Thursday, March 31, 2011

Elemnt

THE ELEMENTS

Air Stir up Hose down Place Akasha

Makeup Clean up, light Command of sign Be next to, Strong Huge Corpus
Reflective Animator Reflective, Insula. Insulator Multi dimensional
Insulator Radiance Absorptive Resists sign Transformative
Compressible & Radiative Non-compressible non compres/Expand Compr/Expandable
Stretchy Compr/Expandable Stretchy Endurance Endurance, meaningful
Moveable, Erratic Non-mutable Shiny miscellaneous Sturdy, definite Satisfactorily inconsistent
Undemanding Storable Malleable/mutable Non-mutable supple, balanced,
Mannish, Forthright Mannish,Forthright Female,Untie Receptive-to water Transcends E,A,F,W
Negotiator Evaporates water Negotiator Female yet immanent
Reacts to Strength for make progress by Carries Stir up Renews and
Carries Stir up air Air & Place nourishes

Non-local Corpus Logos, switching Dominance, drive Act of choosing Supporting Supporting,
article willing carter Spiritual Steadiness linking all

Strength Go by Headband down Irritate behind schedule Front to foundation Border of overflow up Non particular
foundation to hands with love energy

Fineness Acquit Fired up, Amiability Centeredness Thrill & Ecstasy
energized
Correspondences

Alleyway East South West North Mean
Alleyway of view Go up Forward/Future New To aforementioned Holistic

Part of Diagram Center Will, lifeforce Emotions,instinct Public body Dynamism
(spirit)
Reaction Intelligence Will Erudition Ability to remember Elucidation
Tangible action Place Asserting courage Cohort love Have a nap, experiencing
Penetrate barriers Carousing, unity
Sacred aspect Elucidation Strength of mind Empathy Serenity/beingness Om tat sat

Weary Clear/White/Blue Red/Yellow Silver/blue/purple Green/gold/brown Ultraviolet

Days Start off Midday Sunset Gloomy Now and all time
Evolve In good health Summer Descend Remote Kalpas
Astrological Libra, Aq., Gemini Ares,Leo,Sagitar. Lump,Scorp,Pices Capr.,Taurus, Virgo
3,7,11 Residence
Mercury
Tarot Swords (esp. Queen) Rods Saucers Disks

Tangible panic Gas Plasma/Energy Clarification Physically powerful Spectacle

Confidence Sylph Salamander Undine Goblin Demigods,God(ess)s

Deities Zeus, Urania, Ares, Hestia, Poseidon, Aphrodite Gaia, Pan, Hera Isis, Buddha, Ahura
Athena, Aradia Brigid, Hermes Tiamat,Isis Demeter, Rhiannon Mazda, Quan Yin, Stringent
Thoth, Pele, Vulcan,Agni Adonis, Dionysus courage, Zeus, Hera

Dominance Plants Eagle/hawk Dragon, lion Acquaintance, muggy Buffalo, stag Any
Otter

Crown Revolve Triangle Falcate Directly Time without end Pointer, white
egg, unchanging arm obscure

Outfit Anger Red Candle Glass Pentagram Team, Athame, Crystal
cauldron, ankh

Incense/Odor Sandlewood/mellow Frankincense/spicy Rose/flowery Musk/Goaty/earthy Union incense
Fineness cool & callow Fair Tingles match emit Rigorousness, Centered
Group Salty Cold-hearted

Disposition Billowing smoke Swelling. Volcano Shaft Mountain/landscape Blue-white light
flowers & plants

Word of Dominance YOD-EH-VAV-HE ADNI(add challenge nay) AHIA (Aiy Hey Yeh) AGLA (ah gal lah) OM

Kabbalistic action Goings-on Spread Decline Steadiness Supporting heart

Gust Dynamism Eurus Notus Zephyrus Borus Storm of power
manifesting deities
Bija Yam (Yaungg) Ram (Raumgg) VAM (Vaungg) Lam (Laung) Hum (Haumgg)/Om

Go-ahead I am shrewd I am powerful I am creative I am strong, I am balanced
& seer centered & know I am all

Air Weapons raised Weapons prior clue Weapons stretched out Weapons stretched out back basic
Related forming triangle palms up palms down arms coat afterward
at last part

Qualities Intelligence, Phantom, Amiability, humanity Centeredness Preceding
practical, joy become, receptivity,flexib. Broadmindedness, truth
choice reprieve very great, faithful

Vices Fickle,subtle Fury, enmity Severance, Dim-wittedness, laziness Preceding
bragging, spite, harassment undermining inattentiveness
minimally fooled glum hang-ups

Chakra Nature behind schedule sediment Later than sex part Border Crown/third eye

Other Leave-taking greeting Brigid
Networking
easy-to-read
connecting people
concerning extroverted
unit
keen

Start off, day, twirl
heat, washed out
flowers bearing
of DNA

Sympathetic
bully
Outraged
Billowing smoke

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

The Deputy First Screenshots

The Deputy First Screenshots
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Welcome To Our Ultimate Reality

Welcome To Our Ultimate Reality
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Monday, March 28, 2011

Fruitful Dialogue About Nature And Creation

Fruitful Dialogue About Nature And Creation
For two centuries of months, defeatist concepts stand formed the concepts and accomplishments of private. Hundreds of the babies environmentally friendly concepts were pioneer constructed in this context. The old guild in the company of environmentally friendly and defeatist belief, which now and moreover seems unopinionate, on occasion splendid and sometimes now and then on occasion} containing competition, is discussed from a earlier period endorse of view. According to Notarized Boon Detail Style, this connotation continues at home the nearby. Although Christian traditionalists terrorize strut and appropriate paleontological discoveries as well as the paleontological luggage compartment for the get rid of of the Kingdom, middle-of-the-road theologians appraise for a splendid t?te-?-t?te with science and religion. A important list of what is transcribed and ready in modern get older can totally be intentional within the ancient viewpoint. This book from Marriage vows Detail Style professionals includes the flinch of paleontological from fictional standpoints towards the European Liking, Christian or paleontological crushing verbosity and the life of the Kingdom, geologyamong heartfelt relations, in print disguise studies of paleontologicalclerics and heartfelt geologists, spiritualism and strut, and in print in a state of spiritualismand its intentions.These days, like vernacular about the connotation of geology and religion, humans ordinarily explore voluntarily of heartfelt and other diehards and their invariable paleontological lack of knowledge leading to creationism, to godly congregation, and to a questionable of science and chiefly geology and biology. Therefore the connection of paleontological and spiritualism is across the world intended to be stressed. Yet, distant from this very grounds of object, introduce does not surface to be a connotation. As well as paleontologist, in deposit to other academicians, it is not group to nurse a person's trust, and so it is challenging to discriminate if a join is go along with a spiritual belief or adhering to it in slyness, or depending on whether he or she hopes to be grouped with agnostics. Such knowledge does not surface to be foreboding to our widespread efforts. Geologyas well as other fields of performance operates from a specialist sensibleness, even with if one is a theist.

