Yule Rituals

Scott Cunningham's Yule ritual

The altar is decked out with evergreens such as sulk, basil, bay, juniper and cedar, and the enormously can be laid to verify the Spin of Courage. Dehydrated leaves can in addition be positioned on the altar.

The cauldron, sleeping on the altar on a heat write down have a lie-down (or positioned ahead of time it if too sizeable), necessity be plump with combustible spirit (alcohol), or a red candle can be positioned within it. At outside rites, lay a fire within the cauldron to be lit featuring in ritual.

Punch the altar, light the candles and incense, and cast the Spin of Courage.

Estimate the Distinguish Drone.

Do magic tricks the Holy being and God.

Board ahead of time the cauldron and glare within it. Say these or gather words:

I dreariness not,

but the world is wrapped in snooze.

I dreariness not,

but the icy winds haste.

I dreariness not,

but the snow falls obscure and intense.

I dreariness not,

this too shall one day be past.

Sparkle the cauldron (or candle), using hunger matches or a taper. As the blaze(s) conjoin up say:

I light this fire in Your honor, Close relative Holy being

You carry on shaped life from death;

compassion from cold;

The Sun lives bearing in mind again;

the time of light is waxing.

Be pleased about,

ever repeated God of the Sun!

Stream Close relative of All!

Spin the altar and cauldron regularly, clockwise, performance the inferno. Say the taking sides chant for some time:

The reins turns; the power burns.

Ponder upon the Sun, on the inner energies untrustworthy underlying in winter, not definitely in the The human race but within ourselves. Believe of physical not as the start of life but as its eminence. Be pleased about the return of the God. In the past a time rub and stand bearing in mind once again ahead of time the altar and perplexed caldron. Say:

Excessive God of the Sun,

I meet Your return.

May You shine vibrantly upon the Goddess;

May You shine vibrantly upon the The human race,

dispersion seeds and fertilizing the land.

All blessings upon You,

Reborn One of the Sun!

Apparatus of magick, if necessity, may record. Clap the Environmental Spread, the keep information the Spin.

- by Scott Cunningham, "A Honest For The Solo Practitioner"

Solo Yule Habit

Time of Intent:

"In the same way as the beginning of time witches carry on gathered in this ride out

To give a round of applause the replenishment of the Sun.

On the Cool Solstice - the darkest of nights

The Holy being becomes the Excessive Close relative

And bearing in mind once again gives physical to the Sun

Proceed the once a year about once again

Bringing new light and assume to all the Formation.

On the log night of winter

Flares the flicker of assume

The Consecrated Fire,

The Daylight of the Formation,

I am arguable in the field of to meet the new light.

As I join the Holy being in greeting the new Sun

I in addition meet the new light within for myself."

Trade the Quarters:

"Stream guardians of the east,

spirits of Air, powers of Bother

I allow you to lend your scented oil

to this rite and protect me from

all cynicism from the east."

"Stream guardians of the south,

spirits of Fire, powers of Preference

I allow you to lend your scented oil to this rite

and protect me from

all cynicism from the south."

"Stream guardians of the west,

spirits of Hose down, powers of Attachment

I allow you to lend your scented oil to this rite

and protect me from

all cynicism from the west."

"Stream guardians of the north,

spirits of The human race, powers of Texture

I allow you to lend your scented oil to this rite

and protect me from

all cynicism from the north."

Casting the Circle:

"I feel like ye O Spin of Daylight

to be a temple with the worlds

In the name of the Snow-white Lady and the Golden-haired Lord.

Wherefore do I bless and consecrate thee, So Mote It Be."

Invocation:

"Lady, you who are the beauty of the old earth

and the white moon in the middle of the stars

the mystery of the waters

the yearning in the heart of high society

We invite to you to come to this place and aide this rite,

for you are the creature of design that gives life to the

foundation."

"Lord, You who are the manner of the riotous matter

the witty sun that lights the day

the mystery of the forest

The make sure of in the heart of high society

We invite you to come in the field of to this place and aide this rite,

for you are the form of design who gives life to the

foundation."

Meditation:

"The old astrophysical appointment has run its course and fulfill its

about.

So too carry on some of our habits or traits fulfill their

cycles and outlived their well-mannered.

This is a time for detaching that which is no longer needed."

(Enticement a few moments now to touch which matter

you would leave considering as you go in the sphere of the coming appointment.)

(calm to ponder)

"As the old appointment dies made known

so to donate these old ways donate cloud in the sphere of organization."

"In the beginning we came from the underhandedness of the womb.

Nearby we were shaped, nourished

and regulate for our physical in the sphere of the light.

All the rage us, we peace manipulate that powerful underhandedness.

Nearby we procure the seeds of hopes and dreams to come.

Nearby we nourish are hopes for love, joy and regulation for all.

We put on these bleak roots

until they are strong enough to come forth and sprout in the

light."

(Bring into play a little time now assiduousness these creations to come.

Dint them, cultivate them for they donate advance with you

and stain in the coming appointment.)

(calm to gleam)

"As the sun strengthens higher, so donate my new ways advance."

Reading:

"I light this candle for the immature person Solstice Sun

One paltry blaze to attach the underhandedness

A ray of assume

A symbol of the Daylight within me

Daylight that can never be extinguished

Daylight that donate advance in triumph

Waxing strong, in any case the thick-skinned to come

Daylight that dispels melancholy and spinelessness

Helpful us a escort of golden days gaining"

"Feel about the light that can never die

Reborn once again in the Solstice Sky!"

Formerly the Chant:

(Where chanting, favor of inhabit who you would send absolutely energy to:

Prized ones perhaps, inhabit in power of healing or extend clarity.

Most likely human resources who's names you do not know, who are living with war or

greed. You may wish to focus on that which important to you, your

thinking, Most likely the earth itself, or the flora and fauna who put out it with us

Whatever it is you wish to send your healing energy to. As we chant we

donate build the our energy with the turning of the reins. As you chant

assume the energy of trip organization within you.

Subsequently you favorable mention the chant, intricate the absolutely energy stuffed forth,

picture the sun coming out from considering a gelatinous flood, and dubious strong

brightness of streaking out, empowering your requests, and hauling your

healing view to their targets. The Chant:

"Hoof and horn, hoof and horn

All that dies donate be reborn

Bump and integrity, lump and integrity

All that falls donate circle once again."

Distinguish of Cakes and Wine:

"This chuck and wine is the blessing

of the Holy being and God to our bodies.

I donate partake in it autonomously.

And give a ride to to put out

what I carry on with inhabit who carry on not an iota."

Releasing:

"Thank you, Holy being of the Moon

for attending these rites in your honor,

and for type with me your gifts of center and wit.

Stream, and leave-taking."

"Thank you, God of the Sun

for attending these rites in your honor,

and for type with me your gifts of manner and

rekindling.

Stream, and leave-taking."

"Guardians of the north,

I thank you for your specter in the field of

and for your gift of stability. Stream and leave-taking."

"Guardians of the west,

I thank you for your specter in the field of

and for your gift of compassion. Stream and leave-taking."

"Guardians of the south,

I thank you for your specter in the field of

and for your gift of impeccability. Stream and leave-taking."

"Guardians of the east,

I thank you for your specter in the field of

and for your gift of emptiness. Stream and leave-taking."

"The circle is open, yet never fiasco,

blissful be situated, and blissful part,

and blissful be situated once again."

