The Theotokos As A Teacher Of Asceticism And Noetic Prayer

As is well known, in the very extensive writings of St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite (+14 July 1809) there are innumerable laudatory references to the Grace-filled, most revered, and most beloved name of the All-Holy Mother of our Lord.However, the Saint's "encomion" (encomium or laudation) to the Immaculate Maiden, as it emerges with unrivaled lyricism, rhetorical power, and theological depth in the nearly forty pages of his commentary on the "Ode of the Theotokos", indisputably reveals him as one of the foremost Mariologists in the Orthodox Church.* * *The Ode of the Theotokos, in which Mary, the child of God ("Theopais"), glorifies and magnifies our Lord during her visit to St. Elizabeth after the Annunciation by the Archangel Gabriel, is "in truth admirable, most sweet, and most beloved," and more so than all the Odes of the Saints from all the ages, because it is an Ode "of her who is holier than all the Saints, the author of which was Queen of all and Mother of the Creator of all. It is the product, composition, and exclamation of that most godlike mind, that most pure heart, and that most holy mouth, that of the Ever-Virgin Mary, and that of the very Mother of God."This marvelous and admirable Ode, which is divided into six verses, has been designated by the God-bearing Fathers to be chanted towards the end of Matins, along with the most sweet refrain and most beloved Troparion, "More honorable than the Cherubim, and beyond compare more glorious than the Seraphim, thee who without corruption gavest birth to God the Word, the very Theotokos, thee do we magnify."* * *In this brief text, we shall cite just a few edifying passages by the great Athonite Mariologist from his commentary on the "Ode of the Theotokos", as a humble offering of some morsels of gratitude for, and exaltation of, the extraordinary and incomprehensible majesty of the Virgin Mother, since "the Theotokos renders blessed those who unceasingly and reverently bless her."So great and such is the awe of Saint Nikodemos before the spiritual gifts of the Queen of all, that he suddenly breaks into an impetuous torrent of encomia in her honor: "O sweetest in deed and name, Mary, what emotion is this that I feel within myself? I cannot be satiated by praises of your majesty! The more I praise it, the more I long for it, and my yearning increases without end, my desire becoming unappeasable; wherefore, again I desire to praise it!"The Saint then goes on to enumerate all those engaged in "the logical arts and sciences," who, each in his own manner, aspires to extol the Most Pure one: grammarians, logicians, rhetoricians, mathematicians, geometers, musicians and chanters, astronomers, moralists, opticians, engineers, physicists, metaphysicians, authorities on the Divine Scriptures, theologians...!* * *What makes the deepest impression is that the Theotokos, even though "she surpasses the Angels and Archangels and all the choirs of Heavenly Hosts, not comparatively, but incomparably so"; even though "she became the ornament of the whole world, and the adornment of all creation, and the beauty of the Angels and of man"; even though "she alone stands on the boundary between Creator and creation"; and even though she was "the treasurer and dispenser of the wealth of Divinity" and "steward and guardian [and provider] of all the treasures and gifts of God, the Heavenly King"-for all that, she lived as an ascetic!The toilsome asceticism of the Mother of God, who, after the Ascension of our Lord, struggled "in fasting, in prayer, in prostrations, and in every sort of ascetic practice," must be associated also with the activity of noetic prayer, of which the Panagia is considered to be the teacher, because throughout her life-and, to be sure, especially during the twelve years that she spent in the Holy of Holies-, she "was occupied in and dwelt on nothing other than "theoria", in other words, the vision of God, alone, beholding God alone, and alone, being beheld by God alone."She who is full of Grace "by herself found and practiced noetic activity (praxis) and vision ("theoria")," through which the mind (nous) "rises above all creation and beholds the Glory of God," which, thereupon, the Most Pure one "transmitted" and taught "to those who came after" this "new path to the Heavens."* * *St. Nikodemos reminds us that "the heart of man was created by God always to return to God and behold its Creator." This "return" involves the following two stages:In the fiRST STAGE, we must become "Jacob" ("supplanter"), which is to say that we must become supplanters of the passions, of the Devil, and of sin, by means of "practical virtue," that is, "through fasting, vigils, prostrations, sleeping on the ground, prayer, hardships, and other bodily exertions."In the SECOND STAGE, we must become "Israel" ("mind that beholds God"), by means of "theoretical virtue"; that is, "through noetic prayer practiced in the heart, we must ascend to what is called the illumination of Divine Grace, which acts and exists in the heart, and, thereby, raise ourselves-or, rather, be raised-by Grace to supernatural and immediate "theoria", or, more precisely, to the vision of God."* * *Therefore, through "praxis" and "theoria"," through asceticism and prayer of the heart, with the Theotokos - who is the Mother and bestower of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit - as our constant and unfailing guide and teacher, let us struggle unremittingly for the purification and cleansing of the five senses, of the imagination, of the mind, and of the heart, for only "the pure in heart shall see God."Source: "Agios Kyprianos", No. 313 (March-April 2003), pp. 214-215.

How Families Can Get The Most Out Of Church

This picture hangs on the wall of my office at church. I love it because it shows so clearly the tensions that church often creates within our families. Mom and her daughters are on one wave-length while her son and husband are obviously on another.

I've been a pastor for thirty years and in that time I've seen just about every way churches and families can relate to each other. Not all of them fit into the Rockwell vision of idealized America, but all of them do demonstrate how complicated family life and connection with a local church can become:

. I've known many families who thrived in their local church. The parents were committed followers of Jesus and reared their children in the faith. When their children grew up, they did the same.

. Some families in my churches have fallen apart. Not because of church but because of any one of the many stresses that families experience today. But in their cases, the things they believed within the church weren't enough to save their families.

. Other families, as their children grew older, didn't experience divorce or anything like that. Instead, they just drifted off, like a boat cut loose from its mooring. The kids got so involved in school, sports or hobbies, that the parents simply abandoned church for the sake of their kids' interests.

. I've seen other families on the verge of falling apart be restored in church. Husbands and wives got right up to the brink of dissolving their homes then people who loved them came alongside and lovingly called them back to the basic truths of their faith. Through God's grace, they listened and did the hard work necessary to put their lives back together.

And I've seen almost every other situation in between. Through all this I've come to believe in six specific ways families can get the most out of church:

1. FIND A CHURCH HOME. Can an individual or family follow Jesus without being connected with a local church? Yes. But not very well. The New Testament is clear that our faith as individuals is deeply intertwined with whatever local body of believers we're connected with as our "church." Families that get that not only are obeying biblical truth, they're also positioning their children for future spiritual success. For older couples, their church home often becomes their closest group of friends.

2. LIMIT YOUR KIDS' INVOLVEMENT IN EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES. With today's explosion of extra-curricular opportunities for our kids, parents today are faced with a dilemma. There's not enough hours in the week for children to do everything they "want" to do in addition to the things they "need" to do. First, there's school work, of course. Then there's soccer, dancing, cheer-leading, baseball, karate, language instruction, SAT preparation, football, basketball, music practice, drama and so many other things that you can't keep track of them all. Oh yes, one other thing: church. But with a list so long, church inevitably gets pushed to the end of the line. What does that say about our true priorities? For families to get the most out of church, some decisions have to be made about just how much we allow our kids to do.

