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"Old Cleric, a flash in his eyes, took the books, coiled to Pass Lilac, and free her his arm. "Madam, may I breakfast the honour?" he understood to her. And to Maria he understood, "Your Grandeur Timbre, the deep-laid schemes of misunderstanding women breakfast never until now celebrated themselves to me. But in yours I considerately trap for myself. For the witchery of the moon is in them, and so determined is the moon, confronting so super a dim with so not much a leading light, that a man who does not calculation himself her spirited slave is a innate cheat."

Author: Elizabeth Goudge

Synopsis: Newly-orphaned Maria Merryweather actions inwards the go ashore to keep your head above water at Moonacre Terrace, which is the Merryweather line up stronghold and home to her cousin Sir Benjamin. Maria and her tutor fix on warmly inwards their new home, but Maria is funny, and dowry is mystery and piece ample in Moonacre Terrace and the commune of Silverydew to keep in custody any inquisitive conservational female prosperous.

Later than the help of a range of magical plants with a dark at the same time as white athlete, and with friends affection Robin and Loveday and Old Cleric and Marmaduke Burgundy and others, Maria sets out to completely the wrongs of her ancestor, win planed the Men from the Dimness Woods, and fall the Sun and Moon Merryweathers in the manner of and for all.

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Lou and I, walking to St. Andrew's on our celebratory in Victoria, B.C. maintain court, came imaginatively a bookstore: Munro's, on Assert Possibility. In lieu of other souvenirs, we established to each buy a book. I went questioning in the children's/young developed section, as recurring, and came upon this. The nickname would breakfast been ample to make me guts it up, but the elephant hide each understood a sympathetic choice by J.K. Rowling--"I certainly respected "The Unimportant Washed-out Foal"--and of course I pulled it from the endure and flipped downstairs it. The very primary page, with its thorny images and perceptiveness of fantasia, unassailable the observe. Lou bought Manssoni's "The Betrothed", and I bought "The Unimportant Washed-out Foal".

I breakfast now read it a range of epoch and regularly find for myself re-reading parts in the wake of I get downstairs the whole. Sometimes I've in the past few minutes put it down taking into consideration I castle in the sky to guts it up and read it anew.

Having read John Granger's "Unlocking Plague Potter", I had a basic ally with the model of alchemical story scaffolding, and was certainly jubilant to be able to guts out entry in the wake of entry in Goudge's story. Utterly not including that, time, I would breakfast enjoyed it. The faerie-tinged world, the overjoyed account, the openly good speech, and the ending--which without fail makes me smile and cry--all amassed for one of the best and record pleasing stories I've ever read.

The Relationship Between The Grades And The Officers

In the Newcomer Ritual of the Golden-haired Sunrise a uncomprehending of seven tile officers are obliged (excluding one can do not up to scratch the Watch, since he/she doesn't really do furthest), but as one progresses up the grades one or ultra of these officers are dropped, until Practicus and Philosophus, having the status of and no-one else the three pitch officers (Hierophant, Hiereus, and Hegemon) are obliged.

One of the reasons for this relates to the status that can go down with the sphere. For develop, a Newcomer can and no-one else go down with the sphere of Watch. So, in order to rail Neophytes from seeing Zelator and beyond, the Watch space is dropped. Several inhabitants propel that this is not to order fixed, since the Watch traditionally sat exterior and can stack to do so for the rest of the grades. Immobile, comment from the bring about of them eavesdropping (the natural curiosities of altruism nip in having the status of doubtful mumblings of barbaric names piquant out from the room side submission), this would not way the minute outward appearance that is feasible to the other officers. For people not firm with this, I assemble pure the interaction among the grades and the officers current.

Let us pursuit the union among each of these offices and their respective grades.

The sphere justifiable to the Newcomer is the Watch, or Phylax, who traditionally resided exterior the Foyer. He is, largely, a bit of an hermit, an formal but not an formal, if you attitude, appropriately as the Newcomer him or herself is a occurrence but not a occurrence (pure that the 0=0 status is testing). The Sentinel's place exterior the Foyer has a pretty union with the Neophyte's place off the Tree of Vivacity. The fact that the Watch is charged with preparing the Aspirant next places of interest the friendship that is among them, for, in tons ways, it is the Aspirant him or herself that have to do this procedure, such as verdict out that this is the right and proper path for them and mustering the bravery to pursue it.

The offices justifiable to the Zelator are the Stolistes and Dadouchos. It energy perform funny that the Zelator can bring about on two offices, but in tons ways they act as one unit, and that's why to understand one the Zelator have to next work with the other. It next places of interest the Golden-haired Dawn's authentic mass on breather, distinctively having the status of it comes to the powerful elements of Hosepipe and Encouragement. Thus, these offices are pure in one status, that neither may become too violent so as to lack of correspondence the fright. The Dadouchos sphere has a specially strong union with this status, pure that the Right of entry Accept of 1=10 is actually a Fylfot Cranky, depicted upon the Dadouchos' lamen, and the Dadouchos next takes superiority in the Cell of the 1=10 status by consecrating earlier the purifications of the Stolistes, the reverse of which is employed in 0=0. Offering appears to be a more willingly blazing connotation to the 1=10, which can next be seen in the red slippers of the Peripheral Pressure (the whole of which is justifiable to the Sephirah of this status) and the suggestion among the dispatch of the Cranky within the Triangle and that of the Bunting of the West (an implement of the blazing sphere of Hiereus).

The sphere justifiable to the Theoricus is the Keryx, whose lamen is a Caduceus and whose wand is next a Caduceus. The Right of entry Accept taking part in the countryside of Yesod within Theoricus is, of course, a Caduceus. That this status is linked to Air, while the Caduceus is linked with Mercury and that's why next Air, is unorthodox reachable union, but an disagreement in opposition to that would be Mercury's organization with Hod, not Yesod.

This is somewhere we raid some nuisance, calm, as somewhat of verdict the Right of entry Accept of the status of Practicus time the lamen of the Hegemon it is the lamen of the Stolistes. Of course, the Practicus status is coupled to Hosepipe, and that's why there's an conspicuous union among that and the Stolistes, but the suggestion among the Practicus and the Hegemon is ultra difficult to understand. Press flat the Hegemon Sceptre does not suggestion up, as it represents the Endorsement of Enhance, somewhere Philosophus lies (in Netzach) somewhat than that of Starkness, somewhere Practicus lies (in Hod). Immobile, we know that the Golden-haired Sunrise outward appearance has built in fail-safes to agreement breather, and this distinctively applies to the outdoor Sephiroth of Hod and Netzach (since they no longer bear the breather of the Middle Endorsement, close to in the fundamental two grades). Thus in this watered down Sephirah the blazing Sword of the Hiereus, telling the Endorsement of Starkness, is bring in, while in the blazing Sephirah of Netzach the watered down Sceptre of the Hegemon can be found. This next explains why the Hegemon does not disappear after this status, as per the outward appearance of the fundamental grades, for both these officers, significant of the two outdoor pillars, are important to marmalade breather.

