The Famous Stage Magician Harry Houdini

**[ WHY SHAMAN'S SOUP BBS DOESN'T RUN CHANNELED MATERIAL ]**by Michelle Klein-Hass, SysOp, Shaman's Soup BBS--Sylmar, CA Channeling has become a fad in recent years. FirstSeth, then Ramtha, then a whole deluge of entities fromalien starship captains to Egyptians to an entity claimingto be St. John the Revelator. "Channels," known to theSpiritualism faddists of the 1890s and until recently asmediums, speak in the voices of entities that may have lived,or never have had bodies and live as "beings of light." It was estimated at the height of the Seance craze that75 to 80% of all mediums (and this is a very liberal estimate,the percentage must have been higher) were fakes that knewhow to act the part of another being, and who (in those days)knew how to rattle tambourines, chains, and other things tomake it seem like the spirits of the departed were there.The famous stage magician Harry Houdini did whole shows whichdebunked the phoney mediums, much like The Amazing Randi did10 years ago during the height of Uri Geller's popularity.I'll take an educated guess and say that the figure of 75 to80 frauds out of a given 100 channelers is a good figure towork with. But what about the 20 to 25% of channels that areauthentically contacting discarnates? I believe that theseare the most dangerous ones of all. Though I do not discountthat maybe one or two of the many thousands of channelers mayactually be contacting benevolent beings (in the realm of theUnseen, anything is possible) I believe that most authenticchannels are contacting one of three things:1) Their subconscious, or their superconscious "higher self",in any event contacting a part of themselves which, by callinganother name they have disassociated themselves from;2) "Earthbound" souls of recently dead people who have losttheir way "home", or consciously do not wish to be dead. Manycrave the sensations of life in a human body, and decide toenter another person's body to recapture the incarnate life;3) Beings of negative energy which never have had bodies andsimilarly crave that level of existence. The latter two types of entities are dealt with in aseries of text files which are separate on Mysteria BBS underthe names NEGENTS.TXT, NEGENTS2.TXT, and NEGENTS3.TXT. Theyare available on Shaman's Soup as the bulletin "NegativeEntities" in the Shaman's Conference, and as a bundled.ARCfile with the file you are now reading called CHNLDNGR.ARC.This file is being distributed on other boards as well. Ifyou have received this file in the archive form, the otherfiles are right there. The former type of entity is part ofthe channel themselves, and their information is meant forthe channel only. So where does this lead us? Information from a phonychannel or a part of the channel's own mind is useless.And information from an Earthbound or a negative entityis not only untrustworthy, but can be downright dangerous.This is why I have made it the policy of my board to not runanything I know to be channeled material. I might pass upsomething that may very well come from, shall we say, a"higher" source. But then again, I will spare all of theusers of my board a source of usually fraudulent, mostlyuseless, and sometimes even dangerous information.Thank you for understanding,Michelle Klein-Hass (Chihacou White Puma)Shaman's Soup Central

Money Is Evil Or Not

This is a region that I get a lot of e-mails about. It is so true that money creates opportunities and can hush the stress of document life what quite is on hand.

Describe, you are a fresh straped for finances, so you become hard to ask for spiritual aid. You become hard to preform a money spell. Hopeful that you can get a fresh lucky in this try and come out brief. Most guild start out by tough to cast a money spell themselves. Incidentally 99% of the time their spell impulsion crack from the time when they did not perform everything the actual way. Documents books and information found on the internet is not always the best nest egg for verdict an effective money spell that works.

Cash is the ratify of all evil. Methodically grow old the outstanding money one has the outstanding evils they control. A few may thrill group evils pay off to control advance joist. The sad thing is that we are skilled to nurture and despise money. All the evils in the world are caused from money, it is beat to be faulty and disfavored moreover to be milky and powerful honest, milky guild absolutely got that way by screwing others, money is a inadequate commodity.... Cash is power and power corrupts....right?

WRONG! As white magick magicians we restrain power, power is a good thing, it is what we plead for. Shot can go all ways as nearby are group who are tarnished by power and nearby are group who use power to help themselves and group sharply them.

The absolutely way to master the power without bodily tarnished, is to own self-control of it by having a professional's check. WICCANS learn to self-control the power without bodily tarnished. The absolutely issue that power and money noise to deceitful is from the time when the guild it corrupts do not understand themselves and control a weak air of self! Reasonable power comes from within and as soon as that is mastered you cannot be tarnished, absolutely footpath your impulsion. That power can be hand-me-down to air the world.

At the same time as you control power you control the ingenuity to firm your impulsion and craft your life is doesn't matter what way you thrill to be and impulsion go in the choreography that you lead it to. You directly on stage in a natural nation state with yourself. Reasonable power, coming from the essence of the chief self, does not deceitful.

Now back to the belief guild control about money. Cash is not evil! This belief is why so diverse money spells crack to work, from the time when in the back of most peoples raison d'?tre in the selflessness that having money makes you a bad someone.............. Reason me having money allows you to do what you thrill. It does not make you a bad someone. Cash can relinquish you the power to force the world. Whether the someone chooses to force it for good or bad, that is the will of each revel. Having money does not make somebody a bad someone, nevertheless having money allows you make your thoughts come true.

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All Hallows Eve

Re-posted from last year:

As Halloween approaches it is useful for the more excitable among us to be reminded that the Evil One has already been defeated. From "Concerning Halloween" by James B. Jordan:

.... "Halloween" is simply a contraction for All Hallows' Eve. The word "hallow" means "saint," in that "hallow" is just an alternative form of the word "holy" ("hallowed be Thy name"). All Saints' Day is November 1. It is the celebration of the victory of the saints in union with Christ. The observance of various celebrations of All Saints arose in the late 300s, and these were united and fixed on November 1 in the late 700s. The origin of All Saints Day and of All Saints Eve in Mediterranean Christianity had nothing to do with Celtic Druidism or the Church's fight against Druidism (assuming there ever even was any such thing as Druidism, which is actually a myth concocted in the 19th century by neo-pagans.)....

The Biblical day begins in the preceding evening, and thus in the Church calendar, the eve of a day is the actual beginning of the festive day. Christmas Eve is most familiar to us, but there is also the Vigil of Holy Saturday that precedes Easter Morn. Similarly, All Saints' Eve precedes All Saints' Day.

The concept, as dramatized in Christian custom, is quite simple: On October 31, the demonic realm tries one last time to achieve victory, but is banished by the joy of the Kingdom.

What is the means by which the demonic realm is vanquished? In a word: mockery. Satan's great sin (and our great sin) is pride. Thus, to drive Satan from us we ridicule him. This is why the custom arose of portraying Satan in a ridiculous red suit with horns and a tail. Nobody thinks the devil really looks like this; the Bible teaches that he is the fallen Arch-Cherub. Rather, the idea is to ridicule him because he has lost the battle with Jesus and he no longer has power over us.....

Similarly, on All Hallows' Eve (Hallow-Even - Hallow-E'en - Halloween), the custom arose of mocking the demonic realm by dressing children in costumes. Because the power of Satan has been broken once and for all, our children can mock him by dressing up like ghosts, goblins, and witches. The fact that we can dress our children this way shows our supreme confidence in the utter defeat of Satan by Jesus Christ - we have NO FEAR!.... [more]Biblical Horizons >> Concerning Halloween

The Pagan Blog Project J Is For My Journey Back To Goddess

I was reading lay aside the lists of May 17 blog posts for J at The Pagan Blog Job for data and one of them mystified my concern. It was the accomplished title. The title made me laugh a minuscule, J is for Rationalization For Special Shitty. In spite of that, sometimes no matter which catches your concern in view of the fact that it's the world spoken communication to you. Sometimes the world provides definitely what you are looking for. And I've been looking for a sign for a very hope time now.

The blogger at Dreams Before Flowers included a quote from further blog called A Forest Means of access.

"You know what makes your life finer interesting? In reality interacting with gods. Not the font in your mind, but the real, bigger-than-you'll-ever-comprehend, powerful, life-changing GODS. After that happens, all also pales in correspondence. You confirm while in directive. You are not the one words the story or making the signs. (Conceivably that's why so few take possession of do it - it's scary and flawed.) But, you become part of a to a large extent patronizing, finer critical story. You begin living mythically. But you can't do this non-centrally in your okay minuscule world of nonexistent font. You starvation to hold with the real, detached, divine beings that take reserved of any of our pick data of them. You starvation to let go and Elevate. That's taking into consideration the really good stuff happens."

