Monday, November 21, 2011
"Rural Declaration"... these words came to me in a dream today
Unconventional wisdom
To dream the dream of God is to be instilled with an unconventional wisdom. (9) It is a wisdom that tums the plans of this world upside down and inside out. We hold instinctively to some clear and distinct ideas about the meaning of family, wealth, honor, and religion. In conventional wisdom, the family refers to those to whom we are related by blood kinship. These are the ones we owe unconditional loyalty. In conventional wisdom, wealth is a sign of God's favor and blessing. Blessed are the rich, for they can buy whatever they want. According to conventional wisdom, honor means having status and power over others. It assigns one to the top of the social hierarchy. In conventional wisdom, religion means living a decent life according to the prevailing values. To be religious is the equivalent of being a good citizen.
The dream of God contradicts every assertion of conventional wisdom. Jesus turned the standards of this world topsyturvy. Who is your family? All those who do the will of God are your brothers and sisters, the family of disciples. What is wealth? The greatest danger of all to your spiritual wellbeing. You cannot serve God and mammon. Who are the honored ones? According to the dream of God, they are the least. The one who would be great must become the servant of all, the ones who wash dirty feet. What is true religion? Only this--to trust above all else that God is near and that God is merciful.
Yet exactly this one, the one who spread the dream of God and was crucified for bringing unconventional wisdom, is the one God raised from the dead. God vindicated the life and ministry of Jesus by raising him up to new and resurrection life. This Jesus is the one God gave us as a Living Lord to be the source of our hope in every difficult circumstance.
Worship: catching the dream of God
In a recent study of "leadership practices that form communities for mission," Shannon Jung and Russ May examined the qualities that make certain congregations vital centers of faith. The primary practice that characterizes congregations that are alive for mission is worship. (10) It is my deep conviction that if we are to live by hope and not despair over the economic and social problems that threaten to consume us, we must renew our understanding and appreciation for what God is seeking to do to us when we gather for worship. Worship is the inexhaustible source of Christian hope because it is at worship that we encounter the living God of hope. It is at worship that we catch anew the very dream of God.
Worship renews our hope because at worship we enter into an alternative reality with God at the center. I like to use the analogy of what happens to me when I play basketball. When I play basketball I enter into an alternative world defined by the lines on the court. In this world, all that exists is my team trying to put the ball through one hoop and prevent the other team from doing the same in another hoop. Nothing else matters during the time I am engaged in this activity. I become fully immersed in the activity of playing basket-ball. I become another person. I dwell in another world.
Others may have had a profound experience listening to music. I once sat in the very front row at a performance of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony. As the large choir struck up the final chorus, it was as though I had been translated into heaven itself. Never before and never thereafter have I experienced a clearer revelation of what heaven will be like. And I will never be the same again.
The nature of such experience goes by different names: aesthetic experience, deep play, ritual. I sometimes refer to such experience as "pre-tending." (11) When one pre-tends, the boundary between the so-called real world and the world of the imagination dissolves. The world of pretend becomes so compelling that the ordinary world ceases to exist. Just try calling a child for dinner who is wrapped up in the world of pretend. Schizophrenia is an illness where there is no return from the world of alternative reality to our real world. As I am defining the word, to pre-tend is not trivial but profound, not false but true. To pre-tend has nothing to do with pretense or deception. To pre-tend is to enter into an alternative world that profoundly alters and shapes one's life in the ordinary world.
Albert Einstein once commented that imagination is more important than knowledge. It is imagination that so grips our awareness that our lives are forever changed. While knowledge spares us from delusions, there are limits to what reason and argument can accomplish. I think that it is rare that someone actually changes an opinion because of rational arguments, for example, about politics or religion. What changes us is what we dream. What changes us is the power to imagine that things can be otherwise.
When we worship, I propose, we enter into an alternative world. It is the world in which we catch the dream of God, the very same dream Jesus proclaimed and lived out. The danger is great that we fail to grasp the significance of what we do when we gather together for Christian worship. So often we fail in our exercise of the imagination. There is an urgent need for us to reawaken the mystery of God's purposes in worship. God is at work at worship to instill in us the dream of God, the dream that gives us hope. As we perform the ritual of worship, God brings into our midst the dream that transforms not only our lives but also the entire world.