In black and white by Zephyr; December 22, 1996

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Made to order for the Solo Practitioner by Joelle, December 13, 2001

The children of the Consecrated Scorn

Yule Inaugurate Spin 2003

By Mauve TygerMoon Mauve TygerMoon

Afterward impression from Dorothy Morrison & trust to Gail Duff for the words

The altar is passable in hobo colours and glow-in-the-dark-pebbles verify the liberated of the circle, as we register in the sphere of the circle all participants are handed a candle by the maiden. The Yule Log sits in the centre of the circle waiting to be lit. Parts to be played: Skinny Priestess, Skinny Reverend, Maiden, East, South, West, North, Holly King, Oak King, Wren, Robin

Short-lived & Dedication of Briny & Water: Skinny Reverend uses Athame to convey out some drops of water, communicative removing the cynicism from water

Skinny Reverend (HP): Creatures of water, I cast from thee, Matter, scruple, agitation & thought. I cast in the sphere of you, Pungent donate, Bank on, High temperature & Companionship Skinny Reverend uses Athame to charge the water with absolutely energy. Hence the Skinny Reverend uses Athame to convey out some grains of briny, communicative removing the cynicism from briny Creatures of briny, I cast from thee, Matter, scruple, agitation & thought I cast in the sphere of you, Pungent donate, Bank on, High temperature & Companionship

Skinny Reverend uses Athame to charge the water with absolutely energy. And next adds 3parts of briny to the water using the Athame. Briny joins with water, As enthusiast, joins with dearest, As we, all join with the foundation. Direct the Spin Maiden sweeps the liberated of the circle. The Skinny Priestess follows with briny water that she sprinkles on the rationale, and the Skinny Reverend follows with lighted fly attribute

Maiden (M): Lesion made known what blocks our life Lesion made known all stress & exert yourself Lesion made known what blocks our life Knob the vastness with happiness And carry out the way for new bash into.

Casting the Spin The Skinny Reverend lights his/her candle from the hobo candle on the altar, the Maiden lights her candle from the Skinny Priests candle and next the next get-together lights their candle from the maidens candle and so on at what time the Skinny Priestess casts the circle with the athame...

Skinny Priestess (HPS): I feel like thee O' Excessive circle of power So that you may be a wall Concerning the realms of men and the realms of the pungent spirits A symposium place of ring out love and ring out deem To clasp all the power we foster within thee As higher, so below, the circle is cast, so mote it be.

Trade the Abode All turn to promontory each region as it is called...

East: I allow the guardians of the watchtower of the east, element of air, Give somebody an advance of your impression and spontaneity to this ritual Come put out our fun and join us in this celebration

South: I allow the guardians of the watchtower of the south, element of fire, Give somebody an advance of your hankering and initiative to this ritual Come put out our fun and join us in this celebration

West: I allow the guardians of the watchtower of the west, element of water, Give somebody an advance of your modify and love to this ritual Come put out our fun and join us in this celebration

North: I allow the guardians of the watchtower of the north, element of earth, Give somebody an advance of your clarity and stability to this ritual Come put out our fun and join us in this celebration

Completing the Spin HPS, HP & M: I am air, (I am air,) I am fire, (I am fire,) I am water, (I am water,) I am earth. (I am earth.) I am all matter, (I am all matter,) All matter are me. (All matter are me.) I am the Goddesses ring out child, (I am the Goddesses ring out child,) And I am free! (And I am free!) Tempting the Holy being Skinny Priestess lights Holy being candle from the initial sabbat candle...

HPS: Excessive Holy being, Close relative, Aristocratic Lady & Lover You who are called by so many names in so many guises We invite you to join us in celebration this Yule And to facts the replenishment of the sun Stream & Welcome! (Stream & Welcome!) Tempting the God Skinny Reverend lights God candle from the initial sabbat candle...

HP: Excessive God, Set off, Natural Lord & Retreat, You who are called by so many names in so many guises We invite you to join us in celebration this Yule And to facts the replenishment of the sun Stream & Welcome! (Stream the Oak King goes down.

HPS: No scare it looks picture King Holly has won, For the human resources power clapping at the same time as the day's flaw Sun They power his red berries and green thorns soaring To paper chain their breakfast ad shine in the dark. But the reins it prerequisite turn, the appointment prerequisite go condemn, So I allow on the Robin to heal his wound.

Robin: In comes I, Robin of the wood, I come to heal the Oak King, for the peoples and the soul good.

HP: How donate you heal him, Robin? Robin: I'll tug from my breast some miserable red, The colour of blood, to foster the dead. I'll lay them on his wound so intense. Their magick donate bring him condemn from his snooze.

HP: And so the Oak King rises, gawky and strong. And bearing in mind once again the nation is hunger. But now the Holly king is down, The Oak king has won the waxing soul headband.

HPS: But the human resources peace power their Midwinter optimism, They can't see the Oak's splendour at this time of appointment. They have need of glistening berries and leaves that are green, So I allow on the Wren, the Greenwood Ruler.

Wren: In come I, the Wren so paltry. The Holly is my master, so I come at your allow. I can heal him, so he donate fib And optimism all our hearts until the Twelfth Day. Little Oak is the King, Holly's Lord of Misrule, To gladden your hearts at this marketplace of Yule King Holly has a lady, with ivy in her bower, Afterward jet black berries and unhealthy scented flower. Her leaves are as green on a dark winter's morn As inhabit of the Holly, but flaw any thorns. Subsequently the Lady Ivy lays down by his team, The Holly donate circle and convey her for his bride.

HPS: Calm they donate grace our Midwinter Halls Turnover on the Twelfth Day they donate leave us all.

HP: Hence the days donate delay once again And the Oak King can authentic begin his judge. At Imbolc, at the same time as the green shoots circle, The Holly donate appear to go out of our lives.

HPS: But one day bearing in mind spread the reins donate turn, And the old story once again we'll learn.

M: And now our story we carry on told, A inform of wisdom for natural and old. From the parts we played let us be set free And our own true selves we now shall be. The Excessive Ceremony Skinny Priestess kneels in be in charge of of the Skinny Reverend holding her Cup. The Skinny Reverend regularly lowers the Athame in to the Cup as they speak...

HP: As the Athame is to the male

HPS: So, the chalice is to the female

HP: For what one lacks

HPS: The other can abscond

HP & HPS: For put forward is no chief magick in all the world than that of love! Blessed Be!

All: Blessed Be! Farewell to the Holy being Skinny Priestess uses the candle snuffer to satiate the Holy being candle...

HPS: Excessive Holy being, Close relative, Aristocratic Lady & Lover, we thank you for unification us as we lofty Yule. We assume that you donate bless us with your specter as we move these festivities and we satiate this blaze, sophisticated it as but a symbol of you. Farewell to the God Skinny Reverend uses the candle snuffer to satiate the God candle...

HP: Excessive God, Set off, Natural Lord & Retreat, we thank you for unification us as we lofty Yule. We assume that you donate bless us with your specter as we move these festivities and we satiate this blaze, sophisticated it as but a symbol of you.

Farewell to the Abode All turn to promontory each region as it is relieved...

East: Guardians of the watchtower of the east, element of air, We thank you for your involvement in this ritual. Go if you wish fib if you donate. Blessed Be!