3. BE CAREFUL ABOUT HOW YOU PROCESS PAINFUL EXPERIENCES AT CHURCH. Churches are far from perfect and most of us can point to painful experiences we've had within them. But when, especially, parents bring their children in on discussions about church problems or individuals within our church, they can do more harm to our kids than they realize. Our children don't have an adequate frame of reference to understand how everyone in church is limited and broken by our own sin, and that brokenness sometimes results in causing pain to others. Instead, our children just perceive it as hypocrisy. I've known many children who've been permanently turned off to church because of this issue.

4. RELIVE THE FAITH EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE AT CHURCH WITHIN YOUR HOME. A great disconnect often takes place in modern American church life between what goes on at church and what goes on at home. We are "religious" at church and "normal" at home. Apart from creating the kind of religious schizophrenia so common to Christians today, that approach also sets families up for spiritual failure. Instead, we should look for ways to bring the two together. Discussions around the table of Bible lessons our kids learned in Sunday School. Working on church mission projects as a family or couple. Actively seeking to interpret family life experiences through the perspective of the faith we learn about on Sundays. Including God-talk within normal family conversations.

5. CONNECT WITH A SMALL GROUP OF LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE WITHIN YOUR CHURCH. Whether you call it Sunday School, home group, small group, men's group, women's group or something else, for your family to get the most out of church, you must share your life with some other people. When we feel alone in a church, it will never be anything more than a religious activity. When we're in relationship with other people on a similar spiritual journey, though, church becomes a true spiritual home.

6. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING. When all is said and done, your family can't get the most out of church by just sitting back and letting the church do things for you. The programs, ministries, services and missions projects most churches offer are opportunities for you and your family to grow spiritually. But churches can't do the work for you. Each family must assume responsibility for their own spiritual health. When they do, church can become a foundation for an authentic spiritual life.

Excerpt From Yoni Shakti On Yoga And Female Spirituality

A press release I was sent about a new book, Yoni Shakti: A Woman's Guide to Power and Freedom Through Yoga and Tantraintrigued me so much that I asked the publisher, Yogawords, if I could have an extract of the book to post on my blog.

The press release said that Yoni Shakti "unveils the true potential of yoga and female spiritual empowerment" and went on to describe the book as "a ground-breaking work about yoga and feminine power written by Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, renowned yoga therapist, yoga teacher-trainer, mother and author."

Yogawords emailed me the introduction and first few chapters to look at - fascinating to read but too long to post in their entirety as an extract on my blog. I've selected just a short passage from the introduction to give a taster of what Yoni Shakti offers:

WOMB ECOLOGY AND THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF FEMININITY

The experience of freedom through "yoni 'sakti" is rooted in an acknowledgement that those specifically female experiences that centre on or around the womb, such as menstruation, orgasm, childbirth and menopause, can be encountered consciously as potential doorways to spiritual power and heightened intuitive awareness.

This book provides both the philosophical context (in parts one and two) and specific practical yoga guidance (in part three) to enhance the spiritual experience of the great female "siddhis "(yogic powers) of menstruation, feminine sexuality, fertility, birth, postnatal recovery and menopause. The yoga practice is inclusive, holistic and comprehensive. It includes "asana "(postures), "praayama "(breathwork), "mudra "(gesture), "bandha "(energy locks and seals), "yantra "(visual embodiment of energetic fields), "mantra "(sound), "pratyahara "(sense withdrawal), "dharaa "(concentration), "dhyana" (meditation) and "samadhi "(ecstatic trance). Womb yoga brings together all these forms of yoga in a creative and delicious synthesis of sound, breath, flowing movement and stillness that respects "'sakti "(energy) as she flows within each of us, every day, whatever we are doing and wherever we find ourselves. It also includes simple rituals to reawaken consciousness to the deeper significance of life stages and female "siddhis".

When we practise yoga that fully expresses our consciousness as women, and gives us freedom to feel the powerful forces of our feminine energy, or "yoni 'sakti", then the whole world changes for the good. From the personal experience of physical and emotional benefits which lead to enhanced energy and creative thinking, comes an immensely positive influence on all areas of human life, from work to family, from intimate r relationships to frameworks of national organisations and government. The healing effect of womb yoga leads from a personal rediscovery of a woman's blood wisdom to an evolved consciousness of union, to a healing global yoga experience that transforms the consciousness of all humans on the planet. It is the thread of reconnection that leads to freedom.

The practice of womb yoga guides us to rediscover a respectful connection with the inner wisdom of our womb cycles. It is an inner ecology of the womb, explored more fully in chapter twenty-seven. When this blood wisdom informs our life and work then we can honour the cyclical nature not only of a woman's life, but also of all life on earth. From the wisdom born of womb ecology follows a naturally arising global green consciousness rooted in a sustainable and respectful honouring of the natural cycles and energies of the earth, the womb that nurtures all life in our world. So it is through blood wisdom, this spiritual awareness that is literally encoded in the cycles of the female body, that we can access the deep healing that our planet, our earthly womb, urgently calls for now. We are in deep need of such yoga.Yoni Shakti: A Woman's Guide to Power and Freedom Through Yoga and Tantrahas an RRP of lb30 in paperback. It is available to buy at Yogamatters.com and also via Amazon.

Links

Yoni Shakti: A Woman's Guide to Power and Freedom Through Yoga and Tantra

http://www.yogawords.com

http://www.wombyoga.org

Quija Board

What is a Ouija board? Ouija boards came into existence as a parlor game in the mid-1800's, when spiritism and channeling were at the height of fashion. The word "Ouija" is a blend of the French and German words for "yes." Adolphus Theodore Wagner first patented Ouija boards, sometimes referred to as "talking boards," in London, England on January 23, 1854. In the patent, Wagner called his invention a "psychograph" and its purpose was to read the minds of people with "nervous energy." By 1861, Frenchman, Allan Kardac, was describing the Ouija board as instruments with which to open communications with the spirit world. In seven short years, the Ouija board had evolved from a mind-reader to portal of communication with the dead.

Modern Ouija boards were developed by inventor William Huld. Huld sold his patent to Parker Brothers in 1966. Ouija boards, as we recognize them today, look nothing like the original prototypes. The 20-25 million Ouija boards sold by Parker Brothers consist of a rectangular game board that is covered with a woodcut-style alphabet, the words yes, no, and good-bye, and the numbers 0-9. Also included with the "game" is a heart-shaped plastic planchette. The planchette is the 'pointer' that is supposed to glide over the board under the direction of supernatural forces and form comments and questions by pointing out questions and comments. Parker Brothers has marketed Ouija Boards under the tagline, "It's only a game - isn't it?"

Ouija Board - The Deception

Satan and his demons can use the Ouija board to give advice, or even to guide a person in a certain direction. This guidance will even seem to be true, good, and helpful. Satan and his demons pretend to be caring. They try to appear as something that appears harmless. The Bible says, "And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve" (2 Corinthians 11:14-15).

Satan and his demons will do this in order to get a person even more deeply involved in spiritist practices. Things like the Ouija board appear to be innocent at first, but soon a person finds themselves addicted to guidance from the spirit world - thereby allowing Satan to control and destroy their life. 1 Peter 5:8 warns us, "Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." The Ouija Board may be advertised as just as game, and that is exactly what Satan wants us to believe.

Ouija Board - The Truth: Are they Evil?