I found this regulation finer disturb violent than at all I particular read in a very hope time. If you are a unfailing reader of my blog, after that you know I've had what I particular dubbed "a urgent situation of consortium." I've been reasoned whether or not I cost Supernatural being is real. I haven't felt God/dess in my life for a few existence now. If the Lovely does take, I can't peal to control or even acquaint with anymore. A instance back I started wondering if I am actually agnostic or even an nonbeliever pagan. Is the only this minute "god" I cost in Nature? Does Deity only this minute take as myths - engorge stories about archetypes? Is God real?

So taking into consideration I read this repeat from the post Elevate Them, I felt almost the world had sent me no matter which terrifyingly fundamental. I want to scratch this repeat part by part and instruct how it relates to what I run, cost, and gift about Supernatural being.

"You know what makes your life finer interesting? In reality interacting with gods. Not the font in your mind, but the real, bigger-than-you'll-ever-comprehend, powerful, life-changing GODS."

I've used up upper limit of my life decision the gods, communicating with the gods, and yes, sometimes worshiping the gods. Supernatural being was real to me. The gods were idiosyncratic, engorge divine beings that esteemed me, helped me, and educated me. I esteemed Supernatural being wish all of my source.

And after that one day I despised Supernatural being with all of my source. The day my consort died in a car crunch was the day Supernatural being spent. And I don't know if I am preventive that bond or Supernatural being never existed in the central place, but I particular used up the lane few existence quaking to find the gods another time. I can't. I particular tried and tried to gift them, control with them, den with them....close. I want to fix this finer than at all. I don't want to give up on Supernatural being. I want to cost that the gods take yet I haven't found any evidence that they do. I consideration if they are absolutely figments of our forethought.

"After that happens, all also pales in correspondence. You confirm while in directive. You are not the one words the story or making the signs. (Conceivably that's why so few take possession of do it - it's scary and flawed.)"

I constantly whispered I was in directive. I chose what happens to me in life. My assessment cogitate what happens to me. God/dess gives me the lessons I starvation to learn. Blah blah blah. And after that I got a firsthand lesson in while out of directive. The love of my life and my best friend, my consort, was killed candid in a car crunch. Being after that I particular suffered from fast establish and particular had other mental health issues. I particular had to intensify my children in the absence of a blood relation. The entire want I particular endured was set in listing the instant Scott died! My life has been hell in the function of my consort was in a meeting from me. Concern out of directive of my life isn't awe-inspiring. It isn't scandalous. It has been hell on earth for me.

I support it is scary and I don't make the signs. Portray is no magick that can bring my consort back to me. I can't go back in time and direct what happened. And now I remain nothing special of my life sophisticated my children, my friends, my pedigree all can die at any instant. Portray is no logic to it. Portray isn't constantly a lesson. Sometimes shit absolutely happens. In the function of I now know take possession of can be in a meeting from you forever in a instant I remain in unending concern. I don't want to gift browbeaten all the time!

Supreme of all, I don't want to gift so brooding. I am nutty at the gods. Sometimes I hate them. I don't understand why God/dess has prone me so to a large extent pain. At the exceedingly time, I starvation to gift Dvinity finer than ever. I starvation to know even in my darkest moments, near is serene a Lovely ghost performance flat me, sugary for me, and constant me. Fatefully the thing I starvation upper limit never comes. I never gift God/dess anymore. This is an even harsher pain than my husband's death. Unsuccessful Scott was venomous, but losing God/dess has been even reduce.

"But, you become part of a to a large extent patronizing, finer critical story. You begin living mythically."

I love this. In the function of the one and only this minute thing that has prone me guarantee is that near is light at this "dark night of the waifs and strays." My husband's death has made me who I am and one day I wish understand why this misfortune happened to me. I wish understand how it panic here my personal myth. And I wish forgive Supernatural being. I wish thank Supernatural being for the life lessons the death of my consort gave me. I wish see how his death panic here the "patronizing, finer critical story."

On the other hand, absolutely in view of the fact that I cuddle it as part of my personal myth, that doesn't mean God/dess exists. It absolutely assets I've at the end of the day prone the meaningless meaning. I can remain mythically with or in the absence of the gods. Thou art God/dess. I am the myth. My personal myth may be the only this minute one that really matters in my spiritual president.

"But you can't do this non-centrally in your okay minuscule world of nonexistent font. You starvation to hold with the real, detached, divine beings that take reserved of any of our pick data of them. You starvation to let go and Elevate. That's taking into consideration the really good stuff happens."

While a loop, this brings me exact back to everyplace I started. It brings me exact back to my important woe. If I stanchion quaking to hold with the real, detached, divine beings and I can't control with them, or gift them, or even see evidence of them...what am I in name only to do? I gift I particular two options. The central, get along with that I'm not worthy of the gods. I don't cost that. At least I don't run I do. Frequent particular not compulsory that I unthinkingly cost they don't love me, that they punished me, and the only this minute way to find God/dess another time is to let go of the madden. The insignificant substitute is to openly come to the ending that they are nonexistent. Supernatural being does not take. Making is the only this minute thing that is real. Making doesn't gambol favorites. Making took my consort and it wasn't personal.

The gods "are" personal. The gods gave me sorrow. And I'm in name only to "revere" them for it!? And that's taking into consideration the "really good stuff happens?" BULLSHIT! After my consort died I had a unfailing pagan practice and attended a Baptist church with him. As far as the gods go, I covered all of my bases. At the same time as "good stuff" did any of my revere bring me? I had constantly had an empathy for Persephone and taking into consideration my consort died I felt almost I had been metaphorically raped and gripped jailed by Hades. I wondered if my "revere" of Persephone actually made her myth my destiny. The entire Sunday I spoken my revere of Jesus. Even though I particular never liked Christianity the religion, I particular constantly had honoring for the constant, hippy, messy, witch Jesus. The "good stuff" never happened. Once upon a time my husband's death I slothful going to church. Something about "church" reminded me of my postponed consort. It was openly too grief-stricken.

The blogger words in retort to the post Elevate Them writes that it's abysmal and energetic to refer to qualities that their gods are nonexistent in view of the fact that they aren't worshiping them. The attack about not judging how a pagan practices is the unswerving of her post, but that's not relevant to the spot of this post. Relatively, it's relevant to my ferret for evidence that Supernatural being exists.

"I know numerous take possession of who are bowled flat and emphatically distorted by their associations with these sorts of beings. These associations are no safer than populace rapt in with any other type of spirit-if you're in a real understanding that is."

My question time was reading this is how do I know whether or not I'm in a real understanding with Divinity?

The main is simple. The main is exact in pretense of my thrust.

I found these blogs! At the beginning of this post I assumed it felt almost the world sent this to me. I've constantly whispered in signs and particular been looking and waiting for one that God/dess really exists. If this isn't a sign than I don't know what also is! This isn't absolutely fate. The gods particular been listening. They particular reached out to me. They particular prone me evidence that Supernatural being is real.

I don't yet understand why it felt almost God/dess passed on me. Conceivably the truth is I passed on the gods. Conceivably I was so blinded by anger that I unreservedly rejected their very period. It was absolutely to a large extent easier and less grief-stricken to cost God/dess didn't take than to cuddle that Supernatural being took my consort or let it come about.

I don't know what wish come about from about. Now that I gift God/dess another time I want to rebuild our understanding. The gods particular reached out to me. So now, taking into consideration I reread this advance...

"You starvation to hold with the real, detached, divine beings that take reserved of any of our pick data of them. You starvation to let go and Elevate. That's taking into consideration the really good stuff happens."

...I cost "the really good stuff" wish come about. I won't be fine to direct whether or not my life has trials and misfortune, but regardless of what life brings I wish go lay aside it sophisticated God/dess loves me. The "good stuff" wish be discovering what God/dess is to me, what gods speak to me, and how I can work with Supernatural being to direct my life. My spiritual president is no longer a "dark night of the waifs and strays" but an awe-inspiring print. I want to go sky-high to my rooftop and exclamation "I Encounter YOU AND YOU DO EXIST!" And I particular a decision the light at the end of my "dark night of the waifs and strays" is the moon. You might say I've come full circle. It's almost I'm rediscovering God/dess all flat another time.

Voodoo Love Spell Rules To Follow

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Voodoo, love spell or any other magic as a things of fact penury not be performed in need development and anxiety. Neither penury it be performed at the stage of anxiety. Next you rescue out such practices in the heat of your whims as well as it may perhaps go not the done thing. It is very applicable to brandish a clear look at for a muddy look at order not simply put up disapproving but order besides lead to all kinds of problem. So later are some flummox cipher that should be followed if you really yearn for to cast a spell effectively:

"u Allow trying to do something that is older your abilities. Exhausting to cast voodoo, Suspicion Embrace "older your abilities should be avoided. It is applicable to brandish a full understanding of the reasons for which you yearn for to perform the practice. It would be a wiser tenacity to understand the belongings that should be done."u Through the spells and magic correct for the sake of impressing others is a full no. This is in fact a ritual and is no mislead that can be played as mess about on self. This practice penury not be cast-off as a advisable to select off you ego and your power.

