"Just before an Kindly of Christian-Muslim Family,"* on paper by the offices of Interfaith Family and Religious studies and Esteem in update with Christian and Muslim scholars and sponsored by the General House See into the future Committee, contains some grand schooling and recommendations. However, theological euphoria causes this document to be dishonest. Misusing the Christian doctrine of take aback and the Trinity, the authors see the God of Islam and the God of Christianity as the dreadfully God.
Accurate grand recommendations implied in "Just before an Kindly of Christian-Muslin Family" are befriending Muslim neighbors, obtaining model information about Islamic beliefs, and confessing that Christians in the scarce possess, with the crusades, sinned against tribe of the Muslim consign.
Accurate honest understandings are acknowledging that both Islam and Christianity spell their consign is a revealed consign and that their God is one. Explaining that the Muslim believes he is capable of living up to all that his God requires, even if the Christian believes that she is disqualified to do so, is in the same way an honest remarks of the differences in the two faiths.
However, the scholars who wrote this paper see the two faiths worshiping the dreadfully God; each consign with a difficult understanding of that dreadfully God. They flow of air, "For both Christians and Muslims, "each in our own way", God is one-unique, immeasurable, absolute, eternal, eternal, and omnipotent-and to show to be false this in any way is a grievous misbehavior." (Italics font)(9)
And they write:
"What's more Muslims and Christians who speak Arabic obtain God 'Allah.' Christians who are not Arabic speakers commonly undeclared, mistakenly, that the same as Muslims use the word 'Allah' it type they possess a difficult name for God, "or are referring to a difficult deity than Christians". But Arabic translations of the Bible use the word 'Allah' for God." (Italics font.)(9-10)
I estimate it ought to be gaunt out that diverse Christians understand that both Muslims and Arab Christians in some parts of the world use the dreadfully name to lecture to to their God. But this does not mean that they spell in the dreadfully God, just so that they use the dreadfully name. And in fact Arab Christians hand-me-down the name Allah for God back their Muslim counterparts did.
At this horizontal in the paper the authors flow of air that Christians "speak of God as Onset, Son, and Dutiful Spirit." And after that they list the altered award and names that Christians and Muslims use to show protest their understanding of who their God is. For Christianity such names as Redeemer and Dutiful One. For Islam such names as "All Kindheartedly" and "All Courteous."
The authors flow of air of the Trinity, "Christian consign has unfailingly been clear, and picky from Islam, in affirming that within God's unity near is a Trinity or 'tri-unity'-God is composed one and three. God is Onset, Son, and Dutiful Spirit. These three ancestors shape the one God." So, one hardship ask the authors, "How can it be that the Christian God who is both one and three is the dreadfully God as the Muslim God who is one alone?"
It is maybe their cost to catch two difficult understandings of the Christian view of take aback and how we know God. And they hardship be connected if Christians are to be severe to their Member of the aristocracy. We are vocalizations about of the pecuniary Trinity and the ontological Trinity. One has to do with God's ascend trial to culture the other is the inner life of God.
One view of take aback, which concerns the pecuniary Trinity, is detailed in the paper using the 1987 General House theological claim "Natural environment of Revelation." In the split voted from the claim, time was vocalizations of God's take aback of himself as next to how one secular encounters contemporary near is this, "Renewed views of take aback possess emphasized that God's self-disclosure gives knowledge of God's command or description headed for us, and not decently (or even number one) of God's inner variety, which last part inexplicable and concealed in its revealedness."
This idea of God's inexplicable and concealed inner variety, flows from Immanuel Kant, that is, we cannot know a thing in itself. Therefore we can decently know about God from the use of equivalent and story which describes our include of God. And it is sure that contemporary paper is disquieting the paper "Just before an Kindly of Christian-Muslim Family", that is the Trinity paper, "The Trinity: God's Taste Overflowing."
An look of the Trinity paper is heard in this claim "God's filled love, sure by us in Jesus Christ and in a straight line the Dutiful Spirit, draws us out of ourselves and at home life in barely likeness with God and others." (6) The concern, the disquieting is that it is not just so God's filled love we know in Jesus Christ; we as believers are joined to Christ and so we major at home fellowship with Onset, Son and Dutiful Spirit. We bang know God.
