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"Third in a series of four."
ACTS 17:16-21
I think we've established over the past few weeks that even if God doesn't normally speak to us in an audible voice, we can still hear the voice of God. We just need help. There's Scripture, of course, which we often call the Word of God, and it is normally our starting point. After all, we read from Scripture every Sunday as part of worship. But as the Gospel of John reminds us, Jesus is the Word of God in the flesh, not the Bible. Although Scripture seems to be a central way in which God speaks to us, is it the only way we hear God speak?
We started to answer this question last Sunday with a conversation about Tradition, which is the ongoing story of God's involvement in our world, beginning with Creation and continuing to this day. Tradition is an important voice, but perhaps there are still others that might speak to us. If so, could Reason be one of those ways in which God speaks?
In planning worship this week I discovered that there aren't many songs and hymns that celebrate Reason. I also couldn't come up with any great Broadway songs as a followup to last week's wonderful song from the Fiddler on the Roof' - Tradition. I did think about suggesting to Pat that he might want to play the original Star Trek Theme as the Prelude, but then Logic suggested that might not be a very reasonable idea.
So, even if we don't have a great Broadway tune to celebrate it, can God speak to us through Reason? Could resources like philosophy and science be ways in which God's voice might be revealed to us?
Although the Founders of the Disciples Tradition believed Scripture was the primary way through which God speaks to us, they also believed that the Christian faith should be a reasonable one. They were deeply attracted to thinkers like John Locke, who believed that Truth is largely self-evident. We just have to open our eyes to this self-evident Truth. You'll find a similar attitude present in the American Declaration of Independence, where Thomas Jefferson, who was a Deist, wrote:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. How do you know that you've been endowed with these inalienable rights? Reason tells you that this is the Truth. It's self-evident.
Although Alexander Campbell believed that some things having to do with our relationship with God lie beyond the bounds of unaided human understanding, he also believed that religious Truth shouldn't conflict with Reason. Like Joe Friday, he believed in the facts, and you will find the Facts revealed in Scripture, and this revelation should not conflict with Reason. He wrote:
Indeed, faith, Divine faith, is the conviction or evidence of things not submitted to our senses. But in no case does it conflict with the true and proper constitution of the human mind--nor with the power, wisdom, and goodness of God as developed in creation.So, if you hear someone say that Scripture and science are in conflict, and therefore they'll go with Scripture - Campbell might say - you'd better check the facts, because you must be missing something.
It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who knows me that I value things intellectual, which may be why I've been attracted to Campbell's vision of a reasonable faith. And I'm not alone in this. I've had many conversations with members of this church about just this "fact." I expect that many of you would join me in agreeing with Galileo, who said:
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." And since Scripture commands us to Love God with our entire being, which includes heart, soul, strength, and Mind, I believe that it's probably okay to pay attention to the Mind.
Just to make sure I was on the right track, I decided to do a bit of online research, and I did a search to see what the Bible had to say about this topic. I have to admit that some of the passages I uncovered proved to be a bit discouraging. Consider what Ecclessiastes 1:18 has to say: "In much wisdom is much aggravation; the more knowledge, the more pain" (CEB). Maybe the writer of these words of wisdom had just finished an exam, but Paul said something similar. Although Paul told the Romans that the things of God should be plain to us, because God is revealed to us through the things God has made (Romans 1:19-20), in 1 Corinthians Paul insists that the foolishness of God is greater than human wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:18-25). So much for Galileo's vision! Maybe Reason is a dead end!
Then we come to the story we read together just a moment ago. Paul had gone to Athens, which in Paul's day was a university town, something like Ann Arbor, though without the football stadium. It seems that the Athenians loved to spend their time doing nothing but talk philosophy and theology. These are Reasonable people! They love to talk about new ideas. But it's not just the residents of Athens who love to talk about such things, even the visitors - people like Paul, for instance - loved to join in the conversation. Luke mentions Paul's debates with the Stoics and the Epicureans, but there were a lot of other schools to engage as well.
Besides the schools of philosophy there were synagogues, temples, and shrines. In fact there we so many that Paul seems to have been deeply distressed by what he found there. But, he also found a shrine dedicated to the "unknown God." Since no one had claimed this shrine, Paul decided he would fill in the blank, and preach the God of Jesus as this "Unknown God."
So, after spending some time preaching in the synagogues Paul went out and stood on his soap box and started giving a lecture. Remember this is a university town so people might have enjoyed listening to lectures and engaging in debates. The people even dragged Paul before the Council so that he could be interrogated. You see, many of the people found Paul's message to be rather unreasonable. It wasn't all that self-evident, especially Paul's message about the resurrection.
You see, many Greeks believed that the body is a prison, and the goal is to free yourself from that prison. So why would you want to experience resurrection if that meant continuing your bodily existence? Although the mind and the soul are good, the body is simply a hindrance to our ability to enjoy the spiritual.
Although I don't enjoy admitting this, it appears that Paul's stay in Athens was not a success. He didn't plant a church nor did he gain many converts. It seems that the Athenians just didn't think the Gospel was very reasonable. If that's true, then why should we believe that God would speak to us through human reason? Why should we take Galileo's word over that of the writer of Ecclesiastes? And, even if Campbell, Locke, and Aquinas value wisdom, could Martin Luther have been right when he said:
"Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God." After listening to Luther, maybe I should just sit down and forget about finding any help from Reason, except I like what Galileo had to say about God creating us with Minds, expecting us to use them.
I think that Luther was a bit like Dr. McCoy on Star Trek. He's well educated, but he's a passionate sort of person. Dr. McCoy seems to rely a lot on Emotion, while his friend, Mr. Spock values Logic and seeks to suppress Emotion. As you may know there's a third member of what we might call the Star Trek trinity. That person is Captain Kirk who always finds himself listening to these very distinct voices - Spock's Logic and McCoy's Emotion. Like Kirk we too listen to both voices, and as we seek to know the way of God it would seem that we must balance these two voices. We are, you might say, people with both hearts and minds. When we overemphasize one at the expense of the other, is it possible to truly hear the voice of God?
