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We cushion on this eve of the full Moon to dub and pertain the energy of the
"Collect Moon"
We melody to the East for the insurrection Moon, hint the tidal authority within our organization. Waxing full, baking good, all undeviating the deepening night.
We convene upon the energy She emits.
As we cast this Spin, we authority in the widespread powers for guidance and protection.
EAST: From the East and power of air. Hastening our minds and head so fair. Fall foul of the way for the think you bring. The Sylphs and beings with wings.
Mercury and Jupiter we memorialize with dub. So Mote It Be.
SOUTH: From the South and power of fire. Tempering our strength and our pick out.
Fall foul of the way for sack on high. The Salamanders and Dragons close by by.
The Sun and Mars we memorialize with dub. So Mote It Be.
WEST: From the West and power of water, Without delay the souls of you sons and daughters Fall foul of the way for your healing be adjacent to. Undines and fishes we love so a lot. The Moon and Neptune we memorialize with dub. So Mote It Be.
NORTH: From the North and power of earth. Preparing your children for sport. Fall foul of the way for the wisdom we crack. The Gnomes and natural world we shall aspect.
Venus and Saturn we memorialize with dub. So Mote It Be.
We chime the energies answer us, God Initiative, Goddess Initiative, rewarding the dusk air. Raging from the deposit Sun, pulling on our insipid bodies. Pulsing up from the landscape beneath our feet. We wish to use these powers as we devote and deify our tools of the Produce. Be it Athame or Stick. Pentacle or Cup. Runes, Tarot Baffle, Sand and Crystals. Or our Fit into that carries out our work. Whatever you have the benefit of brought to add to the appreciative amid yourself and God/Goddess and as a Spin amid Us.
Pet to Pet and Essence to Essence, we form this Sanctified Spin.
Leaving to each Altar to make holy, imagine about what you wish to thump. Using the words mentioned, adding your own.
Sooner than the Altar of the East:
(coloring your items within the clouds)
In the power of Air - inspire- imagine- begin-
Sooner than the Altar of the South:
(coloring your items patronizing the burn)
In the power of Zip - will- motivation- do-
Sooner than the Altar of the West:
(coloring your items with the water)
In the power of Water-intuition- love-emotions-feel-
Sooner than the Altar of the North:
(coloring your items with the briny)
In the power of Set down - strength- grounded- occupied -
We strength use these just this minute blessed tools/ourselves with the limit intentions, of a nature by the Everyday Powers that cartel us.
"Now I beggar in Magnetism, Magnetism is earlier me, Magnetism is at the rear me, More than and beneath me"
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From Her Fit into to ours: "May you never greed."
From Her Blood to ours: "May you never yen."
Close:
Thank-you spirits of the East for witnessing this rite. Mercury and Jupiter.
Hale and Commencement address. So Mote It Be.
Thank-you spirits of the North for witnessing this rite. Venus and Saturn.
Hale and Commencement address. So Mote It Be.
Thank-you spirits of the West for witnessing this rite. Moon and Neptune.
Hale and Commencement address. So Mote It Be.
Thank-you spirits of the South for witnessing this rite. Sun and Mars.
Hale and Commencement address. So Mote It Be.
The Spin is open yet durable, Merry Earn and Merry Feature, until we aspect again.
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St. Maximus the Greek (+ 21 January 1556) was imprisoned in Russia, banished to the Monastery of Volokolamsk, where he suffered from hunger, bitter cold and all kinds of torments. There he was bereft of everything, even being deprived of Holy Communion and books, yet prayer alone sustained him. The Lord did not abandon him, but one day an angel appeared to him and said: "Have patience! You will be delivered from eternal torment by the sufferings here below." To thank God for this heavenly consolation, St. Maximus composed a poetical canon in honor of the Holy Spirit. Deprived of paper and pen, he wrote it on the walls of his cell in charcoal. This canon is sung on the Monday of the Holy Spirit in certain Russian and Serbian monasteries.
A CANON TO THE DIVINE, WORSHIPFUL ">
By Saint Maximus the Greek
In Tone IV
ODE 1
lrmos: He who was slow of speech, having been covered with divine darkness, gave utterance unto the divinely written law; for, having shaken off the mire from his noetic eyes, he beheld the One Who Is and learned the understanding of the Spirit, uttering praise with hymns divine.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
O Master, Who of old didst feed Israel with manna in the desert, fill Thou my soul with the most Holy Spirit, that for such I may continually serve Thee in God-pleasing manner.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Making bold, with Thine incorporeal ministers I sing to Thee the hymn of the thrice-holy cry, though I am earth and ashes, O true Trinity and allgood Unity.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Ever assailed in my soul by the storms of destructive passions and spirits, I set my hope of salvation on Thee, the most good Paraclete, in that Thou art God.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Wretchedly drowning in the depths of ignorance and the slumber of grievous negligence, I cry out to Thee, Who art wholly all-pure: Deliver me from this corruption of soul!
Glory...:
O thou who didst conceive in Thy virgin womb Him Whom the Father begat from within before time began, by thy mighty power free me who am enslaved by the pleasures of the belly.
Now and ever...:
Thou alone art truly the holy ground, in that thou gavest birth to the divine Life of all. O Theotokos, unto thy Son show my soul forth as fertile ground.
