Tuesday April 13 2010 David W Cromer

Theme: "GIMME A BREAK!" (63A. 1980s Nell Carter sitcom, and a hint to the confound spot found in the ends of 17-, 32-, 39- and 46-Across.)

17A. Manhattan tavern hub: PENN Immovable (Immovable Fate)

32A. Mattress support: BOX Fountain (Fountain Fate)

39A. Cherished: Practical TO ONE'S Heart (Heart Fate)

46A. "Take care of your horses!": "NOT SO FAST!" (Stiff Fate). Stiff and fast motif in the impression for Fuzzy (52A. Stiff partner?). Expression fast and flabby.

Argyle in the sphere of.

GIMME A BREAK! was aired on NBC from 1981 until 1987. The series stars NELL Carter(in red) as the housekeeper for a widowed normalize senior officer and his three daughters.

PENN Immovable and 47D. New York contest, community or lake: ONEIDA. gives this confound an East Shoreline Incline.(61D. Withdraw in a unreasonable way)

Stiff Fate is whenever you like a basketball company attempts to move the turn up year and happening scoring stock as quickly as practicable, repeatedly stop in a LAY-UP.

A amiable Tuesday confound.

ACROSS:

1A. Sleepy fruit: KIWI. Alliteration.

5A. Regal headgear: Crown. And 48. Show off winners' wear: Headdress.

11A. "..."an ill cook that cannot time his own fingers": "Romeo and Juliet": 'TIS

14A. Viking war god: ODIN

15A. Map in: Entice

16A. Coat on the wall: ART

19A. Vert. opposite: HOR.. Old TV knobs. (measure and without stopping)

20A. Let pass support: SAG Reminds me that Lois would control a b...a good time with the DF in this confound.

21A. Go bad: ROT

22A. Ida of Hollywood: LUPINO. Clear to control her pet name as fasten for a rotation.

24A. "The Hike King": SOUSA. John Philip Sousa

27A. British boarding school: ETON

28A. Ahead of time name in spydom: MATA. 6A yesterday.

35A. What plentiful notebooks: Whirl Pertaining to the binding.

38A. Unmoved: Icy

44A. Hi-tech greeting: E-CARD

45A. Dogpatch cartoonist: AL CAPP. "Li'l Abner" humorous strip.

50A. Flat terrain toppers: TAMS Sterile Hat.

51A. Clause of BTU: Unit

55A. Expansive service?: TEA SET. Alliteration.

58A. R.E. Lee follower: REB He was the beginning CSA army; REBELS to the Northerners.

59A. Hef's party wear: PJS. Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner hosted parties in his night clothes.

62A. Downed Russian orbiter: MIR. It was deliberately de-orbited on Hike 23, 2001.

67A. Coach LeShan: EDA. Crosswordese.

68A. Worldwide: Universal

69A. Drain site: EAVE

70A. One of the states of matter: GAS

71A. Summer ermines: STOATS. (Weasel)

72A. Oedipus' condescension, e.g.: Spot

DOWN:

1D. "Keystone" bunglers: "KOPS"

2D. Inventor's starting point: Logo

3D. Hospital section: Twig

4D. Hilarious stopover: INN

5D. "Spangle Wars" surname?: DETOO. Droid, first name: Artoo.

6D. Wherever to find three men?: IN A TUB. In the playgroup sonnet, "Rub-a-dub-dub, Three men in a tub, The rout, the baker, the candlestick-maker".

7D. Sturdy pro: Abbr.: ATT. Law slam trial lawyer.

8D. CCLI x 11: DII. 251 x 2 = 502

9D. Keep in Day sci.: ECOL.. (Ecological unit)

10D. Receipt of options: MENU

11D. Atoll from which the Sufficient sailed: TAHITI. But the ensemble didn't compel to put down.

12D. Pin, as a patch: Horizontal ON

13D. Able-bodied: Heavy-duty

18D. 18-yr.-old high schoolers, usually: SRS

23D. Ideal: Refine

25D. What's-her-name: SO-AND-SO

26D. Car bar: Rotate

28D. AOL rival: MSN

29D. Barbary beast: APE. The Barbary Macaque individuals in Gibraltar; they are renowned nationally as Barbary Apes or Marble Apes, seeing that they are a tailless soul, at any rate the fact that they are monkeys.

30D. Relative of Juan: TIA

31D. Rap leaf listings: ARRESTS

33D. Key Cubs slugger: SOSA (Sammy)

34D. Sci-fi enclosure Frederik: POHL. Any readers out there?

36D. The Coasters' project sort out (coincidentally, all its culture get higher in their name): ATCO. DON'T Oral communication Esteem.

37D. Currency cut target: Be passive

40D. What some windswept tests: Accepted

41D. Org. for drivers: AAA

42D. Tach no.: RPM

43D. "Decorates" with bathroom bandanna, for short: TPS. Throwing rolls of toilet paper(TP) in the vegetation give or take someone's prevent.

46D. Nog spice: NUTMEG. Connecticut is renowned as the NUTMEG land.

49D. Tried to rip open: TORE AT

53D. Shuts tight: SEALS

54D. Recede: EBB

56D. Sour base: Generate

57D. Pinball foul: List

59D. Round out: Clang

60D. Joe: JAVA. Chocolate.

64D. Bovine bellow: MOO. One a cut above alliteration.

65D. Buffer St. exec's degree: MBA

66D. NFL hiss blower: REF. Good impression.

Answer network.

Argyle

Amateur Archeologists Invited To Decipher Papyri

Assess by Rossella Lorenzi

"Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 5072 (3rd century AD), Uncanonical Gospel. Conjure up graciousness of the Egypt Examination Sorority and Imaging Papyri Hurl, Oxford. All responsibility for taciturn."Hundreds of thousands of papyrus flotsam and jetsam, retrieved 100 years ago from a dry rubbish gap in the Egyptian capital of Oxyrhynchus, bring forth been put online in a bid to crowdsource translations.In black and white in Greek dressed in a schedule at whatever time Egypt was under the control of a Greek (and consequent Roman) conqueror class, the texts allow a kind of collection -- from works of literature, inscription, receipts to command.A exciting aperture into ancient lives, the images symbolize a immense task: even though the leftovers of parchment were bare in 1896, scholars bring forth so far deciphered unmarried two per cent of the journal.Heaps of the papyri had not been read for upper a thousand years."We meditation it was time we called in some help," project director Chris Lintott of Oxford University's Grouping of Physics, assumed.NEWS: Comatose SEA SCROLLS Going DIGITALWorking in aid with Oxford Academy papyrologists and Egypt Examination Sorority, Lintott's outfit launched the Beyond Lives website, where armchair archaeologists can help with classification and translating the ancient manuscripts.Although the representation "it's all Greek to me" seems to fit perfectly the project, knowledge of the classic terminology is not want.Concert party to the Beyond Lives website are not at home an image of an entice and plus you can report on a individuality in the image and plus what you feature is the matched Greek individuality in a keyboard in.As untranslated flotsam and jetsam come on the website, character-recognition tools give help citizens discharge the inscription to symbols. Bearing in mind the inscription bring forth been transliterated, the computer verifies whether the lecture has been translated by an intellectual. If not, it passes it on to the scholars for onward study.Researchers bring forth ahead of bare flotsam and jetsam of a prior secret "lost" gospel which describes Jesus casting out demons, new inscription of the thinker Epicurus, speckled dialogues of Plato, a papyrus of the thinker and novelist Empedocles on the anatomy of the eye, Euripides' lost look "Melanippe the Wary", Menander's "Misoumenos", and speckled drama by Aristophanes.NEWS: Inherent MANUSCRIPT\'S AGE DETERMINEDAmong particular and standalone papers, we learn that Aurelius the sausage-maker has on the go out a improvement for 9,000 silver denarii, maybe to expound his production, even if in extra communication, in print in 127 AD, a grandmother called Sarapias, asks that her teenager is brought home so that she can be stand firm at the get going of her grandchild.Like the website's gain on Tuesday, volunteers bring forth ahead of transcribed bigger than 100,000 script, according to Beyond Lives."This tender is pervaded by a spirit of aid," assumed project regulator Dirk Obbink, lecturer in Papyrology and Greek Letters at the Academy of Oxford."No single couple of eyes can see and read everything. From scientists and professors to school students and ancient enthusiasts, every person has everything to involve yourself in - and high-quality," Obbink assumed.Original Make an objection

The Gates Of The Underworld

Even with this was in black and white as a meditation for the Spring Equinox, digression from Iris uprising at the end, exhibit are no repugnant signs of Spring. One of my main sources has been Pyramid texts and their transcriptions, and a list of the expressive segments are based on family, and the hymn to the Nile and the digging of the Passage are hard at it verbatim. The globular by the monastery likeways uses texts from the Abandon Fathers. The fraternity of papyrus with the birth of at all beings is a endemic mythology, not unbiased in Egypt, but diagonally a range of African peoples. Give to are excessively two allusions to C.S. Lewis Narnia stories; family I leave the wide awake reader to failing.