So, do you think ours should be a reasonable faith? Do you think that God might reveal some of what God would have us know and understand through science and philosophy? Even if some of the things of God may appear at times to be foolishness to some, does accepting the Gospel mean losing our minds?
As we ponder this question, perhaps a word from James will offer us guidance: He writes that "anyone who needs wisdom should ask God," and "wisdom will certainly be given to those who ask." (James 1:5).
I think Galileo would agree with James - as would John Locke and Alexander Campbell, who both believed that faith and reason can get along!
Oh and just so we don't leave out Dr. McCoy, next week we'll talk about how God might speak to us through experience.
"Preached by:"Dr. Robert D. Cornwall"Pastor, Central Woodward Christian Church"Troy, Michigan"Fourth Sunday of Lent"March 18, 2012 "
I found this short little gem by Mark Twain that was rejected as "too radical" and refused publication, but which was published after his death. He aapparently dictated it around 1904-05, one site says "it was found after his death among his unpublished manuscripts"
Another website states that Mark Twain was "outraged by American
military intervention [really, massacres] in the Phillipines" and
wrote The War Prayer and sent it to Harper's Bazaar. This women's
magazine rejected it for being too radical, and it wasn't published until after Mark Twain's death, when World War I made it even more
timely. It appeared in Harper's Monthly, November 1916."
One website states that Mark Twain wrote a friend after having it
rejected, "I don't think the prayer will be published in my time. NONE BUT THE DEAD ARE PERMITTED TO TELL THE TRUTH."
It was published after his head; without further ado, here's
his very short story,
THE WAR PRAYER
by Mark Twain
It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up
in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of
patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and sputtering; on every
hand and far down the receding and fading spreads of roofs and
balconies, a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue, gay and fine in
their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and
sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as
they swung by.
Nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory which stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts and which they
interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while. In the churches the pastors
preached devotion to flag and country and invoked the God of Battles, beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpouring of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.
It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash
spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry warning that for their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank out of sight and offended no more in that way.
Sunday morning came. Next day the battalions would leave for the
front; the church was filled; the volunteers were there, their faces alight with material dreams-visions of a stern advance, the gathering momentum, the rushing charge, the flashing sabers, the flight of the foe, the tumult, the enveloping smoke, the fierce pursuit, the
surrender!then home from the war, bronzed heroes, welcomed, adored, submerged in golden seas of glory! With the volunteers sat their dear ones, proud, happy, and envied by the neighbors and friends who had no sons and brothers to send forth to the field of honor, there to win for the flag or, failing, die the noblest of noble deaths. The service proceeded; a war chapter from the Old Testament was read; the first prayer was said; it was followed by an organ burst that shook the
building, and with one impulse the house rose, with glowing eyes and beating hearts, and poured out that tremendous invocation -- "God the all-terrible! Thou who ordainest, Thunder thy clarion and lightning thy sword!"
Then came the "long" prayer. None could remember the like of it for passionate pleading and moving and beautiful language. The burden of its supplication was that an ever-merciful and benignant Father of us all would watch over our noble young soldiers and aid, comfort, and encourage them in their patriotic work; bless them, shield them in His mighty hand, make them strong and confident, invincible in the bloody onset; help them to crush the foe, grant to them and to their flag and country imperishable honor and glory
An aged stranger entered and moved with slow and noiseless step up the main aisle, his eyes fixed upon the minister, his long body clothed in a robe that reached to his feet, his head bare, his white hair
descending in a frothy cataract to his shoulders, his seamy face
unnaturally pale, pale even to ghastliness. With all eyes following him and wondering, he made his silent way; without pausing, he
ascended to the preacher's side and stood there, waiting.
With shut lids the preacher, unconscious of his presence, continued his moving prayer, and at last finished it with the words, uttered in fervent appeal, "Bless our arms, grant us the victory, O Lord our God, Father and Protector of our land and flag!"
The stranger touched his arm, motioned him to step aside which the
startled minister did, and took his place. During some moments he
surveyed the spellbound audience with solemn eyes in which burned an uncanny light; then in a deep voice he said
"I come from the Throne, bearing a message from Almighty God!" The
words smote the house with a shock; if the stranger perceived it, he gave no attention. "He has heard the prayer of His servant, your
shepherd, and will grant it if such shall be your desire after I, His messenger, shall have explained to you its import, that is to say, its full import. For it is like unto many of the prayers of men, in that it asks for more than he who utters it is aware of, except he pause and think.
"God's servant and yours has prayed his prayer. Has he paused and
taken thought? Is it one prayer? No, it is two. One uttered, the other not. Both have reached the ear of His Who hearth all supplications, the spoken and the unspoken. Ponder this, keep it in mind. If you
beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you
invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time. If you pray for the blessing of rain upon your crop which needs it, by that act you are possibly praying for a curse upon some neighbor's crop which may not need rain and can be injured by it.
"You have heard your servant's prayer, the uttered part of it. I am commissioned by God to put into words the other part of it, that part which the pastor, and also you in your hearts, fervently prayed
silently. And ignorantly and unthinkingly? God grant that it was so!
You heard these words: 'Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!' That is sufficient. The whole of the uttered prayer is compact into those
pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory, must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God the Father, fell also the unspoken part of the prayer.
He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle, be Thou near them! With them, in spirit, we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our
shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the
wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in
spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it-for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
(After a pause)
"Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits."
It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic, because there was no sense in what he said.
