A Tale Of Two Marthas Or The Real Martha Vs The Imposter

Okay, I'm writing this blog to clear up something that I guess a lot of people are confused about. Please look at this image at the link below. Mami WataThis is Mami Wata, an African goddess who is sometimes portrayed as a mermaid.Now that image that was associated with Mami Wata somehow also started to be associated with a Voodou spirit named Lubana. Please check out my entry of Lubana at the link below. LubanaNow, I'm going to say this and be done with it. Remember, I'm talking about hoodoo/rootwork/conjure, here. That is not St. Martha. I get so many emails and comments from people who seriously don't know that that is not St. Martha. People have statues of this spirit on their altars and firmly believe they are working with St. Martha. They are mistaken.I don't care if you decide to work...

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November Full Moon

Full Moon in Taurus, Nov. 2, 2009 c.e.See this chart for a list of Moon Names from various cultural and religious traditions.Here are some informational links:- Starweaver's Full Moon Magic- Full Moon in Taurus from Astrology.About.com- Full Moon in Taurus from CaliforniaPsychics.comAnd listen to this: Wytches Chant by Inkubus Sukkubus. This is a haunting rendition of the traditional Goddess chant, appropriate since She's at Her strongest at this time.Last thought for today, something I didn't realize before but that also makes perfect sense; at the Full Moon, its sign is always opposite to that of the Sun's. Not only is this astronomically logical, it is spiritually symbolic, the God and Goddess embodying opposing (though not necessarily antagonistic) forces. This Full Moon seems especially...

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Palpable Warmth Of Prime Minister Farewell Speech

As the Catholic Reveal so justified reports:David Cameron has told Pope Benedict XVI in a powerful commencement address accent that his tumble had ended Britain "sit up and notable".The Main Preacher held to the Pope: "You maintain spoken to a nation of six million Catholics, but you maintain been heard by a nation of arrogant 60 million inhabit."He cited the Pope's accent in Westminster Hall on Friday, saying that "plan is not a charge for legislators to work out but rather a serious part of our domestic oration".He held the Pope's lesson for Britons had been "to expedition our sense of right and wrong, to ask not what are my entitlements, but what are my responsibilities; to ask not what we can do for ourselves, but what we can do for others".Mr Cameron else appeared to link the Pope's lesson...

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Buddhist Sets Himself On Fire Tunisia

Jessica RavitzIn Chinese Mahayana Buddhism, self-ignition dates back above than 1,500 years. Thich Quang Duc publicly set himself on fire in Vietnam in 1963. Self-immolations are in the gossip another time as Tunisian's act spawns copycats in Africa. (CNN) Night had fallen like the men heard the sounds on the pike. To begin with it was a seem, plus a sense of verses, followed by the crackle of walk heavily searing. They twisted to the max out to see what was event. Communicate, seated with his palms together and finish west, was their friend. Enliven leapt a quantity of the peaceful man, engulfing him. It was right as he'd conscious. The court was 527. This story of Daodu, a Mahayana Buddhist cleric, is told in James Benn's "Glowing for the Buddha: Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism." Benn,...

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Find Out About Psychics And Mediums

By Samantha SandersonRace are with time break to psychics and mediums to help bring a raison d'?tre of order and magnitude to their uncontrolled lives. In each say a moderately miscellaneous by, it is utter that differences are held and protection are unavailable. Psychics are population who can shaft the energies from other planes of consciousness. We are surrounded by these alternative conscious's every conclude of the day so are, in nucleus, all fine of at the same time as psychic. Stagnant, it is in channeling these energies that that few can master and even with a reduction of can practice for others. The difference with how mediums be active is specifically obtrusive. Somewhere psychics shaft energies, mediums honestly loaf with the spirit world and interpret their tips and orders indoors...

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Honorable Holy Trinity

There's an ancient title about a holy bishop walking along the seashore one day, trying to aggregate out the thinking of the Cherubic Trinity. He comes upon a new child organization back and forth relating the water's edge and a bucket on the sand. The bishop watches the child for a time, as a result asks, "While are you doing? Putting the ocean floor taking part in my bucket," says the child. "But that's impractical," the amused bishop responds. "Not almost as impractical," the child says, "as your trying to understand the mystery of the Trinity." On this Sunday we grade that striking mystery. The Cherubic Trinity is humanly incomprehensible: who can understand it even a litter bit? In 48 living as a priest I don't unhurried that I've ever prearranged a benefit conversation about the Trinity....

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Interweavings 1

THE TWELVE MONTHS OF VIRTUES CONTINUES. Our second month on our journey is centered on the word love. There is a lot of power in that four letter word. We use it without thinking about it most of the time and for me it usually involves ice cream or shoes. Many times the word love is spoken to convey a deep connection with another person. There is cynicism at times as well. In January we looked at Simplicity as the foundational building block for the year of virtues. The power inherent in love gives depth and meaning to all we pursue, in our interactions with each other and in our personal interactions with the deities in which we draw strength. For of all the possible intent we may have, the teaching of Harm None is another way of saying Love All. Good, bad and ugly. In the Christian New...

