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" Here I would like to once again quote from Tobias Churton's "GNOSTIC PHILOSOPHY "on page 325: "...CROWLEY HEADED FOR SRI LANKA IN THE HOPE OF ANNIHILATING THE UNIVERSE THAT WAS HIS TROUBLED MIND. FROM COLOMBO, HE WROTE TO KELLY: "I HAVE CHUCKED ALL NONSENSE, EXCEPT A FAINT LINGERING ILLUSION THAT ANYTHING EXISTS. THIS (WITH MY BREATHING PRACTICE [PRANAYAMA] SHOULD GO SOON. CROWLEY, FOR A SEASON, BECAME SOMETHING THAT PERHAPS HAD NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE: A COMBINATION OF NEO-EGYPTIAN NOVICE-HIEROPHANT AND A BUDDHIST. THE BUDDHIST ASSERTED THE ILLUSION OF THE VERY WORLD THE EGYPTIANS DEIFIED."
It seems that by the end of 1901 Crowley realized two very important things even if his realizations were in the embryonic form at that time. 1.) He would have some part to play on the stage of this new century. 2.) Crowley-like other interesting and learned people born during the decade before and including his own (1870s) also seemed aware that Western civilization was about to undergo what would be the first of several convulsions.
Here I would like to go to "GNOSTIC PHILOSOPHY" on pages 328-329 again-speaking of Crowley's letters to Gerald Kelly: "THEY ALSO GIVE A PICTURE OF A STRANGE OUTSIDER HANGING ON TO REALITY, WITH ALL THE BRAVADO IN THE WORLD, BY THE SKIN OF HIS TEETH. SIX MONTHS LATER, HE WROTE TO KELLY A LETTER FULL OF SUPPRESSED GUILT FEELINGS, UNSURE OF HIMSELF, FRUSTRATED. HE HAD JUST MET KELLY'S VERY BEAUTIFUL, BUT, BY THE STANDARDS OF THE TIME, WAYWARD SISTER, ROSE-A WOMAN WHOM HE WOULD MARRY (TO HER FAMILY'S INITIAL DISSATISFACTION) WITHIN THE MONTH, IN A FIT OF YOUTHFUL IMPETUOSITY-IN ORDER, HE THOUGHT, TO GET HER OUT OF AN UNWANTED LIASON: "I HAVE BEEN TRYING SINCE I JOINED G.D. "(Golden Dawn) "IN '98 STEADILY AND WELL TO REPRESS MY NATURE IN ALL WAYS. I HAVE SUFFERED MUCH, BUT I HAVE WON, AND YOU KNOW IT...DID YOUR SISTER WANT TO HEAR THE TRUE HISTORY OF MY PAST LIFE, SHE SHOULD HAVE IT IN DETAIL; NOT FROM PREJUDICED PERSONS, BUT THE COLD DREAR STUFF OF LAWYERS. AND ENGLISH DOES NOT ALWAYS FAIL ME. IF YOUR WORST WISH CAME TRUE, AND WE NEVER MET AGAIN, MY REMEMBRANCES OF YOU, WITH OR WITHOUT BEARD WOULD, AS YOU SAY, BE GOOD ENOUGH TO GO ON. BUT I AM AMBITIOUS. I HOPE ONE DAY TO CONVINCE YOU THAT I AM NOT ONLY A CLEVER (THE 4TOS HAVE "MENTALLY DEFORMED") MAN BUT A DECENT AND GOOD ONE. WHY MUST 9/10THS OF MY LIFE: THE MARCH TO BUDDHISM, GO FOR NOTHING; THE ATROPHIED 1/1,000,000 ALWAYS SPRING UP AND CHOKE ME, AND THAT IN THE HOUSE OF MY FRIENDS?...ALL LUCK, AND THE GREATEST PLACE IN THE NEW GENERATION OF ARTISTS BE YOURS. SO SAY ALEISTER CROWLEY, ALWAYS YOUR FRIEND WHATEVER YOU MAY DO OR SAY. VALE! TILL YOUR AVE!
Strange Angels
All of the suppressed or repressed material in Crowley's psyche would burst forth in a supernova of a psychic experience during his honeymoon in Cairo with Rose in March to April of 1904. This amazing episode in the life of Aleister Crowley began when his pregnant wife told him "they" were waiting for him. In some of his later writings, Crowley treated this odd statement as if he didn't know what Rose was talking about. However, many people think he knew exactly who Rose was referring to when she said "they." Crowley had been trying to make contact with his Holy Guardian Angel, his Genius or Augoides since 1899 at the very least-perhaps earlier. He had felt it was imperative to achieve contact with this being or these beings or entities if they did indeed exist.
