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The number 3 really is powerful in the Wiccan world, which is why so many of my spells utilize it. This one is no exception. You'll need to have:
* 3 slim red candles (the taper kind)
* Length of red yarn or string
* Rose oil
* Yarrow oil
* Lavender oil
* Something sharp to inscribe the candles.
Carve a heart with a little pentacle inside on all three candles. It doesn't need to be artistically perfect, just a rough symbol is fine. Anoint each candle with one of the oils, and then bundle them together with the yarn so that their symbols are all touching the the middle of the group. Tie the string in a bow and set them up in a candle holder or dish.
Light all three candles and repeat the following:
"Live, life, love"
"I ask from above,"
"Three times three"
"Bring them to me"
Let them burn down about a third of the way, and snuff them out. Then repeat again for the next 2 nights until the candles are done. You'll soon have a sign about someone new coming into your life for romance.
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The Vancouver Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are holding the friends and family of Jim Deva in our thoughts and prayers. Jim is one of the Saints of the Vancouver Sisters and earlier tonight we learned that he has died. We pray that the Nuns of the Above shower him in all the glitter and joy he can absorb. We pray that his family, friends and community are able to support one another during this time of loss and grief. We pray that our community will learn from Jim's presence and leadership to know that each of us can and must strive to continue to build our community and find ways to support those who struggle for freedom.
Jim was instrumental in our community's development and growth. He co-created safe space in which we were able to gather, learn and plan the revolution well before it was safe for us to gather. He, along with his partners at Little Sisters, stood up to the federal government to demand equal treatment for our literature and ourselves.
A brave man dies this week and the Sisters ask everyone to take a moment to send good thoughts to Jim on whatever this next part of his journey is and to all those who loved him that their healing after losing him may be as kind and gentle as possible. If you are so moved, please join us in lighting a candle to help guide Jim on his way.
Blessings and much love to each and everyone of you.
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This excerpt is from an interview in which retired, Unitarian minister Marilyn Sewell interviews New Atheist author Christoper Hitchens. Sometimes Hitch says things that are so obviously true that they form a sharp contrast to the usual blather about evil, materialism, the failings of religious leaders etc..
Let's listen in:
Sewell: "The religion you cite in your book is generally the fundamentalist faith of various kinds. I'm a liberal Christian, and I don't take the stories from the scripture literally. I don't believe in the doctrine of atonement (that Jesus died for our sins, for example). Do you make and distinction between fundamentalist faith and liberal religion?
Hitchens: I would say that if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you're really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.
Sewell: Let me go someplace else. When I was in seminary I was particularly drawn to the work of theologian Paul Tillich. He shocked people by describing the traditional God-as you might as a matter of fact-as, "an invincible tyrant." For Tillich, God is "the ground of being." It's his response to, say, Freud's belief that religion is mere wish fulfillment and comes from the humans' fear of death. What do you think of Tillich's concept of God?"
Hitchens: I would classify that under the heading of "statements that have no meaning-at all. Let's go someplace else" - I love that response. But just once, all together now, let's all say it: "Go Hitch! Preach it!"
HT to Rod Dreher and Kathyrn Jean Lopez
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"I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one-I in them and you in me-so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me." John 17:22-23
WE ARE NOT CREATED FOR OURSELVES.
It is this truth that leaves us feeling empty and void when choosing to live a life a part from God and His Spirit. We are created for oneness with God through the Holy Spirit and His indwelling within us. He desires nothing less than this and pursues us passionately, eagerly wanting to be one with us. (John 17:22)
Having a sense of absolute need for God and His presence is the most freeing experience one can have. The moment we die to ourselves and desire to live for God is when we truly begin living.
Submitting and yielding to the Holy Spirit doesn't mean a confined life. It's a life lived in the freedom of the power God has given us to live the life He directs and guides us to live.
We cannot pray an unselfish prayer without the Holy Spirit to pray through us. We cannot live a selfless life without the Holy Spirit living through us. We know this and have experienced it. When we live careless, irresponsible and self-seeking lives, we're unsatisfied and discontented.
As we submit to the Holy Spirit moment by moment, choice by choice, He comforts, guides and empowers us to live victoriously and according to His will. In the meantime, we begin to have a more intimate concept of God. Where we once found a limited view, we now see clearly the many resources offered to us by God and the confidence to come to Him abandoned with fervent reliance in His ultimate authority.
"Heavenly Father, I surrender myself to You. Make my life entirely yours. I desperately need You and Your presence In my life. Fill me with Your Spirit teaching me and guiding me in Your truth. Empower me to live as I give you all I am. Amen"
TAKE ACTION:
Luke 11:13 says that our Heavenly Father gives the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him. Ephesians 5:18 urges us to be filled with the Spirit. In whatever circumstances you are facing, ask God to fill you with His Spirit. He gives generously and desires to fill you! Learn more about Spirit-Filled living.
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Until You Walk the Path, You Don't Know where it Goes will be hosting medium and Shamanic Healer Derrick Whiteskycloud on April 4 at 5pm eastern.
Derrick is a Psychic/Medium, that makes himself available to the Spirit world to receive messages from those who have passed over to the other side. With the assistance of his spirit guide White Bear, he uses this gift to prove to all that life does exist after death.
As a Shamanic Healer Whiteskycloud teaches how to see through animal eyes, hear through animal ears. He educates others how to experience life though the senses thereby bringing humans back into balance with Earth Mother. He also instructs how the animals can become our teachers, our friends, and our companions. By listing to the wisdom they share, they show us the true feelings of life itself. They restore our forgotten past by searching into cultures, dreams, and the realities of truth and peace within. We have separated ourselves from the elements and from the Earth Mother. Using intellect with the rhythm of the drum, the heart beat of the Earth Mother, is to walk in balance.
Derrick Whiteskycloud's website address is
Tune at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theresachaze on April 4 at 5:00 pm eastern to learn more about Shamanic healing and receive a reading from medium Derrick Whiteskycloud. The phone lines and chat will be available for those who wish to ask Whiteskycloud questions. The phone number is (347) 324-3745. The interactive chat room is available on the show's pageTheresa Chaze has been described as the woman who plays with dragons, especially the dragons of the mind. She leads her readers to magical realms and others worlds. Her work is based on her philosophy that all peoples can live together in peace as long as we come from respect, not only for ourselves but those who follow different paths or beliefs. Her work has been compared to Marion Zimmer Bradley and Anne McCaffrey with an adult version of Harry Potter mixed in.
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"Who are you (or "Hu R U" in text!)?" asked the Caterpillar of Alice in "Through the Looking Glass". Many of you are now deep into the process of discovering the answer that Alice was seeking.Today, several of us, as ascended masters, angelic beings and divine mentors have joined together to address you through our scribe:I AM Sanat Kumara, Planetary Logos, also known affectionately as "Raj" by many.
We are the Angelic Legions of the Divine Mother.We are the Pleiadian Council of Nine.We are the Divine Mother and Father.We are You, part of your Multidimensional nature, which you are now in the process of rediscovering and opening up to the realization that you are greater than you know.We have joined together to address our brothers and sisters through this scribe as part of her own mission to know herself better.