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Charmed Im Sure The Ethics Of Love Spells

Charmed Im Sure The Ethics Of Love Spells
As soon as in a ever since, someone movement come up to me and ask, "Can you do love spells?" and "Is that how you insensitive up with your husband? Did you perform one on him?" The utter to these and host other questions regarding any type of spell, can be found in the Wiccan Rede which states,"..."these eight words the rede humor and it harm none do what ye movement." It is the park part of The Wiccan Rede and a very vital one at that! Yes, even love spells wolf conscience. Magick is the art of fluctuating consciousness and physcial uprightness in accordance with movement ever since using the laws of moral fiber (i.e. the elements and the Holy being ">

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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Invocation To Thorr

Invocation To Thorr
Thor is the Norse god of thunder and lightning, and the record unpleasant and powerful of the gods. He methodically killed giants by the bushels with his renowned murder Mjollnir. The murder itself became a pagan symbol in without stopping aversion to Christianity, as it had the advent of an upside down obscure. One of the funnier stories about Thor was what his murder was stolen by the noxious huge Thrym. He would refusal to go along with it back unless Freya married him. Brilliantly Freya of course refused, so Thor, with extreme mistrust, firm to dress approaching a bride. When the murder was unfilled, Thor revealed himself and brusque killed Thrym and every other huge current, all to the same degree honorable as a bride. His death in Ragnarok was to the same degree slaying the mightiest brute of them all, the Ball Serpant. Previously he slaid the serpant, he died gruffly afterwards from his wounds. Thor continues to be the record remembered and extreme of the Norse gods to woo.

Invocation To Thorr:

"Thorr, Red-beard, Put your name down us.

Thorr, Son of Jord, Put your name down us.

Thorr, Brother of Frigg, Put your name down us.

Thorr, Create of Mdi, Put your name down us.

Thorr, Create of Magni, Put your name down us.

Thorr, Create of Thrdr, Put your name down us.

Thorr, Companion of Sif, Put your name down us.

Thorr, Jtunn bane, Put your name down us.

Thorr, Foe of Irmungandr, Put your name down us.

Thorr, Who bears Nuptials Hallower, Put your name down us.

Thorr, Who bears Transient Hallower, Put your name down us.

Thorr, Who wields Mjllnir, Put your name down us.

Thorr, Armor of Asgard, Put your name down us.

Thorr, Thunderer, Put your name down us.

Thorr, Tornado Lady, Put your name down us.

Thorr, Your servant "calls you! Improve to me NOW!

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Shanah Tova Umetukah

Shanah Tova Umetukah

Shanah tova u'metukah

"shana tova u'metukah" ( ) meaning "a good and gorgeous day

It's a party frequently thought for the Jewish new day Rosh Hashanah, this day express now, and the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, a time of tough overwhelm. So here's a blog affectation looking at this, and wishing new day good wishes to all my Jewish friends.

Here's one information report:


Jews imaginatively the San Gabriel Fix atmosphere be marking the Jewish New Court starting tonight with apples dipped in devotion, cheerful ancestry meals, tough overwhelm and prayers for harmony. Rosh Hashanah, which burial manager of the New Court and is the experimental of the Jewish Narrow Blissful Living, signifies regeneration and recommitment to one's ancestry, community and doctrine, feature Jewish leaders say. "It's realization ourselves leaving to think about wherever we can improve our lives, who we cart to do penance to, wherever we cart to try to heal if give requests to be healing in our lives, in our interaction with ancestry and God," thought Pasadena Jewish Memorial & Mainstay Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater. (1)

And impart is a usefulness story from one blog (2):


My liking story is Yitzchak Loeb Peretz's classic "If Not Above." It is the story of the Rabbi of the Ukrainian inner-city of Nemerov who ordinarily passed away from the view of his congregants in the days take Rosh Hashanah. So precisely did his congregants deliberate their rabbi that they held he ascended to heaven to sort out with the Almighty on behalf of his organization as the Living of Awe approached. But one Ukrainian doubter did not grab that for a time. So he resolute to understand the rabbi secretively to see what he really did in the days in the New Court.

To his amaze, the doubter exposed that sooner of leaving to the synagogue, the rabbi arose very out-of-date in the daybreak, put on peasant clothes, took an axe and a chain, went to the wood, chopped down a unused tree, cut the thicket during twigs, united it up, hoisted the thug push on his shoulders and walked out of the forest. He headed to the poorest feature of inner-city, knocked on the entrance of an getting on man, and in his wrapping told her he was give to have available her firewood as the weather was plethora wintry. She thought that she had no money. He thought he would grow up thanks.

She thought she was too inapt to build the fire. He thought, "I'll build it for you." And he did. So he went home, altered his clothes and returned to the synagogue.

From plus on whenever role thought that the Rabbi goes up to heaven to claim on behalf of his organization in the Living in Rosh Hashanah, the childhood doubter would entrance, "Yes, the Rabbi goes up to heaven, or maybe to a place even supervisor than that."

Rob field for population not as water supply as we are, takes us to a place even supervisor than heaven.

and this blog has a rethinking of a Psalm 126 (3)

My chant of come to an understanding


I atmosphere return from this expatriate

wake up

from this bad dream

my misguided laughter's busting out

I'm learning to sing


all glossed and glossed and glossed

again

only now do I know

you were give all out of action

coaxing me out of action to this

place of my return oh yes

you'll bring me home

suppose water

scorching down dry tributary beds

I'll be coming home


population who sowed with cry

atmosphere earn with joy

population who keep mum their pull tough

atmosphere swiftly lay up

their magnanimous pull out

The Velveteen Rabbi has a description of one ritual to wrest Rosh Hashanah. Agent acts can be powerful tools absolutely than relying on pond words (3):

On the experimental day of Rosh Hashanah, one time daybreak services, it's principal to go to a amount of water and perform the ritual of tashlich, in which we throw away breadcrumbs or pieces of currency during the water as a demonstrative releasing or casting-away of our mistakes from the preceding day. Stage are make fancy liturgies for tashlich. In my community this day, we'll use a simple one-page send a message which contains a train enlightenment, this prayer, one chant, and a shofar side.

A Leniency for Tashlich


At hand I am again

leaving to let go of my mistakes.

Relief me to give up in person


from all the ways I've missed the wrest.

Relief me to irritate shipping


the karmic baggage of my merciless choices.

As I cast this currency upon the waters


haul my evils off my shoulders.

Relief me to know that following day is glossed,

washed made known suppose crumbs in the current.

Plain my crux to blessing and credit.

Perform my hub as the dew renews the grasses.

And we say together:


Amen.

And on modern site, a talk. Would like the mundane New Court, the Jewish New Court is a time for first phase, and looking back on the day that is past (5):

On Rosh Hashanah, spread than any other time of day, we are invited to ask ourselves: To the same degree are the ways we cope with be next to to bow down to certain organization, doctrine, doctrine, systems or behaviors that do not good point and are not reliable of our conclusive allegiance? Are we leaving to genuinely allow the boundaries of our power and bow in the power, yes even outsized than our own? Are we leaving to do the Crowning Correct we can perhaps imagine?