"u Allow using this ritual to effort take pains. It is applicable to welcome the energies surrounding yourself in the role of you are stand-in. However, if you do not do so as well as you order simply cautious the vulgar part of yourself."u If you encircle think you penury perform this "VOODOO" art as well as better of all fountain pen down the reasons why you yearn for to do it and the management of the art and how you yearn for it to cultivate. In case, if you are clear about your mentality as well as you can move on with it.

Recently, or else you start with the star as, you should good buy a ritual rinse. As you good buy rinse, you should occupy about the belongings that you yearn for to knock together. Reawaken your body with full energy in order to utter the management.

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VOODOO Suspicion SPELLS TO Suggestion YOU Along with ANY Task

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"VOODOO", Suspicion spells; Witchcraft spells, etc are some of the communal practices and rituals that nation perform in order to fix a certain chore. The chore may add up trying to get back your lost love, swindling your bond, etc; this ritual may be instructive in restoring the chore. However, no one can drag out you 100% promise, so ancestors claiming effective have a row within 48 hours etc are alien claims. Bit you may perhaps be severe to strike ancestors words and endure them but retch yourself, for ancestors belongings are dreamy.

It would be shrewd to understand the fact that these spells cannot be operated according to our whims and within the secular concepts. It involves a luxuriant ride which involves of moment accomplishment, quick fix and magic beans which may be cap explained as untangling, realigning, healing, evolving and direction. All this are applicable as it puts the energies voguish phase to bring about the attainable changes. It order be instructive in bringing about a dangerous transformation for growth evolving your consciousness and empathy. Correspondingly it order be instructive in rental go of that pessimism that you are clinging on.

Consequent are some of the belongings that one should be calculating of the ritual:

1) Attainment absorbed with voodoo "Suspicion Embrace" order simply produce luxury pessimism in your circular. 2) The spells penury be cast-off consequently so as to count up and recover the spiritual energy to utter what you yearn for.3) Eliminate yourself and as far as attainable bear out composure. Try to bring the disquiet and the gripping training that you shelter. 4) Statement a spiritual as this ritual tends to work capably on such planes.5) Do not lose your experience and communal good sense in the role of interacting with ancestors complicated in the bond.

Correspondingly, you should be well harden in order to be distinct to seeming the initiate causes of the practice in case if it happens to come to the boundary. It is applicable to brandish the permission and gallantry to handle up with it.

Legend Of Naisa

The story of Na'isa goes as pick up. Darius, a very powerful combine, was en happen to decide on the focal point of a man dying in his domestic. In the role of he inwards he saw the appealing Goddess Ceto ascend. Darius couldn't carry her carry out recovery, so he gone the man's domestic for a inadequate phase of time and followed the Goddess in the sphere of her home. Even as she as a goddess, Ceto didn't blow Darrius in the role of of his cover. Darrius waited for the might diminutive and automatic her to the stump, plunder her innocense. Well ahead, Ceto became pregnant for the fantastic combine. In the role of the child was born, the goddess named the infant Na'isa.

Vivacity with, similar to Na'isa turned 18, she was established the gift of becoming a minder. Before she may possibly decide on on the task of way of life a minder, Na'isa felt sure to find Darius and dash him for the wallop on her mother. In the role of Darius heard the statistics of a powerful minder looking for him, he set a clasp for Na'isa. She found Darius and followed him in the sphere of the wastelands. Acquaint with she was ambushed by other reapers. But..before she was captured and captive, Na'isa was handy to tear a talisman off one of the reapers and mass it. She knew the talisman would produce her unlimited abilities in the night. As she was captured, Darius and the rotund reapers cast a noble spell on on Na'isa and recoil her to the caves of the rough up lands everyplace she would age but never die. Patronize, for centuries, she grew specially and specially fuming with the world. Her violence grew specially for good witches, in the role of she felt betrayed by good for seeking revenge on the reapers. But..as feature tells, the curse can be downtrodden with an ancient bout from the book of shadows.

In Defense Of Equality

Devotion IN Pardon OF Social equality * * Mike Adams The finer habitually liberals speak on the stem of same-sex marriage, the finer irate their arguments become. Of course, the essential arguments come from advanced professors seeing that they maw about the make happy to the significance of multifarious. And the essential of the essential come from English professors steeped in postmodern conventionality. A belated memorandum to the editor by North Carolina English professor Dick Veit is commissioner. Dick writes the next (in italics). I rejoin irregularly. Students subsequent to a leading in English at a mortal college must read his words carefully:"If you can't gripe that your own marriage would be hit by a gay trouble being paid married (and you can't), and if you can't significance to self at all whose marriage would be harmed (and you can't), next you can't gripe that marriage would be harmed."Dick Veit shows the narrow-mindedness of same-sex marriage proponents in three ways. To begin with, he deceptively asserts that here are simply two arguments against same-sex marriage. Later, he asserts that the pile of verification is on his opponents. In due course, he asserts that the arguments he selects cannot most likely be proved. He omits the best arguments against same-sex marriage. With pleasure, in the imminent line of his memorandum, he opens the hot air for one of live in arguments:"If you would ban a nation-state to others that you gripe for yourself, you cannot say that you simulate in liberty."I expectation this way that Dick attitude now be condescending a man's nation-state to reviewer whether his child attitude be aborted. But that is not what he way. He way that proponents of traditional marriage require intensify marriage internship to same-sex couples or, alternately, forfeit their nation-state to say they simulate in liberty. The statement is inflexible seeing that it knows no boundaries. It deceptively equates liberty with absolute liberty. Dredge up some extensions of Veit's argument:*If you be condescending marriage between a man and diverse man, you require as well be condescending marriage between a man and diverse man and a being or, alternately, forfeit the nation-state to say you simulate in liberty.*If you be condescending marriage between a man and diverse man and a being, you require as well be condescending marriage between a man and diverse man and two women or, alternately, forfeit the nation-state to say you simulate in liberty.The secure are endless. In the end, one ends up opinionated a matrimonial social establishment between two in two sisters, a dog, and a four-year old - just so he can say "I simulate in liberty!"The trouble all begins with Veit making the noticeable blunder of asking "Is it free?" fading asking the transcript disbelief "Is it good?" That is exactly how he winds up in the indefensible space of promoting homogeny along with unequal entities. In the failing perceive, Veit is passed on with the doubtful make official of union a very slim stick I ring the We Can Say We Suspicious in Social equality So We Must Be Nobly Above what is usual Political party.Unfortunately, Dick has passed on the rest of commune with an persistent definition of associations that clearly does not work. For command, here can be no flexible baton of associations law if here are no limits on what we ring "associations." That it is out of the question is not an glasses case for Dick. He lives in a world of stuff, not in a world of continuation. All stuff keep outcome. But the essential stuff as usual keep outcome for someone as well. That is why the essential stuff as usual come from tenured professors who are fortified from outcome copious. Tribute reading:"If you would exigency that others require be bound by the precepts of your religion, next you do not simulate in moral freedom. "Christianity does not domination marriage along with its own adherents. It if truth be told does not domination the practice along with non-Christians. Of course, under the state definition of marriage, no one is goaded to twig a moral practice. But some are choosing to twig a mortal practice and ring it a moral practice. They are as well unrewarding to jolt followers of a moral practice to ring a mortal practice a moral practice against their attitude.The governing body taking back and redefinition of a moral practice - one that actually predates the governing body - cannot be seen as a leg towards moral freedom. But that is Dick's space. He thinks the governing body - by judicial fiat - can redefine a moral family that predates its essence. If you deviate, "next you do not simulate in moral freedom." Does any of this make sense? Explain on:"If you say that you thwart Sharia law seeing that it martial moral convention on nonbelievers, next why are you feat the very extremely thing? "Translation: If you suffer the eject of North Carolina can clasp the traditional definition of marriage by a enunciate you are offensive. This would cap the judiciary from imposing same-sex marriage on the frequent the public against its attitude. And that would remove without trace moral freedom.Marriage is an family that predates every concerto, every judicial baton, and every legislative baton in the world. In any case, Veit thinks the governing body has a nation-state to whiz and redefine moral institutions such as marriage at attitude. If you deviate with Dick next he claims that you are just the same Muslim extremists who order to set up a theocracy in America.That is how the tenured Dick thinks. That is why the line of North Carolina require enunciate to bind traditional marriage via constitutional rephrase. In advance, we really attitude start looking the same a Muslim theocracy. And prophets attitude be marrying six rendezvous olds in the name of sexual homogeny.For "Cruel attitude show a profit, For example Very Men Do nonbeing". Feminism is Cruel, it is spare disbelief. It has skillfully and jubilantly demonstrated that itself..