While well aware of some of her own spiritual roots, she has been unwilling to reveal much to her readers. Now has come the time to speak of many things, not just of a personal level, but a Universal level.Each of you is in the process of returning to Source. Why? Creator has instilled his creation with the desire to be in Oneness.
For some time, this has not been the case; many worlds, universes, creations and individuals have, shall we say, strayed from the original blueprint and far into darkness and separation. And so Creator has sent forth brave ones, volunteers all, to work in these distant fields to act as wayshowers, to bring awareness back to those who notice them, in whatever light, positive or negative, that joining into oneness is possible for anyone to accomplish, no matter how lost they currently feel.
Our scribe has been undergoing the process of "getting to know yourself" as described and guided through the work of Jim Self, long one of our guides and mentors, taught by Archangels and Masters. This is one approach to coming into Oneness, but only one; there are many and each individual needs to discover what method or direction suits their own individual needs.
All of you are unique and precious to Creator; all of you are now discovering just how unique and amazing you truly are. To some the revelations will be overwhelming at first, and then others will be quite accepting and also blas'e about their discoveries. And still others will be secretive, at least at first, because they do not yet trust themselves or those around them to understand completely what has been revealed or why.
We ask nothing of yourselves that you are unwilling to give at this time, only to look dispassionately at what your heart tells you, what is shown to you through dreams and visions, what you feel through your body, what is revealed to you in moments of "aha", as you piece together disparate bits of information into a complete picture...
A new you is being revealed.Our scribe has noticed what has been explained by Jim Self in his latest energy update (August 2013) as a removal of certain levels of frequency, a detachment from the need or ability to emotionally react to some happening in daily life that would have earlier created a disturbance in her emotional body, creating another thought form to be stored in her unconscious to be dealt with at a later date.
This detachment, while deemed by some to be a lack of response or coolness in her nature, is a godsend now as the agitation in the world around her increases. She is now able to watch the gyrations of the minions of the departing paradigm with equanimity; these oppressors are now struggling to retain their control over the people and are attempting all kinds of acts of oppression and aggression to push through their agenda.
It is not working anymore as the energy has shifted and the structures that once held together the rigid paradigm of the third dimension have been removed. All the flailing about is pointless, but will be done by these stubborn ones until they, too, realize that change is inevitable and that their time is done.
For the lightworkers to be drawn into the drama of the departing paradigm is not the solution, either, for to place attention and focus on these dark energies is to strengthen their remaining hold on society and the individual. One must learn to be observant, compassionate and removed, focusing instead on the golden vision of the inner heart and connection with soul; the I AM Presence and Creator.
Through the Law of Attraction, what is focused upon will emerge into your life and hers. It is universal law and above all those created by those who wish to control the actions and lives of others for their own benefit. So be willing to forgive those who have worked against you throughout your many lives on this planet and others, and to move on into your own dream of bringing heaven to earth.
It can be done; it is being done by many who have learned to focus on what gives them joy and can offer abundance and healing for the collective of humanity, not just their own pocketbook.Now has come a time of letting go of what is not yours, what has never been yours. It is up to each of you to identify just what constitutes those things that have been put forward by others in your life as being the way to do things, what to believe, how to act, who to trust, who to hate.
All of you have been affected by the administrations and belief systems of your elders, mentors, teachers and bosses, to one extent or another. However, as the energies shift and change, the new children coming into the world and many who are here already as Indigos, blue-ray beings, crystals, walk-in volunteers, starseeds and other various titles, these individuals do not resonate with the old energies and so they rebel or walk away from what has been placed before them as the way things have always been and seek another direction, one quite divergent from that of their parents and teachers.
The children understand that there is another way to be, to follow; so they go their own way because of their different "wiring". They have come in with bodies that naturally respond to higher frequency levels and so they can adapt to and demand that others change, as well. For them the process is easy and quite natural.
This ability to shift with the incoming energies and shifts is not quite so apparent in the older generations still living on this planet. Our scribe is one who came in soon after the last great world war; she took on some of the decades of energetic healing of karmic patterns and lines that many of her compatriots did, but in a mostly unconscious manner.
She just knew that things weren't right or comfortable for her, so a great search for meaning was undertaken quietly, moving her away from the paradigm of her parents, and eventually quite away from her entire family. She has lived a solitary life for many years now out of choice, realizing that she needed to focus on her own inner growth and not respond to the needs of others in the manner which was the existing and unsatisfying paradigm of her own mother.
Perhaps her actions were deemed suspicious and selfish by some, but she was driven by a deep inner desire to understand what was going on, outside and within. The process for her is still ongoing, but now there is an increasing acceptance of her inner power, strength and determination to be reunited with her Soul and with Creator.
With this acceptance also comes a sense of peace despite all that is continuing to play out in the world around her. This is a journey that is being undertaken by many individuals, each in their own way, and is beginning to be reflected in changes manifesting in the outer world, as the "people" come awake to the need to change what has been accepted and put forward by the few to control the many to what can be accepted by the many and is for the good of all.
It is up to each individual to arrive at that place when they can accept and learn to love themselves, as they are, not as they hope to be, but as they are here and now. And they will begin to discover just how truly wonderful and astounding that knowledge can be, even if they now see themselves as being quite simple and plain on the surface.
No one is what they appear to be; all are part of creation, facets of the great diamond of Being and in the process of being buffed and polished by events in daily life, by opportunities and promptings to expand horizons and sense of Self. Respond to these promptings as you see yourself guided and learn to trust the process.
You are in control; you just may not be aware of that fact, yet, mainly because you are not quite aware of Who you are.You will discover that paradox will be quite apparent as you continue to grow towards self-realization. Paradox allows for people to change. What is true of a person or an event one day, may not hold true the next.
Perhaps someone hurt you in the past. Will you hold that against them until the day you breathe your last breath or can you forgive yourself and them for what has happened and allow them to reveal how they have changed or not. You do not have to give in to another; just be compassionate and understanding.
You act as mirrors to one another and reflect back what has not been dealt with. As bluffing agents, your "enemies" act to bring your attention to what has not been released from your own unconsciousness. How you react to their actions or not can give you a sense of just how far you have come in the process of forgiving yourself for acts of omission or commission.
What upsets you today as someone commits an atrocity "out there" is something that you, yourself, may have committed in another lifetime or even this one. You need to forgive "them" and yourself and move on. These acts are still being committed by those who hate themselves so desperately that they believe by hurting others they will regain a sense of control and power over their own lives.
Of course they are seriously deranged in thinking so, but even the worst murderer or child rapist can change, can find redemption in the "lord" if they can forgive themselves and learn to love what they are now, a child of the Creator. Can you do any less than the angels and forgive that one as the Creator does every day, every moment, knowing full well what that individual truly is already?
Can you forgive yourself? Can you learn to love your loneliness and the traits that drive you from being able to live with others? Can you learn to accept that what you deem as weaknesses and character faults within may truly be your most precious gifts and strengths that you can place on the altar of Being?
