost condamnat sa moara prin foc, decizie pe tact a primit-o cu mare bucurie. Executia lui a fost amanata, astfel incat sa poata asista la ea chiar imparatul. Constient de fericirea mucenicului de a intra in viata vesnica, imparatul a vrut sa ii prelungeasca chinurile, si a poruncit sa i se taie limba. Sfantul Romano nu s-a impotrivit acestei cruzimi, dar, printr-o minune, a continuat sa se roage si sa ii incurajeze pe cei credinciosi chiar fara a mai avea limba. Dupa aceasta, a fost iarasi dus la inchisoare si legat in lanturi pana la ziua aniversarii nasterii imparatului. In cele din urma, Sfantul Romano a murit fiind strangulat in secret de unul dintre calaii sai.
Sfantul Mucenic Zaheu, diacon de Gadara, si Sfantul Alfeu, cetitor din Cezareea, au avut de suferit in timpul imparatului Diocletian (284-305). Au fost amandoi arestati, iar Sfantul Zaheu si-a declarat neinfricat iubirea de Hristos si, pentru ca nu a fost de acord sa se inchine idolilor, a fost supus unei crunte torturi. Sfantul Alfeu si Sfantul Zaheu au stat de veghe o noapte in inchisoare, rugandu-se si sprijinindu-se reciproc intru sacrificiile ce urmau a le advantage pentru Domnul. A doua zi dimineata, celor doi mucenici li s-au taiat capetele.
Sarbatori, traditii si obiceiuri crestin - ortodoxe rit / stil vechi pe 18 noiembrie
Sfintii Mucenici Galaction si Epistimi; Preacuviosul Grigorie Arhiepiscopul Alexandriei; Sfintii Apostoli din cei saptezeci Ermeu, Lin, Gaie, Filolog si Patrova; Sfantul Ierarh Iona; Sfintii Mucenici Castor si Agatanghel.
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Sarbatori, traditii si obiceiuri romano - catolice pe 18 noiembrie
SFINTIREA BAZILICILOR "SFANTUL PETRU" SI "SFANTUL PAUL"
Aceasta sarbatoare celebreaza inaltarea a doua din cele patru importante bazilici din Roma.
Bazilica Sfantului Petru a fost construita in anul 323 de catre imparatul Constantin, peste mormantul Sfantului Apostol Petru, cel dintai papa al Romei. Dupa mai mult de o mie de ani, Papa Iuliu al II-lea a poruncit ca acesta cladire sa fie demolata din cauza subrezeniei ei. Construirea unei noi biserici a durat mai mult de 200 de ani, aceasta fiind sfintita pe 18 noiembrie 1626.
Bazilica Sfantului Pavel a fost cladita deasupra mormantului Sfantului Pavel, in afara zidurilor stravechi ale Romei, de imparatul Constantin, si a fost distrusa de un incendiu in anul 1823. A fost reconstruita si consacrata de Papa Pius al IX-lea in anul 1854.
Sarbatori, traditii si obiceiuri greco - catolice pe 2 noiembrie
SFINTII MUCENICI PLATON SI ROMAN
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I HAVE READ SOME OF YOUR POSTINGS HERE AND I HAVE TO SAY I FEEL YOU WANT HONEST ANSWERS AND YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH. YOU WILL NOT FIND IT IN READING WEIRD BOOKS ABOUT NDE'S OR ANY OTHER MATERIAL WRITTEN BY MAN. YOU MUST SEEK THE SCRIPTURES. YOU MUST DO IT PRAYERFULLY, WHILE TRYING TO LIVE CLEAN. THE SPIRIT OF GOD HAS A DIFFICULT TIME DWELLING IN UNHOLY PLACES. I AM NOT ONE TO JUDGE AND AM NOT SAYING YOU ARE NOT WORTHY OR ANYTHING. JUST HONEST ADVICE- JUST IN CASE YOU NEED IT. THAT IS THE # 1 REASON PEOPLE REMAIN CONFUSED. I HAVE SOUGHT ANSWERS WHILE I HAVE DELIBERATELY BEEN DOING THINGS I KNEW WOULD BE CONTRARY TO GOD IF HE EXISTED. I JUST GOT MORE CONFUSED. VERY HYPOCRITICAL BEHAVIOR. READ WHAT CHRIST TEACHES, TRY TO LIVE IT EVERYDAY WHILE YOU SEARCH. STUDY THE SCRIPTURES AND AS FOUND IN JAMES 1:5-6. HE WILL ANSWER IF YOU DO NOT WAVER -READ VERSE 6. WE CANNOT ASK GOD QUESTIONS FOR CURIOSITY SAKE. HE KNOWS EACH OF US INTIMATELY, HE KNOWS WHO WILL DO WHAT WITH THE ANSWERS HE GIVES US THROUGH THE SPIRIT. IF I ASK