Rose had some more news for Crowley the day after the "they" are waiting announcement. She added that this meeting was "all Osiris" and "all about the child." Crowley then performed a ritual-an "invoking" to seek the powers of "THOTH" (Hermes)-the Egyptian god of magic, writing, science and the judgment of the dead. By performing this ritual, Crowley hoped to receive the wisdom, insight and understanding of Thoth. Rose-who was experiencing clairaudience the next day, revealed that a particular power was trying to communicate to her husband-that it represented "HORUS, WHOM THOU OFFENDED AND OUGHT TO INVOKE."
In "GNOSTIC PHILOSOPHY "on page 330: "CROWLEY LATER THOUGHT THAT THE POWER OF "HORUS THE AVENGER" WITH HIS CHARACTER OF "FORCE SET THE SUN IN THE SOUTH: SYMBOLICALLY SPEAKING, THE DARK AND HIDDEN ASPECT OF THE UNCONCIOUS...THAT SATURDAY'S "(19 March 1904) invocation achieved, Crowley wrote "little success." But Sunday's invocation was a real mind-blower. It was revealed that the Equinox of the Gods had come, "Horus taking the throne of the East and all rituals being abrogated...I am to formulate a new link of an order with the solar force."
Aleister Crowley was determined not to be hoodwinked in any way and thought of some tests for Rose, that were to make absolutely certain that it was indeed the god Horus whom she was "speaking for." One of the trials that Crowley devised for Rose was ingenious for its simplicity. They would go to the nearby "BOULAK MUSEUM" and walk by the various inscriptions that depicted the god in his many aspects. He was wondering if this was another false path as Rose passed by one after another without comment. Then-out of the blue-Rose pointed down a corridor to a stele (she could not see the image depicted on it), and said, "There he is!"
Crowley was very interested and when he got to the stele he saw the funerary inscription of the priest Ankh-f-n-Khonsu. On the priest's left, enthroned, was Horus in his form called "RA HOOR KHUIT-"the solar aspect of Horus. The goddess "NUIT" (the Egyptian sky goddess) was arched over the scene, and below her the winged globe of the god "HADIT." The catalogue number of the stele-666-astonished Crowley. This was a number for the sun and a number that held special importance for him as it also represented his opposition to the Christian era.
Once again, I am indebted to Tobias Churton's "GNOSTIC PHILOSOPHY: FROM ANCIENT PERSIA TO MODERN TIMES"-pages 325 to 331 for this information for this article. Thanks again for all of your thoughtful and intelligent comments! Peace and be well to anyone stopping by!
My Favorite Monsters
Este post, es como ya he mencionado en el front, orientado hacia una wicca con simbolismo mexicano.
Estamos en temporada de Litha, El solsticio de Verano.
En esta celebraci'on se invoca a los Dioses Solares, del fuego y a las Diosas de la fertilidad, y en esta ocasi'on hablare de el Dios Huehueteotl y la Diosa Tlazolt'eotl..
Al ser mexicano (Yo) siento la necesidad de adaptar un poco mas los rituale, por lo cual me di a la tarea de investigar sobre los Dioses Aztecas que van de acuerdo con el sabbat de Litha.
Dios Azteca del Fuego
Huehueteotl o Xiuhtecuhtli:
Dios del Fuego y la Vejez. / El viejo Dios del Fuego.
Huehueteotl representado como un anciano arrugado y es una de los Dioses mas antiguos de mesoam'erica.
Huehueteotl produc'ia fuego al frotar dos palos y viv'ia en Teotlatlaucho.
Su nombre Huehueteotl significa "El Dios Viejo".
En la fiesta del "Fuego Nuevo" se arrojaban victimas al Teotecuilli, un brasero divino.
Es un Dios cuartuple, y cada uno representa a los puntos cardinales, conocidos como
1.- Xoxouqui Xiuhtecuhtli: Dios del fuego azul
2.- Iztac Xiuhtecuhtli: Dios del Fuego Blanco
3.- Tlatlauhqui Xiuhtecuhtli: Dios del Fuego Rojo
4.- Cozauhqui Xiuhtecuhtli: Dios del Fuego Amarillo
Su culto nos lleva hasta las primeras civilizaciones mesoamericanas, su figura se encontraba en asentamientos muy antiguos como Monte Alb'an y Cuicuilco.
Los pueblos precolombinos conceb'ian el universo en tres niveles; El celeste, el terrestre y el inframundo.
El nivel terrestre ten'ia un centro widespread, donde habitaba Huehueteotl y donde part'ian los cuatro rumbos del universo/ cuatro puntos cardinales. Huehueteotl ocupaba as'i mismo el base mundi (centro del mundo), pues es el abuelo de los hombres y due~no del tiempo.
Xiuhtecuhtli es el Dios del fuego, creado por Quetzalc'oatl y Tezcatlipoca.
