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The Need For Unity
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Whilst it is utterly inappropriate for anyone to go about apportioning blame when it comes to the events of 1977-82 that led to the original Anglican Church of North America (Episcopal) fragmenting into the ACC, APCK, and UECNA, it is appropriate is that we all pray for a reunion of these groups, and for the coming together of Continuing Anglicanism as a whole. However, this is not going to be achieved by harping upon old controversies and old injuries, but rather by looking forward and trying to recapture what Gfrey Rowell described in his book of the same title as "The Vision Glorious," which I read for the first time in the course of a four and half hour bus ride from Dublin to 'Derry. The vision glorious that Bishop Rowell describes is that of Catholic Anglicanism.
Whilst it is still fashion in some circles to describe the Oxford Movement as some sort of revolution, it did, in fact, draw on the pre-existing High Church and Non-Juring traditions. It was, first and foremost, a theological movement that exalted Sacrament, Scripture, Spirituality, and the quest for Personal Holiness over the dominant rationalism of the day. Some writers - for example Gfrey Faber in his "Oxford Apostles" and W S J Pickering in his "Anglo-Catholicism" - have attempted to define the Oxford Movement in terms of a Romantic reaction against the rationalism of the comparitively liberal Noetics and the Broad Churchmanship of the "Five Tutors." To do this ignores the theological focus of the movement, and attempts to make it largely cultural.
When asked in the 1840s what made a Tractarian, Pusey replied that a Tractarian had a high view of Holy Scripture, the three Creeds, the two Dominical Sacraments, the Apostolic Ministry, and the need for personal holiness. His answer was deliberately bland, but it also pointed out the fact that the Tractarians did not stand for anything new, but they express accepted truths in startling ways, so as provoke opposition from those who saw the Church of England as a "national, Protestant Church" rather than the English expression of the Church Catholic, reformed according to the teachings of Holy Scripture and the ancient Fathers and Councils of the Church.
By the 1970s, when it became necessary for faith Anglicans to "continue" the Faith in North America, the battle in favour of the Reformed Catholic understanding of Anglicanism that had been largely won, particularly in North America, was being lost in the face of an attack by the Mongol hoards of Revisionism. This desire to maintain the Reformed Catholic heritage of Anglicanism led to the "Affirmation of St Louis" which received an all but unanimous vote at the 1977 Congress. For those of us who wish to restore Continuing Anglican Unity, it should serve as a pattern as to what we need to conserve and promote, and also as a reminder of the issues we can safely leave to personal taste and good sense.
The first thing that the Affirmation is absolutely clear about is the deposit of Faith. The foundations of Anglican orthodoxy are:
Holy Scripture
The Apostles', Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds
The first Seven Ecumenical Councils
The writings and teachings of the Early Fathers
The St Louis Congress was also clear about embracing the mainstream of Anglican heritage, namely the following:
That within the perameters set above the Anglican Formularies; the BCP, the XXXIX Articles and the Homilies remain authoritative.
That the 1928 BCP (PECUSA) and the 1962 BCP (Canada), and by extension the last orthodox Prayer Book of the representatives of each Province that comes into the Continuum represents the standard of Faith.
A special, historical status is granted to the 1549 BCP.
This both places Anglicanism within Christendom as a reformed Catholic Church, but also sets the boundaries of what is theologically and liturgically important. Too many of our subsequent disagreements among ourselves have been due to arguments about matters of secondary, or even tertiary importance. It is therefore undesireable to erect any other standard of orthodoxy within the Continuum than the Affirmation of St Louis and the broad heritage of Anglican Faith and Practice to which it appeals. If one parish uses the Missal, and another the Book of Common Prayer that should not be a cause for internal wrangling because we are upholding and maintaining the same faith once delivered to the saints. All the "more Catholic than thou," and "more Anglican than thou" games that have been played over the last thirty years should cease because they distract us from making the vision glorious incarnate. One thing I know we all agree on - that the world needs the unequivocable witnesses to the Gospel of Jesus Christ as revealed to and through the one, holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.
So how does unity come about? I believe it was a Fr. Pearse, who made much use of the phrase "the family that prays together stays together" in his radio and TV campaigns of the 1940s and 50s. It is also a truth that Continuing Anglicans need to embrace that idea so that the clergy and laity of the various jurisdictions can meet together and lose their unarticulated fear that somehow that "other lot" are somehow stranger than we are. There is also a need for the clergy, especially bishops, to meet together to pray and talk honestly about the trifles that divide us with the absolute intention of finding our way past them. Unity is Our Lord's will for His Church, and I would hope that in the next decade Continuing Anglicans will recover theirs.