Sadly, many people are deceived into believing that Ouija Boards are just a game. The truth of the matter is that God views channeling, or consulting spirits or the dead, to be a serious sin. Deuteronomy 18:11-12 says that anyone engaged in these practices is "detestable to God." According Old Testament Law, the Israelites were supposed to stone (execute) anyone who was a medium or a channeler (Leviticus 20:27).

Why does God take such a hard line on things like Ouija Boards - something that many people view as a game? In Isaiah 8:19-20, God says this: "When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?...If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light..." God points out that we need to come to Him for answers. Because God is omniscient and omnipresent He knows everything and He is in control of everything. Asking charlatans and unknown entities for advice can be worse than fruitless; it can be dangerous. God wants us to trust Him!

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Make Disciples Of All Nations

"All mission in paradise and on earth has been resolved to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Inaugurate and the Son and the Ceremonial Verve, teaching them to shelter everything I show commanded you. And reminiscence, I am with you continually, to the end of the age." Matthew 28.16-20ABU DAOUD is an Anglican lay disciple to Arab Muslims. He holds an MA in Religious studies and a BA in Taste as well as a certificate in Arabic. He is working towards a PhD by the Educational of Supernatural being of a common academic circles in the UK. He what's more has a official document in Arabic. He lives in a Muslim-majority, Arab local in the Kindness East.The succeeding is an virtual questioning with him:ALBION LAND: WHY MUSLIMS?ABU DAOUD: I was called to the Muslim world since law a absolute missions study at my church, it is called Joy for the Nations, and is a lot impossible to tell apart Alpha. I academic that nearby are about 11,000 unreached people groups harshly the world, and that 4,000 of nation are in the Muslim world. I what's more started to study history additional and academic that North Africa and Asia Minor--these were Christian areas earlier to Islam. I what's more academic that for centuries now the church has done about whoosh in expressions of actually evangelizing Muslims.AL: WHY IS THAT?AD: The reasons resolved are multipart. In my view it is a simple lack of have confidence in. But the reasons are: it's too be attracted to, we don't see any fruit, you send a guy nearby for existence and he comes back with a handful of converts, the language is very insecure, it is unsafe, they persecute the missionaries and assassinate the converts, and so on. Kyrie eleison! Where would be if our Lord and his Apostles had been so faithless!AL: YOU Give THE Piece of writing "UNREACHED The general public Ring". Can YOU Let off The same as YOU Ragged BY THAT?AD: We really requisite to shot how we read Scripture. A long time ago we find Jesus saying "Go participating in all the world, making disciples of all nations..." we show been reading that word, nation, contemplative of nation states, a handiwork that wasn't even fabricated until the 19th C. The same as Jesus is vernacular about is ethnoi, or peoples. An unreached people group is an ethnos that has fewer than 2,000 partners of Christ or is less than 2% Christian. In other words, it is an ethnos that does not show a community that can start to do its own work of evangelism.AL: The same as DEFINES A The general public GROUP?AD: The basic thing is this: can the Gospel dart unofficially within it? Happening a people group nearby is a regular opinion of convergence, language, ritual, linguistic commonalities, and so on. God has continually dealt with humans in expressions of people groups: the Amalakites, Jebusites, Hittites, Samaritans, and so on were all razor-sharp people groups. They were judged as a group and they what's more usual the grab to misgiving as a group, as we find with Jonah and the Ninevites. In Astonishment [5:9] we find that they bestow be harshly forever, for nearby are people from every "band and talk and nation." In Is. 2 we find that the Lord bestow think concerning patronize nations and patronize peoples bestow go to Zion to learn the Law of the Lord. In other words, the product of peoples is a key aspect of Mixture and our Lord was not able to sleep of this: "This Gospel of the Motherland necessity be preached to all peoples, and then the end bestow come" [Mt 24:14].The complete is this: one third of the world's the people belong to unreached people groups. AL: The same as ARE THE Recurrent CHURCHES Comport yourself IN Lexis OF Direct Plus THE UNREACHED?AD: I show met with Recurrent intimate a figure of epoch and it continually comes down to: we send teams to Mexico to do this or that or we show friends in Africa and we prize them money for x, y or z. I'm not saying any of this is bad, nearby is by far to be rumored for fleeting teams and nearby are unreached groups in Africa, but they are generally in N. Africa which gets no disturbance. AL: YOU Bring HEARD The general public SAY THAT IF YOU Bring A Spring up Bizarre MISSIONS Route, Later YOU Spur Likewise Bring Celebratory Domestic OUTREACH. The same as DO YOU THINK?AD: I would agree! If you don't section the Gospel cross-culturally then you how can you dream your people to section it within their culture? Ephesians 4:11 gives us a list of the vocations in the church: apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. The apostle is one who is sent out from his people group to fresh people group to section the Gospel with the view of making converts, catechizing and baptizing them, and finally planting a new congress. The evangelist shares the Gospel within his own culture. They are uncooperative charisms and callings: it is more accurately uncooperative to award the Gospel sideways cultural defiance. All of us show likelihood to evangelize. At home I am vernacular about vocations and regular callings within the church.AL: BUT Maximum Recurrent CHURCHES Bring A Rock-strewn Enough Ground With the sole purpose Continuation THEIR HEADS Former Water AS IT IS. AD: If your church is firm on get-together and retaining God's rotation then it bestow be impossible to tell apart the Unmoving Sea, which scarcely receives water and has no life. If your church receives from God but then goes out to the people of the world to section what has been usual, it is impossible to tell apart the Sea of Galilee, which conversely trivial is full of life.AL: Various READERS WOULD Chops THAT THE Side OF THE APOSTLE IS THE Incredibly AS THE Side OF THE BISHOP. Whilst IT SEEMS YOU ARE Adage THE Side OF THE APOSTLE IS IN Note THAT OF THE CROSS-CULTURAL Proponent WHO IS Engaged IN EVANGELISM AND CHURCH-PLANTING.AD: I am not cry all the rage about the Twelve, or about apostolic plunge. The word apostle is used in two argue in the NT, that is one of them. The fact that nearby are two associated but razor-sharp meanings of the word apostle explains how Junia can be an apostle--she is a lay missioner, as is my spouse. The apostolic missioner may be a lay nature or predetermined to any of the Tips. This is what's more the bombard with the vocations of evangelist, instructor, and so on.AL: LET ME Hype YOU A LITTLE: IT SEEMS YOU ARE Adage THAT Maximum OF THE "MISSIONARIES" Just about THE Den ARE NOT Technically MISSIONARIES BY YOUR DEFINITION--THEY ARE Stretch EXPAT CHURCHES, Learning AT SCHOOLS, Operational IN Control, AND SO ON. IS THIS Effectively The same as YOU Ragged TO SAY?AD: I am saying that nation people are law good work, but they are not missionaries unless they are firm on evangelism and church planting. That is apostolic post. These people are obviously ministers of the church (whether laity or clergy), they show vocations as teachers, pastors, and prophets doubtless, but the core of apostolic ministry is communicating the Gospel sideways ethnic limits, very, as Paul says, where the Gospel has not been preached at the forefront. That is, accompanied by the unreached, what is what's more called limit post.AL: HOW CAN CHURCHES AND Family Continue Bigger Something like Attitude MISSIONS AND HOW TO Characterize A Inequality A long time ago IT COMES TO THIRD OF THE Den Folks THAT IS, AS YOU SAY, UNREACHED?AD: I know of one Anglican missions position that is firm on limit work, Anglican Attitude Missions [www.afm-us.org], I would say to prize them a grab and see what the vow are. The easiest way is to start authentication the work by leaving on accompanied by unreached people groups. This bestow be film set for Recurrent Anglicans as they would requisite to work with evangelical Anglicans until they get their own people on the land-dwelling. Principally the signpost bestow be to show teams of frequent Anglicans on the land-dwelling accompanied by the unreached groups of N. Africa, the Split up, and South Asia. We are vernacular about countries impossible to tell apart Algeria, Libya, Yemen, Saudi, Pakistan, India, Chad, and Iran. It is not easy to get participating in these countries, but it is obviously impending and you bestow be appalled to see how God opens doors when you make yourself pass. A practical book from the complete of view of narrative is Planting Churches in Muslims Cities by Greg Livingstone. I what's more plan using the Joy for the Nations course for Sunday Educational. It is evangelical, but with some vision and supplementation it can be very effective for an Anglo-catholic community.

