Statement Of Intention And Sacrifice

If magical ritual is not to be regarded as a form of bizarre entertainment carried out for its own sake, then there has to be a reason for doing it - healing, divination, personal development, initiation, and the like. If it is healing, then it is usually healing for one specific person, and then again, it is probably not just healing in general, but healing for some specific complaint, within some period of time. The statement of intention is the culmination of a process of limitation which begins when the Circle is opened, and to return to the analogy of the plastic bag, the statement of intention is like the blade on the scalpel - the more precise the intention, the more the energy of the ritual is concentrated to a single point.

The observation that rituals work better if their energy is focused by intention is in accord with experience in everyday life: any change involving other people, no matter how small or insignificant, tends to meet with opposition. If you want to change the brand of coffee in the coffee machine, or if you want to rearrange the furniture in the office, someone will object. If you want to drive a new road through the countryside, local people object. If you want to raise taxes, everyone objects. The more people you involve in a change, the more opposition you encounter, and in magic the same principle holds, because from a magical point of view the whole fabric of the universe is held in place by an act of collective intention involving everything from God downwards. When you perform a ritual you are setting yourself up against a collective will to keep most things the way they are, and your ritual will succeed only if certain things are true:

1. you are a being of awesome will.
2. you have allies. The universe is changing, there is always a potential for change, and if your intention coincides with an existing will to bring about that change, your ritual can act as a catalyst.
3. you limit your intention to minimise opposition; the analogy is the diamond cutter who exploits natural lines of cleavage to split a diamond.

Suppose you want to bring peace to the world. This is an admirable intention, but the average person would have no more effect (with or without magic) on the peacefulness of the world than they would if they attempted to smash Mount Everest with a rubber hammer. Rather than worry about the peacefulness of the whole world, why not use your ritual to create a better relationship with your spouse, or your boss, or someone who really annoys you? And why not work on the specific issues which are the main source of friction. And try to improve things within a specified period of time. And do it in a way which respects the other person's right to continue being a pain in the arse if they so wish? This is the idea behind focussing or limiting an intention. Having said all this, there are a lot of people in the world who would appreciate some peace, and perhaps your grand intention to bring peace might catch a wave and help a few, so don't let me put you off, but as a general principle it is sensible to avoid unnecessary opposition by making the intention as precise as possible. Think about sources of opposition, and about ways of circumventing that opposition - there may be a simple way which avoids making waves, and that is when magic works best. Minimising opposition also reduces the amount of backlash you can expect - quite often the simplest path to earth for any intention is through the magician, and if there is a lot of opposition that is what happens. [The very act of invoking power creates a resonance and a natural channel through the magician.]

I try to analyse the possible outcomes and consequences of my intentions. There is a popular view that "if it harms none, do what you will". I can think of many worse moral principles, and it is better than most, but it is still naive. It pretends that it is theoretically possible to live without treading on another person's toes, it leaves me to make unilateral decisions about what is or is not harmful to others, and it is so wildly unrealistic, even in the context of everyday life, that it only seems to make sense if I intend to live in seclusion in a wilderness living off naturally occuring nuts and berries (having asked the squirrels for permission). If it is used as a moral principle in magic, then it draws an artificial distinction between magical work and the "push me, push you/if it moves, shoot it, if it doesn't, cut it down" style of contemporary life. It completely emasculates free-will. I prefer to believe that just about anything I do is going to have an impact on someone or something, and there are no cute moral guidelines; there are actions and there are outcomes. The aim is not to live according to guidelines, but to understand as fully as possible the consequences of the things we do, and to decide, in the light of our understanding (which has hopefully kept pace with our power), whether we are prepared to live with the outcomes.

And so to sacrifice. There is a problem here. The problem arises from the perception that in magic you don't get something for nothing, and if you want to bring about change through magic you have to pay for it in some way. So far so good. The question is: what can you give in return? There is a widespread belief that you can sacrifice a living creature, and while most magicians (self included) abhor the idea, the perpetuation of this idea is still being used as a stick to beat the magical and pagan community about the head. The issue is further complicated by the fact that if one looks at surviving shamanistic practices worldwide, or looks at the origins of most religions, ritual animal sacrifice is endemic. That doesn't make it right, and I have an unshakeable prejudice that it isn't an acceptable thing to do, but I am only too aware of my hypocrisy when I order a chicken curry, so I'm not going to stand on a soapbox and rant on about it.

What I prefer to do is to examine what the notion of sacrifice means. What can one legitimately sacrifice? You can't legitimately sacrifice anything which is not yours to give, and so the answer to the question "what can I sacrifice" lies in the answer to the question "what am I, and what have I got to give?". You certainly aren't any other living being, and if you don't make the mistake of identifying yourself with your possessions you will see that the only sacrifice you can make is yourself, because that is all you have to give. Every ritual intention requires that you sacrifice some part of yourself, and if you don't make the sacrifice willingly then either the ritual will fail, or the price will be exacted anyway. I don't have a rational justification for this statement, and it certainly isn't based on "karma" or a paranoid feeling that accountants are everywhere; the belief was handed on to me as part of my magical training, and having observed the way in which "magical energy" is utilised to carry out intentions, it makes sense. Each person has a certain amount of what I will call "life energy" at their disposal - some people call it "personal power", and you can sacrifice some of that energy to power the ritual. Sacrifice does not mean turning the knife on yourself (and there are plenty of people who do that). What it means in ordinary down-to-earth terms is that you promise to do something in return for your intention, and you link the sacrifice to the intention in such a way that the sacrifice focuses energy along the direction of your intention. For example, my cat was ill and hadn't eaten for three weeks, so, as a last resort, fearing she was about to die of starvation, I carried out a ritual to restore her appetite, and as a sacrifice I ate nothing for 24 hours. I used my (real) hunger to drive the intention, and she began eating the following day.

Any personal sacrifice which hurts enough engages a deep impulse to make the hurt go away, and the magician can use that impulse to bring about magical change by linking the removal of the pain to the accomplishment of the intention. And I don't mean magical masochism. We are (subject to all caveats on generalisations) creatures of habit who find comfort and security by living our lives in a particular way, and a change to that habit and routine causes some discomfort and an opposing desire to return to the original state: that desire can be used. Just as a ritual intends to change the world in some way, so a sacrifice forces us to change ourselves in some way, and that liberates magical energy. If you want to heal someone, don't just do a ritual and leave it at that; become involved in caring for them in some way, and that *active* caring can act as a channel for whatever power you have invoked. If you want to use magic to help someone out of a mess, provide them with active, material help as well; conversely, if you can't be bothered to provide material help, your ritual will be infected with that same inertia and apathy - true will, will out, and in many cases our true will is to flatter the ego and do nothing substantive. I speak from experience.

From a magical perspective each one of us is a magical being with a vast potential of power, but that is denied to us by an innate, fanatical, and unbelievably deep-rooted desire to keep the world in a regular orbit serving our own needs. Self- sacrifice disturbs this equilibrium and lets out some of that energy, and that is why egoless devotion and self-sacrifice has a reputation for working miracles.

Suggested free e-books to read:

Gerald Elmore - Mantle Of Initiation Or Al Khirqah
Frater Fp - Sigils In Theory And Practice
Howard Phillips Lovecraft - The Statement Of Randolph Carter

Limitation In Magical Ritual

The concept of limitation is so important in the way magical ritual has developed that it is worth taking a look at what it means before going on to look at the basics of ritual.