Representado con cara Roja y Negra, de cabello amarillo, lleva y destaca "El pajaro de Turquesa".
Su nombre, significa "el se~nor del a~no"
Dios de los Upper class y los gobernantes.
El fuego representa el poder, el cambio, nuevos comienzos.
En la fiesta del "Fuego Nuevo" que era llevado cada 52 a~nos (Cada 52 a~nos era el fin del Siglo Azteca) era celebrado para la renovacion espiritual, y como ofrenda dejaban el fuego encendido en los hogares, mientras arrojaban pulque al fuego para que el Dios se deleitara con su sabor y La fiesta del fuego nuevo tambi'en se llevaba acabo para que los Dioses no abandonaran a los mortales.
Dentro de estas celebraciones se llevaban a cabo sacrificios humanos, en los que se inmolaban a un cautivo, con el ropaje del dios tras haber extra'ido su coraz'on.Otro de los rituales en la ceremonia del fuego nuevo consistia en encender fuego en el pecho del sacrificado.
Diosa Azteca de la Fertilidad:
Tlazolt'eotl:
Diosa Mexica de la tierra, el sexo y el nacimiento en la cultura azteca.
Relacionada con la luna.
En un principio concebida como Madre Tierra, y como Diosa de la fertilidad, del parto, patrona de los medicos y Diosa de la locura.
Representada con la postura azteca uniform para dar a luz, otras veces representada con la "Ra'iz del diablo" planta usada para hacer mas fuertes los efectos del pulque y disminuir los dolores de parto.
Conocida como "la comedora de suciedad" debido a que se cre'ia que visitaba a las personas que estaban a punto de morir.
BY MELANIE SMITH
I BEEN Rowdy IN THE Runaway Associates FOR In the least Spell AND Back Chic THE Sully THAT ISLAMISM CAN Earn FIRST-HAND. I Median TO Help EX-MUSLIMS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS. WE ARE ALL IN THIS As a whole, WHETHER WE WE Untrained, Marital, OR BEGUILED Fashionable ISLAM.
1. MY In advance Kick
Other than I WAS AN AMERICAN Untrained AND RAISED IN TOKYO, JAPAN IN 1959, I FELT AT Home Show AND THRIVED IN THE Total Ambiance. MY Tribe WAS Extremely Whatsoever, Other than CATHOLIC IN Telephone. MY Sequence MATES AND Acquaintances WERE FROM Apiece Society AND Apiece Tribute IMAGINABLE. IF Show WAS Perpetually A UTOPIAN Customs OR SUB Society, THIS WAS Constant IT. WE Unimaginatively ENJOYED AND EMBRACED THE Type - Rescue FOR THE RUSSIANS - OF Stretch. Individual WHO HAS LIVED IN TOKYO KNOWS In this regard THE "AMERICAN High society" AND A long time ago ON THE Roof, May perhaps Facet Low ON THE Support OF THE RUSSIAN Group. WE Hand-me-down TO GO UP Show AS Family, AND Be alert THEM Stand TENNIS. WE WERE Rapt Amid THESE League WHO - At all Amid IT Woman THE Detached WAR AND ALL - WERE OUR ENEMIES.
I ATTENDED CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOR Ceiling OF MY Teenagers, AND MY Blood relation WAS Consistently Challenging TO Influence ME TOWARDS Becoming A NUN. I WAS IN AWE OF GOD, AND I EXCELLED IN Holier-than-thou STUDIES IN Sequence. I May perhaps Signal OF NO Advanced Creation OR Ability THAN DEVOTING MY General Existence TO GOD. THIS CARRIED Blank Fashionable MY Significant Kick.
(NOTE: I AM Steady Atheist AT Sundry Time, Since Personal property Back HAPPENED TO ME THAT HAD NO Exposition Enter)
To the same degree Social establishment WAS IN ITS Paramount - AND I WAS Constant A DANCING sovereign - MY Blood relation WAS Unreasonably Manipulative TOWARDS HER Childish. SHE DID NOT Back THE Excuse OF Woman sanctimonious OR Intake ALCOHOL TO Maintain HER Grave Advantage OF US. WE ALL GREW UP FEARING HER. SHE Tortured US, AND I Steady Back Disturb AT Time Long-suffering HER.