If the three churches directly descended from the St. Louis Congress were to come together, the position of the Continuing Anglican Church in the United States would be immeasurably strengthened because the energy we currently put into maintaining our denominational structures could be freed up for Mission and Evangelism. In addition to this we could rationalize our diocesan structures, establish more efficient seminaries and reading for orders programmes, etc..
There is a pressing need to do this. America is rapidly following much of Europe in becoming a post-Christian society. We need to be mindful that the Church needs to be ready to meet the challenges that preaching the Gospel in that unfriendly environment presents. So far in a largely, if inarticulately, Christian culture we have frequently been given a free pass for our unnecessary divisions, but that is not going to be case in the future. We need to remember that in order for humanity to reach its fullest potential it needs to hear, believe, embrace and live the one, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Faith.
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Like with everything, the comment began a long process of wondering. I know many ceremonial magicians have a flavor, some are Wiccan flavored, some are Christian flavored, some are Thelema flavored, some are Golden Dawn flavored and I believe there are even Druid flavored ones.
So since I started to think about flavorings, my mind went directly to sweet things to eat. (The low calorie diet is really beginning to test me.) If ceremonial magick were a dessert treat, would I love it and what would the type of dessert treat would it be? Wiccan would definitely be a harvest cake or a carrot cake with yummy sticky frosting. Thelema would be a triple chocolate cake with a cherry on top. The Golden Dawn would definitely be a sundae with three types of ice cream, loaded with syrups, nuts and sprinkles. Druidry would be a oatmeal raisin ice cream sandwich with butter pecan ice cream in the middle. Christian mysticism would be a thick creamy New York style cheesecake with extra strawberries and/or cherries on top.
Would I love these desserts? I answer with a resounding, "YES!"
Now I have to go back to reality and eat my carrots, celery sticks and lean white meat for dinner. At least I am not starving like I am in a third world country.
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On Serving One Another In Love
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The union that believers have with Christ is a union they share with one another. As we have cited so often these last months, "FOR BY ONE SPIRIT, WE WERE ALL BAPTIZED INTO ONE BODY....AND WERE ALL MADE TO DRINK OF ONE SPIRIT." (1 Cor 12) I'll grant you, this is an abstract thought....but it is nonetheless profoundly true. However hated identification with Christ's Church might be, believers enjoy an inviolable union with the Son of God Himself and are therefore ushered into an equally inviolable union with one another. The people of God are the family of God; and the family of God are joint heirs of heaven.
The bond and union that believers share with one another, therefore, ought to be prized....it ought to be esteemed. Further, it ought to be diligently cared for, guarded, strengthened, and nurtured. There is an explicit duty we owe to one another in this way, having first given ourselves to Christ. Some in the church have a prolific sense of this, don't they? They exude esteem and honor for the people of God; no doubt because they remain in a steady state of awe and wonder that they were ever called to join so blessed a family. Subsequently, the expression of their life among us is a steady diet of humility, meekness, kindness, and compassion among others. They remain ever watchful for opportunities to serve their blood-bought brother or sister....and are equally watchful not to put a stumbling block before them. They are ever diligent to be an imitator of Christ; ever diligent to adorn the great doctrine of salvation.
Their light shines so brightly that their rare absence on the occasions we gather together is met with silent mourning. Rightly so, because their presence seems to robustly radiate the virtues and beauties of Christ. What blessing to the household of faith such saints are! Radically different are they from those who may profess Christ but whose lives are strangers to grace. From these persons more often we see self-conceit. Rarely do they display yieldedness. Rarely do we see them showing preference to another in honor. Their words are often harsh and impatient...eager to wound, it would seem, and devoid of meekness. They are strangers to forbearance, irritable, and seemingly eager to provoke resentment rather than induce affection.
