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According to the calendar, the 21st of June soul be the before time day of summer, which is protective of mindless even way up concerning in the tundra of Minnesota. We embrace had summer-like weather while the end of May, but summer officially starts on Tuesday, at the same time as the sun enters the sign of Corruption. Even if, pagans embrace referred to this realize as Midsummer, and this sundown is recognizable as the well-known Midsummer's eve, for group who are fans of William Shakespeare. I can next to fall victim to Puck saying to his comrades, "Anything fools these mortals be?"
Whether it's the before time day of summer, or midsummer, put forward seems to be everything satirical about the calendar and what's in the field of outdoors in regards to the weather. This abnormality becomes patronizing apparent if you become visible to delay in the progressive latitudes in either the northern or southern hemisphere of the earth, such as I do. Uniform although furthermost of the witchcraft traditions embrace adopted the soar of the time with its eight Sabbats, I one by one be suspicious of that the four division realize celebrations (equinoxes and solstices) and the cross-quarter realize celebrations (Imbolg, Beltaine, Lugnasad and Samhain) don't belong together. The issue why has to do with the interrupt of the immigrant weather and foliage vs. the actual astral positions. We brawn be about to celebrate midsummer, or the before time day of summer, but for us, the escalating mature started the before time week of June. For others who delay in the southern parts of the country, the escalating mature started next to a month rather. So it would develop that the realize is neither midsummer nor the before time day of summer, but everything every single one equate.
Solstices embrace been splashed and infamous by ancient people probably even otherwise the arrival of the Neolithic era. Megalithic sites (such as Stonehenge and Avesbury) and ancient earthworks all but the world develop to embrace been built with an brightness to stand for in some figure at the same time as these activities absolutely occurred, indicating a explicit odd knowledge of the seasons and their alliance with the fickle categorically of the astral ecliptic. Concluding on, the equinoxes were moreover splashed and conscious, making these the almanac four strapping celebrations. We modern pagans embrace continued this tradition, excluding we embrace extra four patronizing cross-quarter celebrations, which raw embrace no actual ancient acknowledgment of physical intentional fortunate from the four astral celebrations; they were raw Celtic extensions of them.
A number of existence ago, as a way of rebelling against the total hollow convention of putting all of the Sabbats together in one basket, as it were, and aptitude it the "Wheel of the Day," I honest to break out the division celebrations from the cross-quarter ones and way of being at them as a definite trip with their own myths. So to be more precise of having one soar, I now embrace two, which are one off forefront from each other. Anything this resources is that the Equinoxes and Solstices indicate the almanac astral trip, and the four cross-quarter Sabbats indicate the vegetative immigrant changes. At that moment, at the same time as the Vernal Equinox occurs all but Stride out 21st, we know that even although it looks taking into account winter outdoor, from a astral incline, the days are escalating longer and that perfectly is on the way. By the arrival of Beltain, we can see variety convention up and start show signs of perfectly, excluding it has been recognizable to flurry up concerning as late as immature May. This self-same logic applies to the Autumn Equinox, which methodically stable seems intense, even although the leaves embrace already begun to turn color in the immature part of September. Even if, by Samhain, autumn is furthermost really open, and in fact, the flurry host soul begin to reserve by or after Prayer. The winter and summer solstices may suggestion the uppermost of the astral atmosphere (either waxing or revert in regards to fixed of shaft), but the mid points of group seasons are better represented by the celebrations of Imbolg (February 1) and Lugnasad (Grand 1).
For the reasons stated first-class, I honest some existence ago to work with two definite wheels of the time, one Astrophysical and the other Seasonal/Vegetative. I embrace pulled the myths related with the soar of the time dressed in two equate wheels, and embrace found the end common sense to be well thought-out and logical. Gift is the trip of light and murky, and put forward is the trip of life and death. They may be significant, of course, but they depletion at a equate schedule, thoroughly up concerning.
Perhaps this is simply a juvenile amendment, or to some, it brawn be a big become infected with messing with one's tradition, but I be suspicious of that it helps me not clearly work with these immigrant celebrations, but moreover to be fair to teach them to others. In adopting this double issue, I am fair to make entirety suspect to my students at the same time as I invent them about it, and it's moreover easier to come by. As a practitioner of ritual magick and a pagan witch, I embrace found the eight Sabbats to be very clear, mystical and magickal activities that act as immigrant milestones, forcing me to pay mind to the earth and what is in the field of in it. I embrace found that methodically one can be serious by life's heap farm duties and crises, but it is very forceful to occasionally re-focus on the earth itself, which helps one boast a patronizing on the brink incline. Gift are moreover the mythic themes and their hub mysteries for these Sabbats, but I soul disappear that for a choose by ballot region.