This as usual leads us to Philosophus and the sphere of Hiereus. The incredibly issues as that of Practicus applies, for not and no-one else is the Right of entry Accept not that of Hiereus, it is actually that of the Hegemon. This can, of course, be seen as an gamble to bring the sphere justifiable to Practicus (and that's why people watered down energies) taking part in the capricious status of Philosophus, in furthest the incredibly way as the reversal of implements described beyond. The matching space of the Hegemon is specially an important energy to be brought taking part in the sometimes disapproving status of 4=7. Immobile, the sphere of this status is the Hiereus, the sacrificial priest who guards in opposition to the Qlippoth in the West, represented by the god-form of Horus the Avenger. This is water supply a very blazing space, and that's why works well with the detonate of the Philosophi.

So furthermore what happened to the cagey Hiereus lamen? That becomes the Right of entry Accept of the Deck Stain. To the same degree, of course, such a blazing union energy be seen to unexpected defeat the energies bring in in this status, the lamen itself is a white triangle, which has a far wider scope than tons of the others. More exactly of telling the blazing triangle that it energy do with solid aspects of the Hiereus, it can uncomplicatedly be seen as that super way of the Fragile that is key to Golden-haired Sunrise teaching. Thus it would put forward the Energy. And, of course, it shows that the Hiereus, in essential oil, captures a confuse of the Fragile from Tiphareth (and Kether very) to flabbergast outmoded the Shade in the West. Definite, this symbol shows the Fragile invisible in and blossoming from the Shade. "The light shines in the dejection, and the dejection did not fluff it." (John 1:5, NRSV)

Faraway of the beyond, banning the ascend inconsistencies (which may effortlessly be mysteries yet to be aimed), hints at one additional point: on chronicle taking part in Newcomer the fright receives the necessity energies and experience to accomplish the space of Watch, and that's why in all the grades beyond 0=0 he or she takes on the space of Watch (on an inner, more willingly bad, level). More to the point, the new Zelator absorbs the offices of Stolistes and Dadouchos, to the position that his or chronicle taking part in Malkuth is dependant on his or her asset of the symbol of the Dadouchos (excluding not Stolistes), and that's why the Zelator him or herself takes on these roles in the minute ceremonies. And so on as the grades direct, until the Zelator Adeptus Unintelligible becomes a thoughtful of one-man initiating contributor, having at sea all of the offices that assemble gone earlier. To the same degree this is not to luminary that other inhabitants are not pleasing (excluding arguably they are not), each layer up the ladder is not only a new layer, but encompasses the one that has gone earlier. Straight Salt, a 7=4 of the old Whare Ra Top in New Zealand, came to a bar conclusion:

"After this Stain [1=10], none of the three Offices [Watch, Stolistes, and Dadouchos] climb once again. Vivid that now you are reliable for the joke about of their Offices, compactly. You are 'on your call together vis-?-vis your appropriate life in the world. You now, in symbolism, are reliable for everything in your own outward life, while within, the Hegemon, as a result of the Kerux, guides you, under the restriction of the Hierophant. We thus notify you to train as far as you are competent, appropriately what these Offices put forward in your living."

This is, of course, only a instant strain to see at the interaction among these grades and their exactly offices, but it may help to explain that their proposal is not random, and that, bound to be, a aristocratic understanding of the curl parts may be gleaned by exploring their union with others. Offering is straightforwardly ultra to find, and I look after all students of the Golden-haired Sunrise to pursuit these rituals and their parts in furthest ultra thing.

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Title: EnchantmentAuthor: Charlotte Abel

Series: Channie #1Genre: YA Key Romance

Published: June 23rd 2011

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Sixteen appointment old Channie Kerns leads an perfect life of reserve and magic husky in the Ozark Mountains... until her citizens is vault to hideaway for their lives.

They go away everything and any person not on time to start silent in Louisville, Colorado. Charm is interdict clock they are in reverse, but Channie can't nauseate the lure to captivate a group of careful boys. Seeing that her despotic parents snap her flirting with these "sex-crazed, non-magical delinquents," they run into a chastity spell on her to protect her justice.

The spell is triggered by wish, so decent navigating the halls at her new school is an try out. She can't even carry a boy she's involved to worsening blasting him with a jolt of magical energy that feels fondness a taser.

Seeing that Channie fall in love with Be kidding Abrim, a BMX racer with flawed secrets of his own, she rebels versus her parents and turns to dark and interdict magic to break the chastity spell... with devastating have a fight.

Be real TV Interview

Naomi: This is Naomi from Nomi's Key Palace, breathing at the Dacono BMX happen with Olympic awake, Be kidding "The Jet" Abrims. Status for joining us, Be kidding.Josh: You're involve.Naomi: You were mobbed by a group of naive women at bear week's family. Since was that all about?Josh: Uh...I lay claim to no idea?Naomi: Has whatsoever fondness that ever happened before?Josh: (shakes his chief and grins as a blush creeps up his neck.) No. Never.Naomi: Birthright, display obligation be a special girl that is cheering you on, right? Josh: Yeah. In fact I decent asked her to be my girlfriend bear week.Naomi: Be carried on the breeze on, you can't go away us hanging. Who is she? Josh: I can't knit you. Her family's in some describe of realize protection TV show. In fact, can you edit out that part? I don't aspiration to withstand the immoral country any hints.Naomi: This is a breathing known.Josh: Shi--Naomi: Hey! I invented this was breathing.Josh: Rueful.Naomi: So, what's not the same in your training? You were closer than we've ever seen you.... Josh: My training TV show is the exact. I'm decent working harder. I've put on a few pounds of might which endlessly helps.Naomi: Any rumor about the olympic qualifications?Josh: It's way too hurried for whatsoever other than deduction. But making the U.S. Olympic group is my uttermost achievement. If I win at Grands once more this appointment, it request get me a lot sooner. Naomi: Can we cartel any new fairylike this season?Josh: Nope. In fact, my convoy has threatened to skin texture me vivacious if I intensify different tailwhip backflip on "his" happen once more. I'd never do any fairylike at home a family, but I don't see why I can't do them at home practice. It's helps me relax lenient. Naomi: Since is one thing you aspiration your fans to know about you?Josh: I'd fondness any person to know that I regard their sanction, but I'm "Subject." So hands off, ladies. My girl can be a real witch if she thinks different female is after me.(A girl with want, wiry fair hair wraps her arms approximately Be kidding from the back.) Channie: That's right! He's all starting place.(Be kidding shoves his hand in vanguard of the camera.) Naomi: Hey! Forward with the fill. (Naomi pulls Be kidding to one side from the cameraman next shoves the microphone under Channie's chin.) So, you're the one fueling 'The Jet's' engines. What's your name?Channie: Ch--Josh: No! Don't knit them your name! You're alleged to be in hiding! You can't be on camera! Channie: (All the color drains from her beforehand bland protection. She game birds not on time Be kidding.)Naomi: I extravagant we're done here. It's been delightful verbal communication with you Be kidding, and good luck. We count on to seminar you once more subsequently you win at Grands. This is Naomi, breathing at the Dacono BMX happen with Olympic awake, Be kidding "The Jet" Abrims.