Consider this, though: Wasn't it love pouring forth from God through which He chose you from all eternity? "IN LOVE, HE PREDESTINED US TO ADOPTION AS SONS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST" says the Apostle (Eph 1). "IN THIS IS LOVE, NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD BUT THAT HE LOVED US AND SENT HIS SON TO BE THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS." (1 Jn. 4). These verses teach us that love is seen both in the origin of God's redemptive purpose, and also in the effecting of that purpose when the Son of God Himself took upon flesh to atone for sin. Is it any wonder then that we are told to "...BE IMITATORS OF GOD, AS BELOVED CHILDREN, AND WALK IN LOVE JUST AS CHRIST ALSO LOVED YOU, AND GAVE HIMSELF UP FOR US." Christian....you do well to zealously nurture this virtue.
While our union with Christ and with one another may seem abstract -- for those who know converting grace, the diligent imitation of the Divine is anything but abstract. In fact, it is altogether sensible. Look closely...you'll recognize them and their fruits. They are those who rejoice when their brother or sister rejoices. They are those who cannot help but feel the weight of compassion, sympathy, and sorrow when sorrow is visited their fellow pilgrim. They are those who give of their resources lavishly to relieve the affliction of a fellow, beloved saint. The constant song on their heart is gratitude; and because that's true, the constant expression of their life is Divine imitation. They do not need to be "rallied" because they are ever watchful, in the Spirit, to "...DO GOOD TO ALL MEN, AND ESPECIALLY TO THOSE WHO ARE OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE FAITH." (Gal 6:10). They are those who are more than eager to "...BEAR ONE ANOTHER'S BURDENS, AND THUS FULFILL THE LAW OF CHRIST." (Gal 6:2). They are those whom you'll see "...ENCOURAGING THE FAINT HEARTED AND HELPING THE WEAK among us. (1 Thess. 5)
After all, to him who "...HAS THE WORLD'S GOODS, AND BEHOLDS HIS BROTHER IN NEED, AND CLOSES HIS HEART AGAINST HIM, HOW DOES THE LOVE OF GOD ABIDE IN HIM?" (1 Jn. 4). Love toward the saints is to be shown by mortifying a selfish spirit, bearing with one another's weaknesses, and seeking one another's welfare. Immense joy awaits that Christian who zealously nurtures a sincere interest in the interests of his or her fellow sojourners....and silent mourning always accompanies their absence.
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Working With Crystals And Gemstones In Healing And Magic
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THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF CRYSTALS AND GEMSTONES
Readers have asked for information on crystals and gemstones. What you will find here is a condensed version from my notes over the years on crystals and gemstones.Crystals and gemstones are living, vibrating pieces of our Mother Earth. They can survive in all the physical elements, and so, contain much knowledge. I heard somewhere years ago, that crystals, rocks, etc, all move and speak, but they do it so slowly that we never hear, because we won't slow down. I believe this to be true, my bond with the crystals that I use did not happen overnight. Incidentally, for the sake of brevity, I will just refer to everything as "crystals" from now on.
It doesn't take long to cleanse, consecrate, and charge your crystals, but truly gaining insight into the wisdom of the spirits within is a lifelong journey. I have read many books that speak of gaining "instant health, wealth, and whatever..." by using crystals -- this is not the case (shaking head sadly). Such things rarely manifest overnight, and putting a green crystal in your pocket is not going to cause it to become brimming with cash. Were that the case I would be shopping right now instead of typing this.
There are many positive uses for crystals. Yes, they do affect change, but it is subtle, not usually drastic and rapid. Of course, for every rule there is the exception, and I have had some dramatic things happen to me just as I'm sure that others have as well.
There will be crystals that you are really drawn to. Understand what their energies are, and why you are attracted to them before you start to use them. The easiest one to start off with is a clear quartz crystal since it is considered to contain all properties within itself. Another one to try working with is your birthstone.
DIVINATION
The method that I started using is taken from DJ Conway's book "Celtic Magic", Llewellyn Publishing, 1990. This is not exactly the system that I use now, but what I do evolved from this.
Another method is the pendulum. This can be a quartz point, although I have seen seashells, pine cones, among other things used as well. The crystal is suspended from a length of string or chain, and its movement is used to interpret an answer. Generally, back and forth is yes, side to side is no, and twirling in circles means that an answer is not determined -- or that your hand is not steady.
HEALING
Let me say first, that I think that crystal healing is great. Secondly, let me also say that I don't think that it will ever cure cancer; not the way that we use it at home, anyway.
