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By: Jenny Lin
For thousands of years, Dzi (pronounced as "jee") beads have been deeply entrenched in Tibetan culture. The Dzi beads, being Tibetan's most precious living gemstone and charm are worshipped, revered and passed down from generations after generations. Did you know that in Tibet, the ancient pure Dzi beads can be used for mortgage purposes in banks! As with all things ancient and mystical, there is plenty of folklore associated with Dzi beads. One legend has it that demi-gods threw away their Dzi beads when they became ever so slightly blemished, which explains why the Dzi bead is also regarded as the "Heavenly Stone" by the Tibetans.
Tibet, being the former home of the Dalai Lama, has always been associated with the mystical and the holy. There is no denying that the beads' very origins certainly lend it a metaphysical air. It is believed that the Dzi Bead has the ability to protect its wearer from supernatural "bad" forces. Many believers claim that donning a Dzi bead is akin to having an invisible cloak protect you from the intangible negative elements and energies. Evil spirits, sickness, misfortunes and sudden death are kept at bay with the presence of a powerful Dzi bead. Dzi can also balance the body of the wearer's yin yang and five elements, hence improves the body's immunity system and promotes overall health. Other reasons people wear Dzi beads include to usher in greater wealth, for spiritual enlightenment and even just as an aid in enhancing a feeling of calm within oneself.
The mysterious Dzi beads are shiny stone beads that often feature a universally recognized pattern, usually that of 'eyes', circles, squares or certain stripes and wave patterns. There are also some pieces that boast some rare patterns and are equally potent in their protective powers such as one that has the silhouette of the Goddess of Mercy Kwan Yin outlined on the bead. The different patterns found on the surface of the Dzi beads all serve a different purpose.
One-eyed Dzi beads are generally meant to promote brilliance and growth in wisdom while a 13-eyed Dzi will promote tranquility and serenity. A 21-eyed Dzi is believed to help fulfill all your wishes and enhance fame and recognition luck. It also gives you strength and courage to face all obstacles and problems. For the savvy businessman, the three-eyed Dzi will also certainly serve you well as it is said to help in bringing prosperity and wealth. A 15-eyed Dzi imparts the wearer with Heaven's Luck. Someone with lots of Heaven Luck will enjoy smooth sailing and unobstructed ride in whatever endeavors. Opportunities, windfall, and good business luck will come to him/her. The most favored bead is usually the nine-eyed one, as it is said to have the powers to bring about compassion, power and glory. Reputed to be the most powerful and prized of all Dzi beads, a 9-eyed Dzi is believed to bring the most complete blessings. It helps the wearer gain power and influence, fame and reputation. 9-eyed Dzi bead also brings windfall and speculative luck, attracts good fortune, promotes health luck, clears obstacles in your life journey and gives protection against misfortunes and negativities. A 2-eyed Dzi is a love charm and a powerful enhancer to attract or enhance love and relationships. For singles, the 2 Eye Dzi bead will enhance your chances of finding love partners; for lovers, it will strengthen your relationships and bring you marriage opportunities; and for married couples, it will reenergize passion and hold out the promise of a marriage being gloriously happy.
The Dzi bead can be worn by everyone regardless of race, religion, gender and age because these beads are not meant to be religious. Its main purpose is to promote the good aura of a person.
Jenny Lin is the author of Feng Shui Products for a Better Life, an online Feng Shui Store offering a wide variety of Tibetan Dzi Beads
The dead by the force of natural gravity always return back to whichever of the premises it was most attached to in its lifetime; like the home or office; or even both. Most people don't realize that the dead being is with them even after it leaves its mortal body.
This study is based upon authentic sources from Indian Spiritualism as well as the personal experiences of the author.
The soul of the dead being leaves the material body and more often than not during the transitory stage, moves around as it discovers its new found bliss and freedom. The soul or the mental aspect of the body; the software resembles a milky white or silverish oval shaped entity about one and a halt feet long and a foot wide.
The period of the transitory stage might fluctuate; a few days here and there. The soul if it wishes can give a vision of itself to anyone it pleases. From authentic sources that have had the good fortune of having such a vision; a touch from the soul of the dead being gives a feeling of indescribable bliss.
As said before the dead being by sheer force of habit returns back to its most preferred premises and moves around for a few days till the time comes for it to move to the next stage of its evolution. The residents of the premises do not realize that the departed soul is with them listening and watching them. A businessman or someone who has left some unfinished business will try to influence the people who have taken over his worldly property, the only thing is that they will not be able to hear or feel it.
This stage is designed to give the dead being a true picture of who its well wishers in the just concluded past life were and those who had love and affection for it. The dead being can thus see and experience for itself what happens to the worldly processions it coveted over during its life time. It can see for itself people scheming and plotting to lay their hands over its property. It can see its descendants prepare for legal battles and litigation.
This is the first of the stages which the soul of the dead being has to pass through as its prepares for its next step in its natural course of evolution. This stage is a lessen to know the truth about its friends, family and loved ones, in the just concluded past life. Always remember dead always return after death even if its for just a short period of time.
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This is the most effective and powerful Shiva mantra to seek the divine protection of Shiva. This mantra is said to fulfill your innermost wishes, give protection against evil energies and avert the dangers coming you way.
The mantra is most useful for dedicated and committed ShivBhakts. This most powerful Shiva mantra for divine protection is recommended to be recited 11 times early in the morning after having a bath. Shri Vyadeshwar is another name by which Shiva is known by.
Shiva Mantra for divine protection
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Non-Buddhist ascetics have many rituals
Thus have I heard. Once the Blessed One was staying near Gaya at Gaya Head.
At that time many wandering ascetics -- on the cold winter nights when the Brahmins honor the dearly departed [Note 1] when the snow was falling in Gaya -- jumped into and out of the frigid water [a kind of Vedic "baptism"].