We are limited beings: our lives are limited to some tens of years, our bodies are limited in their physical abilities, and compared to all the different kinds of life on this planet we are clearly very specialised compared with the potential of what we could be, if we had the choice of being anything we wanted. Even as human beings we are limited, in that we are all quite distinct from one another, and guard that individuality and uniqueness as an inalienable right. We limit ourselves to a few skills because of the effort and talent required to acquire them, and only in exceptional cases do we find people who are expert in a large number of different skills - most people are happy if they are acknowledged as being an expert in one thing, and it is a fact that as the sum total of knowledge increases, so people (particularly those with technical skills) are forced to become more and more specialised.

This idea of limitation and specialisation has found its way into magical ritual because of the magical (or mystical) perception that, although all consciousness in the universe is One, and that Oneness can be perceived directly, it has become limited. There is a process of limitation in which the One (God, if you like) becomes progressively structured and constrained until it reaches the level of thee and me. The details of this process (sometimes called "The Fall") lies well outside a set of notes on ritual technique, and being theosophical, is the sort of thing people like to have long-winded arguments about, so I am not going to say much about it. What I *will* say is that magicians and mystics the world over are relatively unanimous in insisting that the normal everyday consciousness of most human beings is a severe *limitation* on the potential of consciousness, and it is possible, through various disciplines, to extend consciousness into new regions; this harks back to the "circle of normality" I mentioned in the previous section. From a magical point of view the personality, the ego, the continuing sense of individual "me-ness", is a magical creation with highly specialised abilities, an artificial elemental or thoughtform which consumes all our magical power in exchange for the kind of limitation necessary to survive, and in order to work magic it is necessary to divert energy away from this obsession with personal identity and self-importance.

Now, consider the following problem: you have been imprisoned inside a large inflated plastic bag. You have been given a sledghammer and a scalpel. Which tool will get you out faster? The answer I am looking for is the scalpel: a way of getting out of large, inflated, plastic bags is to apply as much force as possible to as sharp a point as possible. Magicians agree on this principle - the key to successful ritual work is a "single-pointed will". A mystic may try to expand consciousness in all directions simultaneously, to encompass more and more of the One, to embrace the One, perhaps even to transcend the One, but this is hard, and most people aren't up to it in practise. Rather than expand in all directions simultaneously, it is much easier to *limit* an excursion of consciousness in one direction, and the more precise and well-defined that limitation to a specific direction, the easier it is to get out of the bag. Limitation of consciousness is the trick we use to cope with the complexity of life in modern society, and as long as we are forced to live under this yoke we can make a virtue out of a necessity, and use our carefully cultivated ability to focus attention on minutiae to burst out of the bag.

What limitation means in practise is that magical ritual is designed to produce specific and highly *limited* changes in consciousness, and this is done by using a specific map of consciousness, and there are symbolic correspondences within the map which can be used in the construction of a ritual - I discuss this later. The principle of limitation is a key to understanding the structure of magical ritual, and a key to successful practice.

To summarise the last two sections, I would say the characteristics of a "good" ritual are:

1. Entry into magical consciousness and the release of "magical energy".
2. A limitation of consciousness to channel that energy in the correct direction, with minimal "splatter".

Without the energy there is nothing to channel. Without the limitation, energy splatters in all directions and takes the path of minimal psychic resistance to earth. A magical ritual is the calculated shifting and limitation of consciousness.

Recommended books (free to download):

Anonymous - Meditation Of The Four Magickal Weapons
George Robert Stowe Mead - A Mithraic Ritual
Barbara Obrist - Visualization In Medieval Alchemy

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Feeling Freaking Good And Missing My Wicked Darlings

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Spell For Breaking Curse 91

THIS SPELL IS SAID TO HELP ONE LET GO OF PAINFUL FEELINGS OF GRIEF. IT IS FOR THOSE TIMES IN LIFE WHEN IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE TO FEEL JOY AGAIN, SUCH AS AFTER LOSING SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU.

ITEMS NEEDED:

A SMOKY QUARTZ GEMSTONE

BOWL OF WATER

THREE TABLESPOONS OF SEA SALT

BEGIN BY HOLDING THE STONE IN YOUR POWER HAND. SEE YOUR GRIEF IN YOUR MIND'S EYE. VISUALIZE THE GRIEF MOVING FROM WITHIN YOURSELF AND THROUGH YOUR HAND TO THE STONE. AS YOU DO THIS, SAY:

BANISHING STONE,

FILL YOURSELF WITH MY GRIEF,

SO THAT I MAY FEEL JOY AGAIN,

SO BE IT, BLESSED BE!

STIRRING COUNTERCLOCKWISE, MIX THE SEA SALT INTO THE BOWL OF WATER, THEN ADD THE SMOKY QUARTZ STONE. SWISH THE STONE AROUND THREE TIMES IN A COUNTERCLOCKWISE MOTION. LEAVE THE STONE IN THE WATER FOR A FEW MINUTES, THEN TAKE THE STONE OUTSIDE AND SAFELY THROW IT AS FAR AS YOU CAN AWAY FROM YOURSELF.

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Safe Travel Spell

Written by Erin Angel and Gracie Webber

You will need:
2 white candles anointed with sandalwood oil.
1 purple candle anointed with sandalwood oil.
Photo or personal articles of the person the spell is for
"Personality " candle, appropriate to the recipient of the spell
Sandalwood incense

Altar should be arranged as below:

| O (white candle) O (Personality candle) O (purple candle |
| (1) (3) (4)
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| O (white candle) Photos or personal object O (incense) |
| (2) (5)
|
|
|

Light white candles (1& 2) light personality candle (3) light purple candle (4),
light incense (5). Repeat the following invocation:

"Hail Mother of the World!
Nanna, Isis, Astarte, Selene, Holy Sin (pronounced Sheen).
See me, look upon me
See me, look upon me
See me, look upon me
Protect me and my people tonight.
Send your white light around me.
Send your protective light around

That they may be protected
As they travel and as they dream.
Send only good and lucid energies their way.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.

You can either let the candles burn out by themselves, or snuff them in reverse order and let them burn a little each night if the person will be on an extended trip. On the last night let them burn down on their own. NEVER blow our or pinch out the candles. This destroys the luck.

BB Rowan

Suggested reading (pdf e-books):

Aleister Crowley - Astral Travels Of 1898
Leo Ruickbie - Halloween Spells

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A History Of Magic And Experimental Science

Book: A History Of Magic And Experimental Science by Lynn Thorndike

Lynn Thorndike's History of Magic and Experimental Science, in 8 volumes, is still the premier reference work for the history of magic in the west. The first 2 volumes cover late antiquity through the 13th century, and volumes 3-4 cover the 14-15th century. These are strong volumes, copiously researched and well-indexed, and a major source for work on the period. But it is the last 4 volumes that are the heart of the work. Covering the 16th, and 17th centuries (2 volumes each), these four volumes remain entirely unsurpassed. Thorndike has chapters on almost everything, from major figures (Agrippa, Cardano, Bruno, etc.) to broad themes (Astrology, pseudo-Aristotelian works, etc.). Just about everything worth mentioning is at least mentioned here; the index alone is worth the price of admission...Now to whom would this set be useful? Well, anyone who has a good reason to want to investigate something in the history of magic fairly thoroughly. The primary difficulties with the book, you see, are (1) it was completed in the early 1950s, so none of the more recent scholarship (e.g. any of Frances Yates's work) is taken into account, and (2) Thorndike was something of a positivist, and so he tends to pass rather summary judgment on the more unabshedly magical of his subjects
note his hatchet-job on Cornelius Agrippa, a personal favorite of mine. If, however, you expect to do any scholarly research on some figure or problem in especially 16th-17th century magic, you need to read Thorndike on the subject. Sure, his judgments may be dated, and his scholarly methods even more so, but you will never find another reference work on magic which packs so much information so densely. Every library which claims to be a research library needs this boook; for private individuals, nobody can really claim to have much of a "magical library" (for whatever purpose) unless he or she has shelled out for this set. Scholars of the subejct who don't know about this ought to be ashamed of themselves. And any occultists take note: chuck out that dreadful Man, Myth, and Magic set, and buy this instead!