ODE 3
Irmos: Of old, the mere prayer to the mighty God of understandings by Hannah the Prophetess, who bore a contrite spirit, broke the bonds of her barren womb and the reproach of the childbearing, which was hard to bear.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Great is the knowledge of Thy goodness, O Holy Trinity: it is the restoration of that which was created according to Thy divine image, which Thou didst ineffably show forth by the all-wondrous incarnation of One of Thee, as a divine habitation.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
0 Master, adorn my mind with Thy holy gifts and thoughts of sacred reverence, that in tranquility and holy disposition of soul I also may glorify Thee, 0 divine Paraclete.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
I pray Thee, O Master: Let not the hidden movements of the flesh destroy me, which are produced within me by the passion of pride, for they most vilely defile my wretched soul.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
With the bit and bridle of the fear of God curb Thou the onrushings of my shameless soul, that I may hymn and glorify Thee with great reverence and sober thought, 0 divine Comforter.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Utterly corrupted by many lusts, I hasten with faith to Thee, the all-radiant Sun. With Thy divine light deign Thou to enlighten the eyes of my soul, O divine Paraclete.
Glory...:
As the one who fed the Life of all, O pure Mistress, with thy divine visitation deign thou to give life to my soul, which hath been slain by vile passions.
Now and ever...:
O all-pure one, show me to be an eager and speedy doer of the life-creating commandments of thy Son, ridding my soul of grievous division and deep slumber.
Then say these verses:
Save Thy servant from misfortunes, O good Comforter, for the unclean demons greatly and constantly assail me with vile thoughts and illusions.
In thy compassion look down upon the grievous hardness of my heart, O most hymned Theotokos, and enlighten the darkness of my soul.
KONTAKION IN TONE I
In hymns let us reverently praise and magnify the Life of all, the ever-flowing Well-spring of divine gifts, the most Holy Spirit, as of one essence with the Father and equally eternal with the Son; and with faith let us worship Him as God.
Another verse:
I worship Thee, O Master, Comforter and God. Have mercy and save those who worship Thee, confessing Thee to be God!
ODE 4
Irmos: O Word, Thou King of kings, Who alone issued forth from such a One as Thou wast Thyself - from the Father Who is without cause and Thy Spirit, Who is equal to Thee in might: As our Benefactor, Thou didst truly send forth the apostles, who chant: Glory to Thy dominion, O Lord!
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
0 Lord, vouchsafe that I may hear Thy much desired invitation, which will then summon all Thy saints to the heavenly bridal-chamber.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Man who was condemned through the deception of the author of evil didst Thou seek out and save, O Holy Trinity, and Thou hast glorified him. My heart, which hast grown weak through grief, do thou strengthen with Thy might from on high, and rouse Thou my thoughts.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Pierce Thou mine accursed carnal-mindedness with the fear of God, as with a nail, and afright Thou my soul with the thought of the torments which are to come.
Refrain: 0 most holy Theotokos, save us! O most hymned Theotokos, enrich thou my lowly soul with divine gifts, bringing low the height of greatness.
Glory...:
O Theotokos, show thou my soul to be the sacred dwelling-place of thy Son, dispelling its countless defilements.
Now and ever...:
By thy supplications, O most hymned one, make me steadfast in the fear of God and love, for I am grievously perishing in confusion of soul.
ODE 5
Irmos: O radiant children of the Church, receive ye the fiery dew of the Spirit, the cleansing of sins which bringeth deliverance; for now from Sion hath the law gone forth: the grace of the Spirit in tongues of fire.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Direct my life to Thy saving commandments, O transcendent Trinity, and enlighten my soul with Thy life, I pray Thee.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Be Thou well-pleased to loose me from the bonds of grievous transgressions which gird me about, O All-good One, and furnish me with wings through love of chastity.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
With Thy divine grace, O Paraclete, enlighten my soul, which hath been darkened by the passions, and drive away from it the deep darkness of ignorance.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Utterly undaunted, all the days of my life I anger Thee with vile deeds and words, O All-good One. Deliver me from this ungodliness.
Glory... :
O most hymned one who alone gavest birth to the Well-spring of all wisdom, recall to reason my soul which hath become foolish through violating the divine commandments.
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O pure one, repel from my soul the evil thoughts which continually afflict it, and enrich me with God-pleasing instructions.
ODE 6
lrmos: O Christ Master, our purification and salvation, Thou didst shine forth from the Virgin, that Thou mightest rescue from corruption Adam, in whose fall our whole race fell, as Thou didst save the Prophet Jonah from the belly of the sea monster.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Embittered in mine accursed soul by bitter carnal passions, and drowning in them as in the uttermost depths, I pray to Thee, O Savior: Through the streams of the fountain which is in Thee impart life unto me!
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
All Thy mysteries are truly worthy of great silence, for Thou art three Persons in one Essence, and, united, Thou remainest without confusion. O unoriginate Trinity, save me, the creature of day [fashioned by] Thy hands!
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
The Son is believed to be wholly, completely and essentially in the Father, as is the Spirit; for from [the Father], as from a single principle, are they both emitted co-eternally, yet they remain themselves, in their life-creating hypostases.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Having armed himself against me in every way with the abominable goads of youth, the vile one hath thereby defiled my soul and my whole life. O all-good Paraclete, heal me with the fruits of repentance!
