3Sonnets

THE CLOUD SCULPTORS

The air finds flight in forms of lofty wind
As one with nature's children taking part
And soaring up to go and find a friend
Then join with water spinning wispy art.

This nature's process has eternal known
The way to hang up on the sky these drapes
But wonder not how these soft clouds have grown
From fleecy strand filled webs to take their shapes?

Perhaps the artist's brush a thing unseen
With living tools the Elder Gods express
Those firey ones whose scales and talons gleam
To grace the heavens with their soft caress.

Now see the strokes of carving wings along
With falling rain - the strains of Dragon song.

9 March 1989

A DREAMING DESIRE

A spark comes coiling to the edge of sleep
From realms arcane which have become unknown
And from this psychic well does beauty leap
A vision cherished for to call my own.

This wispy strand now takes it's shape in fire
And fueled by sources boldly to enchant
Then forming curves from wish of heart's desire
A Woman's eyes all graced with Elvish slant.

The shield maid's arms then reach and wanting clasp
We intertwine within her streaming hair
Then sighing voices send a heartfelt gasp
As fragrance heralds tawny skin now bare'd.

This honored Lady may in shadows walk
But fate may someday find my heart unlock.

9 March 1989

TO THE BONFIRES

A circle gathered round a roaring pit
All joining hands to bask within it's glow
And under Moon crowned sky all starry lit
We sing and praise the Power's shadowed flow.

For some the flames form dancing Dragon's wing
And other smoke wrought visions climb the air
For all a caring closeness will this bring
And psychic current bonding hearts to share.

We charge this timeless place between the worlds
To call the Goddess' love within our hearts
And join with her our joyous souls unfurled
Our spirits dance with her by ancient arts.

This night forever captured in this glade
To see old souls re-met and friendships made.

9 March 1989

- J.A. Bordeaux (S.R.) -

Flourishing As A Spiritual Quest

Text by Don Foran (The News Tribune)Trappist monk (like Merton) and Buddhist monk in conversation (Snowlionpub.com) A friend recently gave me an audio tape of THOMAS MERTON -- the celebrated monk, writer, and ecumenist -- lecturing. In 1964, near the end of his 10 years as novice master, Merton had the young monks read Faulkner's story "The Bear." During that session, Merton probably floored his audience when he said, "To strive to become spiritual is a waste of time."He went on to say that each monk's task would be "to become you, fully yourself."I am struck by his words, partly because the truth of them is something I've rarely heard articulated from pulpits or even in classrooms. The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, writing in 1878, said something very similar in what has come to be known as his "Kingfisher Sonnet":Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:Selves - goes itself, myself it speaks and spells,Crying What I do is me: for that I came.That is what Merton meant. And if Merton scholar Thomas Del Prete is correct, "To become a person in Merton's Christian and contemplative view involves very much becoming aware of one's fundamental relatedness to others... MORE>> * VIDEO: 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN SEVEN PRINCIPLES TO SHAPE OUR LIVES While the Unitarian Universalist religious tradition is noncreedal, that is, there is no creed in which every member is expected to believe, there are principles that frame our shared values. Our first principle speaks to an understanding that highlights a particular way of being in relationship with all people by calling our congregations "to affirm and promote: The inherent worth and dignity of every person."THREE PERSPECTIVES OF SPIRITUALITY In human affairs I view spirituality from three perspectives: personal development, relation- ships and social action. At heart, spirituality is one and indivisible. We are one ultimately with the source [whatever that is for us] and sustainer of all creation.OUR SPIRITUALITY NEEDS A UNIFIED APPROACH In human affairs I view spirituality from three perspectives: personal development, relationships, and social action. At heart, spirituality is one and indivisible. We are one ultimately with the source and sustainer of all creation. The three primary points of view reflect the need to bring consistency and integrity to culture. Peacemaking is at the core of this perspective. I offer experiences from India, where I portray Gandhi...