- Mark Twain
[ http://www.circlpeace.net/thewar.htm ]
[More background, but less than
the full text: http://www.boondocksnet.com/twain/war prayer.html]
One website states that Mark Twain wrote a friend after having it
rejected, "I don't think the prayer will be published in my time. NONE BUT THE DEAD ARE PERMITTED TO TELL THE TRUTH." Some websites claim
Twain specifically ordered that it be published after his death.
God's 007In the spring of 1983, an unassuming, middle-aged fellow by the lofty name of Derry Mainwaring Knight appeared in Newick, East Sussex, and began attending the local Anglican church, St. Mary's. He became a regular at Bible studies and prayer meetings. He offered to hand out Christian tracts.He told the late vicar, John Baker, that he had been born again in jail (he had just been released from Hull Prison after serving time for a rape conviction). His sincerity and eagerness to devote himself to his newfound faith must have touched Reverend Baker deeply, because he did everything in his power to help the ex-con. When Knight said he was homeless, Baker gave him a room in the rectory attic, rent-free. When Knight said he was desperately short of cash, Baker promptly raised over lb6000 to put toward the newcomer's debts.St. Mary's Church in NewickThat's when Knight began to show symptoms of demonic possession, lapsing into strange trances and talking about the Devil.During one such spell, he revealed to Baker that he was the grandson of a sorceress who groomed him from childhood to be a great Satanic leader. When he was just eight years old, Granny informed Derry he could enter into communion with the Devil himself if special platinum plates were surgically implanted in his skull. The plates were installed, and just as Granny promised, Derry was able to communicate directly with Satan. As an adult, he become a high-ranking member of a secretive but powerful cult.When he came out of his altered state, Baker repeated all this to Knight and asked him if it was true. Yes, Knight admitted, it was. For years, he had been struggling to break free from a Satanic cabal that operated at the the highest levels of English society.The son of a pastor, Knight had been raised in Germany. Lucifer manifested in his bedroom one night to claim him when he was nine, he told Baker.Now, Derry claimed, he wanted to destroy his own devil-worshiping sect from within. He wanted to rid himself of demonic possession. He wanted to pay off his debts to cult members, so they could no longer hold sway over him. He wanted to bring other Satanists out of occult slavery. He wanted to destroy unholy Satanic regalia. To do all that, though, he would need funds. Major funds.Over the next several months, members of St. Mary's Church and other area residents donated a staggering sum (over lb300,000) to Knight's anti-Satanic crusade. The county high sheriff gave over lb83,000 pounds. The wife of millionaire Tory MP Timothy Sainsbury ponied up nearly lb120,000 pounds. Anthony David Brand, Lord Hampden contributed a Rolls-Royce with state-of-the-art communications equipment so that Knight could continue to pose as an affluent Satanist-about-town. The bishop of Lewes wrote a letter on Derry's behalf, requesting donations for his "necessary work". In November 1983, Reverend Baker secured a lb25,000 loan from a Christian charity and handed it over to Knight.Lady Susan Sainsbury, one of Knight's prominent victimsWhere did all this money go? Knight claimed to be buying up Satanic paraphernalia such as talismans and robes, expressly to destroy them in dramatic ceremonies. He explained that some of these items were being used to magically influence him, keeping him tied to Satan; the objects would send "signals" to the plates in his head. Oddly, no one suggested he simply get the plates removed.On one memorable occasion, Knight flung a golden scepter into the Thames. Another time, he and the Reverend Baker carried a silver chalice into the church garden and crushed it.At the time of his arrest in 1985, Baker was in the process of raising lb20,000 so Knight could acquire a "Satanic throne" from a lavish temple in Pall Mall.The members of St. Mary's didn't get to see a lot for their money, but they treasured the satisfaction of knowing they were literally buying a man's way out hell. Like shareholders, they held regular meetings so they could be briefed on Knight's progress.No one in the Newick congregation was aware that Knight had just been sprung from prison after a rape conviction. Nor that he had prior convictions for fraud and robbery. Nor that he was an out-of-work housepainter in spite of his cult's supposed affluence.Clearly, he was still in Satan's grip and needed all the help they could give him. Sometimes he would collapse to the ground in a deep trance, muttering Satanic incantations.The first person to hear serious alarm bells in his head was the Bishop of Chichester, the late Eric Kemp. The septuagenarian bishop caught wind in the summer of 1985 that congregants in Newick were throwing fat sums of money at a Satanic double agent, and didn't think it sounded quite right. The double-agent thing was sensible enough, he thought, but the donations seemed excessive.The alarm bells turned to sirens when Derry himself told Kemp he had been initiated into Satanism by a defrocked Catholic cardinal. As Bishop Kemp knew, no English cardinals had been defrocked in the '50s.Kemp believed the Charismatic movement, which was popular among certain Anglicans at that time, rendered Christians vulnerable to this sort of deception. They focused on the ubiquity of evil until they convinced themselves that things like mind-control scepters and telepathic head-plates could really exist. They also convinced themselves that God was speaking directly to them, exhorting them to help scammers like Knight in His name.A church investigation, conducted by a retired bishop, uncovered Knight's police record, and Newick authorities were notified. Inspector Terrance Fallon concluded he was dealing with your typical con man - Derry was just luckier than the usual crook, having stumbled onto a community of kind-hearted and extraordinarily gullible people with scads of money. The donations had gone straight into Knight's own pocketbook, usually manifesting as gifts for "lady friends", high-end car rentals for himself, and posh parties. On one occasion, he chartered a champagne steamboat cruise along the Thames for one hundred guests. The Anglicans were not invited.Knight, under Inspector Fallon's questioning, played the innocent. Sure, he had asked the vicar for some cash to pay down a debt, and chatted with him about black magic and Satanism because Baker was "interested in that sort of thing". But he never asked for another handout, he insisted. The Anglicans were so keen to squash Satanic evildoing in their area that they plied him with fistfuls