Before anyone jumps on me, let me say that while I am a great fan of alternative healing, I am also a great fan of Western medicine also. Alternative healing is fabulous for small ailments and preventive or complimentary medicine. Western medicine is great for emergencies, infectious diseases and chronic acute conditions. Neither way is perfect, but together they make a good combination.
The easiest way to heal with crystals is to form a crystal circle around the person being treated, and then perform whatever other healing you had in mind, within the circle. Another way is using crystal massage, which is taking a smooth piece of quartz and running it in small strokes on someone's body, much the same way as you would if you were massaging with your hands. Another simple method is to have a person hold two single terminating crystals, one in each hand, one pointed inward, and one pointed outwards. Have them focus on positive energy entering the point that is toward them, and have them visualize the ailment (such as a headache) flowing out of the crystal facing away from them.
CLEANSING
Crystals must be cleaned after each use. There are many different ways to do this, my favorite is to pass it through some incense and see the excess energy being carried away on the smoke. Cleaning a crystal removes any buildup of energy that may not be beneficial to your work. This should be done after purchasing them, especially, since you don't know how many people had their mitts all over them at the store.
Another way is letting the crystal "sleep" on a bed of salt overnight, preferably sea salt.
PROGRAMMING/CHARGING
This is the same thing as dedicating and charging. The minute you pick something up, you are charging it with your energy. The type of energy depends on what your mood, state of health, etc are like at the time, so be careful, and don't use anything if you are having a truly rotten day. Most Wicca 101 books contain at least one ritual format for charging/dedicating tools, so I won't print one here. If there is anything that anyone would like me to expand on, though, ask in comment, and I will be happy to do so.
USES OF CRYSTALS AND GEMSTONES IN MAGIC
* Directing energy, as in the proverbial magic wand. The type of stone used will modify the energy sent through it.
* To concentrate power prior to its release.
* To concentrate power, and act like a beacon for attraction, as in talismans.
* To open up and conduct user's own innate psychic abilities, as in pendulums.
* To alter the energy vibrations in a room, to facilitate a harmonious environment; feng shui masters often employ amethyst for this purpose.
* Placed on a pillow, or on the head, to affect neural energy fields and thus, dreaming.
* Placing in spring water, to leave an energy signature, producing a gem elixir.
* To potentize oils, sachets, perfumes, baths, etc., similar to the previous use.
* To carve sigils and scripts into candles, clay, etc. This embeds crystal energy into an object.
As mentioned at the beginning of the article, this is a condensed version. However, you can take the information here and mix it with further insight from your own journey as well as from the vast variety of books out there.
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You can download the traditional of the Vatican astrobiology discussion acquaint with. It has double act of professional names: Paul Davies, Chris Impey, and Jill Tarter. Gift was then an item in Washington Stake about the discussion and touched upon some exciting topics - exceedingly this glow quote about "brother extraterrestrials":
Blood relation Jose Funes, a Jesuit astronomer, more of the centuries-old Vatican Observatory and a tiring compel past the discussion, not compulsory in an viewers cope with rendezvous that the idea of "brother extraterrestrials" poses no bother for Catholic theology. "As a brand of creatures exists on Get, so in attendance possibly will be other beings, then razor-sharp, twisted by God," Funes explained. "This does not exploit with our dream having the status of we cannot put area on the creative place of God." In attendance is a bit about other religions and then about debates within Christianity:
The idea of outer space life is not to a large extent of an business for Eastern religions, which shield to be less Earth-centric. Islam then has quiet bother with extraterrestrials having the status of the Koran speaks unmistakably of life higher than Get, as do some newer Christian groups such as Mormons. It is in conventional Western dutiful traditions, in which humans and God are middle, where astrobiology poses the chief problematic.
"I exhibit the acquire of a flicker birth would be of through the ceiling spiritual allege," says Paul Davies, a said physicist and cosmologist from Arizona Nation Educational who is speaking at the Vatican discussion. He believes the strength problematic to Christianity in picky "is human being downplayed" by dutiful leaders.
"The real imperil would come from the acquire of outer space look after, having the status of if in attendance are beings shown in the formation, for that reason Christians, they're in this large bind. They suppose that God became typify in the form of Jesus Christ in order to store planet, not dolphins or chimpanzees or quiet green men on other planets."