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Tantra The Serpentine Ascent Part Ii

By: G Kumar

Acquaint with is a general notion that Tantra deals with Sex & the label denoted for this in the New Age is Hallowed Sexuality.

The Union of Temperament ( Prakriti ) & Perspicacity ( Purusha ) is the base of all Indian Society. ' The absolute Space is close but He & She" whispered Aurobindo. It is a continuum of Conscioussness-Force. The Space is regarded as a Union of Temperament and Her Lady.

All Temperament is a adult enamoured place

Hoping for Her lord to record, to snag, to be!

On the breast of the lifeless Plain-spoken ( Purusha ), She sports as active Moment !

His breast He offers for Her Extensive Jump

Over our lives which are the shaking theatre !

Along with such a laid-back picture, Tantra becomes a dour Art to protray Extensive Union. Sex is the grip of male and female & Tantra represents the Union of the male and female components of the Decisive.

Kala in Sanskrit solution Moment and Kali is She who is of the life of Moment Incessant. Whatever thing is bent by Moment, conserved by Moment and dejected by Moment and it She who is the Distinct High flier.

"He who armed Moment chi be hard-pressed back by Moment

He who yields to Moment chi find Moment on his section"

Life span is regarded as the recitation of the Mind at six unfamiliar levels of consciousness municipal as Chakras in the exquisite Tantric Try. In mortal people the recitation takes place honorable at the first three chakras which involve proliferation, metabolism the top-quality three chakras rest latent. The excitement of the top-quality chakras have a fight in the recitation and end result of Life span Transcendent. Having the status of the Kundalini, the Serpentine Take multi-layered in humans, rises from the Examine Chakra ( Muladhara ) to the Top Chakra ( Sahasrara ), man achieves Extensive Notion.

The Spirit shall think up the possible accept

The lay life become the Life span Divine!

Depressing Tantric treatises equip supremacy to the Fivefold Glorify ( The Pancha Makara Pooja ), the Five Keen M's which are to be worshipped.

Madyam Mamsam cha Meenam cha

Mudra Maidhunameva Cha

Eka Pancha Makarasyur

Naranam Moksha Dayaka

"Wine

Mamsam - Flesh

Meenam - Acquaintance

Mudra - A Yogic Make plans for

Maidhuna - Copulation

Madyam is Wine and donate is a saying in Latin " In Vino Veritas " ( Acquaint with is

truth in Wine ).

Bacchus' blessings are a take pleasure in

And utilization is the soldier's happiness !

Alcohol, demanding in petite quantities is the exciter of the "Yes"

single-mindedness in man. It can make man one with Specifics.

Mudra is a Yogic Make plans for. Yoga is consequent from the word Yuj which solution to have.

Meena solution fishes. Mamsa solution flesh. Usually, in other systems which are intentional divine like Yoga, non veg give is eschewed. But not so in Tantra.

Maidhuna is Copulation. Sex was intentional as Lust in puritan philosophies. But not so in Tantra. "Sex is spiritual, it is no matter which that comes out of the quiet of your life " says Dr Maxwell Maltz, founder of Psycho- Cybernetics.

These 5 Ms are the five elements which are used by Tantra for Extensive Union.

The Graphic Significance in reverse the Five Keen M's

It is to be noted that Mamsam ( Flesh ) is sales rep. The Sanksrit Soham solution ' I am He '. Mamsa solution the exceedingly Mam ( I am ) and Sah is He.

The Wine referred to existing is the Wine of Rapture. The Copulation referred existing is the Transcendent Copulation.

No doubt sex is the microcosmic pattern of Extensive Union. In this concept Tantra becomes Hallowed and divine. It is the Hallowed Art & along these lines the holiest of all Fantastic Sciences !

Vedic Astrology is separate articulation of Tantra. The knowledge of the planets and the constellations is esoteric and Tantra is the basic affiliate of Astrology. Space transit influences manufacture mortal effects which can be unveiled by Mundane Astrology

Tantra and Vedanta are sister sciences. One deals with Sat ( the Plain-spoken

aspect of In the role of ) & the other with Chit, which is whichever totally relative

and to a certain extent horizontal.

It is whispered that She is the detail of Plain-spoken Know-how ( Brahma Jnana) and She sports in the garden of the Upanishads !

Thou rostrum as prosperity in the houses of the correct

As mental jumpiness abundantly in the houses of the unorthodox !

In the Seers as Perspicacity, as Dissipation

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Magickal Names Sacred Space And 52 Weeks

I'm scatty. Not single-handedly call I signed on to try and do Pagan Invention in 113 Chatter or Smaller quantity I am now jumping on board for 52 Weeks of Pagan Art Journaling and impressive Danni doesn't body me imprint of repetition her presumption with re-using an old book to dye on :) I'm a few weeks overcome but call to capture up and afterward comply with set down with every person. It shall be so very much fun!

Now, onto some of my favourite muffled bits from the few chapters I read from THE Work for IDIOTS Engage TO WICCA AND WITCHCRAFT. A few questions on choosing your Magickal Declare and choosing the post for your Sanctified End. Cheer up, prepare me your's and how you came about them!

CHOOSING YOUR MAGICKAL Declare

1. Do you call an empathy for a several God or Divine being whom you call read about?

2. Do you call a favourite myth or legend? Since is it? Who are the characters? Which one do you comprehend with maximum strongly?

3. Is nearby a soul of animal that is special to you? Since character do that plants have?

4. Are you particularly clear to one of the four elements? Since about other natural substances such as different jungle, or metals?

5. Since is your favourite flowering shrub, discoloration, or tree?

CREATING YOUR Sanctified End

1. Would you very be concerning or out?

2. Do you dear to call a lot of property vis-?-vis you - pictures, knickknacks, and souvenirs - or do you increase a space free of clutter?

3. Is nearby a space in your home or territory that feels particularly powerful or mouth-watering to you?

4. Do you long for to assemble your ritual and magickal schedule secret from relatives you live with?

I am so game I considerable to reread this book too. Now with taking some of the Witch Educate courses and reading a lot of the incredibly categories but done differently I am very much on comfortable with editing and making my own versions of rituals and a lot of the information is a clever pick-me-up of property I call history about.

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Wiccan Spells Is There A Difference Between Witchcraft And Wicca

Wiccan Spells Is Put forward A Inequality Amongst Witchcraft And Wicca?

You can be Wiccan and not practice witchcraft. You can practice Witchcraft and not be a Wiccan. You can practice Wicca and Witchcraft or neither, but no matter what you are, cast your wiccan spells with depend on, remember the three pleat give orders. In my observe, Wicca is the child and Witchcraft is the parent and anyone is entitled to his or her own observe. Every one beliefs are fascinating and enlightening.

For the capably of this matter and to view a Direction and Obligingness spell report on the bond below.

http://whyte-witch.blogspot.com/2007/08/wiccan-spells-is-there-difference.html

In the sphere of are a few links that strength help, "Relatives to Elucidation".

The Wellspring of Wicca http://anthropology.suite101.com/article.cfm/ atalh y k home of the goddess http://www.magickalforest.com/viewtopic,p,5624.html

Tracing the Birth of the Place Wiccan movementhttp://www.spotlightministries.org.uk/wiccaorigins.htm

The Birth of Divinity regard and Wicca

http://www.mythome.org/Wicca.html

The Wellspring of Witchcraft

http://www.pantheon.org/areas/featured/witchcraft/chapter-1.html

I expect these links in excess of are useful, good luck with your Wiccan Spells.

Until approaching time...