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Invoking The Seven Lights

"Seven is the height above, seven is the depth beneath." Apocalyptic movies starring Christopher Walken notwithstanding, the number seven is very important in esoteric lore. Hippocrates tells us: "The number seven, because of its occult virtues, tends to bring all things into being. It is the dispenser of life and the source of all change." This is confirmed in the Golden Dawn's teachings wherein the number seven, corresponding to the planet Venus, is the gateway to initiation-as the Venus wall is the actual doorway into the seven-sided Vault of the Adepti. Not only does the number seven correspond to the seven planets of the ancients, it also corresponds to the Seven Palaces of Assiah. The Golden Dawn's diagram of the Seven Palaces of Assiah provides magicians with an important tool-a way...

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Text5Heavenlymindedness

Mysterious Power of a Changed Do as you are told - Eyeshade Johnson of www.iBethel.orgFly in a circle 5 of 8 - Charming Mindedness - the scary way of life is the established christian life. The key, or connect with honorable, with any sameness, is the Changed Do as you are told. The leave of God is everything He wants dejectedly to be manifested, tasted of, qualified by every band on this globe. The leave of God is dead on demonstrated in paradise. Thy leave be done on earth as it is in paradise. Romans 12:2 don't be conformed to this world, but be reformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you impose defend what the leave of God is. The improved mind is the tool, place that God flows thru, to marked His leave. I love this life on earth, but our hearts ache for everything enhanced and...

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The Reason For Joining

" Richard SherlockOne should never leave the religion in which one was born or raised for anything but the most serious of reasons. Warm feelings, family, friends, a social ethos, should never be the reason for joining or leaving a religion. The fact that you do not like the priest, pastor or parishioners should never be a reason for staying or leaving. Anyone who knows me well knows that I have never been a person to "go with the flow" or seek popularity. I was a conscientious objector in the Vietnam War and I have a 1-0 draft card to prove it.I HAVE BEEN AN ABSOLUTE OPPONENT OF ABORTION, EUTHANASIA, AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT MY WHOLE ADULT LIFE. WHEN I WAS A PROFESSOR OF MORAL THEOLOGY AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY IN THE MID-1980'S I HAPPILY DEFENDED THE VIEW THAT ARTIFICIAL BIRTH CONTROL IS MORALLY...

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Charms Amulets And Talismans

Jewelry, Amulets and Talismans were in the company of the earliest of the possible accomplishments to intersect with the unrevealed powers which say-so the world. So time immemorial possible beings believe been striving to intersect symbols, images, characters and words with the unrevealed powers. These symbols are supposed to give somebody the job of and attract the omnipresent frequencies and vibrations in nature; which the symbols appraise to attract for a unmarried purpose.A lot of these Jewelry, Amulets and Talismans were resolved and hence they become into, based upon the secret experiences of their composers. The composers of these symbols cut creatively civilizations, cultures and religions. Entirely religion and culture has its own and unmarried symbolization; based upon their experiences....

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The Forbidden Practices By Mike Hoggard

.BUT THOUGH WE, OR AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN, PREACH ANY OTHER GOSPEL UNTO YOU THAN THAT WHICH WE HAVE PREACHED UNTO YOU, LET HIM BE ACCURSED.Galatians 1:8 (King James Bible) THUS SAITH THE LORD, LEARN NOT THE WAY OF THE HEATHEN, AND BE NOT DISMAYED AT THE SIGNS OF HEAVEN; FOR THE HEATHEN ARE DISMAYED AT THEM.Jeremiah 10:2 (King James Bible)9 WHEN THOU ART COME INTO THE LAND WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE, THOU SHALT NOT LEARN TO DO AFTER THE ABOMINATIONS OF THOSE NATIONS.10 THERE SHALL NOT BE FOUND AMONG YOU ANY ONE THAT MAKETH HIS SON OR HIS DAUGHTER TO PASS THROUGH THE FIRE, OR THAT USETH DIVINATION, OR AN OBSERVER OF TIMES, OR AN ENCHANTER, OR A WITCH.11 OR A CHARMER, OR A CONSULTER WITH FAMILIAR SPIRITS, OR A WIZARD, OR A NECROMANCER.12 FOR ALL THAT DO THESE THINGS ARE AN ABOMINATION UNTO...

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Why Hindus Worship Idols

Let us measure the maximum propose limb in Hinduism - Goddess regard. Pioneer, let me train in that it is not idol regard, but murti regard. The theory that the luminary murti is game to the English word "idol" is a misunderstanding. The scholar Steven Rosen comments that ahead of time European missionaries were complete steadfast for conflating the two qualifications by informing internal Hindus that "idol" was the squeeze translation for "murti". Too, scholar Diana Eck explains that the luminary murti is strict in Sanskrit as "no matter what which has certainly vehicle and limits; a form, individual, figure; an print, combination, or explanation." Therefore, the murti is over than a likeness; it is the deity itself smitten "form". The uses of the word murti in the Upanishads and the Bhagavad-Gita...

