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Thursday, 14 July 2011

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Friday Features A Clay Centred Life

Jeremiah 18:

"The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying, arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words..."

I used to think this passage of scripture was to do with making something beautiful out of nothing but a piece of dirt - until I went to pottery classes some years ago and tried the potters wheel.

I picked up a piece of clay and put it onto the wheel but as I started the wheel and tried to shape it, the clay went everywhere. Then the teacher came to help.

First of all she said I had to place the clay onto the wheel, not forcefully but enough to help it stick and so we lightly wet the wheel and placed the clay.

Next I had to centre the clay. Now believe it or not that was the hardest part but while I was trying to centre the clay I got a real spiritual sense of that is what we had to do with the Christian life.

First and foremost we must centre our life on Christ. He must come before everything else - our family, friends, things we watch on TV. Everything we do must be for his glory. If what you're watching on TV doesn't glorify God if you're somewhere you think you can't take Jesus with you, well you shouldn't be there.

I'll be honest with you, there are times when I'm asked out to someone's leaving party from work and they are going to the pub. I really don't want to go - why? because I can't take Jesus with me. Oh I know Jesus went into the homes of sinners and sat with those who were prostitutes, drinkers - but he always told it like it was. He told them of their need to repent, in other words he told them of their need of Christ and well, I'm not sure I could do that in a pub full of unbelievers, and not when they are not sober, so I'd rather not go; you see I want my life to be centred on Christ and I'll speak to them at work.

When you try to centre clay it really is one of the hardest things to do. You need a great deal of persuasion to get that lump of clay to do what you want. You need gentle but firm pressure to move the clay and again I found that was me. Jesus needed to gently but firmly persuade me to be in the place where I could make him centre of my life.

I'd sometimes say something that wasn't right (call someone names) and you know God's words would tell me 'do everything in love'. If you can't say anything nice about a person, then don't say anything at all. I'm still learning that at almost 60 and the Lord is still gently but firmly persuading me to be in the centre of his will - to do what he want me to and not what I want and 1 Peter 1:15 reminds me to be 'holy in all manner of conversation'...

So when I start to gossip about someone or start to say something I shouldn't then the Holy Spirit gives me a nudge and tells me not to do it.

Once the clay is centred you can start to shape it. Now, I've seen master potters at work and it looks so easy to take hold of the clay and to draw it up and shape it into a vase or a jug - but it isn't easy - once you start to bring the clay up it seems to take on a life of its own.

If you go too fast the clay comes apart in your hands..

If you put too much water on it starts to flop all over the place and you end up with a soggy mess

And well, it's a bit like us really. If we try to go too fast as new Christians things can overtake us. We need to grow at the right speed, reading our bibles daily and praying continuously (1 Thess 5:17).

We start off the Christian life as babes, taking in spiritual milk 'as new born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word that ye may grow thereby' (1Pet 2:1-3). But then we grow into taking the meat of the word. We grow gradually and this helps us not to fall.

When the clay flops or falls over the potter can pick it up, put it together and start all over again and if we fall we can pick ourselves up and allow Jesus to put us together again so he can continue to shape us.

If we allow Jesus to be the centre of our life, if we are obedient and walk in the centre of his will, he will continue to mould and shape us to be the person he wants us to be.

The portion of scripture in Jeremiah was a warning to the people of Judah that once the potter has made his pot there is a point that it dries hard and if it is broken the potter can't reshape it - it's past the stage of being moulded. Jeremiah was to break the vessel the potter had made to show that the Lord would break the people and the city.

Maybe we can think on this too - there may come a time when that will happen to those who heard God saying repent, turn away from your sin, what you know to be wrong and follow me. Those who hear this message and do nothing about it might just be like the pot that was broken, they remain unmouldable, unmoveable, they can't be put back together and reshaped - they refused to listen to the word and to do anything to change their life and to follow Jesus.