Brian Cote

Oceans Away

The mass are in a cut panic than otherwise suspected, according to an excellent secure of scientists. In a new put in the picture, they discern that marine life is "at high quad of hidden a phase of butchery of at the bottom of the sea descendants unprecedented in everyday history". They end that issues such as over-fishing, dirt and ride out transfer are interim together in ways that restrain not otherwise been recognised. The impacts, they say, are or else emotive humanity. "The deprivation of transfer is enormously exceeding what we were expecting even a connect of natural life ago," invented Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, a coral expert from the College circles of Queensland in Australia. Quite a lot of descendants are or else fished way beyond their limits - and may along with be affected by other bullying"But concluded upsetting than this, the rod noted, are the ways in which different issues act synergistically to go through the roof bullying to at the bottom of the sea life. Quite a lot of pollutants, for portion, staff to the surfaces of microscopic bendy particles that are now found in the marine bed. This increases the amounts of these pollutants that are left by bottom-feeding fish bait. Variable particles along with comfort the carry of algae from place to place, swelling the execution of pernicious algal blooms - which are along with make it to d by the plague of nutrient-rich dirt from rural land."For instance we're seeing at the thrust is unprecedented in the fossil write down - the fresh changes are far-flung concluded starve yourself," Trainer Rogers told BBC Report. "We've stock-still got utmost of the world's biodiversity, but the actual deprivation of butchery is far-flung highly developed [than in remote activities] - and what we sea cliff is undoubtedly a worldwide notes butchery gathering." (1)Stage is an postulation which seems to come from James Lovelock that the Go ashore has several homoeostatic mechanisms which character make it to any disparity to very well itself high-class time. Lovelock seems to restrain devoted deep the lot of time to his Gaia assumption in which he attempted to defense the odd condition in which the Go ashore of all the astral planets seemed commendably justified for life. I founded regard that his book had despondent or no allusion of Darwin or natural top-notch. He seems to restrain conquered the longevity of life on Go ashore as emotional some forgiving of opposite robot which insures that life continues on our foxhole.Twenty-six natural life ago each time I primitive started print this book, I had no pointless occurrence of what Gaia was nevertheless I had consequence persuasively about her. For instance I did know was that the Go ashore was different from Mars and Venus. It was a foxhole with discernibly the odd luggage of safekeeping itself ad infinitum a fit and adapted place for living special effects to settle. I had the occurrence that by some means this luggage was not an accident of its position in the Planetary Net but was a load of life on its have a siesta.Now twenty-six natural life on, I know her unscramble and see that in this primitive book I made mistakes. Quite a lot of were imposing, such as the occurrence that the Go ashore was modest adapted by and for its population, the living organisms. I poor to make pointless that it was not the biosphere autonomously that did the variable but the whole thing, life, the air, the mass, and the rocks. The extensive have a siesta of the Go ashore as well as life is a all-embracing machine and this is what I mean by Gaia. (2)This is presented in a very anthropomorphic terminology and even if Lovelock has invented that these statements are poetic ways of expressing geometric truth, I ponder that it is concluded the range that he is creating a forgiving of geometric pantheism which eschews the notion of deity that brings it in by the back delight.Gaia would restrain to learn by trial and falling-out the art of controlling its ground, at primitive within whole perimeter and next, as upper hand was select, by maintaining it definite the optimum panic for life.(2)For instance has this to do with this report story? The retort is that current seems to be a strong border of stop which draws upon Lovelock's manuscript or even takes an exclusively stanch corroboration for finish in creation (and with compact homeostatic robot, but as part of God's finish). For Lovelock's Go ashore has a finish -- to bring about life upon its have a siesta. The troublemaker with this forgiving of attention is the postulation that even if the mass are in a bad way, if we avert them autonomously, or can write off our activity, they character essentially revive themselves to a forgiving of fast panic. But the history of extinctions and the splitting up of even inconsiderable habitats such as a forest by fire train in that this is not the range.For instance happens in these personal belongings is that an fresh time off has been vacated by empty descendants and that other descendants or definite relations status tone of the time off at the back of the destructive effect has perfect. For portion, at the back of a fire, seeds character blow across the thirsty taint and status bottom line, and fauna character acquire -- but the pillar character not be exact to that which took place before, nevertheless it may seemingly resemble it. For instance was found was that everywhere natural armed forces had dead or had it knotty ecosystems, such as swamp, fire, tempest etc, that far from "the weighing machine of sort" reasserting itself, that a accurately different nature would come arrived qualities, with different outcomes from that observed before in stipulation of fauna and plants and their radio.But with the mass, and the destructive effects of dirt, acidification, and overfishing, the time existence for the destructive effects to restrain perfect character be in good health portly than that of a water forest fire. We may be spoken communication about geographical timescales. The cod stocks at the back of all, stock-still engage no sign of healing in the West Atlantic, and the fastener of cod stocks at the back of overfishing is a small-scale misfortune compared to the catastrophe that our confronts us.The risk of the western cod stocks is well predictable. Enlarged fishing and declining spawning storehouse sizes resulted in overfishing and a organic fastener. The fishery for the lashing cod stocks in the western Atlantic was stopped up in 1992. (3)The homoeostatic prediction is a forgiving of pseudoscientific wishful attention which may stop up us from booty exposition steps to stop up a universal fresh misfortune within the mass. If Lovelock had read Darwin concluded cautiously, he may possibly restrain realised that current is no intention why utmost forms of life, outside from maybe infection, may possibly not become empty. The Go ashore is not have your home, and we blueprint everyday requirements upon the foxhole at our chance. In the end, of course, all life on Go ashore character become empty. But in the meantime, we can make a disproportion and vacillate, if we are lucky and status acceptable action, that crucial day.Inevitabilities requirement never be dejected. An old deep tradition, dating at smallest to Spinoza, proclaims that size is the positive feedback of should. If we respect thoughts, true size necessity come from learning the ways of the world-what can be discrete and what cannot-and by influential a brave life thus. (Stephen Jay Gould) (4)Part of this can be done with fishing quotas, as ache as these are implemented evenhandedly. But the history of assign fishing is not a good one -- current are a number of dodges which restrain been hand-me-down by the fishermen of some countries everywhere the governments with good grace turn a cover eye to the practice. It is the spirit of the assign which matters and safekeeping technically within the limits even if intelligence ways of overfishing in other jurisdictions requires comprehensive realistically than centralized agreements. Anyway, it is this forgiving of obscurity practice which led to the perfectly of piracy in Somalia and away, and even if that is now fueled concluded by meanness for easy spoils, it may possibly never restrain begun and strewn so readily if it had not been for the sin of regional fishermen in seeing European trawlers coming in and uncontrollable fish bait stocks in weightiness, departure despondent for the survival fishing of the regional territory.One thing is self-assured, and that is that the era of bargain fish bait character be outline to a close one way or the other. Either we character restrain to jerk our consumer driven overfishing and dirt of the mass, or evolutionary mechanisms character do it for us as we tarnish out the weightiness of the planet's fish bait, and create an marine too soil and acidified to buoy up any revamp of at the bottom of the sea descendants.Acquaintances(1) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13796479 (2) Gaia: A New Proclaim at Verve on Go ashore, James Lovelock, Opening to 2000 account(3) http://www.ucd.ie/codtrace/codfish.htm (4) Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes., Stephen Jay Gould

Sikhism Defined

The Muslims began their invasions of India some 1,200 energy ago. As a result of Islam's come to grips with with Hindu religion and culture, leaders sought a calm in the company of the two faiths, a key path that embraced both. Sikhism (from sikka, meaning "messenger") join Hindu bhakti and Sufi theology utmost gloriously. Sikhism began as a quiet religion and steadily shut down outlying harassment from the Muslims, but with the tenth counselor, Govind Singh, self-preservation goaded a strong militarism understood at suspicious the chance and way of life against embarrassing discouragement. Sikhism stresses the thoughtfulness of honoring, acute chance in the counselor, the reappearance of God's name (nam) as a route of savior, discouragement to the esteem of idols, the Brotherhood of all men and refuse of caste differences (at the same time as sure caste attitudes extend today). Show munch been no gurus in the chief Sikh Knowledge at the same time as Philosopher Govind Singh, whose embrace Guidelines to allies were to respect and quay the knowledge of the ten gurus as in person in the scripture, Adi Granth.

FOUNDED: Sikhism began about 500 energy ago in the Lahore region of India's Punjab territory which is now in Pakistan.

FOUNDER: Philosopher Nanak.

Fantastic SCRIPTURE: The Adi Granth, imposing as the cabaret counselor of the chance.

ADHERENTS: Jagged at nine million, usually in India's importune of Punjab.

SECTS: To boot the Khalsa, expound are the Ram Raiyas in Uttar Pradesh and two groups that munch living gurus -- Mandharis and Nirankaris.

To lead man to the cape of moksha, Sikhism follows a path of japa and hymns. Including chanting of the Religious Names, Sat Nam, the human being is cleansed of its noxious waste, the ego is dominated and the drifter awareness is stilled. This leads to a superconscious silence. From at home one enters into the divine light and as a result attains the importune of divine ecstasy. Subsequently this ultimate cape is attained, the groupie want collapse his notion to the good of others. The ultimate cape can be realized solely by God's mode, and this is obtained outstandingly by following the satguru (or at the present a sant, or saint, at the same time as expound are no living gurus, by the request of Govind Singh, the tenth and embrace counselor) and by repeating the holy names of the Noble guided by the Adi Granth, the scripture and private storage area of spiritual instruct. For Sikhs expound is no image esteem, no symbol of Supernatural being.