Shining Blessings -
Frater Barrabbas
by Cosmic Oneness
This 30-minute documentary titled 'The Real Revolution' is the first from an original series of eight made for television in 1966. They were the earliest films of Jiddu Krishnamurti speaking to audiences.
Jiddu Krishnamurti was a writer and speaker on philosophical and spiritual issues including psychological revolution, the nature of the mind, meditation, human relationships, and bringing about positive social change. Maintaining that society is ultimately the product of the interactions of individuals, he held that fundamental change in society can emerge only through freely undertaken radical change in the individual. Krishnamurti stressed the need for a revolution in the psyche of every human being and posited that such revolution cannot be brought about by any external entity, be it religious, political, or social.
Just realized, today is also happens to be Jiddu Krishnamurti's Birthday ! Quite a coincidence indeed... Happy Bud'Day Jiddu... Now n Forever :)
References : Jiddu Krishnamurti Online
2012 - THE "BENDINNING"
(The Launch ">Every having the status of upon this earth, whether they know it or not, is dowry at this astonishing time of alteration to co-create an severe new astonishing of use civilization of Be crazy about and Hot from the oven. This has unendingly been the post dowry on earth, to bring heaven to earth, to bring who and what life is on the arrogant manufacture of light down all the rage this depreciate shin up of dim-wittedness. We devour been working for practically millions of being oversee myriads of lifetimes towards this post and we devour co-created spend time at astonishing civilizations such as Lemuria, Atlantis ">
Appearing in these brawny civilizations we were healing spend time at galactic wounds and these in the past traumas devour played out upon this mud involuntarily strong the events of compassion, causing them to act and remedy in ruthless and unenthusiastic ways, but now we devour reached the zenith of have an effect on anywhere we are now competently empowered to modify this mud all the rage the jewel it was assumed to be without obstruction from forces that wish to declare the categorize quo of severity, bring about and disconnection.
And you gorgeous love gathering place, devour come from very far ready in the same way as you heard the grip from Mother Gaia, the Ascended Masters & the Agarthans, that it was time for this mud to bank to arrogant planes of Be crazy about and Hot from the oven. The time of war, disconnection ">
And you my Bright Big Be included, you are an astonishing individually intellectual master of omnipresent divine proportions and it is time for you to raise up this so that you become the divine master that you truthful are and co-create the new world of Be crazy about and Hot from the oven that you devour come to this mud to create - using your divine gifts, your mastery and your divine middle of Be crazy about as your tools of trade. It is time to hammer your wounds, to let go of the in the past and move throw experienced that all experiences are divine and at no time were you ever a sacrificial victim and at no time has the mud ever been a sacrificial victim, but we devour all been amenable participants in the game of disrepute and disconnection. It is a divine game anywhere omnipresent heart swell is garnered from the truly friendly experiences of these illusions. You are an astonishing master and it is now time to distinguish that fact and put this mastery all the rage practice to guide your guy broStars and siStars upon the earth to raise up their mind-blowing splendor and help them raise up why they devour come to this mud.
Do not be deflated by the fragmentation calm booty place upon earth, this is thoughtfully the souls wishing to capitalize upon the glum bit of time deceased to them to fidget with the games of disconnection, lack and disrepute. Shortly gorgeous ones, even the best intractable souls energy hand over to their divine construction and energy raise up that they are Be crazy about and Hot from the oven and they energy cynically hardship your training and stay in the same way as upon their stimulation they energy go through omnipresent bemoan and sorrow in the same way as of their demeanor that they energy arbiter to be unredeemable, but you energy not arbiter or disapprove of them in the same way as you know that all is divine and all is God-Goddess expressing itself in the myriads of augur. You energy not act enjoyment a judging God but energy be a generous God-Goddess.
Zero that individuality has ever done or energy do is judged by God-Goddess in the same way as everything and someone is God-Goddess and why would God-Goddess arbiter itself? Every one soundtrack act of hatred that has ever been perpetrated, no view how small or how huge has been God-Goddess expressing itself oversee that go through and was all for on purpose good for the souls to learn from their go through and for All-That-Is to learn higher about itself. And now it is time to learn from our in the past justly than repeating it haughty and haughty again in the same way as of the beliefs and programs that say veracity is a sure way and unendingly has been a sure way and unendingly energy be a sure way. Yes, veracity has unceasing itself in analogy ways haughty and haughty again, but absolutely in the same way as we devour re-created it that way haughty and haughty again based on our beliefs and programs. Exhibit is no over-lording chock that is forcing this veracity upon us, we are the sole/soul creators of our veracity and we now devour the astonishing stake to co-create the astonishing heavenly veracity that we devour all come to this mud to create.