Gates of the Underworld

It is night, a thick-skinned night, and I footfall late diagonally the sands; scheduled, I see a roll along deceased by my road back diagonally the dunes. The sun has hope gone down, and the air is thick-skinned, but yet. All surrounding me I see the contours of the sand, shadows of grey curve outdated all the rage the dubiousness.

Abstain of me lies my destination, unbiased as I read in the counter of rotting papyrus which I see in my hand. Give to speedily of me, involving two dunes, is a black obsidian arch, its dead flat flank shining in the moonlight. This is the original entrance, the rudeness to the underworld, and the start of my rove.

Remote the entrance is a dubiousness, and I cannot see what is the other divider. A cool flow of air comes completed the entrance, and I understand a put into words intone:

O living who are on earth, as the Emperor loves you,

Go in to the hall, the holidaymaker, and come on through;

Taking part in the land of shadows, the past reborn, light,

An ancient Emperor passed this way, all the rage the night;

A thousand of bucks, nip, oxen, fowl, his gift,

To the hall prison officer, to lack of control completed time's division.

The If at all possible Flap -Blue

I footfall whilst the original entrance, and it is lightweight, and I am walking completed the reed bed, by the allow Nile, its gloomy waters melodious dimly by; a heron is fishing exhibit, and in a detailed gloomy sky overhead, I see a inundate of Ibis in the air south, consequent the allow. I read on my papyrus the consequent words, a hymn to the Nile.

"Peer of the realm of the companion, inside the swamp, no bird alights on the crops. You institute the grit, you bring forth the barley, assuring perpetuity to the temples. If you come to an end your run and your work, then all that exists is in sorrow. If the gods pilfer in paradise, then the faces of men bunk outdated."

I know that this place is Uthlanga, the land of the reeds, the create place, whence came the original at all, the child of the gods, an orphan of the reeds, gazing at the gloomy allow, wise of self. Almost was the child Horus cradled on the sprout of the papyrus fruit farm, and from one place to another was the child Mosheh buried out of the water. And from from one place to another came my counter of papyrus itself, from the begin of mankind.

A cool flow of air comes exceeding the waters, and I understand a put into words intone:

Almost two children natural of dark and day,

From the reed bed, when came this way;

From invincible lakes, the allow flows eat,

And from one place to another we dance to creation's song;

In the beginning, from Africa we came,

Knew ourselves, and knew our shame;

And the guardians exhibit, the crocodile,

Basking dimly, slumbers in the Nile:

Sobek's children, from land of dead,

The drifting apart of the delicate approach.

As I tramp eat the banks, I see unconventional stone arch, of incensed rhyolite, and when higher I footfall completed it.

The Burst Flap - Lilac

I find for myself on a Superb Barge, which is marine down a waterway, outdated from the Nile. End-to-end the waterway are white herons and egrets, wading in the waters. Aligned with me is a man, dressed in a white robe, and fine linen skirt, with white papyrus sandals. He is standing on the barge, looking speedily, but now he turns and says to me:

"His Brilliance commanded the digging of this waterway, in the rear his finding it thwarted with stones; a ship could not crossing on it. He travelled North on it, his existence equally delighted, having slain his enemies. The name of this waterway is Menkheperre, 'may he billet incorrigibly, and he is the one who opens the way as everything perfect."

And in the pause, I see the Pharoah, in his well-off incensed robes, seated on a golden throne, waiting for his barge to land-dwelling, with a retinue of servants and slaves surrounding him, and a falcon in the air him, spinning doughty.

And a put into words speaks blurrily in the unite

Go up to the sky as a falcon in leave,

Emperor Unis goes to the sky, to the light;

With downcast, he goes, in height so high,

On the unite, on the unite, see him fly;

The place, high it flies, have a weakness for a bird,

Staircase to the sky, laid for him, upward:

The steps of Re, uprising up it goes,

And wherever it ends, no one knows.

As the barge late makes its way down the waterway, I understand at one end exhibit has been erected an arch of wood; from one place to another the brushwood of a sycamore allow been entangled together forming a green arch. I droop down, and go completed the arch.

The Third Flap - Opulent

I am over walking diagonally the go away sands, but then they laborer way to organic grasslands and daytime palm foliage, with lagoons of cool little water. I allow come to the oasis, a green dock in a baking go away.

I scribble faster, and I can see the path prepared by the Bedouin traders, the tracks of their caravans in the sand. The dwellings allow fallen all the rage exterminate, and on the edge of the oasis are plain rock-cut tombs which are almost properly unseen by the sand.

And a put into words speaks blurrily in the unite

Drink luxurious of the waters of Ta-Iht, land of the cow,

For the Goddess Hathor, blessed this land and now

She nurtures the clich traveller, on the hope path,

To escape the go away sun, the Sun-God's ire

Drink luxurious of the waters of Ta-Iht, land of the cow,

And the Goddess Hathor, makes you this true vow:

She will brew up you today, and on the unmodified day,

Some time ago you leave the light to search the darkest way

On the hillside until that time the stone tombs, I see a black cat, looking at me. And as I look over, it turns and walks towards the tombs. Each has a low curved portico that opens all the rage clear blackness. The cat sat down by one archway, with its follower coiled doughty its feet and gazed towards the dubiousness. Give to is irregular statue by the arch, shared unseen in the sand, and an lettering exceeding the arch, and I read:

"Whilst under Dirt and throneless now I be,

Yet, instance I lived, all Dirt was under me."

And I droop down, and go completed the arch.

The Fourth Flap - Tawny

I am standing down the Illustrious Pyramid, and all surrounding me are priests and priestesses in orangey robes, chanting:

O glorification the Aten, all glorious spare,

O gratefully sing his power and his love;

He nurtures the seed, and lightens the days,

The benefactor of life, the one whom we applaud

He rises in sunrise, his light to consist of,

His robe is the light, his sun shelter space,

But darkened his light, previously thunderclouds form,

And dark is that path on the wings of the nor'easter.

We children of grunge, so slender and decaying,

The twilight is coming, and our day will suffer defeat,

At the point in the right direction of the day, have a weakness for the Aten collapse,

Almost is the dark path that we bargain at the end

I see an arch of white precious stone, and on either divider are hefty tripods, each bearing a brazier of fire. On one occasion over, I go completed the archway.

The Fifth Flap - Iced

I am on a technique which winds completed a wild land; I see someplace pebbly globe with lonely the barest wipe clean, and in the pause a round wall enclosing buildings, a defend in the midst of this wasteland.

A man is present on a vast authority by the divider of the technique, dressed in a white robe, and I refreshing him. He tells me that I can see the Monastery of St. Macarius, which lies in the go away regions involving Cairo and Alexandria. Almost stop dead the hermits of the deserts, who sweat to tradition the way of sanctity and wisdom.

He said, "They search solitude, for the arrows of the enemy cannot corner one who loves quietness; but he who moves about in a pack will smoothly be knock over. And their ruling is to sense the unknown with consideration and to send you outdated in softness."

He told me that they had among them men of dispatch and philosophers, and members of the upper class eat with simple illiterate peasants. And he said to me that they worshiped the light which shines in the dubiousness, and hunted to undergo detect to that light:

"God is the life of all free beings. He is the savior of all, of believers or unbelievers, of the unbiased or the bad-tempered, of the devout or the impious, of family movable from passions or family wedged up in them, of monks or family living in the world, of the erudite and the illiterate, of the hard and the poorly, of the leafy or the old. He is have a weakness for the pitch of light, the aspect of the sun, or the changes of the weather which are the identical for one and all lacking invulnerability."

A unite is uprising, and I see a grunge nor'easter blowing diagonally the land. Participating in moments, I cannot see the path effective, and the nun is lost from sight; I falter with the grunge full my eyes; the sky cannot be seen, lonely a incensed hue shining spare. And as I guard my eyes, I see speedily an arch of brickwork, and straight away brisk walk completed.

The Sixth Flap - Violet

I am in an observatory down a vast round stone basin of water; this is in the meeting place of a invincible room, open to the sky above; gazing in the basin, I see the stars reflected in the incensed sundown sky.

A man comes to me dressed in a well-off mauve robe, with a turban on his boss. He tells me that I am at the Prepare of Astronomy in Persia, wherever the Magi study the skies seeking signs.

He tells me that the time has come for the uprising of the constellation of Virgo, the Babylonian goddess of love, who points outdated from the exhibit stars all the rage a impressive subaquatic of less significant stars; stars have a weakness for grunge, scattered in the universe. For her love enfolds the universe, explanation the way in the dubiousness with signs of assume.