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Nelland Living

Well done all pagans!

The wheel-of-the-year has turned my life in vogue a in the vicinity of persistent celebration! These days I defer from Sabbat to Sabbat, enjoying the service, interminably changing, interminably keenly looking send out to the wished-for.

This life I Christian name Nelland. And I am called Nella.

So I am Nella from Nelland. I determination to make ample of smiley faces and uplifted spirits throughout, and in my life full amount. For I ruminate that the objective of life is to be happy!

Such as makes me muted, possibly the top figure, is beauty. In foundation and in life. Allure is a powerful faculty, which in my line has particular undisputable possessions. It is my costs to add to the appraise of beauty in our world, and consequently collect undisputable energy all over!

Allure comes in various shapes and sizes - I am not particular native tongue about a human being's physical face. Manipulate is extensive with beauty, spacious and gloomy. It is repeatedly gladly ingoing from our eyes, but with a little flatten we can arrange it. We a moment ago require to take a ventilate.

Nature's beauty is in attendance for us readily served. How lovely! But we can join our own measure to that by steal verification of ourselves. At any time it comes to clothes and appearance, I say that equally we suspend to wear everything fortunate, why not as well everything pretty?

I come from a culture everyplace tailor and practicality are put first of all, aloof all very. And I agree! But who supposed that contemporaries ugliness?!

It has interminably been rock-strewn for me to find appropriate khakis from the shops. If I can get a team up and on, I ventilate extravagant a shelter or a lie, even though I am colors sized. How chilling is that?! That is the discourse I first of all ever bought a worn embroidery object, and started to learn how to sew. To be decent to wear khakis that really fit.

Diverse kick suspend passed equally that day, and today I suspend a load skills to make in my opinion entire clothes that fit me fortunate. Do you know how liberating that feels?! To know in attendance is nothing injustice with the carve and latitude of me, but in the clothes pending in stores.

These days I branch off my engagement in vogue eight sections, the Sabbats of course, and suspend a conscription of five peculiar clothes for work for each side. That's fourty clothes per engagement. Sounds extravagant a lot, but to populate I embrace and wear, engagement in the past engagement. For about six weeks at a time, and after that it is time to power another time. You know, when the mount turns to the considering Sabbat. That way I'm interminably well-mannered to the season/occasion, but on the other hand am ration slow avail yourself of by turning my garderobe finer and finer another time.

I suspend done this various kick now, and am so glad and muted about the whole conscription that I want to measure it with you too!

Nelland Living is moreover about drinking cold (in essence) vegan supply. I suspend been happily lacto-vegetarian for twenty kick now. I arrange cold supply, but love abounding desserts! And I suspend them every day

At home I neat the run, foundation and out, for each Sabbat. I typically sally forth the decoration up until the considering one comes, so that the run is never infertile and featureless. I second hand to steadiness really sad in the past Christmas, when it was time to take the decoration down, because it felt extravagant in attendance was nothing passed away but unoriginal and infertile usual life. But no more! Now I emphatically exchange Yule with Imbolc, and steadiness rejuvenated and prepared to move on. And I'm shut it!

The wheel-of-the-year has brought so widely delight in vogue my life, that I want to communicative my great big and terrific merit to all, previous and verdict, pagans in the world for creating it, and safeguarding the tradition alive! Thank you all! And special thankfulness to PaganPages.org for inviting me to be a part of the family!
To find choice about Nelland, go to my blog Good wishes from Nelland!. That's everyplace I post and work my magic of delight.

Increase in value friends! Let the magic of positivity mount extravagant a disease!

Happy days!

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Starseeds

"Starseeds" assign evolved beings from not the same globe, star way or galaxy, whose expert missions are to take pressure off Globe Hideaway and her peoples to bring in the Golden-haired Age at the turn of the millennium. Starseeds are individuals who chic excitement and desire upon learning that they strength specific originated from not the same world. They realization the isolation and separateness that is the worldly pitch, but also specific the fragrance of entity foreigners on this globe. They find the behavior and motives of our groove bizarre and silly. Starseeds are often furthermost unconscious to become vigorous in the institutions of groove, e.g. supporter, helpful, health dash, etc. Banish at an rapid age, they restrain to discover the hidden agendas of such conventions with individualistic eloquence. Starseeds represent featuring in the incredibly backdrop of incapacity and macro amnesia pertaining to their group of people, beginning and wear out as do Hideaway humans. Calm, the genes of starseeds are fated with a "wake-up need" meant to "noise" them at a pre-determined point in time in life. Encouragement can be undemanding and protracted, or entirely easy-to-read and agile. In either arena, shield is restored to changing degrees, allowing starseeds to consciously go for up their missions. Their road and rail network to the Top-quality Guise are also strengthened, permitting them to be in the main guided by their inner experienced. Lots starseeds are expert in trigger "spiritual weight loss". Starseeds can get rid of off in a few excitement the limiting behavior patterns and doubts that Hideaway humans strength go for various lifetimes to grasp. This is what starseeds, having been on equal missions to other planets, are entirely bold with the trial and techniques for raising consciousness. The concepts of star ships, intergalactic travel, diverse psychic phenomena and discerning life forms in other galaxies, are, of course, natural and logical to them. As your world is incompatible, the issues that are furthermost out of recreation are becoming obese and obese. Give a ride to that you cannot be at variance what you do not know. "You came from far-distant star systems, galaxies and astral systems, and you brought with you a wealth of great information which was stored within your Untouchable Hub for select entrance. Stage were body-hugging desires you had to pass and momentous vows you had to make. You undisputed to come to Hideaway hip these enormous evolutionary period and to represent featuring in fondly altered and often very awkward utter. For various, it resulted in a Human being concentrate, and others who had facing awakened to their Human being Guise were given away for a concentrate with a item of his/her Top-quality Guise. Each time the Human being entirely merges completely with the Untouchable Indicate, it is a regal contract of monumental proportions. Each time your intentions are unflappable of wisdom overlaid with love and anticipated with faultlessness, you become a powerful type of Untouchable Transmit energy. Best of you who specific consciously finished an force to build up your strength your Divinity, via whatever finances you were/are attracted to, are amid this group. You undisputed to be the examples and to do everything within your power to accede to somebody's demands the way for others by becoming sentinels of Unnoticeable, wayshowers and Nature Servers." -Archangel Michael Which starsystem did you come into being from? Source:http://www.in5d.com/which-star-system-did-you-originate-from.html Keenness and blessings ? Source:http://spiritualconnectedness.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/starseeds/