Jesus Walk 2012 Betrayal Tuesday What Going On With Dr John Piper Note About The Occult V Victory

In Pull Sett To Be Featured At Desiring God 2010 - I was along with the few who broke the story that Dr. Piper had prepared the misguided verdict to look for Trend Network's propped-up Close Driven Pope Pull Sett to DG 2010 as a keynote storyteller. Next, as I locale in Pull Sett Doctrinal And Sound?, miserably it got even reduce previously Dr. Piper staid to backing his decision: At nitty-gritty I wait for [Pull Sett] is theological and doctrinal and cheap.... So whether one even knows it or not, Warrengate relaxed is slowly simmering; Dr. Piper's exclusive donate has had the rippling effect of make your home somewhere, even free of any settlement ministries, beginning to measure a passing closer at his theology, school previous circumstances, and associations; e.g. his entrancing hooked, his bring together to Fuller Theological School, and with the in the rear Ralph Iciness. I had usual a tip from a sanction back in June of this outside year; and as I followed up on it, it would in the end lead me to discover some worrying information which I orginally began distribution in Questions A propos Dr. John Piper and Dr. John Piper And Up in the air Questions. When I wrote folks prime articles Dr. Piper was on his ominously talked about sabbatical; now at a halt, he is back and a few of the mystic books I prickly in the latter design are no longer in the BBC online library.... At the same time as I blameless showed you donate ought to supply us real supervision as the obstensibly Renewed, "playful," and "affectionate," Calvinist Dr. John Piper is sounding less yearn for a entrancing and condescending yearn for a mystic as he points us to fugitive teachers of Roman Catholicism and its fervently ruined mysticism; and from what we can see, this has been separation on for accurately some time now. Maybe, now that his settlement is so far off he's even promoting the double-minded Pull Sett, the time has in the last part trendy for some of his DG speakers to bring a closer measure at what's separation on in this neo-Reformed base camp.

Good Luck Day

At the advantage is an out-of-the-way day for all magickal minutiae having to do with luck, productivity, and money. At the advantage is the banquet day of Fausta Felicitas, an ancient Roman Anticipate being of Commendable Reduction and Propitious Happenstance. Her name is in the end two words of the systematic meaning, inborn doubled up for do down, for "FAUSTA" in the Latin is the adjective "Promising" or "Confident", while "FELICITAS" is the noun meaning "Batch", "Promising Consider" or "Dash"; Her name can be translated as the initiate out of use "Propitious Good fortune", where "SHE OF Exact Commendable Reduction" possibly sounds look toward up. By the way, the Latin "FELIX", "Jovial", and "felis "CAT" are akin, set down the specialty of "Prosperity", as cats fret many young; I'm tempted, nonetheless, to interpret the weight as referring to noise, an blatant and central line of fashion of thrilled cats. Her name evokes the Latin saying "QUOD BONUM FAUSTUM FELIX FORTUNATUMQUE SIT!", which translates as "MAY IT BE Promising, Correctly, Jovial, AND BLESSED!" According to Cicero (WHO LIVED 106-43 BCE), this word had been hand-me-down having the territory of ancient time as the correct ritual found unvoiced at the beginning of all kinds of projects or tricks to hurl an advantageous consequence - for trial, such as cities or colonies were founded, at community cash, at the opening of festivals, or at sacrifices.Metaphors of this Anticipate being are found furthermost recurrently on Roman divergence. With casting the spells, the stop press of the Latin saying "QUOD BONUM FAUSTUM FELIX FORTUNATUMQUE SIT!" as well as invoking the power of the Anticipate being herself would go under to look toward within an even arrogant in energy consequence.Initiate At The Encompass Anticipate Existence Online IndexSource: magick-keys.blogspot.com

Muhammad Christians And Afghan Antisemitism

I secure been persuasive to secure haunt deep conservations with Afghans trade with religion. Diverse sitting room in the Mean East, while the tremendous I ever got was crux told I must be Muslim (translation: I the same as you but you are a vilify infidel), Afghans channel extreme on open to dialect religion with non-Muslims. Probably this is being in Afghanistan Christianity is a unfriendly "other" a bit than a through, authorization peril that haunt in the Mean East see it as. I cannot say for be contiguous why Afghans are on open but all Shia Sufis and Sunnis secure been on than peculiar in trial me argument about Catholicism, Protestantism, similarities in the company of Sufi and Catholic saints, and what I know about Islam.It was during one of these congress that I was told a story which offers resonant reflections fashionable Afghan cultural education of all Christianity and Judaism. One large asked me if I knew the story about how a priest saved Muhammad's life. I knew of several initial encounter stories of Muhammad and Christians including the Nestorian or Arian cleric Bahira and Muhammad's related, the Ebionite priest Waraqah ibn Nawfal, but I had not heard the story of a priest country Muhammad's life. So I asked to pick up the story.A Rector SAVES MUHAMMAD (PARAPHRASED BY ME)At whatever time Muhammad was untrained his blood relation had rather than had died. His mother gave him to an Arab Bedioun band as was the dealing of Meccan Arabs, in order for Arab children to start off their lives nascent strong. At whatever time Mohammad was a result a Christian priest told Halimah bint Abi Dhuayb, his form mother, to capture confirmation of the children being he was special and jump for deep background. The priest completed special record vivid Hamlimah to beware of Jews who would be looking for the child.Considering, once Mohammad was quiet very leafy, a group of Jews came to the Bedouin garrison and started asking questions about leafy children who demonstrated "signs." The Jews found Halimah and began vivid her how they assumed Mohammad was the "one they were looking for." The Jews plus asked while the boy's blood relation was. Hamlimah, credit what the priest had told her, done in to her other half and held he was the boy's blood relation. The Jews plus sighed and held Mohammad seemed to be the one they were looking for but the child they were looking for had a majority blood relation. Hamlimah might unswerving the Jews were acquaint with looking for Mohammad in order to eliminate him.The Afghans I was with all nodded still the story was crux recited and one even told me he had literary the story still in school.I secure tried researching the story but I can find it no place excessively. It seems to tote up elements of a mock-up of Bahria, who warned adults to protect Muhammad from the Jews, and extra-Biblical stories about Jesus' elderly and signs of his sumptuousness. The story after that the stage Christians in a good light, God-fearers who are looking for the truth. The same as I secure had front entrance just to a sieve grouping of Afghans, all of them secure completed points to respect on the community main beliefs of Christians and Muslims, everything which Muslims in the Mean East that I secure encountered to do not footnote. Expound, I secure been told Christianity is sullied truth and that just Islam holds the answer.The saddest part of the story is the antisemitism. About five hundred living had approved in the company of the mutilation of situate, Crest Judaism and the birth of Muhammad. Somberly, the accomplish lack of Judaism's authorization to crick off the logistics artificial to do any tale "vision down the favorite one" exercise does not discern anyone's end on all sides of. More accurately, stories about how bad Jews are continue. At whatever time I tried mentioning my fears about an situate Jewish patch opposed Muhammad the large unemotional started disparage off prophets killed by "the Jews."My conservations with Muslims secure been very rewarding. They secure asked to secure parts of my Bible and works by Saint Josemaria Escriva translated so they can "read God's word and works to others." Nonetheless, for all these good moments it is frightening to see dark hates hang around in the hearts and minds of good serious the general public.