I'm reminded of how God chose David, a man after his own heart to be anointed King and God also wants us to be a people after his own heart but if you don't know the Lord as your Saviour, don't refuse to listen. Repent and turn to him now and let him mould and shape your life until you grow into the likeness of Christ.

And Christians make sure Christ IS the centre of your life and you will be in the centre of his will.

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Wednesday, 13 July 2011

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A Few More Advanced Spells Regarding Fidelity
CHILI PEPPER SPELL

While you partner is sleeping, pass 2 red chili peppers over them, never actually touching them to the person, as if you were vacuuming their aura. Concentrate on you partner's rambling nature being drawn into the peppers, his inclination to wander terminated and his passion for you filling the void left by the disappearing desires.

When you're finished, lay one pepper against the other to form a cross. Safety pin them together and when you have chance, hide them under your partner's side of the mattress.

FIDELITY CANDLE

Powder caraway seeds, cumin, and licorice root and add to grapeseed oil. Carve a figure candle to represent your partner; dress with this oil and burn.

HAIR SPELL (COMMANDING/COMPELLING)

Obtain a lock of your lover's hair. Sprinkle it with "Command & Compel Oil". Place it in a small piece of white linen, wrapping it toward you, knotting it securely shut with blue, red, or gold silk thread.

Carry this in your pocket or a charm bag.

HAIR SPELL (PERFUME)

Obtain two strands of your lover's hair and tie them together with two strands of your own. Place these hairs inside a bottle of your favorite fragrance together with an "Adam & Eve Root. "Every morning, ideally before he or she awakens, place a drop of this fragrance under each of your arms.

LODESTONE FIDELITY SPELL

Place two matched Lodestones and some of the botanical "skullcap "into a satchel. Be sure to add a lot of the botanical or several extra layers of fabric as Lodestones are hard and you want this spell to remain a secret.

Sew the satchel into your partner's pillow.

So, there are a few more for the more practiced Witch. The Chili Pepper spell and the two hair spells seem like they would be especially powerful to me. Good luck and let me know if you ever need anything else.

-Nettle.



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Enochian Angels
Enochian angels are entities as uttered in the enochian arrangement of ritual magic, introduced by John Dee and Edward Kelley in the 16th century.

Enochian magic takes a view harmonious to Buddhist teaching that postulates a plurality of deities, but no "incomparable" deity. It denies the being of a personality God in the line of attack of an Absolute Spirit. Except, according to the Enochian possibility, present-day are angels, or quick rulers, of each world, each globe and each sun, and so on. This take-off is a determination of a "Law of Hierarchies" which states that from the profile realms of spirit to the kick levels of recognize, everything in in the middle of is unflappable of a host of gods, monads, or life-atoms given in a innumerable of hierarchies. The opinionated regulations are viable to hierarchies:

- All aggregates are unflappable of hierarchies.

- For every hierarchy present-day is a governing chief or hierarch.

- Hierarchies slip-up infinitely appearing in recognize.

- Hierarchies stand up infinitely appearing in spirit.

- The life has a hierarchical piece together, interlinking groups of entities living and working together.

- Hierarchies are uneducated, growth once more time, and die.

- Worlds are produced by hierarchies of huge Builders and Architects passing together.

- Every one of world contains hierarchies of Recorders who meet the armed forces of karmic history for that world.

- The huge elements and planes are unflappable of splendid hosts of sprouting hierarchies.

- Every one of hierarchy is unflappable of a host of minor hierarchies.

- Every one of hierarchy is a side part of a not inconsiderable hierarchy.

According to the Enochian monad case in point, every issue enters the huge planes of vision as unself-conscious life-atoms that slowly growth appearing in timid monads, and they in turn slowly growth appearing in gods as a determination of karmic progress.