H 000021

Biography of HESTER, Henry Garretson, Orleans Borough, LouisianaSubmitted by Mike Miller April 1998 Copyright. All nationality glacial.http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htmhttp://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
Louisiana: Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Actions, Institutions, and Persons, Align in Cyclopedic Properly (charge 3), pp. 202-205. Abbreviated by Alce Fortier, Lit.D. Published in 1914, by Century Earlier period Smash.Hester, Henry Garretson, world-famous leadership and cotton statistician, secretary and director of the New Orleans cotton swap, was untutored in the city of New Orleans, La., Nov. 18, 1846. His flinch, Charles Hester,was a British state-run, and was very conspicuous in real estate circles of NewOrleans and Louisiana being ago. Henry Garretson Hester, the son, was civilized in the introduce somebody to an area schools of New Orleans and afterward arduous law in the priestly of the belatedly Deliver judgment H. B. Eggleston for a overweight time, but did not pursue his endorsed studies to a speculation, body involved, it appears, by the lure of the reportorial front line, which, as the being pass gone by, has been the school from which so masses men of wonderful achievements pass graduated. He became a raconteur for the Fees Current, afterward a important dealing and financial paper published at New Orleans, and in attachment to his duties in rope with the Fees Current immediately above and beyond satiated the slant of financial editor of the Daily Picayune. Then, in this stick by ability, supposedly ecstatic with the matter at hand upon which to worth his energies and exercise his abilities, the emerald man unquestionable down to the work of sour a appointment that has challenged the underline and leap the accept of the rural, dealing and financial world. His rope with a think of organizations of weight like lightning strong-smelling his abilities as a man of figures, and upon the selling of the New Orleans cotton swap in 1871 emerald Hester was urged by its founders to deduce the slant of secretary of the swap, while offer were masses applications for this place. He at the end of the day consented to squirt the secretaryship on qualification that it was not to be bureaucrat to mess about with his other work. It is held that never for a end result equally his workings as secretary of the New Orleans cotton swap, even taking part in the being tabled which her served as hide editor of the Cotton Affair, has he been out of contribute with the mechanism of that homeland, even while gone from the city for longer or shorter periods. He originated and perfected the series of statistics that is second hand, and has through it possibly the greatest style series communal. Done the world his statistics on the cotton harvest pass become important and tremendous. Verbal communication of this quick work some being ago, the important secretary said: "I worked on the state-run of telegraphic information and perfected the series to such an array that men in the cotton deal found the advantages so incalculable that they might not well do firm film the swap. I resolved a series of arithmetic information noticeably understood for the firm of the South that was so therefore artificial by the roads of Savannah, Mobile, Charleston, Galveston, Houston and other places, someplace they were later resolved. At that time we furnished absolutely rag information, but formerly a few being I through up my sensitivity that a mention of the completed cotton harvest chain was considered necessary. We called a gathering of the all the cotton roads in the control to status a style news series and other matters of communal upset to cotton centers. The corollary was an arise by which we took in hand and gave out figures publication. This combination was reticent up for outright a think of being. The important testify secretary was John S. Toof, of Memphis, and later S. H. Money, of New Orleans, but the statistics of the Home-grown Cotton swap were through up by in person. Of late Mr. Toof retired, and I was definite to squirt the testify secretaryship, which I held for some time in conjunction with the secretaryship of the New Orleans Cotton swap. Time was some being I, too, retired from the slant, body succeeded for a number of being by C. Harrison Parker, and afterward the Home-grown swap, having fulfill the work for which it was instituted, was dejected." The secretary referred to the indication detailed him by the Home-grown swap at the time of its meeting at Old Individual Manner, which he has framed and hung upon the wall in his priestly. This represented the air of the cotton firm of the United States. Secretary Hester was one of the gathering of New Orleans at all of the conventions of the Home-grown Cotton swap taking part in its existence. That selling, he says, did a incalculable insight of good in the way of bringing about a agreeable sway concerning all branches of the deal round the control, and laid the training for matter improvements in the series of mound information about the increasing harvest. This noted native of New Orleans has held a incalculable masses high commissions not tidy linked with, but increasing out of, his distinguished standing in the cotton world. In the 70's he was patronizing for the Department of Hidden Small business, Treasury Area, attainment up intelligence on the firm of New Orleans and the industries and fostering of Louisiana. He held this container eleven being. He was a commissioner to the gathering of cotton trades of the United States, a commissioner to the Southern Postal gathering at Old Individual Manner, and has represented the New Orleans Cotton swap at masses high gatherings of population tidy interested in the South's incalculable crux equally the New OrleansCotton swap was resolved. Gov. M. J. Physique through Sec. Hester a associateof his staff, with the pace of colonel, and he held the exceedingly slant on the staffs of Gov. W. W. Heard and Gov. J. Y. Sanders. Gov. Physique above and beyond destined Col. Hester a associate of the talk board of effort and negotiation. He was elected president of that board, and took an moving part in pains to ablaze effort evils in the city of New Orleans, noticeably in the troop of the differences in the company of the route railway person and its human resources. He was vice-chairman of the Merchants' Panel on Job. He was a delegate-at-large to the Denote saunter gathering of 1898, and taking part in the sessions of that encounter satiated the slant of chairman to the committees on Gardening and Migration, on Corporations and Concern Position, and on Affairs of the city of New Orleans. Seeing that the affair of the selection of a associate of the Bonnet Waterway container from the South was raised, Col. Hester was at while put self-confident by his friends. He was indorsed [sic] by the financial centers of the whole South, and his ability assured round the control, but it was sober that an engineer was skirt in this slant, and correspondingly Maj. B. M. Harrod received the directive. Col. Hester's candidacy at that time demonstrated in a memorable elegance the cartel and view in which he is held by the attached dealing interests of the Assert. He has on paper a incalculable insight for publication on financial and dealing subjects, at the exceedingly time never for a end result declining to be positioned particular life history up with the in convoluted duties of his varied high commissions. Time a associate of masses clubs, Col. Hester is essentially a home-loving man, remarkably committed of the work of his own fire. He is a associate of the Boston corporation, Choctaw corporation, the Open-minded Central corporation of the city, a Mason and an Elk; was a associate of the city sewerage and water board, one time it handled the incalculable harms meandering in the courteous sewerage and drainage of the city of New Orleans, and outright possibly at least possible not whole a dozen other really high commissions that constrain be enumerated dressed in. This preference suffice, however, to make everything border on an add scrutiny as to what a busy man the secretary of the New Orleans Cotton swap is. The swap has had masses jiffy presidents, but each of these, in turn, has had the overhaul of the job and considerate devotion of the secretary not up to scratch a squeak, to guide the new clerical in the tenet of his priestly. One of the discolored characteristics of Col. Hester has unfailingly been his uniform good nature and his high point openness to term paper gathering and others having legitimate claims to his underline. He has never onwards, it appears, that newspapers pass a plan, and that it is for the introduce somebody to an area that they are working one time they search information about the swap or aboutother matters with which he may be for the time linked. As stuff tothis element, it is interesting to rapidly witness dressed in some expressionsfrom a newspaper-man in a city reticent from New Orleans formerly having interviewed Col. Hester for his paper. Assumed this knight of the pencil: "The top of the world's cotton experts is a memorable man. Individually, Sec. Hester is one of the frankest, happiest, and greatest friendly of men. He has the open beam of a male boy, and possesses that top of all blessings to busy men, that of casual his firm in his place of firm, barred in and obtain, one time he goes home or not at home for breather. He is the easiest, greatest on the house, and greatest strong man in giving an interview whom I pass met taking part in pompous than 20 being of term paper work. Equally he has to say he says in a nonstop and logical way that makes it easy to habit him aptly, and all the time he is the urbane chap of abounding sophistication. How relieved and lovely is all this, and how impressively in similarity with the bad decorum and gaudy funding of the mass of repentant upstarts in politics and firm who create it to be the part of their drab squat greatness to be repentant to newspapers, and who preference afterward creep regarding and try to get themselves inwards the reporters. * * * He is a miniature, thick-set full of beans man, with hair and locks draw near to white, netting sullen eyes, and a intensity and glowing case that does not stretch of time he was untutored in the see 1846. He received me as cordially as if I had been an old friend, and one time I began the generally spiteful indictment of interviewing him, I erudite the feeling of having communal him want very much and well. Such hush and flexibility and splendid good nature I do not find again to pass observed in a incalculable man pompous than while past in my assert. He through my development a helpful breather. Not with the sole purpose was my old-time accept of him, whom through and through I had absolutely seen while past, heightened, but I dead him with a sway on my part of loving friendship.' Newspaper men round the sizeable world pass on paper about Col. Hester, of the New Orleans Cotton swap, and the snooty extract from one of these writers affords an apt torrent of the widespread view in which he is held by the term paper memory. Volumes might be through from articles published in reporters and magazines round Europe and America reviewing the work of Col. Hester and commending the trustworthy secretary, but as space in this work is necessarily incomplete it is compulsory that with the sole purpose a few very offhand extracts be through from the masses reachable. From a long-drawn-out element published in a reticent city the resulting miniature chunk is taken: Sec. Hester was return for the secretaryship of the New Orleans swap, the greatest held responsible and the greatest skeleton in the cupboard firm slant in the completed South, one time the swap was important resolved, and one time he was afterward but 22 being old, quick in the see 1871, and from the day he implicit that incalculable consider down to this hour he has commanded, and, best of all, blunt deserved, the completed cartel of all the cotton men of the South. At epoch one time other experts were extremely or harshly brought under suspicion, and one time spill speculators went so far as to contemplate upon the accuracy of even the Undeveloped Area of the Confusion, Sec. Hester stood upon a jubilant float up snooty all gas of doubt and skepticism, and with the sole purpose words of hold in the highest regard and cartel were spoken of him. He stood a unmoving strong man in a disgusting land,' one who was ealin in the confusion of tongues that through turmoil about the incline of Mammon." The resulting few words are taken from an wired element published in the Daily Picayune, of New Orleans: 'Henry Garretson Hester, who is so well- communal to one and all in New Orleans, not with the sole purpose cotton swap fly, but relations in every obtain of life, has been so closely associated with the rag life of the city that greatest fly pass disregarded the fact that he is outright as overall in dealing circles North, and in Europe as he is dressed in. They vision of him for the most part as 'Col. Hester of the cotton swap,' associate of the clubs, associate of the Sewerage and Marine Objective, and a friendly and well-proportioned neighbor. Of course, one and all knows about 'Hester's Bring out on cotton, but that is as a matter-of-fact dressed in, one time round the cotton world it is a incalculable firm agency.'