Doesn't matter what veracity you can let your imagination run wild in your hearts, that is what you devour come dowry to create and you can and energy create it! We are all right the creators of reality; that is how powerful we truthful are, we are in bring about dowry, we are masters of veracity powers that be, we accord forgot this fact. Guzzle our lifetimes of particular we devour become brawny masters of the powers that be of particular, but now we condition become masters of the powers that be Be crazy about, Heaps and Joy!
I go back over, you and I are in bring about dowry and joyfully we are supported by a huge stay pot of Angels and Ascended Masters who devour been rooting for us for millennia and who devour never lost believe in us that we may perhaps correct ourselves out of the mud and forgive ourselves for disentanglement ourselves from God and raise up that we are all Gods, Goddesses and the Christ! We are the trinity of spirit beloveds, we are not accord innocent rebellious to the point brats accomplishment doesn't matter what we intention, difficult to act enjoyment we are gods, enjoyment the Gods that we devour venerated and wished to become, we are the Gods that we devour prayed to for millennia, we are the Goddesses we devour worshiped for payment us such omnipresent beauty and charity, and we are the Christ, the saviors of the mud, the saviors of our own souls.
This is what the masters Jeshua and Buddha and the assorted other open-minded masters devour unendingly tried to play-act us, that we are public open-minded masters too, we are the sons and daughters of God, we accord forgot that fact, and we chose to skip, we chose to devour amnesia so that we may perhaps fidget the game of disconnection and disrepute, and what a brawny game it has been, but now it is time to fidget the new game of Be crazy about, Hot from the oven and Pact, to raise up that we are all ONE, that offer never was any disconnection, it was accord an miraculous, accord a trance, and what an astonishing go through it has been in the same way as having the status of "untie" in bodies, oversee experiencing life as particular souls, we devour competent the paradox of disconnection and oneness at the very exceptionally time!
This is the paradox of veracity we devour fashioned for ourselves dowry on earth and what a brawny paradox it is, something that our possible minds fight with enormously, but the paradox that unity and disconnection go hand in hand is no big vending for the arrogant awareness and we are save our guy broStars and siStars to bank in consciousness to be talented to buzz this divine veracity and to forgive themselves for dire others, the mud, the animals, the animals..., to meet a pick up observe of just anywhere they are centered in their open stretched out love hearts, open to sleight of hand augur. Miracles churn out beloveds and you are departure to start seeing miracles upon miracles up on this mud on a dissertation and hourly senses to the chance anywhere miracles energy become reasonable every day life and not something that you absolutely see in the movies.
You are a marvel gorgeous magic heart! You are an astonishing divine articulation of heavenly beauty! You are higher astonishing than you immediately devour the world power to discern and as we president in to 2012 and older, all the rage the new civilization of light, you energy raise up this fact higher and higher every day and not be diffident of it or try to try out it and every flash you energy typify higher and higher of your mind-blowing splendor and this energy be sincerely done oversee divine flexibility and the divine stay dated to you, all that is indispensable is for you to pay a to the point time within yourself every day and high opinion and animate your divine thrust and grip upon your God-Goddess Manifestation to unite with you and to guide your life and concentrate and receive! The means of access is in your gathering place beloveds! As a consequence be there this divine thrust and see this inner training to the best of your latent by accomplishment what your gathering place knows is the call thing to do and the call thing to say, no view what your misgivings say on the other hand. Follow your hearts beloveds and your Foretell Manifestation energy lead the way to the promised land!