The chief of a hierarchy is called the hierarch, each of the watchtowers is viewed as a hierarchy. Any Watchtower is estranged appearing in six subhierachies. The hierarch of each of these is called a Supercilious. Any of the four Watchtowers is furthermore estranged appearing in four subquadrants whose hierarchies are called Archangels. These are further estranged up appearing in minor hierarchies whose rulers are called Angels. In this way, the end life, plain and barely visible, is overfull with beings in shifting states of self-consciousness.

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Tuesday, 12 July 2011

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New Book Alert Authors Of The Impossible
Come together readersThe floods which have destroyed parts of Queensland, Northern New South Wales and Victoria have exceedingly affected the south-east of my own state. Late so assorted years of waterlessness in parts of Australia, it is dry up to now be having floods. In Adelaide we have no snag with excess water. Bend to today's post.AUTHORS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE:I am last but not least getting to the beneath of the dam of books by my bed. Today's post is about the book "Authors of the Impossible: The Clairvoyant and the Set apart" on paper by Jeffrey J Kripal (click all the rage for Amazon recount.) It was published in unhurried 2010 by The College circles of Chicago Day-sack. ISBN 978-0-226-45386-6. My come out downward special transitory, Dymocks books, Adelaide.THE AUTHOR:According to the VDT wheeze, Kripal is "the J Newton Rayzor Lecturer in Opinion and Pastoral Mind at Rice College circles in the USA. He is the designer of one one-time books, together with "Easlen: America and the religion of No Holiness" and "The Serpent's Gifts: Gnostic Reflections on the Hut of Holiness."INTRODUCTION:Since researching "...esoteric currents of American appealing culture, like a house on fire as these are narrated and illustrated in the superhero entertainer book..." Kripal found himself "...confronting the histories of Western esotericism, animal charm, psychical research, science brew and the UFO peculiarity..." (pp5-6.)Knock down the way he came across the works of Frederic Myers; Charles Fort; Jacques Vallee and Bertrand Meheust. Nevertheless, he transcription that "I have never considering encountered distinctive scholar mentioning,widely less syrupy, three of the four writers whom I came to be stuck on so...My completion was a simple one. Myers, Fort, Vallee and Meheust are not part of the literary have power over that has come to define what is not obligatory to be justifiably manifestation and moderately imagined in the professional study of religion." (pp6-7.) Kripal's new book sets out to meet this situate.DEFINITIONS:Kripal defines the psychical "...as the sacred in transit from a traditional moral register during a modern nominal one." The astonishing as "...the sacred in transit from the moral and nominal registers, during a parascientific or "science spirituality" register." (p.9.)The sacred is "...a go into liquidation figure of human consciousness that corresponds to a palpable presence, energy or power encountered in the training." (p.9.)Kripal as a consequence transcription "Various the sacred, neither the psychical nor the astonishing has survived in any busy form within the professional study of religion." (p.9.)FOUR BOOKS:The initial part of this work is a series of four "books", namely:* The Book as seance: Frederick Myers and the London Organization for Psychical Explore* Giving out the seeds of a super-story: Charles Fort and the Major Tale of Western Occulture* The far along gear of folklore: Jacques Vallee and the UFO peculiarity* Constant the human sciences to consciousness: Bertrand Meheust and the Sociology of the Unable to be realized.For each of the four "authors of the dazed" Kripal presents a review of their contributions to their respective subjects; as a consequence provides an lessons of their signal. As readers of this blog chutzpah be au fait, I vividness agreeably the work of Jacques Vallee, so chutzpah use the "Book" on Vallee as an smear of Kripal's notes on all four authors.VALLEE:"When I primitive read Jacques Vallee, I knew instantly that I had found a writer who had no matter which critical to teach us about the history of Western esotericism, about the truths of traditional mythology, about the obscure attraction of modern science brew, and about the fidelity of astonishing phenomena..."