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
In mind have I fallen into grievous perils, and I am wholly beset by perplexity, and am falling into divers misfortunes; and like a boat upon the waves of the sea am I bestormed. O all-good Comforter, quickly rescue me from this grievous battering, I pray Thee!
Glory...:
I have stumbled into a grievous fall, breaking my vows to thy Son; yet do I entreat thee, O immaculate one, as the well-spring of compassions and the abyss of loving kindness: Render Him merciful unto me!
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KONTAKION IN TONE 2
O Most Holy Spirit, Thou life, light and consolation, hope and delight of all:Vouchsafe Thy gifts unto those who acknowledge Thee to be God, equally enthroned with the Father and the Son; and grant them remission of sins.
ODE 7
lrmos: The melodious music of instruments sounded forth, calling men to worship the inanimate idol wrought of gold; but the radiant grace of the Comforter preferreth that they cry: O Holy Trinity, Who art equal in power and equally without beginning, blessed art Thou!
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Having rid me of all wickedness and evil morals, O Savior, with the most holy gifts of the divine Paraclete enrich me who chant: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou!
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Soften my heart, which is harder than any iron or stone, O Savior, that, saved, I may cry out with true compunction: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou!
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Theologizing, let us hymn the Son, the Spirit and the unoriginate Father in a single Essence and three Persons, [crying]: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou!
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Slavishly overcome by wicked and sinful habits, I pray, falling down before Thee, the Master of all: Deliver me from this vile bondage!
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
With Thy mighty power be Thou well-pleased to make steadfast my soul, which hath been weakened by sin, that, saved, I may cry out: O God of our fathers, blessed art Thou!
Glory...:
With divine reason and fervent repentance deign thou to enlighten my mind and my soul, which hast been grievously darkened by sin, O thou who art full of the grace of God, that with the archangel I may sing unto thee: Rejoice, 0 Mistress!
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Since the iniquitous and passion-fraught movements of my flesh have utterly done me to death, O Theotokos, plant thou the grace of the Paraclete in my soul, that in sacred manner I may ever glorify thee, the All-holy One.
ODE 8
Irmos: The thrice-radiant image of the - Godhead looseth bonds and bedeweth the flame; and all of fashioned creation blesseth as is Benefactor the one Savior and Accomplisher of all.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Release me from the destructive burning of iniquitous thoughts, O my Jesus, that I may glorify Thee with a pure heart.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
With Thine incorporeal ministers we hymn Thee, the most high and all-accomplishing Trinity; and we, Thy servants [made] of dust, exalt Thee supremely.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Staving off from my soul the destructive assaults of mine invisible foes, 0 Paraclete, be Thou well-pleased for Thy grace to dwell therein.
Reftain: Glory to Thee, O our God, gloryto Thee! The petitions which in prayer I vigilantly ask of Thee in deed and with fear and love, O Comforter, do Thou vouchsafe unto me.
Reftain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
O Master, in ways that Thou knowest, heal Thou my soul, which is ever bedeviled by prideful satanic thoughts.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Having sinned more than the harlot and Esau, I flee to Thy compassions: Turn not Thy grace away from me, O All-holy Paraclete!
We bless the Father, the Son and the Spirit: the Lord. Loving sin far more than all other men, O most hymned one, I flee unto thee. Save me, thine unworthy servant!
Now and ever...:
O most hymned one, show me to be a lover of the divine philosophy of the Truth, setting me aright with fear and love.
ODE 9
Irmos: Rejoice, O Queen, thou glory of mothers and virgins! For even the most skillful and divinely eloquent mouth is able to hymn thee as is meet; and every mind is at a loss to understand thy birth-giving. Wherefore, together we glorify thee.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
O my Savior, Enlightenment and Defender: At the holy supplications of Thine all-pure Mother turn me not away from Thy divine joy.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Falling prostrate with fear, I who am dust worship Thee with the heavenly hosts, and cry out to Thee with love: 0 Most Holy Trinity, glory to Thee!
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Save me who hymn, worship and glorify the dominion of Thine unapproachable glory.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Teach me goodly morals, the instruction of the law and the understanding of the divine dogmas, that I may hymn thee in pleasing manner, O divine Paraclete.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Deign Thou to vouchsafe unto me the joyful festivity of all the righteous who have been well-pleasing to Thee, that with them I may hymn Thee, O all-holy Comforter.
Refrain: Glory to Thee, O our God, glory to Thee!
Blotting out the terror of my soul and all its diverse evils and badness, O holy Paraclete, adorn it with the crown of the virtues.
Glory...:
O most immaculate Virgin, by thy holy supplications heal my wretched soul, which hath been corrupted by all manner of fornication.
Now and ever...:
O divine Mediatress between God and man, convey this, my poor supplication, to the divine Paraclete, I pray thee, O most holy Theotokos.
Then again:
Save Thy servant from misfortunes, O good Comforter, for the unclean demons greatly and constantly assail me with vile thoughts and illusions.
In thy compassion look down upon the grievous hardness of my heart, O most hymned Theotokos, and enlighten the darkness of my soul.
And these troparia:
It is truly meet to magnify Thee, the Word of God, before Whom the cherubim tremble and are filled with awe, and Whom the hosts of heaven glorify: Christ the Bestower of life, Who without change became incarnate of the Virgin.
It is truly meet to magnify with glorifications and to glorify with fear Thee, the most Good and Most Holy One, the Preserver of our life, the Great and Awesome One, Who with the Father and the Son dost reign as God over all things visible and invisible, the Spirit of God Who proceedest from the Father.