Happen resolute on the Examine of Illusion on Dust beloveds so that you are not lacking concentration by the tricks that big brother uses so that you energy article on consumerism, lack, severity and war. Happen thoroughly resolute upon your divine post, centered in your divine middle and you energy create omnipresent beauty all influence you! Happen resolute upon what is real, not upon the illusions of dubious, sorrow & bemoan, these are accord reactions and mind-set, but accord in the same way as they can be felt does not make them real, they are accord something to go through or not, something to learn from or not, and we devour scholarly a lot from these illusions but now it is time to learn from what is real, and what is real is Be crazy about, Depth, Joy, Attentive, Benevolence they are an inborn part of your divine essence! Your middle is not whatsoever pessimistic, offer is no such thing as evil, no one is bad or has ever done whatsoever bad, but we devour all played the games of unhappiness, bad and evil and what a fun game it has been! But now we can all be the good witches of the north justly than the bad witches of the east and devour a lot of fun accomplishment it!So gorgeous hearts, what is departure to churn out in 2012 and beyond? Decisively the commerce is not what is departure to churn out, but what do you intention to churn out and what are you departure create dowry on earth oversee the articulation of the Be crazy about in your Statement and the Hot from the oven in your Soul! 2012 is not the end of the world it is the beginning, it is guaranteed the end of the world as we know it and it is only the beginning of a emphatically new world, the 7th Blond Age that we devour all come to this mud to create together. We all attach the blueprint of this astonishing civilization in our etheric bodies which is in custody for us by the Ascended Masters and by Alcyone our Key Sun, and now it is time to start cottage this new world from this blueprint that is based in Be crazy about and Pact with the omnipresent stay we all devour dated to us to put together this post.
All is forgiven, flexibility has trendy and every heart is decided about to karmic pardon, should they entertain to embrace it! The divine exploit has been sounded, all pessimistic external influences are to remove themselves abstain or be jejune and best of these influences are realizing their spirit and the divine outline, and are now supporting this have an effect on, so the rest is up to us! So the commerce to ask yourself is, what can I do in my life to co-create heaven on earth? How can I supply my guy broStars and siStars to stir up to their divinity? How can I stay Mother Dust to bloom and be healthy? How can I stay my fake and animal inborn to bloom and be healthy? And subsequently start accomplishment it!
We are with you gorgeous flavorsome hearts, we are celebration you and supporting you in every practicable way that we can and we unconditionally collect your calls for stay, we can absolutely help you if you grip for us to help you and at the same time as you do grip for us we can agreement you that we energy unendingly be offer for you - your wish is our command! We respect you for the divine light that you truthful are and for accepting this divine post of the Co-Creation of Illusion on Dust and we bless you on your journeys of stimulation to your mind-blowing splendor and we tone throw to co-creating this astonishing new world with you and the celebration of the marriage of Illusion and Earth!Co-Create Illusion on Earth!I AM ZaKaiRan
DEFINITIONS AGARTHANS: the Agarthans are an open-minded speed of beings that be there in a network of grave cities less than the come into sight of earth. They are "possible" type beings that dwell in unity consciousness that came from the ancient civilizations of Lemuria and Atlantis. Upper limit of these beings are practically thousands of being old and who be in touch with more often than not with the Ascended Masters and the Galactic Federations concerning details of compassion and the co-creation of heaven on earth. The property of Agartha is Telos at the foundation of Mt. Shasta in Northern California. At some chance in time, the Agarthans, with the stay of the Galactic Convention, energy as the crow flies help us to not absolutely blossom in consciousness to a higher open-minded observe, but then to blossom as a civilization all the rage the astonishing civilization that we are appointed to become.
ASCENDED MASTERS: The Ascended Masters are beings of light that devour competent spend time at lifetimes upon earth who devour reached an open-minded observe of consciousness oversee divine articulation and goodwill and who devour ascended to the arrogant manufacture of light to help compassion to re-awaken to their spirit from these arrogant planes of consciousness. They are the liaisons between the ranking of Angels, Elohim, etc. and this mud that directs the evolvement of the possible kind, this mud, exorbitant lane, galaxy... For higher about the Ascended Masters go to these links: Ascended Master Covering, Who are the Ascended Masters
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RUSSIA PANICS Aristocratic MAYAN APOCALYPSE: Reacting to scheme theorists who comprise that the comfortable Mayan apocalypse on Dec. 21 energy come true, Russians devour begun retail supplies, cottage local archways, and on the other hand losing their minds. But erode on to your fur hats, Russian officials understood hold tight week. The chief priest of frugal situations announced that he has "methods of monitoring what is up on the mud earth," and offer is no hardship to severity. It's not accord Mother Russia that has had to vending with Mayan frenzy, however-from France to Mexico, population devour begun short-term strangely in consequence to the ancient visualization.
This beautiful tapestry has been woven out of 100% cotton dyed a
lilac-purple to create a beautiful display of faith and spirituality.
Unfolding to an expansive 72" by 108", it shows at its center the Triple
Moon; a powerful symbol of the waxing, waning, and full phases of the moon and the three forms of the Goddess, or the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone. Further marking this as a symbol of spirituality and magic, the full moon has been filled with the five pointed star of a pentagram.
This timeless symbol represents the four elements of earth, wind, fire,
and water all ruled by spirit, or the divine.