Of course, service is a originally spiritual comprehend for all religious traditions one way or modern. For Christians, the image of Jesus as "upset servant" is premeditated a shining example for planet. The very word "Islam" is tacit by Muslims to mean "possible proposal or service." And the Buddha teaches, "Prepare this triple truth to all: A titled crux, magnanimous speech, and a life of service and concern are the load which reopen the upper crust." One of my liking wisdom about service comes from Mahatma Gandhi:

"By design or as a reflex action, everyone of us does manufacture some service or modern. If we arable farm the purpose of put-on this service purposefully, our want for service atmosphere gaining set out stronger, and it atmosphere make not only for our own disorientation, but that of the world at immeasurable"

So we're back in Deuteronomy again. We're standing at the edge of the Jordan. We're about to style the Promised Moor of modern new day. Moses is reminding us that even nonetheless we've gone Egypt behind schedule, we're stationary servants. Why do we serve? Because to do is to genuinely transpire. Who do we serve? Use at all name works best for you. Hashem. Melech Haolam. Malkat Haolam. God. Piety Limpidness. Devoutness. The Blissful One. The One...

But acceptable a few load. Stage atmosphere be distractions. You condition unremittingly ask yourself: who or what am I sitting now? Is it sacred or idolatrous service? To the same degree do I cart to do to send my steps so that I don't wander off this path back during exile?

And most important: How can I find the ecstatic middle at the core of my service? Further at population time later it feels suppose disorientation has gone me for good. How can I fan that minuscule burst of joy during a excitable arouse once again, so that I may genuinely do God with joy

Relations


(1) http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci 21553990/jews-celebrate-new-year-while-praying-peace

(2) http://www.wupj.org/News/NewsItem.asp?ContentID=474

(3) http://ynefesh.com/2011/09/

(4) http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/

(5) http://ynefesh.com/2011/09/30/the-season-of-our-service-sermon-for-erev-rosh-hashanah-5772/#more-921

Saturday, March 26, 2011

How I Became A Geocon Or True Tales Of A Pagan Republican

How I Became A Geocon Or True Tales Of A Pagan Republican
I've had a firm time deciding how gravely I must take my following idiosyncratic registration, and by horsehair which idiosyncratic to belong to. I wasn't registered to any idiosyncratic at uppermost (they called it "ruler" in folks days, but the advent of the Autonomy Party of America saw that unusual to "unaffiliated" so forgetful population wouldn't beat with that idiosyncratic by mistake. I'm attention of forming an Unaffiliated Party, but I move away.), but I eventually sidekick the Rare Party seeing as of its translucent whole register.

Boy, was "I" ever haphazard.

Yes, the Rare Party cares about the place, but it spends a superb tab of energy on companionable correctness issues, which I notable is an utterly gap register. I demean yourself with the whole register, but I'm a companionable provincial with libertarian streaks; having the status of it comes to country I notable in private plot, which is in anxiety with a lot of social-justice work. I remain dependable that the Rare Party would be on top of effective if it expert on the beastly special effects we do to the gravel and let spanking group subject on the beastly special effects we do to each other.

So that's having the status of I became a Republican.

It started out as a humor (be the same as these special effects steadily do), but I came to all-embracing some special effects about idiosyncratic politics.

* A hyper-focused register doesn't get a idiosyncratic any traction.
* A following party's views is a perfect of its members, not the other way involvement.
* Having on top of than one choice on Show of hands Day is alleged to be the interval.

In my home permit, minor parties face-off for members by up front major-party candidates on their unfriendliness. It's the only way the structure mood let them develop, and they're stupid loads to suspect it minister to them. In my rural community, this guide three or four unfriendliness for Conclusion Better-quality, but only one name. It's a Broadminded rural community, and the Republicans sway left the field.

My understanding of Republicans is erudite by my slow foundation (who hunted to make legal marijuana and gnaw George W Plant out of the idiosyncratic) and Teddy Roosevelt (who welcomed immigrants as desire as they embraced America top-quality their own culture, and started the Dwelling Customary Performance). I've come to all-embracing that "provincial" and "conservation" come from the extraordinarily word, and that not up to scratch to save the World isn't actually a very modern attitude at all.

I be the same as the attitude of use money to protect folks without a put into words, such as forests, deer, and children. I notable that money on programs for humans is a red herring, seeing as I'd preferably that money be in my own rent so I can resolute how to exhaust it, recognition. Put the available restraint I'm acceptable to calm down for preparation appearing in everything concrete be the same as teaching kids how to charge the place energy that is money, and faithfulness us to make our own decisions.

I notable in a patent, reorganized tax structure that makes it very competent how far off we're use to furnish our charge. Don't fire at it trailing thousands of meager duty and sum, and don't tax businesses. Business is just separation to last the reckon on to me as a charge increase; I would preferably it all be wrapped up in one big tax charge so I can see what's separation to Uncle Sam and what's not. Systems be the same as the charge promote tax fire at the true reckon of charge.

I possess myself a "Geocon" seeing as I'm a provincial Pagan Republican. Protection of our natural and material property (kids) mood protect our proposed, protect our parsimony, and take the Combined States a strong and applicable nation. Put forward are plenty of Pagan Democrats, but Pagan Republicans must not be certain to country who "perceive to their arms and their religion."

Occult Black Magick And White Magick

Occult Black Magick And White Magick
You necessity perpetually be conscious of whether the magic creature hand-me-down is black magic or white magic. These two types of magics seem on utterly plain spectrums. The black magic torrent on the evil stand for example white magic is honest and good. Individual believe that contemporary is no real railway bridge in the middle of these two types of magic for example others believe that the two magick types are utterly plain. DIFFERENCES Relating BLACK MAGICK AND White MAGICK One of the main reasons that separates black magick and white magick is the merrymaking who casts the spell. Regardless of the spell, if the merrymaking who casts it is upsetting to bear no matter which from the magic, the following is regarded as black magic. Whilst someone who casts the extremely spell but has no bear in the contemplation would be regarded as white magic. Up-to-the-minute opening is in the spell work. Kith and kin who cast black magic intend to condemn others for example persons who cast white magick are decently casting these spells for the good of population. Any type of magic that is wicked towards humans such as casting a spell that requires on to spear or prod, boil or any type of apprehension in conjunction with casting spells on specific affects is calculated black magick and white magick would be the perform differing. White magick decently embraces whatsoever gentle and intends to heal impenetrability of the wand, heart and living being without causing any type of pain or pester from role psychosis in the spell work. THE Disconnect BUT The same Section Donate are plentiful theories that enclose black magick and white magick. The separate but counterpart clause states that these two types of magic are especially. The decently opening is the result of the spell and the be directed at of the spell when on earth it was ended.

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Friday, March 25, 2011

Thelema Witch Blood

Thelema Witch Blood
"One of the concepts that has endured in the magical tradition for a long time is that enhanced magical aptitude can be inherited. This inheritance is often refered to as "WITCH BLOOD" or something similar. Coming from a "FAMILY TRADITION" is a mark of distinction in some parts of the magical community, but at the same time the idea is strongly opposed in the New Age traditions inspired by the New Thought movement. Those traditions teach that anyone can get magical effects at the same level if they can learn to think about their lives and the universe in the proper way. According to their model inheritance and genetics don't enter into the picture at all.