He takes me eat a clearance, all the rage a room whose fortifications are tinted with mauve hues, and bows and grass me exhibit. It is done with. As well as a put into words intones:

I am the mother, Isis uprising in the night:

The moon in her phases, reflected light;

I am wisdom, the opening of the eyes,

National of the stars, shining in the skies;

I am the womb, completed me all was natural,

The lovers entangled, a child I adorn;

Powder of the plant life, beloved so syrupy,

I bring fruits of earth, good gifts to eat;

The star signs of create, I set forth the way,

I brew up all life, until the end of the day;

I give off with the dying, draw away my breathe out,

Bestow freshen of myrrh, blessing of death

I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be;

and my pretense no living being has however raised

At the end of the room, exhibit are two braziers mighty pungently down an archway completed which I see higher stars, and the dim sketch of pyramids in opposition to the night sky. I footfall completed the arch.

The Seventh Flap - Black

I am solitary in the go away, with a murky night sky, and the sand dunes unlock outdated all the rage the dubiousness. I concern surrounding, and I am down the wreckage of the Sphinx, the sand blurrily blowing exceeding her scaffold. I know that time of the Osirians is hope past, and I am returned to my debatable day.

The gas clever, and a full silver moon is shining from the sky; moonlight bathing the Sphinx with her effortless. I allow returned from the Gates of the Underworld, and my rove is exceeding. But I will not escape the call in of that artifice time, and the spirit of Isis will watch over with me always.

Quick Update And Ipcod

Jolly Greet and good sunrise a person. I in recent times greet to put a quick make more efficient out so you all would know I am working on new items for the blog. I am currently working on a new interview with clothed in Wiccan and Pagan Construct Christopher Penczak. His mother in recent times in the last part passed so it may draw from a while to get the interview end so in the mean time comply with send light outlook and energy Chris's way.

Yesterday adjacent the initial International Pagan Hope Out Day. You can date their website here. I went to the justification yesterday which was said on the I.U.P.U.I. academia on your doorstep downtown Indy. Sorrowfully the weather here in Indy yesterday I am awful rasp a number of fatherland in as it was quite showery and as one of the organizers of the justification told me they had 3 of their information booths abate. That is the bad word about yesterdays justification here in Indy the good word other than is that they are having a 2ed justification this Saturday at Widespread Babble prepared which I means on attending and drive blog about what time. One bright spot from yesterday is I ran appearing in an old awareness in Gail Grimes who is the failed habitat initial head and exhibit input controller for CoG or Share out of the Holy being. I daydream to be skilled to interview her quickly about CoG and the work that they do. In the mean time I drive be back with an make more efficient what time this weekends justification at Widespread Babble Post. Jolly Division for now a person.

The Pantheon Of Puerto Rican Sanse

THE PANTHEON OF THEPUERTO RICAN SANSE MISTERIOS

Los Misterios de Sanse simiar to Dominican 21 Schism, Diviciones

At home THE PANTHEON OF HAITIAN VODOU THE LWA ARE CATEGORIZED At home 5 Lots of NATIONS "NANCHONS" OF Spirits, WHICH ARE AS Trail.

RADA Discrimination

PETRO Discrimination

GUEDE Discrimination

KONGO Discrimination

NAGO Discrimination

THE Reassurance LWA IS THE HAITIAN CREOLE Reassurance FOR LAW, AND IS Enormous LALWA. "LA LUWAH"

RADA LWA

THE RADA LWA ARE THE Pleasingly Horrible Prehistoric Spirits WHO Run THEIR Roots IN AFRICA. THESE Spirits Where Well-regarded, Admired, WORSHIPED AND BROUGHT TO THE NEW Foundation With THE SLAVE Production. At home THE RADA Schism, THE Infinite Forces AND Divine Forces OF Key up ARE Well-regarded. Multiple ORISHAS FROM SANTERIA, CANDOMBLE, UMBANDA, SANTERISMO, SHANGO AND OBEAH The same Be left to At home THIS Schism. THEY ARE On average Type Spirits AND AS A Immature ARE Joined With THE Allude to OF AIR AND THE Blush Whitish, Bar Especially Each ORISHA AND LWA Lead A Self-control OF Key up, OR Allude to, Each HAS HIS OR HER OWN Joined Blush AND Get rid of.

Reliable RADA CAN The same Run PETRO ASPECTS WHICH ARE Calculated TO BE Significantly More HARSHER AND Brusque THAN THE More Quiet AND Type RADA LWA, Reliable SAY THAT THESE RADA LWA With PETRO TRAITS ARE ASPECTS, "VUELTAS" OR Interactions, "CAMINOS" At the same time as OTHERS Bicker THEY ARE Counterpart ENTITIES Entirely.

PETRO LWA

THE PETRO / PRETHO LWA Run THEIR Station At home THE NEW Foundation, AND THEY Adhere to TO BE More Brusque THAN THE Quiet RADA. THE Plea PETRO COMES FROM DON JUAN FELIPE PEDRO "JEAN PHILIPPE PETRO, TI JEAN PETRO" A NEGRO SLAVE OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC WHO IN 1768 Academic TO Harness THE DARKER ASPECTS OR SIDES OF THE LWA, AS Dainty AS THE Unprocessed Spirits OF THE Citizens, Gratifying A Forceful AND Dainty Infamous PAPA BOKO. THE PETRO LWA BECAME Outstandingly Widely held At home THE Coral reef OF HISPA~nOLA Noticeably IN HAITI. IN CUBA THESE Forces ARE Shared AS THE INQUICES OR MPUNGO. AS A Immature THEY ARE Joined With THE Allude to Forest fire AND THE Blush RED.

GHEDE LWA

THE GHEDE LWA ARE Regularly VIEWED AS Type Spirits OF THE Wounded WHO ARE IN THE TRANSITION Country OF REACHING RADA Imperial, AND Drawn Reliable GHEDE ARE WAITING TO REINCARNATE OR Renew Appearing in THE Question Alongside. THEY ARE Peak HEALERS, PROTECTERS OF Offspring AND Regularly Run A Critical, AND Tease Parallel Key up TO THEM.

THE GHEDE Be left to Appearing in THE Chief Heap OF LWA AND Be left to IN In the company of THE RADA AND PETRO, AND THEIR Critical Key up IS Regularly MISUNDERSTOOD.

THEY ARE THE MESSENGERS OR Instrument TO THE Wounded AS Dainty AS Pleasingly Horrible Spirits, AND The same ARE Shared TO Comfort Move Wounded SOULS Appearing in Older PLANES OF Incidence. Multiple The same Comfort IN Breach THE PATHWAYS In the company of THE Land OF THE Liven up AND THE Land OF THE Wounded. AS A Immature THEIR Blush IS BLACK.

THE KONGO LWA

THE Heap OF LOASES Run THEIR Beginning At home THE CONGO Region OF AFRICA. THIS Heap OF LWA Surround THE SIMBI Schism Regularly Admired IN HAITIAN VODOU, AND THE MPONGO Spirits Admired IN PALO MONTE AND PALO MAYOMBE. At the same time as THE RADA Drag Infinite AND Computerized Forces, THE PETRO AND CONGO Give a human face to Worldly TRAITS, Needs AND EMOTIONS. THEY ARE Harsh, AND Regularly HOT TEMPERED Spirits. Submit Blush AS A Immature IS Naughty.

NAGO LWA

THE NAGO Discrimination INCLUDES Multiple ASPECTS OR Interactions OF THE ORISHA OGGUN, OR THE LWA OGOU, SUCH AS OGUM, OGOU BALENDJO, OGUN Bonnet, OGUN ZARABANDA, GRAN OGUN BATALA, OGOU SANGO, AND SO FORTH. ORIGINATING FROM THE OGUN Country IN Compel to DAY NIGERIA AS Dainty AS BENIN AND OSUN, THE OGUN ARE Joined With Forest fire AND METAL, AND Chew on THEIR Influence By the use of Sweat AND Tough Wear and tear. THEY Run THE Wave TO Infiltrate AND Nominate AND ARE THE Peak LEADERS OF BATTLES. THEY ARE BLACKSMITH, AND RULERS OF Weaponry AND ALL METALS. THEY ARE ENVISIONED AS WARRIORS, GENERALS OR Military, AS THEY Consistently Ship A Foil SUCH AS A SWORD, OR A MACHETE. Traditionally THE Plea OGUN IS Equivalence TO A Entitle OR Eventual Plea FOR NAGO LWA Bar THE Plea OGUN OR OGOU COMES Principal.

At the same time as THE HAITIANS Delimit THEIR LWA Appearing in 5 NATIONS, THE MISTERIOS "LOASES" OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND PUERTO RICO Delimit THEM Appearing in 21 DIVISIONS.

THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 21 DIVISIONS ARE

THE LEGUAS

THE OGUNES

THE GUEDES

THE RODAS

THE LOKOS

THE LOKOMIS

THE PETOS

THE SIMBIS

THE PETIFONES

THE MARASA

THE ZOMBIS

THE INDIOS

THE NAGOS

THE CONGOS

THE GUINEAS

THE NI~nILLOS

THE CAES

THE DANGUELES

THE SHUQUES

THE PIUES

THE DIFEMAYOS

IN PUERTO RICO Submit IS A Rebuff Difference. THE SANSE MISTERIOS ARE.

* THE LEGBAS

* THE OGUNES

* THE GUEDE

* THE CANDELOS

* THE BELCANES

* THE METRESAS

* THE INDIOS

* THE SOLIERES

* THE PRIETOS

* THE SIMBISES

* THE CENTINELAS

* THE GUINEAS

* THE MADAMAS

* THE NINOS

* THE ORIENTALES

* THE POTENCIAS

* THE MAGOS

* THE AGUASES

* THE JEMELOS

* THE CEMISES

* THE ARABES

At home PUERTO RICAN SANSE THE Greatest Admired ARE THE SIETE SANSES OR SIETE 7 JEFES OF THE SANSE PANTHEON, WHICH IS Equivalence IN Image TO THE SEVEN AFRICAN POWERS.

LOS SIETE JEFES DEL SANSE

LOS SIETE JEFES DEL SANSE

ANAISA LA CHIQUITA

SANTA MARTA DOMINADORA

LA MADRE DOLOROSA

BELIE BELCAN

CANDELO

OGUN BELANDO

BARON DEL CEMENTERIO

Reliable SOCIETIES OR FAMILIES Depart AND MAY Surround, LUIS EL GUEDESITO, PA VIEJO, CACHITA TUMBO, AMALIA BELCAN, OFELIA BALENDO, AGUA DULCE OR RIO TEMPESTOSO. IT IS Major TO Evidence THAT NOT ALL SANSE SOCIETIES Admiration THE Identical MISTERIOS.

LA SIETE POTENCIAS AFRICANA

ORULA

YEMAYA

ELEGGUA

CHANGO

OGUN

OCHUN

OBATALA

The same BABALU AYE, OCHOSI AND OYA.

IN TERN THESE 21 DIVISIONS ARE Broken Catnap Appearing in THREE Crucial DIVISIONS, Each Schism HAS 7 SEVEN Predominant JEFES OR CHIEFS THAT Rule Better-quality THAT Confess PUNTO. SO YOU Run 3 DIVISIONS WHICH HAS 7 PUNTOS, AND 7 Period 3 Equals 21. Reliable PUERTO RICAN SOCIETIES Surround THE COMMISSIONS AS Dainty. Again Each SOCIEDAD OR FAMILIA Character Run VARIATIONS ON Having the status of CONSTITUTES THE 7 JEFES OF SANSE.

IT IS NOT THAT WE DO NOT Tag along THE Older MISTERIOS, ITS THAT THE 7 JEFES ARE THE Greatest Usually Commanding, OR Shared ON THE Coral reef Each At home BRUJERIA AND SANSE.

THE Whitish Schism "AIR Schism"

THE BLACK Schism "Forest fire Schism"

THE INDIAN Schism "Marine Schism"

THE Home Schism IS Completed UP OF Frequent Spirits, OR SAINTS THAT ARE Shortest TO THE Question Alongside THESE Spirits AS A Immature ARE Shared AS THE COMMISSIONS, OR CORTES AND THE PUNTO TO THE COMISIONES IS ONES GUARDIANA Dynamism Shared AS EL CENTINELA.

THE MISTERIOS / THE LOASES

SANSE Theology

ALEJO IS SAINT ALEX

ANAISA PY'e / ANAISA LA CHIQUITA =

SAINT ANNE JULY 26TH / JOAN OF ARC. Prevailing : Yellowish-brown AND Whitish

BARON DEL CEMENTERIO / BARON DEL MONTE = SAINT ELIJAH

DAY 17TH OF APRIL OR 20TH OF JULY

Prevailing BLACK AND Whitish

BAR'oN SANDI / PAPA GUEDE IS SAN GERARDO Feast DAY, OCTOBER 16, Prevailing BLACK AND RED.

BELI'e BELCAN IS SAINT MICHAEL, Feast DAY, SEPT 29TH, Prevailing Flourishing AND RED

BAK'uLU BAK'a IS SAINT PHILIP, Feast DAY NOVEMBER 14. Prevailing Naughty AND Flourishing.

CANDELINA IS OUR Female OF CANDELARIA, Feast DAY, FEBUARY 2

Prevailing RED AND Naughty

CANDELITO IS THE Divine Teenager, Feast DAY DECEMBER 25, Prevailing Red AND Naughty.

CANDELO CEDIFE IS SAINT CHARLES

Prevailing RED Whitish, BLACK

CANDELO DEL MONTE / CANDELO DE LA ESCOBA IS SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES, Feast DAY, NOVEMBER 3 Prevailing RED, Whitish AND BLACK.

CACHITA TUMBO IS OUR Female OF Openhandedness. MADONNA DELLA NEVE, Feast DAY, SEPT 8

Yellow AND Yellowish-brown

CHANGO MACHO IS SAINT BARBARA, Feast DAY DECEMBER 4TH, Prevailing RED AND Whitish.

CLEMENTINA IS THE VIRGEN MILAGROSA, Prevailing, Whitish AND Naughty

CENTINELA IS SAINT SEBASTI'aN

CENTINELA CRIMINEL IS SAINT PANCRACIO

DAMBALLAH IS SAINT PATRICK. Feast DAY Stagger 17TH. COLORS: Whitish AND Flourishing

EZILI AIL'a (ALA'iLA) IS OUR Female OF Thin Type Feast DAY, JANUARY 21, COLORS: Whitish, Naughty

EZILI DANTH'o IS SAINT BARBARA AFRICANA, Feast DAY DECEMBER 4, Prevailing Naughty, Yellowish-brown, Flourishing.

FILOMENA LUBANA IS SAINT MARTHA DOMINATOR. Feast DAY, JULY 29, Prevailing, Purple AND Flourishing.

GHUEDE GRAN BWA IS SAINT JUDE, SAINT CRISTOPHER, Feast DAY OCTOBER 28, Prevailing RED, Naughty AND Flourishing.

GRAN SOLI'eR IS JESUS OF NAZARETH, Feast DAY, DECEMBER 6, Prevailing Yellowish-brown, Gold ingots, Whitish AND Yellow..

GRAN TORO (TOROLIZA) CHRIST OF Activate Motivation, Blush RED AND Purple

GUED'e LIMB'o SAN EXPEDITO

LA GUNGUNA IS SAINT ELLEN

JUAN BAK'eO IS SAINT PETER, Prevailing, RED, Gloomy AND Flourishing

JUAN FERROZ IS SAINT MARCOS EVANGELIST, Feast DAY APRIL 25, Prevailing RED AND Yellowish-brown.

JUAN KRIMINELO (JAN KRIMINEL OR JUAN Criminal ) IS SAINT PANCRACIO

PAPA LEGBA IS SAINT ANTHONY, HIS Blush IS Gloomy AND HIS Feast DAY IS JUNE 13.

LUIS GUEDE IS Teenager OF ATOCHA, HIS Prevailing ARE RED AND BLACK, HIS Feast DAY IS DECEMBER 25.

MARASSA IS SAINTS COSMO AND DAMIAN. THEIR Prevailing ARE RED AND Flourishing ROJO/RED, VERDE/GREEN AND Feast DAY IS SEPTEMBER 26.

MARTA LA BRUJA IS SAINT MARTHA

METRESILI IS OUR Female OF SORROWS, HER Prevailing ARE Red, Product Naughty AND Whitish. HER Feast DAY IS SEPTEMBER 15.

OFELIA BALENDJO IS OUR Female OF Leniency, HER Prevailing ARE Whitish, Original Naughty AND Assured, AND HIS Feast DAY IS SEPTEMBER 24.

OGUN BALENDJO IS SAINT JAMES, HIS Prevailing ARE RED AND Naughty, HIS Feast DAY IS JULY 25TH.

OGUN FEGAI IS SAINT JORGE, HIS Prevailing ARE Whitish AND RED. HIS Feast DAY IS APRIL 23.

OGUN BATALA IS SAINT MARTIN OF TOURS, HIS COLORS: Whitish AND RED. HIS Feast DAY IS NOVEMBER 11

OSANJIN IS SAINT FRANSCISE

LA SIRENA IS ESTRELLA MARIS Naughty. HER Prevailing ARE Naughty AND Whitish, HER Feast DAY IS SEPTEMBER 7TH.

LA SE~nORITA IS SAINT CLAIRE. HER COLOURS: Whitish AND Yellowish-brown, HER Feast DAY: Admired 11

ROSITA GUEDELIA LEGBA IS SAINT ROSE OF LIMA.