Victor Turner describes the ritual process as passing out of the world of structure into the world of communitas. The world of structure is the world of everyday life, characterized by an established order with its hierarchical structure. The world of communitas, by contrast, is an alternative world characterized by freedom. One enters into ritual time and ritual space by passing over a limen, a threshold, such as one finds at a doorway. In the world of ritual, communitas, reversals take place. The powerful become subject to the powerless. The bottom becomes top and up becomes down.
Turner uses the example of an African ritual that in some ways resembles our April Fools Day. I will call it Ridicule the Chief Day. Every other day of the year the chief is in charge and everyone knows his or her place. The hierarchy of roles is intact. However, on Ridicule the Chief Day one may embarrass the chief. One may insult the chief. One may even throw excrement at the chief. The very next day everything goes back to normal. The chief is in charge and everyone else resumes an accustomed standard place. On the one hand, it appears that nothing has changed and the ritual was a mere curiosity. On the other hand, everything has changed. The chief is reminded that on any given day the people can take control and depose the chief. The chief is accountable to the people and dependent on their good favor. And the people become aware of their immense power, that on any given day they can topple the hierarchy.
"Unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the dream of God" (cf. Mt 18:3). Imagination is at the heart of ritual. People in our culture have starving imaginations. The reason that movies, sports, virtual reality, and even television are so popular among us is that we are starving for something worthwhile to imagine. The media create for us alternative worlds that we can enter for a while. As we go to the movies, for example, we see the world through the eyes of another. We become so caught up in that world that we find ourselves laughing and crying, as though we belonged in that world. We experience relief from our tensions. Our own problems become relativized. And in the best of cases, we begin to see new possibilities.
Each element of the liturgy invites us to catch the dream of God. The word of invocation marks our transition into God's world. We tell the truth about ourselves through the confession, that we are sinners, because God's world is a world of truth. Yet we receive a more permanent truth, hearing that in Christ our sins are forgiven. We sing songs that immerse us in the dream of God. We implore God's mercy for ourselves, the church, and the world, because in God's world there is peace for all. We pay attention to God's Word by reading ancient texts and hearing a sermon, because in God's world this Word is the very center of existence. We pledge allegiance in the Creed, for in God's world we would even sacrifice our lives for what we believe. We pray for the needs of all, expressing our concern even for those that we do not know, because that's the way it is in God's world. We share a sign of peace, even with people we cannot stand, because peace reigns among all, according to the dream of God. We offer our first fruits, pretending this is the very best we have to give, because that is the nature of stewardship in God's world. We gather at a meal where all are welcome and there is enough to satisfy the needs of all, as we enact God's dream of reconciliation. We depart with a blessing that the dream of God that has come over us at worship transform our entire lives.
It is my deep conviction that worship is the most important activity that congregations do. At worship we catch the dream of God and have our hope renewed. If this is the case, then planning for worship becomes one of the central activities of those called to Word and Sacrament ministry. It is vital that we devote significant time to planning for worship in concert with others, in order that the people in our congregations catch the dream of God and regain hope for the living of their lives. We need to prepare for worship, employing our best imaginations, because what happens at worship is a matter of life or death.
The wonder of worship is not, however, finally what we plan and prepare, or what we pre-tend or dream. If the best we can do is seek to invoke the dream of God among our people, God does something far better. Through Word and Sacrament, God in Christ actually meets us to create that which we dream. God employs the eucharistic drama as the means for transforming the world. God comes to us as bread and wine, the body and blood of Christ, in the service of Holy Communion to give us the hope we need to face the circumstances that threaten to crush us.
As we enter into the alternative world of God's dream at worship, we find our values and priorities change. We even begin to question the nature of the "real" world. Is the everyday world of foreclosures and divorce and violence the real world? Or, is instead the world of worship, the world where we gather to catch the dream of God, really the world that lasts forever? Time and again, I find myself affirming that the real world, the world that lasts forever, is the world of worship where together we dream the dream of God. And I find myself renewed in hope that God is alive, empowered to see God at work in my ministry and in the lives of all those who by faith have caught the dream of God. "We walk by faith and not by sight..." restored in hope by the vision God lends us as we worship in the name of Jesus and walk in his way.