Remember Tony Alamo

One of my head of state exposures to method model were the advertising material handed out by Tony Alamo's (born Bernie Lazar Hoffman) minions back in the 80s. I had seen unvarying concrete voguish and near lost stylish my old church- apocalyptic method stuff from populace with Hal Lindsey that would here up in bundles of tracts from time to time.Represent was pristine phase someplace a sinister friend of my grandmother had given my recoil a gather together of Spotlights, darkly fear him that "the information was managed." It was old-world uncontrollable stuff, but it gave me an innovative look as if at pre-internet method culture, which was for the most part the parish of Fundamentalists and Neo-Nazis.But it neediness be imaginary that the endlessly apocalyptic tone of the Lindsey-type concrete appealed to my priestly indoctrination- the indication that all of history is this linear progression- this narrative- moving towards a definite thing (I'm correct surprised the world is yet here- I detain I've survived about 30 predicted Armageddons). I didn't know with that the Gnostics were the idiosyncratic method theorists- and the idiosyncratic Apocalyptics. For reasons too combination to go stylish now the two are are austerely disheveled.An Alamo jacket- welcoming of disheartened in perception.But Alamo's concrete was by far the best biting. One title screamed "Did you know that Ronald Reagan and the Pope are a pair of Antichrist devils who are concern America down the drain?" all in currency learning. It was all the standard stuff- Communists, Liberals, the Pope, the New Fabrication Categorization, Satan's hordes- but done in such an rod, lush idiom that it was correct that ominously better-quality out of the ordinary than the LaRouche or Moonie stuff you came across. Inhabitants blasts of wall-to-wall text- the mutual name of the anxious true believer- told the story. I subsequently exposed that his cult also ready pimped-out denim jackets that were in vogue for a whilst back in the 80s.As some of you hold read Alamo has been arrested and sentenced to 175 lifetime in confine. It's the standard story- the charming cult guidebook sexually abusing his crowd, a story that's become so everyday as to be concerning scheduled. Cults and sects and other regulatory priestly groups are proliferation limits for sexual abuse. The spanking abomination is in Trite Jewish sects, which I'm involuntary preference be answerable on the idler culture separate the enclosure fortifications. That's the standard plea.Acceptably, given the 17 meme and the 175 lifetime in confine, I was wrapped up that Alamo was arrested in Post, AZ, which sits shot dab atop Thruway 17. And what's 17 in need a 33? Approach on...TEXARKANA, Ark. - Evangelist Tony Alamo recycled his form as a self-proclaimed far-seeing to hold underage girls stylish sham marriages with him, prevailing his army with their reservations of eternal sadness.But the judge who sentenced Alamo on Friday to 175 lifetime in confine for child sexual abuse warned of pristine welcoming of legitimacy in anticipation of the aging evangelist. FBI agents and Arkansas Control Adjust troopers raided Alamo's enclosure in impart Fouke in September 2008. The FBI arrested Alamo five days subsequently in Post, Ariz., charging him with violating the Mann Act, a century-old philosophy law principal rumored at stopping women from part sold stylish prostitution. Five women, age 17 to 33, testified in July that Alamo "connubial" them in unrevealed ceremonies whilst they were minors, sometimes part them rings. Each thorough trips further than Arkansas' borders for Alamo's sexual contentment. For his part, Alamo insists the girls are bewitched, pristine standard elude. Monitor the guarantee.Vigor RecordingFrom Tony AlamoJuly 17, 2009Re Government-Vatican Aggravation vs. Tony AlamoIt is a infringement of the US Configuration for the aim to attack any religion, notably Christianity! My trial is aim vs. the Bible. The five untrained women who are by corrupt means testifying adjoining me hold all been clear in your mind to do so by the FBI.The FBI paid all of their coaching to go to a place called Fountain, which is a deprogramming dishonorable. Deprogramming is a sympathetic word for hypnosis, brainwashing, mind-control, voodoo, black magic. Their recording is not to be supposed for instance it is not true, and they are not in their right hub. They are under a obnoxious spell of witchcraft. Guaranteed abundance, a few months back I took the lodge out to eat and in imitation of we came back to the car, near was a run from the with waiting for me- a mini-bundle of old-school Alamo text-rants protesting his spotlessness (soundtrack the long-dead Susan Alamo gets a byline). I'm involuntary he's as sour as sin. Despite the consequences what some rule say, I'm also 100% assured that he was justification point in his beliefs as well. It's organized to clone that welcoming of gonzoid firmness for that hanker. Alamo's sweatshop practices earned him a lot of nag, but abusive cult sweatshops are as American as Plymouth Plantation. And there's ample of justification in the holy books for polygamy and child brides and all sorts of practices you can find your ass in prison for these days- thoroughly in the Old Tombstone. The priestly are forever disassociating themselves from the crimes of their brethren, even then again what are now seen as crimes were once seen as enactment God's work. Here's a site maintained by Alamo cult survivors if you denote to read better-quality. And here's a mesmerizing Atlantic string telling the rich story of the undulation lucrative ruin we're in- the part of Magnificence Gospel preachers in pushing populace towards mortgages they couldn't offer. Of course, the Flowering shrub Expenses played a great part in it, thinking they might turn all of individuals new homeowners stylish GOP put off. The Atlantic title is a bit misleading- I hold a friend who's part of the 'back-to-Judaism' lick in Fundamentalist Christianity who told me with chops confidence that "Magnificence Gospel is from the rock bottom of Hell." Sigh- all of these "One Level Faiths." I can't pin down stream of them all anymore. UPDATE: On the 17 meme issue, Joe Bloggs sends us to a intermingle on this unfamiliar story: An Iberworld Airbus A330-300 on behalf of Air Comet, registration EC-IJH ratifying leave A7-301 from Madrid Barajas,SP (Spain) to Santa Cruz (Bolivia) with about 170 passengers, did not land in Santa Cruz in Bolivia, but in Santa Cruz,CI (Spain), also acknowledged as Tenerife Norte or Tenerife Los Rodeos Life-threatening.The horizontal not here Tenerife once more in the rear about 17 hours on the country. UPDATE: Quark Witness sends us a intermingle to a video documentary on Wayne Bent, pristine apocalyptic reverend who had his way with minors in his cult.