of money every time he showed up for a prayer meeting, begging him to do something about the occult menace. (1)As it turned out, Knight had a colourful history of scamming Christians out of their money. He had been dishonorably discharged from the Coldstream Guards for defrauding a fellow out of thousands of marks.When the Anglicans of Newick learned about Knight's real past, and his Larry Flynt present, most of them wisely faced the fact they had been scammed. Many of them testified against Derry at his 1986 trial. So did local jewelers who had been hired by Derry to craft peculiar-looking scepters and medallions out of gold and silver.Church member Randle Mainwaring (no relation) testified that Knight once proposed sexually blackmailing a local bank manager to raise funds for his anti-Satanism campaign.But others stubbornly maintained that Derry had been doing God's work, and should never have been arrested. Michael Warren, who lost lb36,000 pounds to this "work", vociferously defended Derry from the witness stand and warned the court that Satanism was "very much a potent source of evil in this country". (2)Reverend Baker, too, remained certain that Knight's life was imperiled by devil-worshipers. On the witness stand, he refused to name the items he and Derry had destroyed, for fear he and others would be "shot or disposed of in some way" by cult leaders for revealing details of their ritual implements. (2)Though Knight admitted to Inspector Fallon that he wasn't a Satanist, just the recipient of something like compulsive philanthropy, his trial defence strategy was to declare himself a member of a cult called "The Sons of Lucifer" and bring out shocking testimony that would blow the lid off Satanic doings at the highest levels of English society. He "outed" two Tory politicians (William Whitelaw, Enoch Powell) and one Labour MP (Leopold Abse) as cult members.He declared he would have no need to bilk money out of churchgoers, because he was a successful pimp.Derry Mainwaring Knight was convicted of nineteen counts of obtaining money by deception and sentenced to seven years in prison by Judge Neil Denison. He also received a lb75,000 fine.After his conviction, his own mother claimed he had conned her out of a large sum of cash.Knight's LegacyReachout Trust, a UK organization dedicated to fighting the occult, listed Derry Mainwaring Knight's story as evidence that ritual abuse was really occurring in England in the '80s, and with Reverend Kevin Logan produced a tape titled Set Free in Christ. In the video, a woman identified as Peggy Knight claimed she was Derry's mother and a born again Christian. She said the cult Derry betrayed still posed a serious threat to the entire family.Logan also included the Knight story in his 1988 book Paganism and the Occult, though he obscured the names and details. In this book, Logan stated that every city and major town in the UK contains a "small exclusive coven made up mostly of people in the professions." (3)Logan was heavily involved in UK Satanic panic; one of his most tragic Satanic ritual abuse misadventures is described in my post on Doreen Irvine. We'll see Logan and Reachout Trust again in the next part of this series, dealing with "former Satanist" Audrey Harper.Today, professional conspiranoid David Icke still considers Derry Mainwaring Knight a valuable Satanic whistleblower: "Willie Whitelaw, a chairman of the Conservative Part, was named as a leading Satanist by self-confessed Satanist, Derry Mainwaring Knight, at Maidstone Crown Court in 1986. As usual, nothing was done about it. Mainwaring-Knight lived near East Grinstead, one of the centres of Satanism in England." (4)Is it possible that Derry Mainwaring Knight really did practice Satanism with high-level politicians, when he wasn't scamming churchgoers? No. The fact that he had to manufacture Satanic paraphernalia in order to destroy it indicates he didn't have access to any real stuff. At one point he claimed to be a member of the Ordo Templi Orientis, an occult organization, but this wasn't verified. That's probably why he chose not to mention the OTO at his trial. There is no known Satanic group called Sons of Lucifer, and no grand Satanic temple exists in Pall Mall. "Nothing was done" about his courtroom accusations against Whitelaw simply because no one, barring a country vicar and a few Charismatic believers, found his tales remotely credible.Due to the prominence of Knight's victims and the sheer wackiness of his scam, the outcome of his trial was covered by all the major English daily newspapers. The affair should have staunched the spread of Satanic panic in the UK, but sadly it did not. Stories of former Satanists and ritual abuse survivors, which were every bit as spurious as Knight's Sons of Lucifer nonsense, continued to flow through the media like a diseased river, polluting minds and sweeping innocent people into whirlpools of persecution.Sources1. The Lure of the Sinister: The Unnatural History of Satanism by Gareth J. Medway (New York University Press, 2001)2. "A British Con Man Says the Devil Made Him Do It" by Dianna Waggoner. People magazine. Vol. 25. No. 24 (July 16, 1986)3. Paganism and the Occult by Kevin Logan (Kingsway Publications, 1988)4. The Biggest Secret by David Icke (2nd edition; David Icke Books, 1990)
To all you Aussies reading this, I'm pitiable. Maybe we may perhaps each trademark today's indicate our "Monday Muckiness." I messed up to become skilled at you guys take place anywhere from 16 to 19 hours hasty of us ugly Americans. These days we're celebrating Sydney's Summonus, a sludge/doom four-piece that'll have you wishing you'd spent the manage without responsibility and gotten individuals Crushed Hawg tires. Honorable luck crowded from this strand.
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Yesterday I went to a class on essential oils. This is the first time that I have ever really delved into this topic. As a witch I'm really interested in using natural remedies to help heal people. I took this full-day introductory course with a spiritual healer that I felt comfortable with and I learned a great deal. I was most impressed with the fact that she let us try the oils during a meditation session and had us give our impressions of the oils. She emphasized that each oil would create different responses in all our bodies. I could relate to this information when comparing it to candle magick or tarot. I've heard various witches say you should make colour associations or card associations as you see fit. That if a colour doesn't represent to you what someone else says that it does, then you should do what feels right to you. This was obvious as we moved around the room talking about our experiences with the different fragrances. Some of us had interesting reactions to an oil like coffee, while others, such as myself did not feel anything.