Craig L. Nessan observes that while there is widespread prosperity in the United States, young people and people in rural communities and inner cities know another reality An undertow of hopelessness threatens to lead many to despair. Only God has the power to ground our hopes for the future. The crucifixion of Jesus raised a radical question about God's reliability in keeping promises, and only the power of God to raise the dead could vindicate all that Jesus had claimed for God. A fresh way to describe the kingdom Jesus promised is to call it the dream of God. Wherever that dream intervenes, there is a dramatic reversal of expectations and values. Two central characteristics distinguish this dream: God is near, and God is merciful. According to this dream all those who do the will of God are our family. Wealth is the greatest danger to our spiritual well-being, and the most honored ones are "the least." The one who would be great becomes the servant of all. If we are to live by hope and not despair, we must renew our understanding of what God is seeking to do to us when we gather for worship. There we enter into an alternative world that profoundly alters and shapes our life in the ordinary world. God is at work at worship to instill in us the dream of God. At worship we catch the dream of God and have our hope renewed. Hence, planning for worship becomes one of the central activities of those called to Word and Sacrament ministry.
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3: 6-10
Deuteronomy 8:1-3,6-10,17-20
8This entire commandment that I command you today you must diligently observe, so that you may live and increase, and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors.2Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments. 3He humbled you by letting you hunger, then by feeding you with manna, with which neither you nor your ancestors were acquainted, in order to make you understand that one does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.*6Therefore keep the commandments of the Lord your God, by walking in his ways and by fearing him. 7For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters welling up in valleys and hills, 8a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,9a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you may mine copper. 10You shall eat your fill and bless the Lord your God for the good land that he has given you. 17Do not say to yourself, ‘My power and the might of my own hand have gained me this wealth.’ 18But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, so that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors, as he is doing today. 19If you do forget the Lord your God and follow other gods to serve and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish. 20Like the nations that the Lord is destroying before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lordyour God.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
idiot
He s the duracell, he thinks I am a count, he thinks I' am loser, he thinks that I am privileged
777
November 16, 2011 @ 5:55 p.m.
In Surrey British Columbia
Royal Crescent
Liber 777 -2
an attempt to systematize
777
The Golden Dawn
data of mysticism
and inner spirituality
communicating with spirits
a higher power
Fortunately we have learnt to combine affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect, genius from our understanding. the number six, who cannot conceive of the fourth dimension, the Absolute—all these are one; the Divine Essence :Macroprosopus, the Absolute ; we never grasp it; Am I no better ?
to tabulate knowledge
in some of its parts
the “Art”
the very artificial effusions of the esoteric spirit
Knowledge-lecture
these systems
concentrate the substance of twenty thousand pages
serious attempts of Comparative Religion
literary charmof human language
the properties of four-sided triangles
inter-relation: Arcanum
confide manuscripts
The secrets of Adepts asks for the Truth; the Alphabet of Mysticism
The question of sacred alphabets; the nature of woman
the English T is clearly equivalent in sound to the Hebrew ת, the Greek Τ, the Arabic تand the Coptic t, but the numeration is not the same
with the title of creator, sectarianism has drawn false distinctions between identical gods for polemical purposes
so she is all of these; spiritual conception; medieval battleground
the definitions of all our terms vary
† All symbolism is perhaps ultimately so; there is no necessary relation in thought between the idea of a mother, the sound of the child’s cry “Ma,” and the combination of lines ma. This, too, is the extreme case, since “ma” is the sound naturally just produced by opening the lips and breathing. Hindus would make a great fuss over this true connection; but it is very nearly the only one. All these beautiful schemes break down sooner or later, mostly sooner.
as a perfect sacrament; closing its pages
sustain us in the search for the Quintessence
True Wisdom, and Perfect Happiness.
Book of lies
November 16, 2011 @ 4:55 p.m.
In Surrey British Columbia
Royal Crescent
Queen Defender of the FaithThe Book of Lies Rewritten
By Kyna Michelle Gaboriault
Chapter I-ΚΕΦΑΛΗ Α
For how I love thee KIDD, my baby Goat!
Death Before Dishonor
When one dies there seed lives on eternally
For Now and Forever
We Ascend to the Stars to live in Eternity
ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΟΖ
THE SUBLIME AND SUPREME SEPTENARY IN ITS MATURE MAGICAL MANIFESTATION THROUGH MATTER: AS IT IS WRITTEN: AN HE-GOAT ALSO
Laylah.
L. A. Y. L. A. H.
| COMMENTARY (ΟΖ)
77 is the number of Laylah (LAILAH), to whom this chapter is wholly devoted.
The first section of the title is an analysis of 77 considered as a mystic number.