As the velocity of change quickens in the world, through the avenues of extreme weather, social upheavals, economic and political changes, as well as upsets caused by the now daily revelations of what has been hidden from the general populace by their governments, religious institutions, by corporations and powerful individuals, each person is undergoing a process of initiation into mastery.
Many are unprepared and will leave as the paradigms shift and the frequency levels of the planet continue to rise. This exodus is well underway already; it can be seen in an increase in the death statistics, whether through natural causes or through violence and social upheaval. Do not feel that the ones leaving have failed, however, as each individual has a path to follow.
When one leaves the body, one can adjust the patterns and make another attempt at mastering the energies and demands of physical embodiment, which is so much more challenging than many beings existing in the higher frequencies, truly understand.You are the brave ones, who have taken on the job of bringing a planet back into alignment with the Will of the Creator; it is not an easy task and will take some time to come into full manifestation, but the light is increasing in this world.
The new world will come into being; it exists already in your Heart of hearts. Each individual who leaves will come back to fulfill their mission or choose to fulfill it from the worlds of light, as they are so guided. Do not fear for your loved ones who do not appear to be awake yet; they will not be left behind even if they appear to forsake you and your efforts to go forth into the New World, now.
If you are meant to work together, you will, but you cannot force change on another against their will. Let them be what they are. They will discover what lies within soon enough.Be the process of change that you want to see happen in the world. Focus on what is your dream, your passion, your joy and bring it into manifestation.
It is not your duty to correct what is broken. The energies of change will scour and remove that which is not suitable for the continuation of life from the world. This planet is undergoing her own path of initiation and return to her Christic plane of being; what vibrates at a lower level is being removed, naturally.
What already exists within her and within each individual will eventually manifest in the physical. This process is already underway. See the world with the eyes of a child, filled with excitement and wonder, free of cynical judgment, alive to the possibilities and delights of physical existence. Your world is a wonder of creation and you are, too.
Discover the joys of life on a beautiful planet, made even more beautiful by your focused thoughts and visions of heaven on earth. You are a part of the Creator made manifest. Bring your most beautiful dreams and passions into reality. You have the power within; learn to harness it for the good of all creation.
Be what you are meant to be, a beautiful, powerful being of light.Go gently into the new day that approaches you as a dawn flushing the skies of your world. Go forth in wonder and create in joy. You are human angels, drawn into manifestation by the Mother and empowered with grace and spirit by the Father.
You are their hands; create in the fields of the Lord and learn to sing, again, with angels and elementals. We stand at your side, guiding, mentoring and giving encouragement when needed, but you are the masters. Go forth and act accordingly. We truly love you as you are, here and now.Namaste; we bow to the Divinity within each of you.
Copyright (c) 2012-13 by Elizabeth Ayres Escher. All Rights Reserved. Permission is given to copy and distribute this material, provided the content is copied in its entirety and unaltered, is distributed freely, and this copyright notice and links are included.
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"Luminous Beings are we...not this crude matter." Yoda to Luke in "The Empire Strikes Back"
"It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.'" Jesus to the devil in Matthew 4:4
It is perhaps not mere coincidence that these two lines resonate for me. Presuming that the Hero's life follows a common pattern, note that Yoda speaks on the wild planet of Dagoba, where Luke has gone to train under the great Jedi master. It is here that he is tempted: he fails. He fails to recognize Yoda; he fails to lift his ship; he fails the trial at the cave; he fails to live with the tempting vision of his friends and leaves with his training incomplete. In the gospels, Jesus speaks in the wilderness of Judea, where he is fasting and being tempted by the devil. There is a certain parallel between the journeys of the two heroes. It's been widely discussed that Lucas was, at some point, strongly influenced by Joseph Campbell. Taking theories like Campbell's, or the earlier attempt by Lord Raglan, one must proceed with caution. The specific details of a hero's journey are at least as significant as the broad pattern in which any Hero's journey falls. In the crafting of a heroic journey, one must ask not only about the path, but the destination, whether in the telling of a story or in the living of a life.
More important than Campbell's influence, Campbell was influenced by Jung. Yoda's retort to Luke when he doubts his ability to use the Force to pull his ship out of the bog is, perhaps, Lucas' objection to a strict materialism that is tempting to many in our time. This calls to mind the attraction of Jung to gnosticism. Though always objecting that he was forming his psychology on an empirical basis, Jung clearly valued something metaphysical beyond its physical ties and manifestations: the Self. Is the Self beyond bodies? Expressed in bodies? Or is it hidden and trapped in bodies?
The assertion as it stands gives us a classic case of the false dichotomy: either we are "matter" or we are "not-matter" (candidates here are such as spirit, soul, or mind). If our essence is matter, then we turn to the lower tiers of Maslow's hierarchy: matter calleth unto matter. If our essence is not-matter, then we must look beyond the material realm for a meta-motivation to satisfy the human heart, as for example Augustine of Hippo does in his Confessions. But gnosticism tended and tends to make an absolute dichotomy between crude matter and the true essence of humanity, unlike classical forms of Christianity which posit a union between matter and spirit. So the one that Christians take for the divine Logos incarnate does not say that human beings do not live by bread, but that they do not live by bread "alone". There's a struggle between the two to be sure, but it is not a struggle that is to result in the elimination of matter. There must be cooperation and even a transformative union between the two for traditional Christian systems to work. Maybe Lucas moves closer to this position in the later prequel trilogy, where he creates a physical correlate for the Force: the midichlorians. Maybe he was already struggling in that direction with all his talk of the immanent Force: "Here, between you...me...the tree...the rock...everywhere! Yes, even between this land and that ship!" And yet, are we betrayed back to body-denying gnosticism by the ghostly specters of the dead Jedi at the end of "Return of the Jedi"? It is hard to be sure.
The key issue is this: Does the "agon" of the hero overcome crude matter in favor of the divine spark trapped within it? Does the hero strive against the illusion of something other than matter? Or does the hero strive for some kind of synthesis between the divine and the mundane?
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Because I was addressing rather specific matters in my sermon for my congregation, and had not posted last year's Septuagesima sermon, I posted the 2006 sermon on Saturday, Feb. 3rd, 2007. I had forgotten to remove the mention I made of the fact that in some places people were still singing the Gloria. This created some misunderstanding. First of all, the mention was not an endorsement, neither was it an innovative bit of liturgist self styled rubrics. Neither did we do so ourselves.
When I arrived in Fountain Hills Az., it was clear that the priest who had founded the Church of the Atonement was rather self-styled, and flew a few of his ideas under the radar. One of the results of his ministry was that he left behind a group of people who wanted to be Low Church. The problem is, the APCK simply does not do Low Church. Upon dropping the Gloria on Septuagesima in 2006, I thought it best to mention it, so that they would know that nothing was forgotten (in recent years the ECUSA has stopped doing the Pre-Lenten season in any significant way, and these people had left the new and thoroughly morphed ECUSA a few years before).
ROOM FOR LOW AND HIGH CHURCH?
In the year since, I have not been teaching my people all the fine points of High Church rubrics, but rather the depth of Catholic Theology, without which High Churchmanship is just a show. Now that they appreciate the Catholic Theology of the Anglican Province of Christ the King, High Churchmanship is simply expected- expected as a result of understanding, not as a result of mere taste, or legalism. We still have a bit of travelling to do, but the progress is obvious.
