by Ragnar Storyteller
Rune Lessons Rit Inner Guidance
Rune Rit, RITA is the rune of Original Law, of Divine-Law. It is the Rune of All Justice, Religion, Strength, Ritual, Rune of the Cosmic Rhythm of the Worlds. Rune of Movement, Rotation, and Wheels.
The symbol for Rune Rit is the Sun Wheel.
Use Rune Rit to tune into the rhythms of the Worlds. It will awaken your higher powers, your spiritual powers. Meditate upon it to strengthen your inner guidance. Use it with your Rune Rituals. Rune Rit will strengthen your powers of visualization.
From Odin's Rune Poem:
"That I know as a fifth, Should an Enemy's Arrow come flying through the throng; As Bright as it Might Clash; I stem it's Power. Once I Firmly fix my Eye upon it."
Mantra: RRRRRRR RA RE RI RO RU RAD REID RIT ROD REITHO RUOTH RITA ROTA RRRRIIIIT
The Positive Exoteric meanings of Rune Rit: Right, Order, The Judge, Advice, and Salvation. The Positive Esoteric meanings of Rune Rit: Original Law, that which flows away, Religious Feeling, Ritual Action.
Time of Year: March 21 through April 12.
The Rune Rit can awaken and develop in you the power of skillful visualization. Visualization is a powerful aid when performing Runic Operations as well as any other magical practice.
Exercises for Rune Rit:
1. Copy the Song of Rit in your Book of Ceremonials. 2. Murmur the Song of Rit. 3. Practice the Hand Yoga of Rit. 4. Practice Healing with Ur and Thorn in a Candle Ceremony. 5. Use a Welz Chi-Generator to power your Rune Rit Energies.
For more information on Rune Lessons go to one of the many Karl Welz Free Lesson websites.
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Michelangelo, Crucifixion, 1540
"FATHER, FORGIVE THEM; THEY DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING." (Lk 23:34)
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"Address delivered on April 23, 1943, by Msgr. Fulton Sheen"
"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34).
On the mountain of the Beatitudes Our Divine Lord said: "Love your enemies."
Now, on the Mount on Calvary, He practices what He preached. As He is nailed to His Cross, for the first time in the hearing of our world there was uttered a prayer for those who gave one pain. "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." Father! God is no vague cosmic power, no Mindless Mover, no Mathematician - He is a Father. Now, in the name of all the prodigal children of the world, He says, "I will arise and go to the Father," to ask pardon for all of us. Father forgive! Forgive whom? Pilate, Annas, Caiphas, Judas - yes, and all of us.
Only God can forgive. Nature never forgives. If you cut your finger, it bleeds. Our fellow men but rarely forgive. Society never forgives. That is why there are sanctions, punishments, and prisons. Nor can we ever forgive ourselves. Lady Macbeth after the murder of Duncan said she could not even say "Amen," it choked in her throat. Never could she wash the blood off her hands. Not all the waters of the seven seas were enough to wash that blood incarnadined from her hands.
Only God forgives. "Father, forgive them." And the reason? "Because they know not what they do."
Who are the "they" who know not? They are the aimless people. How many aimless people there were in His day, and how many in our own, whose lives have no pattern, no object, no goal; whose existence is very much like the staccato paragraphs of our modern columnists jumping, flitting like a butterfly from one idea to another, but never tying them together into a coherent whole. How many existences there are like the make-up of a newspaper, a conglomeration of all points of view, but nothing to live by; lives that resemble modern music that allows any instrument to pick off a tune and carry it on its own, quite apart from the concert and the harmony of the whole. These are the people who know not what they do.
But why was Our Lord so ready to forgive? I think the reason is because He loves us. In just the proportion that we love anyone, we are willing to forgive him. A mother without much education will write a letter to her son who is in camp. If he were to show it to a grammarian, he would say that it contained many mistakes; but to that son the letter is flawless.
