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What Does the New Christian Missionary Code of Conduct Mean?
From Wildhunt
A coalition that claims to represent around 90% of the world’s Christians, the_World Council of Churches (WCC), the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID),_and the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), have released joint recommendations for the conduct of Christian missionaries. This document is the result of five years of consultations among the three bodies, and is [...]
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A coalition that claims to represent around 90% of the world’s Christians, the_World Council of Churches (WCC), the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID),_and the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), have released joint recommendations for the conduct of Christian missionaries. This document is the result of five years of consultations among the three bodies, and is [...]
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What Does the New Christian Missionary Code of Conduct Mean?
From Wildhunt
A coalition that claims to represent around 90% of the world’s Christians, the_World Council of Churches (WCC), the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID),_and the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), have released joint recommendations for the conduct of Christian missionaries. This document is the result of five years of consultations among the three bodies, and is [...]
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A coalition that claims to represent around 90% of the world’s Christians, the_World Council of Churches (WCC), the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID),_and the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), have released joint recommendations for the conduct of Christian missionaries. This document is the result of five years of consultations among the three bodies, and is [...]
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The Power of Belief and Health
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It’s true that doctors don’t know everything about what the body is, how it works and how it heals. Don’t get me wrong doctor’s have there place, they keep us alive when we are sick and help us survive in an emergency, for that they are great. However when it comes to other healing properties [...]
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It’s true that doctors don’t know everything about what the body is, how it works and how it heals. Don’t get me wrong doctor’s have there place, they keep us alive when we are sick and help us survive in an emergency, for that they are great. However when it comes to other healing properties [...]
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From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13473-The-Power-of-Belief-and-Health&goto=newpost
The Power of Belief and Health
This feed brought to you by The Occult Blogger
It’s true that doctors don’t know everything about what the body is, how it works and how it heals. Don’t get me wrong doctor’s have there place, they keep us alive when we are sick and help us survive in an emergency, for that they are great. However when it comes to other healing properties [...]
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It’s true that doctors don’t know everything about what the body is, how it works and how it heals. Don’t get me wrong doctor’s have there place, they keep us alive when we are sick and help us survive in an emergency, for that they are great. However when it comes to other healing properties [...]
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From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13473-The-Power-of-Belief-and-Health&goto=newpost
yumeninja: 라니아 (Rania) – Dr. Feel Good I want to thank…
라니아 (Rania) - Dr. Feel Good
I want to thank Zellain/Morbid Fashion for showing this to me.
Cause this shit is HOT GOTH HOOKER KOREAN BITCHES! and you know i love it. unf.
suicideblonde: Kate Moss photographed by Emma Summerton for i-D…
Kate Moss photographed by Emma Summerton for i-D Magazine, November 2007
Semi-beginner having qualms
Hello... I'm sure some of you've seen me here. Back then I was a true novice, a neophyte struggling to find his path. Sad to say that I've failed. Yesterday I accidentally deleted the resources I was using, but I don't think it was an accident.
Somehow I still hope there's something out there that's the right thing for me.
What do you think? What should I do?
I'd like a paradigm that has a good balance between theory and practice, not something that haves you read a few tomes before setting out.
Somehow I still hope there's something out there that's the right thing for me.
What do you think? What should I do?
I'd like a paradigm that has a good balance between theory and practice, not something that haves you read a few tomes before setting out.
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13471-Semi-beginner-having-qualms&goto=newpost
Breaking: New Mexico Fires Threaten Pagan Learning Center
From Wildhunt
The raging Las Conchas wildfire in New Mexico, which has been threatening the Los Alamos National Laboratory, is also within 20 miles of Ardantane, a Pagan learning center in the Jemez Mountains. According to the Covenant of the Goddess (COG) PIO blog, there’s no immediate danger as “wind is blowing in a direction away from [...]
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The raging Las Conchas wildfire in New Mexico, which has been threatening the Los Alamos National Laboratory, is also within 20 miles of Ardantane, a Pagan learning center in the Jemez Mountains. According to the Covenant of the Goddess (COG) PIO blog, there’s no immediate danger as “wind is blowing in a direction away from [...]