And yet at the dreadfully time, time was encountering a God we only know, we learn, next in the paper that Jesus Christ is God's minute take aback. And gaily that is connected to the Scriptures. By both Scripture and the 1967 Recognition as their set off the authors flow of air, "It is in the whoop it up of Jesus Christ that we possess the several minute take aback of God.' The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are in the same way take aback the same as in a straight line them, the Dutiful Spirit bears characteristic and authoritative comply with to Jesus Christ.
However, that Jesus Christ is God's take aback type a fanatical trade excellent than is explained in the paper. Within, in God's take aback in Christ, the ontological understanding of the Trinity is wed to the pecuniary view of the Trinity. It type that in a straight line Jesus Christ and our organization with him we do know whatever thing about the inner-nature of God. As Timothy George points out:
"In John 17:3, the pecuniary Trinity and the ontological Trinity are brought together in a matchless verse: in a minute this is eternal life: that they may know you, the decently true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you possess sent.' The God who wills to be sure and the Christ who has been sent to make him sure belong inseparably together-which is why Jesus can say with such sturdiness what no other religious pompous has ever dared to claim: anyone who has seen me has seen the Onset" (John 14:9)."
We know that God is three; we know that God's inner woman is a likeness of love in the midst of, Onset, Son and Dutiful Spirit. We in the same way know that for instance God is revealed in Jesus Christ, as he is sure in the on paper word of God, that Jesus is the decently way that God can be sure. We know we are his and loved. And we know that at the last the back of Jesus Christ is no other God.
So the understanding of God's burst in on of himself hardship be lined to his take aback of himself in Jesus Christ, who is very God of very God. Award is considerably to be praised in this paper, but nonetheless all of the distinctions completed in the midst of Islam and Christianity it fails to make a dear quality in the midst of the God of Islam and the God of Christianity and rather focuses on what is referred to as difficult understandings of one God. But Christians are admonished to be keen on decently that God sure in Jesus Christ. Disbelieving Thomas worshipfully supposed to Jesus, and we hardship in the same way, "My Member of the aristocracy and my God." (John 21:28)
*Go about to see the paper "Just before an Kindly of Christian-Muslim Family"
The claim, "within God's unity near is a Trinity" is not totally barely. God's unity is the Trinity. As Timothy George puts it, "In the eternal and blessed intercommunion of the Onset, the Son, and the Dutiful Spirit, the one true God is joined lacking euphoria and divided lacking separation." Timothy George, "Is the Onset of Jesus the God of Muhammad?: Kindly the Gap Involving Christianity and Islam," (Big Rapids: Zondervan 2002) 81.
Ibid., 76-78.
For an grand understanding of the evils with the Trinity paper see, Andrew Purves & Charles Partee, "A Discover is Not a Metaphor: A Satisfy to 'The Trinity: God's love filled, "Religious studies Matters" Vol 12 # 2 Mar/Apr.
They do, nevertheless, terminate this by writing, "Including these writings, the church 'hears the word of God."
George, "The Onset of Jesus", 77.
As Thomas F. Torrance puts it, "He [God] cannot be sure aright far-off from his own self-imaging or self-naming in Jesus Christ, for near is no God far-off from him, and no knowledge of God at the last the back of his self-revelation. Thomas F. Torrance, "The Christian Carrying out of God the Onset, Talk the Christian God: The Dutiful Trinity and the Break the rules of Feminism," Alvin F. Kimel, Jr., Editor, (Big Rapids: William B. Eerdmans 1992), 140.
Hebrews 1:1-12
John 1:1-14
On Christmas, this Feast of the Nativity, the hidden revelation we celebrate on the Feast of the Annunciation becomes visible.
"Then the babe, the world's Redeemer
First revealed his sacred face
Evermore and evermore."
I never tire of the prologue to St. John's Gospel. This is the Gospel for the first Mass of Christmas, which is also the last Gospel of almost every High Mass. These words are "hakadesh hakadeshim"- the holy of holies- in all of scripture.
I have no need this day to stand here and relate any personal story, or any tale of fiction. The finest and most entertaining story cannot begin to compare with these words which we have heard from scripture. Though we hear the opening of St. John's Gospel on every Sunday outside of Advent and Lent, we cannot hear it enough. It cannot become tiresome though we were to read it daily. In fact, listen to the words of our hymns this day. In "Hark the Herald", look at Charles Wesley's words, especially the second verse (the verse beginning "Christ by highest heaven adored"). Such words as these can never become tiresome either.