TINDJO ALAGUE IS SAN RAFAEL

21 Schism DE SANSE This is not the 21 Schism as skillful in The Dominican Republic, it is the Misterios that are acclaimed in Puerto Rican Sanse. Each Sociedad mettle variation on which Misterios are part of the Schism. 21 DIVISIONES DE SANSE

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Chaos

Central Racket

by Defect Chao

Introduction

Racket, according to the `Oxford English Glossary means:

1. A spacious separate, concentrated cell, gap, or hollow place.

2. The `formless separate of primeval matter, the `great snippy or hollow place
out of which the world or order of the formation was evolved.

Acquaint with are a team up of unnecessary definitions, but they are irrelevant to this weigh up. When on earth mistake is hand-me-down in magic, offering is no place for con- amalgamation or dislocate.

Racket is the creative act floor all magic. When on earth a magical ritual is performed, regardless of `tradition' or other variables in the elements of concert, a magical energy is twisted and put concerning impulse to take something to exist. In his book, `Sorcery as Imitation Mechanics, Stephen Discotheque cites a geometric long-ago for this creative act.

I quote:

"To handhold it simple, let us take our example to moral two electrons, the pointlike carriers of sniping charge. Let us say they are a part of the cosmological wind--beta particles, as it were--streaming out from the sun at thousands of miles a show. Say that these two came adjacent enough that their sniping charges mediate, causing them to resist one out of the ordinary. How do they be triumphant this training in momentum?

"According to quantum electrodynamics, they do it by exchanging a
"relation" photon. One electron spawns it, the other absorbs it, and so do they resist each other. The photon is "relation" in view of the fact that it cannot be seen by an outdoor observer, center utterly hidden in the contact. But it is real enough, and the emission and absorbtion of relation photons is how the electromagnetic contact operates.

"The theme which is facts to our desire here is somewhere does the
photon come from. It does not come out of one electron and go on board in the other, as if it were a ball in flames from one granite concerning out of the ordinary. The electrons themselves are even, bar for their momenta. Equally, the
photon is twisted out of go by the deceive of the contact. Accord-
ing to draft initiative, considering the two electrons come adjacent their waveforms mediate, either cancelling out or reinforcing one out of the ordinary. Waveforms are strongly coupled to disposition like electric charge, and we might thus think the charges on the two electrons to training. But electron charge does not vary; it is regularly 1.602 x (-19) coulombs. Somewhat the relation photons facet out of the orderly and act to readjust the secret language. The stress spawns them and by their inauguration is the stress unyielding".

Austin Discarded alleged this act in regard to magical phenomena
desire before scientists discovered photons or began experiments in the parish of mistake science.

Austin Osman Spare-some history

Austin Discarded was untrained at midnight, Dec. 31st, 1886 in a London suburb called Blizzard Climb. His outset was a London policeman, recurrently on night excise.

Discarded showed a natural level for conceive at an antediluvian age, and in 1901-
1904 vanished school to foster an apprenticeship in a stained-glass works, but continued his realization at Art Literary in Lambeth. In 1904 he won a scholarship to the Regal Literary of Art. In that rendezvous he equally exhibited a picture in the Regal Academy for the introductory time.

In 1905 he published his introductory book, `Earth Launch. It was in the beginning hypothetical to be a book of drawings, but included commentaries that showed some of his recognition and spiritual leanings. John Singer Sargent hailed him as a prodigy at age 17. At an undisclosed time in his young adulthood, Discarded was initiated concerning a witch cult by a sorceress named Mrs. Patterson, whom Discarded referred to as his "show mother". In 1908 he reasonable an act at Bruton Gallery. In 1910 he moved out a direct time as a member of the Blonde Start.
Becoming dissatisfied with them, he vanguard associate Crowley's Argentium Astrum. The collaboration did not return to desire. Crowley was hypothetical to sing your own praises intentional Discarded to be a Black Conjurer. In 1909 Discarded began inauguration of the `Book of Fantasize.

In 1912 his regard was promising speedily in the art world. In 1913 he published the `Book of Fantasize. It is intentional to be his top figure hefty magical work, and includes miniature instruct for his secret language of sigili- zation and the "death postures" that he is well accepted for. 1914-1918 he served as an credited war singer. He was posted to Egypt which had a considerable effect on him. In 1921, he published `Focus of Innovation, out of the ordinary book of drawings with his distinctive and magical commentaries. 1921-1924 Discarded was at the smooth of his intellectual success, also, in 1924 he published the
`Anathema of Zos', in which he compellingly excommunicated himself from his false and arrived intellectual "friends" and benefactors. He returned to South London and confusion to find the manner of speaking to come out of yourself his philosophy, art and magic.

In 1947 Discarded met Kenneth Aid and became impatiently tortuous with other regular occultists of the porthole. In 1948-1956 he began work on a supreme Grimoire of the Zos Kia Cultus, which is referred to in his countless writings. This is partial and center synthesized from Spare's papers by Kenneth Aid, who innate all of Spare's papers. Far-off of this information was included in `Images and Oracles of Austin Osman Discarded by Kenneth Aid, but offering are some unpublished works which Aid policy to problem late slam of his Typhonian series.

References for this splitting up are in sum from Christopher Bray's introduc- tion to `The Jointly Mechanism of Austin Osman Discarded and from `Excess Discarded, which is a scrap book by The Place of pilgrimage Ov Mystic Insignificant of photocopied articles about Discarded from countless sources.

The Magic of Austin Osman Discarded

Spare's art and magic were authentically related. It is assumed that offering are messages in his drawings about his magical philosophy. One delicate picture of Mrs. Patterson has reportedly been seen to move; the eyes opening and closing. Discarded is best accepted for his secret language of using sigils.
Fundamental an singer, he was very visually tilting.

The secret language plainly consists of print down the look-in, fairly in your own magical alphabet, eliminating all mandatory form, also forming a design of the excess private form. The sigil need also be charged.
Acquaint with is a variety of separate ways to do this, but the key element is to just what the doctor ordered a reference of "space" which can be done in addition to weariness, sexual release or some other methods.

This creates a `vacuum' or `void' a great deal like the magnificence described in the introduction to this weigh up, and it is infested with the energy of the magician. The sigil, center now charged, need be what went before so that the sub-conscious interest may work on it minus the distractons and spare of energy that the conscious interest is full to. Discarded convinced that magic comes from the sub-conscious interest of the magician, not some outdoor
`spirits' or `gods'.

Christopher Bray has this to say about Spare's methods in his intro- duction to `The Jointly Mechanism of Austin Osman Spare':

"So in his art and print, Discarded is putting us in the mood; or show by example what draw near we aspire to eliminate to view the `angle of depart- ure of individual in order to font the invaluable. Seeing that swell of con- sciousness we aspire to thump success.

"One need keep under observation making rule, for Discarded went to considerable pains to allow it as a great deal as attainable to just what the doctor ordered success in his magic; nonetheless a spell out of basic assumptions bolster mistake magic.

"Racket is the large-scale give your word of creative make, which is regularly immersed in wobbly to compete in addition to the cracks of our intimate and cumulative realities. It is the power of Evolution/Devolution.

"Shamanism is arcane within every one of us and can be tapped if we pitch by adjusting our perception/attitude and making our center eager to abide the retort. Achieving Gnosis, or drumming the `angle of
departure of consciousness and phase, is a knack convincingly than a system."

Acquaint with are other methods to denigrate the awfully conception that Discarded explains for us. Magicians like Discarded sing your own praises in print about their own methods and expantions of his sequence realistically by and large in occult magazines, in sum in Well-built Britain. Discarded is undeniably not the introductory human being in history to practice this slot of magic, but he is the one who has dubbed it
(righteous), Racket.

Racket like A.O.S.

Austin Discarded died May 15, 1956, but his magic did not die with him.
Acquaint with sing your own praises been highlight groups of magicians practicing versions of Racket ever like, personally in Northern England and Germany. In the overdue 1970's, Ray Sherwin was editor and publisher of a magazine called `The New
Equinox.' Pete Carroll was a regular contributor to the magazine, and together, due to dissatisfied with the magical scene in Britain at the time, they formed the `Illuminatos Of Thanateros.' They advertised in `New Equinox' and a group formed. Unfinished of the target of the group was to sing your own praises an Seminar somewhere degrees spoken completion convincingly than give your decision, and ranking out of moral governmental wishes was non-existent.

At some concept, about 1986, Ray Sherwin "excommunicated himself" in view of the fact that he felt that the Seminar was slipping concerning the power approach that he had aware to ignore with this group, and Pete Carroll became accepted as the head of `The Agreement.' The IOT continues to grow and is proven as the basically international Racket association to quad. The IOT has equally eat to America, and has administrative center in Encino, California and Atlanta, Georgia.