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2Pet 1:1Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them thathave obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousnessof God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:2Pet 1:2Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God,and of Jesus our Lord,2Pet 1:3According as his divine power hath given unto us all things thatpertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him thathath called us to glory and virtue:2Pet 1:4Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: thatby these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escapedthe corruption that is in the world through lust.2Pet 1:5And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; andto virtue knowledge;2Pet 1:6And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and topatience godliness;2Pet 1:7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindnesscharity.2Pet 1:8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that yeshall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our LordJesus Christ.2Pet 1:9But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off,and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.2Pet 1:10Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your callingand election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:2Pet 1:11For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into theeverlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.2Pet 1:12Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance ofthese things, though ye know them, and be established in the presenttruth.2Pet 1:13Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir youup by putting you in remembrance;2Pet 1:14Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as ourLord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.2Pet 1:15Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease tohave these things always in remembrance.2Pet 1:16For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made knownunto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but wereeyewitnesses of his majesty.2Pet 1:17For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there camesuch a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son,in whom I am well pleased.2Pet 1:18And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with himin the holy mount.2Pet 1:19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well thatye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until theday dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:2Pet 1:20Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of anyprivate interpretation.2Pet 1:21For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holymen of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.2Pet 2:1But there were false prophets also among the people, even as thereshall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring indamnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bringupon themselves swift destruction.2Pet 2:2And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom theway of truth shall be evil spoken of.2Pet 2:3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words makemerchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not,and their damnation slumbereth not.2Pet 2:4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down tohell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved untojudgment;2Pet 2:5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, apreacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world ofthe ungodly;2Pet 2:6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemnedthem with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that aftershould live ungodly;2Pet 2:7And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of thewicked:2Pet 2:8(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing,vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)2Pet 2:9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and toreserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:2Pet 2:10But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust ofuncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they,selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.2Pet 2:11Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring notrailing accusation against them before the Lord.2Pet 2:12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed,speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterlyperish in their own corruption;2Pet 2:13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that countit pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes,sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast withyou;2Pet 2:14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin;beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetouspractices; cursed children:2Pet 2:15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following theway of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages ofunrighteousness;2Pet 2:16But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man'svoice forbad the madness of the prophet.2Pet 2:17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with atempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.2Pet 2:18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allurethrough the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those thatwere clean escaped from them who live in error.2Pet 2:19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants ofcorruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he broughtin bondage.2Pet 2:20For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world throughthe knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are againentangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with themthan the beginning.2Pet 2:21For it had been better for them not to have known the way ofrighteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holycommandment delivered unto them.2Pet 2:22But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dogis turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to herwallowing in the mire.2Pet 3:1This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which Istir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:2Pet 3:2That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by theholy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lordand Saviour:2Pet 3:3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers,walking after their own lusts,2Pet 3:4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathersfell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning ofthe creation.2Pet 3:5For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God theheavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and inthe water:2Pet 3:6Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water,perished:2Pet 3:7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word arekept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment andperdition of ungodly men.2Pet 3:8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is withthe Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.2Pet 3:9The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men countslackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that anyshould perish, but that all should come to repentance.2Pet 3:10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in thewhich the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and theelements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the worksthat are therein shall be burned up.2Pet 3:11Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner ofpersons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,2Pet 3:12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, whereinthe heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shallmelt with fervent heat?2Pet 3:13Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and anew earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.2Pet 3:14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligentthat ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.2Pet 3:15And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even asour beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto himhath written unto you;2Pet 3:16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; inwhich are some things hard to be understood, which they that areunlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures,unto their own destruction.2Pet 3:17Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, bewarelest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall fromyour own stedfastness.2Pet 3:18But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour JesusChrist. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

Jim Carrey David Wilcock On Now Oneness And Spiritual Awakening

Taking part in is a clear video featuring Jim Carrey, Gregg Braden and David Wilcock explaining oneness, measurable electromagnetism in emotions and consciousness ! A Requirement WATCH!This video compilation begins with Jim Carrey on The Ellen DeGeneres Playhouse, followed by a sharp-witted seminar of his on Oprah's discussing Eckhart Tolle's "The Firmness of Now" and the simple enlightening truth of staying in the more or less little for everything very up front scheduled our minds as way of thinking sparsely doesn't plunk... its an Hallucination ! Conceivably that's why they grumble it the Changeless Now... :)Tribute you enjoyed the trippy psychedelic music with nation unforeseen make samples speaking about "Now" !Alan Watts interviewed by Pat Williams in the hurried 1970's, speaking about the eternal now.'You are at hand to give the right the divine model of the room to distribute. That is how resultant you are.'~ Eckhart TolleLinked Posts : * Excitement As One Trilogy : The Send a message, The Squalid and The Visualization * The Zen Human being : A Documentary on Buddhism * Experiencing Immeasurable Oneness : Experiencing Existence * We Are All One : Litter Say Of Oneness and Dear * Blossoming Neo Secular Understanding * We Are The Alchemists Of Understanding

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The Leo Horoscope In The Vedic Astrology

Normal persons attitude excellent up the broadsheet every day to read their rag horoscope, but few genuinely understand the true meaning of their Zodiac Leo symbol in the Vedic astrology which they were born under. Before multiple Vedic Astrology books in print persons are able to study the Indian Vedic Zodiac to understand that it is second adapted and that the leo sun sign represents an persons inner makeup, leo personality, and leo makeup.

The zodiac sign of Leo is intended to be the star sign and very mannish. It is the fifth sign of the Zodiac Vedic calendar and is charge to be strong, dense, troubled, and authoritative. The astrology zodiac sign Leo is ruled by the sun, who is the lord of our cosmological bring into being as the life supplier and is a fire sign, which fitting that persons born under this sign are fresh and civilized.

A lion is the astrology zodiac sign that symbolizes Leo as the king of the beast and requires the central part of care at all become old.

In judgment Leo love nurse and are long-term to booming provisions, so as they get capacious they are apt to get weight. They do not assert nor attitude they storeroom to a stop trading physical vigor preset, however they attitude put on the act by trying gym clothing. Leos assert dancing, swimming, and tennis in fact, they are in raptures attitude all sports in widespread. Dwell in born under the SPELLS symbol of Leo are questioning in arts, crafts, melodramatic groups, holier-than-thou organizations, and charitable groups.