A Roman Catholic priest of my acquaintance via e-mail, Fr. Joseph Wilson, wrote, in an article, that it is impossible to overemphasize the Incarnation. How right he is. Many heresies come about by overemphasis on one little part of Christian truth at the expense of the rest of it. This cannot happen to the doctrine of the Incarnation, for it contains all of the truth in itself. This truth, that Christ is God the Son come to us in the fullness both of His Divine Nature, and of His human nature, is the truth, the central doctrine, of Christianity. Take it away and we have nothing. Keep it, and we have everything. No wonder St. John also tells us that this simple true statement, that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is the one doctrine that the spirit of Antichrist refuses to permit.
The doctrine of the Incarnation contains all of the truth of Christianity. The full revelation of the Trinity becomes necessary for God is the Son, and God is the Father; but the Son is not the Father. And the Son is present with us by the Holy Spirit. But, the Son and the Father are not the Holy Spirit. Yet, every Jew always knew that there is only One God- "sh'mai Israel"... The truth of the Incarnation opens more questions than it gives answers; the questions are because God is revealed fully by Jesus as being, in His words, The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. He leaves us this new name for God, and teaches us that we can spend eternity asking questions about the infinity of the True and Living God because He will always be beyond our full comprehension. Yet, because He can walk among us as a man, in the person of the Son, we can know Him. He is beyond us forever; He is with us forever. His name is called Emmanuel- God with us.
The truth of the Incarnation tells us that we are sinners, lost because we are lost in sin. The light shines not against lesser light, but in the very darkness itself, a darkness that neither understands nor can solve the problem of this bothersome light. The darkness comprehended it not, the darkness into which we have fallen, and in which we were blind. Even many of the very chosen people themselves received not this Light; no wonder then that most of the world cannot receive Him either. Those who can receive Him do so because they face the light. This light hurts our eyes at first; for it tells the truth, the truth about ourselves which we wanted never to see nor hear.
The writer to the Hebrews wastes no time in telling us that this Man, the Son of God who is the very icon of the Father, in Whom the glory of God is perfectly seen, has purged our sins. The Gospel we read in the second Mass of Christmas is from St. Luke. In it the words of the angels are heard, "Glory to God in the Highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men." What peace is this? Is it some magic that makes sinful and fallen men stop waging war, as if the cessation of violence is actually worthy in itself to be called peace? Is not the greater war shown to us in scripture? That God has a right to wage war upon man because of our sins? As early as the story of Noah's flood we see that God accepted the sacrifice of Noah after the flood- a sacrifice that pointed to Christ's own death on the cross as did all the sacrifices. We are told that God hung up His bow as a sign in the heavens. He hung up what we call the rainbow, His bow of warfare, and promised not to destroy mankind from the face of the earth. This is the peace of which the angels speak. The sacrifice that had been offered in the story of Noah, after he came out of the ark, was only a type and shadow of the cross, the shadow of which hung already, over a newborn infant Son lying asleep in a manger. This night is answered by "the night in which he was betrayed." Only by his cross, by his sacrifice, is peace made between God and fallen mankind.
"Nails, spear shall pierce Him through
a cross be borne for me for you,
hail, hail the Word made flesh,
the Babe the Son of Mary."
All of the events to come, right up to His dying and rising again are foretold in these words of the angels. We do not see goodwill among men, as some misinterpret the angelic words, but goodwill "toward" men, from God. The whole revelation that God is Love is thus given to us, also, by the Incarnation. This is the great gift of love, that He would give His own Son; He offers the sacrifice that He would not allow our father Abraham to make. Abraham was ready to obey God, and prepared to offer his son, his only son Isaac whom he loved, upon whom had been laid the wood of the altar while they had climbed Mount Moriah.
Abraham was spared this terrible agony of slaying his beloved son, because God used this dramatic means to teach His people that He would never accept the sacrifice of their children, such sacrifices as the pagans made to what were no gods. But, God in His love gives His only begotten Son Whom He loves. This is the goodwill toward men. This goodwill was seen that night in the manger in Bethlehem; this goodwill was seen on the cross many years later on a Friday afternoon.
In the Incarnation, now revealed, we see that God would call a people to be His children, adopting them in the very Person of His only begotten Son; for as St. Paul tells us, we are "in Christ". It is because we are "in the Beloved", in the Son Himself, that we are chosen by God for salvation, instead of having been abandoned to the fate we had deserved for ourselves.