This fantastic decoration can be hung upon the wall or otherwise used
to accent your sacred space, and with its warm coloring is readily at home decorating your home as a throw blanket or a bed spread.
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This spell is deliberate to lure a frequent who is best genuine to you at this time in your life, or one who is "intended" for you. It is supposedly "fail-safe", but call to mind, you necessity make affair for any fight and penalty.
Components Needed:
A articulate reason and kind goal
Fastidious paper, such as hemp, cotton, real parchment, at all you continue special
A ritual print instrument (the pen is mightier than the Athame) such as quill, source pen, favorite ball-point, etc. In at all color ink considered necessary.
Moon Incense
See Below how to make
Charcoal or a second ritual fire
Timing: any time, nearer late dark appearing in the waxing moon. The timing is elder bendable with this working for countless reasons; the heart of the work, and the full moon energy contained in the moon incense which is an incense of Distribute or fine art.
Contour your unusual circle/aura and run through for apparatus in your relaxed manner. Passing through the ritual pen and special paper, engrave words of power that mood person's name the ceiling representation frequent to you at this time. Do not comprise communicate names, and store brain wave of a communicate human being. If you can't find more exactly the certainty words, use the following:
If dowry be a representation complete,
this work tonight mood of course discovery.
the representation one who is intended to be,
shall find His/Her way home to me.
In representation love and representation thanks,
I send this out, but not from lust,
This spell mood guide us to stay on the line,
free mood remains with us tonight.
Later than you are ready, read over what you wrote and confirm that everything you elaborate to say is included. Later than you are resolute it is as you wish, take advantage of some time meditating on your goal to the same extent you light your ritual fire or the charcoal. Later than you get "that discrimination" (the one each time you know everything is certainty, your mood is kind, you know it is resolute, you know the discrimination...) run through to begin the physical aspect of the ritual. Later than the fire has become coals, or the charcoal is competently joyfully, read aloud your print, repeating it 3 mature. As you read, or as you come to the end of each repetition, sprinkle a second handful (about a tablespoon) of the Moon Upset on the fire. You mood elaborate to be dexterous at this for the best effect as well as self-confidence, so make up a full recipe of it and take to yourself to its heart former to the rite.
Failure the paper and detachment it near you for three days. Bar it under your stifle, mattress, or pinned to your night clothes (if you aren't sky/star clad) to the same extent you nap. Some time ago three days, light fresh ritual fire, do again the Resemblance of Power/Protection, reading and incense manipulation and this time, flicker the paper each time you are done. OR you can detachment the paper in a special spell box if you use this interest. Lots witches hold on special containers to detachment ready apparatus in. These are habitually desire and customized with engravings or painting on them that reproduce their contents. For portion, a end bent heartwood box with runes and magickal symbols of love on it for this spell. By and large very soon comparable spells are held in reserve together, or each spell is held in reserve in its own box
"How to Blend Moon Upset
This incense is recycled in countless rituals and is a normal spell limb. It is an incense of esteem that is deceivingly easy to make. Use all of your limit and energy, your mood and drift, to the same extent making this lace. You may find that this is one of the best pounded incenses you've ever made! It is recycled over charcoals (the ones emphatically complete for incense that come in rolls) or over a ritual fire.
CAUTION! Warning! If recycled over a ritual fire, ardor mood grab up downcast the clean up smidgen of this incense powder! Display mood be dirt free (sparks) of incense shell of this smidgen of ardor as well! This is an mighty effect, but terrifying if you are not dexterous at it! Begin out second and come about about 1 teaspoon of it over the competently coals or ardor, all at later, don't smidgen the clean up or sprinkle it. Conduct outmoded from the fire, and upwind. Use in areas that do not disturb flicker permits, and hold on whatever thing to soak the fire concentrated. Do not use if you are modish flimsy or loose ritual robes and costumes. Be very careful! You are responsible for your engagements.
The Crucial
Interior the three days former to the actual full moon, silent the ingredients unavoidable, downcast with a crust and pestle to infusion them in. If considered necessary, you can use your cauldron, and some genre of good or mixing tool.
2 ounces (about 56 grams) of the select sandalwood powder you can find
4 grams (a seed sized cut stone) of amber resin, NOT the stone! The entertaining, syrupy smelling resin that is consistently imported from India, unfashionable at health relating to diet stores, and of course herb and occult shops.
3 drops of Vanilla Wealth. Unadulterated vanilla quotation is unfashionable at unevenly any grocery store.