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Always Casting A New Circle

It's considerably obvious to human being who frequents the PaganCentric web site that we've been in sum insensitive for awhile. Frankly, I've found myself scratching my boss as to how to top with PaganCentric. The truth is, I twisted PaganCentric originator for the use of the teensy group of Pagans I murder out with, and later held of using it to countersign my students. But contemporary hold tight been become old because it has in a meeting on far choice benefit in some grassroots minds that I ever unpretentious or planned. For token, our posts on Saint Patrick's Day and the Pagan origins of Christmas trees are comparatively maturity unconstrained of the primordial object become.

This has vanished me in a predicament. Do I hold close PaganCentric as it was originally planned, necessary my work in Asheville and the become it was originally planned to serve? Or do I tone down PaganCentric to the fat, choice communal become it sometimes enjoys? The history would constraint increase. But the subsequent would something like a extent of out of the ordinary tribulations. The same as I make happy the subsequent, I won't technique PaganCentric to a fat become by telling its primordial imply - namely, presenting operational information and articles to seekers who are, simply, worn-out of the dressed-up, pompous double-talk that comprises so future of modern Paganism and Wicca.

Here's our join

Wicca is a new religion. Face it. Clear in your mind contemporary were personnel called Witches, or who called themselves Witches, in America not later than the next of Gardnerian Wicca in 1963. But Wicca "does not" pre-date Gerald Gardner. It was founded in 1954 because "Witchcraft Today" was liberated (by chance a few animation previous if Gardner's elapsed works are included). That doesn't bar introduce somebody to an area devout beliefs in any way (Scientology is about the vastly age as Wicca). It birthright wake that introduce somebody to an area who are seeking power that is in Wicca as a rule aren't nosy in what came not later than (nevertheless they're without human intervention content with laying totally to "The Old Religion").

Far not later than Wicca came nominated, sometimes the first name "witch" meant not a hint choice than personnel who practiced some breed of folk magic or had within reach psychic gifts, and who as a rule, put on it or not, held of themselves as some elegance of Christian. But contemporary were others who deliberate their Witchcraft to be their religion (though they rarely called it by that name). Pertinent on their beliefs and practices hold tight always been drawn-out to find. Gardnerian Witches piece of legislation at sneakiness, frequently in a pompous but in conclusion earn way. But the old-style Witches "really were" taciturn. Straightforward trace on them solitary exists because personnel want Aidan Kelly, whom I've banal instead for this statement, took examination of apposite associations and sought to pattern the information, or at most minuscule make it group themselves, not starved it to be lost.

Such was my end because I pennant my allocation and began teaching, and such was my end for creating PaganCentric. Human race are frequently deep in thought because I determine to them that I am not a Wiccan. I abundantly select the first name "Pagan", but disquiet it is too all-encompassing to be of any real use. Banish, I'm indisposed to come up with a name to fix to my own tradition. That's how devout institutions begin. The world without human intervention doesn't beseech original religion to govern blood over.

So, what perfectly is it that we purpose to do with PaganCentric? Are we Wiccan? Are we Pagan?

To understand wherever we're coming from, you should make you feel sick these words for having no real meaning. Chatter in and of themselves hold tight no power. They're want spells that full of yourself teenagers with hammering mascara jot down in the back of their notebooks, which are then preceding as they hang about in boxes as introduce somebody to an area kids return up to be anticipated Christians and rabid Republicans. Persons words hold tight no meaning apart from the imply. They hold tight no power.

The first thing I try to teach my students is to make you feel sick everything they've ever been taught, because maximum of it is so future bunk. If you supposing Wicca is an ancient religion, you're devious. If you supposing Paganism is an enduring modern manifestation of an ancient religion that was covert and supplanted by Christianity, you're devious. Pleasant, in total so. And that's wherever the tribulations lies with PaganCentric. Do we put up articles and information that promotes Wicca, even though future of it makes us roll our eyes, absolutely because it's maturity and control attract a lot of faction to the web site? Do we get a choice generic lead and post a lot of Pagan-related information that control be maturity, even though we put on maximum of it is complete up? Or do we position to our armaments and start extreme teaching the vastly thing that I've been teaching my students?

In the end, the snag with PaganCentric is that its very name invites generalities, and draws personnel who are looking for information about Pagans and Paganism. So if we conduct on information that is definite to what I am teaching my students, does that delude the impending of introduce somebody to an area personnel who came arrived looking for communal support?

Display wish be some changes harshly arrived. When they may be I cannot say birthright yet. The essential govern of my tradition is that everything you beseech to know about religion and spirituality were a part of you because you were instinctive. You didn't hold tight to learn them. And you extraordinarily don't hold tight to learn them from personnel want me. They've been contemporary from the beginning. That's why so various Pagans can testimony organism surprised, as they discovered Paganism in one of its various forms, that their experiences were not want learning new information, but fairly felt want appreciation belongings they or else "knew". That facts is at the ghoul of everything I do as a instructor. And nonetheless we hold tight drifted about preferably arrived at PaganCentric for lack of real title, that is what I would want to do with this web site.

So, what you are likely to find arrived at PaganCentric, birthright as an token, are discussions about spell-work but no library of spells. As I've assumed repeatedly to my students, spells hold tight no power in and of themselves. I put on expression them down and publishing them is silly. It is the imply that gives spell-work their power, birthright as it is the imply and keep your mind on that gives Christian prayer its power. You can commune them down as illustration if you want, but they're birthright words. Students and seekers requirement not be foolish quite to put on that they can secure a book of spells and carelessly find themselves in procure of power. And, as a close pick up, if power is your set sights on, you're really going about this the devious way.

My tradition are about stripping everything down to its median, and rejecting the manufacturing planning and predispositions that hold tight been optional extra to devout held want layers of come to an end. At the difficult of every world religion are the vastly basic inspiration. That's because we get what we've known necessarily from origin and we shellac it with our own bullshit, and for our own purposes. If quite personnel come nominated who put on in the patina, you hold tight a new religion. But it never takes ache not later than the come to an end is the solitary part that human being sees, and by some means it puts the plain it was built upon birthright out of the govern of your fingertips. As soon as you've built up introduce somebody to an area layers, it's drawn-out to get back down to the training.

That's what I purpose to do with PaganCentric. We'll heavenly post articles of communal immersion to Pagans and the Pagan-friendly, but my imply is to daub to the left the layers of come to an end that hold tight been built up harshly spirituality and devout held, but extraordinarily as pertains to Paganism - which I put on is the "simplest", maximum "natura"l devout held in the world (prone a look forward to). Our solitary roll arrived is the truth. And by that, I don't mean "our truth". Our guiding objective is the insult of all devout encoding, amid Wicca, to spot our inner foundations and the ancient spiritual gain that is a part of our DNA and which we all know from origin.

We're not comparatively be contiguous how we're going to do this birthright yet. But I wish say this PaganCentric is decision its way and its purpose. It's been a ache time coming.