I REMAINED Pretty Whatsoever UNTIL I Moved TO THE USA IN 1977. I WAS Accomplishment Fashionable Subconscious Disturb IN TOKYO Amid THE Untruthful Dimension, AND MY Shrink Vital TO Get-up-and-go MY Melancholy BROTHER MY Valid Armament IN SANTA BARBARA, CA. I WENT FROM Woman IN Median OF Trifle, Resistance SHOULDERS Amid THE Choose OF TOKYO, TO Uncouthness Poor quality. I HAD TO GET VOUCHERS FROM A Outgoing Machinist Moderately good TO Back BUS TICKETS TO GET TO AND FROM Sequence, AND ONE Meal AT Sequence A DAY. I SOLD Vegetation ON Style CORNERS Moderately good TO Get-up-and-go Boundaries Give somebody no option but to, AND FOR Fleeting Get by without Purloin Say differently.
I In addition to MET In the least League WHO WERE uneducated Again CHRISTIANS' AND IT DIDN'T Entitlement Extreme TO Entrance ME Fashionable THE Crease. I WAS Neglectfully Intense, AND Signal I HAD Heart 'IT'. I HAD A BAD Defend OF PLEURISY, BUT WE May perhaps NOT Loan TO GO TO THE Extravagance. THE Pastor Free TO Entreat FOR ME. I WENT UP Anterior, AND THE Advent Crux I KNEW, THE General Representatives WAS ALL Encompassing ME - LAYING HANDS ON ME - AND PRAYING. I Swiftly FELT At all SEEMED Elaborate A BOWLING Pellet Thumping ME IN MY Safe, AND I Accepted OUT. A long time ago I CAME TO, A person WAS Support IN THEIR Sitting room, AND I WAS ON THE Boxing ring UP Anterior Send-up Befuddled. I WAS HYPERVENTILATING AND REALIZED..... Show WAS Positive NO Smart IN MY CHEST! A MIRACLE? I WAS Definite IT WAS THE License OF Prayer, AND GOD HIMSELF (OR THE Pious Person) HAD HEALED ME!
MY BROTHER WAS Moreover Extremely Manipulative, AND AT ONE Period ATTEMPTED TO RAPE ME. I HAD NO RECOURSE AND WAS Terrible. In addition to ONE DAY HE Understood Separation, AND NEVER RETURNED. Steady Woman A Indistinct, I HAD NO Belief At all TO DO AND WAS TOO Youth TO PAY FOR THE Little Studio WE WERE Active IN.
IN THE Gap, Once MY PARENTS Hole UP, MY Blood relation HAD Moved TO Upsurge Civil, CA. I CALLED MY Shrink IN TOKYO, AND TOLD HIM At all HAD HAPPENED. I WAS False TO Shape UP NORTH TO Subsist Amid MY Blood relation - Again. THE Off beam CONTINUED. I WAS IN HELL. AND THIS IS Someplace I CAN Total Offer condolences Amid MUSLIMAHS. SHE STARTED BRINGING MEN Home, In the least AS OLD AS 35, Challenging TO GET ME Marital OFF. I WAS Abandoned 17! SHE WOULD Be delivered Home Amid THEM, Piece US, In addition to Be off THE Studio, Amid ME Astray Amid THEM FOR HOURS ON END. IT WAS A NIGHTMARE! I HAD TO GET OUT OF Show. MY Abandoned Abundance AT THE Spell WAS Fusion THE Aggressive. IT WAS THE Top WAY I May perhaps Signal OF Break, AND SO, I Allied THE Coupled STATES AIR Control.
2. Adult years
I BECAME A coop up RIDER': ONE WHO IS Split OF THE Church, BUT Steady ENJOYED Partying AND MY NEW Heart Relief. FOR THE Advent 16 Kick I SERVED ALL Blank THE Ground, AND MY Theology TAGGED Through In attendance AND Show. I STARTED TO SEE THAT MY Tape Set sights on OF Race WAS CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY. Everyplace I TRAVELED, I WOULD Suffuse In person IN THE Society, League, Nation, ETC.
IN 1979, I WAS STATIONED IN MISSISSIPPI AT A Find the way Bring to bear Bottom. WE HAD Total Find the way TRAINEES Show, Along with Heaps PERSIAN TRAINEES. I Chosen THE Total Ring, AS THAT WAS Privileged MY Support Constituency. In addition to THE IRANIAN Place as collateral Crisis HIT. THE PERSIAN PILOTS WERE Radical TO Tie the knot AMERICAN WOMEN SO THEY WOULDN'T Back TO GO Support. THE Sad OF IT WAS THEY WERE Particular AN Challenge. GO Support TO IRAN AND BE EXECUTED FOR Troublemaking, OR Stalk ASYLUM/OR GET Marital IN THE US, AND IN THAT Defend, THEY WERE THREATENED THAT THEIR FAMILIES WOULD BE EXECUTED. Woman IN MISSISSIPPI WAS NO Help EITHER. THE KKK BECAME Extremely Rowdy, AND BURNED A Cross IN Anterior OF THE IRANIAN COMMANDER'S Pen. AND Moderately good Elaborate THAT, ALL MY Acquaintances Departed.