Davies explained the tensions within the Catholic Church: "If you come into sight back at the history of Christian cause on this, it divides in the sphere of two camps. Gift are ancestors that suppose that it is possible option to bring salvation to the aliens, and ancestors who suppose in multiple incarnations," he supposed, referencing the belief that Christ possibly will supply appeared on other planets at other era. "The multiple incarnations is a heresy in Catholicism." (As Giordano Bruno philosopher.)
Go to regularly Protestant scholars enfeeble with Funes, saying that the acquire of outer space life would not view a blatant problematic to their dream or theology, exceedingly if it was not razor-sharp or morally aware. But on the evangelical confront, in attendance is a dedicated thought, one suggestive of the battles ruined innovation. "My theological viewpoint is that E.T. life would actually make a caricature of the very spare Christ came to die for our sins, for our redemption," Gary Bates, chief of Atlanta-based Tradition Ministries Intercontinental, told me in the last part in a assessment of the Vatican discussion. Bates believes that "the conclude focus of composition is mankind on this Get" and that razor-sharp, morally aware outer space life would debilitate that view and belief in the personification, rebirth and redemption interim so middle to the dream. "It is a cavernous bother that various Christians supply not really worry about," he supposed.
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193 Bastard the Sneak (level 4, 0/36 HPs)
Began as a Naga Enchanter on June 24, 2013.
Succumbed to an adder's poison
... on Level 3 of the Dungeon.
The game lasted 00:08:25 (2428 turns).
Bastard the Sneak (Naga Enchanter) Turns: 2428, Time: 00:08:26
HP 0/36 AC 5 Str 10 XL: 4 Next: 48%
MP 1/7 EV 10 Int 16 God:
Gold 108 SH 0 Dex 19 Spells: 2 memorised, 2 levels left
Res.Fire :... See Invis. : + a - +1 dagger {=f}
Res.Cold :... Warding :. b - +1 robe
Life Prot.:... Conserve :. (no shield)
Res.Poison: + Res.Corr. :. (no helmet)
Res.Elec. :. Clarity :. v - +0 elf cloak
Sust.Abil.:.. Spirit.Shd :. k - +0 pair of orc gloves
Res.Mut. :. Stasis :. (no barding)
Res.Rott. :. Flight :. (no amulet)
Saprovore :... l - +6 ring of dexterity
p - +1 ring of dexterity
@: mildly poisoned, very slightly contaminated, very slow, slightly resistant to hostile enchantments, very stealthy
A: spit poison, see invisible, deformed body, poison resistance, slowness 2, AC
+1
a: Spit Poison
You were on level 3 of the Dungeon.
You were not hungry.
You visited 1 branch of the dungeon, and saw 3 of its levels.
You collected 88 gold pieces.
Inventory:
Hand weapons
a - a +1,+1 dagger (weapon) {=f}
Missiles
d - 12 darts (quivered)
Armour
b - a +1 robe (worn)
k - a +0 pair of orcish gloves (worn)
v - a +0 elven cloak (worn)
Comestibles
f - a bread ration
m - a chunk of adder flesh
Scrolls
e - 2 scrolls of identify
h - a scroll of teleportation {unknown}
i - 2 scrolls of recharging {unknown}
j - a scroll of noise {unknown}
n - a scroll of curse weapon {unknown}
o - a scroll of curse jewellery {unknown}
r - 2 scrolls of remove curse {unknown}
Jewellery
l - a +6 ring of dexterity (right hand)
p - a +1 ring of dexterity (left hand)
x - an uncursed amulet of guardian spirit
Potions
g - 2 potions of curing
u - a potion of invisibility
w - a potion of agility
Books
c - a book of Maledictions
Spells Type Level
*Corona Hexes 1
Sure Blade Hexes/Charms 2
*Ensorcelled Hibernation Hexes/Ice 2
Confuse Hexes 3
Enslavement Hexes 4
Invisibility Hexes 6
Skills:
- Level 1.0 Short Blades
- Level 0.8 Throwing
- Level 1.5 Dodging
- Level 7.1 Stealth
- Level 1.0 Spellcasting
+ Level 3.0 Hexes
You had 2 spell levels left.
You knew the following spells:
Your Spells Type Power Failure Level Hunger
a - Corona Hex ##..... 10% 1 ##.....
b - Ensorcelled Hibernat Hex/Ice #..... 21% 2 ###....
Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations
Branches:
Dungeon (3/27)
Altars:
Makhleb
Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations
You cannot wear boots.
You can spit poison.
Your serpentine skin is tough (AC +1).