Draw Note: This recipe is deliberate for peripheral rituals. If you mood be using the Moon Upset in vogue, use 1/2 degree Sandalwood powder more readily of 1 degree and esteem the amber from 5 grams to 10 grams.
Noticeably shell, under the actual full moon, or in vogue near a break where the moon is visible:
Fill the crust or cauldron with the sandalwood powder, and repeal the amber popular it with the pestle or tool of your privilege. Use deosil (clockwise) blending motions. Identify on the energy of the full moon, or if you are making the incense for a communicate spell, limit on the goal of that spell piecemeal. You can append your favorite words of power or chant to the same extent deed this.
Later than the powder is fixed and equal, add the vanilla, one reduction at a time to the same extent saying your favorite words of power (which is best), or the tailing (which mood suffice in ceiling belongings):
Hut of moon, grant my advantage.
Mix in the drops in the dreadfully way you blended in the amber resin. Get hard the mixture in a articulate casement jar with an sealed tight lid. Bar it outmoded from heat, light, and humidity. Hold accountable it under the light of the full moon on the three days former to it becoming actually full. The full moon light gravity is the claim for not storing this in an filthy jar. It is heyday for use without hesitation, but can be charged elder if considered necessary.
Credit: alchemy-and-alchemists.blogspot.com
Here in Ireland the news is all of the Ryan report, the devastating summary of a government-instituted investigation of decades of child abuse -- physical, emotional and sexual -- in institutions run by eighteen orders of Roman Catholic priests, brothers and nuns. Thousands of children were victimized, from toddlers to late-teens. It is a grim picture of what when on in Catholic Ireland before the Celtic Tiger of economic success brought secular Enlightenment values -- including democratic openness -- to the fore.
There is plenty of responsibility to go around. Throughout most of the 20th century, the government took a hands-off attitude to the doings of the Church. The hierarchy shifted perpetrators unpunished from place to place. The police deferred to the bishops. The Ryan report makes clear that the abuse was not just the work of a few bad apples, but systemic and pervasive. If you've seen the movie The Magdelene Sisters, you will have some idea of what transpired.
A few days, ago, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Reverend Diarmuid Martin, said, "There are questions to be asked regarding how much Irish devotional practice in general had drifted away from the fundamental fact that God is love...We have to ask to what extent the punitive and humiliating culture which seems to have developed in some such institutions was due to the fact that we had drifted away from the God who is love into one inspired by a punitive, judgmental God; a God whose love was the love of harsh parents, where punishment became the primary instrument of love."
I was raised in a Roman Catholic culture of a primarily Irish flavor, with its emphasis on sin -- mostly sexual -- and punishment. As a college student I went through a period of intense intellectual religiosity of a thoroughly Jansenistic sort -- Leon Bloy, Georges Bernanos, Francois Mauriac -- sex, sin and punishment all wound up together. I subjected my body to harsh disciplines in the misguided notion that the flesh was evil and needed chastisement. I can imagine how easy it might have been for priests, brothers and nuns, confined to grim institutions filled with morbid religious imagery, dressed in stiff and colorless clothes, deprived of most of the bright and joyous pleasures of life, most especially including normal sexual and emotional relationships, and steeped in a theology of efficacious physical punishment, to take their frustrations and repressed sexuality out on their young charges.
This is not to excuse the terrible actions of the perpetrators, or to dismiss the good work done by the majority of religious men and women who kept their moral bearings in unselfish service. But I know from experience that the prevailing ambiance of mid-century Catholicism was a potent and unhealthy mix of perverted religion and sexuality.
I had the good fortune to fall in love with a sensible, even-tempered, skeptical woman who had somehow escaped the Jansenist curse. I also had the good fortune to study science, from which I learned to love the natural world, to see it as neither intrinsically good nor evil except by human volition. From science too I learned to use Ockham's razor to pare away the supernaturalist excrescences that so often bind the human soul in service to a punitive, judgmental God. I have spent my adult life celebrating the beauty and wonder of the here and now.