Introduction To Magick Choosing A Magickal Name

When one practices magick, and especially during ritual magick or casting a circle, one effectively takes on a new persona. Some magickal practitioners, though certainly not all, choose to recognize this 'alter ego' by taking on a new name, a name that is only used during magick, or among other magickal practitioners. This name is often called a magickal name.

SHOULD YOU CHOOSE A MAGICKAL NAME?

The decision to take a magickal name is intensely personal. Assuming a new name is a message to the Higher Self that a new facet of the personality has been embraced. Eventually, being called by this magickal name will assist the Higher Self to shift into a higher state of consciousness, thereby making it possible to work magick with greater ease.

Many magickal practitioners choose not to take a magickal name. They feel that it is not a good idea to make a distinction between their magickal selves and their mundane selves. The theory is that emphasizing this difference makes it more difficult for them to incorporate magick into their daily lives.

Each practitioner must decide for themselves if a magickal name is appropriate for them. Either choice is to be accepted and respected.

HOW TO SELECT A NAME FOR MAGICKAL PRACTICE

There are many different theories on how to select a magickal name. Some feel that a name should be chosen that reflects the Higher Self, its nature, and the qualities it embodies. Other will insist that a magickal name should be selected that describes the qualities one wishes to develop. The truth is, either method is appropriate

Most practitioners will use a combination of meditation, divination, and a great deal of research to choose a name. There are many possibilities when it comes to sources for magickal names. Some of these are:

Ancient mythology

* Herbs and flowers
* Animals
* Sounds
* Elements of nature
* Fantasy or science fiction novels
* Foreign languages
* Acronyms
* Star charts
* Magickal Symbols
* Other people and places

The source of a magickal name is not nearly as important as the feelings it generates.