We see also that He would establish His Church, and give to it His Word and Sacraments for the salvation of all who believe the Gospel. St. John, in opening his First Epistle, tells us that he had been among those whose hands had handled, and whose eyes had seen the Word of Life; and he goes on to tell us that we too are called to fellowship with God and His Son Jesus Christ through the invitation of the apostles. St. John is telling us that in the Church the sacraments are given and God's Word is spoken, that we may know Him. Without the Incarnation the apostles have no word to tell, and there is then no Word from God, nor any sacraments. Because of the Incarnation we are given the Word of His truth. And the sacraments stem from His own coming in the flesh, and are given to us only because He was given to us when He came in our own nature, a created nature that was alien to His uncreated Person as God the only Son, eternally begotten of the Father.
In his classic, "On the Incarnation", St. Athanasius said that while Christ walked the earth as man, He still filled the heavens as God. The Council Of Chalcedon taught us that He is fully God, being of the same nature as that of the Father, and fully human, being of the same human nature as ourselves, like us in every way except for sin, having human nature from his mother Mary, the Virgin, the "Theotokos"- which means that God the Son has a mother; and he is "like us in every respect apart from sin."
None of this is explained to us. How is it that God is made man, that the Word is made flesh and that He dwelt among us, that we beheld His glory? We do not really know all the answers- which is part of the revelation. God cannot be figured out, dissected and explained. He cannot be understood, analyzed and described. But, He can be known through Christ, the Only Mediator Who Himself is God and Man.
How do sacraments work? How is bread and wine made into the Real Presence of the Living Christ? How does water, with the right words, give new life when applied to human flesh? How can priests, themselves men, forgive sins? How did Christ's death take away the sins of the world? How does His resurrection save us from death? If we needed to know the answers in some mechanical way, then salvation would be reserved only for people far too clever for the likes of me. The point is to know that it is beyond our understanding, because we are not God. We know not the "how" of it. But, what we do not understand we can know; we can know the love of God shown to us in the coming of Christ into the world. "For God so loved the world," and that is the "why" of it.
I will close with words written in 1765, by Christopher Smart, words which made it into our hymnal, and which work equally well for this Feast of Christmas and also for the Feast of the Annunciation which was nine months ago:
O Most Mighty!
O Most Holy!
Far beyond the seraph's thought,
Art Thou then so mean and lowly
As unheeded prophets taught?
O the magnitude of meekness!
Worth from worth immortal sprung;
O the strength of infant weakness,
if eternal is so young.
God all bounteous, all creative,
Whom no ills from good dissuade,
Is Incarnate and a native
Of the very world He made.
Now unto God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, be ascribed, as is most justly due, all might, majesty, dominion, power and glory, now and forever. Amen
Revered 22, 2012
As we exercise reminded readers heap epoch heretofore, the secular body-mind unit is a territorial army for souls and for lifestreams of certain genres (EACH LEGITIMATELY AND ILLEGALLY).
Communicate are associates who "HUNGER AND CHASE AS GOD" (SAINTLY) and chase to minister to and care for Saintly goal through their lives. Close relative Teresa is in the course of the greater than well recognizable who comes to sensitivity. Anything an astounding Saintly Means of expression she was at this level of existence! How snobbishly she served! Calm down, stage are heap greater than who go about their service to Saintly self-effacingly in ways recognizable with the sole purpose to themselves and to Saintly. And in with, stage are heap others. Plainly, I am in with. Communicate were existence of asking to minister to, seeking to minister to, burning up time in prayer and meditation not later than the qualified beginning of my predict, whilst I was lovely to minister to in relieve, rebuff ways for a few existence not later than I completed it qualified.
We exercise a prayer/decree/affirmation for associates who need to be greater than of a Saintly channel, an bracing way to move in the sphere of a utter life of service. Rejoinder therefore far has been reasonably undisputable, and we're allocation it word for word with readers. Communicate is a trigger for each word, each time, and the order to spoken language so that one can accusation it "MECHANICAL" (FOR LACK OF SOMETHING ELSE WORD).
"In the name of Saintly Initiator Crucial, and in the name of Christ Saintly, I ["your name"] perform I Am talent forth, asking for, energetic, and donation acknowledgment for the decorruption, sanitization, and resurgence of my secular body-mind unit, and for its configuring, calibrating, coaching, and amendment for service as a utter, pleasing Saintly channel of love and light and healing and elucidation, sealing the changes-on a full and enduring basic knowledge now."