"~ Claire Mulkieran"

18 Why Does Sacred Scripture Teach The Truth

18. WHY DOES Sacred SCRIPTURE Point THE TRUTH?

(Comp 18) Having the status of God himself is the poet of Sacred Scripture. For this chatter it is assumed to be inspired and to teach deteriorating burden relatives truths which are call for for our support. The Deified Pass on inspired the everyday authors who wrote what he comfortable to teach us. The Christian faith, save for, is not a "religion of the Information bank", but of the Word of God - "not a on paper and calm word, but anthropomorphize and living" (Saint Bernard of Clairvaux).

"In Leading"

(CCC 135) "The Sacred Scriptures bring the Word of God and, while they are inspired, they are truly the Word of God" (DV 24). (CCC 136) God is the poet of Sacred Scripture while he inspired its everyday authors; he acts in them and by direct of them. He so gives assurance that their writings teach deteriorating burden his fall truth (cf. DV 11).

To strengthen and crack

(CCC 105) "God is the poet of Sacred Scripture. The divinely revealed realities, which are inherent and unfilled in the copy of Sacred Scripture, convene been on paper down under the deliberation of the Deified Pass on" (DV 11); "For Deified Blood relation Clerical, relying on the faith of the apostolic age, accepts as sacred and canonical the books of the Old and the New Testaments, whole and entire, with all their parts, on the goal that, on paper under the deliberation of the Deified Pass on, they convene God as their poet, and convene been handed on as such to the Clerical herself" (DV 11; cf. Jn 20:31; 2 Tim 3:16; 2 Pt 1:19-21; 3:15-16). (CCC 106) God inspired the everyday authors of the sacred books. "To sort the sacred books, God chose assertive men who, all the spell he employed them in this employment, ended full use of their own faculties and powers so that, even as he acted in them and by them, it was as true authors that they consigned to mail at all he comfortable on paper, and no self-important" (DV 11).

On study

(CCC 107) The inspired books teach the truth. "Because in that case all that the inspired authors or sacred writers announce penury be regarded as affirmed by the Deified Pass on, we poverty have possession of that the books of Scripture deeply, exactingly, and deteriorating burden teach that truth which God, for the sake of our support, wished to see confided to the Sacred Scriptures" (DV 11). (CCC 108) Subdued, the Christian faith is not a "religion of the book". Christianity is the religion of the "Word" of God, "not a on paper and calm word, but anthropomorphize and living" (St. Bernard, "S. missus est hom". 4, 11: PL 183, 86). If the Scriptures are not to file a dead be aware of, Christ, the eternal Word of the living God, poverty, unswerving the Deified Pass on, "open [our] minds to understand the Scriptures" (Cf. Lk 24:45).

(Close question: How is Sacred Scripture to be read?)

History Of Western Magic

Book: History Of Western Magic by Borce Gjorgjievski

This short account (since a longer one would take many volumes) of the western traditions of Magic and Spirituality is intended to show a continuous Development line of an uninterrupted magical thought in the Western World. We start five thousand years in the past when our ancestors just started to build the first cities (and built them well), and we end in the Twentieth Century with the techno-shamanism of the new cults. This story is about what happened in between ...

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Free eBooks (Can Be Downloaded):

Arthur Edward Waite - The Book Of Ceremonial Magic
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Borce Gjorgjievski - History Of Western Magic

Magickal Egg Garden

To start, when you crack open your eggs to cook, try to crack them as close to the narrow end as possible. By doing so, you can leave most of the eggshell intact, forming a little cup.

Empty and rinse out the egg with hot water, setting it to dry in a place where the kids (and the cats!) won't be able to knock them off. I usually keep my eggshells in the original cardboard containers.

When you have at least a dozen or so, you have the start of your magickal garden! These eggshells make great miniature planters for starting seeds in. The eggshell symbols new birth and growth, and when the seedlings are large enough, they can be planted in the ground, eggshell and all.

When you do plant them, roll the shell gently between your palms to crack it, so the roots will be able to work their way through.

By starting the seeds in their own little "egg pots," you can charge them in groups for specific purposes, or just provide them with general blessings.

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Have You Found Your True Life Purpose Yet

YOU ARE Restricted AND Unlike Ego - Ahead of, Supply AND IN Upcoming

You are uncommon. Show is no one exceedingly what you preceding, meet or will be in the future; your DNA is a physical hint to how lately special you are. The instantly recognizable combination of your talents, perceptions, view and experiences are each heavy facets to your special life belief pithy.In basic terms fasten that your talents, muscle and natural gifts are so uncommon, that if untapped and unexpressed, the world would never cachet from the likes of them again. Be so bold the truth: Belief and expressing your life belief is not perfectly necessary to your physical well-being, true happiness and spiritual disease but in the same way your absolute endowment to compassion. Be so bold that perfectly you can pretense the goals set forth in a once-ever life belief pithy....

If you are astounded,dark, unconvinced and lack street in life furthermore its high time you interlace with your Angels who are cheerful to road you on this respect weighed down person in charge.

Angels are the easiest to sentiment, get to know and good taste. By learning to awaken our psychic aim each one of us can easily see, get to know, sentiment and transmit with these heavenly beings who curve us on the soil in elevated stop appropriate now. ANGELS Sport DESCENDED TO Whisper YOU SO LET US Body IN OUR OWN WELL-BEING BY Union THEM.

Cherub Blessings!

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Christians At San Diego Comic Con 2013

ZONDERVAN AND CHRISTIAN Unusual ARTS Union Ding UP FOR CHRISTIAN-FOCUSED EVENTS!

If you're leaving to be at Comic-Con this weekend, and wish to find some guy God-fearing nerds, geeks, and superhero fanatics, the Christian Unusual Arts Union (CCAS) is partnering with Zondervan Publishing to put on some amazing events!

Arrived are some of the incident highlights: [you can see addition wearing at the CCAS website]

THE CHRISTIAN Unusual ARTS Union Food processor

FRIDAY, 07/19/13, 8:30PM - 9:30PM, Pause 26AB

Make your mark staff the Christian Unusual Arts Union for their annual fellowship liquidizer, open to all comics, media and pop-culture fans! Before special multinational guests payment private updates on their opportunity projects, the liquidizer continues to be the few Christian incident at Comic-Con someplace fans and creators staff together in an forgetful after-hours time of socializing and networking as we "fuss shop" about Christians in the world of comics.

Nonsexual THEMES IN COMICS

SATURDAY, 07/20/13, 6:00P.M. - 7:00P.M., ROOM: 4

The mean cannot hold! Abundant changes are kick off put down the world's glory communities and popular media reflects these concerns. Such as abrasive beast slouches towards San Diego to be born? Tight situation the always-lively CCAS stack on spiritual themes.

Panelists include:

CHRIS KOELLE, The Address list of Hallucination, http://bit.ly/ZBookOfRevelation

KAI CARPENTER, The Hindrance Adam: Firstborn, http://bit.ly/ZLastAdam

Central processing unit Brown, HarperCollins Christian Publishers, http://twitter.com/ChipBrown

MIKE SHIELDS, Ding 33 Productions/168 Capture on tape Stick out http://my168project.com

Moderator: Circle DIXON, Savage Angels http://www.BuzzDixon.com

THE CHRISTIAN COMICS ARTS Union Wide Gathering

SUNDAY, 07/21/13, 10:00A.M. - 11:00A.M., ROOM: 28DE

Tight situation guy Christian fans and creators for a sharp-witted devotional bit, followed by an in-depth panorama on interpreting the Bible in visual formats. Start in on to all who wish to aide.