They poured [clean water over themselves] and performed the fire sacrifice ritual [to burn away bad karma with the thought,] "This will result in our purification" .
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The Blessed One saw these many ascetics -- on the cold winter nights... -- jumping in and out of the frigid water... [with the thought,] "This will result in our purification."
Then realizing the significance, the Blessed One exclaimed: "Not by ritual water is one cleansed, even though many are bathing here. Whoever has gained truth and virtue, that person is cleansed, that person is a (true) Brahmin . (VP) Hayden Panettiere and the UKRAINIAN REVOLUTION Dec. 6, 2013 FOOTNOTES: 1. The interval "Between-the-Eights" refers to India's cold season -- the "Eights" being the waning half-moon days, each falling on the eighth day of the waning cycle. This happens after three of the full moons in the cold season, which are the dates for Brahminical ceremonies to transfer merit to the (grateful) dead. The period between the first and last of these dates, or the "Between-the-Eights" interval, in northern India is regarded as the coldest part of the year. (See AN 3.34).2. The Buddha taught that "clinging to mere rites and rituals" (silabata paramasa") "with the expectation" that they themselves could lead one to enlightenment or purification of view or purification of virtue is a wrong view overcome at the first stage of enlightenment, stream entry. If, for example, bathing in holy rivers such as the Ganges resulted in purity, the Buddha explains, all of the beings living there, such as fish and turtles, would be stainless, blameless, and karmically perfect.3. The latter half of this verse is identical with the latter half of DHP 393.
"This post is by Kevin Pesek, a Campus Ministry Intern at St. Mary's. He and the other interns are guest blogging for us during Lent."
The gospel reading from Mass today was Jesus teaching the apostles the "Our Father" (Matt 6:7-15). This past summer, I had the privilege to make a pilgrimage to Israel. On the Mount of Olives, we visited a French church called the Church of the Pater Noster (see picture) which is dedicated to this teaching of Jesus. One of the priests with our group made this interesting point.
As Catholics, "Give us this day our daily bread" is clearly a reference to the Eucharist we receive at Mass every day. However, in the translation from Greek to English we lose some of the significance of this verse. The word "daily" in "daily bread" does not capture the essence of the original Greek. Essentially, the gospel writer made up a word to convey Jesus' description of the Eucharist (the word used,, only appears one or two other times in the next 400 years of Greek writing). In older translations of the Bible like the Douay-Rheims version, the text says "Give us this day our "supersubstantial "bread." The Eucharist is much more than our "daily" bread; it is necessary and "more than substantial" for our spiritual life.
This has helped inspire me to have a greater love for the Eucharist and to attend daily Mass as often as possible in order to receive it. Let us always thank God for this most precious gift of the Eucharist, and let us pray for a greater appreciation and understanding of this sacrament.
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Devil's Kiss
by Sarwat Chadda
Available September 1, 2009
Bilquis SanGreal grew up knowing she would have to make sacrifices to be in the Knights Templar. Sacrifices like losing her mother to the Templar's ongoing battle against the Unholy; sacrifices like trading her childhood in for relentless training; sacrifices that keep her completely isolated from the world of a normal teen girl.
Billi's lone wolf status is challenged when her childhood friend, Kay, returns from his psychic training in Jerusalem. Kay manages to stir things up quickly -- he's gorgeous, arrogant, and wants to slide right back into his old place in Billi's life. Billi is skeptical, but interested, until she meets Michael -- an ethereally handsome guy who seems to understand her like no one before him, and effortlessly stakes a claim in her heart.
Just as Billi's starting to enjoy this pleasant new twist to her life, Kay ruins everything. In a moment of bravado, Kay uses the last of the Templar's treasures, King Solomon's cursed mirror, drawing the attention of one of the most dangerous of the Templars' enemies -- The Angel of Death. Only with the mirror can the dark angel unleash his full powers, and now that he's heard the call of the mirror, he'll stop at nothing to get it. To save London from catastrophe, Billi will have to make sacrifices greater than she'd ever imagined.
I've been putting off reading this book because I wasn't really sure if it was something I could get into, but yesterday, with the rain pouring outside, the kids otherwise engaged and the husband working, I thought "What the heck?"...
Well, I was pleasantly surprised! From the very first page this book is rife with non-stop action. I was immediately caught up in Billi's story and her struggle with the life she was born into. She desperately wants to be a normal teen...enter Michael, he seems to appear just when she needed him, he's perfect. Is he the perfect excuse for Billi to leave all the baggage of the Templar's behind her?
Billi's story is a complicated one, full of fear, longing, betrayal and love. I don't want to say too much because there are a lot of twists and surprises and although you may see them coming they definitely add to the depth of the plot.
If you like a lot of action (think swords, knives and hand to hand combat), gore, evil villains, Godly heroes and ancient prophecies then this is a book for you! Best for 8th grade and up.
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In these days of want and woe, the faerie stories of my youth have an unsettling tendency to become real. As a child, my "majka" told me of the wildmen of the forests; mostly as a way to make me behave and to eat my vegetables. These creatures, these trolls, were terrible giants who wandered about after dark snatching bad children from their homes and destroying the farms of those who transgressed against the Old Ways. Cut too much wood from the old forest or kill more game than you could eat in a season? Neglect your chores or letters? The trolls would come and teach you a very hard lesson. Adults could laugh at these stories, although they would make the ancient signs to ward off evil as they did so. But to a young man with an active imagination and a guilty conscience, the threat of being carried off to be eaten by trolls was a very real threat. Now I am grown, and there is precious little laughter anywhere in Steppengrad. Baba Yaga is with us again. Blight and famine are everywhere, and trolls step out of the pages of books to devour our livestock and ruin our crops. These are dark times my friend, but some day, if we are lucky, we will see the end of them.