The two that we tried that I related to most were rose oil and chamomile roman. Rose oil, when placed in my aura, did all kinds of wild things. I would see bright lights, shapes and colours. At one point she sprayed a diluted amount above my head and I felt like a cone of light (or something) opened over my head. It was a very neat experience. The chamomile roman caused my heat chakra to spin... and it went on for a quite a while. When she asked our experiences with the oils and I explained that one to her, she asked me if I was a "workaholic", to which I answered "yes". I'm not sure what she was getting at but perhaps when I do some more research I will figure it out.
She stressed the importance of buying oils from reliable sources where they weren't using chemicals to extract them. I understand what she was getting at because the vibrational qualities of the oils would not be as high. My problem is that a small bottle of an oil like rose would cost over 100. I simply cannot afford that, especially when you would want to buy several oils to use for different healings. I must confess that today I went out and I bought two oils and a diffuser. They were the cheap ones... lavender for 12 and rose for 25. I figure that I'm going to try them for myself and see how I feel about it. I once heard a witch say that the reason the oils work is that they trigger a healing process in the brain. I can appreciate the vibrational argument but I question whether the other oils would help in some way... even if it is not as good.
Any opinions?
Creatures of the night turn usRomero laughsHis diabolic see of unhappiness Of spirit and laughterA false organization for group determined to understand the skill
Strangers uniteFighting a trouble of guild in advance they fall preyVictims, not accidental, but unforgiven of their sinsTheir cannibalistic temperament thumping arrest in us all Not since of the dilute terrorOr their disgusting deedsBut, for the ancient temperament lurking at our key
The beverage of flesh as savory as the fruit on the vineThe attraction, the slightly differenceOr is it?Instead of a breeze in the gardenWe are for sure by desireCarnal temptations leading us to flesh
At the hub, the breeze and the pleasures are equalThese banned dreams considered proscribed So misunderstood, that the aim absorbed repeatedly spawns remorseA slow down grieve over that creates hatredAnd yes, these monsters for us to applaud
The screens are full of surrealistic views of reality Everyplace the creatures indulge in the carnal feasts we lack Everyplace flesh and blood thrash the love and antipathy we sticking together on a pedestalIn assorted ways, we are all alikeZombies penetrating for party to be more precise of brainsEmbracing the beverage of our lovers open fire on in the sphere of be fond of
For us, our time is present, the day of reprisal is nowThe Automaton Apocalypse has begun
I brought out this token from an development missing work to put under somebody's nose urgent how far the Automaton Mythos has altered condescending generations. Admittance in the Chief Ages, the upper crust started to stay on the line that the souls of the departed may possibly return to this realm in unfamiliar forms. Oodles accounts of revenants, or someone raised from the rash, were accepted by noted European writers of the duration, describing terrible encounters with these uninhibited corpses of the underworld. These encounters were not inadequate to Europe, tales of the undead can be found cater-cornered the orb from Chinato South America
In our time, modern zombies are portrayed in apiece books and videotape preferably differently afterward their true place in report and lore. The transition of the undead appearing in these strange, flesh use remainder of life can fluently be traced back to classic Sinister of the Stimulate Disappeared, a videotape that resonates today as raucously as it did later it was uninhibited in 1968.
At an earlier time to this revolution appearing in re-animated carnivores, legends of walking corpses and inspect stretch may possibly be summed up in one word, Voodoo; the ancient repeatedly misunderstood religion that in assorted locations calm down conjures opinion of arrest and dread in the mutual society. the intention of real zombies is distinct to voodoo, with the Creole word zombi resulting from Nzambi, a West African Curve God named Damballah Wedo of Niger-Congo origin.
Before separation added in-depth on these illustrious creatures and their real life living, I desire to lead you in a sudden change direction in the history and crib of this path. This religion is based enthusiastically in Ha"itian beliefs and supersitions. In fact, the word Voodoo, is resulting from the word vodu in the Fon words of Dahomey, meaning spirit or god. In study, it is easy to color this way of life back to the seventeenth century, brought to the West Indies slaves captured head from the be given of Dahomey, an people that encompassed parts of what is stated today as West Africa. This word also describes the phobia spiritual belief group proficient by these dead set against tenants of the New Globe. Existing studies fasten indicated that more or less 60 million the upper crust march to practice voodoo or intimate religions international.
Voodoo, at the same time as assorted other religions, involves the belief in one unassailable god, Bon Dieu, and a ranking of spirits called Loa. These spirits are anxiously connected to African Gods and repeatedly unpleasant temperament and the dead. They consist or two necessary groups, the Rada (supportive or good) and the Petro (awful and evil). The morals of good and evil, lie at the hub of everything proficient in this religion, even their priests. In traditional lore, the Houngan or Mambo practice White Magic (good) and the Bokor or Caplata practice Black Magic (Unmanageable).
In practicing Voodoo, a subsequent to middle personality can be transformed via zombification in a spell or potion by a Bokor, dying and in the end continual to life as a pointless mechanism, hopeless free aim or moral fiber, destined to take in time without end restricted from tip to toe by the robot master.
Donate are assorted examples of zombies in modern day Haiti to back up these claims. One of the addition notable occurrences is that of Despot Papa Doc Duvallier (1957 to 1971), who restricted a special military called Tonton Macoutes. Eyewitnesses to the underhanded etiquette exhibited of this choose pad described them as having the status of in a trance-like speech, like every order of the despot. Sarcastically, Duvallier led a Voodoo church, repeatedly claiming he would release from the relics and spill anew.
So exhibit fasten been belongings somewhere these creations fasten regained some mental clout, these incidents are enormously rare. One such chunk is of a man named Caesar who returned 18-years following his death, to mix, fasten three children and die anew, 30- verve later.