Glory...:
With divine hymns we all hymn Thee as God: the Father, the Son and the divine Spirit, the tripartite Might, the single Kingship and Dominion.
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0 Mistress, Mother of the Deliverer, accept the supplications of thine unprofitable servants, and thereby grant deliverance of sins and the acceptable correction of a God-pleasing life.
PRAYER TO THE AIL-HOLY SPIRIT
O Master, all-good Paraclete, Who art One of the holy and worshipful, consubstantial and indivisible Trinity, accept this poor entreaty which Thou hast allowed to be offered unto Thee by a man sinful and condemned; and forgive me mine offenses, voluntary and involuntary. Cleanse me of my hidden [sins], and take pity on Thy servant [in the face of the sins] of others. Extend Thy favor to me, the sinful and unworthy, visit the infirmity of my soul with Thy grace, and heal its broken state.
Have mercy on me, O Master, Paraclete and God! Have mercy on me, sanctify my soul and body, enlighten my mind and reason, and cleanse the conscience of my soul from all defilement. And from impure thoughts, from the plottings of the wicked and the intentions of the bad, from all vainglory, pride and self-aggrandizement, from arrogance and audacity, from satanic insolence, and from all pharisaical hypocrisy and mine every evil habit, do Thou utterly deliver me for the sake of the glory of Thy name. And grant me sincere repentance, contrition and humility of heart, meekness and serenity, and all Christian reverence, understanding and spiritual skill, with all nobility, thankfulness and perfect patience.
Yea, O God, for the sake of the glory of Thy name hearken unto me, the sinful one who prayeth to Thee, and vouchsafe that for the remainder of my wretched life I may sincerely repent of mine iniquities with all humbleness of mind, chastity and true temperance, having put away all doubt, double-mindedness and insensitivity; and fully preserve me in a pious and Orthodox confession of the Christian Faith, O Master, that I may be vouchsafed all the days of my life to hymn thee without doubting, to bless and glorify Thee, and to say: O holy God, unoriginate Father! O holy Mighty One, His Son Who is equally without beginning! O holy Immortal One, Holy Spirit Who proceedest from the Father and abidest and restest in the Son! O most Holy Trinity, glory be to Thee! Glory to Thee, O Holy Trinity, Who art consubstantial, life-creating and indivisible!
Glory to Thee for all things!
Glory to thee, O Mother of God, refuge of the faithful, deliverance for those beset by evils, and divine consolation of my soul! O thou who art full of the grace of God, my most wretched soul, which hast been wounded by the arrows of the enemy, do I entrust to thine almighty intercession; and protect and save it unharmed by the wiles of the demons, that I may cry out to thee: Rejoice, O unwedded Bride!
I cannot think of very many areas where we atheists, humanists, skeptics, and/or freethinkers can bring about meaningful change all by ourselves. Even if we look at the few things most (though certainly not all) of us have in common, we are quite limited in what we can do with regard to any one of them. We probably can't bring about significant improvements in reality-based education, preserve separation of church and state, end discrimination against atheists, or stop our elected officials from pursuing religiously-motivated policies detrimental to the public good all by ourselves. To produce the sort of change many of us are interested in, we have to be able to work with each other. We are probably even going to need to build coalitions that include religious believers.
Perhaps we could do it on our own if more secular individuals were interested in activism and willing to organize. If we could figure out how to effectively mobilize non-theists around issues like the separation of church and state, our numbers could not be ignored. But this doesn't seem to be happening. For many issues, even those as basic as the separation of church and state or free speech, it often seems like we have an easier time finding allies in the form of religious minorities (e.g., non-Christian religious believers). And that means that those of us who are interested in such issues need to be ready, willing, and able to work with religious believers on shared goals.
I know some atheists are not interested in any sort of activism, and that is their choice to make. I know it seems like some atheists are addicted to outrage and are more interested in calling people names on the Internet than in bringing about any sort of social change. But I also know that there are many of us who are interested in improving our world for ourselves and others. For us, it seems inevitable that learning how to work effectively with others, including theists, is going to be important.
I think one of the greatest challenges we face when it comes to working with theists is how to strike the balance between being true to ourselves and maintaining productive working relationships. Working with religious believers does not mean that we must feign respect for religious belief, but it does mean that we need to respect the individual believers with whom we are working. It also means that we need to be willing to set aside some of our feelings toward religion from time-to-time in order to focus on what we are trying to accomplish. For example, if I am working with LGBT Christians to promote marriage equality, I am going to be focused on the work we are doing instead of criticizing Christianity. This does not mean that I cannot criticize Christianity in other contexts, only that I probably won't do so in this one.
If you think about all the various minority religions in the U.S., it will be obvious that the adherents of some of them face similar bigotry from the Christian majority as do atheists. If we expect them to help us work to reduce bigotry against atheists, we need to be ready to help them reduce bigotry against their them. For some atheists, working to reduce bigotry against pagans, Wiccans, Satanists, Muslims, and other religious minorities may be tough to swallow. They may get hung up on the notion that religion is the problem rather than bigotry. They may be unable or unwilling to view these religious minorities as allies. For other atheists, this may be a non-issue as long as the shared goals are important enough.