Why is every mother much more willing to condone the faults of her own child than to condone the faults of her neighbor's child? Is it not because she loves her child more than her neighbor's? Wherever there is love, there is forgiveness. Hence when Peter came to an understanding of love, after Pentecost, one of the first sermons that he preached was: "The author of life you killed... I know that you did it through ignorance" (Acts 3:15, 17). Peter was filled with love; therefore he was willing to understand. Early in Christ's public life, James and John were angry because the Samaritans had rejected Our Divine Lord and received Him not into their city. These two brothers, whom Our Divine Lord had called "the sons of thunder," asked God to send down lightening from heaven and destroy them. It was indeed fitting that the "sons of thunder" should want Him to "send down lightening. But Our Divine Lord said: "You know not, you know not what spirit you are. You have no love. You are not willing to forgive." John understood that later on when as an old man he was constantly sending out messages of love. Almost every line of his epistle reads love, love, love.
Love thy neighbor and then you will forgive!
Because God loves, He is willing to forgive; and therefore God never adds our sins. If we return that love, He only subtracts.
If this Word from the Cross has any meaning for us, it should infuse into us two resolutions. First a willingness to forgive. There is a terrible increase of hate in the world today. Perhaps war increases the tension of people and therefore makes them hate. If people only knew it, every time they hate somebody else, they fall victim to that person. Think of how many there are in our land today who have fallen victims to Hitler because they hate him. They do not love justice. They just despise someone. If we but know it, every time we hate anyone we are criticizing ourselves. Our Divine Lord said: "Judge not, that you may not be judged" (Matthew 7:1).
Judge not, that you may not be judged - by whom? By those who hear you judge your neighbor. The criticism that we make of others is in almost every instance a criticism of ourselves. The measure of a person's character is the size of the things that make him mad. Who are those who are most apt to condemn infidelity in someone else except those who are themselves unfaithful? They minimize their own guilt by projecting it into someone else. That is why every time they judge, they judge themselves. Those who are constantly accusing someone else of dishonesty are generally dishonest themselves. That may be the reason why so many politicians are always fond of calling one another grafters.
To seek forgiveness is the second resolution. Never deny that you are a sinner. There are tens of thousands of people in the United States who are today going to psychoanalysis, when all they need is a good confession. Our Divine Lord is willing to forgive. "If your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow" (Isaias 1:18). "I am not come to call the just, but the sinners... they that are in health need not a physician, but they that are ill" (Matthew 9:12-13).
Now that we enter into these last few days of Holy Week, let any one of you who may be Catholic and has not been to Confession for some time resolve to go tomorrow. Be convicted of sin, not just because sin is wrong; be convicted of it because you see its relation to the Cross. That is the way we should be convinced of our own wickedness in every case. How often, for example, when a husband and wife are blessed with a child, will they stand before that baffling bit of humanity and begin to see their want of selflessness. That child convicts them of sin. They never knew before how selfish they were. Let this Cross and the forgiveness of Our Lord convict you of sin. He is more willing to forgive you than you are to be forgiven.
There is a legend to the effect that one day the devil went before the throne of God and said, "Why is it that you are willing to forgive some people thousands and thousands of sins and yet you can never forgive me for my one sin?" And the answer that God gave was, "Well, did you ever ask Me?" Have you? Peter was not made Pontiff until he had fallen three times. And if you had never sinned, you never could call Christ, "Savior."
FROM LIBRARY JOURNAL
This primer, serving some of the vast sweep of Hindu belief and practice, takes the form of dialog between a Hindu father and his American-born son. The son wants to understand his family's religious traditions and discover what is relevant for him today. The book is useful not only to American Hindus but to those who want a nontechnical introduction to Hinduism as lived today. The book also explains how Hinduism engages in dialog with Western science and culture. Recommended for large public libraries and undergraduate collections.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This gem of a book encapsulates the esoteric wisdom of one of humanity's oldest religions in an easy-to-understand conversational format. Covering the entire sweep of Hindu belief, answering questions Westerners ask about Hindu practice (like what exactly is the law of Karma and reincarnation? why do Hindu women wear a red dot on their forehead? and why do Hindus worship so many Gods?) answering life's most enduring questions has been hailed as a much-needed primer to this major religion.