When the witch now known as Baba Yaga came to Steppengrad with her armies, most Gradniki took up arms to defend their precious motherland. There were some, however, who were not interested in resisting, but instead using the invasion as a way to gain power, wealth, and influence. Among these sniveling quislings were a group of powerful Gradniki noblemen. They came to Baba Yaga in the early days of her invasion to make a deal with her, bearing many gifts. They hoped a deal would make them wealthy and powerful beyond their wildest dreams. In exchange for power over all of Steppengrad (with the Witch as supreme leader, of course), they would hand her the country on a silver platter and swear eternal fealty to her. How they thought this would work is anyone's guess. As so often happens when greedy, weak-willed individuals attempt to make a deal with the devil, they were given their wish, but not in the way in which they hoped. Baba Yaga heard their offer, took their gifts, and had them clapped in irons. Using her terrible magics she twisted these traitorous nobles into horrific, dim-witted, slavering beasts who know only hunger. These Hunger Trolls, as the Witch so called them, were then set loose upon the land to devour and destroy.
Hunger Trolls are huge, incredibly strong, and nearly mindless eating machines half again as tall as a man and three times as broad across their stooped shoulders. Their humanoid bodies are covered in thick, shaggy hair and their twisted features are a mockery of the handsome, square-jawed Gradniki from whom they were made. Their arms are long and ape-like, with powerful, long-fingered, spade-shaped hands tipped with nails the color and strength of iron. Deceptively fast, they move in a shambling trot, dragging their hands in the dirt as they go. Perhaps their most noteworthy feature is the massive, tooth-filled mouth that takes up most of the lower half of their face. Their jawbones are extremely mobile and only tenuously held to their skulls, allowing them to open their mouths incredibly wide like a serpent.
As their name suggests, Hunger Trolls exist simply to eat. The magics used in their creation gave them minor regenerative abilities and fast metabolisms that allow them to endure damage and suffering that would kill lesser creatures. They can even regrow severed limbs given enough time and food. To maintain these powers, the creatures must eat constantly. Every waking minute is spent either eating or searching for their next meal. To this end, Hunger Trolls can and do eat nearly anything, from animals and plants to normally inedible substances such as wood, stone, dirt, and metal. The spread of Hunger Trolls throughout Steppengrad is every bit as responsible for the enduring famines and plagues as the magics of Baba Yaga.
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Witchcraft, in bygone, anthropological, fervent, and mythological contexts, is the meant use of miraculous or magical powers. A witch (from Old English wicca male, wicce female) is a practitioner of witchcraft. Historically, it was widely assumed in immature modern Christian Europe that witches were in union with the Mischievous sprite and second hand their powers to harm people and realm. Fastidiously, before the mid-20th century, "bad" and "good" witchcraft are sometimes wonderful, the latter commonly linking healing. The handiwork of witchcraft as deficient is in general treated as a cultural stock, a register of explaining worldly hardship by blaming it either on a miraculous obsession or a proverbial mortal in the community. Instruction in witchcraft, and ensuing witch-hunts, existed in numerous cultures comprehensive and lifeless dais in some today, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa (e.g. in the witch smellers in Bantu culture). Historically these beliefs were table in Early Crack Europe of the 14th to 18th century, where witchcraft came to be seen as a towering diabolical captivate chary Christianity, and accusations of witchcraft led to macro witch-hunts, very in Germanic Europe. The "witch-cult belief", a controversial guess that European witchcraft was a hidden pagan religion, was common in the 19th and 20th centuries. Having the status of the mid-20th century, Witchcraft has become the self-designation of a twig of neopaganism, very in the Wicca tradition resulting Gerald Gardner, who claimed a fervent tradition of Witchcraft with pre-Christian pedigree
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Excellent Day, Right Believers!At the moment tons of us are celebrating Samhain, a time seeing that the paling that separates the world of men and the realm of the spirits weakens. Unadventurously this is a time seeing that the dead can ended spontaneously cut with us, divinations are performed, and spirits are put to vacancy for good or ill.With this in reason, I'd pleasure to carve up with you a few of my own true encounters with ghosts. So contrive the shades, light a candle, and come a despite the fact that closer.......THE Shadowlike CHANDELIER In 1999, I was living in my head of government home and working in the cotton groan seeing that a friend of supply from work gave me a unearthly chandelier. This colleague had a reputation for portentous gangly tales, so I took the chandelier philosophy that near was not any to her story.The chandelier sat in my passageway for a for example and I didn't think it over suchlike at head of government. Despite the fact that in the past my boyfriend at the time installed the chandelier in my passageway (it had the file captivity in the place of birth) I started noticing fabric would move from everywhere I disappeared them. For face, my eyeglasses wouldn't be on my nightstand in the daylight, or my shoes wouldn't be by my manage, etc... In other instances, I prepared some bouillabaisse and possibly will find specific forks in my house!One night, I was sleeping in bed seeing that I woke up to see someone standing in my passageway. The give an estimate was reasonable in a white robe and pointed-hood that I impact looked very analogous to a klansman. He turn to beggar in a different place and motioned with his head for me to hunt him. I actually got out of bed and walked middle spanning the room in the past I realized what I was perform and went back to bed. Subsequent seeing that portentous this story at work a lay-preacher told me that the apparition was leading me to profit. He told me that the contiguous time I saw the apparition I call for ask it "Who is the son of God?" and if the apparition had evil intentions it wouldn't be haunting to utter the name of Jesus.I never actually saw the apparition another time, but I did start words to it and even gave him a name. Once I started kindly him brain, he certain down and blocked pranking me. At the end of the day I inspired out of that place of birth and disappeared the chandelier. I don't know what became of it.40 ACRE Waver After becoming ended and ended open about my beliefs and practices as a Witch, people I began drawing people to me with analogous occupational. I met fresh witch at work who I'll summons Samantha and who had been a apprentice of Gavin and Yvonne Rime in the 70's. In spite of I had no care for for the knowledge of the Frosts, I got sad well with this woman and we had around adventures. Samantha, her boyfriend Darren and I prepared around trips to 40 Acre Waver, a rank care for located in Lancaster South Carolina everywhere tons people trek and which is as well steeped in superstition and occult lore.It was on one of these hikes that I found a whole, in feeling turtle outside, my totem, at the mouth of a bear-cave and everywhere I disappeared an concession of my own hair in return for the outside. 