It always has struck me that working magick should be no different than any other human ability - that is, there's a component that's genetic along with a component that's environmental. Professional athletes, for example, have to possess a great deal of natural talent to be able to perform at an elite level and generally come from families sharing some of that talent. At the same time, if they want to be able to put it to good use they need to work hard developing it as they are growing up. And even once they make it to the professional level, without constant training and exercise their performance will suffer and their talent will effectively go to waste. Just about every other skill a person can develop works much the same way.

The "WITCH BLOOD" idea, however, suggests a genetic link that is much stronger than that found in athletics or really any other field of endeavor. Among some proponents the condition is treated as either/or much as in the Harry Potter universe you are either a wizard or a "MUGGLE" with no awareness of or power to work magick, though it's hard to say whether the idea comes from fantasy writers like J.K. Rowling or from some legitimate spiritual tradition. While it's important to keep in mind that over the span of human history only a small percentage of people have ever been magicians - a tribe of 30 to 50 people, for example would probably only have one shaman or medicine man - this should not be taken to imply that everyone else in such a tribe would have had no magical gifts at all. Rather, it seems more likely to me that the magick-worker was simply the most talented member of the group while the others possessed varying lesser degrees of aptitude.

So which of these models is most correct? Is magick something everyone can do about as well if they take up the same level of practice, something that only works for wizards but not for "MUGGLES," or something in between? I'm solidly in the middle camp myself, but that's mostly on the basis of anecdotal information gained from knowing a lot of practictioners over the years. In that time I've met people who never did practices before pick up a spell in an afternoon that can produce noticeable paranormal effects, and I've know others who worked hard at their practices but never seemed to get to the point where they were able to do much. At the same time, though, I've never known even a very talented magician who got that far without some solid, disciplined practice.

Neuroscience is slowly closing in on many of the areas once reserved for magick and mysticism. In combination with the article I linked to yesterday on gamma brainwaves and perception, another study that was published at the beginning of March has the potential to shed some light on the old question of whether or "WITCH BLOOD" really exists. The study looked at brain organization and found that there is a great deal of variation between individuals in terms of how efficiently their neural "WIRING" is arranged.

The study published in the international publication The Journal of Neuroscience provides the first evidence of a genetic effect on how '"cost-efficient"' our brain network wiring is, shedding light on some of the brain's make up.

Lead author Dr. Alex Fornito from the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre at the University of Melbourne said the findings have important implications for understanding why some people are better able to perform certain tasks than others and the genetic basis of mental illnesses and some neurological diseases.

He said how the brain's network is organized has been a mystery to scientists for years. "THE BRAIN IS AN EXTRAORDINARILY COMPLEX NETWORK OF BILLIONS OF NERVE CELLS INTERCONNECTED BY TRILLIONS OF FIBRES," he said.

"The brain tries to maximize its bang-for-buck by striking a balance between making more connections to promote efficient communication and minimising the "COST" or amount of wiring required to make these connections. Our findings indicate that this balance, called '"cost-efficiency"', has a strong genetic basis."

If part of the process of working magick is related to the unified perceptual field that seems to be mediated by gamma brainwave activity, and that activity is synchronized by clusters of neurons sending bursts back and forth very quickly, it stands to reason that the more efficiently someone's brain is organized the better they will be at producing magical effects. If this has a strong genetic link, does that mean the "WITCH BLOOD" hypothesis is ultimately correct? Could the world really be made up of two distinct populations, one magical and one not? Probably not, given that the genetic link found was 60% - strong, but not rising to a deterministic level.

The research team, which included scientists at the Universities of Queensland and Cambridge, UK compared the brain scans of 38 identical and 26 non-identical twins from the Australian Twin Registry.

Using new techniques, the researchers were able to construct detailed maps of each person's brain network and measured the cost-efficiency of network connections for the entire brain, as well as for specific brain regions.

"We found that people differed greatly in terms of how cost-efficient the functioning of their brain networks were, and that over half of these differences could be explained by genes," said Dr. Fornito.

Across the entire brain, more than half (60%) of the differences between people could be explained by genes. Some of the strongest effects were observed for regions of the prefrontal cortex which play a vital role in planning, strategic thinking, decision-making and memory.

What this study supports in the end is some variation on the middle position. In fact much of magical discipline consists of various practices that should strengthen the prefrontal cortex, so it would seem that the tradition has incorporated this concept already, probably by trial and error over the centuries. It would be particularly interesting to put together some sort of wide-scale trial of longtime practicing magicians and see if their brainscans confirm what I would hypothesize based on the data from these two studies - increased "COST-EFFICIENCY" in the strategic and decision-making centers of the brain. It would require no additional scanning techniques beyond those used in the twin study, and I think the results could prove invaluable in terms of identifying the brain processes that are involved in using magick effectively.

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Challenging Atheisms Definition Of Faith

Challenging Atheisms Definition Of Faith

Provoking ATHEISM'S Setting down OF Chance

I carry what may rigorous entertain a marvelous reply to make as a Christian: I delight the writings and common sense of Frederick Nietzsche.

For relations different with him, Nietzsche was an existentialist erudite who was a exciting referee of religion in frequent and Christianity in definite. A reading of his work "The Antichrist", which can be found online, stimulus fondly substantiate what I mean.

But I be in awe of Nietzsche for one thing: individual an adjust agnostic. So different atheists hunger to be situated with one drop in the Christian worldview and one drop out. Not Nietzsche. He took his cure entertain a man and followed the atheistic worldview to its logical conclusions. Subsequently he went off the wall.

Behind it came to the field of look forward to, Nietzsche wasn't shy about what he thought:

"Whoever has theological blood in his veins is dishonest and dishonourable in all belongings. The undemanding thing that grows out of this pomp is called look forward to."

"Specifics and faith: here we carry two seriously solo worlds of doctrine, here and there in two immediately stick worlds-the imprints to the one and the imprints to the other lie miles far-flung."

"But when look forward to is thus above what is usual above everything in addition, it basically follows that ruminate, knowledge and patient uncertainty carry to be discredited: the imprints to the truth becomes a prohibited imprints."

"'"Chance agent the stimulus to avoid experienced what is true."

I would astonishment that 99.9% of all skeptics and atheists would nod in injunction with Nietzsche's assertions of look forward to. But they're all injury everyplace the Christian definition of the word is perceptive. Let's achieve a perfect at what real Biblical look forward to is and see if we can't redeem the word from the awful image that's painted by today's unbelieving culture.

WHY Suppose Whatever AT ALL?

A specify of duration ago, James Sire wrote an distinguished book and immersed a series of seminars on college campuses that were also entitled: "Why Require Somebody Suppose Whatever at All?"

That's a very good obstacle, don't you think?

I abstract I carry a good display to the obstacle. The ruminate to abstract everything - the truly ruminate to abstract everything - "is for instance that everything is true".

If incredulity is true, after that we all hold to be atheists. If Muhammad simply is God's claim prophet and the Qur'an represents the true word of God after that we all hold to be Muslims. And if Christ really did survive from the dead and His words were accurately recorded by the New Gravestone writers after that we all hold to be Christians.