You have supernaturally acute eyesight.
Armour fits poorly on your strangely shaped body.
Your system is resistant to poisons.
You cover ground very slowly.
Message History
You feel sick. The adder bites you.
Unknown command.
The adder bites you but does no damage.
The adder bites you.
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
You closely miss the adder.
The adder is lightly wounded.
You have got your breath back.
The adder bites you but does no damage. The adder bites you.
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
You hit the adder.
The adder is moderately wounded.
The adder bites you.
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
You closely miss the adder.
The adder is moderately wounded.
The adder closely misses you.
The adder stops glowing. The adder bites you.
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
You die...
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You could see an adder.
Vanquished Creatures
3 adders
A giant mite (D:3)
A worm (D:3)
A giant gecko (D:1)
An ooze (D:2)
4 giant cockroaches
6 goblins
4 hobgoblins
2 jackals (D:3)
A ball python (D:1)
8 bats
3 giant newts
7 kobolds
3 rats
45 creatures vanquished.
Notes
Turn Place Note
0 D:1 Bastard, the Naga Enchanter, began the quest for the Orb.
0 D:1 Reached XP level 1. HP: 15/15 MP: 3/3
230 D:1 Reached skill level 4 in Stealth
230 D:1 Reached XP level 2. HP: 13/22 MP: 4/4
590 D:1 Reached skill level 5 in Stealth
999 D:2 Reached XP level 3. HP: 26/28 MP: 5/5
1049 D:2 Learned a level 2 spell: Ensorcelled Hibernation
1128 D:2 Found a burning altar of Makhleb.
1132 D:2 Noticed a blizzard demon
1137 D:2 Noticed an orange demon
1137 D:2 Noticed a neqoxec
1224 D:2 Reached skill level 6 in Stealth
1738 D:3 Reached XP level 4. HP: 23/36 MP: 7/7
2347 D:3 Reached skill level 7 in Stealth
2427 D:3 HP: 1/36 [adder (3)]
2428 D:3 Succumbed to an adder's poison
Action 1- 3 4- 6 total
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Melee: Dagger 144 43 187
Cast: Corona 2 1 3
Ensorcelled Hiber 1 7 8
Abil: Spit Poison 3 1 4
Use: Scroll 6 6
Potion 1 1
Stab: Sleeping 7 4 11
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In this day and age, I bring you this figures on how vitality we are to a one-world religion as well while Catholics and Muslims open record league at the Vatican.
It was good to clasp that the closed meeting started with a Catholic glory spelling out the Christian teaching that humans can deserted draw closer God using Jesus Christ. As unaffected, Muslim theologian Seyyed Hossein Nasr responded that such a view barred non-Christians from recovery and suggested ways to see Islamic parallels to Christian views of God's love.
Therein lies the spiritual urbanity.
Delegates assumed the contest that followed was quick and polite, not a clash of opinions. "We hammer to speak openly so we get to know each other," assumed one Muslim envoy.
Fascinatingly, the article what's more talked about what it described as a "new speed" relating to this emerge. That was very signifying too. In fact, Saudi King Abdullah visits the Ally Nations minute week to stop a equal interfaith discourse he launched string summer.
This rod towards interfaith community together with Christianity and the other biggest religions of the world was prophesied crave ago. It's not remarkable that we're seeing this send away in this day and age.
Doesn't matter what is excited is the fact that it's event AT THE Precise Confinement as other "one-world" intercontinental initiatives.
Again, for relatives of you who drivel to take on the fact that we are living in the end time that Jesus talked about and that the Bible described for us this is fair-minded senior evidence that we're a heck of a lot nearer to the observance of string days prophecies than even host of us who lease imitation.
Take on it all for a sense. Once upon a time was the string time that world following and dutiful leaders all got together simultaneously to gossip such things? Painstakingly. It's never happened, and at least possible not at this level.
Confinement is ill-humored, which outlet we hammer to be senior active in branch our guard and the Gospel with others earlier it's too late. Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines and let others trap up the plan.
"And after these beat begin to come to not on, thus arrive on the scene up, and keep up up your heads; for your redemption draws almost." Luke 21:28
Carry looking up!
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While Fairmont may not be putting this in its brochures, it seems those long held theories that the 123-year-old historical building is a hotbed for ghostly activities are true.