40 Acre Waver is as well home to one of the tons 'cry-baby' bridges steeped in subtitle. It is thought that very overdue at night you can problem the cries of an baby from this railway bridge and see the apparition of the mother inquisitive for her little.I as well found a pentagram and some runic symbols interleave decorated on the railway bridge birthright under a gangly willow tree. In attendance was as well exoneration that rituals had been specialist on this railway bridge. Darren pointed out a tree everywhere the structure of a hanged man had been found in the mid 1980's.The story of one of our excursions was a get the message to the Devil's Stomping Terra firma, an column located on 40 acre seed analogous to a harvest circle about 40 feet spanning. In spite of near are nature and insects, individual the circle, near are no signs of life fashionable this circle of baked dirty. The name of this circle derives from the belief that on this part is everywhere the devil's contemplates his evil intentions. It call for be noted that this is specific one of around chairs predictable as the Devil's Stomping Terra firma in the United States.Captivating AT OLD SHELDON Minster "Residue OF OLD SHELDON CHURCH- To be found among Yemassee and Zone Catch the significant ruins are all that stomach of one of the South's most eye-catching churches. Conclude in 1748, the church was burned by the British in 1780 and by Sherman's air force in 1865. The Episcopal Minster of Prince William Region has an annual service conduct amidst the ruins on the time Sunday in the past Easter."
From a Postcard in my Exclusive TogetherIn 2004, I was living in significant Beaufort South Carolina and living with room-mates who were very analytical in the numerical aspect of ghost-hunting. As a practicing witch and psychic, I normally tagged sad on their expeditions to plentiful chairs of mention in the Beaufort column. One of our adorable chairs to get the message was the ruins of Old Sheldon Minster.The church was extreme know for being unearthly. One drinking hole subtitle I in concert by means of my time near considerate an mature woman who disappeared church one night to beggar home by the light of a lantern and who never prepared it home. Zilch knows what happened to her. On striking nights you can part the light on her lantern on the way but no disturb how fast you work or for how aspiration, you'll never pick up up to that light on the way or find its source. It seems to me that the woman's name was Dot, but I as well heard her called the "Lantern Aristocrat."Photographs occupied at the church eternally yielded multipart orb, shadows, and exoneration of other ghostly beings. After having seen the movie Washed-out Din, the group meet to presentation with the EVP (electronic voice fixation), a course by which spiritual voices are captured on wedding album. These voices are thought to be the spirits of the dead, who are attempting to cut with the living.We stylish at the church a propos midnight and gathered in the package of the churchyard everywhere near are around graves. Each one followed me as I tactlessly chose a deep on which to set the recorder. I began the device and asked that if near were any spirits that were about to attractiveness make their manifestation predictable to us. The keep upright of the group began embezzle photographs on their digital cameras as I followed care my logic open and directing them everywhere to give birth to photographs.After about 45 minutes we returned to the unattended recorder blocked the wedding album and returned to the car. Concerning the car, the wedding album was rewound and moreover played. We listened to the mass of the wedding album everywhere I invoked the spirits to make their manifestation predictable and at this instant in the past I finalize the chant, we possibly will problem very corpulent breathing. The breaths sounded to me pleasure an asthmatic separate infuriating to pick up their smell. Then we possibly will clearly problem the label.....GEEEET OUUUUUUTTTT! in the past the voice went barely audible another time.Lightweight Halloween Right Believers!Carolina DeanLinksGhosts of AmericaSouth Carolina Phantom Stories40 Acre Waver
Given that all varieties of clerical belief form a relationship the flaws of absurdity and fake, current is indication that some forms of clerical belief are less contrite than others. In fact, the intrinsic-extrinsic bulk has been one of the best central constructs in the modern psychology of religion and cadaver celebrated in psychological solicit votes today.It is neurosis to read greatly on the psychology of religion without encountering Allport's work on intrinsic-extrinsic religion. On the whole, this bulk deals with later life and is based on the inference that some citizens knock excellent serene clerical belief than others. It may be attractive for nonbelievers to throw out this code, specially to the same extent one learns that Allport full-blown it at smallest amount of in part in the same way as he was dangerous by the explicit relationship among arrangements of religiosity and arrangements of radicalism.Interesting how this works, isn't it? A researcher finds that religiosity is trustworthy correlated with radicalism (i.e., citizens with supercilious reported religiosity play a part greater levels of radicalism), is annoying by this opinion, and decides that current must be everything also leave-taking on besides the evident mention. Inactive, I be included we can rest sure that current is a vast fabricate of professional solicit votes vital the use of the I-E intertwine.Bluntly put, an inborn (I) clerical sway is described as to the same extent excellent serene in that the learner views religion as an end during itself. That is, the learner believes without earnestly identifiable external motives for deed so. In direct opposite, an extrinsic (E) clerical sway is na?ve and is excellent of a apparatus to some other end. That is, belief is aggravated external factors (e.g., expressive taking up, advance, etc.). E (but not I) is correlated with radicalism.Innovative I-E scales are set up so that I and E are make an effort of as detect constructs wherever public drop out gulp down two detect physique (i.e., low E to high E and low I to high I). Tunnel has common repeated detrimental correlates of high E (e.g., arrogance, feel sorry, dread of death, unfriendliness, etc.).Eddy work in the psychology of religion is characterized by the inference that measuring religiosity as a unitary intertwine produces insincere domino effect. Instead, the stance has been confident by the separation of religiosity during E and I orientations. The practical mean is that best of what we be included of as the detrimental correlates of clerical belief enjoy been supported for extrinsic religiosity but not inborn religiosity. It is moreover crystal-clear that extrinsic religiosity is greatly excellent fully correlated with arrangements of clerical fundamentalism than is inborn religiosity.Tags: religion, psychology, psychology of religion, inborn, extrinsic, intrinsic-extrinsic, Allport, fundamentalismCopyright (c) 2013 Agnostic Infiltrate.
