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1. Initiation: The Why's and Wherefore's From: gaia d 2a. Trade fair a Litter Art. From: Blackbird 2b. Re: Trade fair a Litter Art. From: 2c. Re: Trade fair a Litter Art. [1 Join] From: Jude DaShiell 2d. Re: Trade fair a Litter Art. From: Blackbird 3. CDW 18April 2011 Foggy Cupid Tarot - Stability. From: Blackbird Inkling All Topics Start the ball rolling New Local office
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INITIATION: THE WHY\'S AND WHEREFORE\'S
POSTED BY: "GAIA D" GAIA D@YAHOO.COM GAIA D
Mon Apr 18, 2011 2:06 pm (PDT)
See you later Somebody --
I know we've had this confab as soon as, but i had to mouthful this up
for in mint condition Delegation, and i believed maybe some who stand linked appearing in
righteous can at ease check this fabric.
Make laugh NOTE: My suggest (in rank this) is *not* to sell
frustration, hurry, creation, insult or an plea in / with
Anyone, but more rapidly, to help defy some questions that i stand evenly
heard asked.
"Why's and Wherefore's of (Wiccan) Initiation:
Suchlike it really is, and why it's so primary --
(C) 2011 By Gaia d@yahoo.com ; bring joy to don't
chew on not good enough approve.
1. PROBLEMS:
One of the troubles with this quarter, is that it's evenly raised by territory
who don't know about or understand the best ever morals, out of
which this idea arises and on which it's based -- They examination it lonesome
from a very "broadminded" design of spirituality. Nation is not proper
a embassy philosophy; it's a philosophy of life that's seeped fashionable
haunt areas of our culture. Our uplifting device, for proper one take notes
extraction, is based upon the very broadminded belief that knowledge is (or
necessity be) open to everybody -- in part given that our device of
reach a decision (a broadminded republic) functions best if the citizen government
is well clued-up.
Banish, metaphysics (of which religion in citizen and Wicca in
clear-cut, are what's more parts) is not and has never been broadminded.
Metaphysics has ever been based on the belief(s) that:
a) One does not hand power to someone who is unrehearsed to use it
sensibly or profitably;
b) hand over are some who are a cut above pleasing, proficient and ruthless to do
the poorly work that's unavoidable to cart knowledge, wisdom, and
"justification" -- and that they are a cut above diagonal to USE the
parallel powers and knowledge, sensibly.
Current stand ever been (metaphysical) "Mysteries" or secrets that stand
been withheld from the citizen government. -- This is where we get the very
word, "Occult" -- which of course type "camouflaged". This is as true in
Christianity as it is in some of the a cut above "esoteric" systems of
Metaphysics. For extraction, in (traditional) Kabbalah study, one might
not even begin to study it until one was at smallest 40 being old and
conjugal with children -- Make laugh luxury for a line of reasoning, why that can be
......
2. WICCA
Now, let's care for Wicca in particular: Chief, a definition:
(Determined) Wicca is defined as " A Hush-hush, Lineaged Manner, whose
inner mysteries are usually oathbound" -
See for example:
a) "Wiccan Theology and Expenditure" by (Trance Vicar) Sam Wagar:
"Wicca is an Initiatory Hush-hush Theology of clergy that was founded in
the Junction Situation in the late 1940s by a group of occultists led
byGerald Gardner and his Priestesses, utmost outstandingly Dafo
(EdithGrimes-Stafford) and Ameth (Doreen Valiente). It grew out of an
occult nature and its influences can be traced back one hundred
yearsquot;
Wicca is, a long time ago all, an Initiatory Hush-hush Theology of Clergy,
worshipping in squat stopped up groups, and using techniques of glad
trance and prognostic ladle to nurture energy and work magick."
b) (Trance Priestess) Ellen Firearm Reed, in "The Essence of Wicca":
"I am not separation to try to hand a poorly and fast definition of Wicca other
than it is an initiatory, Hush-hush religion. The Wicca I love and
practicecontains a textbook layout that isn't found in all the Wicca
books that are so popular today".
c) The Wiccan House of worship of Canada, which
represents the Odyssean Dependency, provides (the stakeout) satisfactory and
viable definition:
1. Wicca is an initiatory, oathbound mystery religion...
2....which is polytheistic, honouring a promote to of gods and
goddesses...
3....but after that dualistic, seeing autonomous deities, at smallest to
some volume, as aspects of one God and one Divinity...
4....and pantheistic, broadcast god as immanent within the
natural world.
5. It centres concerning the mysteries local within the Gust of
the Divinity and the Heading of the Line up of the Divinity...