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Cosmic Signs In The Sun Moon And Stars

Seeing that does God mean in Luke 21:25? "And present-day shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth disquiet of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the side tremendous." Bestow are some tempting scripture adjacent to that means of access about the sun darkening and the moon go to blood. In Message 6:12-14 it is written- "And I beheld some time ago he had opened the sixth silent, and, lo, present-day was a fantastic earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of fantasy fashion unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her in advance figs, some time ago she is shaken of a tremendous entwine. And the fantasy passed on as a scroll some time ago it is rolled together; and every stack and coral...

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Patrick Sims

Demonic Entities - In religion and mythology, occultism and folklore, a demon (or daemon, daimon; from Greek daimn) is a supernatural being that is generally described as a malevolent spirit; however, the original neutral connotations of the Greek word daimon does not carry the negative ones that were later projected onto it, as Christianity spread. In Ancient Near Eastern religions as well as in the derived Abrahamic traditions, including ancient and medieval Christian demonology, a demon is considered an "unclean spirit" which may cause demonic possession, to be addressed with an act of exorcism. In Western occultism and Renaissance magic, which grew out of an amalgamation of pagan Greco-Roman, Jewish and Christian tradition, a demon is considered a spiritual entity that may be conjured...

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The Dark Secrets Of Girl Pajama Parties

I'm having a pajama party tonight with my gal pals to honor my upcoming birthday (Monday) and my childishness. It had me thinking about pajama parties and their magic. Yes, expect videos and photos and lots of crazy stories. For now, let's talk about the real story behind PJ parties: It's all about tickling each other, pillow fights and teaching each other how to french, right? Guys, PJ parties for gals usually took a rather dark turn. Here's just some of the games you might have found at them (had you been allowed) We might have lit some candles, darkened the room, let the curtains flutter at an open window, played some dark creepy music. The evening could have involved playing records backwards to hear "Paul is dead," or having a seance. Other times, it would likely be the games listed below:...

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Pagan Eye Witchcraft Today 60 Years On Launch

Here are two photos I took cling to night at the start section for Witchcraft In this day and age - 60 Sparkle Onat Treadwell's Books in London.The picture at the top shows Christina Oakley Harrington of Treadwell's benevolent a talk about British witchcraft from the fifties to the seventies.This was an abbreviated call-up of a discuss she gave fair in New York and was originally about how the English Vigor reported on Wicca and witchcraft in the mid-20th century. The broadsheet papers regularly gave in particular luminous, magnificent and incorrect accounts of what went on in the Create. Gerald Gardner was one of the few Wiccans delightful to speak to the Vigor at the time and his book Witchcraft In this day and age was partly written to try to make amends the revenue and hand over the citizen...

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Cherokee Morning Song

Casual Reach :)I well came with a leg on each side of this video on facebook. I know some of you are working with unprocessed american guides. I on your own maintain found a lot of similarities in the middle of the culture and how I practice as a Wiccan. Offering are so numerous beat I differentiate with. My grandfather treasured them and as I part back at his life I countenance how numerous beat he did that aligned to their culture. I've methodically been asked if I maintain any unprocessed american in my scene thoroughly in the function of of how my young woman looks. I maintain been working with pedigree.com and if grant are any acquaintances in my line I maintain not found them. I calm maintain a sincere appraise for them. So for individuals of you who understand them, you mood love this...

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The Silent Pines Retreat Vision For The Main Fieldthe Silent

THE SILENT PINES RETREAT - VISION FOR THE MAIN FIELD The Silent Pines Retreat is a project currently underway in Canada, with the aim of helping people research consciousness in a practical way. Their vision is to help people explore the bigger picture through methods such as astral projection, techniques of esoteric psychology, explorations of sound, sacred geometry and much more.They're also looking to promote permaculture and living in harmony with the land. They're currently putting up vlogs about how the construction is going which I thought I'd share with you all. It really looks like a magical place and I really wish the guys the very best with it. It's a much needed effort in a world that doesn't often provide the avenues for exploring spirituality together. (P.S If any of you would...

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Why Do The Scriptures Declare The Axe Lies At The Base Of The Trees

" 2011 Seize Wall Walk Protesters.In the midst of our: Economic MARKETS Hastily, BANKING SYSTEMS Underprivileged, CURRENCIES DE-VALUATED, GOVERNMENTS Impulsive, and SOCIETIES Opportunity UNGLUED - diverse of us are [ last of all ] asking ourselves, " Having the status of ON Cuddle, IS NOW Going ON... AND HOW CAN: SO Frequent Distinctive Problems, IN SO Frequent Distinctive COUNTRIES, ALL BE Participating in AT ONCE? ". At what time all, THE Full WESTERN Earth seems to be absolutely crumbling, all at one person time; and how is that even within your capabilities - without: Sizeable PRE-PLANNING", "Open Transnational Procedure", and/or "Unashamed Adherent Support"?Meanwhile, according to THE SCRIPTURES: " THE AXE Deception AT THE Testing OF THE Plants.... " The 2011 TEA Communal PROTESTERS.For...

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