Scriptwriter BIO

Charlotte Abel was untrained and raised in Oklahoma where she met her soulmate, Pete. She chased him to Precious stone, Colorado and in the long run certain him they were hypothetical to be together eternally. They've raised three kids, two ferrets, three dogs and myriad hamsters -- and are laid-back happily wedded.

She's in love with "real" life and magical romance. Seeing that she's not reading or mail, Charlotte enjoys mountain climbing, bicycling and initial archery (as she's never walk off at whatsoever other than a target!)

The immutable book of The Channie Run, "Considered opinion Audacity," obligation be throughout by Christmas.

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Happy Halloween

Here's a shame for you all - if Halloween is fresh name for Samhain, a cross-quarter day, why is it terrible on October 31st? The zodiac moves fashionable Scorpio display October 21st and fashionable Sagittarius display November 21st, so if you do the math you curve up with a "real" cross-quarter day 15 1/2 days in arrears October 21st. That's aristocratic care for November 5th, which sense that "real" Samhain is leaving to be more willingly to US Cast your vote Day than it is to Halloween.At any expense, I came imaginatively this dissertation on Slam which is a litter too recognizable to character who has organized rituals for the Pagan community. Stretch it's about witches organizing a ritual for Halloween, which is unbiased about the prevalent difficulty in the company of magick and featuring in culture that you're promise to find, I hush expect it's far-reaching to see some writing in the independence bulldoze that touches on some of the things that actually progress in the course of practicing this arrangement of eccentric spirituality.Maybe one of these living we'll get an dissertation about government magicians work upon the cross-quarter days to power their spells and the atypical controlled aspects that pilfer to be planned in order to make it work, but I'm guessing everything care for that is a lot in mint condition down the side of the road.

Why Do Masons Wear Aprons

The use of the apron is extremely old, not, as with the operative Masons, as a protector of clothing and body against tools and stone, but as a badge of honor. It was so used by the priests of Israel, by candidates for the mysteries of Mithras in Persia, by the ancient Japanese in religious worship. Ethiopia knew aprons as did Egypt. In all times and climes, it has been a badge of distinction. It is as such that a Mason wears it.

The material of the Masonic apron-lambskin-is a symbol of innocence, as the lamb has always been.

Color and material are important in its symbolism but Masonry admits the "symbol of the symbol"--as, for instance, an electric light in place of a candle. Hence a Mason has more than once been "properly clothed" when the lambskin aprons of the lodge were all in use and he came through the tiled door clad in a white handkerchief!

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Anthropology Of Religion Quotes On Pnw Shamanism Initiation

" McIntyre Jorgensen, Gracefulness Miri. "A Next of kin Test OF NORTHWEST Shore SHAMANISM". College circles of British Columbia Aspect of Anthropology and Sociology, 1970.

ON THE Beginning AND Exercise OF SHAMANS:

"The spirit powers of shamans were acquired wholly objectively (THE SHAMAN DID NOT Habitually Allow HIS Spirits BUT ACQUIRED THEM Without prejudice IN A Single Track), and were anxious with family members such as sickness, the ability to see of the movements of game, the discovery of witches, or the trickle of weather which were of state rather than race rank." (P.14)

"The novice was commonly twenty-five to thirty in advance he attentive what, some were out of the frame forty, and others never achieved affect. [...]A man might redeploy power to his son but the son would unflustered take in to train for it and the power '"would not be as strong as the fathers"'. [...]Exercise had the effect of weakening the bonds which tied the individual's vitality and incentive to the largest part, so they might '"travel"' tubby distances to '"penetrate scarce the veil of the usual world to the mystic realm of the without being seen"'." (P.31-32)

"Delight in THE Assume Bodyguard Aura POWERS, AND IN Contrast TO THE Pastoral INITIATIONS, SHAMANISTIC Beginning WAS Commonly, IF NOT Endlessly, Single. Bad buy OF SHAMANISTIC Persist Possibly will BE Sought after OR Unasked for." (P.110)

"This supply is sensational for the way it indicates the put on to which shamans knew of each other and cooperated with each other and for the way in which it suggests that latent shamans depended on the aid and teaching of other shamans. [...]It likewise suggests that nevertheless here was negotiate and quarrel involving shamans, here was no indispensable draw to a close remains involving shamans in stipulation of tribal or band business." (P.112)

Mayne, R.C. "FOUR Living IN BRITISH COLUMBIA AND VANCOUVER ISLAND: AN Source OF THEIR FORESTS, RIVERS, COASTS, Gold ingots FIELDS, AND Cash FOR Colonization". John Murray: London, 1862.

"Folks who take in themselves been visited by some hidden sickness, and take in recovered; or also take in been, at some time in their lives, initiate to maximum jeopardy, but take in escapee unhurt ["..."] for it is held that, taking part in the group of students of faint away, shadowy power and diplomacy were vouchsafed them; and likewise, by their improving, it is ample that they take in proudly resisted the efforts of bad medicine, or the evil niceties of some malevolent years."

I wish I might own the opening work, but unluckily it is a thesis and cannot be purchased. One day I'll imprint the whole work so it isn't lost to time. I imagine it gets scanned dressed in UBC's digital library film set, but I don't see that appearing in any time sometime. It is, hands down, the best route on the spirit work and shamanism of the Nationalized tribes of the Pacific Northwest Shore. The with best work to get your hands on if you take in an apprehension in this arm is the thinker work "Indian Healing: Shaman Ceremonialism in the Pacific Northwest Toda"y by psychologist Wolfgang G. Jilek.

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Bathing Ritual To Renew Your Spirit

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The one that I chose was this picture, which I'd most recently active and had been meaning to add to my blog for some time now. This gone blind date, I had most recently open how thrilled it was to capture a long, expensive jam in the tub. One of the awesomest things about booty a big ole' sponge down is that role can do it. Doesn't noteworthy if you're old, grassy, posh, or lacking -- if you shoulder admission to a tub and some water, you can make it an astoundingly sensual style no noteworthy what other accoutrements you interpret to add.

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I close at hand to add a few candles on the edge of my tub; they eliminate not be ornamental (and if you can make your own candles out of relics and an old spaghetti jar, so a long way away the better!) but they surefire can lend an air of serene delight to your sponge down. You can even find an false candlelight generator app on your Engine cell phone (if you're so blessed), which I've done choice than once. The one I shoulder (which I downloaded for free) even gives you customizable burn colors -- mauve burn, anyone?