As I said, the APCK does not do Low Church. This may sound like a scandalous thing to say, as far as some people are concerned. But, we all need to ask how practical, how honest and how peaceful it is to attempt to fit two churches (at least) with two theologies, under the same roof. Has it ever really worked? Archbishop Morse has been quite clear from the start, that the Elizabethan Settlement is a failed experiment. This is quite true.
In the early to mid Twentieth Century, Anglo-Catholicism had made such a strong mark that the Church of England, on behalf of the Anglican Communion everywhere, was engaged in serious efforts at reunion with Rome, and at becoming one Church with the Orthodox, both at the same time. But, when the forces of revisionist Theology began to prevail, a Protestant paradigm had to become dominant, effectively killing the meaning of those earlier efforts. This was necessary in order to allow women's "ordination" and everything else that followed. A strict belief in the Church as an extension of Christ's Incarnation, guided into all truth by the Holy Spirit, gives authority (as it must) to Tradition. But, Protestantism has no fixed interpretations, no authoritatve doctrine, except whatever I think the Bible says, and whatever I feel led by the Spirit to do.
The Affirmation of St. Louis calls us to the Catholic Faith. To live by it, we cannot try to be a house divided, even one divided with good manners. It simply does not work.
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The London Mind Body Soul exhibition is returning this autumn and is promising to be an even bigger event with more variety than previous years.
The three-day festival is a great way to experience new things. On offer is an eclectic collection of complementary health, spiritual awareness, and personal development. The Experience Zone will be running sessions throughout the three-days giving visitors a chance to try out Vocal TaiChi, Belly Dancing, Nia, Capoeira and Salsa.
There are also over 150 exhibitors with things to entice all five senses - to see, feel, hear, smell and taste the rich diversity on offer from fairies to food blenders, runes to raw chocolate.
MBS organiser Julie Saunders said: "The MBS show offers an experience like no other with the aim of helping visitors to develop a healthy mind, healthy body and healthy soul. Visitors will be taking away new ideas and ancient wisdom and leave with a spring in their step."
From Latin rhythm, to sultry sitar, the multi-cultural assortment of entertainment on stage will also be interesting. And there will be plenty of space to unwind, relax, refresh and renew as well as plenty of hot and cold healthy food options available.
What's more, you get two shows for the price of one. This year visitors to the Mind Body Soul Experience will also have the opportunity to enter the OM Yoga Show for free. The two shows are being held at the same time in adjoining Olympia Halls - this means that visitors will be able to visit two shows with a ticket to one!
Entry details:
The London Mind Body Soul Experience is on 25, 26 and 27 October at Olympia Central (Level 1), London. Opening Times: Friday 25th October 11am - 6pm, Saturday 26th 10am - 6pm, Sunday 27th October 10am - 5pm. Admission: 1 Day Pass Adult lb12, Concession lb10, Children (under 16) free. If you book early online you can save money. For details visit mbsevents.co.uk.
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These are essentially items that act as mini-spells housed in an object or a combination of objects, all of which are easily carried around. Much depends on what value, if any, the bearer associates with the object. All get their power from a combination of symbolic value attributed to the item(s), the faith, belief and energy provided by the User and Creator.
Typical components used in Amulets, Charms, Fetishes and Talismans are metals, stones, plants, fabric, candle wax, pins, fruit, coins, and anything else of symbolic value. These can be as simple as merely carrying around a coin, feather or piece of metal to creating something as elaborate as a Dream Catcher or taking more time to handcraft.
Often, depending on the tradition or the source, there are certain requirements or taboos when making such items; such as abstaining from food or sexual activity for a time or it has to be made on a certain day; this was/is done for the sake of purifying one's spirit or to help put them into the proper frame of mind for doing magick.
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AMULETS, CHARMS, FETISHES AND TALISMANS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
* AN AMULET is typically thought of as being worn such as a necklace or ring.
* A CHARM is most often quickly spoken words or a quick gesture. Magical words, phrases, chants, incantations, inscriptions, and actions which can be used separately or in combination to make a charm. However, this does not hold true to the full definition of a charm. According to the dictionary, a charm is: "Something worn to ward off evil or ensure good luck. "Any formula or action supposed to have magical power."
* FETISHES are often thought to be small objects of a magical nature, often worn or displayed.
* A TALISMAN can be nearly anything that is thought to bring good luck or provide protection, but it is most often an object. Often, a talisman is worn on the body or kept in a pocket. Children will sometimes pocket a smooth stone that might serve as a talisman over time.
See Magickal Items and Their Uses for a wide variety of magickal items and their uses in amulets, talismans, in mojo bags and etc
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Posted by Christine Pack
The following is a partial transcript of a response Dr. John Piper of Bethlehem Baptist Church gave in answer to the question "WHAT SHOULD WE TEACH ABOUT CREATION?"
"WHEN IT COMES TO THE MORE CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES, SUCH AS HOW TO CONSTRUE GENESIS 1 AND 2, ABOUT HOW GOD DID IT, AND HOW LONG IT TOOK HIM TO DO IT, THERE I'M TOTALLY SYMPATHETIC WITH A PASTOR WHO IS GONNA LAY HIS VIEW DOWN, HAVING STUDIED IT, AND IS GONNA SAY TO HIS PEOPLE, "HERE'S MY UNDERSTANDING OF THOSE CHAPTERS, THESE SIX DAYS, THERE CAN'T BE ANY OTHER UNDERSTANDING OF 6 LITERAL DAYS, AND SO THAT'S HOW LONG GOD TOOK TO DO IT, AND THIS EARTH IS ABOUT TEN OR FIFTEEN THOUSAND YEARS OLD, OR THIS UNIVERSE IS. AND THOUGH IT LOOKS OLD, THAT'S THE WAY GOD MADE IT, HE MADE IT TO LOOK OLD, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT." OR, HE MIGHT TAKE ANOTHER VIEW THAT THESE DAYS ARE "AGES." OR HE MIGHT TAKE SAILHAMMER'S VIEW, WHICH IS WHERE I FEEL AT HOME, NAMELY, THAT ALL OF CREATION HAPPENED TO PREPARE THE LAND FOR MAN IN VERSE 1. (IN THE) BEGINNING, HE MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, THAT'S EVERYTHING, AND THEN YOU GO DAY BY DAY AND HE'S PREPARING THE LAND. HE'S NOT BRINGING NEW THINGS INTO EXISTENCE, HE'S PREPARING THE LAND AND CAUSING NEW THINGS TO GROW, SEPARATING OUT WATER AND EARTH, AND THEN WHEN IT'S ALL SET AND PREPARED, HE CREATES AND PUTS MAN THERE. AND SO THAT HAS THE ADVANTAGE OF SAYING THAT THE EARTH IS BILLIONS OF YEARS OLD, IF IT WANTS TO BE, AND WHATEVER SCIENCE SAYS IT IS, IT IS. But, man is young, and he was good, and he sinned, and he was a real historical person because Romans 5 says so, and so does the rest of the Bible. And so that's where I am, and I think every pastor ought to go ahead and say what he believes...But I could be wrong about that, I'm 63 years old and I've never preached through Genesis yet. I'd like to. We're gonna finish (the Gospel of) John, and maybe the next thing I'll turn to, if the elders let me stay around that long, would be Genesis. I really think it would...we need to give our people help in this." (my emphasis)
With all due respect to Dr. Piper, who strikes me as genuinely sincere and humble when he talks about not having preached through Genesis (and by implication, meaning he doesn't have deeply felt convictions on the issue of young earth/old earth), I think it would be good for him to avail himself of some of the very scholarly resources on young earth creation that have come around only in the last few years: chiefly, Answers in Genesis and Institute for Creation Research.