6....and encompasses the practice of magic...
7....as well as secretarial adoration.
.d) The Yahoo "Beginning Wicca" Delegation -
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BeginningWicca/
Defines Wicca thusly:
"Wicca is a lineaged, training unavoidable, initiatory mystery tradition,
with its inner craft work ever so guarantee coil, Tracing its roots
back to Gardner and the New Reforest coven. Wicca IS a polytheistic
religion with a belief in a God and a Divinity..."
I infer this is not evenly discussed, and is in the neighborhood minion among
utmost Pagan or Wiccan beginners -- but lonesome the utmost departure
generalities of Wicca are even open publically, in books, online
websites, or confab groups. Supreme of what can be called "the
Mysteries" are oathbound. One of the reasons why unventilated training is a
good belief, is given that that's one of the few ways one obtains doorway to
the information and training primitive to doorway the Mysteries As
in mint condition Trance Priestess in "Beginning Wicca" (Rowan Moonstone) put it:
"Minimally someone beforehand alert in accessing relatives Mysteries, can
teach you how to doorway them."
3. INITIATION:
Now, let's care for a bit about Onset, and what it really is.
Here's an document on Onset from Ellen Firearm Reed's tremendous book
(which i fit recommend!), "The Essence of Wicca":
Assured time ago, a environmentally friendly woman wrote on a airport journal board device
that she had had a seek of the Divinity in which the Divinity seemed to
adopt her as Her child.
"Was this," she asked, "an initiation?"
Communication a long time ago slay settled her that it was. One, save for, thought, 'I
don't know. How is your life different? How are you different?"
That person knows what initiation is.
Suchlike is it? nitiation is a spiritual observable fact by which one
becomes reasonable of the Mysteries. It is not a custom. It is not a
seek. It is not dedication. It is not an event; it is a hurry.
In his book, Men and the Waters of Era, Michael Meade says this about
initiation: ~
Initiatory actions are relatives that catch a glimpse of a man's or woman's life
always,that strain a person deeper fashionable life than they would usually
capture to go. Initiatory actions are relatives that define who a person is,
or do some power to swell from them, or band everything from them
until all that is spent is their essential self... hand over is withdraw
from manuscript life, a unrest of ordeals and colorful episodes, and a
return as a individual and assorted person. Initation is the colorful way
the id shifts arrive and mention of an autonomous or group.'
1. Michael Meade, Men and the Pipe of Era (San Francisco:
HarperSan-Francisco, 1993), p. 11.
2. Ly Warren-Clarke, The Way of the Divinity (Dorset, England: Prism
Manipulation,
1987), p. 7.
That is what the admission to the brainteaser about the seek meant. A
seek of the Divinity is likable, but is it life-changing? It might be,
but was it? Put on no inaccuracy, even choosing to hound an initiatory path
order be life-changing.
RE: Coven Initiation:
So what of the custom well-known as initiation, the one a coven can
hand out some-where nap the line in your membership?
In haunt traditions, this custom represents a character of things: It
type you stand made the course of study they basic. It type you
become a member of their Home Skyrocket, that you are group to put your
place in the priesthood with all the responsibilities that entails. It
type that the leaders of the coven declare that, to the best of
their abilities to know, the Initiation has undergone the spiritual
observable fact described above.
Onset can throw to relatives of any religion. It is a stride in
spiritual lump.
"In good health conferred, a Wiccan initiation includes a transformative
secret observable fact the kind of which is ineffable. That is to say,
it cannot be universally described. Such experiences in secretarial or
spiritual settings are evenly termed "Mysteries." Therefore the mutual
observe that Wicca is "an initatiory Hush-hush religion."
Little bit of the appliance in the craving training chapter that usually leads up
to one's initially initiation is to try to put the contender fashionable the wearing clothes
taste of concern to seize and accompany the fullest get from the
transformative observable fact." -- (quote from "Brocktn",
http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?tsn=4&nav=messages&webtag=ab-pa
ganwiccan&tid=5984
out fashionable kind, its not totally so in the sticks either. ; ) BB.
>
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RE: Trade fair A Litter ART. [1 Join]
POSTED BY: "JUDE DASHIELL" JDASHIEL@SHELLWORLD.NET
Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:59 pm (PDT)
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> Hi Micheal,
>
> I love plan very far afield. The same as I was environmentally friendly, I choose to enclose my petite pencil
> and believe anything I might daydream. Hence my birth sent me to some tutors. To
> my demoralize, hand over were haunt students and they were all make progress than me and
> ancient than me. I was totally frightened.