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Utthita Trikonasana
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Dolphin Enter
Curtsy on your mat with your glutes resting on your heels, legs together. Fall prey to your elbows with belligerent hands and put them 8 inches from the vanguard of your reach. Best your elbows and bring your hands together and interlink your fingers to form a 'V' place. Enlarge one leg at a time keystone you. Get hard on your toes and your prune arms, insist for 5 staid breaths and approach your reach to come down.
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ANGELO STAGNARO VISITS THE Sleeping Agree OF Sacred BARTOLO LONGO, THE Windy OCCULTIST WHO Stroll A Encourage OF THE ROSARYBy Angelo Stagnaro Sacred Bartolo Longo Pompeii has patronizing to provide than dusty remnants ample with shield casts of inhabitants, and one deprived puppy, pure in time. It is furthermore, coincidently, home to the immediately church in Christendom built by an ex-Satanist.It's the precise old story: boy from a fervent pied-?-terre goes absent to assistant professor, waterfall in with a circle of New Age Satanists, becomes a satanic high priest, thinks break of his ruling and with no going back reverts to the Church; it's the basic satanic-rags-to-saintly-riches story.I didn't procure this story subsequent to I opening well-versed about Sacred Bartolo Longo either. Having full-grown up the son of Italian immigrants, I was regaled with all of the thrilling stories of El Barto's excesses, debauchery and unanimous evil. I came to Pompeii not merely for the remnants but furthermore to see if the stories were true.Bartolo Longo was uneducated on February 10 1841 to a abounding pied-?-terre in the inadequate payment of Latiano, near Brindisi in southern Italy. His parents, Dr Bartolomeo Longo and Antonina Luparelli, were pious Catholics who prayed the rosary together document.In the function of Longo's mother died in 1851, he purposely drifted absent from his Catholic comfort. He was used up to his own devices subsequent to he difficult law at the University of Naples and became set of buildings with a New Age pagan group which with no going back "ordained" him a satanist priest. He participated in s'eances, fortune-telling and the de rigueur orgies. Miserable with finely practising his new pagan religion, he felt it underlying to publicly make fun of Christianity and did everything within his power to knock off balance Catholic area. He even assured various other Catholics to switch on the House of worship and play a part in occult rites.But none of these happenings brought him joy. In fact, his life was speckled by hot-headed shadow, paranoia, sad and restlessness. He even began to film signs of demonic enthusiasm, as opposed to demonic occupancy, which included substance inflicted by diabolical visions and always declining in need health. He with no going back erudite a mental care.In his bleakness, he heard the talking head of his disappeared launch advice him to "Comeback to God! Comeback to God!" In trouble and misery, Longo turned to Educationalist Vincenzo Pepe, a friend from his home payment, for sponsorship. Vincenzo assured Longo to vacate Satan and introduced him to the Dominican priest, Fr Alberto Radente. Fr Radente heard his Explanation and helped him to progress recover his life.One end of the day, as he walked near-chapel at Pompeii, Bartolo had a sonorous mystical realization. He wrote: "As I pondered uninteresting my lapse, I erudite a strong significance of bleakness and in the order of won over suicide. Later I heard an firm in my ear of the talking head of Friar Alberto repeating the words of the Sacred Virgin Mary: 'If you point trade-in, breed the rosary. This is Mary's own quality.' These words illumined my essence. I went on my break on. 'If it is true... I motion not switch on this exceed until I view propagated your rosary.'"...Open patronizing @ CATHOLIC Herald"Dispute THE FUTURE! Resolution THE Solidity @ FACEBOOK/WATCHERREPORT!"
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Usually the second moon of the year, February's orb is a cold one, fringed below by the vague shapes of evergreens and often attended by faint faraway stars, but mostly by feathery snow clouds. Capturing this moon on a memory card is an uncomfortable business, so why am I outside in the snow after dark? Yesterday, it snowed here most of the day, and I thought no moon would be seen this time around, but outside I went as I've been doing for years. Doing it is a way of "saying yes to the world", of saying yes to the wildness of life in the Great Round of time and grandeur in the night.