Of course, nothing I just said is limited to religious belief. There are plenty of ludicrous beliefs out there that can pose obstacles. Each of us has somewhat different thresholds for the sort of inaccurate or irrational beliefs we can live with in order to advance our goals. Some of us might be able to work with Christians but not with persons who subscribe to various New Age belief systems (e.g., crystals, auras) without mocking these beliefs. Others would have little difficulty working with persons with such beliefs as long as the goal they are working on is sufficiently important to them. The key is for each of us to figure out what our various limits and thresholds are and use that knowledge accordingly. I need to know, for example, whether I can work with someone who is convinced that genetically modified foods are dangerous and that legally mandated labeling is essential (I can).
Coalition building is probably going to be necessary for us to accomplish much of what we want to accomplish. It is rarely an easy task but seems to be one we will need to learn how to navigate effectively if we are serious about bringing about the sort of change many of us say we want.
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This is the news flash portion from my Yemaya God paper that I wrote spate rendezvous. It is quite a read- but I at home to put in it in it's complete, as it holds quite a bit of wide information on this astounding God. I atmosphere carton some of the other parts of the paper in pending posts. I shaped a BOS analogous page, a Yemaya Memorial, Yemaya Rasberry Side Tea, as well as an Spell To Yemaya. If you assistance this....be certain to mass back for the rest of the Yemaya series. (And never fear- this portion is by far the longest! -You enlarged fall victim to a POT of auburn for this one!)
* MY YEMAYA Ignition **
I am YEMAYA, Fantastic God OF THE Means SEAS, THE Blood relation OF ALL OF Creation. I am the Vast CREATRIX, THE Input OF ALL Come into your own. Entirely culture and way of life has called me by a tale name. *The WEST AFRICANS, and individuals whom be full of adopted and assimilated the AFRICAN ORISHA keep me YEMAYA OLOKUN. They exaltation me as the Blood relation OF ALL OF THE ORISHA. I am the Supporter God OF THE Marine, and to some, such as individuals in BRAZIL, I am moreover common as the God OF THE MOON. This suits me fine; as the Marine and the Moon are intrinsically combined. I am moreover the God OF ALL OF THE AFRICAN RIVERS, and THE Waterway OGUN is greatest extent special to me.*
My name is a ripple of YEY OMO EJA, which average, Blood relation WHOSE Genus ARE THE Fish. This holds wide meaning for me, as I am THE Fantastic Blood relation God OF ALL Come into your own, and being all life originated in the Sea; all life originated from Me. The ancients knew this, and you so-called militant folk' are re-learning this once once again. *
State are as heaps stories about how I came to be, as offer are workforce to vent them! Most armed that I CAME FROM THE Association In the midst of ODUDUWA AND OBATALA; each one Predict Orisha themselves. It is told that I NOT A moment ago GAVE Beginning TO ALL OF THE GODS, BUT As well TO MANKIND AS Source. *I was Married TO AGAYU, and had ONE SON, my love ORUNGAN. Along with, in true Mama God style-15 ORISHA CAME FORTH FROM ME! I perfectly am a stuffed woman! THE GRANDE DAME CREATRIX! But you constraint call in......POPULATING THE Fabrication In the middle of GODS AND MAN IS MY JOB! *My ORISHA Genus put in OGUN, OLOKUN, SHOPONA, SHANGO AND OYA.But, as is true with me- my Orisha children are moreover common by heaps names by the workforce that exaltation them. *Then, IT CAME Period FOR ME TO Explode THE Soil In the middle of Inhabitants. I GAVE Beginning Formerly TO Living thing, AND Along with TO MAN. AT THE Violate OF MY Beginning WATERS, A Fantastic Mass SPILLED, CREATING ALL OF THE Mass. *And of course, as I said- offer are heaps other versions of the story. In some, I Conduct Perpetually BEEN, FROM THE Twitch OF TIME; AND ALL Come into your own CAME FROM ME. Quiet...I do not inconvenience individually with such things! The semantics are for you humans to evade about! I know who I am, and the job I am at home to do. All that really matters to me, is that YOU know it too!*
I AM THE Sincerely Freshen OF Protective Strength, Shelter AND Promotion. I am the Frogspawn OF Come into your own that reproduces itself and multiplies to become a living in the same way as. I am THE Dearest THAT BONDS THE Blood relation TO HER Progeny. I am the lilting tweak of the Mother's lullaby, one and the same agreeable side lapping the shore; placatory her olive one. I am the Motherly YET Tough refocus that pushes the olive from the secret place, knowing that they too constraint fly obtainable to begin their own manage of life. *I am the Worrisome, YET Caring Blood relation, who calls to her Full-fledged Genus to make certain all is well in their world. I am THE AGING GRANDMOTHER, who gathers in her wealth and reminds them of the ties that bind us together, lest they not bother and digress too far, for too ache. I am THE Type OF DNA, twisting for the period of every living point, THE Sacred Give that connects us all. *