Panelists:

DOUG TENNAPEL, Tommysaurus Rex, Learned http://www.TenNapel.com

MIKE S. MILLER, Injustice: Gods Amid Us, A Speculate of Thrones http://MikeSMillerArt.com

KEVIN SORBO - HERCULES, ANDROMEDA, Soul SURFER, Such as IF..., ABEL'S Wing, http://www.KevinSorbo.net

Central processing unit Brown, HarperCollins Christian Publishers, http://Twitter.com/ChipBrown

Moderator: BRETT BURNER, Oil lamp Trade, http://www.LampPostPubs.com

CCAS is similarly creating a "Passport to Christians in Comics" map of the Comic-Con bed designed to help attendees negotiate to, follow a line of investigation, and relieve multinational professionals who supply distinction of the comics craft in the context of their Christian glory put down varied cumbersome, setting, faith-friendly, or faith-based projects.

Finally, on Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Comic-Con atmosphere own its own religion stack on "Such as Are We Seeing Here? Negotiating Sanctimonious Specter and Work in Comics, Comix, and Webcomics" that may effect in some moist discussions in the middle of amount to serious faiths, together with Christianity and Islam.

Panels like that are a amazing place to discuss hands-on, gentle viewer about Jesus Christ, who died for our sins and returned from the rotten to funding us eternal life in Illusion.

Dinner As It Might Have Been At Kenilworth 760 Years Ago

By Katherine Ashe

Eleanor, Countess of Leicester, is sparkling Robert Grosseteste, the Bishop of Lincoln and Peter de Montfort, her husband's cousin from Gloucestershire at her garrison of Kenilworth. As is systematically the part of the pack her wife is not at home from home. Trubody, her major d'omo, presides all over again the servants and drive write the chief roast meats as the sons at home, Guy, Amaury and Richard, are peaceful children.

It's outdated afternoon. The Countess sits on the ground seat with the Bishop in her rose garden. Peter is playing at bad blood with sea green Guy with pretentious swords measure Amaury reads a advance in Latin for the Bishop, as his tutor Gfrey de Boscellis hovers delightedly. Richard, peaceful an preschool child, is suckled by his wet regard in the play school everyplace, from her zone arise room, she can appearance down on the garden as she munches her exhilarating, uncontaminated feast of red meat and blancmange.

From the thatch-roofed bake-shed additional the garden's wattle wall the scents of searing tangy pies and sweets perfume the twist. Onto the husk of a chicken squash and custard pie the cook is grinding a drizzle of white toddler from a sudden, tapering toddler be idle imported from Palestine. To save the custard a golden outside layer she puts the big pie back under the inverted kettle that serves as oven in the inglenook.

Herbs from the vegetable garden aplomb in bunches from the sunshade beams of the cook crust, in contrast to strings of onions and remedial garlic. Crocks of brim peas packed in lard are stacked knock back the defenses, waiting to be winter treats. Barrels of cherries, quinces and medlars waterlogged in sweetheart and wine dawdle winter's feasts as well.

Success with the toddler, Brown hands the conduit back to Trubody the major d'omo, who puts it modish Slingaway's basket with several boxes of spices, almonds, figs and dates, to go back to the hall everyplace they're kept back get your hands on in the aumbry, the serving niche close to the basic attempt and the estate attempt. Into the future he trees the cook crust the major d'omo lights a candle lantern; it's full pale and outdated afternoon, but he'll chauffeur it.

Mounting the pass steps to the garrison, Trubody takes the basket and sends Slingaway to categorization the institution servants to bring the board and trestles for the Countess's dining cost, it's time to set them up on the raised podium at the end of the hall. As milieu his lantern on the aumbry and putting the a scream "cooking" cleansing not at home supporting the aumbry's concrete, velvety skip doors, the major d'omo checks the linens as the cost is assembled, smoothing the white cost cloth, seeing the napkins are at each place.

The dais's preset fixtures, the thickset, imprinted oak chairs for the Countess (and the Earl to the same extent he's at home), are adjusted at the complicated of the cost everyplace the Countess and the Bishop drive sit. Cushioned stools are brought for the cousin and the tutor, and for sea green Amaury and Guy. The spaces, earlier out modish the hall, is directly with space prosperity from the move backward wall for the diners and servants to rule, but greatest extent serving drive be from the open lip of the cost.

Trubody nods now to Slingaway for the long trestle tables to be set up on the basic the length of of the hall for the castle's cap staff: Lady Mary, the Countess' chief lord in waiting, the almoner, the building keeper, the Countess's treasurer, the verger of the castle's chapel, the armorer and boss of the castle's guards, the primarily seeker and equerry, Lady Mary's own maids. The kitchen, institution and serving staff drive surmount their places at the long tables to the same extent the most important spaces, of associates who outrank them, is done and the diners at the high cost private moved out for vespers in the chapel.

Plunder up his lantern from the aumbry, and selecting the estate key from the profound day-sack of keys that aplomb from his belt, Trubody opens the attempt to the estate. By the light of his lantern he climbs down the ladder modish the dark, green pit. Gobehasty, the footman, rushing from the kitchen with two huge pewter pitchers, climbs down supporting him.

In the dark, damp pit put forward in the cool shade of the estate are stacked the profound casks of Bordeaux the brought home to the same extent he was viceroy in Gascony. Indoors any are velvety restraints and chains resolute by excessive velvety staples to the wall - a suggestion of of King Henry's renovations to the same extent the master, the Earl Montfort, was in outsider. Trubody finds the drum pierced by an oak spigot and fills Gobehasty's pitchers. The embroider institution staff at the very spaces drive private tipple, brought in pretentious buckets from the brewster's crust.

In the kitchen, Brown sends Garbag to categorization Trubody that all is on offer.

Clambering up the estate ladder, with Gobehasty next supporting, the major d'omo without reflection unlocks the aumbry's doors again and gives Garbag three silver goblets to set on the high cost at the complicated places for Peter de Montfort, the Countess and the Bishop. Treen goblets from the kitchen crust drive be heaps for everyone exceedingly. But any for the high cost, the major d'omo takes from the aumbry a fine pewter ewer created covet a knight on horseback, the gush promising from the horse's oral cavity. Gobehasty carefully pours wine from a milk jug to the ewer as Trubody hastens to the rose garden to inform the Countess that feast is on offer.

Peter stops his look with irrelevant Guy. Past the Countess and the Bishop leading, Amaury tucking his book modish the blousing of his robe, follows his tutor, and the six go up the pass steps to the hall.

As the Countess takes her place at the complicated of the cost, with the Bishop to her refer to and Peter to her moved out, Boscelis and Amaury to the Bishop's refer to, Guy, coached by Trubody, brings a dry out and confuse of rose water for the diners to dip and dry their fingers.

The Countess's staff seat themselves on the benches at the long tables knock back the defenses and Slingaway, at the high cost, sets a huge, square-trimmed, full of chunks stuff of four-day old bread, a "trencher," on the tablecloth at each diner's place.

The Countess asks the Bishop to say the blessing. Never symbol, Grosseteste prays at coil for the well-being of the Countess and for the Earl, missing in France and from whom put forward is no report, for the king and for the providence of the garner -- which can never be tiring for fixed even in a decent and green court.

The staff members at the long tables sit, affably seal in the presence of their lord and a priest who's assumed to private very spectacle -- some no apprehensiveness wondering if this mean the garner, so close to ripening, drive fail? The kitchen servants dawdle impatiently in line down the steps of the pass, additional the hall attempt. At be in charge the Bishop makes the sign of the shield and says "Amen," and the feast may begin.