Acquaint with are smaller groups of Racket practitioners, as well as individuals practicing personally. Racket like Discarded has subjugated on a life of its own. It apparition regularly maintain to reward, that is its enter. It was basically natural that in the end the world of science would begin to work the physical
instruction deep magic, in spite of the scientists who are making these discoveries sedentary do not cotton on that this is what they are produce an effect. It is interesting that they sing your own praises had the wisdom to phone booth it mistake science...

Racket Science

Manufacturing mistake science began in the 1960's considering a handful of easy to talk to scientists with an eye for theme realized that simple arithmetical equa- tions fed concerning a mainframe might dummy patterns every bit as broken and
"wild" as a torrent. They were efficient to confer this to weather patterns, coastlines, all sorts of natural phenomena. Unique equations would
consequences in pictures come close to separate types of vegetation, the contract were indescribable. Centers and institutes were founded to specialize in "non- linear dynamics" and "complex systems." Developing phenomena, like the red stain of Jupiter, might now be alleged. The rife catch-terms that top figure type sing your own praises heard by now; spine-chilling attractors, fractals, etc., are related to the study of fear in enter. Acquaint with is not room to go concerning these subjects in intensity here, and I suggest that fill with who are inquisitive in this full read `Chaos: making a new science' by James Gleick and
`Turbulent Ruminate by John Briggs & F. David Peat.

Seeing that we are unbalanced with here is how all this relates to magic. Different magicians, personally Racket Magicians, sing your own praises begun using these conditions,
"fractal" and "spine-chilling attractor", in their usual conversations. Greatest extent of fill with who do this sing your own praises some understanding of the connection amongst magic and this parish of science. To put it very a minute ago, a of use magical act causes an apparantly acausal consequences. In studying fear, mistake scientists sing your own praises realized that apparantly acausal phenomena in enter are not basically the intend, but are measurable by simple arithmetical equations.
Unevenness is the stuff life is finished of. For example, in the study of heartbeat rhythms and brain-wave patterns, broken patterns are protracted from customarily running organs, in the role of definite, regular patterns are a lead notice of a focus failure about to reach, or an epileptic fit.
Referring back over to "relation" photons, a exactly executed magical release of energy creates a "wave form" (display by Kirlian camera work)
influence the magician causing fear in the aetheric space. This
fear apparition likely take a consequences, fairly as the magician has aware. At what time the energy is open, control buffed the phenomena is out of the magician's hands, moral as subsequent to the equation has been fed concerning the mainframe, the design follows the path set for it.

The scientists who are working in this parish would have a meal at this explana- tion, they sing your own praises no belief that they are in the go on of discovering the physics floor magic. But also, multitude rife place sciences of today, chemistry for example, were subsequent to intentional to be magic. Intuitive this full requires, besides some reading, a nudge in thinking. We are specialized from an antediluvian age to sustain in linear conditions, but enter and the mistake within it are non-linear, and consequently covet non-linear thinking to be alleged. This sounds simple, yet it reminds me of a logic class I had in college. We were produce an effect simple Aristotelian syllogisms. All we had to do was to put usual sermon concerning equation form. It sounds simple, and it is. All the same, it requires a non-linear mark go on. In the sphere of that lesson buffed the space of a week, the class extent dropped from 48 to 9 students. The mainframe programmers were the introductory to slipup out. Population of us who survived that splitting up went on to earn high grades in the class, but snooty vitally, found that we had achieved a motionless training in our thinking processes. Our lives were new by that one simple nudge of
slope.

Racket science is sedentary in the go on of realize, yet magicians sing your own praises been applying its instruction for at smallest as desire as they sing your own praises been print about magic. At what time the instruction of this science begin to tolerate tot up on the thinking go on, the magician begins to snag everything from the fractal patterns in exhaust upward from a cigarette to the patterns of success and scantiness in magical works, which leads to an understanding of why it has succeeded or substandard.

Central Racket Magic

Racket is not in itself, a secret language or philosophy. It is convincingly an draw near that one applies to one's magic and philosophy. It is the informer for all magic, as it is the primordial creative make. A Racket Conjurer learns a variety of magical techniques, on the whole as multitude as s/he can thump infuse to, but sees out of the systems and dogmas to the physics floor the magical make and uses whatever methods are powerful to him/herself. Racket does not come with a separate Grimoire or even a set set of ideals. For
this quarrel, it has been dubbed "vanished hand path" by some who top choice not to understand that which is out of their own number one path. Acquaint with is no set of separate spells that are intentional to be `Chaos Magic spells'. A Racket Conjurer apparition use the awfully spells as fill with of other paths, or fill with of his/
her own making. Any and all methods and information are real, the basically situation is that it works. Mastering the facade of the sub-conscious interest in magical operations is the interior of it, and the reference called "space" by Austin Osman Discarded is the footpath to that end. Personality who has participated in a of use ritual has experienced some direct of the `high' that this reference induces.

An understanding of the geometric instruction floor magic does not
necessarily covet a college direct in physics (in spite of it wouldn't hurt a great deal, if the linear draw near drilled concerning the believer might be by-passed),
be inflicted with in magical have a spat apparition bring the advisable understanding.

This series is directed just before the on the rise chuck out of type who sing your own praises been asking, "Seeing that is Racket Magic?" It is very basic and by no important aware to be a reach mind of any of the elements discussed.
Different of the instruction of magic need be self-discovered, my basically suspicion here is to try to define and cleave together the countless elements together with Racket Magic concerning an intelligible whole. For fill with who wish to learn snooty about this full, I sing your own praises film set a suggested reading list for the return to splitting up, nonetheless, I need emphasize that offering are regularly snooty sources than any one human being knows about, so do not size yourself to this list.
Racket has no confines...

For Significantly Reading:

`The Fact list Of Fantasize by Austin Osman Discarded
`Anathema Of Zos' by Austin Osman Discarded
`A Fact list Of Satyrs' by Austin Osman Discarded
`Images and Oracles of Austin Osman Discarded by Kenneth Aid

`The Children Benefit of A.O.S.'
`Excess Discarded
`Stations In Internment

These three are collections unconscious in addition to TOPY.

Helpful from top figure bookstores (at smallest by special order):

`Chaos: making a new science' by James Gleick
`Turbulent Ruminate by John Briggs & F. David Peat
`Liber Unsound & Psychonaut' by Peter J. Carroll
`Practical Sigil Magick' by Frater U.D.

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Essential Steps In Magical Rituals

There is never going to be agreement about what is essential in a ritual and what is not, any more than there will ever be agreement about what makes a good novel. That doesn't mean there is nothing worth discussing. The steps I have enumerated below are suggestions which were handed down to me, and a lot of insight (not mine) has gone into them; they conform to a Western magical tradition which has not changed in its essentials for thousands of years, and I hand them on to you in the same spirit as I received them.

These are the steps:

1. Open the Circle
2. Open the Gates
3. Invocation to the Powers
4. Statement of Intention and Sacrifice
5. Main Ritual
6. Dismissal of Powers
7. Close the Gates
8. Close the Circle

Suggested free e-books to read:

Anton Szandor Lavey - The Satanic Rituals
Jarl Fossum - Seth In The Magical Texts
Benjamin Rowe - The Essential Skills Of Magick

Black And White Magick

Witcraft magick is sometimes categorized as "white," "gray" or "black." Many of us believe magick is not black, white or gray. It is in the heart of the witch; meaning magick is magick and you send out whatever energies and intent that you choose. Negative energy attracts negative energy and the same goes with positive. That is for any soul, witch or not.

One of the most important reasons untrained/uninformed people should use EXTREME caution when performing a spell is due to interference. Reminds you of football, right? Well, it is actually the same concept. One must take the time to realize every single situation or person that may cause interference to your intent. Such an event can cause negative or even tragic results. Here is an example to clarify this. Say you do a spell to attract money into your life. Unless you specify in detail HOW you wish to obtain money, you may send out energies into the universe that may result in you receiving money due to an inheritance or insurance policy. Get it? Maybe your house will burn down or you wind up in a car accident. Also, regarding money spells, never ask for more than what you really need. Never be greedy. Don't do a spell to win the $20 million lottery. Besides, you are highly unlikely to be successful. Be realistic and fair. Always give something back to the universe when asking for something. Plant a tree, make a charitable donation or even simply be kinder to others in the world. We should all do things like that whether asking for anything.

Books You Might Enjoy:

Thomas Moore - Candle Magick For Love
Aleister Crowley - White Stains
Amber K - The Basics Of Magick
Anonymous - White Magic Spells

What Is High And Low Magick

High magick is ceremonial or ritual magick, used more by the practitioners of The Order of the Golden Dawn, Kabbalists, and followers of Aliester Crowley. High magick also follows a set of guidelines and certain formalities. Ceremonialists call upon demons and other entities to do his/her bidding; this ritual takes time and needs to be done correctly. These guidelines follow a very precise set of parameters and if deviated from usually cause problems for the practitioner.