One may find one's tastes in food, agitation, friends, and recreational accomplishments unsettled. One may find one's self receiving management or intuiting to do this, that, or the other-such as going to a restricted store or moment of truth. One may find one's self burdened en route for take part who can competent from one's manifestation, and associates take part burdened in the sphere of one's manifestation. Do not instinctively turn strangers out cold. If someone asks for make easier, do doesn't matter what comes to sensitivity to sustain. If you cannot care for someone's receive, do as far off as you can en route for that understanding. If a desire is brought to your awareness on a slope, sustain as guided. If management is to do everything for something else inhabitant, even if you're not settle that the inhabitant has a desire, subsequently do it, for you may be genially flabbergasted.
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The past few weeks have been wintery indeed. Yes it is March, but there is still plenty of snow in my yard, and there's more snow in the forecast. It was not until yesterday that a sudden warm snap began to hint at the Spring that is due to arrive any time now. So while many of my friends have been chattering at me about tree buds, or cherry blossoms, or legions of daffodils suddenly popping up in a sunny patch of their yards, it all sounds like a fable to me, and I didn't quite believe any of it.
A Rocky Mountain Spring takes its own sweet damn time anyway, and March and April are our snowiest months traditionally. So as weary as one gets to be of Winter by now, we are also grateful for the cold and the snow, for a deeper snow pack, for flowers that bloom in concert with arrival of the birds and insects that feed on them. All of us have noticed the rhythms and cycles of the seasons where we live, and no doubt all of us have noticed changes in recent years. I certainly have-drier, colder Winters that end abruptly, hot smoky Summers. So I am perfectly content for the Winter to go on as long as it needs to. I have lots of work to do in the garden before planting can start. I have plenty to do in my house and office, clearing and cleaning before the new projects of the year can truly begin. I may grumble about having to shift yet another five inches of new fallen snow, or having to run errands in 20 degrees of icy fog, but given the alarming specter of permanent climate change, a real Winter, with a real Winter's bite, is somewhat reassuring.
But I heard something yesterday morning that caught me off guard, something I haven't heard since the Fall-woodpeckers. I looked outside and saw cedar waxwings-a pair!--digging into a dead cottonwood trunk for bugs. The Sun was still below the treeline, and it was bitterly cold, but birds were stubbornly twittering in the privet, in the bare apple trees. The air smelled faintly of pollen and mud, the gutters were noisy with running water. In the distance I saw the faintest hint of green haze-the Green Fire of photosynthesis-at play in all the tree branches and in the shrubs. Things felt different than the morning before. It was one step closer to Spring.
Although the Wheel is constantly turning, and the spin of the seasonal cycle is constantly in motion, sometimes we are not able to see these patterns in our own lives and in our magickal work. Sometimes these changes require more of us than simply going with the flow:sometimes they demand that we be actively engaged in the transformations of our planet and ourselves. I was not fully ready to trust that Spring was coming until I noticed my houseplants. One Persian violet and one pineapple plant, both of them very unhealthy looking when I brought them inside last Fall, have subsisted in the darkish corners of my living room all Winter. To say I treat my houseplants with benign neglect is pretty kind, so imagine my surprise when I discovered that the violet was covered in just-opening pink blooms, was blooming like it hadn't done in years really, through no effort on my part. And the pineapple, which I was sure was dead or close to it, was sprouting again, had sent up a vibrant green healthy shoot among very desiccated old leaves. They have been in a dark corners in a heated house, so there is no way the changes happening outside could possibly be effecting them, and still, they are responding to some deep and mysterious rhythm whose timing is directing this new growth. I watered them both and moved them into stronger light and could aalmost hear them sighing "ahh!" as I did. I knew that Spring was really coming.
How do we respond to the growing light and vitality of the awakening Earth? How do our minds and bodies stretch and move? The receding snow, the warming temps, and all the imminent vitality returning to the land calls us out of our homes, out of our own shadowy, internal places, and into the light. What do we find when we venture out? Our work? Our loves? Our play and pleasures and passions? Do we encounter what we are ready to commit to? Do we find the strength and vision n ourselves to move up to the next set of lessons, the next pressing set of concerns that demand our love and labor? I'm not exactly sure yet, what the waxing year might be calling me to do. I have hints and ideas, I have the dedications I made at Imbolc. This is not entirely clear, but the rising energetic tide is undeniable, and allied with it, we can step into our power, into gnosis, and into a deeper intimacy with Source.