Introduction To Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust

The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Chance was founded by ring and green Gerald Durrell 50 years ago with the deputation to conserve family unit from termination, and it has a accepted move along journal of affect fair that! Dynasty that hold been pulled back from the periphery get somebody mixed up the Mauritius kestrel, rare pigeon, return parakeet and the Mallorcan midwife toad, and our hot conservationists are tough at work in threatened habitats articulate the world, continuing each day to protect and hoard many outstanding great family unit. Due to the mounting hassle of humans on the environment, we hold witnessed in late lamented decades, a significant growth in the pay packet of extinctions.The assume of family unit under danger has reached disturbing proportions, in the midst of 23% of mammals, 12% of ducks and 32% of all amphibians. A cumbersome variety of family unit are central for the loft blocks on which our ecosystems are never-ending and it is these ecosystems that deliver us with aforementioned possessions, such as clean water, build up, fibre and cuisine.

What family unit die out, we sinking the environment's fine art to deliver us with key possessions. The challenges facing the world's biodiversity are too striking for any full organisation to make a similarity. At a standstill, cool, not sufficiently and striking non-government organisations, level Durrell, can ornament the post of the world's health. Durrell's break is one in which endemic family unit in their natural context are allowed to go on even material communities.Endangered family unit maintenance, on all sides of groundwork, descent, utilization, and all its many facets, requires integrative and interdisciplinary methods.Durrell has disposed stylish an effective maintenance organisation not fair by seeing that strong in natural sciences groundwork and methods, but also by seeing that physically powerful in the sociable science knowledge and skills central to ably map in, and redden, the utilization of family unit and their specialised habitats.

Then our global establish in Sweater, Durrell has built up a intercontinental respect for its modern maintenance techniques disposed under the go ahead of the dead Gerald Durrell.Our animal maintenance programme at the present works with 36 with hostility endangered family unit intercontinental, with the aim of halting the spread detached house shelve prior they smash into the lonely forward of a few make a profit of nation. Our essential programme areas are Madagascar, the Indian Ocean islands, Comforting Ocean islands, Caribbean islands and Indian lowlands.

MADAGASCAR

At 587,045km Madagascar is the main oceanic atoll and the fourth main atoll on Argument. It is concern to hold been dejected from mainland Africa for choice 160 million years.The island's spot and loneliness has led to the advance of the unchained room of habitats from heavy tropical rain forests in the east, to wipe semi-deserts in the south-west. As a notch Madagascar displays levels of family unit endemism (i.e. family unit that are not found wherever overly on Argument) leader than wherever in the world, which has led the atoll to be accepted as one of world's top 'megadiversity' countries, and a essential maintenance position area.

Seeing that is so sober about Madagascar's biodiversity is that this endemism extends to whole taxonomic families of family unit which are found nowhere overly. The island's best-known endemics are the Lemur families, which restraint choice 90 family unit found purely in Madagascar, ranging from the main, the Indri which weighs up to 8kg, to the world's least chimp, Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, which weighs 30g. Offer estimates spell out that near are between 10,000 to 20,000 leave family unit, 80% of which (or 3.2% of the international cut) are endemic. Communicate are also seven endemic leave families to the atoll, a amount of endemism not found wherever overly. As well, 90% of reptiles, 98% of amphibians, 40% ducks and 90% of mammals are endemic to the atoll. Added matchless mammals get somebody mixed up the top predator, the Fosa, a striking cat-like animal utmost the instant appropriate to the mongoose which is when at home in the top of a baobab tree as on the ground. Madagascar also contains the richest disparity of amphibian and reptile family unit in the world with 314 of the 340 regular family unit of reptile seeing that endemic, utmost markedly the chameleons which may hold originated on the atoll. At a standstill our knowledge of the family unit on Madagascar remains largely not up to scratch and family unit are continually seeing that described; for configuration 22 family unit or subspecies of chimp independently hold been described equally 1999. THE Worldly IMPACTHabitat mischief caused by material performance is the for one person testimony danger faced by Madagascan biodiversity. Far off of the biodiversity found on the atoll is fanatical in forest ecosystems, which hold been under majestic constraint for many years deeply from slash-and-burn fostering, mining and logging (either for charcoal or shape coppice). It is predictable that in the go out with 2000, articulate 17% of the erstwhile blocked sun shelter necessary forest remained uninjured. The effect of meddling family unit on native biodiversity in Madagascar has expected less gain than other fear. Flora and fauna such as the water hyacinth congest up many tolerate systems, which are also shabby by the impacts of introduced fish scraps family unit such as snakehead murrell, carp and Nile tilapia. Plus the modify of marsh to rice and siltation of waterways from deforestation along the banks, hold wonderfully stingy the natural history of water systems.

Madagascar has a voters of 20 million fill, of which 70% livelihood in rustic areas. Nonetheless the situation is on a path of tiny see to, essentially up in city areas, 50% of the voters does not hold doorway to an greater than before water able-bodied and about 40% are under-nourished. Until 2005, 61% of the voters lived on less that 1 per day. The rustic communities are heavily dependent on natural possessions that are seeing that gruffly forlorn. Deforestation for fostering has both immature sources of sustainable livelihoods and also to a large extent of the country's matchless biodiversity. The few make a profit of forests in that case deliver essential natural environment services such as protection for key water catchments and renewable possessions, but also the sustain make a profit of refuges for Madagascar's native plant life and natural world. As the voters grows and state lack the approach or skill to invest in sea green utilization and rebuilding, the natural informant sustain and rural land are becoming continually corrupted so contributing to a poverty perceive. Madagascar's rustic communities entreat manipulate to diversify their approach of basic their livelihoods and possess to bring practices that believe the natural environment.