Both of these relatively new ministries are chock full of scientific data in support of a young earth, which not coincidentally, supports the common sense reading of Genesis. From the interview above, it sounds as if Dr. Piper is unaware of these ministries, and so I would urge Dr. Piper to check into these resources. We don't have to "buy" old earth and find a way to make it make sense, just because, as Dr. Piper said, "whatever science says it is, it is." These ministries are filled with scientists who have studied the evidences for and against young earth within their particular fields of expertise - archaeology, biology, chemistry, astronomy, physics, etc. - and have come away with the conviction that young earth is the most plausible explanation for the state of the earth today. It's very exciting to me to have access to great articles, But putting aside the science for a moment, and coming at this from a strictly biblical angle, how would an "old earther" account for all the evidence of death contained in the fossil record - which presumably would have pre-dated the death that came as a result of Adam's sin in the Garden? For the Bible tells us that it was by THIS sin (in the Garden) that death and suffering came into the world. So what do you do with Romans 5:12 if you're an evolutionary Darwinian Christian? It doesn't work. Why? Because the fossil record is filled - loaded - with evidence of death that, from the Christian point of view, would be a contradiction to Scripture, which plainly tells us that death came into the world as a result of Adam's sin.
Hmmm, it's almost as if God intentionally placed a great big spotlight on the very first death recorded in Scripture...but why? Well, the first death that came as a result of Adam's sin was the death of the animal God used to cover Adam and Eve's shame. Now, it's hard to imagine what Adam might have felt as he watched this animal die. He loved all the animals, he was their caretaker, he had given them their names. And now, he was watching one of them die as a result of HIS sin. I wonder if he even had an understanding of what he was seeing, as this beloved animal gasped its last, the life draining from its eyes while Adam watched. He had never seen death before. I wonder if he even knew the finality of what was happening in front of him. Perhaps it was at this point that he began to grasp the seriousness of his sin...
Now think of this in the context of the evolutionary Darwinian view: how big of a deal would the death of the animal used to clothe Adam and Eve have been? It would have had very little importance, it would have been just another death among the millions of deaths that came before it, attested to by the fossil record. But I would submit that God placed a great big spotlight on this first death because its spiritual significance was staggering: the first death was but a dim shadow of the salvation that was to come through Christ, "the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world," whose death would make propitiation for wicked men, and would "cover" their sins, making all who would repent and believe righteous in the eyes of God.
Thankfully, because of the ministries of Answers in Genesis and the Institute for Creation Research, we no longer have to shut down our critical thinking faculties on this topic...we now have science, "genuine science," confirming for us what we have had to take on faith for many years while the scientific community berated us as being village idiots for daring to entertain the idea of young earth creationism.
My hope and prayer is that, by availing himself of the resources linked above, Dr. Piper will rethink his position on old earth and the contradictory nature of the fossil record. Many eyes are on him, and as a leader, his teaching is held to a higher standard.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Nazarene Professor Calls Creationists Cult Members
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Many Hindu's will be celebrating Maha Shivaratri tonight as reported on by the BBC:
"Mahashivratri (also known as Shivaratri) is a Hindu festival dedicated to Shiva, who destroys the universe, one of the deities of the Hindu Trinity.
Night and day
While most Hindu festivals are celebrated during the day, Mahashivratri is celebrated during the night and day that come just before the new moon.
Each new moon is dedicated to Shiva, but Mahashivratri is especially important because it is the night when he danced the 'Tandav', his cosmic dance.
It also celebrates the wedding of Shiva and Sati, the mother divine. Night represents evil, injustice, ignorance, sin, violence, and misfortune.
Tradition says that Shiva, like his symbol the new moon, appeared in order to save the world from darkness and ignorance, before the world entered complete darkness."...(Cont.)...
Here is more information on Mahashivratri
CELEBRATE SHIVARATRI 2010 ON 12TH FEBRUARY
MAHA SHIVARATRI - WIKIPEDIA
ABOUT MAHA SHIVARATRI
12TH FEB: MAHA SHIVARATRI 2010
and on Lord Shiva
SHIVA - WIKIPEDIA,
LORD SHIVA
Source: http://esoteric-soup.blogspot.com
The temptation to Platonize "man," to vie for an transcendental 'essence' that escapes the becoming of empirical reality, the temporal nature of what might be called 'knowledge,' always seems lurking, either in plain sight or in the shadows. The danger is, that in the other-ness of self relation necessitated by the ever fluctuating empirical world, "man" might be destroyed or erased. And such strikes to the ego are experientially intolerable; hence the institutional revolt(s) inspired by Copernicus, Newton, Darwin, and co.
Such blows are nothing new; what might be signaling the death of postmodernism is the transition, with 'science' as taskmaster, back into metaphysics. Now, prior to this, post-structuralism had already rendered such existentialist-grounded notions as 'alienation' largely passe, there being no univocal 'self' to be alienated. But, the new metaphysicians, these naturalists, have declared that, by and large, postmodern continentalism only went halfway, when exceeding the boundaries of normality became too radical, a kind of reactionary spirit injected itself into the varying discourses absent apperceptiveness.
This is how R. Scott Bakker summarizes the matter: (from his blog, Three Pound Brain...a special thanks to "MICHAEL S. PEARL" for the introduction)
"You see science overthrowing the self, troubling the subject, and you see confirmation, when what you should worry about is the trend. You never pause to consider in your celebrations of fragmentation the possibility that everything is broken all the way down, that with the subject goes meaning and morality and so on. You need to realize that your noocentrism could be of a piece with biocentrism and geocentrism, that in essence, you're simply stamping your feet...
Everywhere it seems, there is a breaking ranks towards a revitalized scientific realism: science tells us how the world, in fact, is and all is not well in the garden of what Bakker calls 'transcendental pollyanna atavism.' Amazing! This same individual (humorously) references phenomenology as "a form of philosophical anosognosia".
Hence, perhaps the true death of postmodernism: scientific realism. And nothing 'unsophisticated' a la the Sokal Affair. Ray Brassier, Quentin Meillassoux, Graham Harman, even Nick Land cannot be accused of ignorance relative to the varying antirealisms qua postmodernism. Now, in an interesting interview Ray Brassier stated the following, he asserts that the:
"fundamental issue facing contemporary philosophy: how does human experience fit into the world described by science? Contemporary philosophers can be sorted into two basic camps: in the first, there are those who want to explain science in terms of human experience; in the second, there are those who want to explain human experience in terms of science."