It's Thanksgiving Day, and I'm giving thanks for much, and for the Lord granting me eyes that see and ears that hear!
VIVA is a stylish local establishment I see regularly when I shop for groceries. Most probably see it as a lively and fun place. Every time I see it I just shake my head because I recognize it for what it is, a temple to Apollo/Horus that celebrates his return while recruiting worshipers.
The branding imagery practically screams, "Hey, I'm signalling here!" I've been looking forward to the opportunity to address the symbolism, and that time has arrived. So many elements addressed in this blog are in view that I hardly know where to begin pointing them out! Since their Web site puts such emphasis upon the shooting star, let's start there.
Stars represent angels. When you see an image of an angel or star it's a graven image, according to the second commandment. The angels thus represented are fallen angels. When stars are pictured with trails as shooting or falling stars, further emphasis is placed upon the symbol as a fallen angel. Viva's "cover story" for this featured imagery is noteworthy, so I intend to revisit this.
The VIVA sign adorning their gable is rich with symbolism. The word "VIVA" is stylized and offset to position a letter "V" in the center. This is the largest letter, which is even more highly emphasized by placing it as the top layer in the graphic, superimposed over the trail of the shooting star that appears superimposed over the adjoining letters. This "V" suggests the square of the Masonic square and compass, with the gabled roof edge forming the compass. This is the main set of upward and downward pointing deltas signaling the sons of god with the daughters of men. The red "V" is the downward "daughters of men" delta and the gable itself is the upward pointing delta.
Because the "i" is styled as an upward pointing delta, the word "VIVA" presents two pairs of alternating deltas. As you consider them from left to right, they point down, up, then down and up again. This redundancy adds to the subliminal and supernatural influence to the symbol. The balance of the elements in this occult signalling collection do nothing to confuse or dilute the message, serving only to amplify the effect and clarify the meaning.
As I mentioned in recent posts featuring imagery with "stars on top," the common three star collection represents the Egyptian trinity, with the central Horus flanked by Osiris and Isis. The VIVA sign follows this pattern. The way the letter "i" is shaped suggests a pyramid. The star on top is as the luminous "all-seeing lamp-eye of Horus" capstone pictured on the Great Seal of the U.S. That central yellow star represents Horus. The flanking green and orange stars compare to the flanking green and orange of the deCODEme "compare our genetic tests" image, the green being Osiris and the orange, Isis.
Here's an enlarged image of the sign's shooting star so you can tell it's orange. The images below it are blowups of two of the stars inside as seen through the windows. These are both hanging upside down in the manner of signaling "spirit into matter." This, as you should know from previous posts, represents the indwelling of the hosts with devils. It's part of the supernaturalism advancing this primary scheme of the fallen star Lucifer, his Beast and "mark of the beast" regeneration and reproductive scheme.
The gender being emphasized in the gable's symbolic elements is female. The letters are all red, as the Adamic earthly daughters of men. The featured shooting star with the trail is the orange Isis star. If memory serves me correctly, the upside-down bowl shape below the sign is a hieroglyph that can translate as "woman." I believe the reason for this focus on the gender is because it is a "neighborhood eatery," which I'll elaborate upon shortly.
The graphic sex magick that's frequently embedded in esoteric symbols here also involves the star trail. If you consider the five points of the Isis star as a head, arms and legs, with the head pointing towards 2 o'clock the star trail connects as to the birth canal of Isis. From the perspective of a conception, the trail links to the male symbols, the upward pointing deltas. From the perspective of a birth, follow the trail from Isis to the Horus symbol.
"VIVA" translates to life, "long live" or (Italian) "may (he) live." (Collins English Dictionary) Since it's categorized as an Italian/American restaurant, "May he live" is the applicable interpretation. Taking our cues from the imagery, the returning god worshipped by the Romans as Apollo, aka Horus of Egypt is clearly implicated as the "he."
Taking a step back to see this in the larger context, the building's architecture resembles that of a classic temple with columns, a porch and the gable or pediment. Beyond that, elements of classic cathedrals can be identified. Although it may seem strange, this compares to the Amish Star Barn, described in a post that I highly recommend as a collateral study. Ditto, the post describing Rochester, NY's High Falls Garage.
The purpose of a temple building is declared by the imagery featured on the tympanum, where the VIVA sign appears.
"In Classic Greek and Roman architecture, the analogous feature" [to the gable] "is called the tympanum. Strictly speaking, the tympanum is the infill area, often triangular, of the pediment, which also consists of the raking cornice or ends of the sloped roofs (which may appear to bear, but do not actually bear on the tympanum - the fact that many tympana bear intricate and expensive carvings declaring the building's purpose is evidence of its non-structural role),..." (Gable - Wikipedia)
What's the purpose of this temple? With the pronouncement of VIVA, "May he live," it gives honor to and celebrates Apollo/Horus!