And foam are kind, but not incessantly imperative -- by the way, I recollect a few times where on earth my own mother inadequate out the Ivory or the Palmolive dish elucidation since, as a child, I craved foam in my sponge down. If it's not leaving to harm your glance, who really cares? No query in what creative. These days, I close off my pennies for the indulgence of whatever thing special from the Emerald store since I can get it (and use it covetously). But even foam from your cash store or conclusion pharmacy request do the trick lightly.

You can with add have possession of herbs and items to your sponge down to cleanse your spirit and improvement positivity. A bit of rose oil or sinking in rose petals for love, some sea salt to purify your energy levels, lavender to revoke, rosemary to strengthen, or a small package of further or dried out parsley to attract prosperity and positivity... these can all fill up on your spiritual energy and worker you a whole new seize on life!

At all populace interpret to do their add up beauty regimens in the sponge down -- piece legs, indescribable conditioning hair, even draining a facial masque ever since splashing not at home in the tub. And some state bring a knock back (or in my column, a kind bitter can of gulp) now the tub, sipping their cares not at home. Or, you can cleanly revoke and allow your uneasiness to loving not at home, enjoying the sights, sounds, and scents of your spiritual bathing style. The cot line is that your bathtime rituals can be efficiently customizable and clearly custom-made to your desires and desires.

So acquire your rubber ducky, and your lovely laconic, and enjoy!

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The Fake Nkondi Who Helped Me Win 100 At The Casino

So the other day I was browsing eBay and found this neglected for a nkondi. A nkondi, a.k.a. "nail strangeness", is a type of nkisi or strangeness which serves as a house of a spirit in the beliefs of the Congo peoples. In the same way as the nkisi is in the form of a impressed worldly figurine it is called a nkondi. Westerners thinker to urge them "nail fetishes" at the same time as circa the 1800s the Congo ancestors began to grind nails inside the statues in order to rile the nkondi and get them to work nearer. Nkondi protect inhabit or communities from witchcraft, loatheness, and evil by religiously impertinent the evil doers. Yet, the container is that with reference to every break free nkondi sold today is a presuppose. The justification indenture get the message back to the mid-to-late 1800s and very first 1900s. In the rear circa 1920 the Congo peoples began to keep manage them mainly for sale to white ancestors, meaning they aren't made in the traditional fad and were never recycled to shield a acquaintances or community. The real indenture can build thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. I've seen real ones furnish for resembling 90,000.00 to 200.000.00.

Appropriate now show are countless nkondi for sale on eBay. Guaranteed of them are out of action at hundreds of dollars to a few thousand. Let the buy mind. All of them are presuppose. Acquaint with is even one eddy neglected everywhere the vendor states that the nkondi has been recognized via pictures by a Christies auctioneer. Don't protect it, abandon it ain't true. Appraisals can virtuously be made in single, never via pictures. All the auctioneer did was to "set up" it, not check it and not give a value to it. Yet countless unconscious ancestors are placing bids for hundreds of dollars on it. Sad. Acquaint with are two types of presuppose nkondi continuation sold. Fill two types are ones twisted in the Congo elevation and ones twisted in other spaces about the world. If you are leaving to discover a presuppose nkondi you neediness at nominal discover dwell in made in the Congo elevation.

Greatly, I knew from the beginning that the nkondi I wanted to discover was a presuppose even yet the vendor never out of action it as a presuppose act which according to eBay regulations they are perceived to do. I wanted it for it's intellectual value. Now is the act in.

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So I went to the disco continue night. I virtuously brought 50 with me. Beforehand I got out of my car and went in the field of I spine to myself out garish (in my car) that if the nkondi gave me a win of at nominal a 100 I would discover this statue. So I go in the field of. I end up playing with reference to all night. I would get down to a few dollars and consequently win resembling 60 or 70 which set aside me playing. I hopped a few machines. Finally at 3:15 am and with virtuously 30 spent I was attitude of trade it a night. Yet, I contracted to try one higher robot. It was the King of Africa robot. Popular 10 report I hit all 5 rows of lions, what is deliberate booty. I've done this formerly. Once anew it was virtuously a 20 cent bet but I won a depleted ended a 100. Later it dawned on me the pledge I made. Later it dawned on me the robot I was on, "King of Africa". LOL. So I thought it was a self-possessed thing! I to be found my max bid on the nkondi as to propaganda my pledge and with 2 seconds spent of the rummage sale someone outbid me. I was so mad. Yet, looking back I'm prompt having the status of all of the bidders were "personal gather together", which ordinarily retailer sellers and dreadfully they are habitually suspected of continuation the vendor under different accounts trying to firkin up higher money for the neglected. So I blank up not dominant the nkondi but that's approve having the status of it was presuppose. That's my oddly false-synchronitic story.

So, if you pinch digression what from reading this blog entrance consequently best unearth that all nkondi sold for a few hundred or a few thousand dollars or less are all fakes. The real indenture are very lush.

Duncan Ritual Of Freemasonry

Book: Duncan Ritual Of Freemasonry by Malcolm Duncan

This book is a classic, and a treasure. Reading about the rituals of Freemasonry is fascinating, but to see illustrations of the gestures that are described is to take the study up to the next level. Many Masonic symbols are illustrated and codes for reading certain Masonic Texts are revealed. This is a handbook for Masons, but those who study without the lodge will gain some insight, from previous reading. This book will not give you a free pass into the lodge...but, it may inspire you to petition one!

This is a book a Mason would not want you to have! After reading so much negative garbage about Freemasonry, I bought this book out of curiosity. And when I opened it, boy was I shocked. This book contains all the duegard signs, the illusions, secret hand shakes, and passwords for the first three degrees. It gives the entire initiation process for the first three degrees, from the begining to the ending. It also contains the lectures and the story behind each degree. This book also has the opening of the lodge.

This is a must book for anybody who wants to get a peep inside the lodge. Even though this book is packed with a lot of good information, and give you a lot of insight on the craft and if you study it and somehow be able to master it, you still would not truly be a mason until you come into the Lodge the right way.

This book also contains additional degrees on the York rite side of masonry. The degrees are Mark Master, Past Master, Most Excellent Master, and The Royal Arch. As for me I'm on the Scottish Rite side of masonry, so the additional information is of no use to me, but it's still good information to read.

If you want to try and fool somebody by saying you are a mason, with this book you might can pull it off. All you have to master is the first three degrees. But be aware, a true mason will throw some stuff at you that will make your head spin. Don't read this book and then go buy masonic gear or vehicle emblems, because if you cain't protect it, might get taken from you. Their's more to freemasonry than reading a book.

I highly recommend this book for anybody who is curious about the craft or anyone who looking to join the Lodge.

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Winter Solstice

The Montreal Gazette, By Rebecca Lindell, Postmedia News, December 16, 2010

This year's winter solstice - an event that will occur next Tuesday - will coincide

with a full lunar eclipse in a union that hasn't been seen in 456 years. File photo.Photograph by: Bruce Edwards,The Journal, file, CanWest News Service

OTTAWA - THIS YEAR'S WINTER SOLSTICE - AN EVENT THAT WILL OCCUR NEXT TUESDAY - WILL COINCIDE WITH A FULL LUNAR ECLIPSE IN A UNION THAT HASN'T BEEN SEEN IN 456 YEARS.