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En poco m'as de una semana, el 20 de marzo para ser exactos, suceder'a el Equinoccio de Oto~no. En esa jornada, la duraci'on del d'ia y la noche son iguales, y la Tierra se prepara para la llegada del invierno. A partir de esta fecha, los d'ias ser'an cada vez m'as cortos, y las noches m'as largas. Los neopaganos en general, y los wiccanos en particular, este d'ia celebramos la fiesta de Mabon, segundo festival de la cosecha. Pues bien, en esta oportunidad quisiera compartir con ustedes algunos datos sobre la festividad en s'i, para luego comentar algunas de las tantas cosas que podemos hacer en esta fecha.
Comencemos por el nombre, "Mabon". Existen distintas interpretaciones acerca del origen del nombre. Veamos la que nos ofrece la enciclopedia Wikipedia: "El nombre de Mabon ha sido recientemente aplicado a los festivales neopaganos del Equinoccio Oto~nal; concretamente el t'ermino fue inventado por Aidan Kelly, y se populariz'o en los a~nos 70 como parte de un proyecto de estudios religiosos ( el uso moderno de Litha para el solsticio de Verano tambi'en se le atribuye a 'el). Previamente, en la Wicca Gardneriana el festival simplemente se conoc'ia como " Equinoccio Oto~nal" y una gran mayoria de Neopaganos se refieren a 'el como tal, o utilizan nombres alternativos [...] El nombre de Mabon fue elegido para conferir un mayor sentimiento celta a la fecha, ya que los dem'as festivales derivan sus nombres de tan genuina tradici'on. El Equinoccio Primaveral se denominaba "Ostara", y s'olo el Equinoccio Oto~nal es nombrado t'ecnicamente en vez de con un nombre m'as evocador. Hay que resaltar que el t'ermino Mabon es un nompre propio masculino en Gal'es, procedente del personaje mitol'ogico "Mabon fab Modron", y que a'un permanece como un nombre com'un en el Pa'is de Gales. El t'ermino es mucho m'as utilizado en Am'erica que en Gran Breta~na, donde muchos Neopaganos lo desde~nan por no ser un nombre aut'entico, sin ning'un resquicio de conexi'on con los nombres de las otras fiestas tradicionales. No obstante, el incremento de las publicaciones paganas americanas vendidas en Gran Breta~na por editoriales como Llewellyn ha conseguido que muchos de los paganos Brit'anicos adopten dicho t'ermino." Cassandra Eason, por su parte nos habla de "Mabon, o Maponus, otra forma del dios Lugh, que fue considerado como el hijo de la Madre Tierra y conocido como el libertador de los presos." Otros autores buscan el origen del nombre en la conjugaci'on de las palabras "mayo" y carb'on, en ingl'es antiguo, claro est'a, y otros proponen que la palabra significa "buen hijo".
Como sea, el Equinoccio de Oto~no es un d'ia para dar gracias. Dar las gracias por las cosechas realizadas, que nos permitir'an alimentarnos durante el invierno. Dar las gracias porque, en el d'ia del equilibrio, podemos reflexionar acerca de lo que hemos logrado en el 'ultimo a~no, y plantearnos nuevas metas y desaf'ios en el a~no entrante. Dar las gracias; no en vano 'este era el sentido del "d'ia de acci'on de gracias" norteamericano, al que luego se le modific'o la fecha por motivos pol'iticos y econ'omicos.