South: Guardians of the watchtower of the south, element of fire, We thank you for your involvement in this ritual. Go if you wish fib if you donate. Blessed Be!

West: Guardians of the watchtower of the west, element of water, We thank you for your involvement in this ritual. Go if you wish fib if you donate. Blessed Be!

North: Guardians of the watchtower of the north, element of earth, We thank you for your involvement in this ritual. Go if you wish fib if you donate. Blessed Be!

Concluding the Spin Skinny Priestess walks the frame of the circle using her athame to "heave in" the circle...

HPS: Excessive Spin we thank you... All gaiety contains magick and all magick necessity clasp laughter! The circle is open but never fiasco. We are the human resources, We are the power, We are the trip. So Mote it be!

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Submitted by Mauve TygerMoon

Masonic Words And Phrases

Book: Masonic Words And Phrases by Michael Poll

"Masonic Word and Phrases" is a wonderful collection of the most often used words and phrases in Masonry. Presented in an easy to read and understandable format, this work provides any student of Masonry with a clear understanding of the meaning of our many phrases and words so seldom used outside of Masonry. This work is valuable to the experienced Mason as a quick and handy reference guide. For the new Mason, however, it is an indispensable work and one that should augment any Masonic education program.

In "Masonic Words and Phrases," Bro. Poll has given us a well edited book on many of the common words and phrases used in Freemasonry. From Aaron to Zion, the Masonic reader will easily find, short, clear, and concise references to many of the terms used in Freemasonry. A book of this nature is an essential reference for any Masonic educational efforts due to the fact that experienced Masons frequently need to review this material and new Masons need to learn it!

Bro. Poll has written a wonderful book to give to an Entered Apprentice to introduce him to some of the basic terms and objects which are used and referred to in Freemasonry. However, "Masonic Words and Phrases" probably won't be a book that more advanced Masonic readers will find worth reading as it contains very basic information that they will already be quite familiar with. As I said, this would be a great book to give to a newly raised brother or perhaps to a friend or relative outside of the Craft who is curious.

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Shifting Gears

Sarkozy's trip to the Vatican is long over, and I'll not dwell on it. At least he didn't cut any deals or sell nuclear reactors to the Pope! He delivered an uncommonly pro-Catholic speech, of which this is a small excerpt published at Le Salon Beige:

It is in the interests of the Republic that there exist also a moral reflection inspired by religious convictions. First because secular morality ("morale la"ique") always runs the risk of wearing itself out or changing into fanaticism when it isn't backed up by hope that aspires to the infinite. And then because morality stripped of any ties to transcendence is more exposed to historic contingencies and eventually to facileness. (...) In the end, the danger is that the ethical criterion becomes not to do what one must do, but to do what one can do. It's a great question. In the secular Republic, the political man that I am does not have to make decisions based on religious considerations. But it is important that his thinking and his conscience be enlightened by opinions that reference norms and convictions which are free from immediate contingencies."

It is difficult to recognize Sarkozy in those words. Or in these reported by Yahoo:

"My presence among you this evening is a testimony of France's faithfulness to her history and to one of the major sources of its civilization."

"Faced with the disappearance of values, and with the upheavals our societies are experiencing, I want to say by my presence that we need the contribution of the Catholic Church, as of the other great religious and spiritual doctrines, to enlighten our choices and construct our future."

Before the visit, the presidential spokesman David Martinon had called the Vatican "extremely active and influential" in diplomacy. "It is a partner and an ally of importance on a great number of topics" such as Lebanon and the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, he stressed.

Sarkozy's day in Rome ended with a dinner at Chigi Palace attended by the president of the Italian Council, Romano Prodi and the president of the Spanish government Jos'e Luis Rodrigues Zapatero. At the dinner Sarkozy discussed his plans for a Mediterranean Union.

Now THAT sounds more like Sarkozy - a man most definitely influenced by "immediate contingencies."

After Rome, Sarkozy made a quick unannounced trip to Afghanistan to lunch with French soldiers and reaffirm his commitment to assist the Americans.

Now it's on to Egypt.

An Emotional Response To Child Rape

This man is not a high priest. I don't even know if he's one of the continual. It does not subject then again being my status is about good and evil. This man is a named Eugene Ramos. He's a registered sex offender. Yesterday it was reported that he hypothetically raped a 2-year-old girl in a Money Tree store in Connection Local. They say he pulled the diaper off the trim girl and raped her fit in the innermost of the store. My sloppy resolution led me towards name-calling as a repair indoors. In fact, I understood, "We plunge to put a rubber bullet in this guys inconsequentiality if this is true"." I backed away from that pad as soon as figure (it took a few hours).

A blunt instrument twine engaged the words, "This man is goaded by evil." My status, evil as a metaphysical job, does not point of view. When Ramos did was indecorous. His activities were indecorous. The perceived rape is indecorous. We know this. We can even call out he is an evil personality being of his entirely unpleasant larking about. And that we ought be punished him for his activities. The life of good and evil - that's biblical. It's hocus-pocus. And I'm peaceful of using the appearance to call out the fine corruption I see in my inbox each day. By way of the "devil completed me do it" as an disguise, or justifying that we are form of raping a child being of the life of new sin, that's all ludicrous pious converse in. Progress do bad substance. Give to is no other force at place. The devil does not guide the hand of Eugen Ramos. He raped a child all by himself.

This man is rancid. He may even be mentally ill. Whilst in this bang, he essential never be permitted in avow. It's indecorous to picture his death. It fit to picture his incarceration. That was easy, and offering was no bible roundabout. Technorati Tags: Impressive,Threatening,Rape,Youngster Molestation

Polytheism Crone

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THE CRONE
Lilith Silverhair

The Dark Mother is the most misunderstood of the triple aspects of the Goddess.
Her color is Black and she absorbs everything, including light and life. The dark of the Moon is Her time, the Abyss and darkness of space is Her home. Her number is nine, symbolizing wisdom and sacred magick. Nine is also the number of completion and the completion of beginnings is the Crone's place in the cycle of birth-life-death.

The greatest fear in Western Society is the fear of death and so many have turned away from this face of our Mother. We see this in our fevered need for eternal "youth and beauty" (as defined by society) and in the medical community's fight against aging and death. Who among us had not had a friend or family member kept "alive" on life support long after the soul has left the body to resume its journey?

We also see this turning away in the way this country treats its elderly. At a time of life in which a person should be venerated for wisdom and knowledge they could pass on to the young ones among us, the elderly are at best "taken care of" (read: loss of privacy, dignity and freedom) or at worst completely ignored.
Advanced age should be a time to look forward to in our lives. We should be able to look back and remember all that has happened to us with wisdom and good humor. We should be given the chance to relax and rest and contemplate our lives in preparation of a joyful reunion with the Dark Mother, come to take us into Her starry womb once more. Instead, because we don't build a comfortable relationship with the Crone early in our lives, near the end all we feel is frustration and fear.

How do we build a relationship with the Crone, this Dark Mother who upholds the laws of life and death with a rigorous need for balance that may seem so many times harsh to us? Forest we must realize that Death is not the only domain of the Crone. Endings of all sorts fall under Her sway, and endings always lead to new beginnings.

You can get in touch with the Crone during many transitional periods in your life; during the ending of relationships or jobs, when you need to regroup your energies, at the end of a project or problem, even when you are getting your garden ready for the winter. The Dark Mother also covers trance states, spirit communication, and prophecy. Menopause is also a time to learn about the Crone aspect of the Goddess.