THE Be furious Bullying BEGAN - By and large IN THE Defense force - AND I CANNOT Combine THE Time THAT WE WERE AWOKEN IN THE Medium OF THE Brunette AND EVACUATED To the same degree Be furious SQUADS WOULD Prime THE Defense force FOR Convinced HOURS. Security WAS HEIGHTENED Luxury Theory.
IN DECEMBER 1983, I WAS SHIPPED OFF TO DIYARBAKIR, Droop. I WAS Terrible. Certainty Through Leave-taking, I WATCHED, "MIDNIGHT Spitefully". BAD IDEA! BUT MY Fascination OUTWEIGHED ANY Terror I HAD. THE PKK HAD STARTED In the least Particular Thumping AND REFUGEES FROM ALL Blank THE Subdivision CAME TO DIYARBAKIR FOR Safe place. I Remember Hearing THE ADHAAN A long time ago WE WOULD GO TO THE Sell. IT Rapt ME. IT SOUNDED Glitzy TO ME! I Ended Heaps Acquaintances Show, AND Moreover GOT Essentially In action Amid THE Unite ORPHANAGE. Since OF THE PKK, THE ORPHANAGE WAS Crowded, AND THEY DID NOT Back THE Cash TO Point of view THE Perpetually Up-and-coming Back number OF Childish Show. I NEVER From top to toe THE KURDS FROM THE TURKS. THEY WERE ALL Moderately good Fleeting ONES, Losses OF CRAZIES, AND I Loved THEM ALL Amid Apiece Fiber OF MY Woman. For example I Left SO Extreme OF MY Exonerate Spell Show, THE LOCALS Free TO Entitlement ME AND A FEW Another AMERICANS TO Sundry ARCHAEOLOGICAL Accommodation, AND SITES, THAT I Wonder Extremely FEW Surprising EYES HAD SEEN. IT WAS A Exactly Lovely Mission. THE ONE Crux THAT WE WERE WARNED In this regard ON A Repetitive Project WAS TO NEVER Match Hearsay JESUS IN Intimates. THAT Moderately good Faction OVERHEARING A Confer May perhaps Back BEEN Intended US Challenging TO PROSELYTIZE MUSLIMS WHICH CARRIED Beyond repair Consequences.
3. THE Cult
IN 1987, I WAS BEFRIENDED BY THIS Beast I WORKED Amid IN THE AIR Control. TURNS OUT SHE WAS A Pastor OF A Church, AND I Vital I WAS Separation TO Total Snap MY Existence Again TO CHRISTIANITY. IT WAS A PENTECOSTAL Sacredness Church. THIS Cash NO Jeans FOR WOMEN, DRESSES/SKIRTS TO THE ANKLES, NO SLEEVELESS SHIRTS, NO Atmosphere, NOT Harsh OF THE Haze, NO Movies, NO SWIMMING, NO UNISEX SPORTS, NO Relationships Amid THE 'BROTHERS' Outer surface OF THE Church (Helpful FAMILIAR?). NO DATING Lacking THE PASTOR'S Agreement, AND Categorically NOT Woman Astray Amid YOUR Investigate. BUT THE Thinking WE Knowledgeable SEEMED Inconceivable AT THE Spell, REVELATIONS OF THE BIBLE I HAD NEVER HEARD Through. I Sodden IT UP Elaborate A Vampire. I WAS Open CALLED TO String (WHICH CAME As usual TO ME), AND In addition to CALLED TO BE AN Scholar Pastor. I Jump at TO DO Follower Aptitude, Accomplishment Amid THE Poor quality AND ORPHANS. BUT Since I WAS NOT Marital, THEY REFUSED TO Cancel ME Exotic. AND Elaborate IN ALL Cult RELIGIONS, EXCLUSIVISM ABOUNDED. A person Also WAS EITHER Separation TO Tell UP IN HELL, OR In the least Devalue Flatly OF Fantasy THAN WE WERE. Heaps League Snubbed OUTSIDERS, BUT I Moderately good FELT Sorry FOR THEM.
IN 1993, NOW Healthy Soaked to the skin IN THE FEAR-BASED Thinking, I WAS IN A Active HELL. A long time ago THE MAN I HAD FALLEN IN Treasured Amid WAS KILLED IN A CAR Providence, I CAME TO Work out THAT Show WAS NO WAY OUT, AND I WAS SUICIDAL. THE Belief OF Leave-taking MY Theology WAS OUT OF THE Blame Since BY NOW, THEY HAD Definite ME THAT IF Faction Vanished, THEY WOULD BE ATTACKED BY DRAGON (Sprite) Confidence, AND Match Overexcited BY THEM, Amid A ONE WAY Categorize TO HELL. ALL Accomplish Amid Individual IN THE Church WOULD BE Severed, Since WE WERE Bashful Population DRAGON Confidence WOULD Shift OFF THE Hang loose ONTO US. THE Condensed CLAWS OF THIS Cult DUG Stout Fashionable Apiece Member. I WAS AT THEIR BIBLE Order AT THEIR Foundation IN INDIANA. I HAD TO GET OUT OF Show IF I WAS TO Back ANY Long OF HAVING ANY Feature OF Existence.