Source: lilith-dark-moon.blogspot.com
Llevo d'ias leyendo de la orden Rosacruz, Amorc. Como siempre he dicho, pertenec'i a la orden desde muy joven y ahora, despu'es de viejo; me ha dado por desempolvar los viejos libros...Esto no es Wiccano, as'i que no tienes que leerlo, solo que encontr'e una informaci'on que me llevo a pensar y como estoy en pensamientos en este tiempo la quisimos compartir. Adem'as que estamos tomando decisiones trascendentales en nuestras vidas...Epifan'ias...No jugamos a ser religiosos. En realidad, ni nos importa que la gente nos considere religiosos. Tenemos este blog, porque nos gusta. Nos enamoramos de el...Nos gusta las personas que escriben sobre Wicca; pero no hemos dejado de seguir en nuestro aprendizaje y de escuchar a nuestro ser interno, nuestro genius in...que por alguna raz'on nos est'a hablando muy claro en esta etapa de nuestras vidas. O por lo menos, con m'as claridad que ayer.Estamos un poco decepcionados de la Wicca. No del attitude, sino de las personas que profesan el attitude. Por venir de los Rosacruces y de otra l'inea de pensamientos, pensamos, que por no ser una religi'on r'igida como la cristiana, las personas tendr'ian una onda diferente...No es as'i...Aunque le moleste a la gente lo que estoy diciendo, saben que estoy diciendo la verdad.
La Wicca es una religi'on de reconstrucci'on que tiene nombres y apellidos. La brujer'ia, antes de la Wicca, tambi'en es una pr'actica, que se puede trazar un origen.Gardner y otros la organizan, le pone su toque y tratan de crear un movimiento elitista. En donde parece m'as un club expressive que un Sendero de Iluminaci'on. Escuelas tipo Keep on at Potter, con seguidores, muchos de ellos con complejos de superioridad. Aqu'i la palabra humildad es una falta de respeto. Hay m'as maestros Wicca y personas con poder, que en pel'iculas. Y tratan de hacer creer, que el poder es de unos Pocos...si es el poder lo que te movi'o a ingresar...Menos mal que el universo es m'as sabio que eso...y nunca se le da despondently a un animal ponzo~noso. No todo el mundo abre el mar Muerto o resucita muertos...Aunque la actitud de muchos bien diera esa impresi'on... Pero eso, ya no es importante para m'i. La filosof'ia detr'as de la Wicca, para m'i, es hermosa...m'as que hermosa, un estilo de vida que deber'ia llenar a la gente de mucha paz y mucha espiritualidad. Sin embargo, no es as'i...Para el que sepa algo de la Atl'antida y las tres migraciones...Si, lo s'e...hay quien dir'a que hace la Atl'antida en todo esto...por eso dije, para el que sepa algo...
Pues antes del cataclismo, hubo tres migraciones, cada una dirigida por tres rayos diferentes, tranquilos, no voy a dar clases, y de esto menos...eternamente estudiante.Pero la Wicca, bueno la Wicca no, los Wiccanos y los Brujos, estamos dirigidos bajo el rayo del poder. La paler'ia. La santer'ia, trabajan con el mismo rayo. Mientras que antes en la orden Rosacruz, tercera migraci'on Egipto, el rayo que me dirig'ia era el rayo del amor, y es por eso que tal vez, no estoy encajando con este Sendero, que amo...Si no lo amara, para que tener un blog de esta calidad...le he dado a mis Dioses lo mejor que puedo darle, mi talento...Pero no se...no hay amor entre los Wiccanos. Es poder lo que se busca, y se ve reflejado en todo.Personas crey'endose mejor que otros, en vez de buscar algo m'as interno y significativo. Es como un concurso de magos tipo Keep on at Potter, en donde no me mires mal o te hechizo...algo as'i. Y "lideres" creyendo en verdad que lo que sale de ellos es solo divinidad, me acuerda la iglesia cristiana del s'igueme a m'i y no crezcas tu...Un Bomb...eso no puede ser lo espiritual...definitivamente, no puede serlo.
Supuesto l'ideres haci'endose ricos a costa de los dem'as. Como dicen en Puerto Rico, se le ve la costura desde un avi'on. Y escuelas creando "sacerdotes y sacerdotisas" con unos egos tan elevados, que podr'ian darles clases a los mismos Dioses, y se creer'ian meritorios de corregirles en la ense~nanzas. Personas que no le dirigen las palabras a otros, 'unica y exclusivamente porque piensan que son mejores que los dem'as...Y eso no puede ser lo espiritual...definitivamente, no puede serlo.
Y todos saben que tengo raz'on en lo que digo...es una tirantes, que uno no sabe a veces ni si saludar por temor a que Un HERMANO EN EL ARTE, te hiera o te salga con una bobera. Los que se dignan a bajar a tu nivel, porque los s'uper sacerdotes, ni se diga...Y tengo que confesar, que bajo el rayo del amor me sent'ia diferente, pero en el rayo del poder hasta el comedy le cambia a uno, y uno se coloca en posici'on defensiva.Jode lo que estoy diciendo, pero jode porque tengo raz'on...He tratado de hacer amistad con algunas personas, que me han mirado por encima del hombro, porque pertenecen a tal o cual estupidez. Personas que piensan que al ir al ba~no, el olor que emana es de Lavanda o Rosas y no el mismo que despiden los dem'as.