Brassier contends that as the explanatory reductionism via science continues, it is sheer "panglossian" to insist that, in light of the coming conceptual revolution, we will remain "human;" he does not think it wise to engage in the contemporary attempts at reenchanting the world, instead, the ramifications of science and entailing experiential reductionism should be pushed to its limits, a nihilism without bounds.
Intentionality itself may be completely illusory, causally inert.
Bakker calls noocentrism a kind of "magic." Worse still (in some circles), "the bonfire of the humanities has begun."
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I almost got aggressive last night and did some serious magick against someone. Like I said last night, I just don't do that sort of thing often. I settled for sealing her words that they harm me not.
In a nut shell, I did the following:
* First Degree Opening as outlined in John Michael Greer's Circles of Power
* Used my rainbow wand to invoke Saturn using the divine names of the planet
* Got nervous. Over what, I have no idea.
* I rolled up her email that started the problem and tied six strings, one for each direction around her words.
* I made the mistake of cutting 3 inch strings to correspond with the number of Saturn. This made them hard to tie and the knot dubious.
* I followed that mistake by using the wax from my one black candle to 'glue' the threads in place. This resulted in wax falling on my candle holder which in turn made it no longer a flat surface. You guessed it, I have black wax on my temple floor. Did I mention it has a white carpet?
* With each string, I said "I seal the words of X so they do me no harm, may they find nothing but a dark ever rolling abyss formless luminous and void."
* The normal banishings followed.
I take the wax spill and nervousness to mean that I still have a frustration issue to do deal with. Actually, it isn't even that, everyone gets frustrated at work. I just need to do so quieter.
At the meeting today, which included her boss. I looked good. She took a shot but it sounded pathetic. No one said a word to her comment, her words fell flat.
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Neopagan without a doubt, by the inclusion of Aphrodite and a request to be together "within this lifetime" (as if even Ancient Greeks believed in reincarnation.) It uses the Gamache style traveling candle ritual.
Equipment Needed:
Two candles: One white, One in your favorite color
Two candle holders
A rose colored altar cloth
A piece of red chalk
Timing:
This love spell can be performed at any time. I usually find that the evening is the best. When your mind is clear and open, hold the candle of your favorite color: this represents you. Meditate, then speak aloud all the qualities and energies you are willing to bring to an intimate relationship. Replace that candle on the altar, and pick up the white one. This represents your ideal partner. Speak aloud the essential qualities you desire in a mate, and ask Aphrodite to bring you together in this lifetime.
Now place the two candles in their holders at opposite ends of the altar. Draw a heart on the center with the red chalk, large enough for both candle holders. Each day thereafter, meditate on the perfect loving relationship for a few minutes, and move the two candles an inch close together. If you started on the new moon, then by full moon the candles should be touching in the center of the heart. When they meet, draw two more hearts around the first one, raise energy by singing your favorite love song, and charge the candles.
This spell was found at Everything Under the Moon.
Reference: http://master-of-tarot.blogspot.com
It is a verse that all of us who are involved in apologetics have grown to love and cherish. 1 Peter 3:15 is the New Testament's mandate for being always ready to offer a rational defense for the Christian worldview. It is unfortunate, however, that we have come to be so familiar with this verse that we miss its full significance, for the text teaches far more than the need to provide a defense of the faith.
This is best seen when read in the context of verse 14 which precedes it. Here's the text of 1 Peter 3:14-16. Take particular note of the underlined text.
"But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
"Verse 14 in fact contains a quotation (the underlined text) from Isaiah 8:12, in which we read, "Do not call conspiracy all that this people call conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread." Verse 15 of 1 Peter 3 continues the quotation into verse 13 of Isaiah 8, but with a subtle change.
Isaiah 8:13 reads, "But the Lord of hosts, him you shall honor as holy." Compare this to the start of 1 Peter 3:15: "...but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy." Peter has replaced "the Lord of hosts" from Isaiah 8:13 with "Christ the Lord", asserting that it is "He" whom we are to regard as Holy.
In so doing, the Apostle Peter has here effectively identified Jesus as being of the same essence as Yahweh, another Biblical proof of the deity of Christ.
Source: http://candle-magic.blogspot.com
Or:
A CULT OF ME
I was wandering around my local library, when I spied with my little eye, a book entitled 'The Cult of Ra'
As many may surmise, I am somewhat simpatico with the name, as my initials are the same. When I originally took the title, the Reluctant Atheist, I had no idea people would be abbreviating it. Hence, it was inadvertent.
While a cult following would be nice, I've never been much of a leader. I've worked management before, and hated it, because I had a no-nonsense, you're-an-adult attitude towards people. In short, I was an asshole. Unless the job description says 'babysitter', unless I'm dealing with children (I happen to be wonderful with kids, BTW), you get three explanations and that's about it (unless I'm teaching Tai Chi: that's WAY harder than most items to learn, trust you me).
Onwards.
Anyways, began leafing through the book. Paraphrasing here: "Ra is the Egyptian god who is said to have created himself." Needless to say, THAT raised an eyebrow. Also: "Ra is said to be contained within all things." (again, paraphrased).
From: Sacred texts - "in the XVIIth Chapter he says: "I am Tem in his rising. I was the ONLY ONE [when] I came into existence in Nenu (or Nu). I am Ra when he rose for the first time. I am the GREAT GOD WHO CREATED HIMSELF [FROM] NENU, and who made his names to become the gods of his company."
Any of this sounding at least semi-familiar?
From here: "From the fifth dynasty (ca. 2400 BC) onward he was elevated to the status of a national deity, and much later was combined with the Theban god Amun to become "Amun-Ra", the foremost deity of the Egyptian pantheon."
Also, same source: "RA (sometimes spelled R^e) is the sun-god of Heliopolis in ancient Egypt. "Ra "originally meant "mouth" in the Egyptian language, and was a reference to his creation of the deities of the Ogdoad system, excluding the 8 concepts which created him, by the power of speech (compare how Yahweh was said to have created the world). In later Egyptian dynastic times, Ra was subsumed into the god Horus, as RE-HORAKHTY (and many variant spellings)."
Fascinating.
Compare the dating from here: "Hyksos [Egyptian,=rulers of foreign lands], invaders of ancient Egypt, now substantiated as the XV-XVIII dynasties. They were a northwestern Semitic (Canaanite or Amorite) people who entered Egypt sometime between 1720 and 1710 B.C. and subdued the pharaohs of the Middle Kingdom."
(For those of you who may get confused: pre-CE, dates are counted forwards: so 1710-1720 came LATER than 2400. 'Salright, I get it mixed up on occasion)
I am of course making a case for parallelism here. Since there is no archeological proof of the Exodus (or that THREE MILLION people wandered the desert for set amount of years), it's fairly obvious that the Hyksos took and held Egypt for approximately a century, and then were ousted, taking with them a flavoring of said culture.
Of course, being that there's a STRONG ORAL CULTURE that precludes there being any records whatsoever (in the case of the Israelites, that is), history is very much a game of speculation and conjecture. The Egyptians were, on the other hand, "fanatical "about recording everything, down to particular minutiae.