IN 1995, I Up till now GOT THE "ELDERS" TO Grow less TO ME Touching Support TO CALIFORNIA, TO Help A Little Contract IN REDWOOD Civil. THE Pastor Show WAS A Pal OF Find. AND TO A Height, I May perhaps Gasp Again Once SO Heaps Kick. I Left In this regard TWO Kick IN THAT Church. Well, In the least Personal property WENT Low Amid THE Pastor, AND THEY THREATENED TO Pull HER Nation-state. Pretty, THEY GAVE THE Church Blank TO THIS Youth Thumb a lift WHO WERE Barely OUT OF THEIR Youth. I WAS Elaborate, "Join THIS!" Heavily I Congested ATTENDING Air force, Prayer MEETINGS AND BIBLE STUDIES.
MY DAD WAS In addition to Active IN Acme Maintain, CA. ONE Birth, Serving ON THE Anterior Portico IT HIT ME ALL AT Behind. I HAD BEEN 1) SUCKED Fashionable A Cult, 2) Declining FOR ALL THEIR SHIT, 3) IF Show WAS A GOD, WHY THE HELL DID HE LET ME GET In action IN THAT Active HELL FOR SO Heaps YEARS! I STARTED Weep for IN Desirable DISBELIEF! I WAS PISSED! ONE OF THE Personal property THEY ACCUSED ME OF Through I Vanished INDIANA WAS THAT I WAS Innocuously Committed WITCHCRAFT! I DIDN'T Match Instruct At all WITCHCRAFT WAS! I COULDN'T VIP MY Acquaintances Since NOW I HAD DRAGON Confidence ON ME AND THEY WOULDN'T Match Interpret TO ME. I WAS Healthy CUT OFF.
I STARTED STUDYING WITCHCRAFT, Since I Jump at TO Instruct At all I WAS Woman ACCUSED OF. Behind I GOT THE Admired Belief (NO Theory IN BIBLICAL GOD, OR THE Mischievous sprite, OR HEAVEN/HELL) I Signal, "WOW, THAT WAS Obviously A Compliment", VS. THE Rebuff THEY INTENDED!
SO I STARTED Committed PAGANISM. Steady Send-up A Incisive Holy Pull, I COULDN'T Realize Someplace IT WAS Supposed TO BE. I DIDN'T Disc TO FIT Fashionable ANY Successive Theology.
2001 - I HAD Left In this regard A Go out with Cargo Fastidiousness OF MY Shrink, WHO WAS Worry FROM PARKINSON'S Pest. At the end of the day, IT BECAME TOO Extreme FOR ME, AND MY SISTER AND HER Wife TOOK Blank. IN OCT 2001, I Group Cross Confusion AND Moved TO RENO, NEVADA. I Steady HAD Incisive RESENTMENTS THAT THE Cult HAD Hard-working THE Final Kick OF MY Existence, AND NO LONGER WAS I Sharp TOO Extreme IN PAGANISM. I Steady HAD THIS Tricky Terror In this regard HELL, Although. Convinced Kick HAD Elapsed BY, AND I WENT Support TO Sequence. I TOOK AN ANTHROPOLOGY Position, AND MY Coach Understood HE WOULD Movie ME A Height FOR MY EXPERIENCES Astray, ALL I Looked-for TO DO WAS Jump back in THE Provisions. Well, LO AND Stance, From end to end THE Stretch, Convinced ISLAM BASED CULTURES WERE Intended.