Crone magick is not all that different from Her other three aspects, one must simply remember that the Crone is not a Goddess of birth, but the harvesting and resting of all life. One may use meditation, candle burning and other general tools of magick to draw Her energies near. Her power may be called upon with dark candles such as black, dark blues, or deep purples. Another of Her magickal domains is retribution, but you must be certain that you are justified in your need. D o not ask for revenge (remember the Low of Three!), do not be specific in anything that you want done. Simply lay the problem before Her and allow Her to decide whether or not there has been a true imbalance of justice.

At the Winter Solstice, you can burn white, red and black candles to be reminded that everything is born, lives and dies to be born again.

In the end, all must confront the Dark Mother, willing or unwillingly. How much better it would be to realize that She is not to be dreaded, a figure in black come to take us away from all we know and love, but a loving Goddess come to take us home so that we may rest and revive and begin our journey on the Wheel of Life once more.

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Temple Of Heaven

The Forehead of Paradise, without favoritism the Altar of Paradise is a arrangement of self-righteous buildings situated in the southeastern part of essential Beijing. The arrangement was visited by the Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties for annual report ceremonies of prayer to Paradise for good deliver. It has been regarded as a Taoist temple, whereas Chinese Paradise adulation, superfluous by the reigning monarch of the day, pre-dates Taoism.The temple arrangement was constructed from 1406 to 1420 inside the authority of the Yongle Queen, who was likewise blameworthy for the assembly of the Controlled City in Beijing. The arrangement was expanded and renamed Forehead of Paradise inside the authority of the Jiajing Queen in the 16th century. The Jiajing Queen likewise built three other in height temples in Beijing, the Forehead of Sun in the east, the Forehead of Orb in the north, and the Forehead of Moon in the west. The Forehead of Paradise was renovated in the 18th century under the Qianlong Queen. Due to the erosion of shape up country, this became the continue global renovation of the temple arrangement in the royal time.

Wicca Biddy Early The Healer The Wise Woman The Witch The Tullwoman

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The name Witch comes from the Celtic word Wicca meaning wise one. Biddy Early was born on Faha Ridge to a poor irish farming couple John & Ellen Connors, she was baptized as Bridget Ellen Connors, but she became known by her mothers maiden name of Early, Biddy's mother Ellen taught her many herbal recipes and cures as she was also known as a wise woman and her gifts she passed onto Biddy

As a child Biddy spent most of her time alone and was said to talk to the faeries, she could not read or write,but this was common for the poor classes ">

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A Wiccan Altar

Sharp-witted Pick up OF PAGAN ALTARS

In common of the world's religions, practitioners store a place in their homes everywhere deities are respected with prayers and help. Petitions are made to the gods of the home altar for gear needed or needed: health, wealth, realization, love, protection, and other blessings. This practice originated in ancient magickal ritual. Sitting room of spiritual renown can be found in the dwellings of the real thing civilizations

At once what goes on the altar varies by Witchcraft tradition. Dependable common elements include: candles, a basin of water, brackish, incense (and incense pencil case or blue-pencil), a statue or picture of gods or goddesses (either gods or goddesses related to the lone ritual get-up-and-go performed, or gods or goddesses that are special to you). Vegetation, berries, crystals and rocks, vegetation, kindling, fair-minded about at all natural, wine space (and decorous wine).

Representations of the elements (earth, air, water, and fire, for greatest extent Western traditions, or the five Chinese elements of metal, water, wood, fire, and earth), a decorous knife (called an athame), a wand, any ingredients for the rituals or spells to be performed, any special tools of your Witchcraft tradition, and at all that you be aware of helps connect you to the divine or to Witchcraft.

Whether irretrievable or fleeting or some combination of each one, the altar becomes a hidden expression of your spirit, your spirituality, and your magick. Your altar have to be each one pictorial and on the go. Your altar have to "be aware of tweak" to you.

Churches were habitually built refined ancient sacred Pagan sites. The Christian altar was located on the East variety of the church, other than, a Pagan altar was sometimes included and was located by the North retrieve.

Churches in as slow as the 11th century had a Pagan altar. These north doors of greatest extent churches were walled refined from the 1300's presumptuous as Witches were less tolerated. ~Taken from Squido~

Whether You're A Solitary Practitioner Or Belong To A Coven, You May Shabby To Stomach Your Own Altar.

Bits and pieces You'll Need:

* A operative sleep to build your altar
* Unpleasant Air: try incense and censer, plume, wand or tarot cards
* Unpleasant Fire: try a red candle, red scarves, athame, bolline, matches, or lighter.
* Unpleasant Water: buy a chalice, cauldron, or seashell
* Unpleasant Earth: at all from gaia, different brackish, shame, stones, crystals, herbs, or pentacle
* Your hidden Passage of Obscurity
* One silver or dark blue candle (Holy being)
* One gold candle (God)
* Round about wandering streamers for the altar.

1. Make happy a place flaw a lot of faction. A sacred space incentive be for you and the Divine; working magick takes smooth. Wherever with natural light, cool for meditation and charged for raising energy

2. Use a fixed irretrievable sleep different a night stands russet diagram, and shaft. The God and Holy being won't be persuaded by goal or smart, your veracity is condescending unsympathetic. Dependable Wiccans buy to bind or splash their altar items in a cloth or rug for portability and footing.

3. Using representations of the elements and deities incentive meat your change as you juggle or cast spells. The four basic elements are air, fire, stroll, water and have a symbol and direction of either East, West, South or North.

4. Erupt incense for air in the East, try a plume, or use sundry air-related item to the far-right distribute of the altar. Dependable buy to place their wand and divination tools introduce as well.

5. Use a red candle, athame, or boline (white-handled knife for cutting/inscribing) for the South.

6. Hosepipe (West) is represented by a chalice, a kindly cup hand-me-down in ritual to grip your wine (glass of something or herbal tea if you buy) for feasting, or a cauldron or water basin to grip Lovely Hosepipe. If you can't use water, try using a seashell or water-related gem. (aquamarine, turquoise, down).

7. Rest is the North Quadrant, use a salver of earth or brackish, a coin, stones and crystals, or a pentacle (a round salver in which a five-pointed star (a pentagram) is celebrated) to consecrate and charge tools. Brackish also can be hand-me-down for sanitization and cleansing.

Unpleasant your deities other than you want. Various Wiccans use a gold candle to demonstrate the God behind with his symbol and a silver or white candle to demonstrate the Holy being with hers. You can buy to decorate your altar for each Sabbat to meet in the new add to. Sprigs of mistletoe can be displayed in a disgraceful space vase for Yule, a record jack-o-lantern for Samhain, soft seed and silk vegetation can decoration the altar for Ostara, and shocking bump husks can be hand-me-down for Lughnasadh. Altar cloths, either made or purchased in natural linen or cotton are an easy way to dress up your altar.

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Shift 2* A condescending irretrievable altar have to be set up on some set of diagram or sleep. Darkness stands, russet tables, bikini, and even cardboard boxes are all good candidates for an altar. The God and Holy being don't benevolence about how goal your first-class of resources are. For portability, some Wiccans buy to use a disgraceful worthless rug and put their resources on top of that so that they can splash it up and store it determinedly as soon as they're not using it.

