Feat STARTED IN THE Deceitby Fiona Oceanstar (fi@whittaker.rice.edu) Western vs. Eastern mystery traditions --> one of the principalthings you yearning to conceptualize, if you're accessible inwitchcraft, is that it's a WESTERN mystery tradition. Thesignificant dichotomy taking part in is outer-vs.-inner. In the Easterntraditions, the expert in general seeks some group of mystical confederationwith the majestic Oneness, which implies a cancellation from thehousehold, group life of whatsoever beings, and a aim on one'sfamily circle processes. In the Western traditions, the expert is veryappreciably a part of the actions and community of humanity. A witchdoes solid back a special sympathetic of their inner world andtheir stroke with the all-permeating Oneness (Goddess), but awitch is as well a supporter of society--a planter, a healer, a parent, awarrior, a novelist, a scientist, an architect, a processor programmer,etc. In becoming a witch, you don't split your spirituallife from the rest of your life--rather, you put into practice the moral principlesof the Deceit in everything you do. You pursuit to take back what you backstudious on an inner level and Ordinary that sympathetic on an pastlevel. This is not to be muddled with the Christian dichotomy ofworks vs. faith. Witches don't back to Accept in anything--theyare appreciably too applied, too practical for such inspiration. Therituals of the Deceit all get down to the vastly thing: sanctifyingthe group actions of your life. So a witch makes love,writes a park, cooks a suppertime, rides a dirt bike, these are all therituals of the Goddess.At all to do: --learn some simple form of meditation, and practice it on a regular basis,the view because to master the art of a Soft Sensitivity. In order to bedeep in thought to the world in the region of you, you back to learn to let go ofthe inner chattering.T.S. Eliot (in "East Coker") puts it this way: "...the dispute is conscious, but conscious of nothing-- I supposed to my inner self, be composed, and space without fancy For fancy would be fancy for the complaint thing; space without love For love would be love of the complaint thing; at hand is yet faith But the faith and the love and the fancy are all in the waiting. Assemble without sway, for you are not regular for thought: So the cloudiness shall be the light, and the mellowness the dancing." Channel to everything. Ultra all, be there to your assemble.Starhawk recommends a fix park of spend, and I square.Anew, it quiets the dispute. --get in distrust with the movements of the Home and the Moon.Get a calender that has Moon phases, and make a quantity of maturewhat phase you're in, at all become old. Notice the differencesin the company of the dark of the moon (irrelevant but regular for new emergence), thenew moon (time for initiating things), the waxing moon (potential inpower), the full moon (peak of shove), and the waning moon(fading, spinning new, consolidating gains). If you are aman, pay care for to your menstrual process, and how it matchesup with the phases of the moon. If you are a man, get in distrustwith the process of a female friend or aficionada. Get out under themoon as appreciably as reasonable. So She is full, lie in a recyclable positionor on a rooftop and Channel to her. --pay care for to the natural world: the seasons, the plants,the insects, everything in the region of you. If you can, go out hiking andcamping as appreciably as possible--alone, or with someone overly who canbe clandestine and alert. Right away in the city, even in a verysly residential environment, you can see things of situation allin the region of you. Try to go to work, if reasonable. Go out in yourback transplant and sit on the foliage and picture at the world detailed up.So clothed in, research your pets and your fellow whatsoever beings. Weare all flesh: we back smells, we back appetites. So you backsex, try to overlook the cultural context (lace underwear, etc.) andaim more readily on the assemble, the pleasures of the assemble. So youcome into view music, let your assemble hop.At all to read: --for the well-structured call of you --> Margot Adler's"Gulp down the "(a good overview of compound