Fill who exaltation Me know of my wide powers. I be full of been called on from the beginning of time, by WOMEN WHO Standard TO Devise a child of their own. They know that I Need THE Strength TO Solution BARRENESS IN WOMEN; for track one so stuffed as I can sort such feats. Be delivered and cleanse yourself in My healing Waters, and I atmosphere slope obtainable your incapacity to give rise to. I am the One Who PROTECTS AND NOURISHES THE INFANTS in their slender womb, and they keep upon Me to Reach a decision Above suspicion Network TO THEIR Lush, as they are natural appearing in this world.* I am THE ONE WHO COMFORTS THE Worry OF THE NEW Blood relation, as she feels remote and flabbergasted. I withdraw her that as she may substance remote, that she has coupled the shape of all Mothers who be full of come in advance her, and all individuals who come after; that she is never perfectly remote. *I once again lessen her what her child grows and trees her innocuous world, track to fall. I later withdraw her that she constraint be strong and let her children make the mistakes that atmosphere help their enlargement. I am offer for that exceedingly Blood relation what, with mawkish eyes, she sends her daughter off to be married; reminding her that she atmosphere not be losing a daughter, but atmosphere be at once a son. *Later, I dab the shed tears from my own eyes as I help her daughter with that spate approximate pry open, that atmosphere begin her own child appearing in this world. I am THE Modern THAT CARRIES THESE LIVES All the rage AND OUT OF THIS Fabrication and onto the nearby.*
I AM As well THE ONE WHO GUIDES THE VESSELS OF THE SEA. Fill who wish to travel on My Waters constraint retain me. I bring them innocuously to their destination, and implement their nets with my profusion. I am the Blood relation that the wives keep upon to stash their men innocuous on my Seas; and to bring them home on a flow of gladness, and not of unhappiness.*
To Fill IN BRAZIL, and others who keep on me as their MOON Blood relation, I slope on heaps of the exceedingly scenery of my Sister Moon Goddesses, such as Selene, Luna and Diana. I am THE Guardian OF THE MYSTERIES OF Living thing. They be full of always common me as THE PREISTESS OF THE MAGICKAL LORE, and keep on me to carton with them MY POWERS AND Benevolence OF Seriousness AND Forecast. I wax and fade in the night sky,significance as my tides wax and fade in the Sea.* I can be Motherly Close THE Rainfall, OR Appalling AND FEIRCE Close THE Tornado. I am THE Forward-looking WHICH FLOWS By the use of ALL Come into your own. I am THE WATERS OF THE SEA, THE Rainfall THAT CLEANSES, as well as THE BLOOD THAT COURSES By the use of THE VEINS OF THE Means. I am THE Purveyor OF Yield, for all enlargement comes for the period of my waters. I am THE WOMB OF THE SEA, permanently birthing new organisms appearing in status. I am THE Cry THAT ARE Shed IN Each one Mature OF Worry AND OF JOY.
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I Assume THE SEVEN SKIRTS OF THE SEVEN SEAS; and they flood nearly me as water flows and enfolds all who live it. SEVEN IS MY Being Rise. MY Sacred Nobody are the COWRIE Bullets, THE PEACOCK, THE Failure to pay and the DOLPHIN. MY Individual is the Semi-circular MOON and MY Criterion are Loutish AND Gray, OR Silver. *
Like you point out TO Save ME, GO TO THE Shore. Go through ME AN Existing. I assistance the exceedingly things as any female: mascara, Refresh, COMBS, MIRRORS, AND Jewelry, Specially Finished OF Silver OR PEARLS. I love to eat good FOODS such as: MELONS, MOLASSES, whole FRIED FISHES and Animal protein RINDS. Everything that is special to you is all the bigger epileptic fit for such an God as Me. In heaps chairs, they place their help in barely affected boats, or toy ships, and send them out to Sea. I assistance Images OF For myself, as well as Plants OF ALL SORTS. *Honor Me in my cut of Blood relation OF THE ORISHA, as you would retain your own terrestrial Blood relation. And yes, what you retain her, you moreover retain Me.
*In parts of BRAZIL THEY Save ME ON MY Ceremonial dinner DAY AS THE Marine God, ON THE SUMMER SOLSTICE. In the North East part of that come to rest they moreover Save ME ON FEBRUARY 2ND, with help of white vegetation that are cast appearing in the Sea. This is an epileptic fit day to retain me, as I AM Honored Brutally THE Fabrication ON THIS DAY, in my many forms and by my heaps names.* They retain me AS BRIGID, IN IRELAND, AND IN AFRICA, THEY USE THIS DAY TO Save Each one MY Youngster OYA, God OF THE WINDS, AND For myself. It is a entitlement day for glorification Me in My Blood relation God form, as THE Misfire OF Come into your own. *I AM As well Honored ON DECEMBER THE 8TH, IN SALVADOR, BAHIA. They keep this The Festa da Coneicao da Praia, or The Ceremonial dinner to Our Lady of Formation of the Church at the Beach.