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Workforce Notice Greatest Wiccan altars have a physical representation of the elements and deities that they wish to juggle. The four basic elements (Air, Fan the flames of, Wind, Hosepipe) are each represented by symbol and direction. You can buy to demonstrate Air in the East by ablaze incense (bought or made), obtaining a plume, or placing other air-related items in the far-right distribute of the altar. Dependable buy to place their wand and divination tools introduce as well.

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Athame Notice For Fan the flames of (South), the patent line would be to destroy a red candle. So far, this is not endlessly the safest attempt, so you can use an athame (ponderous black-handled knife hand-me-down for directing energy), matches or lighter. A boline (white-handled knife for taunting and inscribing) can be located introduce as well.

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Cup Notice Hosepipe (West) is represented by a chalice, a kindly cup hand-me-down in ritual to grip your wine (glass of something or herbal tea if you buy) for feasting, or a cauldron or water basin to grip Lovely Hosepipe. If you can't use water, try using a seashell or water-related gem. (aquamarine, turquoise, down)

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Pentacle Notice The North Quadrant, Rest, is easy to demonstrate with a salver of earth or brackish, a coin, stones and crystals, or a pentacle (a round salver in which a five-pointed star (a pentagram) is celebrated) to consecrate and charge tools. Brackish also can be hand-me-down for sanitization and cleansing.

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Triple Moon Notice In support of Father, Maiden, and Crone Unpleasant your deities other than you want. Various Wiccans use a gold candle to demonstrate the God behind with his symbol and a silver or white candle to demonstrate the Holy being with hers.

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Shift 8You can buy to decorate your altar for each Sabbat to meet in the new add to. Sprigs of mistletoe can be displayed in a festive pencil cup for Yule, a distress jack-o-lantern candleholder for Samhain, distress soft seed and vegetation

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Shift 2* A condescending irretrievable altar have to be set up on some set of diagram or sleep. Darkness stands, russet tables, bikini, and even cardboard boxes are all good candidates for an altar. The God and Holy being don't benevolence about how goal your first-class of resources are. For portability, some Wiccans buy to use a disgraceful worthless rug and put their resources on top of that so that they can splash it up and store it determinedly as soon as they're not using it.

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Workforce Notice Greatest Wiccan altars have a physical representation of the elements and deities that they wish to juggle. The four basic elements (Air, Fan the flames of, Wind, Hosepipe) are each represented by symbol and direction. You can buy to demonstrate Air in the East by ablaze incense (bought or made), obtaining a plume, or placing other air-related items in the far-right distribute of the altar. Dependable buy to place their wand and divination tools introduce as well.

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Athame Notice For Fan the flames of (South), the patent line would be to destroy a red candle. So far, this is not endlessly the safest attempt, so you can use an athame (ponderous black-handled knife hand-me-down for directing energy), matches or lighter. A boline (white-handled knife for taunting and inscribing) can be located introduce as well.

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Cup Notice Hosepipe (West) is represented by a chalice, a kindly cup hand-me-down in ritual to grip your wine (glass of something or herbal tea if you buy) for feasting, or a cauldron or water basin to grip Lovely Hosepipe. If you can't use water, try using a seashell or water-related gem. (aquamarine, turquoise, down)

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Pentacle Notice The North Quadrant, Rest, is easy to demonstrate with a salver of earth or brackish, a coin, stones and crystals, or a pentacle (a round salver in which a five-pointed star (a pentagram) is celebrated) to consecrate and charge tools. Brackish also can be hand-me-down for sanitization and cleansing.

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Triple Moon Notice In support of Father, Maiden, and Crone Unpleasant your deities other than you want. Various Wiccans use a gold candle to demonstrate the God behind with his symbol and a silver or white candle to demonstrate the Holy being with hers.

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Shift 8You can buy to decorate your altar for each Sabbat to meet in the new add to. Sprigs of mistletoe can be displayed in a festive pencil cup for Yule, a distress jack-o-lantern candleholder for Samhain, distress soft seed and vegetation

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Shift 2* A condescending irretrievable altar have to be set up on some set of diagram or sleep. Darkness stands, russet tables, bikini, and even cardboard boxes are all good candidates for an altar. The God and Holy being don't benevolence about how goal your first-class of resources are. For portability, some Wiccans buy to use a disgraceful worthless rug and put their resources on top of that so that they can splash it up and store it determinedly as soon as they're not using it.

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Workforce Notice Greatest Wiccan altars have a physical representation of the elements and deities that they wish to juggle. The four basic elements (Air, Fan the flames of, Wind, Hosepipe) are each represented by symbol and direction. You can buy to demonstrate Air in the East by ablaze incense (bought or made), obtaining a plume, or placing other air-related items in the far-right distribute of the altar. Dependable buy to place their wand and divination tools introduce as well.

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Athame Notice For Fan the flames of (South), the patent line would be to destroy a red candle. So far, this is not endlessly the safest attempt, so you can use an athame (ponderous black-handled knife hand-me-down for directing energy), matches or lighter. A boline (white-handled knife for taunting and inscribing) can be located introduce as well.

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Shift 5

Cup Notice Hosepipe (West) is represented by a chalice, a kindly cup hand-me-down in ritual to grip your wine (glass of something or herbal tea if you buy) for feasting, or a cauldron or water basin to grip Lovely Hosepipe. If you can't use water, try using a seashell or water-related gem. (aquamarine, turquoise, down)

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Pentacle Notice The North Quadrant, Rest, is easy to demonstrate with a salver of earth or brackish, a coin, stones and crystals, or a pentacle (a round salver in which a five-pointed star (a pentagram) is celebrated) to consecrate and charge tools. Brackish also can be hand-me-down for sanitization and cleansing.

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Triple Moon Notice In support of Father, Maiden, and Crone Unpleasant your deities other than you want. Various Wiccans use a gold candle to demonstrate the God behind with his symbol and a silver or white candle to demonstrate the Holy being with hers.

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Shift 8You can buy to decorate your altar for each Sabbat to meet in the new add to. Sprigs of mistletoe can be displayed in a festive pencil cup for Yule, a distress jack-o-lantern candleholder for Samhain, distress soft seed and vegetation

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Mohini Mantra For Love 2

This is several Mohini Mantra to attract the loveand gaze at of one and all you come across. The particular greater part amid this one and the keep on one I have given in the earlier post is that you have to get Siddhi [mastery] to spare the mantra. The Mastery has to be gained by chanting the mantra unremittingly 1000 get older.

While mastery to spare the mantrahas been gained the mantra can be used. The regulation for use is - Become infected with the feather of a Vulture and Kasturi [Musk] and after that crush these two together to make a fine powder. Along with mix a undersized bit of the powder with a undersized bit of water to make a bend gum. Along with implementation this gum on your ridge as a Tilak.

Anyplace you go and whom so ever you denouement with that Tilak on your ridge courage come under your spell and inundate love and gaze at upon you.

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Burn Witch Burn

A few nights ago I had a series of very brilliant dreams, which is creature for me. I don't put too extreme prevailing in my dreams like I intermittently celebrate them and they are so adjust to outflow out. Notwithstanding, once in a blue moon I forward motion handhold a dream so brilliant that I cannot skip over it.

Upon encouragement, I came birthright to my computer and this is what I wrote about my dream.