There are also other references to the differences; one of the more common ones is that High Magick came from those that lived in the cities, castles on the hill. It is said that those who practiced High magick had more time on their hands, therefore their rituals are more expansive. Low magick is practical everyday, or folk magick, generally used by wiccans and witches, and other nature-based religions. Low magick has less formality and encompasses more of the "common sense" magick. Low magick often involves the use of herbs, aromas, stones, flowers, animal parts (sympathetic magick) and other natural materials. These animal parts are NOT the result of sacrifice, but rather the practitioner finds that feathers, furs, and discarded bones. Low magick came from the fields, and the lowlands. The fact is that most of those who lived in the lowlands worked from dusk to dawn, had little if any time or need for elaborate ceremonies; therefore the practice of low magick was straightforward and to the point with little fanfare.

Books You Might Enjoy:

Eliphas Levi - The Ritual Of Transcendental Magic
Phillip Williams - Night Magic
Thomas Moore - Candle Magick For Love

The Character Of Magick

I have a friend, her husband is morbidly obese through indulgent overeating. Whole roasts at night! She feels betrayed. My husband is unconscious in the hospital bed, as I sit here I feel incredibly alone and abandoned. I miss him, yet he is right there. A friend is divorcing. Her husband says she should trust him, even though his last two years are filled with an adulterous affair, a current romantic interest and games she cannot possibly unravel. The young magician says he wants love, but lurks around the house peering out windows after the love spell is complete. He becomes bitter because magic doesn't work either.

In Stephen Covey's book Seven Habits of Highly Successful People he provides a tool. Envision yourself at your own funeral. People come to speak of you. Your mate, your co-workers, your friends, your children. What would you want each of these people to say about you? Now, he says, look at your life. Are you living your life, are you interacting with these people in such a way that they can say that about you? If you want your wife or husband to say that you were supportive, creative, generous and understanding - have you been supportive? Creative? Generous? Understanding?

We are the sum of our behaviors and experience. Our actions throughout our lives define who we are and what our beliefs are. It matters not what we say, if our actions express another belief and personality. My friend's husband refuses to understand why his wife cannot, will not trust him. In the past year he has given his wife a sexually transmitted diseases, had an affair without protection, risking his life, her life and the future of their children. He may see himself as a good man, an honorable man - but there is no validity.

Robin lies in a hospital bed. I have my hand on his leg, yet I was alone. Why? Robin is my supporter, my counselor, my cohort in humor, my lover. This body is not my love. My love is the sum of all the actions he brings, all the support, his every word. I am alone, so alone, until he recovers and again offers me these things.

My girlfriend's partner isn't the man she signed on with either. He lost weight, became active to catch a woman, then went back to his old ways. When they met, he was active, average weight, involved in her pursuits. Now he is sedentary, loath to take a walk, protests his infirmity. She is right. He has abandoned her.

All of these people would be completely appalled by these portraits of betrayal. There is no question about good or bad persons. We are that which we have become, that which we have accrued, based on the sum of our express actions. The man who lies and has sex, is a liar and an adulterer. He has no rights to acceptance in our world. Yet, already, he is busy twisting things in his head so he can be self-righteous about abandoning his little girl and their newborn son. But there is no issue here with his honor, he has none.

The magician who has lit a candle and said the right words, never followed up with actions consistent with that stated goal. His actions say not, "Hey, I want love and am willing to be a partner." These actions state, "Hey, you come to me. I'm not going to change. If this isn't easy, I'm not going waste my time."

Recently a young girl wrote us and said her father was and elder in a Lutheran church, but she was pledged to the Goddess. Her question? She was scheduled for confirmation, should she go through with it?

I passed this question amongst the wiccan community. I was astonished to discover that almost every Pagan said, "Sure, why not?" It would save strife and avoid embarrassing her father. Folks thought I was so harsh to have told this child that if she lied, she would be a liar and that lie would shape her life. Now her actions are expedient, later it will become easy.

When you screw it up, lie, don't follow through commitments, it shapes your life, sets up the pattern for the future and defines you. There is a cultural myth that beliefs are important - not acts. Other sects insist, "Through your acts shall you be known." People have not been trained to examine their thoughts and actions for consistency with their values, commitments, and stated belief system. Those who follow the Old Gods and their magick must.

I tell those beginning in magic that they must look at the overall picture. If you cast your spell, but do not follow up with action consistent in the accomplishment of your goal, the magick is weakened and ineffective. If you cast your spell, using proper words, but have any conflict or doubt about those goals or words, the magick is weak and ineffective. When people tell me that so-and-so bad person is casting spells for harm, I rarely worry. Weak character will provide for poor follow-through and inconsistent internal messaging, and thus their magick is weak and ineffective.

For magick to truly work, for our world to be magickal, we must decide what we want it to look like, what we want us to look like, and then live the appropriate actions, and thoughts, to bring it into being. We must become who we are. If wiccans are not people of honorable and consistent character, then this magick we love so much is just a fantasy of illusion, a pretty game.

Live the Magick!

Books You Might Enjoy:

Kenneth Grant - Magical Revival
Israel Regardie - The Art And Meaning Of Magic
Aleister Crowley - Magick
Amber K - The Basics Of Magick
Ophiel - The Art Practice Of Caballa Magic

Phone Magic

When you think about your favorite magical tools, do you ever consider the telephone? Here's a few ideas which may make a common household object seem very, very magical!

Focus and Direct Energy:

Focusing and directing energy is a basic principle of magic. That's exactly what you do when you make a phone call. You are sending your intent via waves of electricity going through copper wires. In some cases you are using pulses of light going through fiber optics. But in either case, you are directing energy exactly where you choose.

Bells:

Many use bells in magic to project energy through sound waves. Why not use the ringing of a telephone? When you call someone, you fill their home with the ringing of a bell. This could easily be used to send someone a house blessing. In fact, with their permission, you can "attach" virtually any kind of blessing to your phone call. A simple wake-up call could be a wish for a good day; a call to a sick friend could direct healing energies. You are limited only by your imagination!

Answering Machines:

Many spells involve "charging" an item, or storing energy within something to accomplish a specific purpose. Is this storage of energy all that different from recording sounds on a cassette tape? When an answering machine stores a message, it can also store the magical energy someone wishes to attach to their message. Callers are creating a charm of sorts. Ever sense something out of the ordinary before you play back a message? When a caller leaves their voice on your machine, they are charging a physical, tangible item located within your home with a bit of their energy. When you play the message, the energy is released. You can use this in several positive magical ways. For example, the message becomes a bit of that person, so it enables you to better touch them magically, the way a possession or piece of clothing would. You can also use your own message greeting as a protective device, stored within your machine to safeguard your home from incoming negativity.

Color:

Magic in color? Phones come in many colors. Own more than one phone? Which of the phones in your home best fits your intent for that specific call? Perhaps the red one? The white one? Another aspect of color in phone magic are the four colored wires that all phones use: black, yellow, red, green. Now that you know this, try using them to suit your need. Which one works best for you?

Cords:

Some people use cords in magic; they believe its knots & tangles store energy. Why not the phone cord? You could wrap it around an object you use in the spell. Or you could recognize the knots and tangles in your phone cord as a part of your own daily life. Over the course of the days, little by little, the cord slowly took its twisted shape. As you untangle the cord, you can untangle the tensions or knots in your own life.

Sympathetic Magic:

Is there a person you want to (literally) hang up on? Just disconnect them from your life? See this as a magical event the next time you slam down the phone!

Crystals, Gems and Metals in Magic:

Phone wire is made of copper. Its circuitry is made of tiny silicon chips; silicon is a mineral found naturally as a common stone, like quartz. Properties of these items can easily be found in magical reference books. How are these metals and minerals special? How do they work for you?

Numbers:

Some people use the magic within numbers. What could be more personal than your phone number? While many people share your birthday or your age -- your area code/phone number is never, ever, duplicated anywhere in the world! It is truly unique. You can even interpret a phone number as a means of divination. Does your spell involve a person? Use their phone number. Does it involve a place? Use its area code. Have a magical name or special magical word? You can now pick your own vanity number, using the new "500" area code, available for as little as three dollars per month.

Cordless and Cellular Phones:

Many use a wand or athame to direct the energy they send forth. Is this any different than the way an antenna works for a transmitter? For a receiver? A cordless phone fills the air with waves of energy radiating throughout your entire home. Cellular phone waves go for miles! Why not use their energy release as a means to carry your intent?

A Personal Touch:

Many use personal items to help in magic (like a lock of hair, a bit of clothing or photo) as a means to help their magic reach another person. The person's unique essence left within this item helps become an addressing mechanism to aim the intent of the spell directly at that person. This "address" helps direct your energy, like a blood hound hot with the scent! Why not have the person you are working with on the phone during the spell? A phone conversation is actually a two-way exchange of energy. Use their essence this way.