So, in short, the Hyksos borrowed from Egypt. Other constructs borrowed from are Sumerian, Babylonian, etc. I will address these on separate occasions.
So feel free to worship me, an it please you.
Be prepared, however, to be yanked off your knees, and have your feet planted on Terra Firma.
I am just a man.
Worship no one, no thing.
Be free.
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I just wrote a post on two reasons why you should go on a short-term mission trip.
The two reasons are:
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SHORT TERM MISSION TRIPS TEACH YOU TO PRAY (AND LISTEN).
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SHORT TERM MISSION TRIPS EXPOSE YOU TO GODS KINGDOM.
When you step into a world of need in which spiritual things are much more present and evident than we sometimes care to admit in America, you are forced to depend on God in new ways.
On a mission trip, everything GROWS:
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Your prayer life grows.
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Your dependence on God grows.
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Your compassion grows.
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Your sensitivity grows.
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Your questions grow.
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Your passion grows.
And everything CHANGES:
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Your priorities change.
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Your focus changes.
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Your dreams change.
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Your perspective changes.
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Your attitude changes.
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Your life changes.
HOW DO SHORT TERM MISSION TRIPS GROW AND CHANGE "YOU"?
Source: http://candle-magic.blogspot.com
By Dorothy Parker
From simple predictions of current likely influences to detailed analysis from an experienced individual, tarot reading online offers instant accessibility and ensures privacy. It is an interesting example of arcane arts being utilized in a modern way.
People most often seek a tarot reading online when they are looking for guidance on a particular issue, often regarding relationships, money or work. Those who have a strong belief in the occult arts would say that the cards can also reveal secrets about people around you or even give insights into your own character.
Like horoscope reading, other divining methods and the consultation with those claiming psychic gifts, tarot has long been used as a method of foreseeing the future in the hope of being better able to change or adapt to it. Some will acknowledge it more freely than others, but many people have a desire to know what their future might hold.
It believed that the cards first originated in Italy in the fifteenth century though a lot of people associate them mainly with fairground gypsy fortune tellers whilst others believe that they originally came from Egypt. The Italian decks were firstly used for games and it was only later that their use a divination tool developed. In the eighteenth century the connection with Egyptian symbols and mysticism was made.
There are many different decks, some online sources list as many as seventy. Many have been designed by famous artists such as Salvador Dali, others by individuals associated with the occult such as Aleister Crowley. Some decks have the reputation of being easier to use than others, some are considered to be more disturbing in their imagery.
The seventy-eight cards of the deck are arranged into two divisions; these are the minor arcana and major arcana. The first of these, like a playing deck has four suits. A tarot deck has seventy-eight cards and the other twenty-two are known as the major arcana, these are considered to be the more powerful elements of the deck, representing the elemental forces and principals around us.
There are many ways of spreading the cards, different arrangements suit different questions. The Celtic Cross is a common pattern used to give a life overview. This spread consists of ten cards laid out to represent the person asking the question, their current situation and some of the things going on around them which may influence the present of future.
Individuals who have an interest in the occult say that divination tools such as tarot cards or horoscope are more than games that should be taken lightly. They believe that these are powerful tools which can aid individual growth and offer insights into the subconscious. Those who believe in magic say that these methods can increase intuitive powers and the ability to sense what is going on in the world around.
There are many people offering tarot reading online. Before making contact with a service or individual you might like to consider exactly what it is you what to know and why, this will maximize your chances of finding something that suits you.
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SIKH TEMPLE SHOOTER WHO GUNNED DOWN SIX WAS FORMER FORT BRAGG SOLDIER BELIEVED TO BE A SKINHEAD 'WHITE SUPREMACIST WITH 9/11 TATTOO AND WAS PART OF RACE HATE GROUP'
* Shooter named as Wade Michael Page
* Worked in psychological operations in Fort Bliss and Fort Bragg
* Was kicked out of the army in 1998
* Was killed by police officer after he shot six people
* Victims include temple president Satwant Kaleka, 65, who tried to stop him
* Priest Parkash Singh, in his thirties, also killed
* Police officer in hospital after being ambushed helping a victim
* Three victims in hospital with life-threatening injuries
* FBI searches home in Cudahy, blocking off surrounding streets
By LAURA PULLMAN, MICHAEL ZENNIE and LOUISE BOYLEPUBLISHED: 17:22 GMT, 5 August 2012 UPDATED: 13:40 GMT, 6 August 2012
The skinhead former soldier who killed six people and critically wounded three at a Sikh temple yesterday has been named as Wade Michael Page who worked in psychological operations at Fort Bragg Army Installation.
Witnesses said the 40-year-old opened fire just before services, entering the kitchen at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in suburban Milwaukee at about 10.30am as women prepared a Sunday meal.It sent worshippers fleeing to escape the barrage - with many hiding in cupboards and texting the outside world begging for help.
He is believed to have served in the U.S. army for about six years. According to sources, Page enlisted in April 1992 and given a less-than-honorable discharge in October 1998. He served at Fort Bliss, Texas, in the psychological operations unit in 1994, and was last stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, also attached to the psychological operations unit.
Scroll down for videos...Victim: The president of the temple, Satwant Kaleka, was shot by the gunman as he tried to tackle him to the floor with a knifeDistraught: A woman waits for news of family members after a shooting on Sunday at the Sikh Temple of WisconsinMourning: Friends and relatives stand beyond the Oak Creek police line, waiting for information about victims after a gunman attacked a Sikh temple and killed six worshipersCandlelit: Mourners gather in Cathedral Square in downtown Milwaukee to show support for the friends and families of victims who were shot and killed during an attack at a Sikh temple in neighboring Oak CreekPrayers: Indian Sikh devotees pay their respects at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on August 6, 2012.
Indian Sikhs, led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, voiced shock and anger at the killing of worshipers at a Sikh temple in the U.S.U.S. Ambassador to India: Nancy Powell, center, offers her prayers and condolences in the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib, New Delhi, India on 06 August, after the Wisconsin shootingThe details of his discharge were not immediately clear.
He moved recently to a duplex in the 3700 block of E. Holmes in Cudahy which was cordoned off for a time on Sunday night as officials investigated inside, and residents were evacuated from their homes.It is about six miles from the temple where the shooting took place.The officers came out of the duplex around midnight, carrying large items, according to Cudahy Now.
Police roped off four blocks in a neighborhood with a mix of duplexes and single-family homes as FBI agents descended on Page's home with an armored truck, a trailer and other vehicles. Other law enforcement officers are there too, along with a police dog, according to TMJ4.One woman said that the man who lived at that home 'kind of kept to himself'.
'I just remember seeing (a tattoo that said) 9-11. I just remember thinking it was weird, thinking "Why would you have that tattooed on you?"' April Reyna told the station. Home: Page moved recently to a duplex in the 3700 block of E. Holmes in Cudahy which was cordoned off for a time on Sunday night as officials investigated inside, and residents were evacuated from their homesSiege: A number of law enforcement vehicles surrounded and entered a two-story duplex near S.