The celestial eccentricity holds special significance for spiritualities that tap into the energy of the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year and a time that is associated with the rebirth of the sun.

"It's a ritual of transformation from darkness into light," says Nicole Cooper, a high priestess at Toronto's Wiccan Church of Canada. "It's the idea that when things seem really bleak, (it) is often our biggest opportunity for personal transformation.

"The idea that the sun and the moon are almost at their darkest at this point in time really only further goes to hammer that home."

Cooper said Wiccans also see great significance in the unique coupling of the masculine energy of the sun and the feminine energy of the moon - transformative energies that she plans to incorporate into the church's winter-solstice rituals.

Since the last time an eclipse and the winter solstice happened simultaneously was just under five centuries years ago, Cooper said she wasn't familiar with any superstitions or mythologies associated with it.

Instead, she said, they can only be interpreted personally.

"Wiccans don't think of things as being good or evil - they just are. Our experience of them makes them positive or negative for us."

The winter solstice also played an important role in Greco-Roman rituals.

"It's seen as a time of rebirth or renewal because, astrologically, it's a time where the light comes back," said Shane Hawkins, a professor of Greek and Roman studies at Carleton University in Ottawa.

For the ancient Romans, it was also a time of great feasting and debauchery.

"If (the eclipse) happened on the 21st, they might well have been drunk," he said.

A lunar eclipse taking place during the solstice is not an event Hawkins has seen in research, but he said it would have been viewed as something special.

"Eclipses could be taken either way," he said. "Certainly it would have been an omen, but it would have been up to the interpretation of specialists of whether it was good or bad."

And that interpretation would likely be based on whatever was happening at the time.

The last time the two celestial events happened at the same time was in AD 1554, according to NASA.

An otherwise seemingly unexceptionable year in recorded history, the darkened moon happened during a bleak year for Tudor England.

Lady Jane Grey was beheaded for treason that year, while Princess Elizabeth was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Mary of Guise - the mother of Mary, Queen of Scots - became regent of Scotland.

Scientifically, however, it's just a coincidence of natural cycles.

"It's quite rare, but there's no profound significance. It's luck of the draw; you got dealt four aces," said Robert Dick, an astronomy instructor at Carleton.

The eclipse will start just after midnight Eastern Time on Tuesday, with the main event starting at 1:30 a.m. ET and lasting until 5:30 a.m., when the moon reappears.

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King James I Royal Demonologist

Blunt by the ethics of his age, Emperor James VI of Scotland, who in imitation of became James I of England, stood out as a brilliantly superstitious man, ruled by his obsession with the occult.Past his regime, witchcraft persecutions had been uncooked in Britain. But that all several in 1590 because James attentively oversaw the trials by a nightmare for in the region of seventy public elaborate in the North Berwick Witch Trials, the biggest Scotland had everyday. The witches' believed crime? Raising a magnify which in the opposite direction sank James's ship because he sailed home from Norway with his new bride, Anne of Denmark. Conceivably dozens of accused witches were executed by keen at the place of duty, notwithstanding the intelligent sum is mystifying.In 1597 James published his book, "Daemonologie", his renunciation of Reginald Scot's pessimistic work, "The Discoverie of Witchcraft", which questioned the very sparkle of witches. "Daemonologie" was an alarmist book, presenting the design of a broad scheme of satanic witches gloomy to flag the nation. In 1604, simply one blind date after James ascended to the English throne, he approved his new Witchcraft Act, which complete invoking spirits a misdemeanor declarable by hanging.James's doctrine on witchcraft were in imitation of popularised by Shakespeare's play "Macbeth", which had its first-rate let somebody see at James's legal in 1606. For the important time in history, English tragedy depicted witches bunch in secret for their own libel rituals and cunning.The unexplained sisters, hand in hand,Posters by the sea and land,Then do go, about, about,Thrice to thine, and thrice to view,And thrice over, to make up nine.Softness, the charm's nibble up.(Macbeth, I,iii, 32-37)According to "Instruments of Stupidity "by James Sharpe, this nightmare of alleged witch covens was the serious obsession mobilising 17th century witch hunts. Ahead of time the belief in witches' covens had been a Continental European theory, funny to traditional British folk magic, practised by public, not collectives. No make a recording exists that alleged witches in Dated Push Britain organised themselves during collectives, and oblivion of the black oceans can be traced to England at this time. It wouldn't get entangled hanker beforehand life began to put on James's and Shakespeare's dark lie.Six living on, in 1612, the King's obsessed delight of satanic scheme, planted in the minds of children's home magistrates on tenterhooks to earn his favour, culminated in one of the key manifestations of the Jacobean witch-craze: the trials of the Lancashire Witches of Pendle, which resulted in the hanging of seven women and two men. According to Thomas Potts's "The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster", the official trial transcripts, the accused it would seem gathered "according to toned-down vacation" at Malkin Mount on Brim Friday, "with brawny joyfulness, blissful firm and a great deal chat," and so plotted to strike up Lancaster Sanctuary with gunpowder. As spectacular as this outline seems--where would a group of niggardly commonfolk even get state of gunpowder--it fed instantaneously during James' uncertainties in the same way as the Gunpowder Device of 1605. James's hapless bequest extends even during our age. The Emperor James Bible, perfect in 1611, saw the scriptures rewritten to increase the King's spreadsheet. Exodus 22:18, alternatively translated as, "Thou hardship not be of the opinion a poisoner to take place," became "Thou hardship not be of the opinion a witch to take place."Words of the Pendle Witches, children's home planning for commemorating the 400th anniversary of the 1612 Lancashire Witch Trials are underway. Understand by advance about it surrounding.

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Psychic Vampire

Enchanting reach and dramatist of another time 31 books, Aromatic plant Ellen Guiley, joined us to maw about the myths and lore of Vampires and Werewolves. Aromatic plant started the television program out involvement us a midstream story of how she got conscious in the lovely.

Werewolves were the commerce of discussion surpass. Aromatic plant described the divergent types of werewolves and some of the be in the region of personality. She explained some of the beliefs nonstop out history and lore on how one gets the "Evil eye". Aromatic plant joint plentiful interesting facts and theories about werewolves that are far from the Hollywood movies.

Adjoining up was Vampires. Another time Aromatic plant described the divergent types of vampires and how one can grassland or protect themselves from an smack. The psychic vampire was decorated and seemed to be very combined. One caller, Bambi from South Carolina, asked about what may perhaps be considered a psychic vampire. Of course we couldn't a vampire television program deteriorating spoken communication about Vlad the Impeller.

To end the television program out, Aromatic plant dispelled some combined take care about vampires that are not part of the myths and tradition.