(pp143-144.)Kripal was confused "...how he makes the dazed not obligatory downward the urbanity of his reservations and the complex ways that his next of kin investigations puts together the pieces and parts of his preceding matter in order to from a drastically newborn picture-puzzle of important." (p.144.)"He is signal of no matter which that is magic and physical, spiritual and count at the identical time." (p.146.)Kripal reviews Vallee's fast life, his interactions with Aime Michel; his work with Allen Hynek; and his swagger of the mechanism that UFOs cannot be planned fault cargo during ramshackle parallels with quicker intelligence of occult beings as described in "...mythology, magic, witchcraft, and religion..." (p.156.)Vallee "...artifact assured that the UFO peculiarity chutzpah never be solved by the believers or the rationalists...he thinks that we have to renounce the dogmatisms of also religion and science and part the peculiarity on its own rider..." (p.158.)Kripal takes us downward the published works of Vallee. "Vallee's categorize all the rage is abundant scandalous. He begins with the supposition that the impossible is honest, that the schedule signals new manifestation, that we must be looking for the cracks or glitches in the stories in order to begin divining their ability messages...In my own rider, they are hermeneutical accomplishments that delivery in also the magic and the physical." (p.162.)Kripal summarises Vallee's providing as:"For instance I read him reading in the history of mythology is a far along gear likely, by some means back during our point...The far along gear of mythology that Vallee is imagining all the rage, in other words, is a gear that we may be using on ourselves to hurl abuse our own behind, to bother, as it were, our belief custom and mythologies that lies well underside the point sponsor custom or cultural fad of the day...It is appropriately these moral systems that bother our history for Vallee..." (pp173-174.)In end this "Book" on Vallee, Kripal transcription "It must be determinedly evident by now that the models of reading and script the history of religion that Jacques Vallee ascribes to are absolutely esoteric ones..." (P.187.)Kripal summarises what he sees as three Vallee "secrets." Foremost, the "gnosis of the far along" everywhere "Jacques Vallee thinks backwards, from the far along to the point and as a consequence, dream the rest of us, to the behind." (p.187.)Secondly, "the gnosis of multidimensionality...namely, the mechanism of multiple dimensional space-time and its implications for signal about the history of religion..." (p.188.) "His journals, for classic, are peppered with examples of tantalising precognitive thoughts and huge synchronicities or what he calls "intersigns"..." (p.189.)Thirdly, "the gnosis of the reddish pink troublesome," the Rosecrucian tradition which Vallee not here one years exploring, and which "...educated him the basic figure of esoteric signal..." (p.192.)In summarising Vallee's signal, Kripal transcription "...highest of his own mystical experiences, which have development intimations of the far along, have unavoidably come to him now script..." (p.196.)KRIPAL'S OWN HYPOTHESES:Kripal reveals his own working supposition, secretive to that of Meheust's. "The humanities have no matter which critical to offer the study of psychical and astonishing phenomena...By the humanities, I mean the study of consciousness inevitable in culture..." (p.201.) "...psychical and astonishing phenomena have no matter which critical to offer the humanities..."P.201.)"They standard us with some of the highest suggestive details that consciousness and culture cannot be bowed during one distinctive but work together, in extremely complex ways, to become conscious newborn human potentials, newborn forms of fidelity, newborn (im)look good." (p.202.)"My own diviner believe is that astonishing phenomena are requisites of a deeper nondual fidelity that possesses also "mental" and "count" persona that different according to the undependable or objective figure of an experience or experient." (p.257.)Dying COMMENTS:This book is a very unsounded and complex work, which brought my own signal back from unambiguous UFO gear and theories, to a broader flatten. Kripal trusty bigger my understanding of everywhere Vallee is coming from.The book chutzpah not be for everybody, believers and sceptics carry quotation. It is you, who must be reading this book.

Monday, 11 July 2011

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Gayatri Aarti English Hindi
Gayatri Devi is worshipped in Hinduism as the trimurti or the combination of all the three aspects of creation.Gayatri Devi is also said to be the manifestation of the holiest mantra in Hinduism the Gyatri mantra.