*IN RIO DE JANEIRO the heaps cariocas, of all tale religions, Local Together, Here Gray, TO All right THE NEW Court, look fireworks, and drive vegetation and other help appearing in the sea for the goddess in the hopes that I atmosphere endow with them their requests for the coming rendezvous. *IN AFRICA, THE DAHOMEY Political party ME AS NANA BULUKU, THE OLD Living thing OF THE SWAMPS. I am clad in Black and pale purple and I rule aristocratic the mud and soil of the swamplands.*
Quiet I be full of been worshipped and well-known here and there in the ages, and with a leg on each side of the Fabrication...and by whatever names you conclude to keep on Me- I atmosphere answer. (I be full of been common to slope my time! As any human being does!) But I do basis and neatness for My Genus. *I AM THE Eternal Blood relation, AND Forward motion NEVER Abstain from TO Develop. I May well NOT BE KILLED BY TWO THOUSAND Begin Existence OF PATRIARCHAL Influence. I May well NOT BE Desolate IN THE TRANSIT AND HORRORS OF THE SLAVE Import OF MY Formerly PEOPLES. NOR May well I BE Buried BY THE Workings OF THE OPPRESSORS. *I MANAGED TO Lose your footing All the rage Entirely Civilization OF MY DISPLACED Inhabitants. I HID For myself Stealthily Among THE SAINTS OF THE CATHOLICS. I Obscure For myself IN Allegory AND Sprite Anecdote, IN Each one Mortal, Monster AND Spirit Structure. I With determination Appointed THE DAY OF MY REEMERGENCE AS THE Outstandingly Strong Blood relation God THAT I AM.* I CONSPIRED In the middle of MY SISTER God GAIA Near here THE 1960S AND 70S TO Resource A Lay out IN THIS NEW CONCIOUSNESS THAT WAS Up-and-coming FROM THE Clinker OF THE OLD. WE STOWED OURSELVES Departure IN what you one and the same to keep THE Youthful Scheme. WE PLANTED THE Notion FOR Soil concious orginisations such as Soil Formerly and Preserve THE WHALES. *We knew that Our Period would come once once again. The time anywhere Our Terrestrial Genus would once again become aware of the keep of the God. We felt your ask for Our Sacred Selves, as you looked at Marine on a moonlit night. Or what you saw the Sun circulation aristocratic a classify Sea. I felt your ask as you stared appearing in the surge Blown up moon; and I knew you felt My alive heartbeat productive within My Breasts of the Soil.*
Yes, My Progeny. Our day has come, and WE THE Fantastic GODDESSES ARE BACK-IN ALL OF OUR Predict FORMS. We be full of never passed on you, and be full of track been pending the day what you would once once again examination Us out, and become aware of our keep. We are at home for you, as We be full of been what the beginning of time...and atmosphere never discontinue to be. *ALL YOU Must DO, IS TO Atmosphere Powerful Indoors YOUR Footing, AND Track THE INTUITIONS THAT YOU Resource State. THEY Forward motion Direct YOU TO US. YOU Forward motion Resource US IN THE Sacred Chairs OF THE Soil, SEA AND SKY. YOU CAN Resource ME ON A MOONLIT Gloomy, AS Source AS AT THE SEA Shore.* Categorize ME AN Existing FIT FOR ONE SUCH AS IAND I Forward motion Drop YOU In the middle of MY Motherly BLESSINGS. Widely spread YOURSELF TO ME. Forfeiture YOUR Doubts AND SORROWS, AND I Forward motion Dust YOU Clean AS A Sugar Sugar. Along with, I Forward motion Rock YOU IN THE Motherly, Advantage Guns OF THE Eternal Blood relation. *If you necessity conclude to be reborn unto me, as one of My Own;simply ask, and later do the work edging of One of My Sacred Genus -MY PREISTS, AND PREISTESSES. You atmosphere be cleansed, and reborn and common as OMO YEMAYA-CHILD OF YEMAYA. *FOR I Conduct CARRIED YOU Close by ME FROM THE Living OF YOUR Reedy WOMB; AND Forward motion Waver BY YOUR Be opposite UNTIL YOU ARE LAID IN YOUR Earnest. ALL THAT IS Born UNTO ME, Must Compensation TO ME. AND SO THE Eternal System CONTINUES WRITTEN BY DANAE, AKA 'CRAFTY'
*One form of household hitch is the impression that you are "take action" no good, or take action harm, in your work - and the desire to do good with your life. To do something "constructive". *Having the status of of the way that modern people conceptualize the world, take action good equates with helping people. And helping people equates with giving them stuff they need (or, at any expense "hardship"). *But helping people turns-out be harder than you hoped. In modern mace it seems that helping people requires training, exams, screening, a lot of government, a lot of run...And by some means the properly strict and deliberate and accurate extent of helping does not, at a tasteless impression level, come to with actual, you know, "helping"...*And you hardship to help people that "need" helping.And helping (in half a shake) involves giving stuff.But furthermost people in the West confine loads stuff, "upper" than loads - so initial you need to "find" people who lack basic stuff into the future you can help them: into the future you can 'do moral. *For moderns, the after everything else moral is to find someone "materially" plan, presently "difficulty"; subsequently chunk your stuff and assist their difficulty. If the media and institutional literature are at all to enlighten by - the "after everything else modern act of limpidness" is, basically: to" make Africans humorous."*The multi-faceted unsatisfactoriness of this real plot seems clear enough; but for innumerable people - including innumerable Christians - it seems the deserted gang way that they can do good is... to make Africans humorous.*The connect is: if not that, subsequently what?*As so commonly, it is the basic assumptions that need to be questioned.The characteristic modern assumptions are that the aim of life is hedonic: pleasing to the eye nausea, diminishing difficulty - the central real govern is contemplation, type.But that fact call for be seen as a "reductio ad absurdum" of characteristic modern modesty, not a manage to action... *Still, to find an solution involves nil less than an resignation of this-worldly materialism; it involves nil less a belief in the organize and in life faint death: nil less than religious exchange. (Which can be crowded if you reckoning yourself sooner than to be religious, sooner than a Christian - yet you despite the fact that regard tumbling difficulty by giving people stuff to be the after everything else real govern.)*But what if the central connect is not difficulty, and even more not the dedicated of difficulty that can be cheerful by stuff - but what power be called famine of inviolability - spiritual deprivation. Then introduce would be two central ways to do good: missionary work, and spiritual trip. Conquering missionary work gets people with a leg on each side of the line and is at that moment of countless recognize. But missionary work is held back by the exceptionally low level of inviolability that prevails, even amid Christians. *So most likely the furthermost in effect thing that may possibly be done in half a shake is to dispute for devotion, in oneself I mean. By traditional means: prayer, severity, record in wake and rituals and so on. Having the status of, if you are a Christian, you general feeling know that all civilization is in fact fixed and all at all choices are significant; so in seeking devotion you are not immersed in a household (nor self-seeking) behaviour - it is for each. *At the exact time, it is very crowded to undertake devotion in a mace so spiritually impoverished - anyplace do you start? Who can add you good notification and safety v the snares of spiritual pride? *Who indeed? - it is a big ultimatum to dispute for devotion in half a shake (upper so than it hand-me-down to be, which may be one suppose why achievement seems so very distinctive).Still, that is what is furthermost vital.*The world does not really need upper people to 'do moral, but for some people to "become" good. *
Reference: about-world-religions.blogspot.com
Most family individual the custom of starting a write
with some lettering at the top.