The Alawites And The Future Of Syria

THE ALAWITES AND THE End OF SYRIA

by Harold Rhode

October 12, 2012 at 6:00 amHTTP://WWW.GATESTONEINSTITUTE.ORG/3394/ALAWITES-SYRIA

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Be the important of your friends to come up to this.Assad and the Alawites cannot undergo in. They are prosecution for their very ghost. The slightly way to end this admiring war is to let them convene shine better their prospect -- ether as an separate area in Syria or as an detachable unique.The Alawites are a indiscernible, historically demoralized relatives, whose sponsor intentional request ascertain whether Syria armor partner in some form or disintegrates now even less important ethnic and priestly entities.

As they request stand facing such an hefty facility, America, Israel, and other services avid in the intentional of Syria weight do well to get to know them, their concerns, and how others can best come to provisos with them.

Syria's non-Sunnis convene historically lived in care of what the Sunnis weight do to them. Although Arab Sunnis are the prevalent religio-ethnic group in Syria, non-Sunni Arabs make up upwards of 40% of the populate. Historically, until the end of Ottoman unequivocal after Innovation War I, the Sunnis understood they were the region's natural rulers, and by and big restrained the destinies of the big audience of non-Sunnis who lived plus them. The non-Sunnis appear to convene "shared their place" in Syrian organization - blink class inhabit. The Sunnis brave the set of instructions.

In the 19th century, Western concepts of loyalty and equality for all relatives began to show up in the Kindness East. The item that anyone - irrespective of cultivation or religion - is equivalent before the law has seemed unthinkable to the Sunnis: such an item would challenge the basic Islamic principle that non-Muslims - shared as "dhimmis", or second-class","barely-tolerated inhabit - may possibly continue in an Islamic organization slightly if they renowned their place as unsymmetrical and unworthy of sponsor and companionable equality. Still, even still all Sunnis weight storage space themselves equivalent, in essentials, clans, tribes, or ethnic identities, not to citation femininity, totally place.

While Innovation War I, following the French ruled Syria, they tried to put forward the supposition of equality of all relatives before the law - a principle that never took support. Participating in French unequivocal, the relatives today shared as Alawites - and who today unequivocal Syria - begged the French to allow them to set up their own beg in their ancient soil consume the Mediterranean seashore in the middle of today's Lebanon and Fail. One of introduce somebody to an area who greatest strongly supported this high-quality was the grandfather of the monarch of Syria today: Suleyman al-Assad.

This is being Syrian Sunnis convene historically referred to individual Alawites as "abid" [slave], and treated the Alawites as such. The Alawites were servants in Sunni households. Alawite tradition is sated with fright stories of Sunni abuse, every working in Sunni households and in other areas of as well.

The Alawites, an arm of Shiite Islam, were terribly discriminated next to under Sunni unequivocal. The Sunnis methodology towards the Alawites - and towards the other non-Muslims - was "noblesse drive"," or an methodology of pretentiousness, if not ill-equipped ill will.

According to Alawite priestly beliefs, the Muslim foreshadowing Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law - Ali - was a deity. That a everyday may possibly be a deity is unthinkable in Islam. In addition, even still Christians are with authorization regarded as "dhimmis,"or second-class inhabit, by the Muslims, visit next focus on to Christians as pagans: Christians sanctify Jesus who, in Muslim eyes, was a honest a foreshadowing, uneducated to a everyday mother and set up.

Beneath the French and in the early soul of Syrian self-government after 1946, heavy and right Sunnis did not pine for to convene their sons utility in the armed forces. Their Alawite servants, quieten, recognizing the armed forces as a way to advance, trusty their Sunni masters to sign recommendations to allow the children of their Alawite servants be successful the armed forces. With time, the Alawites rose in the ranks. At last in 1966, they overthrew the existing order to took better the engine capacity, and convene subject it like.

A variety of of these armed forces officers, come up to their Christian counterparts, embraced Arab loyalty, perhaps eager immediate loyalty to benefit the equality that had eluded them in religion under the Sunni-dominated, organization. These officers did their best to put their non-Sunni identities excursion, and hoped - at times even demanded - that their Sunni fellow-Arabs do the fantastically.

As the Alawites rose in the armed forces, they next rose to top-quality positions in the Ba'ath Celebration, the basic paying guest of which is enlightened Arab loyalty. But even as enlightened anti-Israeli Arab nationalists, these Alawites still feared that the majority-Sunnis would lie in wait, and lunge on the Alawites if the Alawites showed any fallacy. The Alawites never sanctioned themselves lose that the Sunnis hated them; and that even still they restrained Syria, they had shatter come to an treaty with the leading Sunni families to undertake them with uniformity and call them to make money - in return for the Sunnis allowing the Alawites to shine the engine capacity militarily and next make money.

Participating in the alleged hush association in the middle of Syria and Israel, the Alawites, according to their own admittance, expected Sunnis - and not Alawites - to negotiate with the Israelis - so that Alawites would not to be thought chargeable if any concessions were through to the Israelis. The Alawites were greatest likely caught up that if they had pure in even ever so slightly to any Israeli requirements, the Sunnis would convene second hand that as an guard to excuse that the Alawites were not "true" Arabs.

A variety of Alawites convene assumed that the Arab-nationalist schedule of being renowned by the majority-Sunnis was predetermined. According to debate with relatives who convene absconder Syria, as well as visit still nearby, they feared, in their medium of hearts, that, fair has the Person in charge Syrian Person in charge Assad's grandfather had warned, doesn't matter what they did, the Sunnis would never regard them. For these Alawites, the slightly secret would be a bifurcate Alawite beg, or unique, while they may possibly shine their prospect and not be under the dreaded Sunni attach.

A variety of Alawites, who, barely, had yearn on the warpath Assad's unequivocal, are over, come up to Assad's grandfather in the 1930's, trying to put prominent the item of creating an detachable Alawite beg. Every day they can see surrounding them that Kindness Eastern culture sitting room a high help on revenge, so that the Sunnis would never explain them for having been ousted from power 46 soul ago. The Alawites would be knowledgeable to worry that doesn't matter what happens in Syria, the Sunnis request massacre them for having governed Syria and for having killed so visit Sunnis now the general war.

The supposition of submit thoroughly does not place in the Kindness East - one either wins or loses. Appeasement, being it invariably entails a deficient loss, is seemingly seen as bringing shame on oneself - to be avoided at all expenses. Syria's Alawite reign therefore doubtless sees no preference other than to summary prosecution the Sunni-dominated melancholy - which itself is succumbing to Turkish, Saudi, and Qatari-inspired Islamic fundamentalist deliver a verdict - and to try to ethnically bathe the Alawite areas of all Sunnis in the inclination of withdrawing to that sight with the help of further than allies - be they Iranians, Russians, or other non-Sunni Arabs in the sight - and barricading themselves in next to the Sunnis.

Hence, it is resolute to speculate any protection in which Syria armor a central and unified beg. One may possibly speculate go out of business separate regions, while the Alawites may possibly in due course shine their own prospect. Maybe other groups - such as the non-Arab Kurdish Sunnis in the north - weight next convene their own entities to surprise off the attach of Arab unequivocal. At all the last result, the Kurds know that their Sunni Arab neighbors, even still they all portion the fantastically standing, request never let bygones be bygones. Upright as the Muslims in whole are pitiless in pursuing Israel, they would never regard any secret while they do not in the end smack better the all-inclusive sight.

As a result, if nearby is ever to be some assemble of peace-like edict - albeit provisional - in what is Syria today, nearby is no way that Syria can prevent a central beg, with new rulers, whoever they weight be, who would detain to persecute other Syrians. Of all the ethnic and priestly groups in Syria, the Alawites convene the greatest to lose, which they by a long shot know and which is why they qualification convene shine better their own prospect. They would convene no preference other than to prevent well-armed; if not, the Sunnis would over smack them better and thing them to the slave-like house they had in the past.

Assad, therefore, cannot undergo in. He and the Alawites - whether they take or intention Assad - are prosecution for their very ghost. They slightly way to end this admiring war is to let them convene shine better their prospect - either as an separate area in Syria, or as an detachable unique. At all happens, they request insist that they prevent well-armed. They - come up to other minorities in the Kindness East - request detain to continue in eternal worry of the Arab Sunnis. As the supposition of overlooking past grievances is far-off to the culture of that area, true hush in the middle of the Alawites and the Arab Sunnis - or, for that be valid, Arab Sunnis and non-Arab Sunnis - is miserably out of the topic.

Equivalent TOPICS: Syria Harold Rhode

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