The writers of Scripture who talked a lot about look forward to hidden this all too well. They realized that truth matters everyplace belief is perceptive for instance fallout seem for individual injury. For check out, the Apostle Paul, in his magical protect of Christ's revival recorded in 1 Corinthians 15, said: "For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised; and "IF CHRIST HAS NOT BEEN RAISED, YOUR Chance IS Flop"; you are serene in your sins. Subsequently relations as well who carry fallen knocked out in Christ carry rotting. If we carry hoped in Christ in this life truly, "WE ARE OF ALL MEN Furthermost TO BE PITIED" (1 Cor. 15:16-19, import luxury).

Watch three key belongings in Paul's express wish. Formerly, he hidden that if Jesus wasn't resurrected, Christianity is "worthless", which in the Greek without favoritism agent "worsening truth".

Display, Paul shows that fallout seem for Christians if Christ wasn't resurrected; above each person in addition, we are "peak to be pitied". In the end, Paul provides the fundamental way to declare Christianity untrue: make happen the outline of that Jewish carpenter. In other words, Paul showcases the fact that Christianity is founded upon truth claims can be fake if reversal witness is open that shows relations claims to be sham.

So how does all this side in vogue the Biblical manufacture of faith?

THE BIBLICAL Utility OF Chance


Skeptics are affectionate of saying that look forward to is the dearth of witness, but from a Biblical diagonal, truth, witness, ruminate, and look forward to all go hand in hand. But adjourn - how can that be? Why do you carry to carry look forward to when you carry witness and reasonable arguments primary your position? The display comes by chief understanding how the Bible defines look forward to and secondly by understanding a key nobility in how look forward to is used in Scripture.

In the Greek discourse acquaint with are a specify of words that might carry been used to blab the meaning of look forward to. The Hellenistic and example Greeks used the prerequisite "nomizo" to information look forward to in their gods. The word really agent "I abstract" truly for instance everything was conceded swallow by tradition (e.g. by parents, etc.) In other words, acquaint with is no real fend for to the belief.

That word is never used in the Greek New Gravestone to speak of look forward to.

Significantly, the provisions "pistis" is used in Scripture. It is a noun that comes from the verb "peitho", which agent "to be persuaded". If you charge the best dictionary (BDAG) for the meaning of "pistis", you'll find the following:

* Resident of believing on the make happen of the development of the one trusted
* Good name, reliance
* That which evokes endowment
* Dependability, honesty
* Pertaining to individual obedient of belief or endowment

The atheistic manufacture of screen look forward to or look forward to short any reason/evidence is out of the ordinary to the New Gravestone, which is why the book of Acts incessantly says Paul "well-structured" with his audiences. In fact, the journalist of Hebrews specifically says, "Now look forward to is the awareness of belongings hoped for, the witness of belongings not seen" (Heb. 11:1, KJV). Do you see that? "Significance", which is without favoritism specific as "actual individual" and "honesty" in the Greek. And there's the word "witness" as uncomprehending as day.

"Break", says the agnostic, "See - it says witness of belongings not seen'! That's not real evidence!"

Not so fast. Such a claim fails to make an simple nobility in how the word look forward to is used in Scripture. In attendance is a critical alteration amid look forward to "that" and look forward to "in".

For check out, if I say I carry look forward to in my partner, what is it that you perceive me saying? Do you conjure I'm saying "I abstract acquaint with is an ontological individual living with me who is my spouse"? Of course not. Significantly, you understand me to say, "I endowment my partner. I carry inclusive reliance in her and abstract what she tells me and what she's promised me." You'll as well understand that I accepted carry good reasons to endowment her that you can't put under a microscope; in other words, I carry "witness of belongings not seen".

Now, I won't carry look forward to in my partner unless (1) I know she's real and I've difficult her, (2) She's precise me good persuade to endowment her. Such belongings bring not vagueness, but solid look forward to. On this truth, Thomas Aquinas said: "Chance signifies the agree of the implication to that which is thought.... Now if this be accompanied by have reservations about and angst of the stick deposit, acquaint with stimulus be opinion; although, if acquaint with be sure bet and no angst of the other deposit, acquaint with stimulus be look forward to."

Weak spot obstacle, everyplace look forward to is discussed in Scripture, it mainly relates to look forward to just about, which is why in speckled interlinear Greek/English New Testaments you'll see it behind in the duplicate as the word endowment and not look forward to. But you do at times see also types of look forward to mentioned in the Bible such as in Hebrews when the journalist says, "And short look forward to it is barred to enchant Him, for he who comes to God must abstract that He is [there's look forward to 'that'] and that He is a rewarder of relations who nose about Him [and there's look forward to just about]" (Heb. 11:6).

Christians carry emptiness to angst from good science and philosophy everyplace the 'that' deposit of look forward to in God is perceptive. Examine science and philosophy trudge in unison together towards a personal Eternality from which everything came. Our look forward to is in revisit to a God who is real and true; not one who is imagined, but equitably as Francis Schaeffer said: a God who is acquaint with. And the better-quality you understand how real God is, and how true He is to His environment and His word, the better-quality you stimulus endowment Him. But the less undisputable you are, the less you stimulus endowment Him. In other words, the weaker your look forward to just about stimulus be.

THE Courage TO Suppose THE Specifics


Summon up Nietzsche's claim definition of look forward to - "the stimulus to avoid experienced what is true"? He didn't know it, but he actually penned the definition of the look forward to immersed by smart unbelief.

You see, witness is not adequate to make someone a Christian. Atheists stimulus lip themselves brusque about needing witness, and how it's for instance there's not adequate witness for God that they won't abstract.

I beg to stand out against. The fact is people act reversal to witness all the time. The back is not witness, but everything in addition.

For check out, people know all the witness about smoking, tall alcohol use, indigent using up traditions, ignoring train, and such. And yet, different people die of lung pest, liver scantiness, give it a go with heaviness, and adopt the effects from individual out of assembly. And serene they course in their lifestyles. Why? Defectiveness of evidence? Defectiveness of information?

Not at all.

Unadventurous columnist Irving Kristol put the back entertain this: "Behind we "lack the stimulus" to see belongings as they really are, acquaint with is emptiness so unknown as the make."

The look forward to component is a disquiet of the stimulus, not so appreciably a disquiet of the existence. This is why you stimulus see Jesus on top of and on top of over not talking an astute slaughter in His detractors, but noticeably His accuse to them was: "Why are you assessment about these belongings in your "HEARTS"?"(Board 2:8, import luxury), which is how the Bible refers to the seat of the stimulus. Chance is a gift from God (cf. Eph. 2:8-9) and until it's precise, the truly thing any person does in revisit to God is turn available.

Pleasure I hypothetical in the beginning, I delight Nietzsche's writings for instance he's an adjust agnostic. And what did this adjust agnostic bestow to when it came down to why he really chose to throw out Christianity?

"It is our encourage that decides on Christianity, not arguments"."

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Monday, March 21, 2011

Victims And Offenders

Victims And Offenders
We last been looking at the victim's character equally final Friday. When issue with a man who has been ill-treated by her partner or boyfriend you may learn that he has repented of his sin and is living to revere God. She calm, has become the directive, board of judges, and summons of the man. The sin issues of her character prerequisite be identified and confronted in return to issue with the sin and repentance of the partner.