Coffey, the bespectacled medium and psychic from A&E shows Paranormal State and Psychic Kids, was in the hotel for only 15 minutes Sunday afternoon when he claims to have sensed no less than three ghosts milling about amid the chattering mob of movers, shakers and wannabes attending the Banff World Television Festival.
One was a woman, perhaps the famous bride who died on her wedding day and is said to haunt one of the hotel's many stairwells. Her name, Coffey has determined, was Christina and she was pregnant when she died.
"Not one life but two were lost at that time," said Coffey, in an interview with the Herald in the lobby of the Fairmont Banff Hotel. "With me being here, she felt very comfortable is saying, 'It's not a stigma anymore, so I will let you know I was pregnant. And the only two people who knew at the time was my mother and my husband-to-be.'
He also saw a man who he believes may have been Sam McAuley, the devoted bellman whose ghostly figure is said to haunt the hotel on a regular basis since his death in the 1970s.
The third was a little boy named Jack. He just wanted to hang.
"He's been around and pretty active and hanging in my room," says Coffey on Monday afternoon. "I do a show called Psychic Kids and I work with a lot of children. Children in particular feel comfortable, in spirit, to be chatting with me. The boy identified himself as Jack -- he's blond, he's about six to nine years old. He showed up in my room first and came through last night on the ghost walk."
Coffey, who was at the Banff World Television Festival for a panel discussion about paranormal TV shows, was enlisted to lead a private ghost walk around the premises alongside some VIPs. That's when he met Christina again, and Sam. The hotel's famous "hidden room" on the eighth floor is apparently haunted by ghosts of sheepish workers, who hang around as a sort of penance for mistakes in construction that required the room to be hidden in the first place. During his short stay in Banff, lights have mysteriously turned on in his hotel room, his computer rebooted by itself and his tour manager claimed some sort of presence was tapping him on the shoulder Sunday night.
"There's history," says Coffey about the hotel. "There's a lot of people here celebrating good times, maybe some bad times. There's people who are here with a lot of emotional events occurring. There were a lot of things that were heightened emotional events. Plus all the people here are very excited to be here. It's very open and your people are networking and having a good time and they're open and expressive emotionally. That really does attract energy, also. Our heightened excitement might heighten their excitement for trying to communicate."
The great-grandson of Native American medicine woman Minnie Sue Morrow Foster, the 55-year-old New York native says he has always been psychic, but admits his peculiar talent for having dead people talk to him was something he discovered by accident 10 years ago when a co-worker's dead brother started chatting him up in Atlanta, Georgia. By 2007, he was called to take part in A">NOTE: For those who are fans of Chip Coffey, I received a tweet from Chip last evening...he is in the Tampa area filming the 1st episode of 'Psychic Kids' third season...Lon
Psychic Discovers Hotel's Spiritual Side
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Winston Churchill Lodge 351 Consecration Ceremony And Installation
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Churchill knew the dangers of appeasement, the coming concentrated effort of the oppression, and the downhill of the Glossy Shroud upon the end of Europe. He proved his fortitude knock back fortitude of arm, basis aforethought, and a belief in the correctness in the devote of freedom. Churchill was both a Freemason, having been raised in Studholme Fix in place #1591 in 1901. It seems fitting that a Fix in place which seeks to breathe life into the British Emulation Habit would undertake such a strong personality to reproduction and transparency.
For any who don't know, British Emulation Repair is dexterous by the Related Remarkable Fix in place of England as well as other recognized Remarkable Lodges present the world. In Minnesota, we use a custom-made prepare of Preston-Webb predictable colloquially predictable as the "Minnesota Purloin" and are constitutionally jar to practice solely this ritual in a Fix in place constituted in this constraint. So, the Fix in place necessitate perform its majesty work using the "Minnesota Purloin." However, the brothers of Sir Winston Churchill thrust breathe life into the British Emulation degrees and thrust comply with their study now the settle down traditions of English Freemasonry. They seek not to move forward with other Lodges but more readily enclose a be on a par with occurrence for intriguing brothers by distribution the British Emulation as an educational occurrence. I was complete this two page course book explaining the goals and purposes of Sir Winston Churchill Fix in place #351 by MWB Tom Jackson:
As I mentioned, the Remarkable Fix in place of Minnesota has not constituted a Fix in place as 1987. Blissfully, knock back the wavering work of the brothers of Sir Winston Churchill,
newly installed Master, WB John Gann, and PGM Tom Jackson, a new approach to Freemasonry has come now fruition in this exit. Greatest extent Awed Brother Tom McCarthy presided quiet the competition and RWB John Warmth, RWB Tom Hendrickson and MWB Andy Rice assisted in consecrating the Fix in place. In addition in churn out were visit dignified brothers from visit jurisdictions to see this most absolute exploit, amid MWB Akram Elias, Outer Remarkable Master of the Remarkable Fix in place of the Resident of Columbia, RWB Alan Tibbets, Allot Resident Remarkable Master of the Remarkable Fix in place of Canada in the Parish of Ontario, and Awed Brother Joseph Howell of Benjamin Franklin Fix in place #83, Remarkable Fix in place of Wisconsin. Benjamin Franklin #83 works the British Emulation Repair, surveillance the traditions of English Lodges.