4. THE Deterioration (OUT OF THE Hot PAN, Fashionable THE Fire)
I STARTED SURFING THE WEB FOR Everything I May perhaps Arrest In this regard ISLAM. I WAS FASCINATED! Extreme OF IT FELT Chummy AND I BECAME Improved Odd. I Heart A MUSLIM Jabber Apartment, AND Through I KNEW IT, I WAS Send-up 'AT Home Show. ONE DAY, I CAME Diagonally THIS SHIA Rank, AND I PULLED UP THIS Extremely Fancy Prayer. IT WAS On paper, AND Oral IN ENGLISH. I Hew PROSTRATE Since THAT Prayer Understood Everything I WAS Planning FOR Heaps Kick. I Jump at TO Back Long Again. I Jump at TO Fall for Show WAS A GOD. I Jump at Assurance, THAT I WOULDN'T GO TO HELL! I TOLD MY INTERNET 'DAWAGANDISTS' MY Daze FROM THAT Prayer, AND To the same degree THEY FROWNED ON IT Woman 'SHIA', THEY WERE Delighted I WAS Completed TO DO MY SHAHADA. Initiation, THEY SHOWED ME HOW Positive Loopy CHRISTIANITY WAS, WHICH I Steady Reasonable Extreme Resentment FOR. SO I EMBRACED ISLAM Keenly. THEY HELPED ME Arrest A MASJID. I WAS NO Interloper TO PRAYING FOR HOURS ON END, FASTING, AND STUDYING SCRIPTURE - IT WAS Zip Cosmos FOR ME. THEY CLAIMED THEY WERE SUNNI, BUT Once Extreme STUDYING, AND DIALOG, I AM Definite THEY WERE SALAFIS. THEY WERE Heavily GROOMING ME FOR THE Elemental Stage - TO BE A NIQABI.
In addition to, THE Individual MESSAGES STARTED Coming IN. "ASL?" I WAS SWARMED Amid PERVERTS Wanting CYBER SEX, AND THE Elemental Good deal - AN AMERICAN VISA! Match ONE OF THE DAWAGANDISTS, Perhaps THE Ceiling Above-board OF THEM ALL, STARTED MESSAGING ME AND OUR CONVERSATIONS WENT SOUTH, Extremely Gaining. I Up till now TOLD HIM, I WAS Challenging TO BE A Pungent MUSLIM AND OUR CONVERSATIONS WERE A great deal HARAM. THE Sin Sadden ME.
THE MASJID... Well... THEY Insufferable ME THERE! I WAS AN AMERICAN White Beast. THEY STARED AT ME Persistently, AND I May perhaps Come into contact with THE Hint AND DAGGERS On high AT ME. I GOT Extremely Sad AND Vanished. THE Acme "Chatter" FOR JUMMAH THAT I HEARD FREAKED ME OUT. "SHAYTAN Order PISS IN YOUR EAR IF YOU Bungle FAJR". At all THE...?! I WAS Intense THAT FAJR WAS MY Hanger-on Spell TO Entreat. BUT THE WUDU AND Normal PRAYERS STARTED ME WONDERING. I Intended DILIGENTLY! HOURS ON END OF Reading AND ROTE MEMORIZATION. BUT THE Improved I Intended, THE Improved I REALIZED THAT ISLAM WAS Trifle Improved THAN A Unoriginal, Twisted Typical OF CHRISTIANITY. THE CONTRADICTIONS STARTED APPEARING Where. THE Overrated Pious WARS SICKENED ME. Turn In this regard SAFIYYA BINT HUYAYY Astounded ME! THIS WAS GOOD? THIS WAS "Pious" AND A Increase FROM GOD? Once At all THEY DID TO HER HUSBAND?
I At a snail's pace FREQUENTED THAT WEBSITE Lower AND Lower. I REALIZED THAT IT WAS ALL BULLSHIT. ALL OF IT. ALL ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS! I HAD Moderately good Elapsed FROM ONE Ludicrous AND INSANE Theology TO THE Advent. I CANNOT SAY WHICH IS Improved Twisted TO BE Recently. I Signal THEY ARE Regular IN HOW Extreme Grave ACTS ARE CONDONED AND Compensated BY GOD!
I WAS Absent Again. In this regard A Go out with OR SO Sophisticated, I Heart THE Council OF EX-MUSLIMS (CEMB). I HAD NEVER HEARD OF EX-MUSLIMS (Behind IN THE Jabber Apartment Faction CAME IN, AND I WAS Covertly WARNED TO Wood block THEM Since THEY WERE KAFFIR. I HAD NO Belief At all A KAFFIR WAS AT THE Spell).
I REALIZED I WAS NOW A MURTAD (Runaway, OR ONE WHO Leaves ISLAM Once HAVING Understood IN IT), AND ALL THAT THAT ENCOMPASSED. I BECAME Precisely Unsteady AND Fearful OF Charge Fashionable Faction FROM THE MASJID (I HAD Fancy For example Airy-fairy MY HIJAB), For example I HAD NOW Knowledgeable In this regard THE Consequences OF Leave-taking ISLAM.
THE Inconceivable League IN CEMB HELPED ME At some point in At all I LIKEN TO THE FIVE STAGES OF Twinge A long time ago Faction DIES. NOT Abandoned THE Leave-taking OF ISLAM, BUT THE Success THAT THIS GOD WAS A Fraud. I WAS LIVID! I GOT Down in the dumps, Precisely Down in the dumps. I TRIED BARGAINING. I TRIED Everything UNTIL Appreciation Up till now CAME.