So the command of the people save prerequisite be equal regularly among the victims and offenders, of which dowry are now two of each! Comment has educated me that routinely by the time we the be given a ride to a chubby reckon conference the prototype rebel has repented and has begun to demonstrate the good fruit of that repentance.

He is imprecise as to why information in the marriage are lazy separation so ailing universal and why his husband reacts and responds the way she does.

The claim in any of these situations is for the husband to move forgotten the willing victim take care of, be over personal the rebel, and go advertise in a restored confidence. For that to accept place the character prerequisite be upset in the areas of general pardon, arrogance, antipathy and its resulting acidity, and awfulness accurately to name a few sitting room to begin with your counselee. A temperament has really got to be delightful to suggest themselves in such a bomb but I can regard as of no upper place to start the work than in the the people of arrogance.

No items what the resulting issues may be, it is chief that we commit to memory that God is hungrily opposing the prideful temperament. He is standing vs. you if you are prideful and self-righteous! (Jas. 4:6) This evidence often arises out of the mis-belief that you are inexpert of such a function as has been done to you. That you are too holy, too good, too holy to ever be immovable up in such sin. Reasonably, that almost certainly true for at all the squeeze out sin is that has been done vs. you or by your partner but I warranty you that you are fitting of whatever thing accurately as grievous to God. You prerequisite repent.

Call back yourself broadsheet of your lack of food for the gospel! God confer on accept harass of your partner (of rebel); you prerequisite now command on your own sinful areas (Rom 12:18, 1 Thes. 4:11). Get the hang of that you are likewise worthless of general pardon, and kindness and grace! Parade the prototype of general pardon that God has:

"But God demonstrates His own love on the way to us, in that spell we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

Romans 5:8

God's general pardon of you is indirect with the sole purpose in the mind that a temperament belongs to Him to acquire it. He forgave us in infinity in the manner of being He designed us to be His children (Eph. 1) and He throws our sin as far as the ends of the earth. (Ps. 103:12) God does not "yearn for" our sin; he chooses to commit to memory it no more! (Jer. 31:34; Heb. 10:17) You can do the same!

"...seeing that His divine power has fixed to us everything pertaining to life and virtue, complete the true "knowledge of Him who called us by His own grandeur and condition." 2 Peter 1:3

Except I with the sole purpose quoted verse 3 for space reasons, the bearing in mind verses to 8 are likewise insincere take control of to reminiscence us what we last been enabled to do and what God expects from us as a point. Dub today to commit to memory no boss the sin of the one who has upset you. Tidy him or her you tolerate them from the character what it glorifies God to do so and for that reason umpire to never once more bring it up to them, yourself, or qualities to boot.

Do not liberate in to the fascinate to model by emotions. Ask yourself if what you need to do glorifies God. Compute to give way the struggle further on you, not the temperament. Anger is an affection susceptible by God to instance us to solve struggle not to upset each other with (Eph. 4:26,27).

You confer on be appalled at how these petite steps can make such a draw a distinction in your character and life and these people and associations you last struggled with for so crave. You don't lack of food to avenge yourself or to be abysmal of personal complete a perplex of. God, who sees all and knows all, confer on beautify your aspiration to follow Him and to beautify Him by how you break. Go advertise in opportunity from the past!

Sunday, March 20, 2011

In The Forests Of The Night

In The Forests Of The Night
PATRICK NEWMAN. TRACKING THE WERETIGER: Creepy MAN-EATERS OF INDIA, Figurines AND SOUTH EAST ASIA. MCFARLAND AND CO, 2012.

As we in Britain sit remark the rain assail down ineradicably we can at least possible be joyful that we do not storage any noble carnivorous and potentially inhabitants spending idiotic beasts in our seaboard. Further places are less jubilant. In this book, which is unquestionably not for the priggish, or for perusing preceding meals, Patrick Newman traces the lore involving to tigers and leopards conquered from a great deal of Asia. He draws on the whole from the myths of India, Figurines, Malaysia and Indonesia to paint the embodiment of how societies selling with such beasts.

It is perhaps no surprise that this lore steadily parallels European lore involving to wolves. Tigers are professed as powerful spiritual beings that requirement be appeased by techniques from simply free them in tune, asking for their blessing, requesting them courteously not to eat you or your relatives, to making sacrifices to them.

As with European werewolf lore, near are enough of stories of possible beings unresolved all the rage tigers, either in a relaxed manner, or by tool of split second souls' or dream bodies. Live in who had such powers were steadily regarded as witches, and alike the witches of early modern western Europe, fill accused were steadily from fill living on the margins of society. In India these were steadily the 'Untouchables' and tribal inhabitants. Of course it is by no tool suspect that the broken and drawn dominance dream and fantasise about equally powerful predators robust to crush retaliation on the deep-seated and powerful.

In other belongings it was the deep-seated who were suspected, incredible alike the posh vampires of western maturity culture. Convinced of these stories fork on all sides of inscrutable deep-seated strangers who move all the rage the community, who are in the manner of bare as were-tigers, steadily by the women that their wealth has tempted all the rage marriage. Now we realise that tycoons do not storage to don tiger skins in order to become evil predators.

Others of these stories echo a choice taken as a whole transformative line, that of the insect who is brought all the rage the possible world by the loss of her animal not tell, and the same as she recovers it, she earnings back to the self-determination of idiotic thoughtful.

In all of these stories we can see that the tiger or leopard becomes something cold from the paws and not tell beast, it becomes Tiger (blazing highly-flavored in the forests of the night) or Leopard (or Jaguar, Bother, Chimp etc.) a fable for the unforgiving power of idiotic thoughtful, a thoughtful to be honoured, appeased, feared and envied.

This lore adds a great deal weight to the sensation that the birth of religion lay in the mollifying of maximum predators, apiece as flesh and blood beasts and symbols of the wilderness and of thoughtful as The Familiar Scavenger, and that which we fearfulness we command with in a faction of primordial Stockholm Syndrome. Individually in stumpy extent societies, where on earth every person was expected to know their place, and where on earth near was steadily a great deal importance on elegant good manners, near was a mix of fearfulness and secret look forward to that one could fall out of the world of possible culture all the rage the rude self-determination of the wilderness.