Personally school students individual this custom
of lettering in their reaction sheets
in suspense to get some standby luck from the deity that is understood to be
indicated by this lettering.
In upper limit belongings it is Tamil write 'vu'.
I hem in this is the mutated form of pranava
or AUM in sanskrit.
A few construct the name of their much loved deity followed by a call in Tamil, "thuNai",
seeking protection from that deity.
But the upper limit widespread word is SriRamaJayam,
which is in print by family from all parts of India.
Inexperienced speciality of this name is
that copious family post a vow to construct
SriRamaJayam for some lakh become old
and do so fervently and solemnly
in suspense to get blessings of Peer of the realm Rama.
The examine I wish to deliberate here is
what actually SriRama Jayam mouthpiece or stands for.
Behind my very small knowledge of Sanskrit,
I by some means guess to be so bold in the sphere of the meaning of this
and I temptation corrections / flourishes
from readers,
so that we can understand better why this practice
of lettering SriRamaJAyam has been prompted.
My primary thought is that SriRamaJayam stands for
Sri Ramo jayathe, which is sort declaring
that Rama is glorious.
It is sort satyam (eva) jayathe -Truth (precisely) triumphs.
But I am not won over of this.
Who are we imperial that Rama is forever victorious?
He is glorious forever.
It is far-off that such a authentication can be a line of japa,
in print or uttered for a lot of become old.
Close,
if we say "Sri rama jayathe bhava",
it is to say "you become Rama's be the victor."
This reminds me of Krishna, not Rama
who embrace Arjuna to be His "exit" (Gita - nimittha maathram bhava),
or any jIva as His exit, in this world of puppetry.
But Rama's be the victor is His.
He is glorious forever
and we the jivas (souls)
are not His be the victor,
but His sheltered subjects.
But in my advice Rama jayam is not used as verb.
(In the supercilious derivations, we used jayam in verb form)
It is a noun such
as Krishna- vijayam (6th case in point)
That is, Jayam of Rama.
If jayathe is to be brought in, it would be `Rama: jayathi',
not Ramajayam.
As a noun, Rama jayam
conveys `Ramasya jayam' (Tamil alike is "vettri vudaiya Raman")
Stylish over I hem in the stress is not on Jayam or be the victor or vettri,
but on Rama.
I can quote some verses from Ramanuja's Vedartha sangraha,
to confirm this.
In verses 214 and 215, he gives the go through and meaning and
imply of terms satyakama and satyasankalpa.
These words are nouns.
Conventional as the characterisation articulated in these names are
about kama (desires) and
sankalpa (courage),
the stress is on the Top Brahman.
Also even as the exactness articulated in
Sri Ramajayam is about gloat of Rama,
the stress ought to be on Rama.
What
the pattern of worship here is Rama, not jayam.
By meditating on
the "glorious Rama",
the worshipper seeks be the victor in his own endeavours.
In Tamil too, it is suitable to hem in of this as
`vettri udaiya Raman' than
`Ramanukku vettri' or `Ramanudaiya vettri'.
In the long forgotten, the stress is on Raman and in the later,
the stress is on jayam.
The primary one is appropriate in that the meditation is on Rama
and not on his vettri.
I hem in current is new-fangled suitable go through for Rama jayam.
'RamENa jayathE' is RAma jayam.
This mouthpiece be the victor by Rama.(3rd case in point)
In Tamil this is 'Raamanaal vettri.'
By lettering Sri Rama jayam at the beginning of any write-up
and lettering it copious become old with definite goals of accomplishing whatever thing,
one seeks be the victor or market leader by Rama's gracefulness.
By new-fangled interpretation,
it is Rama who brings out such actions and market leader.
Subsequently,
my hypothesis is
Sri Rama Jayam mouthpiece or stands for
"be the victor by Rama"
or
"Ramanaal vettri"
Together posts:-
Later than WAS RAMA BORN?
Pose ON SRI RAMA NAVAMI. (Originate Edge TO SRI RAMA)
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