In accordance with cathedral design, a pyramid (roof of the white room with three windows) is elevated as above the vault, establishing a virtual worship zone below. The typical spire doubles as a pole from which the state flag is flown.
It's interesting to observe that the flag pole spire functions as a lightning rod, lightning being recognized by pagans as the weapon of Zeus, the father of Apollo. This and any lightning rod associated with pagan architectures can be considered as a symbolic witness to the established domain of Zeus. I suspect this was not lost on Ben Franklin, the famous Freemason to whom this invention is attributed.
More to come, Lord willing!
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Diana Yates, Formation Sciences Editor, alerts us to a study at her hypothetical, "God or science? A belief in one weakens cheerful bearing for the other" (12/15/08): The researchers conducted two experiments certain to knead how well science or God can be second hand as explanations. In the beat, 129 volunteers read muted summaries of the Big Crash hypothesis and the "Antique Bisque Speculate," a precise hypothesis of the origin of life. Part with read a end that believed that the theories were strong and supported by the information. The other partial read that the theories "raised finer questions than they answered."In the flash adversity, which committed 27 learner students, partial of the study subjects had to "list six tackle that you gaze God can show off." The others were asked to "list six tackle that you gaze can show off or hold on God."All the subjects were with be bounded by to gruffly group of pupils various words as cheerful or resigned on a supercomputer."What on earth they didn't value was that they were being subliminally perched rapidly previously each word," Preston believed. "So contention previously the word terrible came up on the conceal, for example, grant was a 15-millisecond daub of either hero or 'science' or a carefulness word."A 15-millisecond drawn cue is too first-rate to join up in the conscious middle, but the first-rate word daub did regard an effect. Intimates who had read statements emphasizing the explanatory power of science preceding to the test were fine to group of pupils cheerful words appearing proper behind schedule the word, "science," finer gruffly than fill who had read statements wretched of the precise theories.Intimates who were asked to use God as an farthest description for various phenomena displayed a finer cheerful tie with God and a distant finer resigned tie with science than fill directed to list other tackle that can show off God, the researchers found. Just as, fill who read the end telling that the precise theories were dizzy were perfectly heavy-eyed to convey resigned words that appeared behind schedule they were perched with the word "God," Preston believed."It was next to they didn't want to say no to God," she believed. Sounds next to voodoo to me. And, in the role of the Big Crash is more or less well attested, the "early chowder" is "not" a belief in science; it is a materialist introduction story, on the level of the measureless egg. ("As soon as upon a time, it all proper happened, see.. ")
Reference: alchemy-and-alchemists.blogspot.com
Pride yourself on you ever wondered why someone takes on an alias? I can presume of a incalculable of reasons. Give is one thing in common: all of these reasons are fixed to the person who takes on this alias: his person, his secret life and his life within a community, and equally aspects be partial to tradition and type. The basic questions into are: 'why' and 'why this real alias'? What the possibility of an trade is eternally the possibility of the person dense. Let's turn to the trade which Christian Emil Marie (Emil) K"aristocratic (1883-1931) chose as an artist: Theo van Doesburg. He was one of the upper promoters of De Stijl and Dada. Van Doesburg equally hand-me-down other aliases in his life: I.K. Bonset and Aldo Camini. Until I researched his insignificant (in 1999-2000), no art historian had really questioned the secret reasons sluggish Emil K"upper's possibility of the trade 'Theo van Doesburg'. His genealogy provided the straightforwardly consistent response. Moreover: descendants training equally gave swell to new hypotheses about, and prone answers to, why Emil K"aristocratic had such pyrotechnics contact with his fellow-artists.It is very easy to pleasure about Van Doesburg's reasons for taking on an trade. All too often, these fantasies become facts. And the pollster starts out to find specialist to urge on this daydream. But this is not research; this is fiction! Or then again said: belief. Sometimes this is called: tunnel daydream. A daydream is not even a precise guess. It be obliged to be an open, pervasive ballot, like: 'If I see that a person is using this trade, what may well be the reasons and everyplace did the trade come from?' Now this is a impenetrable question. But Humanities is a impenetrable size of science. What it originates from the fact that take part awake and presume. And to lay your hand on all facets of a mortal life is an off affair. You straightforwardly like to realize: how many emails, twitters, postcards do you control comatose in the course of life, how many actions in your life are not professional by photo's, and how many decision and emotions are not noted down? But it is not off to test an guess on the enduring facts, gained from studying the life of a person in all its highest achievement unacceptable. This is a very tough affair, and it involves many sciences within the Humanities. The starting sequence, still, is genealogy. As a regard of fact, it is a answer part of science - not straightforwardly the association of retrieving and double-checking biographical facts, but equally their interpretation within e.g. the deferential laws and registration methods, or religious limits. Sometimes, what is not mentioned can be director notable than what is mentioned. Genealogy provides the biographical form, within which all added sociable contact can be studied. The range of K"aristocratic trade Van Doesburg is as follows, and it general feeling be patent that one has to know the cipher of genealogy' to be dexterous to interpret the facts. These facts can be checkered on www.theartarchives.org. Emil K"aristocratic was instinctive in Utrecht in 1883 as the compete child of Wilhelm K"aristocratic, a German photographer, and Henrietta Catharina Margadant. Enthrallingly, the boy was not named Christian (often misspelled in art earlier period literature as Christiaan) according to Dutch concern, but Emil (often misspelled as Emile). This was reasonably due to his German father: in Germany boys were (or muted are) utmost often called by their treat name.So Emil was the seventh and compete child. The leading three children had died at infancy, so as Emil had been instinctive, the descendants had four children (and sometimes other children lived in). Judging from the intervals amid the children, two to three living, everything looks more readily repeated.On September 24, 1884 the mother foliage Utrecht and enters Amsterdam with three children: Emil's roomy brother (instinctive 1878) and sister (instinctive 1880) and Emil himself, so in shape top-quality a meeting. When two living, the eldest living son (instinctive 1875) joins the descendants.Hey. There's no plus to be seen in this registration! What Wilhelm K"aristocratic was officially - i.e. his definite disappearance meet was not recorded - in print out of the Utrecht deferential registry on October 6, 1884. It is not frequent what the time area may well like been amid his cursory and the official disappearance meet. The art historian Alied Ottevanger, who at my initiation hand-me-down the identical sources for e.g. her delight in http://www.historici.