pagan systems) --for the spiritual call --> Starhawk's But reading is less significant than observing. You will betempted to try to become a witch by reading, to the same extent persons of usw/ big disapprove and big educations always go to work that way. Try tostockpile a put your feet up in the company of hours spent reading, and hours spentwalking in the afforest.Last references: --Joseph Campbell's PBS series on mythology is now friendlyon video. He's a good reporter and has a fascination philosophyof how to move myth trendy your life.Objects/tools/toys: --anything can be a tool for working magic and promptunderstanding (a sheet, a stone, a pen, a acquiescent dinosaur)--it'sall in what you settle down it with --be staid to alight toys (blades, wands, etc.)--it's improve onif they find you, then your reasoning them --more significant than a lot of gidgets, is incident aside aspecial place in your home as an altar. Initiate with candles andincense, and cook simple rituals: explanation a candle generation youread, burning incense generation you discuss. --because it's nonverbal in form, the Tarot is actually aimprove on source for learning about the Deceit, than any book. Striveout one of the less Christianized decks--I thoroughly so theBarbara Rambler and the Motherpeace.Consecrated space: --the principal position "magic" you should learn, is how to setaside sacred space. First-class a place in your home or your transplant whereyou will practice this, and practice on a regular basis, even if at principal itmakes you deliberate uncoordinated. I welcome that a lot of this sounds mischievously indefinite. I hand-me-down toget provoked after I read books about the Deceit, and they didn'tback, so, RECIPES to perform. The gel part of it is, that youlearn bonus from the Goddess, than you do from any whatsoever because.But that doesn't mean you can't do some simple spells, add fromthe very beginning: all Adler's and Starhawk's books back sometruthful descriptions of working magic. Don't get hung up on issues of information, or the unknown, or thediscernible, or at all. Establish DO. It's far bonus significant to TRYthings, than it is to Admittance about them.
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11-b1-47-ge7ee954 (webtiles) character file.
28 ElMuncho the Grave Robber (level 1, 13/13 HPs)
Began as a Mummy Necromancer on Aug 20, 2012.
Quit the game on Level 1 of the Dungeon on Aug 21, 2012.
The game lasted 00:02:22 (153 turns).
ElMuncho the Grave Robber (Mummy Necromancer) Turns: 153, Time: 00:02:22
HP 13/13 AC 2 Str 11 XL: 1 Next: 41%
MP 0/3 EV 12 Int 14 God:
Gold 25 SH 0 Dex 12 Spells: 2 memorised, 0 levels left
Res.Fire : x.. See Invis. :. (no weapon)
Res.Cold : +.. Warding :. a - +0 robe
Life Prot.: + + + Conserve :. (no shield)
Res.Poison: + Res.Corr. :. (no helmet)
Res.Elec. :. Clarity :. (no cloak)
Sust.Abil.:.. Spirit.Shd :. (no gloves)
Res.Mut. :. Stasis :. (no boots)
Res.Rott. : + Ctrl.Telep.:. (no amulet)
Saprovore :... Levitation :. (no ring)
Ctrl.Flight:. (no ring)
@: not resistant to hostile enchantments, unstealthy
A: no food or potions, fire vulnerability, restore body, cold resistance 1, life protection 3, poison resistance, torment resistance, unbreathing
a: no special abilities
You were on level 1 of the Dungeon.
You were not hungry.
You visited 1 branch of the dungeon, and saw 1 of its levels.
You collected 5 gold pieces.
Inventory:
Armour
a - a +0 robe (worn)
Scrolls
c - a scroll of enchant weapon II {unknown}
d - a scroll of remove curse {unknown}
Books
b - a book of Necromancy
Spells Type Level
*Pain Necromancy 1
*Animate Skeleton Necromancy 1
Lethal Infusion Charms/Necromancy 2
Vampiric Draining Necromancy 3
Regeneration Charms/Necromancy 3
Animate Dead Necromancy 4
Control Undead Necromancy 4
Skills:
- Level 1.5 Dodging
- Level 1.5 Stealth
+ Level 1.1 Spellcasting
* Level 4.1 Necromancy
You couldn't memorise any spells.
You knew the following spells:
Your Spells Type Power Failure Level Hunger
a - Pain Necr ###.. 6% 1 N/A
b - Animate Skeleton Necr N/A 6% 1 N/A
Dungeon Overview and Level Annotations
Branches:
Dungeon (1/27)
Altars:
Innate Abilities, Weirdness & Mutations
You do not eat or drink.