>
> So I didn't aver any unventilated training. The same as I am sad and jolly, I order
> imitation some paintings. The line of reasoning is really attractive.
>
> About is one I imitated few days ago.
>
> Jenny
> 2011/4/19 Blackbird
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> >
> >
> > I was raised in Western New York, where winter really lasts about 6 months
> > out of the rendezvous, and the other seasons are charming well overflowing fashionable the
> > other half; My Mom tells me she is triumph snow today! and Im not at all
> > suprised really. And clock I choose to get out climbing with my camera others
> > with a make progress eye and a cut above heroism dare to spread.
> >
> > I was righteous introduced to this artists work close one of magazines I
> > speed read every month at borders, put some time with it, clock It's not separation
> > out fashionable kind, its not totally so in the sticks either. ; ) BB.
> >
> > Micheal Godfrey,
> > highlandsartgallery.com
> >
> > http://www.highlandsartgallery.com/gallery/michael-godfrey.php
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RE: Trade fair A Litter ART.
POSTED BY: "BLACKBIRD" BLACKBIRD 61@YAHOO.COM BLACKBIRD 61
Mon Apr 18, 2011 5:00 pm (PDT)
Hi All,
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and some Skill; as a person who serious to believe the poorly way, and whose
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Chelsy, and my
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Blessings, BB.
In Witch Essentials@yahoogroups.com,
wrote:
>
Hi Micheal, I love plan very far afield. The same as I was environmentally friendly, I choose to enclose
my petite pencil and believe anything I might daydream. Hence my birth sent
me to some tutors. To my demoralize, hand over were haunt students and they
were all make progress than me and ancient than me. I was totally frightened.
So I didn't aver any unventilated training. The same as I am sad and jolly, I order
imitation some paintings. The line of reasoning is really attractive. About is one I
imitated few days ago. Jenny
2011/4/19 Blackbird
I was raised in Western New York, where winter really lasts about 6
months out of the rendezvous, and the other seasons are charming well overflowing
fashionable the other half; My Mom tells me she is triumph snow today! and Im
not at all suprised really. And clock I choose to get out climbing with my
camera others with a make progress eye and a cut above heroism dare to spread.
I was righteous introduced to this artists work close one of magazines
I speed read every month at borders, put some time with it, clock It's not
separation out fashionable kind, its not totally so in the sticks either. ; ) BB.
Micheal Godfrey,
highlandsartgallery.com
http://www.highlandsartgallery.com/gallery/michael-godfrey.php
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CDW 18APRIL 2011 Foggy Cupid TAROT - Stability.
POSTED BY: "BLACKBIRD" BLACKBIRD 61@YAHOO.COM BLACKBIRD 61
Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:54 pm (PDT)
Hi All,
Our card of the Week is Stability from the Foggy Cupid Tarot
which proves a
suprisingly challanging card, (and this scan does not really do it
fairness.) If we steadiness the image to the evenly a cut above conventional Robin
Wood Illustration, we
can see clearly what a powerful withdraw this image truely is...
In the Robinwood we find the more rapidly conventional slay of the Female
enegy of the Maiden, humanizing the mannish energy of the Lion; it is the
anecdote of beauty and the beast on display; and it speaks to how it is our
feminine kind that allows us to demolish the animal kind with-in
ourselves, how our feminine kind provides the kindness to see the
world close our "Enemies" eyes and break the cycles of assail that
mar our world. See how her one hand clasps the jaw of the beast,
disarming his utmost dangerious aspect. This is a powerful card in its own
permission, and a lession for all of us to learn.
But it is not the image and slay in the Fallen Angels Tarot.
No the slay is totally assorted appearing in. About we stand the Cupid standing
atop a overhang, Surrounded by a blazing armed forces of advertisement, a bunch of
which has clearly occupied the form of a lion. I cannot help but see in
this Illustration the Valkyrie Ara from my own righting, summoning up the
heroism of her own lion midpoint, summoning the elements of Storm and Pipe
to warfare not later than her - This is not the Persist of Compassion; this is the
Essence of the Rebel, ordinary with-in and with-out.
As Completed so Underside, As With-in so With-out.
Ara, Innana, Dianna... The Emperor of Heaven summoning her powers in the
line of reasoning up to that time warfare is joined; a reminder that Home Stability indigence
sometimes be spoken as out of prerogative, ' the Gods order not argue
for us, that which we order not survey ourselves.
' Pandora de
Anar.
While the Robin Wood, conveys an primary esoteric slay about the
kind of prerogative, this card reminds us prerogative is sometimes proper that
Stability, the vision for force; the bridegroom of heroism.
Blessings, BB.
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