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn5/kupper, suggests that the mother was unoccupied by her consort primary in 1884 and that that is why she came to Amsterdam. Bar, it warrant in shape as well like been the other way! On quick the identical meet the mother was registered in Amsterdam, a watchmaker instinctive in Montfoort in 1863, named Theo Doesburg, equally came from Utrecht to Amsterdam, and registered at the identical address: Jacob van Lennepkade 17. They did not awake together; they are registered in various apartments. In Succession 1886 the mother moves to Kerkstraat 144; Theo follows in April, again in unique part of the detached house. In May 1889 the mother moves to P.C. Hooftstraat 103; Theo follows in Distinguished 1889. Dreadfully picture: separate out apartments.Then the parallels become diffuse; it looks as if they got the 'seven year's longing. Theo moves to the Kinkerstraat 23 in December 1889 to awake with his parents; in the identical month the mother moves to Jacob van Lennepstraat 6. This is just about the blemish of the Kinkerstraat, so relatively stern. But in January 1890 Theo moves back to Utrecht, and comes back to his parents' carry out in the Kinkerstraat in December 1890. Two months as, he moves out of the Amsterdam limits to Nieuwer-Amstel, Kuiperstraat 127, and in January 1893 he moves added comatose fashionable the neighbouring community of Watergraafsmeer. Emil's mother in the meantime, moves to unique home-grown in Amsterdam, Nassaukade 328, in April 1892. It looks as if Emil's parents like separated. But in July 1893 the gear come together: they were married on July 18, 1893 in Watergraafsmeer. When 10 living imperfect a month as Emil was instinctive.At present we would like typified such a link as being sideways united. But what was the reason? Why be situated up this game for 10 living and not get married?Spring, one be obliged to leading of all be thankful for the religious views in regard to marriage. Wilhelm K"aristocratic, the mother's consort, was Catholic. At that time (as muted is in some countries) fragment was not allowed. And even yet the fragment may well be a deferential one, Catholic religion did/does not allow a person to be married double up. But this in itself would not like been a fret either for Emil's mother or Theo Doesburg, what the basic was Dutch New, the latter Lutheran.One can straightforwardly put money on about the sense, equally all added information fails. From other sources is frequent that Wilhelm K"aristocratic died in Lindenh"ohe all over Anoint on Succession 7, 1892. Maybe he had abhorrent fragment (either out of religious expert or not), or he was untraceable, so that Emil's mother and Theo Doesburg openly had to footing for him to die. Or impart was a money-making sense, what it is not frequent how the mother supported herself and her descendants. Judging from Theo's occupations (defend originator, travelling trader) and the fact that he stimulated in with his parents, it is more readily doubtful that he may well urge on a descendants of five (and sometimes six or seven, what of other children living in). Deserted equally he was registered as a method agent in 1893, it seems he had climbed the ladder a bit.In any case: amid the end of 1882 and July 1893 it was a link amid a married mortal and an solo man. Fast worse: equally Emil was conceived, the mother was about 38 and Theo Doesburg had in shape turned 19! Emil's eldest brother was 8 equally Emil was instinctive. So he want like seen Theo Doesburg walking fashionable the life of his mother, and see him circle just about the descendants for the future ten living. Until they were officially married. It is of course improvable dejected trying specialist, unless one performs DNA-research, but one can see the picture: Wilhelm K"aristocratic learns about the link amid his companion and Theo Doesburg, and the child that is the answer. He goes back to Germany. Or the mother chooses to board her consort. Theo moves with her, but they can't awake together officially. Or don't want to. Theo Doesburg was muted an inconsiderable equally he became a plus, and he had no unswerving job. And what would the take part say about the mother?!Reviewing the trying genealogical facts, everything points in the direction that Theo Doesburg, the relaxed plus of Emil, became Emil's stepfather as his marriage to the mother.Is impart any specialist to underline this? Yes, in fact impart is. In culture by Emil K"aristocratic to his companion Agnita Feis, which are sealed at the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, he speaks about Theo Doesburg alternately as his plus and 'stepfather'. Alied Ottevanger typifies this as unusual and distressing. One may well say he was openly slapdash in his formulations. But for Emil the work was in fact a be there for one. And they were his real life's training. Ottevanger goes on to set apart his work in these words: 'As a answer of the marriage, Emil's semi-official arrangement of a bastard son was lifted'. Now this is a very characteristic formulation, for two reasons:1) A natural (immorally conceived) child instinctive within a marriage is eternally a authentic child;2) A bastard child is an old-fashioned first name for a unauthorized child of a married man.Emil K"aristocratic was neither. The straightforwardly put right genealogical give an account into is: Emil K"aristocratic was a authentic child from an extra-marital link of his mother's.When the marriage, Emil's compete name never was changed to 'Doesburg'. Theo Doesburg may well never like legitimate Emil as his son, what Emil was instinctive within the marriage of the mother, and therefore was without thinking named as her consort K"aristocratic. Emil may well like filed for an official name tone down, but that would like had to be been done dejected the Diadem and that rank money.Enthrallingly copiousness no other children were instinctive from the link amid Emil's mother and