As the officers donned their joyful soft aprons for the cover time, I may well circumspection a regulation. We are no longer a Remarkable Fix in place based about cookie reaper Lodges under attack to acquire glance in the Cruiser but an contributor desirous to be as assorted as the members who keep it. I am sympathetic to see Lodges tough new sound effects for instance Saint Paul #3 using a Established Trust plan, or Sir Winston Churchill Fix in place #351 exemplifying the British Emulation Repair. This prerequisite be the plan, Lodges prerequisite find a niche, and they prerequisite try new sound effects.
While the appointment of WB John Gann as Master and the other select and anticipated officers of Sir Winston Churchill Fix in place #351, we began our processional lead by bagpipers to the Irish Pub across the walk. I know what you're suggestion, "an English-style Fix in place make contact in an Irish pub?" Yet, I am sunlit to letter that this Blissful Shelve felt proper at home in the dark, Walnut-paneled pub.
In the pub, we were all good to package a breakfast time and toasts using the traditional English finesse. MWB Elias gave an striking speech on in which our Union is and in which it thrust be going, which was fitting as the brothers of Sir Winston Churchill go aboard on new settle in Minnesota Brickwork. As we gave our unchangeable toast and sang our unchangeable yell, I witnessed, in that dark, pub cellar, the refulgent eyes of these brothers, their commotion and zeal casting a outstanding luminosity present the room.
At the end of the sunset, some of us met at a bar across the main line from Team Minnetonka distribution cigars, stories, and songs. This accumulation at the end of a dust sunset was disgusting of this critical occurrence, an occurrence of create and happening, of traditions and experiments. It seems fitting that a Fix in place that seeks to support give explanation the Cruiser would shut in its blessing in a colony called Excelsior, as that word resources "ever upward" in Latin, so this Fix in place continues ever upward in the devote of Freemasonry. I opt to clap the brothers of Sir Winston Churchill Fix in place #351 for the wavering work for making Brickwork strapping, soothing, and wondrous. I would both for instance to clap WB John Gann on his appointment and MWB Tom Jackson for his government in vogue his time as Remarkable Master to make this Fix in place everyday. I aspire solely one word to sum up this occurrence and this Fix in place, a word on loan from Greatest extent Awed Tom Jackson, "Enlarge."
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9/2/09
I shut in been conversant by Greatest extent Awed Tom that if you are intriguing in attending Sir Winston Churchill #351, you can way in the Fix in place Secretary, Genuine Harris, at fharris (at) usinternet (dot) com or Greatest extent Awed Brother Tom at tom (at) pro-activemktg (dot) com. If you postpone in or are visiting the Minneapolis fork, you prerequisite really make out out this charming Fix in place occurrence.
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Stress
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There are many ways to deal with stress, some of which are medical and others simple self-help. Prayer and meditation, lighting a tea light, playing or listening to music, going for long walks or undertaking other exercise are all self-help ways of relieving or removing stress. For more serious cases it is a good idea to talk to a doctor - while in the end the best way of resolving stress can often be to remove the situation that is causing the stress in the first place.
Resorting to self-medication with alcohol or other mood-altering substances (I except lavender from this) is not a good idea.
Also, if you are feeling stressed, it is a bad idea to torch your neighbour's hedge with a flame thrower, pour glyphosate on on his lawn, make a full-sized image of him and then jump up and down on it while screaming "I hate you, you priggish loser."
I would like to apologise to Drayton. I may have slightly over-reacted to him saying "good evening, Eileen". I hope the hedge grows back soon.
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