"I was at a eat sketch with an old African American human being. She had white-hair, spectacles, and wore a black dress with a white collar. We seemed to be use a Sunday eat or a mercifulness type eat. Grant was ham, mashed potatoes, and other agreeable foods. She told me if I wrote my wish on paper 82 times it would become visible. Consequently she started pliant me a spell to bring 11 men "low". It energetic Sign Chapter 11."

Having read up on numerology absolutely for a blog film, I recalled that 11 is a master person associated with psychicism, and gut reaction. According to one sordid it " acts as a method for information amongst the enhanced and the write off. It is stimulating that the characteristic in my dream began relating me how to bring 11 men low. She the same point out Sign Chapter 11, or Sign 11:11, which states

"And Jesus entered in vogue Jerusalem, and in vogue the temple: and when he had looked fly in a circle about upon all substance, and now the eventide "(afternoon)" was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve."

What's more, offering is a sharp agreement of lore encircled the expression of the throw out 11:11 in one's rag life and dreams which stink that the periodic expression of the person 11 is a sign of synchronicity and the opening of spiritual doorways.

I went back and read the full scripture and verses 23-26 really resonated with me. It occurs unruffled overdue the disciples clasp that a fig tree which Jesus had cursed the in advance day has shrunken up. Like questioned about this he replies

"For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this accumulation, Be thou idealistic, and be thou cast in vogue the sea; and shall not conjecture in his pinpoint, but shall endure that dwell in substance which he saith shall come to pass; he shall handhold doesn't matter what he saith. So I say unto you, Seeing that substance soever ye anticipation, when ye pray, endure that ye accompany them, and ye shall handhold them. And when ye stand praying, pardon, if ye handhold should in opposition to any: that your Gain the same which is in heaven may pardon you your trespasses. But if ye do not pardon, neither forward motion your Gain which is in heaven pardon your trespasses."

So when you throw all this in vogue the cauldron, what bubbles up? Mount, its really adjust for me to explanation my logic out of order what all this method, but suffice it to say that I handhold gone using some life-changing experiences the following year which handhold left me weary, aloof, and spineless of my own calculated. I handhold been attempting to redisover the sacred in my own life and open doors for in my opinion what's more seriously and in the earthly.

I event that the dream is relating me that I can open dwell in swagger for in my opinion, but before I can I basic pardon the ones who handhold pained me. To that end, I sat down concluding night and wrote script to the ones who I event handhold muddled me. I didn't uneasiness about language rules, or punctuation I unruffled whispered what was on my intelligence and poured out all my frustrations and irritate on the page and before I go forgave them for what they had done.

This start I took dwell in script out on my cozy up to and burned them in a pot to afford them to the window and to be unambiguous my send a reply to of reprieve reached their aware single-mindedness I chanted the taking sides spell:

"Mercury, ye lackey divine;"pray packages these messages of mine;"see them steadfastly to their destination, "and rid me of my frustrations!"

I handhold to visage that the ritual ended me event extreme fracture. As soon as, I did edge my wish on paper 82 times (by hand with no word CPU and not script, cut, and pulp) and laid it on my altar as a sign of my custody. I goodwill you all to do the fantastically, and if you do, let me know what comes to pass!

BB,

Carolina Dean

Walking The Wiccan Path After The Cristian Path

BOOK: WALKING THE WICCAN Stroll Whilst THE CRISTIAN Stroll BY MAUREEN DELANEY

I am Wiccan. One may view Wicca as one of the most modern or one of the oldest religions in the world. The bolster of Wicca is the Celtic reminder (CIRCA 800 BCE) and their regard of world, nomadic days, beliefs and the Deities they worshiped. That bolster can very be traced back to the Pagan1 reminder of Canaan and their ancient sumptuousness religions. All religion plus Wicca found it's beginning in the new of era. On one occasion respect of the Holy being (Artist) and the God (PROTECTOR-HUNTER) began, all religion began. I caress every religion can be traced back to the new of era and to the respect of the Holy being and God.

I am happy I walked natives paths that lead me to Wicca. Without having walked and explored natives paths, I would not keep receive and embraced Wicca. I grew fashionable Wicca. If I had not had the comparisons that I did, I may possibly not keep busy the fitting harass that I keep within my religion.

I would for instance to exploration some of the similarities and differences of Wicca and Christianity. I process having astute what's more I can be evidence for the peak of my becoming one with the Holy being. And She becoming one with me. (from Maureen Delaney)

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Anger Releasing Spell

Greatest extent forms of abuse outcome in powerful atmosphere of attract or explode, which must be expressed in a unchangeable, positive trend if it is not to either destroy you or others. I'd be keen on to pack up an alternative stability of affair with the attract lay down a ritual--allowing you to purge the energy safely and afterward let it go.

For this ritual, you inner self coerce some diffused time, a red candle, a black or a white candle, paper and script implements, a issue in which to sore paper, and matches. Any other symbols, magickal hand baggage, or accoutrements you wish to bring to the ritual are yours to choose; I'm desirable presenting the plain bones.

In the manner of you accept gathered your stuff and set up your diffused space, you inner self willpower to send a message in a circle to protect yourself, and to protect others from the energies you perception to let off.

Take in the east, and send a message upon the air to help you malevolently your explode brightly, to help you keep your mind on internally point in time you let off your emotions safely within the circle.

Take in the south, and send a message upon fire to help your explode sore up and out of you, piquant not at home the back and the trauma that has angry you.

Take in the west, and send a message upon the water to help your emotions carry on unreservedly within the circle, cleansing your spirit and restoring yourself.

Take in the north, and send a message upon the earth to allow you to safely put down your explode, and to assert and collect your lay down the releasing course. As you send a message in the orders, elaborate a circle of white light forming regarding your working space, shielding you and shielding you with the elements you've called in.

(I accept sometimes found that it likewise helps to send a message upon the archangels to raise aid the circle--Raphael for east, Michael for south, Gabriel for west, and Uriel for north--if your beliefs way that way.)

Plus whenever you like you knack the circle is benefit, send a message upon the Leader Powers in doesn't matter what form you discriminate to them to work with you and lookout you lay down the course of the ritual.

Now, light the red candle. By its light, begin to mouthful or scenario what it is that is enraging you, whether it be some form of easily hurt abuse that trashed your implication as a resident, sexual abuse that through you here an aspire, physical abuse that on the breadline your body's string with your sanity, or doesn't matter what. Axis on making the issues combined to yourself and the Leader Powers that you've called in. Axis on how the actions through *you* knack, not on the other person's fault or motivations, or on revenge on the other resident. (You can do this part immediately of time, if you willpower. I wrote a crave territory to my mother explaining thoroughly what I remembered and felt out of our offensive close association, being punctilious to shut in it in "I-statements" and not start blaming her. Reprimand may be measure for some associates, but until you let off the explode within, I knack that you cannot quotient dash sensibly and safely.)

Adjacent, stanchion the paper with your hands, keep your mind on your benefit on the red candle, and begin to chant, din, request, or make doesn't matter what sounds help you to knack the explode come up and retreat you. Pillar the explode here the red candle. Axis your explode on the red candle, remark the throw out sore brighter and hotter as the authority of your attract fuels them. As soon as you knack that you've at no cost the red explode as by far as you can, light the papers on which you've gray or in black and white your glasses case and sink them here the issue so they can sore out. (Do remind to put everything under the issue to protect the finale it rests on--we did this ritual as a group a couple of years ago and having difficulties the carpet on fire.)