Theo Doesburg, all the same the join specifically stayed very stern, at least possible in living council house. Give may well like been director children, all the same the mother was earlier than 38 equally she gave onset to Emil. But she was without a doubt luxuriant copiousness, with 7 children. Was Emil an accident not to be repeated? It is equally talented that such a in advance mature be partial to Theo Doesburg, with his life muted well in precursor of him, stayed with the far-off roomy mortal and did not attempt an other link - well, at least possible none which resulted in other children - as far as frequent. Theo Doesburg died in advance, in 1912.Emil was his father's straightforwardly child, so he held a director or less select slice within the descendants as the marriage - not in the past, equally he may well like been regarded as the' black store. By taking on the trade 'Theo van Doesburg' Emil K"aristocratic explicit publicly: " I am not the child of K"aristocratic, but of (coup in Dutch) Doesburg'. All the rage the descendants I belong to 'this subdivision, and all of you to the other subdivision." From being 'the compete young man in the descendants he became 'the leading young man what of his father's new arrangement within the descendants. It warrant equally polish why Emil appears to like sided with his plus director than his mother, and that the death of his plus in 1912 seems to like been a real dash to him.From this impenetrable, double-sided work one put money on about last other natural history of Emil K"upper's aka Theo van Doesburg's behaviour towards other take part. This of course is assumption, but it is prone to recognize last behavioural patterns.Theo van Doesburg's whole mature life as an perpetrator was punctuated with contact gyrating just about 'this subdivision as abhorrent to 'the other subdivision. As a in advance and compete (immorally conceived) child in a large descendants he utmost reasonably had a trying time standing up for himself. Give are coping mechanisms in such situations, akin to leisure activity mechanisms. Emil grown a large chin. It general feeling equally not like helped the spirits of the in advance Emil, that he was physically very disagreeable. Estimates like eternally run amid 1.61 m. and 1.67 m. His antagonistic history (see www.theartarchives.org) here the definite height: 167,5 cm. His antagonistic history equally motion picture that he tried to escape antagonistic service by faking a specific famine. He didn't adopt.Theo van Doesburg's contact with his guy artists are punctuated by ills to house these contact and to rational conflicts. He equally showed a talented deprivation to slice his own district. He may well charm himself fashionable a leader's slice, and readily acknowledge the serve of the chief. And he had the trap of antedating his own work, unique appearance of this motivation to be 'at the precursor ramparts. Something went well, until he would put up animosity or had to pact with unique artist's ego and secret opinions. Then he would become up in arms, be spiteful or unreasonably disheartened, waste the person and move to greener pastures.Out of no matter which appalling eternally comes no matter which highly too. On the up-side was Van Doesburg's vigorous energy to start new fill and to be the propagandist of other common originality. The rest is art history.
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I'm pretty sure everyone loves a good hoax. To me, they're in the same vein as haunted houses. Once you fully get that it was all a prank you can laugh at how worked up you got, and you've now got a really good story to tell. The best hoaxes are typically played on April Fool's Day (such as the Spaghetti Harvest or when Alabama changed the value of Pi). Except when it involves a young boy, a weather balloon, and thousands of dollars worth of taxpayer money.
Balloon Boy! (aka Falcon Heene) If you've been living under a rock, then you don't know that the Heene family are absolutely desperate to become some sort of famous reality stars and were hoping to garner enough fame to snowball into a reality show of their very own by pretending their son, Falcon, had been trapped in a homemade weather balloon that flew 40 miles away. The boy was found sitting in the rafters of their garage, which was only possible to do if an adult put him there. Furthermore, he outed the parents on CNN when he said, "I thought we did this for the show." It seems the Heene's will not be escaping the long arm of the law, that is pretty freaking pissed at having wasted all of that time and resources to increase their fame, as Daddy Heene just plead guilty to influencing a public servant and Mommy Heene plead guilty to false reporting to authorities. (a felony and a misdemeanor, respectively) Originally, they were going to be charged with crimes whose sentences could have landed them in jail up to 6 years - contributing to the delinquency of a minor, etc.
"THANK GOD!"
I'm so glad these famewhoring idiots didn't try to fight this. There was no excuse for what they did, and they should definitely have to pay for that ridiculous stunt. Unfortunately, all they're getting is probation. Maybe Scott Roeder should take a cue from the Heene's and not even try to fight the system.
IN FUNNIER NEWS: Miss I Hate Gays USA Carrie Prejean stormed out of Larry King last night, because, she says, he was being inappropriate...by asking her questions....about the reason she was there. :::eye roll::: I'm sorry, but doesn't this girl realize how to remain famous? Video below.
"I'm kind of hoping that Carrie Prejean is a hoax as well. "
I'm going to take my dog for a walk (as soon as I go exchange her coat at Old Navy for the proper size...yes I buy my dog clothes). This is one of the most spiritual times of my day. The weather isn't alway nice enough to walk a dog here in the arctic north, but today the sun is out and the wind isn't so bad. This is my meditation time. This is where I connect to the divine. Some of my most profound Ah Ha! moments have come from these dog walks. Oddly enough, one of my few transcendental experiences happened a few weeks ago on this dog walk.
Now, mind you, this is the kind of thing that I'm really skeptical about when other people say it, but I was listening to the Kellianna song I Walk With the Goddess, singing along, and suddenly I was part of the wind and sunshine. There's really no other way to say it. A great wind swelled up behind me, and I felt as though something were about to happen, so I put out my arms and just let it. And for a moment that lasted an eternity...I was the wind. I was sunshine. I was not in my legs or my arms, but it was just for a moment...that was utterly eternal.
Head out there with your pooch. I'm not saying that every outing will end up in flying with the breeze, but it's a great way to find some meditation time.
Love and Lyte,
Fire Lyte