DURRELL IN MADAGASCAR Durrell has been working in Madagascar equally the out-of-date 1980s and it is now our main programme area. Principal the organisation focussed on a assume of key family unit, such as the ploughshare tortoise, Madagascar teal and Meller's shirk. Spare just now, in the sustain 15 years, we hold disposed a go to on working with pronounced communities to sustainably use their natural possessions and protect their biodiversity. At present Durrell implements a assume of projects in seven essential field sites: 1. MENABE Coppice This region contains one of the main make a profit of tracts of deciduous seasonally dry forest and is terribly flourishing in endemic animal and leave family unit. These forests, which later than coated to a large extent of western Madagascar, hold been stingy to about 3% of their basic vigor by resolution for lodge or subsistence fostering. As a notch, this dwelling and the family unit found in it are now one of the uppermost maintenance priorities in Madagascar. Communicate are at token four family unit endemic to the forest alone; a frog, the flat-tailed tortoise, the exceptional jumping rat and Madame Berthe's mouse lemur. This forest is also home to at token 14 other family unit. Seeing that of the heavy forest, one of Durrell's essential challenges in the area is to spot family unit compositions and related selection, and our peal appearing in develops new inspection methods and tailors approaches to particular family unit. In this area we are also working with a Malagasy NGO to products a new put up collateral area, occurrence participatory monitoring programmes and advising on the commencement of new legislation. 2. BALY BAY This palm savanna is the sustain make a profit of dwelling of the ploughshare tortoise. Communicate are understood to be less than 2,000 nation moved out, largely ever since of muddy lever but also ever since of fire, cyclones and coppice ardent which weaken the forests and the tortoise's dwelling. Durrell has well set up a captive spread programme to conserve the tortoise (see beneath) and fabricate closing stages partnerships with pronounced and resident organization as well as pronounced communities to class out muddy trafficking of the tortoise. We also spot, reintroduce and reconsider the reputation of the tortoises and wholesale the use of traditional fire slow up techniques to protect forests and rush areas for the tortoise. Durrell has also been instrumental in establishing put up collateral areas in Baly Bay. 3. AMPIJOROA A Durrell-supported captive spread and reintroduction project at the Ampijoroa Forestry Place of duty in north-western Madagascar is underway. This is to obstruct the termination of the ploughshare tortoise, the flat-tailed tortoise and the side-necked turtle, all of which are with hostility endangered, and to products a new uncontrolled voters from captive-bred juveniles. 4. LAC ALAOTRA This area was chosen as a Ramsar site in 2003 as a fen of international importance; Durrell was instrumental in this work and we bear to defend in the see to of a new put up collateral area within the marshes and on the kitty. The marsh are very gone to disgrace and sedimentation, frequently as a notch of rice farming, wear down and siltation. The introduction of naval plant life and fish scraps, as well as dwelling disgrace, over-hunting and fishing also weaken endemic family unit. At token three of these endemics are with hostility endangered, in the midst of the Alaotran sunny lemur, one of the world's purely fen primates, whose stingy normal room has led to a tiny shelve in voters. The Alaotran insignificant grebe and the Madagascar pochard are also silent termination, and we are at the present hoping to set up a captive spread programme to conserve the pochard. Durrell is also phobia in good and upbringing up pronounced publicity campaigns, ecologically aware and promoting participatory monitoring techniques that can be run with, or by, the pronounced fill, both to stab the orderliness of community utilization techniques and to recover pronounced appointment to utilization by easy-to-read the impacts. 5. NOVISVOLO The v-shaped, 120km Novisvolo tolerate in eastern Madagascar flows between two dead flat throng ranges. Communicate is a majestic danger to the maintenance of the region from deforestation as a notch of cut and be on fire taste in the forests, causing sedimentation and turbidity in the tolerate. The presence of introduced fish scraps and over-fishing is also alarming endemic fish scraps. Durrell has set up a project to hoard the 19 endemic fish scraps in the region, all of which are diminishing in send away. Durrell has also conducted a land inspection in the area to stab the amount of tolerate deposit damage and set up pronounced outreach programmes to fish farm indulgent of the shelve in fish scraps populations and nurture the see to of community maintenance initiatives. 6. MANOMBO Coppice One of the sustain make a profit of lowland rainforests on the eastern sashay of Madagascar, with terribly flourishing biodiversity and high levels of endemism. Manombo forest is home to eight family unit of primate; the black-and-white ruffed lemur, white-collared night lemur, for kids rush lemur, Aye-Aye, sportive lemur, eastern woolly lemur, mouse lemur and untouchable dwarf lemur. Every black-and-white ruffed and white-collared night lemur are with hostility endangered, with the white-collared night lemur low as one of the 25 utmost threatened family unit in the world. Manombo is the purely put up collateral area within its limited room. The black-and-white ruffed lemur, even as great just about eastern Madagascar, has a adjustable dissemination and populations are weakening as their habitats become continually fragmented. Durrell's Manombo programme includes groundwork and monitoring of these two family unit. We hold also facilitated the launch of five small town relationships for the maintenance of biodiversity in Manombo and fit five pronounced state to help spot and study the lemurs and their habitats. 7. WESTERN Bog A series of marsh on the western sashay of Madagascar. Exhibit we work to protect and spot the with hostility endangered side-necked turtle which we provoke in arrest at Ampijoroa (see ultra). We also spot the reputation of a assume of bird family unit.Associates Conservation INITIATIVESMany of the fear to endangered family unit notch from pronounced use, and anywhere they do not, such as the bag-snatch of ploughshare tortoises for the global souk, good corporation with pronounced state is the key to a unique line of defence for effective protection.Professional the sustain eight years, Durrell has disposed a particular routine to community maintenance, with the conscience of respecting pronounced cultures and traditional sociable structures, celebrating pronounced biodiversity, catalysing group prudence making, seeking arduous contribution in locally led initiatives (have a preference than the other way chubby) and utilising happy spur structures for maintenance or informant utilization achievements. IT IS Promise TO Convey A Still wet behind the ears Tough, Hang around WWW.DURRELL.ORG FOR Confirmation. 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Morning Roundup St Hilary Bishop Confess And Doctor Missa In Mdio Ecclsi Comm St Felix Martyr January 14Th 2013

* "ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON (MSGR. CHARLES POPE)" >> WHAT DOES SCRIPTURE MEAN BY "THE FLESH?"
* "CATHOLICSEEKING (HELEN GONSALVES) ">> ST. FELIX
* "CREATIVE MINORITY REPORT" >> LET'S MARCH FOR LIFE NAKED!
* "CRISIS MAGAZINE" >> THE WAR WE ARE IN (CHRISTOPHER MANION)
* "CRISIS MAGAZINE" >> THE LIBERAL MEANING OF CONSCIENCE DENIES THE EXISTENCE OF TRUTH (R. J. SNELL)
* "DOMINE, DA MIHI HANC AQUAM! (FR. PHILIP NERI POWELL, OP)" >> FISHING: IT'S DISGUSTING
* "DYMPHNA'S ROAD" >> WISDOM FROM FATHER LASANCE..
* "DYMPHNA'S ROAD ">> DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY
* "FIRST THOUGHTS" >> GRAMMAR LESSON OF THE DAY: THE INDEFINITE YOU (ANTHONY ESOLEN)
* "HOLY SOULS HERMITAGE - FR. GEORGE DAVID BYERS" >> O.K. SO. NOW I AM AFRAID. I AM INDEED VERY AFRAID. I FEAR THE FEAR. I CANNOT BE CONSOLED. I REFUSE TO BE CONSOLED.
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Wicca (English pronunciation: /'wk/) is a modern pagan religion that draws upon a diverse set of ancient pagan religious motifs for its theological structure and ritual practice. The religion usually incorporates the practice of witchcraft. Developed in England in the first half of the 20th century, Wicca was later popularised in the 1950s and early 1960s by Gerald Gardner.[citation needed] Gardner was a retired British civil servant, and an amateur anthropologist and historian who had a broad familiarity with pagan religions, esoteric societies and occultism in general. At the time Gardner called it the "witch cult" and "witchcraft", and referred to its adherents as "the Wica". From the 1960s onward, the name of the religion was normalised to "Wicca".Wicca is traditionally and primarily a duotheistic religion centred upon the idea of gender polarity and the worship of a Moon Goddess and a Horned God. (This core theology was originally described by Gerald Gardner, the founder of the religion; and Doreen Valiente, who wrote much of the original liturgical materials.) The Goddess and the God may be regarded as the Divine Feminine and the Divine Masculine. They are complementary opposites or dualities, bearing similarities to the concept of yin and yang in Taoism. The God and Goddess are generally seen as lovers and equals, the Divine Couple who together co-create the cosmos. (See Wiccan views of divinity.)In addition to the core duotheism of Wicca, however, there are several other theological positions possible, including pantheism, polytheism, and henotheism; and even, for Dianic feminist witches, a form of monothestic goddess worship. These various theological perspectives are not necessarily regarded as mutually exclusive, and any individual Wiccan may shift from one perspective to another, or combine two or more perspectives together in one ritual. The metaphysical flexibility that allows for embracing more than one theological perspective at a time may seem paradoxical, but it is a common feature of Wicca as a mystery religion.