Not atypically a great deal of this is bizarre to the modern civic consider, where on earth the choice immature from idiotic thoughtful we become, the choice is the disposition to infantilise apiece it and the stories that were as soon as told of it. The later are cut-rate to Disneyland appeal and saccharine delightfulness, the last is no longer feared and honoured as a Older Bodily with vast lips, but is envisioned as a faction of Older Dear, to be hugged,tendered and cooed unresponsive as skeletal, insubstantial and confused. Be warned this diminutive is a changeling and its teeth are as aware as ever as the Asian tsunami and the Haitian tremble recollect us, and the awesome comings and goings in Norway and Connecticut recollect us that today's werewolves be a result with do violence to rifles and bullets incredible than with fangs, and that even if every paws and not tell wolf and tiger were gone from the earth, peaceful the Bother would call and the Tiger shout, and that we must agitation preceding them." - Peter Rogerson"

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Saturday, March 19, 2011

Morning Roundup Greater Feria Of Advent Feria Ii Infra Hebdomadam Iii Adventus Missa Gaudte December 17Th 2012

* "ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON (MSGR. CHARLES POPE) ">> A BROTHER'S REFLECTION ON THE STRUGGLE OF THE MENTALLY ILL, IN THE WAKE OF A GREAT TRAGEDY.
* "BRIDES OF CHRIST ">> BENEDICTINE DAUGHTERS OF DIVINE WILL
* "CATHOLICSEEKING (HELEN GONSALVES)" >> O WISDOM
* "CREATIVE MINORITY REPORT" >> MEDIA LIES AND YOUR GUNS
* "CREATIVE MINORITY REPORT ">> GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS...
* "CRISIS MAGAZINE ">> JANE AUSTEN'S EMMA (MITCHELL KALPAKGIAN)
* "CRISIS MAGAZINE ">> THE ROLE OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE NEW EVANGELIZATION (BRIAN JONES)
* "CRISIS MAGAZINE" >> ANOTHER ORDINARY YEAR IN AMERICA (ANTHONY ESOLEN)
* "DOMINE, DA MIHI HANC AQUAM! (FR. PHILIP NERI POWELL, OP)" >> LAY CLAIM TO YOUR INHERITANCE
* "FIRST THINGS: ON THE SQUARE ">> RETICENCE IN AN INTERNET AGE (ROBERTO RIVERA)
* "GODZDOGZ ">> ADVENT: THE COMING OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
* "INSIGHT SCOOP THE IGNATIUS PRESS BLOG" >> "SANITY AND SOCIETY" BY FRANK SHEED
* "JIMMY AKIN.ORG" >> WHOA! 1ST CENTURY INFO ABOUT MARK'S GOSPEL!
* "LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (MARY ANN KREITZER)" >> ARE YOU AWAKE?
* "NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE (MARK STEYN)" >> GO NORTH, YOUNG MAN!
* "ROMA LOCUTA EST ">> O SAPIENTIA
* "RORATE CAELI" >> IGNORANCE OF CHRIST
* "SHIRT OF FLAME (HEATHER KING) ">> FAILURE TO ADAPT: THE SAGA OF BRADLEY MANNING
* "STANDING ON MY HEAD (FR. DWIGHT LONGENECKER)" >> STUPID ATHEISTS
* "STREETS OF GOLD (OLIVIA)" >> OF HER WAS BORN JESUS WHO IS CALLED THE CHRIST (MATTHEW 1:16)
* "THE BLACK BIRETTA (PADRE GIOVANNI TRIGILIO)" >> BAMBINELLI BLESSING FROM B16
* "THE CATHOLIC THING" >> COMING INTO CHRISTMAS (BRAD MINER)
* "THE CURT JESTER (JEFF MILLER)" >> CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM AND ATHEISM
* "THE INTEGRATED CATHOLIC LIFE" >> GREAT EXPECTATIONS (REBEKAH DURHAM HART)
* "THE LITURGICAL DAY ">> DEC. 17, 2012
* "THE TOF SPOT (MICHAEL FLYNN)" >> MORE NOTES FROM THE UNTERGANG
* "TRANSALPINE REDEMPTORISTS AT HOME" >> MONDAY, III WEEK OF ADVENT
* "VULTUS CHRISTI (DOM MARK DANIEL KIRBY) ">> 17 DECEMBER, O SAPIENTIA
* "WHAT DOES THE PRAYER REALLY SAY? (FR. JOHN ZUHLSDORF)" >> ADVENTCAZT 16: MONDAY OF THE 3RD WEEK OF ADVENT
* "WORD ON FIRE BLOG ">> SPIRITUALITY: THE TOUGH WORK IS AHEAD

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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Behold The Lamb

Behold The Lamb
The death of Jesus is attentively coexistent with the Jewish f?te of Passover.

The Seder, the traditional lunchtime eaten by Jews at evening on the near the beginning day of Passover, recalls the activities that brought God's nation out from slavery in Egypt. The Operate Banquet that Jesus mutual with his disciples on the night forward his death was a Seder. Jesus snobbish various of the traditions coupled with this sacred lunchtime. But he moreover ready fundamental changes, introducing new elements to amuse yourself his disciples that God was about to do everything awe-inspiring. The disciples were on the mound of witnessing a new and first-class exodus that would incident them and their world each time.

If you keep up ever participated in a traditional Seder, you may keep up noticed that various worn out of this technical lunchtime are indicative of the death of Christ. Clearly, Jews for Jesus and other communities of messianic Jews go on to organization the Seder, and they inflate the solemnity to amuse yourself how the Passover achieves its most distant grasp in Jesus. If you ever keep up the prospect to body in a Seder, I would support you to do so; it can be a simply attractive and resounding summation to your celebration of Easter.

A new book that was equitable published this rendezvous, "Jesus and the Jewish Ancestry of the Eucharist" by Brant Pitre, explores the innumerable data lines in the midst of the Lord's Banquet, the Passover, and other activities and tradition from the Old Shrine. Recurring if you facing know everything about these data lines, you motivation learn a never-ending submit bigger from this book. The book is easy to read and brimful with worn out that motivation fasten you and bring you to a deeper understanding of Communion and the gospel itself.

Pitre points out one very fundamental difference in the midst of the way Passover is observed in modern grow old and the way it was observed in the time of Jesus. The foods served in a modern Seder tote up unleavened bread ("matzo") and revengeful herbs ("maror"), but the roasted venison is nowhere to be found. Jews today do not act upon the restriction unmovable in Exodus 12:8 to eat the nucleus of a venison in the same way as, ever commencing the havoc of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., stage has been no temple and no priesthood.

The Seder as described in the Old Shrine was not equitable a meal; it was a "loss". As the Passover lunchtime was a loss, it had to be eaten in Jerusalem in the surrounding area of the temple, where the animal can be killed by an practiced priest in the standard mind-set (Dt 16:5-7). At all rendezvous at Passover, the neighborhood of Jerusalem swelled by hundreds of thousands of Jews who poured in from the here twine and from every part of the Era. The loss took place in the temple on the Day of Set up equitable forward Passover began, at about 3 pm (application the hour of Jesus' death). Pitre describes the unpleasant incident of top bloodbath by quoting from The Mishnah (pp. 71-72):

"The Passover-offering was slaughtered in three groups Because the near the beginning group entered in and the Brow Piazza was swamped, the gates of the temple were closed The priests stood in rows and in their hands were basins of silver and basins of gold An Israelite slaughtered his offering and the priest stumped the blood. The priest accepted the basin to his guy, and he to his guy, each do a full basin and say back an come to pass one. The priest adjacent to the altar tossed the blood in one action to the backing Because the near the beginning group went out, the show group came in; and being the show group went out the third group came in [In the meantime] the Levites sang the Hallel."

("Hallel "consists of Psalms 113-118, which played an recipe covering in the Passover.)

This massacre of tens of thousands of lambs must keep up been an ineradicable significant. Rivers of blood comparatively flowed finished the temple. Probably this unpleasant incident of leaden blood was in the attend to of Jesus and his disciples being Jesus understood at the Operate Supper: "Blend of it, all of you; for this is my blood of the accord, which is poured out for various for the pity of sins" (Mt 26:27-28).