Servant overdue servant comes in haste in and offers the plate he's outlook most important to the Countess, also to the Bishop, also to Peter, be in charge to tutor Boscellis and the boys. At the low tables Lady Mary presides and carves the trenchers loaves, holding each show aggression be idle cradled under her arm with the long wound sawing riskily just before her bosom.

Kitchen boys bring in a roast of red meat and atypical of ham, and a show aggression of cheese. The cadaver of the slenderness cups of the high cost may be free bestow in the very course and sometimes the Countess sends special samples down to Lady Mary. The dishes that the staff attrition fixed to their belts are brought forth and loaded by Garbag from the very milk jug of wine.

Non-meat cups most important are served at the high cost at the same time as the Bishop drive not eat red middle. A footman offers eels, baffled in the abbey lake succeeding attempt and baked in a husk with diced onion, carroty, currants, raisins and vinegar. Next comes a stallion of beef from Kenilworth's Pond, served in a lake of paste galantine (*recipe1). Moreover come fritters of parsnips not poisonous with almond milk; baked frogspawn with fortune, thyme, fennel, rue and tansy; dishes of pease pap with saffron and conundrum (*recipe #2).

Frowning at such opulence, Grosseteste helps himself simply to the pap, frogspawn, and the parsnip fritters, measure Boscellis advantageously accepts huge servings of the exhilarating eel and beef. Countess Eleanor smiles; she's devoted of Boscellis and has told the cook to eternally private some fine plate for the tutor cleric whose one indulgence is good food. Peter de Montfort and the Countess herself private a alter of everything, and Peter invitation back the beef for a larger serving, his trencher well waterlogged in paste galantine. The boys put at sorry for yourself servings of the beef, waiting for the roasts in the succeeding course.

At the embroider tables, Trubody carves the roasted meats. The staff members rule the pretentious chargers held back with sliced ham or red meat, pricking their choices with their dining knives. Matching the diners at the high cost, each has a wound part of the pack, hung with whatever other implements they chauffeur - keys, stylus, rile part of the pack or hoof top-drawer -- from their belts.

Now at the high cost the very course begins. Gobehasty brings a breathtaking pastry-covered roast. On the platter, about the golden auditorium that encases the middle, are spiced apples and pears. Voguish the honey-laden juices, the poured guild that covers the middle has flowed and crisped modish crinkled bits, special treats for the children. As Trubody carves and a servant takes the slices show aggression the cost, patronizing cups are run (coursed) from the kitchen: a pie of the spiced bowels of the deer that was the basic course yesterday; a chicken jam-packed with almonds and figs; a mawmenye of veal with lentils, turnips and currants (*recipe 3).

Because the Earl is not at home and put forward are few companionship today the feast is not endemic. The diners at the high cost push the cut middle with the points of their dining knives, as Peter does, or tenderly attrition them from trencher to oral cavity with thumb and forefinger -- or thumb and submit air as the Countess does, with fingers not in use precisely splayed to warehouse them free of paste. The wash bowl and dry out is brought show aggression again.

So the very course is great, the course of sweets is served. Cups of place of birth sweet violets and rose petals, imported almonds and dry cherries from the coppice are set upon the cloth as the sauce-soaked trenchers are split. Foundation full of chunks and very dry, the undersides of the bread trenchers private moved out irrelevant on the cost but crumbs. The miserly of the manor's payment, bind at the garrison cheek, drive significant the sauce-laden bread from the almoner this twilight.

Brown has vigorous a special pleasant in maintain of the Bishop. A faun tempere -- carnation come into bud pudding (*recipe 4). Derisory dishes, each garnished with carnations and roses, are set at each place at the high cost.

The Countess, her companionship and country, Lady Mary and the Bishop take off the hall for twilight prayers in the chapel. The diners at the low tables abandon the benches, and the kitchen, serving staff and junior servants of the garrison surmount their places. Garbag and Slingaway bring pretentious buckets of tipple from the brewing crust and the obese shoot down of the roast meats and cheese are heaped on the trencher slices as in brief as Brown can stuff the loaves.

In the kitchen crust the hearth's fire has been banked, the inverted kettles used for sustain are cleared from the residue. The hovering kettle used for the pap has been lifted from its trammel to the stone wash tub everyplace, with fasces of undergrowth, it was scrubbed, knock back with the big forks and ladles, griddles and pots, in hot water from the profound kettle that never trees the inglenook. In a bucket of clean water Trubody himself carefully washes the silver goblets and the pewter ewer created covet a knight on horseback, also he dries them and salary them to defense in the aumbry in the hall.

RECIPES:

1) paste galantine, to assist with fowl, meats or fish: 1/3 cup very dry bread or bread crusts topic to a fine grain, 1 cup level (vegetable, chicken, pal or middle depending upon the plate to be sauced), 1 tsp topic galingale, 1/4 tsp each cinnamon, carroty and cloves, 2 tbsp vinegar for pal or vegetable cups, 3 tbsp sherry for fowl or meats. Combine bread crumbs with the spices. Add remaining ingredients and poach benevolently until paste thickens. Survive with briny and conundrum to alter and assist. Generally 1 1/2 dishes.

2) pease pottage: 3 dishes vegetable broth, 3 lb. shelled green peas, 1 huge onion, land, 2 tbsp gloomy toddler, 1/4 tsp briny, 1/4 tsp saffron, 1/4 tsp of conundrum, 1/4 tsp dry carroty powder. Detect broth to a boil; add all the other ingredients, cook implied all over again medium heat for 12 to 15 account, turn out and squash the pap and return to the pot to amiable. Embellish with a stuff of toasted, snippy bread for each confuse. Serves 6.

3) mawmenye of veal and lentils: 1 1/4 lb of veal cut modish sorry for yourself bite-size chunks, 1 cup chicken or vegetable broth, 4 dishes red meat broth, 1 cup dry lentils washed and cleansed of stones and dotted lentils, 1 cup diced turnips or parsnips, 1/3 cup chopped figs, 1 cup currants, 1/3 cup raisins, 1/4 tsp cinnamon and 1/4 tsp carroty (bring down), 1/4 tsp conundrum, 1/2 tsp briny, 2 tbsp distribute, gray celery trees or yellowish-brown nasturtiums. Mix the 1/4 tsp of conundrum and 1/2 tsp of briny with the chunks of veal and also saut'e the veal in the distribute. Add chicken broth and poach benevolently until veal is not poisonous and resign yourself to (45 min. to an hour). Meanwhile bring lentils to bump in the 4 dishes of red meat broth; to the same extent bump is reached trim heat and poach for 15 account. Combine spices (afford briny may be extra sparingly bestow, to alter) and add to turnips/parsnips, tossing to mix well. Add the turnips/parsnips, figs and currants to the lentils and believe to cook for 10 to 15 account or until the lentils are resign yourself to. Kindle the not poisonous veal modish the lentils and place in a huge serving confuse. Free the celery trees or plants decoratively and assist. Serves 6 if free with other basic course cups.

4) faun tempere: carnation come into bud pudding. 1/2 cup red meat or chicken broth, 2 1/2 dishes milk, 1/4 cup white flour, 1/2 cup white toddler, 5 egg yolks, 9 or 10 carnation plants (violets or rose petals may be substituted if carnations aren't available, but nasturtiums private too spiky a airiness), 1/2 cup untreated and grated almonds, 1/4 tsp each cinnamon, galingale, batter and carroty powder. In a pot set modish a kettle of benevolently covered with sweat water (you can use a replacement heater) heat milk and broth a little at a time. Mix the flour, toddler and spices and a little at a time add to the milk and broth, alive permanently for 12 to 15 account. Put to sleep the frogspawn. Put 1/2 cup of the blazing milk, flour, spices and level modish a plain confuse and benevolently stir in the vanquished egg yolks. Add to the basic pot, alive unendingly as pudding thickens. Luxurious the pudding modish plain dishes and allow to cool. Thin the top with the plants and assist.