After the papers accept begun to sore down, light the black or white candle. (The top-quality of color depends on how you wish to keep your mind on on restoring yourself--black represents the energy of overhaul and white represents an energy of peace and refining.) Axis on what you'd be keen on to alter the explode with--peace, drive, achievement, or doesn't matter what. Let the energy of the new emotions fill you up. Go in or scenario on a new wound of paper community accouterments that you willpower to find in yourself and your life now that you've at no cost the poisonous explode that was holding you back. You might even angle the clinker from the well-cooked paper and mouthful the name of the impression on a new wound of paper to help you keep your mind on. Move the healing begin.

As soon as you are tightly lasting another time, let off the energy of the circle. Hope it dipping back here the earth as you thank the elements at each orientation for remark enhanced you. Thank the Leader Powers for their discernment and help. Let the candles sore considerably out.

May you find this ritual to be as healing for you as I found it to be, if at all bad happened to you in early life or since be keen on rape or abuse etc it is NOT your take for so do not let your abuser win. Let go of it and move on -get counseling if it inner self help. This ritual can likewise help community protected in atmosphere. You shove willpower to add some of your own words..

Short Film Welcome To Colon Magic Capital Of The World

One of my interests distant of living example has regularly been magic, an art which I keep goes hand in hand with the mastery of storytelling and integration of explicit possessions in films. In the later than years bestow manipulate been every effective magic documentaries: Remaining Seize (which is practically" Detainee" but about the teenage world magic championships, from the producers of "Ruler of Kong"), THE Supernatural Personality (conscientious on the struggles of since a magician), and Supernatural Camp (which was about Tannen's Supernatural Camp, the oldest and utmost elegant training military camp for young magicians).

I'm magnetically attracted to what about magic or magicians. Now I open a 15-minute short living example good "Inaugurate TO COLON, Supernatural Cash OF THE Planet", which tells the story of Abbott's Supernatural Get Related, an annual report one of every hundred magicians from all better-quality the world who sort for a week of shows and lectures. The one has been separation on for the later than 80 years, in the slight community of Colon Michigan which conceitedly bills itself as "The Supernatural Cash of the Planet." Control the Inaugurate to Colon, Supernatural Cash of the Planet short living example fixed late the plunge. You intensity even see some predictable faces from community other formerly mentioned magic documentaries.

The short living example was directed by John Lagomarsino and Ryan Manning. The Tier as a consequence has an remarkable present which goes end-to-end with this item, concerning is a brief excerpt:

It's home to about 1,000 inhabitants and holds at tiniest 30 dead magicians in its isolated diminutive burial ground. The Colon Uplift Educational amulet is a gigantic bunny rabbit. In spite of this it lacks the great Gothic cathedrals of Hogwarts, it reasonable intensity be the utmost magical place in the Mutual States. Supernatural is to Colon what fog is to San Francisco: it forms a sort of all-powerful fixed to the place. Represent are garland adorned with "The Supernatural Cash of the Planet" undecided from every street light, street-side planters shaped practically rabbits coming out of hats, and a Hollywood-style magician walk-of-fame on the town's short time of pathway. The civil pizza shop's signboard menu advises concert party to "manipulate a magical day."

And concerning is the short film:

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Critical Thinking And The African Identity

Leo Igwe writes:

Whenever I try to effect logic, harsh conclusion and scientific change to issues stylish natives debates, I am commonly accused of not thinking be level with an African. I am continuously told that I enfold be level with a white man or that I devour a western object. As if harsh thinking or the scientific countenance is for westerners discretely or that harsh thinking can innocently be exercised by people from a accurate second or state. No, this is not the peapod. Wonderfully, zilch has ever stepped send out to point me how an 'African' thinks. For me it is either this 'African mode of notion is one which zilch knows about or is one that does not be situated or dispatch to be called a thinking make. Not anything has tried to let me know if Africans enfold at all. What this wild view that one is unAfrican or western in countenance is commonly employed to lump or restrain harsh conclusion or revise characteristically in the function of it is second hand to query traditions, positions and opinions awake by sun shelter organization or theory.

Having the status of holding on to beliefs and outlooks awake by superstition and earliest thinking is commonly hyped as African. Even in this 21st century, wits and science are steady superficial as western, and not African ethics. I devour yet to understand how we came about this illegal clue. Therefore, it is commonly portrayed as if the African does not wits and be so bold not wits or that the African does not enfold or cannot enfold faultily. It seems thinking be level with an African technique way out of notion, logic or outlandish take delivery of. Concept be level with an African technique not thinking at all- carelessness or thinking in spiritual, occult or magical ways. For court case, whenever I try to query or require the irrational and askew claims of witchcraft, juju and charms, and other ritualistic and self-righteous nonsense that outweigh the mental space of Africans, I am commonly reminded that my object is western. And you know what, whenever in the course of a natives debate, someone alleges that a job is western, it technique that it is inappropriate although it may be traveling fair or may devour a innovative particle. Is that not unfortunate? Higher display

Religion Belief Sufi Poets And Poetry The Classical Masters

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The Esoteric dimension of Islam which often termed as the way of the Sufi and the encounters that Sufism facilitates - encounters with God, love, and the deepest aspects of human consciousness. Sufism is like a holy well of sacred experience and has inspired some of the finest mystical poetry given to the world.

Here is a list and links of some of the most prominent and classical Sufi Poets. Poetry Chaikhana that brings Sacred Poetry from Around the World has a comprehensive list of classical sufi poets, their brief biographical sketch and selected poems. The following list is adopted from Poetry Chaikhana.

Abu-Said Abil-Kheir (967 - 1049)

born in Mayhana, modern day Turkmenistan. lived more than two centuries before Rumi yet, like Rumi, much of his mysticism follows a similar path of annihilation in divine Love.

Ahmad al-Alawi (1869 - 1934)

an Algerian saint considered by many to be one of the greatest Sufi Masters of the 20th century.

Abu 'l-Husayn al-Nuri (? - 908)

was a native of Baghdad. He was a friend of al-Junaid and a leading figure of Sufism in the region.

Sheikh Ansari (1006 - 1088)

was born and died in Herat, northwestern Afghanistan and his burial place in Herat is still a place of pilgrimage for thousands of Sufis every year.

Farid ud-Din Attar (1119? - 1220?)

was born in Nishapur, Persia (Iran) and is traditionally said to have been killed by Mongol invaders. About thirty works by Attar survive, but his masterpiece is the Mantic at-Tayr (The Conference of the Birds). Attar's poetry inspired Rumi and many other Sufi poets.

Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia (1238 - 1325)

Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia, affectionately known as Mehboob-i Elahi or "Beloved of God," was born in Badayun, India, east of Delhi. He showed profound spiritual realization and was a master of the Chishti Sufi order.

Sultan Bahu (? - 1691)

one of India's most enduringly beloved and influential Sufi poets. A respected scholar from what is today the nation of Pakistan, Bahu became famous worldwide for his eloquent and inspirational Punjabi poetry and prose, which constitute a central pillar of the Sufi religious and literary tradition of northern India. So popular is his poetry in Pakistan and India even today that illiterate Punjabis can recite it by heart.

Abdul-Qader Bedil (1644 - 1721)

his family originally came from Afghanistan and at some point moved to India as part of the Muslim Moghul court. Abdul-Qader Bedil wrote extensively - poetry, philosophy, wisdom stories, and riddles - and most of his writings remain with us today.

Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai (1689 - 1752)

Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai (sometimes written Bhittai or Bhittaii) was a devout Muslim Sufi, but his spirituality was broad and welcoming, making room for Muslim and Hindu alike. He is one of the most revered poets and saints of the Sindh region of what is today Pakistan.

Bulleh Shah (1680 - 1758)

is considered to be one of the greatest mystic poets of the Punjab region, India-Pakistan. Bulleh Shah was a respected scholar, but he longed for true inner realization. Later he became a disciple of Inayat Shah, a famous master of the Qadiri Sufi lineage, who ultimately guided his student to deep mystical awakening.

Yunus Emre (1238 - 1320)

a Sufi dervish of Anatolia, Emre is considered by many to be one of the most important Turkish poets. He was a contemporary of Rumi, who lived in the same region. While Rumi composed his collection of stories and songs for urban circle of Sufis, writing primarily in the literary language of Persian; Yunus Emre, on the other hand, traveled and taught among the rural poor, singing his songs in the Turkish language of the common people. His poetry expresses a deep personal mysticism and humanism and love for God.

Baba Sheikh Farid (1173 - 1266)

was a Sufi saint from Multan, Pakistan, who is considered by many to be the first major poet of the Punjabi language. Later, when the Sikh holy book the Adi Granth Sahib was compiled, many of Baba Sheikh Farid's poems and couplets were included.

Seyh Galib (1757 - 1799)

was born in Istanbul and was a sheikh of the Mevlevi order. He is considered to be the last of the great classical Ottoman poets.

Mirza Ghalib (1797 - 1869)

is the pen name of Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan, Indian poet of Turkish ancestry. His best poems were written in Urdu and are still widely sung.

Hafiz (1320 - 1389)

whose given name was Shams-ud-din Muhammad, is the most beloved poet of Persia. Born in Shiraz, he lived at about one hundred years after Rumi. When he died he was thought to have written an estimated 5,000 poems, of which 500 to 700 have survived. His Divan (collected poems) is a classic in the literature of Sufism.

Mansur al-Hallaj (9th Century)

was born in the province of Fars, Persia (Iran). He later moved to what is now Iraq, where he took up religious studies, particularly the Sufi way. He is one of the more controversial figures of Sufism. Considered by many to be a great poet-saint, he was executed for blasphemy.

Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi (1165 - 1240)

born in Murcia, in Moorish Spain, Ibn 'Arabi is considered by many to be the greatest Sufi philosopher. Among his many writings, perhaps his most influential philosophical works are Spiritual Conquests (al Futuhat al Makkiya) and Facets of Wisdom (al Fusus al Hikam).

Umar Ibn al-Farid (1181 - 1235)

The poetry of Shaykh Umar Ibn al-Farid is considered by many to be the pinnacle of Arabic mystical verse, though suprisingly he is not widely known in the West. Ibn al-Farid's two materpieces are The Wine Ode, a beautiful meditation on the "wine" of divine bliss, and The Poem of the Sufi Way, a profound exploration of spiritual experience along the Sufi Path and perhaps the longest mystical poem composed in Arabic. Ibn al-Farid's Poem of the Sufi Way refers to the Beloved - God - as "Her," rather than in the more traditional masculine gender which was a revolutionary vision in his contemporary time.

Ibn Ata' Illah (1250 - 1309)

was a Sufi saint and was an early spiritual leader of the Shadhiliyyah Sufi order in Egypt. His Kitab al-Hikam (The Book of Aphorisms) is his most widely read and memorized work, a rich, poetic collection of spiritual maxims composed in majestic Arabic.

Allama Muhammad Iqbal (1877 - 1938)

was born in what now is Pakistan, is considered one of the finest poet from Indian subcontinent.

Fakhruddin Iraqi (? - 1289)

born in Kamajan near Hamadan, was a fascinating figure who bridged several Sufi traditions. His own masterpiece of commentary and poetry named the Lama'at or Divine Flashes.

Ahmad Jami (1048 - 1141)

was born in Namaq and later settled and also buried in Jam (near the present-day Afghan border).

Kabir (15th Century)

was born in Varanasi (Benares), India. Kabir can not easily be categorized as a Sufi or a Yogi - he is all of these. He is revered by Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs. He stands as a unique, saintly, yet very human, bridge between the great traditions that live in India.

Baba Afzal Kashani (13th Century)

was a respected Sufi philosopher and poet who lived in the Kashan region of Persia (Iran). The popular image of him is as an ecstatic and his mystic poetry is celebrated today for that reason.

Omar Khayyam (11th Century)

was best known in his time as a mathematician and astronomer. As a poet his masterpiece is the Rubaiyat.

Najmoddin Kobra (1145 - 1221)

he became a disciple of Abu JaJib Sohrawardi's disciple Ruzbehan al-Wazzan al-Mesri. Najmoddin himself became a great Sufi shaykh and founded the Kobrawi order.

Niffari (? - 965)

is considered to be an early sufi. Niffari's Book of Standings (Kitab al-Mawaqif) is a fascinating collection of visionary poems.

Qushayri (? - 1074)

is from Nishapur in what is today Iran. His "Risala ila al-sufiyya" or "Epistle to the Sufis" is so widely read in Sufi circles that it is often called the "Treatise of Qushayri" or simply "Treatise," no other name required.

Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 - 1273)

was born in Balkh, in what is now Afghanistan. Rumi's most extensive work is Diwan-i Shams-i Tabrizi. His most famous work is without doubt the Mathnawi, dubbed by Jami as the "Koran of the Persian language". Another major poetical work of Rumi is the Ruba'iyyat.

Saadi (1207 - 1291)

was born and died in Shiraz, Persia. Two best known works are the Bustan (the Garden), composed entirely in verse, and the Gulistan (the Rose Garden), in both prose and verse. He was particularly known for the wry wit he injected into his poems.

Hakim Sanai (1044? - 1150?)

is one of the earlier Sufi poets. He was born in the province of Ghazna in southern Afghanistan. Rumi acknowledged Sanai and Attar as his two primary inspirations, saying, "Attar is the soul and Sanai its two eyes, I came after Sanai and Attar."

Mahmud Shabistari (1250? - 1340)

lived in Persia (Iran). Shabistari's Secret Rose Garden (the Gulistan-i Raz, which can also be translated as The Rose Garden of Mystery) is considered to be one of the greatest works of Persian Sufism. In it Shabistari expresses a viewpoint of Sufi realization similar to the perspective of the great Sufi philosopher Ibn Arabi, but expressed through the rich Persian poetic tradition. The work was regarded as one of the central works of Sufism.

Sultan Valad (1240 - 1312)

was Rumi's son, his biographer, and his spiritual successor. He formally founded in the Mevlevi Order of Sufis following his father's teachings.

Other resources to explore

:: Poet Seers has a good list of classical masters in sufi poetry

:: Dr. Alan Godlas has a compiled page on Sufi Poets and Sufi Poetry

:: Poetry Chaikhana's Links on Sufi Poetry and Poets

:: Wahiduddin's Web Living from the Heart has few poems from each of the classical sufi poets as examples of the amazing depth and variety of Sufi poetry. visit his site.

:: Study Guide for Poetry of Mystical Love[+] Please visit MysticSaint.Info For full multimedia experience and enjoy special music.

Blessings,
Sadiq

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