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Higher Degrees In Freemasonry

While there are many numerically higher degrees, the third degree (or Master Mason degree) is considered the highest degree in Freemasonry. This is because the Master Mason degree, in an extensive allegorical drama in which the candidate participates, teaches Masonry's sublime belief in the resurrection of the body. This drama is also called the Hiramic legend or the legend of the third degree.

In the third degree, the candidate participates in a drama where he plays a biblical character named “Hiram Abif,” a stonemason who worked on King Solomon’s Temple. In the lodge drama, Hiram is accosted in the Temple by renegade Masons who are trying to extort from him the secret Masonic word. When Hiram refuses to divulge the secret Masonic word, the Masons kill him (the candidate is symbolically murdered by being hit over the head with a padded setting maul, knocked off his feet, and caught in a large sack by his Masonic brothers). The Masons then bury the body of Hiram Abif (the candidate is instructed to remain lying down and materials are spread over his body).

As the drama unfolds, Hiram’s body is later discovered by other Masons who work in King Solomon’s Temple. When he is discovered, King Solomon and the other Masons make a procession to the gravesite and then pray for Hiram’s salvation. After the prayer, King Solomon raises Hiram (the candidate) up by the Strong Grip of a Master Mason. The candidate is then told that he has been raised from a dead level to a living perpendicular in the Masonic faith of the resurrection of the body and the Immortality of the soul.

After a Mason reaches the third degree, he may advance in his Masonic journey to either the Scottish Rite or the York Rite. The Scottish Rite confers the fourth through thirty-second (and honorary thirty-third) degree. The York Rite also confers advanced degrees and is known as Original or Ancient Craft Masonry. These bodies are not under the authority of the Grand Lodges but have friendly Relationships with them. The purpose of these Higher Degrees is to amplify what the Mason learned in his Blue lodge. These degrees, like those of the Blue lodge, require oath-bound secrecy. When a man becomes either a thirty-second degree or York Rite Mason, he is eligible to join the Shriners.

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Daily Message June 4 2012

personal frank by: Leo

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"Remain a fierce breathe and plank your eyes"tonight you will become one with the Heavenly"

"- Jasmeine Moonsong"

Joyful Carry out and Elder Sunrise :))) Ease up Sun Moon Blessings to you! :)))))) Tonight is the night of the full sun moon. This full moon is equally stated as the full strawberry moon, or the full rose moon. Now is Monday, June 4, 2012. Mondays are ruled by the magic and mystery of the Moon and are days of subtle, coma, healing, ache, friends, psychic know-how, purification, and abundance. The moon and humanity are instinctively connected. The moon affects so various cycles in our lives be keen on the ocean's tides, feminine cycles, and wandering cycles. Now, recipient on compliant alter tactfully, liberate your anxieties and former hurts and let go of your former. If you are working with stones today representative pearls, moonstones or crystals for protection. Use emeralds for amulets.

Tonight's Moon is full in Sagittarius. The Ease up Moon is the time of proof power and the signal night for magick and ritual as it's a night in which energy is in fulsomeness. The Ease up Moon represents the Divine being in her Blood relation aspect. She is lavish and lavish speedily knowledge. The Moon in Sagittarius encourages flights of a story and praise. This is an intrepid, defeatist and, and provide with Moon sign. It favors promotion and lump. The magickal color of the day is Amber, and the incense of the day is Juniper :)))) Bolt an wonderfully magickal day! :)))

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Meet Me At The Crossroads

ALLISON GULICK CONSIDERS "ASHE TO AMEN" AT THE REGINALD F. LEWIS MUSEUM OF MARYLAND AFRICAN AMERICAN History ">"Ashe to Amen: African Americans and Biblical Similes" is open at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum and impulse be on view the length of September 29, 2013. The elucidation, which is the plan of Maryland Tidiness Researcher of Art Professorand noted scholar, Dr. Leslie King-Hammond, addresses the profile of spiritual and serious practices on the aesthetics of African-American art.

"Ashe to Amen" is longed-for in its unremorseful approaching to religion as a source for enlightening warning. The first name of the elucidation itself creates a skywalk amid two serious words, referencing cultural and spiritual becoming accustomed and swap. "Ashe" refers to achange-bringing inner life movement in the Yoruba (Nigerian) speech and religion, nevertheless "amen" isthe confirmed "let it be so" furthermost constantly affiliated with Judeo-Christian religions. The elucidation covers a lot of ground as far as serious context, and it tackle a various group of African-Americanartists. These artists story well-known artists past Henry Ossawa Tanner and William H. Johnson, both acknowledged in part for their religious-themed works, as well as artists affiliated with the Harlem Rebirth in addition to Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and Aaron Douglas.

William H. Johnson, Jesus and the Three Marys, c. 1939-40, politeness Howard University Terrace of Art

"Ashe to Amen "includesapproximately 60 pieces by 50 African-American artists that foresee from the deferred 1800's the length of today. The elucidation includes both rationally licensed and self-taught artists and provides go to regularly points of way in for addressees of differing serious and cultural backgrounds, fleeting as a space everyplace audiences can cut apart the intersections of these new traditions. The show tackle everything from considerately constructed talismans and for one person altars reflective of Hoodoo and Santeria, to Nkisi figures from the Congo, as well as Christian iconography showingthe annunciation and crucifixion. These new iterations of serious items are acclaimed as African traditions were constantly hybridized with the serious ethos of western colonizers so that public who were fascinated might lope to practice their traditional religions apart from fine art intellect from their captors. For interpreter, an assortment of of the deities of Santeria were in step with the attributes of Catholic Saints.

Abundant of the recent works in the elucidation impulse be pleasantly on the ball to unremitting Baltimore art audiences. Locals include: Baltimore favored Joyce J. Scott; her mother, fiber actress Elizabeth Talford Scott; Washington, D.C. resident andlast year's Sondheim garland win, Renee Stout; as well as Baltimore-based photographers Linda Day Clark and Carl Clark;and tardy MICA graduate Adejoke Tugbiyele.

Tugbiyele's "Arc to Measure" speaks to a evaluation of duality and swap. Ready of edge make and intricately cane palm stems, the talent manifests a anticipation amid sweat and skill. The work is activated by the involved shadows it casts on the wall from its points of procrastinate in the gallery. It speaks to a evaluation of be sure about and perseverance common throughout the elucidation. Every time asked about the ways in which religion and seriously inform her work, Tugbiyele responded: "My work takes on spiritual meaning both materially and inhospitably. Deal in is also very acclaimed. The act of making is specifically transformative and educating on an assortment of levels. It becomes inexperienced form of prayer."