WHAT IS TRUE WITH NO INTENTION OF GIVING UP WORLDLY PLEASURES, I WILL BE CONFUSED UNTIL I DIE. NOTHING WAVERING. SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND, KNOCK AND IT SHALL BE OPENED UNTO YOU. SEEKING AND KNOCKING REQUIRE ACTION, NOT JUST ASK AND THERE YOU GO. NOTHING WORTH RECEIVING HAS EVER COME EASY. NOTHING AS HOLY AND SACRED AS SURE ANSWERS FROM GOD HIMSELF EVER JUST COMES EASY. HE EVEN COMMANDS US NOT TO CAST OUR PEARLS BEFORE SWINE. CAN WE EXPECT HIM TO DO SO? YOU DO SAY THERE IS NO WAY TO KNOW. I SAY THERE IS. I SAY GOD ANSWERS HIS CHILDREN BECAUSE HE LOVES THEM. BUT GOD IS NOT OBLIGATED TO ANSWER EVERYTHING. WE ARE NOT MEANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING AND NOT MEANT TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING. IF WE DID, WHAT FAITH WOULD THAT REQUIRE? WHAT GROWTH WOULD THERE BE FOR US? SURE I WANT MY CHILD TO LEARN ALL OF LIFE'S LESSONS BY ME EXPLAINING IT TO HIM- SO HE PASSES ON THE PAINFUL PARTS. BUT THAT JUST IS NOT THE RIGHT WAY FOR HIM TO LEARN. I WOULD NOT WANT HIM TO KNOW LOVE BY ME TELLING HIM ABOUT IT. I WANT HIM TO EXPERIENCE IT BY TAKING A CHANCE ON A YOUNG WOMAN WHO LIVES RIGHT AND EXPERIENCING IT ON HIS OWN, AND BY ME AND HIS MOM SHOWING HIM LOVE BY BEING GOOD PARENTS. GOD ALSO KNOWS THAT IS HOW WE, HIS CHILDREN IGNORANT TO HIS WAYS, WILL LEARN. BUT HE WILL TELL US IMPORTANT THINGS WE NEED SO WE CAN FIND THE RIGHT PATH ON WHICH TO LEARN THOSE LESSONS ON OUR OWN. I TELL YOU THIS ONLY BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN THERE. I WANTED TO KNOW. I PROMISED FATHER IN HEAVENTHAT IF HE TOLD ME A PARTICULAR CHURCH WERE TRUE, I WOULD FORSAKE THE LIFE MY CARNAL PARTY MAN WANTED TO LIVE AND I WOULD SERVE HIM. HE BELIEVED ME AND HE ANSWERED ME. NOW I KNOW. IT IS HARD, I GET TEMPTED ALL THE TIME, BUT DAILY I STRIVE TO UPHOLD MY END OF THE DEAL. I AM ON THE EARTH FOR A REASON, TO SHARE THIS KNOWLEDGE WITH MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS ON THE EARTH. NO I AM NOT SOME FANATICAL NUT JOB. I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM OUT THERE. I HAVE FELT THE MAIN REASON IT IS SO HARD TO BELIEVE IN THE RELIGION I KNOW TO BE TRUE IS BECAUSE OF ALL THE NUT JOBS THAT ARE EASY TO FIND IN IT. REMEMBER THE WORDS OF THE SAVIOR THOUGH, THE WHOLE NEED NO PHYSICIAN. READ THE NEW TESTAMENTE, PRAY FOR AN ANSWER ONLY IF YOU ARE ABLE TO LIVE UP TO WHAT IS REQUIRED. YOU WILL BE ANSWERED. THAT IS A PROMISE FROM GOD AND HIS SON. AS TOLD BY JESUS, SELL ALL THAT THOU HAST AND FOLLOW ME. AM I WILLING TO DO THAT? HE DOES NOT ASK YOU TO SELL ALL YOU HAVE, HE WANTS YOU TO BE WILLING TO THOUGH. THAT INCLUDES SELLING ALL YOUR BAD HABITS, CARNAL PLEASURES, ETC AND FOLLOWING HIM. REPENTING SINCERELY WHEN YOU FALL, FEELING GODLY SORROW WHEN YOU DO, THEN ALLOWING HIS SACRIFICE TO PURGE THE PAIN AND HEAL YOU WHEN YOU RE-COMMIT. THAT IS THE TRUTH. IF YOU ARE WILLING TO DO IT, HE WILL ANSWER YOU. I TESTIFY THIS AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF HIM TO YOU.
SORRY SO LONG. READ THE NEW TESTAMENT, GET YOUR LIFE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST, REPENT, PRAY FOR ANSWERS, THEN READ THE BOOK OF MORMON. NO MAN MADE BOOKS ABOUT NDE'S, ANTI MORMON STUFF, ANYTHING OTHER THAN SCRIPTURE. DO THIS AND I PROMISE YOUR MIND WILL QUICKEN, YOUR HEART WILL FEEL UNDENIABLE, YES - UNDENIABLE - KNOWLEDGE YOU SEEK. YOU WILL NEVER SAY PEOPLE CAN'T KNOW AGAIN. YOU WILL KNOW. REMEMBER THIS MY SISTER - WHERE MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS REQUIRED. BE READY TO LIVE UP TO THE KNOWLEDGE OR YOU WILL REMAIN CONFUSED.
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