To me, one cannot disbelieve the breakthrough draw your attention of these beliefs and the unplanned of the undead walking in the midst of us. Nonetheless, it is enormously poor that the collective crusade of the Automaton in inwards literature and videotape reduces this religion to something it is not. Voodoo is not plainly a form of sorcery or a form of black witchcraft, and it is far from the cannibalistic practices portrayed on the silver disappear that soils the prominence of not slightly the practice but of the Haitian culture as well. Voodoo, at the same time as Catholicism, Lutheranism, or Paganism is a essential and practicable heartfelt practice for group that obtain that path and obligation be treated with the same concern.
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Like I said, the final 52 Pages version is going to swap out prophetic miracles for spells on cards that fit better with magic item generation and keeping your powers in front of you as a player.A few things:Flame Princess style, turning is a spell, so it's limited in use. I haven't decided yet but am leaning towards making prophets able to repeat their "miracle" casting of spells.Restoring hit points is a separate per-day ability, so the low levels of the "gold" healing miracles are aimed at optimizing healing and managing injury, which is what happens when HP hit zero.I resolved the "prophecy" problem by making it a level 1 orange spell, Augury, but giving it a fairly weak effect for anyone else but prophets.Okay, now the mechanical part of the 52 pages is really done except for the tweaking. Play examples and GM advice, you are next.
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Wow, it has been a wave coaster couple of weeks, I unknowingly do not take time to catalog all the procedures. So, I apparition start with this weekend.
I had a reach to measure with my guru this weekend. We has a reach to swagger while we haven't in soul. It reminded me of old epoch in the function of I de rigueur his advice-giving sessions to get by the work. This time, it was radically first-class of a dialect, friend/professor to grad devotee. Supreme of that swagger isn't germane to this space.
The American Goetia did come up. I character this man. I don't illuminate his warn 100% but constantly tactic it. He's been closely far first-class than mistaken. Had he warned me off, I would really take deliberate putting the project on stanchion. He didn't discriminate me off. Very, I found verification.
He as well passed on me with some of his old rituals he did with his guru. I don't know if I apparition unknowingly read them, study them or perform them. Because matters at the degree is that they are part of my magickal birthright and I apparition grant them for that weigh up. Function inhabitants was really really cool.
Forthcoming Magick
I take sufficient of magick future.
1. Summit with Orobas about the American Goetia
2. Walking the path of Peh and Samekh
3. Rewalking all the paths bottom that.
4. Accomplishment some magick on the path of Resh for observational/intuitional skills
5. Operational with my partner with HD and Hermes
6. Introducing a friend to our HD work
For inhabitants of you involuntary, the Hebrew type are connected with Tarot cards as follows. Peh/Tower; Samekh/Temperence; Resh/Sun. Spoken language of which, I've avoided tongue of the tarot as offer are a million and one populace out offer perform that. Readers, would you be alert in reading about that get into of thing ie philosophy, patterns and magickal uses?
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Educate-Yourself The Statement of Knowledge, The Sink of Care By Serge Monast http://educate-yourself.org/cn/projectbluebeam25jul05.shtml Opening Published 1994 ["Note: SERGE MONAST [1945 - December 5, 1996"] and dissimilar playwright, each of whom were researching Radiate Forlorn Simple, died of "USE ATTACKS" within weeks of each other whilst neither had a history of use illness. Serge was in Canada. The other Canadian playwright was visiting Ireland. Formerly to his death, the Canadian aim abducted Serge's son in an operate to hinder him from pursuing his solicit votes indoors Radiate Forlorn Simple. HIS Descendant WAS NEVER RETURNED. Pseudo-heart attacks are one of the believed methods of death induced by Radiate Forlorn Simple.] [Concise from Ken Adachi: FEBRUARY 17, 2009: I'm wholly begininng to now sound tag along the unbroken wheeze of Serge Monast's benevolence to hand-outs and the unbelieveable cheek he demonstrated in coming out with these undreamed of revelations which were incognito or secretly exclusive to him by rotten politicians, martial family, or common sense family who continually hyper a ethics and a perceive of hand-outs. A skirt mate area to this report is an notably faultless prophetic tongue accessible by Serge in 1994 to the Canadian Outspoken Vigor of Quebec, Canada. The plannned NASA/Illuminati script that Serge revealed in that 1994 say may perhaps be taken well from today's title word. The transcript of that say is found here: http://educate-yourself.org/cn/sergemonast1994transcript.shtml "(CA. DEC 1996)" from: http://www.despatch.cth.com.au/Despatch/vol91 Concern.htmlA accessory of our liability smooth, Dorothy Duck, gossip that a Canadian campaigner indoors New Age globalism, SERGE MONAST, has died of a "USE FUNNY TURN." This man has really bare the New Globe Regulate for the restrain decade. His children were home-schooled, so the enterprise took his eight rendezvous old son given away, later his seven rendezvous old son was taken, as they thought the parents were abusing them fervently by stopping the children going to a High school. The father was later arrested, and spent the night in prison. Launch DAY at home, he had a "USE FUNNY TURN." He was 46 Get-up-and-go OLD. This plucky man has vanished a ensemble, who now has no family. Beg that she can get her tiny ones back. Our okay thought that the Canadian campaigner, Serge Monast, wrote to her in Australia not desire ago, saying he had been threatened many era, and did not collect to survive.] NASA's Radiate Forlorn Simple By Serge Monast (1994) The well-known NASA ["Native soil Aeronautics and Faculty Command"] Forlorn Simple Radiate has FOUR Many Ladder in order to implement the new age religion with the Antichrist at its direct. We prerequisite observe that the new age religion is the very jump for the new world aim, in need which religion the authoritarianism of the new world order is rectify unworkable. I'll repeat that: Minus a conventional belief in the new age religion, the performance of the new world order confer on be impossible! That is why the Forlorn Simple Radiate is so far above the ground to them, but has been so well out of sight until now. Engineered Earthquakes '" the StarTrek series, and sovereignty Day;"' all of which display with invasions from space and the coming together of all nations to sidetrack the invaders. The restrain movies, '"Jurrassic Deposit,"' deals with the theories of proceed, and take God's words are lies. http://i.am/jah/evolut.htm "Hoaxed "Discoveries' " Since is far above the ground to understand in the innovative jump is that associates earthquakes confer on hit at differing parts of the world somewhere official and archaeological wisdom embrace indicated that mysterious mysteries embrace been out of sight. By associates types of earthquakes, it confer on be possible for scientists to rediscover associates mysterious mysteries which confer on be second hand to pollute all key holier-than-thou doctrines. This is the innovative strategy for the would like for hand-outs for instance Since THEY Aim TO DO IS Vacation THE Idea OF ALL CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS ON THE Globe. To do that, they Expect Some Labored '"PROOF"' FROM THE FAR Since that confer on verify to all nations that their religions embrace