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Are you a liar?
Do you lie alot? Or are you a honest joe? Tell us, but be truthful, just this once. ;)
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13469-Are-you-a-liar&goto=newpost
When Libertarians Were Socialists
I read these two articles years ago, and spent some time tracking them back down today. The main purpose of this post is to place links to these essays here so that I can refer back to them later. I pass them on with context, but no comment.
1. State Socialism and Anarchism by Benjamin Tucker, a proponent of individualist anarchism, a predecessor to modern libertarianism. The essay was written in 1886. The position put forward in this piece is summarized on the Wikipedia entry on Tucker:
According to historian of American individualist anarchism, Frank Brooks, it is easy to misunderstand Tucker’s claim of “socialism.” Before Marxists established a hegemony over definitions of “socialism, “the term socialism was a broad concept.” Tucker (as well as most of the writers and readers in Liberty) understood “socialism” to refer to any of various theories and demands aimed to solve “the labor problem” through radical changes in the capitalist economy; descriptions of the problem, explanations of it causes, and proposed solutions (for example, abolition of private property, cooperatives, state-ownership, and so on.) varied among “socialist” philosophies. Tucker said socialism was the claim that “labor should be put in possession of its own,” holding that what “state socialism” and “anarchistic socialism” had in common was the labor theory of value. However, “Instead of asserting, as did socialist anarchists, that common ownership was the key to eroding differences of economic power,” and appealing to social solidarity, Tucker’s individualist anarchism advocated distribution of property in an undistorted natural market as a mediator of egoistic impulses and a source of social stability. Tucker said, “the fact that one class of men are dependent for their living upon the sale of their labour, while another class of men are relieved of the necessity of labour by being legally privileged to sell something that is not labour. . . . And to such a state of things I am as much opposed as any one. But the minute you remove privilege. . . every man will be a labourer exchanging with fellow-labourers . . . What Anarchistic-Socialism aims to abolish is usury . . . it wants to deprive capital of its reward.”
From the essay:
The economic principles of Modern Socialism are a logical deduction from the principle laid down by Adam Smith in the early chapters of his Wealth of Nations,—namely, that labor is the true measure of price. But Adam Smith, after stating this principle most clearly and concisely, immediately abandoned all further consideration of it to devote himself to showing what actually does measure price, and how, therefore, wealth is at present distributed. Since his day nearly all the political economists have followed his example by confining their function to the description of society as it is, in its industrial and commercial phases. Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. Half a century or more after Smith enunciated the principle above stated, Socialism picked it up where he had dropped it, and in following it to its logical conclusions, made it the basis of a new economic philosophy.
The abandonment of the labor theory of value is one difference between the anarchism of then and the libertarianism of today.
2. Herbert Spencer, Labortarian, a blog post including two excerpts from Herbert Spencer‘s book Principles of Sociology Part VIII: Industrial Institutions (published in 1896), one on the subject of labor unions and one on the subject worker cooperatives. In short, Spencer believes both are valuable and that the latter could possibly solve major problems in labor.
Spencer, well known in his time, is perhaps best remembered as the original Social Darwinist and coiner of the term “survival of the fittest” (though he may not fit the stereotype of a Social Darwinist). He too was an influence what became modern libertarianism.
From http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Technoccult/~3/O_okz3yBJ5c/
Memorizing The Kabbalah
Lately, I've been memorizing The Tree of Life and the various things associated with it.
The things I am focusing on primarily is the names of the Sephirots and the Tarot Cards associated with the various paths. I've yet to memorize the numbers or the letters of each path.
So why I am making this post?
Well, I would like to share a few tips I am using to make learning faster.
The main thing I am doing that makes learning what cards are associated with what paths easier and quicker is use the following:
A full length mirror. The wider and taller, the better.
A pack of dry erase markers of various colors (one for each Sephirots and a black one)
A pack of Self-Adhesive Laminating Sheets (make sure it is clear plastic, as in see through).
Scissors.
Scot tape
A pack of Rider-Waite Tarot cards.