Pues bien, ?qu'e hacer en esta fecha? Bueno, si tu deseo es ralizar una celebraci'on "ritualista", es decir, d'andole mucha importancia a los "pasos a seguir" en la celebraci'on, te recomiendo que sigas alguna de las propuestas de Scott Cunningham en su libro Gu'ia para el practicante solitario, o bien, lo publicado por Raymond Buckland, y sea en El libro del 'Arbol, o El libro completo de la brujer'ia. Si por el contrario te decides a hacer algo menos ritualista, entonces he aqu'i algunas sugerencias:
-en lo posible y si el d'ia lo permite, intenta pasar el mayor tiempo que tengas al aire libre, en alg'un parque donde puedas sentir el aroma de los 'arboles y puedas sentir el crujir de las hojas ca'idas bajo tus pies;
-consigue alguna manzana y un poco de ma'iz amarillo. La manzana la comer'as en honor de los Dioses, y el ma'iz es s'imbolo de lo cosechado y nos habla de abundancia, por lo que podr'as desparramarlo sobre tu altar o dejarlo caer al suelo en se~nal de prosperidad;
-si haces un altar, ya sea en el suelo o en una mesa preparada para ese fin, ad'ornala con hojas ca'idas, pi~nas, manzanas, cintas de colores, donde abunden los rojos, dorados, anaranjados, amarillos, celestes y azules (estos 'ultimos son s'imbolos de las lluvias oto~nales);
-si haces un almuerzo o cena, ya sea sol@ o con amig@s, una buena copa de vino tinto puede ser apropiada para la ocasi'on (te sugiero alg'un tannat, como el cabernet sauvignon, por ejemplo), recordando beber con moderaci'on;
-t'omate un tiempo para reflexionar acerca de los ciclos de la naturaleza, y c'omo t'u armonizas con ellos. Observa qu'e sensaciones y pensamientos te genera esta nueva 'epoca del a~no, y conc'entrate en aquellos objetivos que quieres alcanzar.
Espero que estas peque~nas sugerencias te sirvan para celebrar Mabon. !Feliz oto~no!
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I am thrilled to be part of the Blog Tour of author JACKI SMITH AND PATTY SHAW whose book DIY AKASHIC WISDOM, ACCESS THE LIBRARY OF YOUR SOUL LAUNCHES ON AMAZON.COM ON TUESDAY OCTOBER 1, 2013.Jacki Smith also authored award winning "Coventry Magic" 2011, is a Spiritual counselor, Akashic Records reader and healer, and radio show host of KIMradio, www.keepitmagic.com. Jacki contributes articles to in Retailing Insight, a trade publication for the new age industry regularly. Patty Shaw also authored award winning "Healers Almanac, Wisdom of the 21st Century Goddesses"and is a certified Spiritual Counselor through UCM since 1992, Reiki Master, Akashic Record reader and healer. Patty co-directs and teaches at her School of Akashic Healing. You can learn more about Patty at, www.healingwithpattyshaw.com. The ladies also co-own Coventry Creations, est. in 1992, which is known for its inspirational candles that help us create our own reality. No matter what's getting in the way of your success, Coventry Creations has a candle for that, www.coventrycreations.com. Just the other day, Jacki and Patty visited Lisa Selow http://lisaselow.com/2013/09/diy-akashic-wisdom/ where they talked about" THE FOUR STEP AKASHIC WISDOM PROCESS".Here's what we chatted about the other day when I got to ask them some questions about their new book. I hope you enjoy it.DAVID: HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A SPIRITUAL COUNSELOR?Jacki: I feel I've been counseling people since my peer group experiences in High School. My school counselor invited me in after watching me interact with other students. She said I was compassionate and good listener. Basically I got kids to open up and share what was on their hearts and minds. I thought I was just nosy kid with problems of her own that needed accomplices. As time went by I learned to read Runes, Tarot cards and then the Akashic records. After Patty took the Healer Development program and then started teaching the introductory classes I decided to take the class too. It trained me to focus my attention on my client's energy in a way that was different than when I was doing readings. That experience was invaluable, but my first love is doing readings. Now all my reading have this great closure that includes healing and a new plan for their future. I call it creating new spiritual habits. Even though I consider myself a reader, I am always a healer and counselor because it is all so intertwined. I enjoy helping people learn how to figure out their problems on their own. Empowering people is the way for me to be the best spiritual counselor I can be.Patty: Back in 1990 I was a divorced, underemployed, single mother and I was a little freaked out by being thrust into the world so rudely and without a rudder to guide me. That was the first time I owned the fact that this (meaning my life) was up to me. So I picked up a magazine looking for inspiration, because I didn't really know what inspired me. That's when I saw the ad for the Healer Development School. It was different and I knew very little about metaphysics, was afraid of people both alive and dead and not very spiritual at all. I decided to sign up for the class. I guess I turned a page at that point and was determined to change. Needless to say it was one of the better decisions in my life. I met great people, got a tremendous amount of love and support, and learned I was way more adventurous than I gave myself credit for. It took two years to finish the course, but I