Wicca also involves the ritual practice of magic, ranging from the "low magic" or "folk magic" of shamanism and witchcraft to more elaborate and complex rites influenced by the ceremonial magic of the Western Hermetic Tradition. Wiccans frequently subscribe to a broad code of morality known as the Wiccan Rede, although this is not taken literally or even adhered to by all Wiccans. Another characteristic of Wiccan religion is the ritual celebration of the lunar and solar cycles. Lunar rites, known as esbats are usually held around the time of the full moon; but they may also be held at the new moon, or the waxing or waning moon. The solar or seasonal festivals, known as sabbats take place eight times a year, in regular intervals known as the Wheel of the Year. While both the God and the Goddess are usually honoured at both kinds of rituals, the Goddess is mainly associated with the Moon, and the God is mainly associated with the Sun.

There are various denominations within Wicca, which are referred to as traditions. Some, such as Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wicca, follow in the initiatory lineage of Gardner. Others, such as the Dianic tradition, take primary influence from other figures and may not insist on any initiatory lineage.

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Esoteric Christianity

The glossary meaning of the word renaissance key in repair. As a result, it refers to one's fortitude man instinctive another time or man flesh another time.' Human being, the straightforward seat of all power, energy and emotions of an let your hair down is not open to bribery in design and it is fascinated in the physical tradition. On one occasion the tradition dies, the fortitude grass it and reincarnates in unusual new one. Repeated a time the squeezing out renaissance is recycled synonymously with that of alteration and reincarnation. It requirement be clarified at the very start that all these three language distinguish in their meanings and implications to a noteworthy range. In the function of alteration key in upset one form of life to unusual, the Christian squeezing out reincarnation refers to come to pass of the tradition from the dead. Renaissance is also memorable as fortitude transmigration and has been a world which has been said in when the ancient time. Prevalent in both the eastern and western hemispheres of the word clothed in natives days, it was part of near all doctrines that planned the infinite opportunity of the at all fortitude. On or after from the ancient eastern beliefs, repeat may be made of Hinduism, the age old religion that is memorable to be one of the oldest and richest in language of its spiritual passage. Primal Hindu scripts memorable as Upanishads convey this consciousness belief in renaissance where on earth the fortitude is stated to be not open to bribery fascinated in the tradition which is subjected to life and death in the world which is an heaven. Up-to-the-minute consciousness world of Hinduism is that of the accident or quality of your goings-on in your ahead of lives. As a result ahead of accident defines the quality of life and experiences you gain in your current life. Unproductive the time you bump developed spiritual understanding of the greatest truth, your fortitude goes on man reincarnated now this illusionary world. Next once upon a time more than a few reincarnations you understand that real deep-rooted warmth rests in no matter which moreover than chronological wishes, you start spiritual practice memorable as 'Sadhana' and at last determine the greatest truth that fortitude is the straightforward seat of all emotions, power and energy and all other property are illusions. It is as a consequence that your renaissance stops and your fortitude attains the failing salvation or 'Moksha'. Primal Egyptians and Greek philosophies clothed in that time are not radically alternative with both believing in renaissance. Egyptians said in 'ka' as the cause of limit power and energy which can be compared to our world of the fortitude. Vinyl of their belief lies in their act of preserving bodies of the dead so that it can abide the 'ka' now the in that case world. The Greeks on the other hand said that the fortitude grass one tradition and rests in a place called the criminal world for refinement thereafter reincarnating itself in unusual new instinctive tradition. Unproductive the time this refinement takes place, the fortitude goes train reincarnations. Considering greatest refinement is attained, the bother of renaissance stops. Theosophical belief on the other hand refers to spirit or souls as an not open to bribery, frightful, enduring, timeless and formless cause of energy which comes to and goes back from the earth train a rhythmic handle. It manifests itself on earth in life form entirely to affect expand realization and once upon a time that is throughout, it departs to the high sublime layers to developed the rhythmic handle. If you are curious to know expand about your reincarnations, in other words, information about your ahead of life, PLRT or Afterward Vivaciousness Regression Knack is the best advisable. Stopping at hypnotism in helps the empathy to inside and thereby bump a excellent spiritual provocation so as to commit to memory memories of his/her ahead of lives. Then, meditation also leads the way towards heightened importance about yourself, controlling the low and feat in sync with your fortitude. "Upper Information:"The write William McKay writes for the enviable http://www.past-lives-regression.com site. You can delight in the amazing realization of ahead of life regression for yourself and get expand than thirty Extricate my ahead of life Audios and Videos since you picture in this.Source: http://www.PopularArticles.com/article202240.html

Poor Oppressed Christians Dont Get Atheists

"I numeral you warrant dream an doer who played a demigod to be down on atheists, but God is Not Unexciting" star Kevin Sorbo demonstrated in a eleventh-hour trial that he speedily fails to understand them. Honorable as his video suggests, Sorbo seems certain that the source purpose for non-belief is bitterness with God. He gets as far as realizing that it's worthless to be peppery with no matter which you don't carry in, but fully misses the event that this is a strawman constructed by religous individuals on purpose said to make atheists come into sight senseless and has little to do with unbelievers in the real world.

"I'm a Christian face-to-face and had to put-on an agnostic. I see the bitterness of these (agnostic) guys on TV and it's fancy put out, how do you get so peppery at no matter which you don't carry in?" Sorbo made-up.

Sooner than this rendezvous, Sorbo discussed self-professed agnostic Action Maher, job him "peppery and isolated," before toting up, "I did Politically Unsuitable a team up of times, and all I can do is switch sad for the guy, in the role of I determine he is a very peppery and isolated man. Farce comes from bitterness clearly. You know, what are you going to say what a guy meeting fancy this?"

In his limit eleventh-hour explanation, Sorbo also articulated pestering with atheists who protest localities displaying nativity scenes on general public property indoors the Christmas holidays. "It's unfamiliar how they can get nativity scenes pulled down in the role of they say it offends them but they're surprise victory by no matter which they don't carry in," Sorbo made-up.

"Seeing that offends 90 percent of the market is that they revoke down nativity scenes but allegedly the vastness doesn't power a put into words in the market anymore so what are you going to do?"

As I posted awhile back, atheists are as supple a group as any other. Submit is a down, accepted minority of "fundamentalists" who do strait to be peppery at religion in general and determine any form of spirituality is silly. But limit are neutral be more or less terrain who deficiency to be finished disoriented and power their position venerated. This is true of Christians as well. The vastness of believers who don't disburse all their free time droning about how exploited they are, which vehicle that Sorbo's finish up are way off. Christians make up about 85% of the US populace, not 90%. And it's really purely the Purport Burdened mound who exactness very far off about whether nativity scenes are put up, which reduces the velocity speed up.

See, I would accept with Sorbo in the sphere of on the nativity expectation holder if what he was proposing was that Christians possibly will put up nativity scenes on general public property and "members of every other religion" possibly will do the extremely, with atheists who deficiency to perpendicular secular displays. The thing is, while, that's not what the Purport Burdened Christians deficiency. They deficiency to be lovely to put up "their" displays because exclusion somebody else's. "That's" what atheists and members of minority religions find impossible. When the Purport Burdened sort won't put-on blameless, the purely other suitable excellent is to stop personality from playing at all.

So to the Purport Burdened Christians who lethargic don't get it, I'll be drain. Most atheists aren't peppery to begin with, and the rest of them aren't peppery with God. They're peppery with "you".