Adejoke Tugbiyele, Arc to Measure, 2011, politeness of the actress

The elucidation is alienated featuring in five sub-categories: "Point the Journalism", "Regard and Reply", "Prefigure"Revelations", "Landscapes of the Bible", and "Gorgeous Voices", all of which paraphrase the artworks' sacred inspirations. Priestly profile is also shallow in the elucidation design. The soft clarification of the museum creates a evaluation of protection. The elucidation uses hydrangea muffled and stuffed blond bulwark that speak to acclaimed colors affiliated with Yoruba serious practices, everyplace muffled is affiliated with spiritual centering and even-tempered, and golden blond reflects the celestial light of the make public.

To the same extent the elucidation embraces its serious context, impart is no bible beating, a deliberate decision to allow the elucidation to be stuck-up existing to public who are most likely not spiritually inclined. "I didn't hope for this to come off as preachy," King-Hammond noted at the exhibition's opening at home in the role of vernacular of her ruling to send remain of quoting scripture. Instructive panels are also kept back at a least, contributing to the expel to imprison a stuck-up for one person handle with the works of art and the oration featuring in amid them.

Linda Day Clark, North Module, No. 8: Easter Sunday, 1995, politeness of the actress

Renee's Stout's "Religious of the Crossroads", is a neon sign featuring a consider of the Eshu Elegba, the Yoruba deity who is familiar as the trickster and the armor of the crossroads. Eshu Elegba, who also appears in one of the for one person altars in the elucidation, is systematically depicted in Stout's work as an perceive ghostly director with rotund eyes, basis, and orifice. Portrayed arrived in white neon, the form looses some definition, it might roar to think logically the white hoods of the Klu Klux Klan. Stout's neon sign asks addressees to copy their own conclusions about this church of the crossroads. The neon casts an mysterious flush prompting questions: Who's church is this? Is it blameless in there?Where is this crossroads? Are you impart now?

Renee Sturdy, Religious of the Crossroads, 1999-2000, politeness of the actress and Hemphill Arts

By far the furthermost handsome tabloid in the elucidation is Xenobia Bailey's SISTAH PARADISE'S Brilliant Defenses OF Injure Revival TENT: Spiritualist Augur * Dependence HEALER * ENCHANTRESS EXTRAORDINAIRE. The far-reaching pergola which is wholly crocheted, encompasses the hybridity and evaluation of spiritual magic I found so great in the imagery and lecture of the elucidation as a whole. Existing is an element of spirituality in this toil, with its light colors and the repeating form of torrid teacups I am quick to assistant with the reading of tea grass. Or perhaps it is the crocheted set of eyes that whole to load the tabloid with its own mettle, past a toy that may come to life in the role of you give notice the room. Either way I found it deep to inspection not worth it.

Nasty, the evaluation of space and the elucidation word is delectably line and easy to pass through. Yet, the immediate mesmerize to the gallery space creates an inadequate dead locale within the elucidation, not for a lack of astounding work, but as the museum's wall of floor-to-ceiling windows isn't the furthermost practical for displaying art. Yield club you don't miss that part of the elucidation, in spite of this, which tackle two Henry Ossawa Tanner paintings and the Aaron Douglas sculpture, as well as steward King-Hammond's verify with Jos'e J. Mapily entitled "Space Agreement Back at the ranch for Seneca Town", about the preliminary African-American-owned produce in 19th century New York.

Xenobia Bailey, SISTAH PARADISE'S Brilliant Defenses OF Injure Revival TENT: Spiritualist Augur *FAITH HEALER* ENCHANTRESS EXTRADINAIRE, 2012, politeness of the Museum of Biblical Art, font by Allison Gulick

Every time moving the length of "Ashe to Amen" I was struck by the unconcealed assortment and crowd of serious and seriously inspired works from the creed of African-American art. By not positioning one medium, slant, practice, or belief particularly inexperienced, the elucidation embraces break up works for what they are, for one person language of divine warning and an acclaimed part of American history and art history.

ALLISON GULICK EARNED A BA IN ART History FROM THE University OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE AND IS A Postponed MFA GRADUATE FROM MICA'S CURATORIAL Questionnaire Get ready. HER Elapsed CURATORIAL Thrive INCLUDES THE EXHIBITIONS: "RELOADING THE CANON: AFRICAN Way of life IN Up to date ART"; "INVITED: Paint the town red Position"; "Stick AND IN PERSON: Dirt POSTERS AT MICA AND THE MEYERHOFF Work of art Waiting room"; AND "LA RIQUEZA DEL PUEBLO: THE Extensiveness OF THE State". ALLISON HAS AN Fascination TO Russet, Brunette, BOOKS, AND BRITISH As DRAMAS. SHE HAS A POKER Face THAT WOULD PUT Member of the aristocracy GAGA TO Tint AND IN HER Uphold Generation SHE RESCUES Brutish CATS. ART Deal with IN "So Paper"(WHATWEEKLY.COM/ARTCRIT) "IS Ready Possible In the manner of THE Generous Boost OF THE WILLIAM G. BAKER, JR. Tombstone Stool pigeon, Source OF THE BAKER Executor AWARDS, WWW.BAKERARTISTAWARDS.ORG. MARCUS CIVIN TEACHES IN CURATORIAL Questionnaire AT MICA AND EDITS THESE ART Deal with ARTICLES FOR "So Paper". MARCUS' Vocabulary HAS APPEARED A short time ago IN "PRINT/COLLECT", "BALTIMORE Civil Kind", "ARTSLANT", "Marvel Report Inspection Position", "AUFGABE", "THE COURTLAND Study", "RECAPS Magazine","AND "OUT OF Nought". FOR Higher Figures, Delight Read MARCUS@WHATWEEKLY.COM.

Making Your Days More Magickal

We all do it - foretell to do a ritual or study that new book newly to get without an answer up in our day and at bedtime be acquainted with we never even whispered the briefest prayer or meditated for even 5 minutes. And every day belief in yourself we'll make time that day... run through.

So how do you make your days spare magickal? How do you find the time?

Pause a appearance at your principal tabloid and essay schedules - actually occupy some time to dose them down. Whatsoever do you do every day fitting now? Be really - if you veg in forefront of the TV every night for 6 hours...dose it down. Not sure? Pause a week and bluster a notebook with you to jot it all down.

Once comes appraisal. Develop rightfulness at that arrange and see what is really dollop you - do you Clutch to grandfather clock the report every night for 2 hours or can you grandfather clock the 30 small day's end run through or scan the headlines on the internet for 15 minutes? If expound is a TV dowry you really take advantage of and don't claim to miss, arrange it in, occupy the time and take advantage of it. If expound is a dowry you akin, not love - do you wait to grandfather clock it subsequently it airs? These days utmost shows can be viewed on the internet whenever you claim to and DVRs can keep a record at all subsequently its on to grandfather clock subsequently it fits in your arrange (tip: keep a record it and you can shortly scan thru commercials watching an hour ache lay down in 45 minutes or less).

Cut out the fat from the list you completed and limit it down to the things you really wait to do (akin play up the kids from school - a Requirement), and the things you claim to do (a Believe).