did and then took a long break from it. I didn't feel ready to be a spiritual counselor. I did feel ready to do reiki and yoga. That became my comfort zone. Near 1999 I got back in touch with the instructor and became her teaching assistant and then started teaching her introductory classes. It was so much fun and I got a lot of experience as a counselor. By 2008 I was back on my own, had written a book about healing and began working in the Akashic records a lot in my healing practice. The reiki clinic popped up suddenly in my world on an impulse after space became available above our store The Candle Wick Shoppe. Naturally I started offering Reiki classes. In 2010 I co-wrote a program with a friend and we now teach classes on developing your intuitive style and healing in the Akashic records they way spirit taught us. Now there is a book on self healing in the Akashic Records in my life and I am proud to have written it with Jacki. DAVID: YOU CAN SCHEDULE AKASHIC READINGS OR HEALING FROM EITHER JACKI OR PATTY AT www.coventrycreations.com. DAVID: WHAT CAN I ACCOMPLISH WITH THE AKASHIC RECORDS?Jacki and Patty: The easy answer is a lot, but we'll be honest, you can accomplish A LOT! The reason we suggest people use the Akashic records to help them with their life's challenges is because all the answers to their questions are in the records. Once they get the hang of working with the records, there really is no problem that can't be solved. The secret is in aligning our ego with our soul's purpose so a higher perspective can open doors (no pun intended) to new ideas and solutions. When that is done, it's easier to learn lessons, make course correction in our habits and attitudes and stop beating our heads against the wall of our life. Working in the Akashic records can be like working in the dream state. There are lots of metaphors given to make a point and questions given as answers. All of this is meant to strengthen our wit and empower our creativity. The akasha wants us to heal and evolve so we have confidence in ourselves and start solving some of the easier conundrums on our own. Then, when we've exhausted all of our own resources the wisdom from our Akashic records will help us by uplifting our minds. They can help us make better predictions for our future by showing us different scenarios to a decision we've made. We can also learn what we need to do to heal broken relationships or understand why we need to let them go with compassion. Find out the root cause of an illness, unhealthy habit, phobia, obsession, or any other behavior that is causing us stress or derailing our life. And, get insight to giant questions like, why am I still having to struggle with my finances? Or why am I still alone when what I really want more than anything is to be happily married? DAVID: CAN I USE THE RECORDS TO COMMUNICATE WITH SPIRITS?Jacki and Patty: Absolutely you can. The Akashic realm is the playground of the gods. In fact you will meet lots of spirit beings whose job is to help you access your records. There is a lovely hierarchy that is designed to get you acclimated not just to the records but to the information and how it's being presented. There are Record keepers, back in the stacks who manage the flow of information. They make sure you are given what you need and in the right amount and protect you from getting overwhelmed, lost or fried. There are spirit guides who are there as teachers or healers. They will endeavor to help you understand what you are experiencing and when it comes time to heal, they will facilitate that. They are the guides who will bring in other spirits you'd like to talk to, like loved one's who've passed and historical figures we admire. They can also arrange a visit with your favorite super hero or villian. The guides you experience first when you enter your records are the ones who hang close to you all the time. They are the first to welcome you, give you a beverage and make sure your chair is comfortable. These guides are often close personal friends in spirit who have been following your soul's journey and are dedicated to helping you when you need it. If you desire to connect with a loved one that's passed, that can happen right in your Akashic room. You can even talk to someone who's still alive. This is helpful when there is a conflict and both parties are being stubborn. A little chat in the Akashic records is a safe place to speak and listen. I hope you enjoyed this interview with Jacki Smith and Patty Shaw and you'll check out their new book DIY AKASHIC WISDOM", ACCESS THE LIBRARY OF YOUR SOUL at http://diyakashicwisdom.com.HERE'S WHY YOU'LL WANT TO DO THAT:When you visit their page and sign up for their newsletter you'll receive a free recording of their INTRODUCTION TO THE AKASHIC RECORDS with a meditation that will take you right into your own Akashic record room.When you buy DIY Akashic Wisdom on launch day (October 1, 2013) from amazon.com you will also receive three more recording from their Akashic Wisdom workshop series. Thanks for reading! As usual, please feel free to share your comments and thoughts below. I love getting your feedback.AND... be sure to follow Jacki and Patty on the next stop on the Blog Tour is Lisa J. Smith, who will be discussing how "AKASHIC RECORDS HELP US"." To visit that "stop" on the tour, go to http://www.tumblr.com/blog/lisajsmith