Y muchas veces guardo silencio, mas por disciplina que por espiritual...
Y es vergonzoso que yo como estudiante, siempre estudiante sepa, lo que los supuestos maestros deber'ian saber. Mas ellos que son maestros...
Mientras mayor sea tu conocimiento, mayor es tu responsabilidad para con el mundo, pues quien te dio el conocimiento, espera que lo utilices para el servicio de la humanidad, que al fin y al cabo deber'ia ser el motivo de un camino espiritual. El Mayor genius es el que sirve al mundo. Los nombres que resaltan y han resaltado, y resaltar'an en la humanidad, han sido los grandes servidores...No buscaron la gloria, les lleg'o porque sus acciones fueron su mejor promoci'on, y sus frutos las mejores semillas...
Ser genius, es darse...es servir...no es sentarse y ser servido...Como yo siendo estudiante lo s'e y muchos siendo "GRANDES MAESTROS" NO LO SABEN...?O en todo lo que he dicho no hay verdad?Se declaran sacerdotisas y sacerdotes de fulano y mengano...Y se creen las reencarnaciones vivas. No hay amor en la Wicca...esto es una competencia est'eril. Esto no es poder real. Esto es un espejismo de vanidad llena con prejuicios. Sal'i del cristianismo por no ser tolerantes, y caigo en la Wicca que est'a llena de todo menos de hermanos...Ll'evale la contraria a uno de estos PAPAS WICCANOS Y me contar'as su reacci'on.
Eso no puede ser lo espiritual...definitivamente no puede serlo. Eso me wisecracker, que hay Senderos M'isticos y Senderos Energ'eticos y hay que saber que uno busca en realidad. Este tipo de personas, buscan un nombre, unos seguidores, un titulo...WoW...Quiten los Dioses que ellos son suficientes....Esa actitud me hace vomitar. T'u dices ser espiritual con esa actitud. T'u dices amar a los dem'as...no...Haz lo que quieras y a nadie perjudiques...El amor no es de aqu'i...o ?s'i?Hay mucha hipocres'ia en este Sendero y puedo hablar de eso, porque todos hemos tenido que ser hip'ocritas para lidiar con la hipocres'ia de los dem'as. ?O no? De todos, solo unos pocos merecen mi respeto, los dem'as, con seguir mi camino tengo...Hay mucho que limpiar, pues es mucho lo que se ha ensuciado. Hay un concepto dentro de la wicca, que count con todos los Senderos, aunque con diferentes nombre...El ser top. Esa parte hermosa interna que pensamos que est'a cerca, cuando en realidad es parte del uno, y mi ser interno hace tiempo que me est'a alertando...
Hay un libro que se llama Juan Salvador Gaviota, en donde presenta a las gaviotas, peleando, picote'andose hasta desangrarse por un pedazo de pescado, as'i da la impresi'on. Todos haci'endose pedazos por quien sabe m'as. El Wiccano necesita probar su poder...Y yo tengo ganas de querer, y que me quieran.El Wiccano desconf'ia de todos...Ustedes saben que es as'i. Basta con que alguien trate de demostrar mayor conocimiento, que se prende como cerrillos y empiezan unas guerras, que hasta celebran las desgracia de los dem'as. En eso nos diferenciamos algunos Wiccanos. Adem'as del Poder que buscan todos, deber'ia haber amor para compartir ese poder o ayudar con el poder. En fin de cuentas, el mas que ame es el m'as poderoso de todos, porque quien puede differing las fuerzas del mismo amor. Podemos enga~nar a las personas, con t'itulos, asociaciones, falsas unciones, o traspaso de poder de "Maestros" a iniciado, pero no puedes enga~nar la fuente real de la sabidur'ia, y el poder real detr'as de todo lo ilusorio. Al supreme, detr'as de tu novela, siempre existir'a la verdad que nos hace libre de la estupidez de los dem'as....Mientras, nos preparamos para Lugnasad jejejeje. Nosotros no nos debemos a nadie. Nuestro prop'osito siempre ha sido el adorar los Dioses. Entramos a la Wicca, por adorar los Dioses. Si ese fuese tu prop'osito, no deber'ia haber confrontaci'on...Pero como no nos debemos a nadie. Al pan...pan y al vino...vino. Las cosas como son...Ah...Nos preparamos para Lugnasad...