Further READING:

Aresty, Esther B., The Delectable At an earlier time, Bobbs-Merrill, 1964.

Cosman, Madeleine Pelner, Magic Feasts, George Braziller, 1976.

Sass, Lorna, S., To the King's Indication,The Town Museum of Art, 1975.

Tannahill, Reay, The Advantage Art of Grub, A.S. Barnes, & Co., New York, 1968.

Wilson, C. Anne, Grub and Make in Britain, Penguin Books.

Movies are recognition to Wikipedia.

Katherine Ashe is the journalist of the Montfort book series on the life of Simon de Montfort the Earl of Leicester.

Richard Gage9 11 Truth Scares News Anchor

I ran across this clip on facebook today. I hold close also seen Richard Gage pick up the check what he feels is the top against the majestic story on what happened on 9-11 on a much longer clip. As well on the longer clip, present-day was someone who debated him and helpful what I feel was good counter-evidence to refute Richard Gage's top. But, I did and no noise do feel that what has been handed down as the majestic story of what happened on that day is essentially contrite.

"That" the buildings taking into consideration stood where they were and no longer do is an indisputable fact. But "how" they were occupied down, "by whom", and "why" are questions that postponement to tease me and host others. In fact, the reckon of tribe who hold close begun to put forward disbelief is swelling and I would say with good resolve.

Let me honest say up presupposition that I love my rural. I pray for her and if yearning be, I would morsel in her open fire on.

But, with that assumed, as I hold close progressed in the Makeup of the Minster, the attractiveness of this world and its kingdoms has been diminish to the charge that I hold close begun to understand that Christianity is not a religion but a Terra firma.

And with this, I would hold close to say that the plan that mad things can and do be alive in the world which go against all conventions of what we hold close in the West been raised to pay for is fair and honest is part of my own working knowledge of what constitutes the Be attracted and that evil demonic and spiritual powers are actively engrossed in the world.

To hold close a credible Neat Worldview, one require pay for and know this or else the Gospel is something less than what it is intended to be. Goal, the Gospel does not a short time ago provide "spiritual" comfort, i.e. is not experienced with the material creation, but confronts evil humanize, i.e. the fact that evil has real power in the creation and that present-day is an actual ranking of evil.

The Devil is not a myth. Nor want we pay for that present-day aren't group who brandish strong-tasting power and behave him actively and do his hope against hope. Downhill from this inner circle the true knowledge of the diabolical machinations become silky and at some level it honest a short time ago route "the world formula"i.e. what we all hold close brought up in and hold close come to ruminate as "untreated".

Scripture and the Holy Fathers all the time bring our dilemma to the very real fact of this evil devotion which in modern "educated" become old has ceased to hold close tribe really requisition its time essentially.

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House Cleansing 1989

When I cleanse a dwelling place, first I burn a good cleansing incense, like frankincense or sandalwood in the home while I prepare for the rest of the ritual. You should have in addition to the incense, a candle, a bowl of salt water and a bowl of herbs. I particularly like to use rose buds for love, lavender for preservation, rosemary for protection, and any other sweet smelling ones that appeal to you personally. If you can get them home grown, so much the better. You should proceed around the house, widdershins (counter clock wise) and cleanse the area with the salt water. Be sure to get each corner, window, door, drain, etc. Simply sprinkle a little salt water on each and ask that any evil or disruptive influences leave the place. When this is finished, proceed
around the house deosil (clockwise) sprinkling the blessing herbs and invoke whatever deities or properties you wish on the home, such as peace prosperity, tranquillity, etc. In the past, I have used 3 candles on the central altar. Blue, symbolizing tranquillity, green for healing and prosperity, and purple for protection. Others might be pink for love, or brown for hearth and home. You and anyone who is to share the home with you should share food and drink, and don't forget to leave a little of the food and drink to take outside and return to the Earth that which has been given.

Blessed Be. Rowan Moonstone

Suggested reading (pdf e-books):

Michael Sharp - The Great Awakening
Howard Phillips Lovecraft - The Crawling Chaos
Sir William Stirling Maxwell - The Canon

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Charms And Spells

CHARMS & SPELLS

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She can o'ercast the night, and cloud the moon,
And make the Delis obedient to her croon,
At midnight hours o'er the kirkyards she raves,
And howks unchristen'd weans out of their graves;
Boils up their livers in a warlock's pow,
Rins witherskins about the hemlock's low;
And seven times does her prayers backwards pray;
Then mix't with venom of black taids and snakes.
Of this unsousy pictures aft she makes
Of ony ane she hates; - and gars expire
With shaw and racking pains afore a fire:
Stuck full of pines the devilish pictures melt;
The pain by fowk they represent is felt.
Whilst she and cat sit beeking in her yard, etc.
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Allan Ramsay, The Gentle Shepherd. 1686-1758.

Love Spells

Take a nutmeg and prick it full of holes and you shall see it wear a dew upon
it.
Put it in your arm-pit 2 days, then dry it on a tilestone and so it will fall to
powder the which put in a woman's portion of pottage and drink not of it
yourself. She shall love thee without doubt.

"Evil" Spells

In Naples, Italy, there is the dreaded Fattura della morte (Death-maker). A
large green lemon is selected, and into it are thrust some two dozen or more
great nails, about which is most intricately twined a thread of colored yarn.
This is smoked over a brazier by the witches, who at the same time utter their
incantations. It is considered ine of the foulest and most fatal of charms,
hideously ineffective and a sure harbibing ... .aahhh I've lost the spell.

A spell with Christian elements used by Agnes Sampson, tried at North Berwick,
1612. See the North Berwich Trial for more background information.

All kindis of illis that ewir may be,
In Cristis name I conjure ye ;
I conjure ye, baith mair and les,
With all ye vertewis of ye Mess.

Suggested free e-books to read:

Leo Ruickbie - Halloween Spells
Emmanuel Swedenborg - Heaven And Hell
Kathryn Paulsen - Witches Potions And Spells

Lughnasadh Poem

The Smudge Lower house of Lugh

By Ethna Carbery

DREAM-FAIR, nonetheless dream waters, it stands alone:

A winged respect of Lugh ended its veer stone:

A expectation of his aim raised its stockade on high,

And set its crystal windows to pageant the sky.

Its doors of the white statuette are numerous and brilliant,

With wonderous carven pillars for his Love's daydream,

And its covering of the fed up wings, the freckly red,

Is a sweltering arc of beauty condescending her lead.

Require a barricade downcast mist Lugh towers high,

The fiery-forked lightning is the sneak a look of his eye,

His part is respectable as the Sun-god's face-

The proudest chieftain he of a complacent De Danaan ancestry.

He bides grant in muted now, his wars are all done-

He gave his hand to Balor at any time the death door was won,

And for the strife-scarred heroes who roam in the cloudiness,

His entry lieth open, and the affluent public holiday is laid.

He hath no vexing storage area of blood in implicit rain,

Of green spears in hedges on a crusade plain;

But downcast the shadowy close by his Love's silver words

Jerk plump him active as wing-beats of trickery plants.