Now what to do with this?
1st, hang up the mirror.
Now laminate each card from your Rider-Waite deck.
Use the scissors to trim the excess lamination plastic from the cards.
Draw the Tree of Life Glyph on the mirror with the black dry erase marker. Make sure you draw The Sephirots in the appropriate locations related to the body. Where you see the reflection of your hip, draw The Sephirot related to the hip, and where you see your head, draw The Sephirot related to the head and so on.
Color the Sephirots their colors in line with your tradition.
Tape the Tarot Cards to their associated paths and at the angle their paths appears on The Tree. The Fool at a 45 degree angle to the left and the Magician at a
45 Degree angle and the empress on her side and so on and on...
Take the black dry erase marker and now draw the Hebrew Letter on the related card.
Beth on magician, Aleph on the Fool and so on...
Then write the English name of that letter below that letter.
Do not add the astrological signs associated with the paths nor their number for the spheres. The reason behind this is letter and numbers are things understood by the conscious, thus not easy to absorb. The principle behind this method is to help one learn by not learning, or in other words, make memorizing the tarot and their paths effortless and this is done by relying on the pure visual aspect on this technique.
Now to use this technique (once it is set up) is just look at it once in the morning right before leaving the house and once at night before going to bed for at least 5 minutes. Don't think. Just stand in front of it and gaze into it, memorize where each part is located on the body. Trust me, by doing this, the information of The Tree and The Tarot that is associated will sink in very quick. It will be like knowing without knowing.
The things I am focusing on primarily is the names of the Sephirots and the Tarot Cards associated with the various paths. I've yet to memorize the numbers or the letters of each path.
So why I am making this post?
Well, I would like to share a few tips I am using to make learning faster.
The main thing I am doing that makes learning what cards are associated with what paths easier and quicker is use the following:
A full length mirror. The wider and taller, the better.
A pack of dry erase markers of various colors (one for each Sephirots and a black one)
A pack of Self-Adhesive Laminating Sheets (make sure it is clear plastic, as in see through).
Scissors.
Scot tape
A pack of Rider-Waite Tarot cards.
Now what to do with this?
1st, hang up the mirror.
Now laminate each card from your Rider-Waite deck.
Use the scissors to trim the excess lamination plastic from the cards.
Draw the Tree of Life Glyph on the mirror with the black dry erase marker. Make sure you draw The Sephirots in the appropriate locations related to the body. Where you see the reflection of your hip, draw The Sephirot related to the hip, and where you see your head, draw The Sephirot related to the head and so on.
Color the Sephirots their colors in line with your tradition.
Tape the Tarot Cards to their associated paths and at the angle their paths appears on The Tree. The Fool at a 45 degree angle to the left and the Magician at a
45 Degree angle and the empress on her side and so on and on...
Take the black dry erase marker and now draw the Hebrew Letter on the related card.
Beth on magician, Aleph on the Fool and so on...
Then write the English name of that letter below that letter.
Do not add the astrological signs associated with the paths nor their number for the spheres. The reason behind this is letter and numbers are things understood by the conscious, thus not easy to absorb. The principle behind this method is to help one learn by not learning, or in other words, make memorizing the tarot and their paths effortless and this is done by relying on the pure visual aspect on this technique.
Now to use this technique (once it is set up) is just look at it once in the morning right before leaving the house and once at night before going to bed for at least 5 minutes. Don't think. Just stand in front of it and gaze into it, memorize where each part is located on the body. Trust me, by doing this, the information of The Tree and The Tarot that is associated will sink in very quick. It will be like knowing without knowing.
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13468-Memorizing-The-Kabbalah&goto=newpost
This probably won’t get answered but it’s worth a shot, is the LOVE magazine cover you just posted going to be the new issue? I can’t wait for the new one!
The image was a submission so I honestly don’t know. If someone else could confirm or deny that for me I’ll post it.
How to first delve deep into magick of the old ones…
Ever since those Yog-Sothoth dreams, I've been waiting to pass the gate and work with the old ones. I'm not sure how to approach these correctly though. I know the old ones are protean, but because of this I feel I don't have a good foundation of knowledge despite having read full books of HP lovecraft short stories.