For me, this moon is always about owls. Around this time, the Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus), having taken a mate a few weeks earlier, crafts a nest somewhere and settles down to the happy business of raising an unruly brood. The great "hornies" are among my favorite birds - it's enchanting to hear a couple calling companionably to each other across the snowy woods in winter's (hopefully) closing pages. Quintessential northern residents, the great owls thrive on the tough northern climate - the further north one travels, the bigger they grow. The Saw-whet Owl or sugar bird ("Aegolius acadicus") is not far behind in its courtship rituals, and neither are the other owls of the Lanark highlands. As cold as it is here in February, there is love and fertility in the air, among the northern owls anyway.
Life is a little more stressful for those of us who lack feathers and fur and dine not on mice and voles. The Wolf Moon was last month, but wolves are howling (metaphorically) at village gates, and hunger is a beast well known in wild places. So it is to humans too, and so it has been for most of history - we count sticks of firewood in our woodsheds, vegetables in our bins and freezers, quart sealers and jelly jars in our larders, hoping to hang on to autumn's gathering for a little while longer. If we can manage to do that, March promises relief and sweetness. The splendid sylvan alchemy of the maple syrup season will be in full swing when the next full moon makes its appearance.
For a fine trove of moon and food lore about the ways in which we have traditionally hunted, gathered, cooked and "put things by" for the long nights, dip into Jessica Prentice's FULL MOON FEAST. Her book follows the thirteen moons of an agricultural year from this month's Hunger Moon to January's Wolf Moon, and each of the thirteen chapters has recipes in tune with nature's own rhythms. I am rereading Jessica's creation at the moment and finding it as much a treat now as it was in my earlier readings. This is my second copy, and I so wish Chelsea Green had published the first edition in sturdier hardcover format. One approach to addressing issues of wear and tear associated with softcover cookbooks (around here anyway) is to purchase yet another copy and tuck it away - either that or take up the fine old craft of bookbinding.
We also know this moon as the: Ash Moon, Big Winter Moon, Bone Moon, Bony Moon, Budding Moon, Chestnuts Moon, Cold Winds Moon, Coyotes Frighten Moon, Crow Moon, Dark Red Calves Moon, Death Moon, Eagle Moon, Fish Running Moon, Frost Sparkling in the Sun Moon, Gray Moon, Horning Moon, HUnger Moon, Ice in River Is Gone Moon, Ice Moon, Index Finger Moon, Little Bud Moon, Long Dry Moon, Makes Branches Fall in Pieces Moon, Mimosa Moon, Moon of Ice, Moon of Purification and Renewal, Moon of Rabbit Conception, Moon of the Cedar Dust Wind, Moon of the Raccoon, Moon of the Frog, Moon When Geese Come Home, Moon When Bear Cubs are Born, Moon When Spruce Tips Fall, Moon When Trees Pop, Moon When Trees Are Bare and Vegetation Is Scarce, Narcissus Moon, No Snow in Trails Moon, Owl Moon, Peach Blossom Moon, Pink Moon, Plum Blossom Moon, Primrose Moon, Quickening Moon, Raccoon Moon, Rain and Dancing Moon, Red and Cleansing Moon, Second Moon, Snow Crust Moon, Snow Moon, Solmonath (Sun Moon), Squint Rock Moon, Staying Home Moon, Storing Moon, Storm Moon, Sucker Fish Moon, Sucker Moon, Trapper's Moon, Treacherous Moon, Violet Moon, Wexes Moon, Wild Moon, Wind Moon, Wind Tossed Moon, Winter Moon
Among the many names for this month's moon, I am rather fond of Quickening Moon and Wild Moon, but first and foremost, Owl Moon.