Magickal names should be filled with power and magick. Don't be afraid to try different names until one truly fits. However, it can take some time to really connect to a name. Don't toss one aside too hastily, for fear of discarding one that might truly be perfect, especially when first starting out on a magickal path.

Salon Com Review Of Night Of Hope Joel Osteen Worships Himself

"Somehow I missed this keep on April:JOEL OSTEEN WORSHIPS HIMSELF"At a D.C. assemble, it's on the dot that the megachurch pastor's harmless likelihood is really about the power of self-importance"The description is from Salon.com, a evenhandedly ample media dike. I found it captivating that Mr Osteen's plain self-importance is discernible even to someone who may be ample and may be an exile to the likelihood.Minister Mike Abendroth at NO Giving way Connections says that for example inhabitants identify he is a cleric, they try and make an change at spiritual bring together with him by saying, "I GO TO TO JOEL OSTEEN." He alleged as an sample to one aristocrat who'd cooperative that, he had replied,"Joel Osteen doesn't be keen on to state about sin like he says we all know about it and we all get heaps about that so let's state about other satisfied things. Paul talked about sin if at all possible. Peter talked about sin if at all possible. John the Baptist talked about sin if at all possible. All the prophets talked about sin if at all possible. And Jesus even talked about sin if at all possible. If you don't know you're a reprobate, you don't essential to know about your liberator. If you know how finalize your sin is, you don't essential a aristocratic Savior than all your sin." The Salon.com scriptwriter Mr Chris Lehmann sure in the description that it's plain Osteen "TENDERLY DOWNGRADES" the sumptuous and superhuman God "HIP A PUFFED UP LIFESTYLE GATEKEEPER"...hip a "welcoming travel higher, via talismanic likelihood in satisfied utterance."He wrote, "The believer's original job is to lob the preexisting divine script of prosperity in his or her revelry life - and afterward to cover bang to that joyous renovation in a community of like-minded prosperity believers.'He's well-mannered, that is what Mr Osteen preaches, and it is a far cry from true care for of the Survive God.So what IS care for of the Open and Survive God? Exodus 15:2 gives one example: "The Noble is my influence and my song; he has become my liberator. He is my God, and I mettle praise him, my father's God, and I mettle glorify him."Psalm 66:4: "All the earth bows down to you; they sing praise to you, they sing praise to your name.'Wholly, in the description, Lehmann states, Osteen has the "PANORAMA OF SOMEONE OVEREXCITED OF GRANDIOSE FANTASIES ABOUT THE STATE-OWNED EQUAL OF THE SELF." It is not about us. I don't bear in mind David preaching or script one psalm that says we can run our best life now. I don't bear in mind Jeremiah the crying seer pronouncing that 'it's your time. Mr Lehmann ends tremendously with this evidence on Mr Osteen's by, which is: "theology-free prosperity gospel, slanting fully to tales of revelry joy. Osteen's sermons all begin with a self-empowering chant from believers. "THIS IS MY BIBLE," it goes in part; "I AM WHAT IT SAYS I AM. I RUN WHAT IT SAYS I RUN." But grant are legions of dead - now constrained by definition, it's true, in the despicable outside - who come feature the bang that the Bible is not actually about you."It is about the Religious One of Israel, the Chronicle completed flesh!WOODCUT, 1695, Family name, "CHRONICLE" by performer Johann Christoph Weigel. BasisBe concerned God! Assign your vows! "ASSIGN YOUR LADDER FOR EXAMPLE YOU GO TO THE LAY OF GOD. GO ABOUT TO GO TO RATHER THAN TO COMMIT THE FIGURE OF FOOLS, WHO DO NOT KNOW THAT THEY DO CRIMINAL." (Ecclesiastes 5:1)