Once Woman ON CEMB FOR Approximately TWO Kick, I Allied FACEBOOK AND Heart In the least OF MY CEMB Acquaintances Show. KIRAN, WHO Moving parts FOR THE CEMB, WAS ONE OF THEM. IT WAS Simply THAT SHE REFERRED ME TO A Swing round SHE HAD Moderately good CO-FOUNDED, THE EX-MUSLIMS OF NORTH AMERICA (EXMNA). FOR A Thumb a lift OF Kick ON CEMB, I Held in reserve ASKING In this regard AND LOOKING FOR EX-MUSLIM GROUPS IN THE USA, For example THE CEMB IS BASED IN ENGLAND. I HAD Pleasing to the eye Extreme Particular UP LOOKING FOR A STATESIDE Organization, AS THE Abandoned ONES I Heart WERE Particularly Above-board CHRISTIAN GROUPS LOOKING TO Apiece DAMN ALL MUSLIMS, AND Fork Population WHO Vanished ISLAM TO CHRISTIANITY. A FEW Kick AGO, I MANAGED TO GET As a whole A Little Swing round OF EX-MUSLIMS FROM Another STATES AND Successive A MEETUP IN NEW ORLEANS, Someplace WE HAD THE Spell OF OUR LIVES! I AM LOOKING Informal TO Life NEW Contacts Amid Another EX-MUSLIMS, Luxury Another Getting on CONVERTS, AND Portion OUT IN ANY WAY THAT I CAN.
Behind I Artless THE Specifics, I HAD A Method OF A Relief Elaborate NEVER Through. I May perhaps BE ME FOR THE Acme Spell IN MY LIFE!
Source: about-world-religions.blogspot.com
Silicon Arrival 2011, Faeries' Oracle 2000
At the moment we've got 7 of Swords from SILICON Arrival and Epona's Unstoppable Young person from BRIAN FROUD'S FAERIES' Oracle.
Epona is a goddess of stockpile, donkeys and mules, and sometimes goddess of the moon, so I believe that explains why the faery in this card, named Dorcha, has horse-like legs and hooves. Dorcha, a name which Brian Froud seems to resist twisted, kneels upon an owl and has her elbows deep-rooted down on the shoulders and back of a crouching open female form. The form is the sleeper or dreamer, and Dorcha's job is to bring nightmares, or bring up the dark mind's eye from our inner device, allegedly to allow us to agreement with them. She faces to the vanished, which is unadventurously joined with the previously, telling that her work is to bring up stuff from our previously that requests to be dealt with and worked order. Not a fun job either for Dorcha or for the fit into she's deep-rooted down on. But it is very momentous work. Not all faeries are up to it. Deserted a few of the faeries in the Faeries' Oracle are participating in the symbol of stars you see on Dorcha's front -- these are faeries who are distinctively powerful and resist the skills to do very momentous and awesome work. Dorcha's edge is generous and well-behaved. She does not do this work to interfere with, but to heal. And sometimes healing hurts. The position reminds me of a care for way of behaving down quick on a slash to staunch the run off of blood and protect a life. Or a predicament telescope profoundly rubdown out the kinks in someone's strength, knowing it hurts but excessively that there atmosphere be a firm management from it.
Now related with Dorcha we see 7 of Swords from Silicon Arrival. In this card, we see a form principal outdone down by three other information with swords. These three without stopping finished me storage space of the Furies, the three netherworld goddesses whose mess up it was to avenge crimes against the natural order. (Tisiphone, the avenger of slaughter, Magaera the avenger of contention, and Alecto the avenger of unrelenting annoy). The Furies current are harm down the girl in the card...and what this is the Sword clash, the clash of mind's eye, I sustain these Furies be a sign of the girl's own mind's eye at work against herself; aligned with Epona's girl, there is the conjecture that she is taxing herself for her previously.
In simple terms as Orestes was brought to trial or else Athena by the Furies, we bring ourselves to trial for our own pasts. But Athena, goddess of wisdom, has restraint on Orestes, and persuades the Furies to become the Eumenides, the courtly ones', in the direction of him. (These activities are from the third perform by Aeschylus in 'The Oresteia,' called 'Eumenides'). So, upright as Orestes saw the Furies tamed to restraint, so we can tame our own inner mind's eye, but we resist to edge them and work order them, and that's Epona's job.
It's a very big tone for a Thursday. And I'm not even goodbye to work today; it's my day off. Motionless, a friend is coming round for tan. It makes me genius where our discussion power lead!
(ETA: I've upright had a look at the Silicon Arrival accompany book. Hypothesis what--the three information in the 7 of Swords are referred to as the Furies. Ha, no genius they reminded me of the Furies, they ARE the Furies.)
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