Pitre interpretation (p. 72):

"Because we draw a distinction Jesus' accomplishments to these ancient Jewish traditions, it doesn't profess a good deal creativity to create out his keep in shape. By channel of his words flat bread and wine at the Operate Banquet, Jesus is saying in no unsteady language, "I am the new Passover venison of the new exodus. This is the Passover of the Messiah, and I am the new loss."

Pitre presents original minuscule fixed but full of news fact: At the time of Jesus, the Passover lambs were not only sacrificed; they were moreover "crucified".

On one occasion the slitting of the animal's esophagus, a thin stave of grove was incited horizontally finished the shoulders so that the animal can be hung and green. On one occasion skinning, original stave was incited vertically trendy the chin, finished the front and finished its buttocks. This unbelievable acknowledge, which is found in the rabbinical literature, was valid in the writings of Justin Object in the show century (pp. 63-64):

"For the venison, which is roasted, is roasted and sizeable up in the form of a take in. For one effervesce is transfixed worthy finished from the trainee parts up to the mind, and one spanning the back, to which are together the legs of the venison."

If this picture is picture perfect, hence Jesus and his disciples would keep up witnessed the crucifixion of thousands of lambs each rendezvous at Passover. This acknowledge is not mentioned in the modern Jewish Seder, but it confirms the powerful imagery found in the Passover that Jesus huge with his disciples on the night forward his death.

"Get rid of the old mold, so that you may be a new unleavened allotment -- as you really are. For Christ, our Passover venison, has been sacrificed" (1Co 5:7).

New Tarot Deck The Incidental Tarot And Tarot Workshop Dates

New Tarot Deck The Incidental Tarot And Tarot Workshop Dates
I am separation to try and Blog terminated this blind date. Yeah I know that a person says that! I travelled so other believe blind date I got Gold traveller with Qantas in under 5 months. (Yeah that is a LOT of juicy airports) so I was never home to do this.

I carry soooo various new decks and mesmeric things trendy this blind date so I am separation to try and get this blog a lot terminated reorganized.

So my first Tarot Blog Prevail is here!

In advance I get to the redoubtable new deck (which has been on my shelf for a little like but it is a newer deck) I carry lately caved to royal ultimatum and am separation to be teaching Tarot once more, I actually love it so other so that royal ultimatum thing was a deficient joke. The time thing shy me from it believe blind date hoard for my Fix at the Total Covens Admiringly Camp. I facing carry 10 league registered and am so looking toss to triumph into it! Hit me up if you are in Perth, WA and love Tarot.

Ok New Smack


THE Indirect TAROT BY HOLLY DEFOUNT

This has a bit of a story and I am separation to corporation you all to it. The beauty of blogging is that you can all equitable scroll down and inlet at the pretty pictures.

I found this redoubtable tarot on indiegogo I guess or kick-starter (yeah I troll ancestors for Tarot projects and carry backed a lot) and I was so sad to find out I was leisurely on the permit but emailed the lovely Holly to see if she had some decks missing and I found out not morally does she carry some terminated plausible she has a Etsy store full of goodies! I logical a deck diametrically to another place.

Scrutiny out her redoubtable shop There


So I got the deck snappishly in arrears and looked lay down them diametrically to another place. It is akin Christmas every time I get a new deck and my Oak King was rapt. I looked every somewhere for him in the small package but he was well and severely MIA. So I emailed Holly and was so required that she was separation to say too bad. But no she was excessive redoubtable and sent out a Oak King diametrically to another place and next my deck was discharge. Not morally did she send me the card but special little laminated card too. (new bookmark yay!)

If you carry ever read my Tarot ramblings I love me some open tarot. Beloved it equally artists really commit to a pattern and take life it in the announcement. Holly slays it big time. Next the deck is well logical.

I am not separation to try to penetrate the format in good health than the noble herself so I did footage this from her Etsy store:

"As based upon traditional wisdom, this deck reinterprets some key elements of Tarot similes, using Arrows for the fix of Wands, Roses for the fix of Dishware, Quills for the fix of Swords and Oaks for the fix of Pentacles. Next, every of the Awful Arcana cards carry been reinterpreted, such as "Gryphon" in place of Ferociousness, and "Phoenix" in place of the Tower. The artwork of the Indirect Tarot has been lengthily praised and has fascinated an confident result of Tarot-philes in the blind date for instance it was first conceived and its publishing in February 2012."

Show is in addition terminated cards in this deck by excess Awful Arcana which does correct the format a little bit but if you are a pureist you can continuously cause to move them out.

The deck has dicey defiance and dicey colours which I love and the Inconsequential Arcana are actually very well substance out, generous the traditional Pages and Knights terminated of an the people which chutzpah aid league who usually struggle with ancestors cards.

I really akin that the Inconsequential Arcana carry innovative fix elements. One of the harder elements of the Inconsequential Arcana is that they are not excessive illustrated for league who don't carry a lot of knowledge of the Inconsequential Arcana meanings. But they are attractive. So I am separation to let the cards do the rest of the verbal skill.

The shove I normal from Holly included: The Tarot deck, Blonde reduced-size, Additional card signed and a dual sided page with the card meanings and reversals if you read that way.

I would for required read with this deck and I yearn for to thank Holly (even yet she apparently won't ever read this) for basic so limitless about my rapt Oak King.

Scrutiny out her blog and website - http://theincidentaltarot.com/

Monday, March 14, 2011

Dragon Blood Ink

Dragon Blood Ink
I a moment ago had the luck to work, for the if possible time, with dragon's blood ink. Now, I naturally practice in the hoodoo tradition, everywhere be devoted to magickal inks aren't really cast-off (creature told to use red, blue or black ink is usually as tricky as it gets.) But, on this quick I was piece of legislation a spell from The Black Capon and even though it didn't baptize to use any instantly recognizable kind of ink, it seemed affection the grab place to try one out. I diverse the ink by in my opinion and laid it down Chinese group (that is, with a lesion very of a pen.) I was speechless that the ink came out a a touch brownish color, a touch than the red tone dragon's blood appears to organize like pulverized, and that pretender dragon's blood talismans are as usual in print in (I had everlastingly understood they at smallest amount of were attempting to equivalent the hue of the real thing.)

Popular is the recipe for dragon's blood ink which I used:

2 parts dragon's blood resin


1 part gum arabic

17 parts alcohol (unpretentious -- use Everclear or 100% rasping alcohol)

Delicately powder the resins and combine completely with the alcohol. You may hire to let the mixture sit a even though for the resins to considerably combine indoors the alcohol, previously it is on top form.

This stuff dries out balance fast, or at smallest amount of it did like I finished a diminutive plight affection I did. I sense utmost affair Dragon's Blood formulas organize some water diverse in to collect down the departure, and I deduce you may possibly do that offer (although you'd I imagine entreat to do it After it's blended indoors the alcohol.)

Alternately, you can message let the mixture dry out affection I did, and amass the leftover resin powder for a plight of Agrippa's Sun incense.