7, the septenary; 11, the magical number; 77, the manifestation, therefore of the septenary.
Through matter, because 77 is written in Hebrew Ayin Zayin (OZ), and He-Goat, the symbol of matter, Capricornus, the Devil of the Tarot; which is the picture of the Goat of the Sabbath upon an altar, worshipped by two other devils, male and female.
As will be seen from the photogravure inserted opposite this chapter, Laylah is herself not devoid of "Devil", but, as she habitually remarks, on being addressed in terms implying this fact, "It's nice to be a devil when you're one like me."
The text needs no comment, but it will be noticed that it is much shorter than the title.
Now, the Devil of the Tarot is the Phallus, the Redeemer, and Laylah symbolises redemption to Frater P. The number 77, also interpreted as in the title, is the redeeming force.
The ratio of the length of the title and text is the key to the true meaning of the chapter, which is, that Redemption is really as simple as it appears complex, that the names (or veils) of truth are obscure and many, the Truth itself plain and one; but that the latter must be reached through the former. This chapter is therefore an apology, were one needed, for the Book of Lies itself. In these few simple words, it explains the necessity of the book, and offers it -- humbly, yet with confidence -- as a means of redemption to the world of sorrowing men.
The name with full-stops: L.A.Y.L.A.H. represents an analysis of the name, which may be left to the ingenium of the advanced practicus (see photograph).
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Contacting a Higher Power or Spirit through Automatic Writing
note: let it be known I wrote this before looking at any of the sacred texts.
November 16, 2011 @ 1:55 p.m.
In Surrey British Columbia
Royal Crescent
Automatic Writing
Taken from Michael Wynn's Occult Reference Library "SEVEN"
November 16, 2011
Resembling levels of one's being, for example, the elements;
Truth and Knowledge at your availability, joining together.
Create a ball of light during the initiation, the literal meaning and number 7, that every obstacle will have to make attribution, exaltation (cabalistic sepiroth)
Immeasurable region that is pleasant drives an influx, or phases in the opposite side, are allotted upon his throne, the symbolical material world, which are in an image of the mystery.
The seven circles before the throne, operating in all things, who governs this planet. Beneath the base, life and death.
Allowed free access, a distribution. the ordinary value, selected for sacrifice, consumed the early diffusion.
The earliest mention, the earliest times, teutonic languages taken bodily get translated, the high antiquity, in "ordine vicis" incline to believe all limited to the one meaning, the very absence amongst us.
Take place simultaneously, in a natural delusion is especially referred, explains the tablet be you, represents the attribution, the uppermost point.
Existing, being under the ORB, the reflection, attributes countenance, the large star, thus represents this divine name, around it are the stars, counterchanged operation, receptacle of the other three natures.
The Name of 12 Letters...Icroprosopus, the symbolic representation into the kingdom. The Microprosopus was made desolate intersecting lifetimes together, occasionally folk magic, which to burn completely away, directing power at the end of a rite.
If you need a lot of power you will be able to assess away nightmares. Herbal infusions for happiness and prosperity beam of colored light.
Primary wavelengths of light to the human eye, the electromagnetic spectrum, leave tools within, a variation, a purpose where they were created. Substitute your own, replace the BOOK, taking heed, day and night, following only a single commanded order is very necessary to begin.
Executing from point to point convocations of thy guardian angel shalt place upon a certain sign experienced, advantageous terms.
Surnamed "the Quarreller", Should be prepared in the midst of a small alter, you shall prepare, the part exterior operation, in order that no embarrassment distract your attention.
Perform this ceremony of the convocation which the angel will have given you, been made further to give you principal points.
Seven days be passed before all things of the Holy Angel.
Propositions, secrets, spirits, symbols, anything we may wish, all doubtful sciences, visions perform all functions to cause armed men, orisons alone rising of the sun, from the setting manifested in part, orient alone.
You require in remain pieces which GOD, grace, surety, should be also legitimate, it should have a clean spiritual force ascertaining of the tablet which correspond magical principles overlapping, used to invoke shining and glittering in nature, used in the enochian system, the wanderers, may be worked of attribution concerns which is referred with a soft vibrant light when meditating.
Her quiet action well summed up, and our founder signify that which was the vault, so what shape the days of creation?
Associate the mystic mountain, that ANSWER, what is the emblem, what is its meaning surmounted? Sacred resurrection, symbolizes words inscribed U.
The first order between the grades and portal symbolize planets.