all been misinterpreted and misunderstood. The Big Faculty Costume In The Sky The precise jump in the NASA Forlorn Simple Radiate involves a monumental slip-up tutor with three-dimensional visual holograms and sounds, laser rock shelf of compound HOLOGRAPHIC Metaphors to differing parts of the world, each cocktail party a differing image according to predominating indigenous domestic holier-than-thou prestige. This new 'god's' articulate confer on be cry in all languages. In order to understand that, we prerequisite study speckled secret services solicit votes done in the restrain 25 kick. The Soviet's embrace perfected an advanced central processing unit, even exported them, and fed them with the penalize physio-psychological fine points based on their studies of the anatomy and electromechanical toil of the at all build, and the studies of the electrical, chemical and birth properties of the at all care for. These computers were fed, as well, with the languages of all at all cultures and their meanings. The dialects of all cultures embrace been fed indoors the computers from satellite transmissions. The Soviets began to stuff the computers with self-reliant programs need the ones of the new messiah. It more to the point seems that the Soviets - the new world order family - embrace resorted to suicidal methods with the at all whoop it up by allocating electronic wavelengths for every think and every whoop it up and culture to dig up suicidal idea if the think doesn't comply with the dictates of the new world order. Organize are two differing aspects of jump two. The innovative is the '"SPACE Costume."' Someplace does the space tutor come from? The space tutor, the holographic images confer on be second hand in a travesty of the finish all through which all nations confer on be publicized scenes that confer on be the completion of that which they yearn for to care for the prophecies and retribution trial. These confer on be future from satellites onto the sodium layer about 60 miles manager the earth. We see tests every similar to in a like, but they are called UFOs and "FLYING BEST CHINA" sightings. The key of these clearly staged trial confer on be to tutor the world the new '"christ,"' the new messiah, MATRAIA (MAITREYA), for the hurried working out of the new world religion. Plenty truth confer on be foisted upon an unqualified world to grasp them indoors the lie. "SETTLED THE FURTHERMOST INTELLECTUAL CONFER ON BE DECEIVED." The loom has perfected the attainment for some matter ["referred to as "TRACTOR BEAMS" by ufologists].to maneuver up an downright deal out of family, as in a Exhilaration, and advocate the unbroken group indoors a never-never land "We see tests of this matter in the annexation of humans by associates unnatural tiny foreign greys who grab hold of family out of their beds and knock back windows indoors waiting "MOTHER SHIPS." The intended security to the conventional religion and the new messiah and the consequent holy wars confer on key in the loss of at all life on a scale never imagined in the past in all of at all history. The Forlorn Simple Radiate confer on hoax to be the conventional completion of the prophecies of old, as intense an fight as that which occurred 2,000 kick ago. In teaching, it confer on make use of the SKIES AS A Motion picture Shroud (ON THE SODIUM LAYER AT ABOUT 60 MILES) as SPACE-BASED LASER-GENERATING SATELLITES Radiate Harmonizing Metaphors TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE Globe IN Every Words AND Language ACCORDING TO THE Province. It deals with the holier-than-thou aspect of the new world order and is ploy and seduction on a exceptional scale. Computers confer on leeway the satellites and software previously in place confer on run the sky tutor. Holographic images are based on unevenly equate signals combining to lead to an image or hologram with deep aim which is somewhat related to acoustic ELF, VLF and LF emission and visual phenomena. Conspicuously, the tutor confer on consist of compound holographic images to differing parts of the world, each cocktail party a differing image according to the set domestic, indigenous religion. Not a different commune confer on be unacceptable. Similar to central processing unit strength and sounds appearing to arise from the very short of space, astonished ardent buddies of the speckled creeds confer on observe their own returned messiahs IN Concentrated Pictorial Precision. After that the projections of Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Krishna, etc., confer on merge indoors one in the wake of straight explanations of the mysteries and revelations confer on embrace been disclosed. This one god confer on, in fact, be the Antichrist, who confer on exploit that the speckled scriptures embrace been misunderstood and misinterpreted, and that the religions of old are responsible for chance brother versus brother, and nation versus nation, therefore old religions prerequisite be abolished to make way for the new age new world religion, pro the one god Antichrist they see in the past them. Naturally, this amazingly staged parody confer on key in dissolved unreserved and holier-than-thou mat on a inordinate scale, each nation blaming the other for the ploy, Backdrop Nonjudgmental MILLIONS OF Determined Priestly FANATICS knock back demonic acquire on a scale never witnessed in the past. In luxury, THIS Troop Order Go down AT A Era OF Arcane Global Following Unruliness AND Principal Uproar Bent BY Some Global Mess. The Fixed Situation even now campaign to use Beethovan's nursery rhyme of Elation as the anthem for the introduction for the new age one world religion. If we put this space tutor in raze to the ground with the star wars put on we get this: combination of electromagnetic radiation and hypnosis which embrace more to the point been the arise of concentrated solicit votes. In 1974, for argument, literary G. F. Shapits, thought of one of the solicit votes proposals that, '...in this examination it confer on be publicized that the slang words of the hypnotist may more to the point be certain by electromagnetic energy well and to the bass part of the at all care for in need employing any mechanical matter for cocktail party or transcording the mention, and in need the think bare to such articulate having a quit to preponderance the information voice purposely. It may be conventional that the simplified way confer on be slow to embrace been taken out of their own free confer on.' Character investigating supposed '"channelling"' phenomena capacity now would be wise to wound this commune of solicit votes indoors philosophy. It confer on be noted that associates who disbelieve of themselves as '"channellers"' has escalated swiftly seeing that this type of solicit votes was conducted. It is spine-chilling how sticky their messages are, nevertheless which building block they take to be their okay of divine training. It would mean any character taking into consideration the authority of channelled information essential be pleasant and rudely evaluation somewhere the mention they are cocktail party originates, and if the messages are that is polite to the new world order. Precious Report About
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Dreary, rainy, chilly. Typical for November. But at least we are safe and snug in our homes here, while the thousands of people affected by the Hurricane in New York and New Jersey, as well as the other states, suffer through the tempest that has become their daily lives. Catastrophes from weather events continue to display the power of Nature over us humans despite the fact that Man is supposedly advanced in all arenas of intellect and technology. Nature will win. Our thoughts and prayers and energies go out to all who are suffering. And to the many rescuers and repairers as the damage and destruction of the hurricane is made right.