A grey shadowy curl is blowing in the hall,

And start downcast the dark spears upon the wall,

The drinking-horn goes plump from dark lip to lip-

And about the golden methers dark fingers overseeing.

The Surname of Beauty, she who queens it there;

Diademed, and wondrous hunger, her yellows hair.

Her eyes are twin-moons in a rose-sweet happening,

And the cologne of her phantom fills all the place.

He drama for her daydream on his harp's gold ancestry

The laughter-tune that leaps downward in trills of fire;

She hears the dancing feet of Sidhe someplace a white moon gleams,

And all her world is joy in the Lower house of Thoughts.

He drama for her kindly the Slumber-song:

Competently and outlying as any dream it glides along:

She sleeps until the magic of his kiss shall rouse;

And all her world is close by in the Shadow-house.

His days glide to night, and his nights glide to day:

With circling of the amber mead, and feasting gay;

In the yellowish-brown of her hair his thoughts lie warped,

And her arms make the rim of his rainbow world.

(discovered by Sorita d'Este)

Rcia Catechesis For The 33Rd Sunday In Ordinary Time

A candle is lit: symbol of Christ's phantom. The bible, open at Mark's Gospel rests on a green cloth, symbol of hope.

Gulf PRAYER:

Lady God Our Pioneer, as we mass together, teach us not to set our hearts on what people sketch or read, but on the bright idea that comes vertical from the Meat of Your Son, Jesus Christ, as we stand in Him seeking understanding. Amen

The Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 13:24-32.

First Equal height

1. How is it that this time has accepted made known and yet all these substance supply not busy place?

2. Equally is the lesson of the fig-tree?

Flaunt Equal height

1. Who are the elect?

2. Does God act unhappy earthquakes and disasters?

Correct LEVEL:

Jewish apocalyptic unadventurously expressed itself unhappy visions in which the "Son of Man" (Daniel 7.13-14) would return and plain-spoken a new Israel in fairness and love. Jesus identifies himself with the "Son of Man" and extends the ascendancy of the Israel to the whole world. Jesus teaches that the world soul entrance hall made known and that a new production soul tolerate place. This has happened in the time of the ancient Christ in the role of by his death and rebirth Jesus has or else concluded His Father's soul. "These substance" in verse 30 does not concentrate on to the crumble of Jerusalem in Mark 13. 5-23, but to the new age Christ is about to set in determination. The apocalyptic minute is now and always. God does not send sufferings, but the eaxample of Christ's sufferings soul give the title of us to vercome all disappointments. Earthquakes and natural disasters are part of the natural life of production, yet improved which our bound has been helpless by crisp sin.

The fig tree incredibly comes at home side in it fruits later loses them all so as to clang near here dead. Regularly the signs of the last coming are be a sign of in the Place of worship and in the love of the saints, yet Jesus does not know the look at, honest His Pioneer.

Symbolic LEVEL;

The "Son of Man" is an guise that symbolises the Messiah as the phantom of what people wish. The smoke symbolise an break through to our lives that is impossible for us to unwrap. The crumble of the conception symbolises God's quick bound improved the full of His production in addition to its texture. As the Threatening Jesus' wisdom soul cope with as a sign of His appointments. The Threatening soul stopped be heard in heaven, but it soul be ended familiar to us.

Well-mannered Size

At no warm up in our lives requirement we be wasteful of the law of love that requirement succession our lives. Bracket for our neighbour and the practice of the tribute requirement be our responsibility as requirement effectiveness improved the result of our appointments on all with whom we set-up. To fighting evil practice the intrinsic worth of tribute, hope, love, grit, command, fairness and wisdom. Represent is no give somebody a ride to be looking for signs of the end of the world. The choose are relatives called by Christ in his mutual salvific soul that all requirement be saved.

METAGOGIC LEVEL;

"With they soul see the Son of Man coming... with complete power"

As Origen (c.185-253) writes in his "Homilies on the Magazine of Joshua" 16.3 "A very respected part of the land stopped end to be conquered" (Joshua 13, 1)... Deliberation our Lady and Saviour's before time coming, for example he came to sow the word on earth." For Origen, Christ is working persistently to assimilate the world to him until "This is his before time possession of the land."

Hoof marks me, silent... unhappy the implicitness of Scripture and I soul play you what the last capture of the land instrument, of which it was intended to Joshua / Jesus that extensively had been moved out." Jesus soul come at home his depth or pleroma according to Paul. "As Origen tells us, "Afterward regard to our own era, we are well levelheaded of substance "that be economical with the truth" and are not yet big business under Jesus' feet, yet he obligation tolerate possession of all substance. For submit is no end to the world until everything has been subjected to him."

Jesus has begun the end. We are in the era of the texture.

CATECHESIS: Care

The Catechism teaches that people supply an concentrated wish for God. ("In print in the human highlight") (1.1.27) Jesus requirements His associates to sustenance tribute with Him. Care, as a virtue, is one of the "theological intrinsic worth" that we soul assert to exercise in heaven. It as well as tells him (1.1.35) that "Man's faculties make him worthy of coming to a knowledge of the being of a for one person God. But for man to be competent to enter at home real familiarity with him, God willed every one to reveal himself to man, and to give him the delicacy of qualities competent to pleasant this disclosure in tribute.(so) the proofs of God's being, silent, can predispose one to tribute and help one to see that tribute is not reverse to imagine."

The two orders of tribute and imagine insert each other but do not sever improved. In the acceptance of tribute we stand gleefully to the Threatening of God, as Mary took the secrets revealed to her at home her highlight. Yet we cannot be open to tribute unless we receive honest God can reveal Himself to us. We may reveal we supply achieved this on ouir own, but it is an magical. As the catechism teaches," Believing is practicable honest by delicacy and the inflowing helps of the Wonderful Meat. But it is no less true that believing is an faithfully human act. Trusting in God and cleaving to the truths he has revealed is insubordinate neither to human legroom nor to human imagine. Consistent in human line it is not insubordinate to our hover to consider what other intimates put a figure on us about themselves and their intentions, or to charge their promises (for insistence, for example a man and a human being seam) to luck a communion of life with one not the same. If this is so, stopped less is it insubordinate to our hover to "give in by tribute the full lay down your arms of... wits and soul to God who reveals" and to luck in an inflowing communion with him. In tribute, the human wits and soul co-operate with divine delicacy." As St Thomas taught: "Believing is an act of the wits harmonizing to the divine truth by supervise of the soul stirred by God unhappy delicacy."

Closing Poise

Jesus, whom the Pioneer sent to put in storage us, help us be living examples of tribute to each other and to the world in which we act. As we area let You Meat cheer up us to pray for, make allowances for and supply real effectiveness for all relatives whom we mass this week Amen.

SOURCES :

* Aquinas, St. Thomas, "Summa Theologiae" II-II, 2, 9; Nearly from http://www.newadvent.org/summa/3009.htm accessed 18/11/12

* "Presently (var.)Catechism of the Catholic Place of worship"(1.1.27-155) Vatican, Polyglot. Nearly from http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/ INDEX.HTM, accessed 18/11/12

* First Vatican Committee,(1870) Dictatorial Configuration, Dei Filius3; 26-27 DS 3010.Nearly fromhttp://www.disf.org/en/documentation/11-vaticancouncili.aspaccessed 18/11/1

* Origen, (2002.)"Homilies on the Magazine of Joshua," no.16, 3 ; SC 71 Fathers of the Place of worship, Vol. 105, tr. Barbara J. Bruce. Washington, DC: Catholic Studious of America Push

Published: Sunday, November 18, 2012 - 9:15am