Does anybody have advice? Yog-sothoth interests me the most. As does azathoth.
Does anybody have advice? Yog-sothoth interests me the most. As does azathoth.
I grew up as a tomboy and pretty much refused to wear the color…
I grew up as a tomboy and pretty much refused to wear the color pink until I was in my late teens. When I dyed my hair pink I found myself looking for ways to work the bright color into my dark wardrobe. Working color into gothic wardrobes seems to work best one of two ways. The first is the subtle approach where you work the color of your choice into an outfit in small ways with accessories, black dominated patterns, makeup, et cetera. The second way is the bold approach where you wear a colored dress, shirt, pair of pants, etc. while the rest of your outfit is black or otherwise neutral. I happen to favor the subtle approach myself.
(via How to Work Pink into a Gothic Wardrobe | The Morbid Fashion)
Self improvement magic
I am the type that prefers to exhaust all mundane means to overcome a problem or issue before using real magic as a solution.
Here is the issue: For the longest time, I've been trying to over come laziness and strengthen my sense of self control. Even through my various attempts at trying to over come my self I've gain further insight why I am this way, I've yet to find a way to overcome it.
I know if I do not change and improve, my life will not improve and I think I deserve better then that.
I've tried every thing I can think of (from psychological tricks to a few other things) and no dice and I've been trying for a few months now.
So my question to you is what magic or spells that you can recommend would be powerful enough to instill the emotions changes I need within myself to get myself going?
Here is the issue: For the longest time, I've been trying to over come laziness and strengthen my sense of self control. Even through my various attempts at trying to over come my self I've gain further insight why I am this way, I've yet to find a way to overcome it.
I know if I do not change and improve, my life will not improve and I think I deserve better then that.
I've tried every thing I can think of (from psychological tricks to a few other things) and no dice and I've been trying for a few months now.
So my question to you is what magic or spells that you can recommend would be powerful enough to instill the emotions changes I need within myself to get myself going?
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13466-Self-improvement-magic&goto=newpost
Psychology Forum
I've noticed a lot of people mix psychological principles with magical and spiritual ones. Some base it entirely on what they learn from the behavioral sciences.
This makes me think there is enough demand for a sub-forum dedicated specially for this subject of interest.
This makes me think there is enough demand for a sub-forum dedicated specially for this subject of interest.
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13465-Psychology-Forum&goto=newpost
Will Gay Marriage Mean More Religious Pluralism?
From Wildhunt
It is far too easy to quote the (largely Christian)_opponents_to New York’s decision adopting same-sex marriage and use it to make some larger point. You’ve got the Catholic Bishop of Brooklyn advising his flock to shun lawmakers who voted for same-sex marriage, you’ve got the Family Research Council making some disturbing allusions about the Empire [...]
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It is far too easy to quote the (largely Christian)_opponents_to New York’s decision adopting same-sex marriage and use it to make some larger point. You’ve got the Catholic Bishop of Brooklyn advising his flock to shun lawmakers who voted for same-sex marriage, you’ve got the Family Research Council making some disturbing allusions about the Empire [...]
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swapping cards…
So I've been wondering- since you can use cards to divine your future, could you not, if you happened to get a reading you didn't like, swap them out in the spread for something more favorable? If you made it an empowered act, do you think you could echo back up the line and influence the coming reality? I mean, I Know it can be done, magick working like it does, I guess I just wondered if anyone had done it?
Or along the same lines, just straight up laying out a favorable spread for something, and casting it like a sigil (I'm not familiar enough with the card meanings to trust myself doing it with any accuracy, but I thought someone who really resonated with the cards might find the idea useful. )
Or along the same lines, just straight up laying out a favorable spread for something, and casting it like a sigil (I'm not familiar enough with the card meanings to trust myself doing it with any accuracy, but I thought someone who really resonated with the cards might find the idea useful. )
From http://www.occultcorpus.com/forum/showthread.php?13463-swapping-cards...&goto=newpost