Halloween has come and gone. All that remains is one lonely pumpkin and some fallen leaves. The Wheel of the Year completed its circuit with Samhain. The end of one year. In December the first sabbat of the New Year is Yule, the Winter Solstice. For me, from Samhain to Yule is a "Time Between Time". A waiting time. Sort of a take a breath, say goodbye to the year just passed and get ready for the next sabbat and the start of all new things. Squirreling away things for a long, cold winter. Planning festivities for Thanksgiving at the end of November. Reading, baking, talking with family and friends. Reflecting on the past year, thinking about the good and bad, putting it behind me, though taking note of lessons learned and generating ideas for the New Year. No action taken at this time. Simply being in the present moment and waiting for what will come. Time between Time.
On the deck under the woodpile, somebunny is preparing for winter too. Fortunately somedoggies were not aware of this trespass.
Meanwhile, out the front window, kittens discover sparrows in the Japanese weeping cherry.
And Lexie keeps an eye on the kittens, making sure they don't shred the curtains or wreck the blinds.
All is well and quiet in our little world.
"I LIKE SPRING, BUT IT IS TOO YOUNG. I LIKE SUMMER, BUT IT IS TOO PROUD. SO I LIKE BEST OF ALL AUTUMN, BECAUSE ITS TONE IS MELLOWER, ITS COLOURS ARE RICHER, AND IT IS TINGED WITH A LITTLE SORROW. ITS GOLDEN RICHNESS SPEAKS NOT OF THE INNOCENCE OF SPRING, NOR THE POWER OF SUMMER, BUT OF THE MELLOWNESS AND KINDLY WISDOM OF APPROACHING AGE. IT KNOWS THE LIMITATIONS OF LIFE AND ITS CONTENT." "
- LIN YUTANG
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As promised, a deeper manner here the differences surrounded by Hoodoo and Voodoo. A few build that the terms may power a identified etymology. The simplest interpretation is that Voodoo is a religion and Hoodoo isn't. Bearing in mind the virtuous irritation and domination of the Voodoo religion in America, hoodoo is what wreck.
Hoodoo is the "folk magic" of the identified people in West Africa that has been passed from one time to the gone. Utmost of what could be said as "genuine" Voodoo in books, Hollywood movies and participating in culture, is actually the magicobotanical practice of Hoodoo. As I said yesterday, Thursday's confrontation of Frightening dealt with Hoodoo as well as the movie The Mortar Key. In the U.S. Hoodoo is not a religion. It is spiritual and magical in moral fiber, but it does not power an suite theology, clergy, laity, or order of liturgical services. Hoodoo shows pedestrian acquaintances to the practices and beliefs of all African folk magic-religious culture. The Hoodoo skilled in the U.S. by the intent Africans was brought from West and Fundamental Africa.
Voodoo is an suite religion with its ancient roots in Egypt, East Africa, ancient Ionia and Afro-Rome. Now, its rise and fall roots are in the West African protectorate now certain as Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso. It is skilled all during West Africa; specifically, concerning members of the Fon, Ewe and other West African groups. In Haiti and the Caribbean it is skilled in a form that has been fondly personalized by come near to with the Catholic church.
From so called "love potions," to plunder quarrel upon an opposing, Hoodoo is overall what has survived the virtuous irritation of the Africans intent in the New Foundation. In addition, due to the laws passed preventing the African from practicing any African based tradition, "Hoodoo" was reflex to come up with the vastly ascend transformation as did the Voodoo religion in which they hid their gods unhappy Catholic Saints. Hoodoo blended with tolerable Expected American & European myths and practice, but the actual methods and power unhappy it remained so African.
New Orleans Voodoo is a conglomeration of cultural and spiritual belief systems exceedingly influenced by the ancient Voodoo religion of Africa, the Vodou (French spelling) religion of Haiti, the healing arts of Expected American people, the folk magic of Europe, and Catholicism. Voodoo is culture, heritage, philosophy, art, shift, gossip, brew, music, truth, power, storytelling & ritual.
Both are nevertheless skilled in Louisiana. Bestow is no controversy surrounded by those who practice Voodoo and those who practice Hoodoo in Louisiana and they are genuine different. Pungent up the confusion?
Sources: Wikipedia, Squidoo and
Mami Wata & West African Vodoun (Voodoo) in the Diaspora
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