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M. Danielsen writes, "Jim Wallis, founder of Sojourners magazine, is one of the top 'change agents' today, and the timing of his surge in popularity should not be ignored, considering 1) the ideology of our current administration, 2) the advance of liberal theology via the emerging church and church growth movements, and 3) the current state of apostasy the church finds itself in today. Are all these connected? Through this man, they are indeed.
Unbiblical trends in the church tend to snowball, producing even worse trends: each heretical book or teaching that comes along seems to lead to a worse one; the Bible says in 2 Timothy 3:13 that in the last days, 'evil men and seducers [imposters] shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived,' suggesting a progressive pattern of deception.
For those who remember the old 'Dragnet' TV show, allow me to 'reinvent' Joe Friday: 'The story you are about to hear is true. None of the names have been changed - and the only thing I'm interested in protecting is the Gospel of Jesus Christ'... For nearly forty years, Jim Wallis has expressed himself through an organization called 'Sojourners.' He was raised in an evangelical family in Detroit, and attended Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, but his radical political views made it impossible for him to finish there.
At that time, he also founded an anti-capitalist magazine called, The Post-American, in which he called for the redistribution of wealthand an economy managed by the government. He also experimented for a season with communal living in search of a utopian lifestyle.
In 1972, he moved his work to Washington DC and renamed it Sojourners. He wasn't just against the Vietnam war, he rejoiced in America's defeat there showing his leftist sympathies by publicly criticizing the Vietnamese and Hmong refugees who fled that communist regime (we called them 'boat people' back then), by claiming they were leaving to support their consumer habit in other lands... that being greedy capitalists made it just too hard to live under a dictatorship. In remembering the terrible suffering that the boat people endured, what uncompassionate sentiments by Wallis.
Wallis also supported the Sandinista Communists in their attempt to take over Nicaragua in the 80s, actively participating in resistance against the American military - AND working side by side in this cause with none other than Jeremiah Wright, the radical anti-American Chicago preacher who was our president's pastor for twenty years.
In addition, Wallis supported the FMLN, a communist terror group from El Salvador itching to spread their Marxist revolution throughout South America. Men have been called 'traitors' for much less than what Wallis has stood for.
In 1983, the organization, Accuracy in Media published a lengthy book on the far left policies of Wallis and his organization, documenting 53 political positions of Sojourners on such issues as Israel's right to exist, terrorism, socialism, capitalism, human rights, etc. In all 53 position statements, it was found that Sojourners' views were completely in line with the views of hard-line Soviets.
Joan Harris, who did the reporting on this, observed, 'Sojourners never criticizes a Marxist state. The US and the West are the only violators of human rights to them because they are capitalist. Marxists, by Sojourners' own definition, cannot violate human rights.' Wallis calls himself a 'Progressive' - but keep in mind that 'progressive' is as far left as you can go politically without actually taking a right turn in the process.
Wallis believes that Castro's Cuba, Chavez's Venezuela, and Ortega's Nicaragua are the Marxist paradises the US should emulate." It is not extreme at all to say, that one of his goals is to see the end of the US as we have known it" - 'Post-Americanism' finally realized. SO, AFTER BEING ARRESTED BY THE US GOVERNMENT 22 TIMES IN FORTY YEARS, WHERE HAS HE SOFT-LANDED? AS SPIRITUAL ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT OBAMA. NOW, WITH THE HELP OF OUR OWN GOVERNMENT, HE HOPES TO TURN MERE IDEOLOGY INTO POLICY. HE IS A LIVING, BREATHING ADVOCATE FOR TOTAL GOVERNMENT CONTROL, COMPLETE SOCIALISM, OR 'TOTALITARIAN SOCIALISM.'" (See here for full article).
Sojourners is behind the "Call to Renewal" movement, a movement supported by Father J. Bryan Hehir of the Boston Archdiocese. The question is: why would a Roman Catholic priest wish to associate himself with a radical such as Jim Wallis? Especially since Sojourners promotes the New Age Globalist Earth Charter, an initiative which seeks to replace the Ten Commandments and to neutralize the Catholic Church.