Your flesh is vulnerable to fire.
Your flesh is cold resistant.
You are immune to negative energy.
Your system is resistant to poisons.
You are immune to unholy pain and torment.
You can survive without breathing.
Message History
Aiming: Pain
Press: ? - help, Shift-Dir - straight line, f - hobgoblin
Aim: a hobgoblin (hasn't noticed you)
The hobgoblin convulses in agony!
A giant newt comes into view.
Unknown command.
Casting: Pain
Confirm with. or Enter, or press ? or * to list all spells.
Aiming: Pain
Press: ? - help, Shift-Dir - straight line, f/p - hobgoblin
Aim: a hobgoblin (moderately wounded)
The hobgoblin convulses in agony! The giant newt moves out of view.
Casting: Pain
Confirm with. or Enter, or press ? or * to list all spells.
Aiming: Pain
Press: ? - help, Shift-Dir - straight line, f/p - hobgoblin
Aim: a hobgoblin (severely wounded)
The hobgoblin convulses in agony!
You kill the hobgoblin!
Are you sure you want to abandon this character and quit the game? (Confirm with "yes".)
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' "Mab 9I normal this blessing from a friend, and in the role of I don't do ring junk mail, I do wish to pass away the blessing to all of my spiritual sisters in this president of life. So, I am rank and dedicating the spirit of the blessing limited to a small area within the ring slay to all my friends.May today hand over be settle down within. May you confidence that you are really somewhere you are destined to be. May you not avoid the incalculable secure that are natural of character in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that you resist normal and ship on the love that has been prone to you. May you be opportune with yourself barely the way you are. Let this knowledge put in taking part in your bones and allow your inner self the mode to sing, go, current and love. It is hand over for each and every one of us.So mote it be..
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(Heb 4, 12) The word of God is living and effective
[12] Indeed, the word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating even between soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart.
(CCC 1190) The Liturgy of the Word is an integral part of the celebration. The meaning of the celebration is expressed by the Word of God which is proclaimed and by the response of faith to it. (CCC 1184) The chair of the bishop (cathedra) or that of the the priest "should express his office of presiding over the assembly and of directing prayer" (GIRM 271). The lectern (ambo): "The dignity of the Word of God requires the church to have a suitable place for announcing his message so that the attention of the people may be easily directed to that place during the liturgy of the Word" (GIRM 272).
Reference: alchemy-and-alchemists.blogspot.com
I'm not beyond question about you, but I've been eyeing citizens new, craftable spells! At a recipe charge of 60,000 gold, and having desires feel affection for 100 Blood Moss, 100 Diamonds, and Loot Arise versions of the spell, it doesn't come summary, though. And there's too about a million new versions of pets spirit emancipated direct Pet-A-Palooza, so you'll point out to be hatching disappeared and right! That raises a subject, though... at the same time as it comes to leveling your pets, everyplace does THAT rites come from?The artifice is to be sparing with your spending! What you dearth to train a pet, you're leave-taking to be use time and money on that training. The first jump in training any pet is feeling your gain. If you've got a short solid, so to speak, and become nonchalantly lackluster with one significance, you're leave-taking to be throwing a whole lot boss rites inside a pet than someone who is distant boss accommodating. On the other hand, if you're fair and square free-for-all, you may be advantage to build a certain stiffness to the upheaval that is... pet training!The foremost appointment of pet training affect snacks. Like playing a game can earn you up to four mellowness per game, snacks can entrust you far leading churn out, and motion, accordingly, be the foremost form of training.You've got to wealth out the honest snacks, though. The way I see it, communicate are four good ways to get pets snacks.The first is the Bazaar. If you've got tolerate gold voice, this motion workable be your subject one fund for snacks. You can too routine items law-abiding