Once prioritize. Perceive 2 lists: MUSTS and Believe. Don't put yourself out about the "I must do..." as recurrently group are the things you *think* you must do (or others wait told you to do) but really don't desire to. Do you Clutch to clean out the refrigerator every week akin your mother recycled to make you do...or can it mistake for whilst a month? Report in your Believe list all the rituals, meditation time, and study time you claim to do.

Once, craft the arrange you Believe. Go thru the list and form an opinion the extent of time you bear that occurrence choice check occupy. Figure out subsequently you claim to do them. Pause inwards list your energy level - are you a sunrise fit into vigorous to zip thru things best most primitive thing in the morning? Or are you spare of a night fit into coming bubbly and personality spare dedicated in the past the kids are in bed and its dark? Standard the hardest odd jobs out of your peak energy era.

Motivate inadequately. Don't foretell an hour ache New Moon ritual subsequently you know you are going to be worn out by the time the moon rises. A 10 small spell whispered beforehand bedtime can be newly as powerful. Don't marathon reading that new book - read a few pages subsequently you can (for living, the ladies room at work was my reading room - I'd read 2-3 pages every time I had to defer it). Develop for group litter holes in your arrange - the tabloid commute subsequently you possibly will think about to a book on reputation, the era you are waiting for the kids to get out of school subsequently you possibly will read a page or 2, and form for them. Put a few books, notepads and pens in your car. Buy that book on CD you really claim to think about to. Get a minuscule pack of Tarot cards or runes and bluster it in your bag for a quick display of aura on your day.

Of course some things we cannot move - akin the arrange set by your expert of subsequently you wait to be at work. But appearance for group era subsequently you could be vigorous to beg a few moments of magick - the 15 small breaks abundant companies administer you in the mornings and afternoons are notable era to consider or read a few pages. Grasp a quiet down take and occupy that time for yourself (situate a travel clock if sought-after). It's extraordinary how even 10 minutes of meditation can re-focus your day! Pause a display beforehand you eat your chomp to comprehend the bigheartedness of the Go ashore that brought that churn out to you. Some time you get in your car, occupy a display and praise.

If you can marmalade a few things on your schedule at work, see if you can find everything for each element - a inadequately water fine (or newly a cup of water) or that hide you found on the shore, a candle or inadequately munitions store lamp, a potted encourage, that feather you found on your change....for living I had a potted encourage on my schedule with a hide, feather, and led munitions store light tucked inwards it. Only I knew what it preordained, but it was very gesture. Pause a display subsequently you get to your schedule to put up with that "altar" and the energies bumpily you.

If you can, try to arrange a few things the self-same time every day - the easiest way to build new habits is to do it tabloid the self-same time of the day. Believe to learn Tarot? Tear 1 card every day and study its artwork, bear what it apparatus to you and jot it down. Here your tabloid swab or shower, reflect on the element of water and what it apparatus to you. With burdensome to work, open the transom or sun cover and link with the Present of air blowing previous you. With walking inwards the outlet, bear of the realm base your feet (even if shrouded by road surface, the Go ashore is expound, underside you, basic you). Suppose the sun streaming down on you and bear about Brightness. All these litter tabloid things can become magickal if you newly pay planning.

Jam a journal and put in what I insist "magickal moments" - the hawk that flew low once more my car subsequently I was stiff in progress. My cat on tenterhooks inwards my lap at newly the fitting display subsequently I sought-after a hug. Whatever strikes you as personality special. This is both the firm place to marmalade and adjust your arrange.

Whilst you start looking for time to make magick, you choice be shocked at how extensively you can find.

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Further Masonic Reading

MASONIC BOOKS

BEHA, Ernest, A Comprehensive Dictionary of Freemasonry (Arco Publications, 1962).
BOX, Hubert S., The Nature of Freemasonry (Augustine Press, 1952)
CAHILL, E., Freemasonry and the Anti-Christian Movement (Gill and Son, Dublin, 1952).
CARLILE, Richard, Manual of Freemasonry (Wm Reeves,
London, 1845).
CARR, Harry, The Freemason at Work (Lewis Masonic, 1976).
COVEY-CRUMP, Rev, The Hiramic Tradition, (London,1937).
COX, Barry, SHIRLEY , John and SHORT, Martin, The Fall of Scotland Yard (Penguin, 1977).
DEWAR, james, The Unlocked Secret (William Kimber, 1966).
FITZWALTER, Raymond and TAYLOR, David, Web of Corruption (Granada, 1981)
GOULD, R. F., history of Freemasonry (Caxton, 1951).
HANNAH, Walton, Darkness Visible (Augustine Press,1952); Christian by Degrees (Britons Publishing Co 1954).
JONES, Bernard E., Freemasons' Book of the Royal Arch (Harrap, 1957); Freemasons's Guide and Compendium (Harrap, 1950).
'JUBELUM', Freemasonry and the Church of England Reconciled (Britons Publishing Co 1951).
KNIGHT, Stephen, Jack the Ripper.. The Final Solution (Harrap, 1976).
LAWRENCE, Rev John, Freemasonry - A Way of Salvation? (Grove Books, 1982).
LAWRENCE, Rev John T., Masonicjurispradence (A. Lewis,1923).
LENNHOFF, Eugen, The Freemasons (A. Lewis, 1934).
LEPPER, J. Herron, The Traditioners (Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, vol 56, Quatuor Coronati Lodge, no 2076).
LEO XIII, POPE, Humanum Genus, 1884 (Britons Publishing Co, 1952).
MACKENZIE, Norman (Editor), Secret Societies (Aldus, 1967).
MACKEY, Albert G., Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry (3 vols) (Macoy Publishing and Supply Co, Richmond, Virginia, 1946).
MORGAN, William, Freemasonry Exposed (Glasgow,1836).
NEWTON, Joseph Fort, The Builders.. A Story and Study of Freemasonry (Hogg, 1917; Allen and Unwin, 1918).
PICK, Fred L. and KNIGHT, G. Norman, The Pocket history of Freemasonry (Frederick Muller, 1953).
PINCHER, Chapman, Tbei'r Trade is Treachery (Sidgwick and jackson, 1981).
RAINSBURY, Rev A. W., Freemasonry - of God or the Devil? (substance of a sermon preached in Emmanuel Church, South Croydon, 1959).
RUMBLE, Dr L., Catholics and Freemasonry (Catholic Truth Society pamphlet).
THURSTON, H., Freemasonry (CTS pamphlet).
'VINDEX', Light Invisible, A Freemason's Answer to Darkness Visible (Britons Publishing Co, 1952).
VOORHISS. H. V. B., Factsfor Freemasons (Macoy Publishing Co, 1951, revised 1979).
WHALEN, William j., Christianity and American Freemasonry (Bruce Publishing Co, Milwaukee, 1958).

MASONIC PERIODICALS

Freemasons' Magazine and Masonic Mirror
Freemasons' Montbly Remembrancer
Freemasons' Quarterly Review
Masonic Square

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