Aspirant, made from the dismembered and conjoined angles, with for extremities, and his companions, even the same Aspirant most unfathomably, you are certain to be deceived.
All truth is relative, totality of the Female is also universal in another sense, answering purity of the moment.
Knowledge of the ANCIENTS in their system discovered chemical elements highest form of the will defines the orbit of the Star.
The discovery of the true will to learn the right to devote fulfillment of your true will.
Take advantage of curriculum. We may expect, who corresponds, in order to crate matter; when examined, trained to lay so great and string,as if it were but yesterday, in some rapid being man.
The steps at her feet, never stirring, and clad myself with a crown of vine.
In the ruined temple, peacefully entranced, judges at the end unto her mystical mountain, temple of the veiled one, both have become prophets, unbelievable admirers.
What is now known, which rundown from the mountains, a civilization, existed between principal and language as mysteriously as they appeared.
Over the Battlefields, the Devil industrially inferior, sing songs of sympathy, newly acquired of the heavenly bodies, for millennia, exist beyond "fixed stars"/
"Book of Entrance" of the steps is revealed the key of one GATE, describing totally unconscious, enduring unto the end special messengers of mere intellect.
Explained in the note: Principle Incarnation, is perfectly simple are the veils, her with drawn swords, where on she rideth seven streams of the BLOOD, seal upon the RING: Here Is Wisdom.
Genetrix-Meretrix--All the way Home!
Book of Lies...Get any Book...Refers to NUIT.
Since all things whatsoever could never be complete, entries under Saturn belong fro the moment to tabulate ramifications, Demonic Triads.
The 10 divisions (earth table) translation of Hells Jestic King.
A child, a young woman crowned hinderers, con creators, dispersing deceivers, the numberer emanations, the hidden light. The inner light.
Prefatory note by the editor.
Heptarchia Mystica, we hope the universe similarly obtained.
Describing hereafter, was placed upon the Holy Table not even the angels, by reading these obliquely, are given attributions. the symbolic representation, formed diagonal names will be found in the pentagram, central cross of the fathers, 24 elders.
The whole tablet specializing within general representation of the GOLDEN DAWN, not be regarded reliable source of information, reception can be found in mysteriorum, the method is described in dee.
Lord of the lightning fire.
Beaty and Harmony with stability is as follows most puissant word, whose analysis conceded in any case themselves corresponding it is a sacrament received by intermingled countenance to say the circle, the oath, manifests in the elements identical with what sense of the word, intrinsic virtue should regard the whole of the force.
Each of these ideas, elements of nature, composed of 10 different shades, being good defense, you will make up everything. There is no trace noticeable.
Astrological education with some confidence allow for my being, if it were guesswork, carefully remember method limits of a letter, much more fully.
Put half as much contract allowed appeal, when it is convenient, when laws are unjust... Dictatorial Powers and no state guards, indicate this cumulative progression, anything of the sort knowledge alters the effect of exciting, he will confer them, in order to obtain, nothing else shows the Power of objects for serious meditation.
Prominent, advanced body of your teacher, the relation of cause, the principal instructions, thus thou mayst abort, the breath-rythym swayed, softly a win-win.
Without the circle are 9 pentagrams, ordinary specialized. For here is the Motive the guard extends, and the grip contains a mystical threat, a mystical promise, the organ of the spirits.
From that time of OLD, measure to dissolve the number of GATES.
Whoever a foundation, spherical waters. A latin translation; Dominator, a title; The Mountain of Zion. A general meaning; the concealed.
ANCIENT valley of SHA...Of the Covenant, a name of GOD, sublimity prolonged. The Daughter of Seven, taken away from the PATH.
Master my life, with the reason sanctuary, all things live vibrating to SOUND. Mouth of the MASTER, by wisdom forms phantasies graved with a ROSE, whereon my lips, in his right hand, then my instructor in that period (current) not read after a great space.
LOVE is THE LAW who had it in his mind to declare no more "dreaming true" greatly superior who developed gigantic strength.
Taking a last deep unintelligible philosophy.
The task is the root of represented example. I conclude forms of the vision. The Great King whose name referreth no attempt to announce whose body, unmanifested with the terms contrary, has formulated.
Rules of Art might mean firmly one should consecrate and afterward NOTE: proportions be printed beautifully in this bliss or no riddles present volumes in their honor.
Divided into the dead, as darkness and impurity, form and organization incarnate human vices
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