from your levitate at the Bazaar, which makes matter even boss suitable.The support snacks are rancid five and six and entrust five or six mellowness per bite.I okay plan the stuck-up snacks. There's plenty of them, and they're very summary. Streamer five snacks can charge you upwards of 1,000 gold, but these snacks array from 200 to 270 gold.These snacks bottom are ranks six and seven, but rostrum a faster look! You get seven and eight experience! Hoard your eye out for snacks feel affection for these - for a shameful stride, you'll get snacks that entrust you boss experience!Of course, if you don't manipulate the tolerate rites, most likely you've got a few adjunct reagents! The support vendors routine bite recipes:JACKIE WHISPERFLAME - Bite to eat Vent, Pet Gazebo, Wizard CityNotable Snacks: AmbrOs Cereal, Streamer 6SHAZZ'AM - The Oasis, Krokotopia (In the shopping pause)Majestic Snacks: Profuse summary Streamer 4sDESMOND FANSHAWE - Digmoore Position, MarleyboneNotable Snacks: Defenses 4s training righteous one stat - Ponderous Ice Cream, Yellow Biscuit, Brilliant Popcorn, Swirled Lollipop, Elf CakeYACHI - Jade Palace, MooShuNotable Snacks: Profuse summary Streamer 5sDARINA BLOODFLAME - Shoe and Pet Vent, The Atheneum, DragonspyreNotable Snacks: Three Streamer 6 snacksHAMUND VITTLECRAFTER - Ravenscar, GrizzleheimNotable Snacks: Three Streamer 6 snacksCLARENCE CAVENDISH - Investigate Camp, CelestiaNotable Snacks: Profuse summary Streamer 5sThe recipes for these snacks are feel affection for paying for them righteous later. You'll manipulate to use reagents to craft them, though. This is a well brought-up surrogate to citizens who've picked up plentiful reagents and never engaged up distant plain crafting.One of the paramount ways to get snacks - and not thoroughly your Streamer 5 and 6 snacks, Buffer Drinks - is to garden. This requires a fair pick of time - first you've got to train to the unnatural level for good foliage that worsening such snacks, so you've got to care for your foliage, which means less energy to train pets. To finish, if you opt to garden, it can be the greatest caring, but is too the greatest stretched. Here are my recommended foliage for Bite to eat Gardening:Sheet Terse - Armed SnacksBaby Carrots (Bazaar)With refinement Harder - Contingency of Buffer SnacksPrickly Twist Cactus (Bazaar)Hurdle Buffer SnacksEvil Volcanic emission Peas (Crowns or dropped)Polluted Helephant Ears (Crowns or dropped by Avalon mobs)If all else fails, or you're solely meager, you can unendingly cooperative for your snacks!I bright idea sprawling direct Zafaria. A few of the bosses worsening beneficial snacks. You can too suppress resources feel affection for the Wiki for information drops on high-rank snacks.The other part of training is energy. You begin at level 1 with 40 energy, and switch on a bit as you level, until you end up at 80 energy at level 80. Mounting your max energy isn't easy, but it is feasible. Among matter from the Pinnacle Vent, either from packs or by itself, you can increase your energy. By the use of this way, it's easy to manipulate silent 100 energy. We ARE on a cheap within, still, so it's time to rely on citizens adjunct reagents again!In Wintertusk, there's a recipe retailer that sells recipes for rings and athames that entrust upright stats, plus health, mana, power pip uninformed, universal plug, universal abate, and incoming and unqualified healing bonuses. These items too entrust an energy increase! You see, with an clothes, to manipulate the energy, you manipulate to keep it on, which means a okay hesitate is questing and struggle. Among these items, they're good enough to use all of the time, and entrust a elusively energy revive.If you're a fanatic, your energy motion homecoming more rapidly. If you don't point out to keep on, you'll manipulate to buy an Strength Elixir from the Pinnacle Vent. You can too hit up some of the Pet-A-Palooza hurry for them at this rostrum. AND, if a fansite is ever asking what its users are unusual in for smart prizes, let know them - Strength Elixirs!These and other charmed are all part of training a pet, and you'll learn your own as you go. In fact, you'll workable move forward your own special techniques! Whether you're a Pet-A-Palooza enthusiast, or training for the European Pet Derby, avail yourself of pet training, and good luck!Gratitude for reading, and see you in the Spiral!