Linkage to All:

The phone network is the perfect analogy to how all things in the universe are connected and interwoven. It is a physical link connecting you to others. When you hold your phone in your hand, you touch your neighbor -- whether next door or around the world -- through a physical link of telephone cables, usually made of copper. Recognize this connection and use it to enhance your magic. (You may even notice that one major "Telephone & Telegraph" company even uses a logo that shows a round blue symbol of the Earth -- entirely linked by lines of communication.)

Other "Ordinary" Household Items:

A very accurate definition of magic calls it "things not understood by science -- yet." Remember that magic doesn't necessarily exclude the things that are understood, things that you touch everyday. Now that you see the phone in a new way, what other everyday items in your home can be magical tools? Can you see the pilot of your stove or furnace as your perpetual candle flame? Can pondering your electrical outlet help link you to new sources of energy? Can the hot and cold knobs on your faucet help you understand balance between opposites? Again, you are limited only by your imagination!

Books You Might Enjoy:

Thomas Moore - Candle Magick For Love
Aleister Crowley - Magick
Paul Huson - Mastering Witchcraft

Contemporary Magick

1. magick today is a far cry from that of times past - although it may be that its most crucial element - belief - is still the crux of any working. However, the magick which we discuss as part of the Wiccan, pagan training is believed to be a natural part of almost anyone's abilities. With training and some sensitivity to the feel of the energies, almost anyone can work and use magick in their ritual, ceremonial, and daily life. In addition, we understand so much more about our lives and environment than those early witches did. It is particularly powerful to weave your magical and religious symbols into your professional and personal environment. Thus, you are always aware of your goals and values as you go about your daily endeavors.
2. In a last note, I will discuss the word Witch. Today we use this to indicate anyone who uses such power within a context of responsibility to their community and the world as a whole. I have defined the role of a witch as, “One who knowledgeably takes on the obligation to further harmony and growth for our world, our selves and our community.” I believe this obligation will be fulfilled by all power at that Witch's command, including personal talents, skills, strength and psychic power. It is important that all these personal endeavors be in concert, so as to maximize the effect of the working. In the past definitions for the word Witch were much less complimentary. Any rudimentary research into witchcraft from conventional publications will quickly discover that even in the 1970s and 80s, a witch was always considered an evil-doer. Even books which seem unbiased, include these biases - as well as a bias against women. Anyone who worked energy for evil was considered a witch, and was obviously a female. Anyone who worked energy for good or personal reasons was considered a sorcerer and in almost all the books I read, a male. The exception was healers - who could be male or female, but were classified as white witches.


Books You Might Enjoy:

Melita Denning - Mysteria Magica Book V
Thomas Moore - Candle Magick For Love
Dion Fortune - Ceremonial Magic Unveiled
Aleister Crowley - Intro Magick
Aleister Crowley - Magick

Basic Candle Magick

Burning a candle has something magical; our unconsciousness recognizes the connection between earth and infinite creative heaven symbolized by the burning candle. No electric lamp can ever beat a simple candle when it comes to bringing a warm and cosy atmosphere in which we feel at home. Burning a candle for a beloved one in a church with a wish is a simple form of magick. Blowing out the candles on a birthday cake while making a wish in fact is candle magick. You may want to put a white candle at the positions north, east, south and west in the magickal circle. Or you may wish to position five candles in the form of a pentagram.

Candle magick works like this:

* Choose one or more candles in the color(s) appropriate to your magickal goal. ( See Color magick )

* Your candles have to be virgin, what means not used before. This is important, because used candles carry the energies of former use with them, what may disturb or diminish the effectiveness of your present ritual. Always use new candles for a ritual, even if you do two rituals of the same kind after one another, for instance a healing for person A and for person B. But if your ritual needs to be repeated several days then of course you can use the same candles for the same type ritual for the same person during successive days.

* Now you have to charge the candle for your purpose. By charging it you bring your own energies and magickal desires into the candle. By charging it you also mentally start the process of focusing on your goal and physically make contact with the representation of your aim. You make a psychic link with the candle. You charge the candle(s) by:
1.Carving the name of the person or your goal in it with a small knife. Do this concentrated.
2. You anoint it, what means that you rub it in with oil while visualizing your spell. This is also called 'dressing' the candle. You can dress the candle with pure olive oil or a suitable essential oil. In any magick that is 'calling' (attracting things, like money, health, love) you rub the oil from the top of the candle to the base. In 'banishing' magick (getting rid of things, like negative influences, addictions) you rub the oil from the base of the candle to the top.

* Put the candle in the holder and light it. Visualize your goal for as long as you can, or recite affirmations (one world or a sentence) for a time. Then put the candle out. Repeat this for several days, at least three, until you get results. Then let the candle burn all the way out.

* Another way of working is this: don't carve your message in the candle, but write it on a piece of paper while visualizing your goal, and burn it completely in the candle flame. Be careful: put the candlestick into a larger plate or chalice for this goal, for I know this will most of the time become a mess. While burning it concentrate completely on your goal. Then let the candle burn all the way out. (You don't need to stay around, but be careful: it is fire!)

* Always burn a white candle too, as purification and protection against negativity. This is your altar candle, which can be used any ritual until it is burned away. So in candle magick there will always be at least two candles: one altar candle and one anointed ritual candle.

Candle magick can be combined with other color magick, sex magick or other forms of magick.

Books You Might Enjoy:

Aleister Crowley - Basic Techniques Of Sex Magick
Aleister Crowley - Intro Magick
Amber K - The Basics Of Magick
Thomas Moore - Candle Magick For Love
Aleister Crowley - Magick

Animal Magic

A Circle fills the room with its special glow. Fragrant herbs perfume the air; candles light the night. And two small eyes glow up at you, knowing that they too are part of the magic.

People and animals have worked magic together in many ways, some of which were a part of everyday life. In agricultural lands, animals worked the magic of providing our survival through the winter. They provided food and materials used in all facets of the community.

Imagine a time before cars, trains and planes. People were somewhat bound to their homeland since walking cross-country seemed an endless journey. But then, on horseback, people could easily explore. Some say that the use of horses led to the major shifts in political and spiritual history, as one tribe invaded another with mounted soldiers, forever society and religion. For better or worse, horses changed the course of history.

Even in industrial times, we've worked with animals. You've heard the expression "a canary in a coal mine." Miners used canaries to detect problems with the air quality, oxygen level, and presence of invisible poison gas. Canaries were more sensitive to these threats and could alert the workers.

Magical animals are not unfamiliar to the myths of Old. For example, Odin used two ravens to fly around the world and report back all that they saw. Could this symbolic tale be rooted in a form of divination used at the time? In ancient Egypt, the scarab beetle was a symbol of eternal life. This lore is based on the way beetles rolled a ball of dung in which to lay their eggs. The idea of life from dung must surely relate to the eternal cycles of nature. Even the Christians assimilated symbols like the dove and the lamb. Animals as mythic symbols cross a wide variety of cultures.

In understanding these mythic animals, we must know the context in which they were viewed. For example, thousands of years from now, historians might not understand the exact emotions we attach to symbols when we say someone is a deer, or a jackass. Remember that next time you read the myths of Bast, or Cerberus, or even the American Eagle.

Today, most magical people think of familiars as their household pets, the little ones who provide joy, insight and companionship -- not to mention shed all over black clothing and robes! Animals in general are closer to nature than we are. They remember their instinctual ways easier than we do. Why limit this to pets? The animals around us in the field can share our magical moments? Did we encounter a gentle and curious deer along our first walk in the woods? Did geese fly overhead and squawk their applause for our lovemaking? How do these animal events speak to you? You can merely visualize your magical animal, like a totem guide or imaginary friend. (And you'll never need to pay for a vet!)

Whether in myth or reality, an animal's unique traits can teach us specific lessons in nature. Can we learn by watching an animal hunt? Protect its young? Weave webs? Float from one flower to another, tasting a mix of sweet nectars? Or nest and lay the fragile egg of new beginnings?

Don't limit your familiars to just animals. Why not a plant? Plants teach us about laying roots, growing wild, turning to face the light. Plants show us new ways to branch out, bear fruit -- or wither, fall and provide a subtle new start for others. Are we any different?

Why not have an object as a familiar? Are not all things in nature alive? Can an old gray boulder show us anything about weathering the tests of time? Can Granny's old wristwatch teach us about cycles?

Perhaps the most familiar idea comes when you know that you already hold all these special qualities within yourself. We too have animal ways, branch out like plants, and live the lessons of solid tangible form no differently than Granny's watch. Familiar means family, being One with another. Knowing you are One with all things makes everything seem quite familiar. And everything will look to you, knowing that it too is part of the magic.

Books You Might Enjoy:

Ophiel - The Art Practice Of Caballa Magic
Pansophic Freemasons - Masonic Symbolism
Melita Denning - Mysteria Magica Book V
Aristotle - Metaphysics