Gayarti is said to be the shinning brilliance of creation. She is also said to be the mother of all the gods and goddesses,

Gayatri is portrayed as having five heads, which are seen as covering all the aspects of creation, including the past, the present and the future.

The worship of Gayatri including the recitation of the Gayatri Aarti is said to bestow on the worshipper the radiance and brilliance which includes the spiritual and the material want of existence.Those wanting to acquire all round contentment in life free from worries are advised to worship Gayatri,as this will bring all round radiance in to their lives,

Gayatri Aarti


English Translation

Jayati Jay Gaayatri Maata Jayati Jay Gaayatri Maata l


Sat Marag Par Hamen Chalaao Jo Hai Sukhdata ll

Aadi Shakti Tum Alakh Niranjan Jag Paalan Kartri l


Duhkh Shoka Bhay Klesh Kalah Daaridrya Dainya Hartri ll

Brahm Roopini Pranat Paalini Jagad Dhaatr Ambe l


Bhav Bhay Haari Jan Hitkaari Sukhad Jagadambe ll

Bhay Haarini Bhav Taarini Anaghe Aj Aanand Raashi l


Avikaari Aghaari Avichalit Amale Avinaashi ll

Kaamdhenu Sat Chit Ananda Jay Ganga Geeta l


Savitaa Ki Shaashwati Shakti Tum Saavitri Sitaa ll

Rig Yaju Saam Atharv Pranayini Pranav Maha Mahime l


Kundalini Sahastraar Sushumna Shobha Gun Garime ll

Swaaha Swadha Shachee Brahmaani Raadha Rudraani l


Jay Sat Roopa Vaanee Vidya Kamla Kalyaani ll

Janani Ham Hain Deen Heen Duhkh Daarid Ke Ghere l


Jadapi Kutil Kapatee Kapoot Tau Baalak Hain Tere ll

Sneh Sanee Karuna May Maata Charan Sharan Leejai l


Bilakh Rahe Ham Shishu Sut Tere Daya Drashti Kijai ll

Kaam Krodh Mad Lobh Dambh Durbhaav Dwesh Hariye l


Shuddhi Buddhi Nishpaap Hraday Man Ko Pavitra Kariye ll

Tum Samarth Sab Bhaanti Taarini Tushti Pushti Traata l


Sat Marag Par Hamen Chalao Jo Hai Sukhdata ll

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Religion Belief What Is Grace
WHAT ABOUT THE GRACE OF THE DIETY?" seekers ask. Grace is received from the God when you are consistent in your worship, consistent in your discipline, consistent in your "bhakti", your devotion.

With such a foundation in your life, a great "shakti", a force or power, will come from Lord Ganesha. This is grace. It is uplifting. It comes unexpectedly. When grace comes, your mind may change and your heart may melt. Your sight will become clear and penetrating. You may say. "I have been graced to see everything differently." New doors will begin to open for you, and as you go through them, your life will become more full, more wonderful. And the grace of it is that it would not have ordinarily happened to you.

Seekers also inquire, "WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GRACE AND A BOON FROM THE GODS?" Grace is not exactly a boon. A boon comes as the result of something that you ask for and receive. A boon is quite specific. Grace comes because of the state of the soul in conjunction with its particular karma. It comes because we have done everything right up to a certain point in time according to the laws of dharma. It is then that the grace of the God comes.

Grace is not for a specific need or event in your life, as a boon would be. Grace is more of a complete transformation - a metamorphosis. After receiving grace of a God, the devotee can never be the same again, never look at life again in the old way.

By grace we are directed deeper into spiritual life, pointed in the right direction, carefully guided on the San Marga, the straight path to your supreme God. After grace has been received, our thoughts are enlivened, our life is inspired with enthusiasm and energy, and we live daily in the joyous knowledge that everything is all right, everything is happening around us in accord with our karma, our dharma, and God's gracious will.

"from "Loving Ganesa"

by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami



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