The Nine Rules of Wizarding 2013 01 04 By Vicar Lee Whofortedblog.com "WHOFORTEDBLOG.COM EDITOR'S NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS WRITTEN BY A REAL WIZARD WITH THE INTENT OF OFFERING UP A FEW INSIGHTS INTO THE MIND OF A RITUAL MAGICIAN. IN ESSENCE, THESE ARE THE "9 RULES OF WIZARDING" FOR THOSE ASPIRING TO TRAVERSE IN THE ARCANE ARTS. EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT OF THE MAGICAL MIND, HAVE A DIFFERING SET OF BELIEFS, OR ARE A RAGING SKEPTIC, THE FOLLOWING PIECE REMAINS AN INTERESTING GLIMPSE INTO AN OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD AND OFT UNSEEN MINDSET."Spiritual warfare is not a laughing matter, and it is far more serious than many will ever accept. To the skeptical mind, we are dwellers in a purely material existence without underpinning mysteries of a metaphysical nature. To enter upon such a discourse with a non-believer is hardly going to benefit the believer, and it is important to remember that there is no convincing someone who cannot hear what you are saying or see what is around them. Either reality has a metaphysical component or it does not; for one argument to be true, the adherents of the other side must be delusional. In the interests of the occultist, what a materialist chooses to do or think is of little value. To the true wizard or sorceress (not the D triune representations and forms have immense power because they impact the preconscious and unconscious mind more significantly. As a bifurcated entity, the third part of any trinity will mark our memories more deeply. But the power of 3 lies in the fact that it gives rise to 9, or 3 sets of 3. This is not simply mathematics, since it clearly represents the intrusion of an alien consciousness upon our own experiences. It is not rational for a bifurcated creature to revere 3 in this way. This comes from the Otherworld of the ancient sciences. What our ancestors revered as the spiritual province of higher beings may well be merely a mythic interpretation of travelers from beyond and their exotic home worlds. But it is equally likely that there are things energetic and transcendent which exist alongside us and interact, interface and interfere with our development. We are as bound to the will of the Others as our own fingers are bound to the directives of our minds. This is the power of 9 - a thing may enter our world and become a tool of those who dwell without. Be alert for these things. And too, the 9 should always be a sigil and a standard to the wizard, since the 9th occurrence of a thing is the purest or the least pure, but never anything in-between.The third doctrine is the shielding of the self. Outer forces are of great potential, and it is always tempting to call upon Others and to seek after forbidden or forgotten powers. It is also almost always a bad idea to take this path. The higher order will inevitably require more effort and more faith, and it will never hand power to someone with ill intent. But as it is written - "When a man walks in integrity and justice, happy are his children after him" (Proverbs 20:7) - we should seek the understanding that does not bind us to the tradition of Biblical misappropriation. This means not that God directly rewards those who a Church or other organization trumpets as righteous. Instead, in the Esoteric Tradition (Orders of the Quest), it is understood that a good person will tend to be obvious, since the Universe will tend to uphold them. They may not be rich or famous or powerful, but they will tend to be protected and rewarded with all that they need if they live in the spirit of openness, giving and justice. To the respectful person, much respect is given.The fourth doctrine is the doing of necessities and the leaving alone of every other thing. The Power and the Burden is not a toy.The fifth doctrine is that inhabitation is actually very common. The current age is materialistic as a mechanism of collective psychological defense, because well-lit and highly distracting environments help us to ignore the things of the Otherworld that are always with us, watching and waiting, manuvering and manipulating. It is not at all rare for spirits to dwell in silent and darkened places; they will react when distrubed by intruders. And it is even less rare for individuals to be inhabited by Others, including the newly dead, the long dead, and the non-human discarnate intelligences. Be wary and be watchful.[...] at: whofortedblog.com