Kirkwood Ave. and E. Holmes Ave in Cudahy that is believed to be the home of the shooterChief Edwards said the suspect has a daughter in Korea and they want to make sure she's been notified first. Page is said to have had a 9/11 tattoo, marking the September 11, 2001, attacks by Islamic militants - and has been described in some quarters as a 'white supremacist'.
'He had tattoos, I don't know what the exact markings were, or if they represented any of his beliefs or what they stood for,' said Thomas Ahern, of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.Four people were shot dead inside the sprawling temple. Three more, including the gunman, were killed outside.
One victim was the temple's president, 65-year-old Satwant Kaleka who died as he tried to 'knife and tackle' the shooter. Another was Parkash Singh, a priest in his thirties.
Manminder Sethi who worships at the temple, told the Journal-Sentinel: 'He was a good guy, a noble soul.'Protection: Heavily armored police officers patrol the entrance to the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, the scene of multiple shootings in Oak CreekLock down: Police outside the Sikh temple where a gunman opened fire on families who had gathered for a morning prayer serviceMr Singh had lived in Oak Creek for several years and recently brought his wife, daughter and son from India to live with him in the U.
S.The gunman ambushed and shot a police officer who was responding to a 911 call and helping a shooting victim, Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards said. A second officer shot and killed the gunman.The wounded officer, a 20-year veteran, was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive. Hospital officials said two other victims, also in critical condition, were being treated.
Temple member and U.S. Army Reserve combat medic Jagpal Singh, 29, said people who were at the service when the shooting broke out described to him a scene of chaos and confusion.Worshipers scrambled to escape the gunfire, but some tragically ran in the wrong direction. Others survived the rampage by locking themselves in bathrooms, he said.
Authorities did not release the name of the suspect. They said the shooter had used a 9mm semi-automatic pistol, which was recovered at the scene. Officials were tracing origin of the weapon, Ahern said.Police surrounded and searched a grey, two-storey house in the Cudahy neighborhood, presumed to be the residence of the gunman on Sunday evening.
Generators and floodlights were set up along the middle-class block. A police source confirmed that a search warrant had been issued for the house, and a bomb squad was on the scene.Family and friends of the victims gathered in the basement of a nearby bowling alley as they waited for their loved ones to be identified.
There were reports the gunman had been in the Army. According to a woman, who said she was the mother of the shooter's landlord, the suspect had recently broken up with his girlfriend, Patch reported.The Sikh Coalition, the largest Sikh-American civil rights organization, urged caution over the gunman's motive while the police investigation was ongoing.
Grief: A distraught women is comforted outside of the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin after the shooting rampage on SundayArmed: Police officers and FBI on high alert outside a home in Cudahy, Wisconsin believed to belong to the unidentified shooterExecutive director Sapreet Kaur said: 'There have been multiple hate crime shootings within the Sikh community in recent years and the natural impulse of our community is to unfortunately assume the same in this case.
'Let's let law enforcement investigate the case and as new facts emerge the dialogue can change. Americans died today in a senseless act of violence and Americans of all faiths should stand in unified support with their Sikh brothers and sisters.'
SIKHS UNDER ATTACK
Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Sikh community has found itself at greater risk from religiously-motivated hate crimes.
Last year, two elderly Sikhs were shot dead in the street in Sacramento, California.A taxi driver was beaten up in the same area by attackers yelling racially-motivated abuse. This year, the building site of a Sikh temple - a gurudwara - in Michigan was vandalized while a Sikh family in Washington received hate mail threatening violence.
Lawmakers have been so concerned in the increased number of threats made to Sikhs that they have urged the Justice Department to open an investigation. The tragic incident comes just two weeks after the mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado where 12 people and an unborn baby died and 58 were injured.
Police Chief Bradley Wentlandt said it wasn't clear how many people had been shot. Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards said the officers had responded to a 911 call about the shooting when they were ambushed.The officer has been taken to hospital where he is undergoing surgery although he is expected to survive.
Edwards said the officers 'stopped a tragedy that could have been a lot worse'.Dr Lee Biblo, the chief medical officer at the hospital said they were well prepared to treat the three seriously wounded as it is a level one trauma center.He said one victim had suffered a single gunshot wound to the abdomen.
Another had been shot multiple times in the face and extremities while the third man had been shot in the neck.Massacre: Police have confirmed seven people have been killed at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin including the gunman and unconfirmed reports say as many as 20 - 30 people have been injuredSWAT: After shooting down the suspected gunman, tactical teams moved inside the temple to rescue those in hiding and those injuredTerrified: Crowds of friends and relatives gathered outside the temple desperate for more information on the massacreHorrific: At least six victims have been killed in the shootings.
Witnesses describe a chaotic situation with an unknown number of victims, suspects and possible hostages Lost in prayer: Amardeep Kaleka, whose father Satwant Kaleka was shot, prays in the parking lot while waiting for informationPresident Barack Obama released a statement saying he and Michelle were 'deeply saddened' to learn of the tragedy.
'At this difficult time, the people of Oak Creek must know that the American people have them in our thoughts and prayers, and our hearts go out to the families and friends of those who were killed and wounded,' he said in a statement.'My Administration will provide whatever support is necessary to the officials who are responding to this tragic shooting and moving forward with an investigation.
'As we mourn this loss which took place at a house of worship, we are reminded how much our country has been enriched by Sikhs, who are a part of our broader American family.'Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney also issued a statement, calling the shootings 'a senseless act of violence'.Aftermath: Activists of the Shiromani Akali Dal protest near the US embassy in New Delhi on August 6, 2012, after a gunman in the US shot worshipers at a suburban Sikh temple in WisconsinFears: Armed police investigate the Sikh Temple where it was initially believed that there was more than one gunmanTargeted: The shooting took place around 10.
30 Sunday morning at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin. At least seven people have been killed, including the gunman who was shot by a police officer. It is not clear how many people have been injuredDesperation: Petrified women who said they have family members in the Sikh temple wait anxiously for more information as people remain trapped in the buildingWisconsin Governor Scott Walker condemned the attack at the temple and asked the people of his state to pray for the victims.
'Our hearts go out to the victims and their families, as we all struggle to comprehend the evil that begets this terrible violence,' he said. 'I ask everyone to join us in praying for the victims and their families, praying for the safety of our law enforcement and first responder professionals and praying for strength and healing for this entire community and our state.
'A vigil has been organized for 8pm this evening to show support for the victims and their families in Cathedral Square Park, Milwaukee.Grief: A distraught women is helped to a car outside of the Sikh temple in Oak Creek after multiple people were shotPrayers: A girl with her father stand at the candlelight vigil in Milwaukee on Sunday night after six victims were fatally shot
WHAT IS SIKHISM?
Sikhs make up a very small, but rapidly-growing, segment of the population in the United States.Sikhism is one of the world's major faiths, with more than 30 million followers across the globe - mostly in India. There are an estimated 500,000 Sikhs in the United States and the faith has been widely misunderstood and targeted for discrimination - especially in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Sikhism was founded 500 years ago in the Punjab region of modern India and Pakistan by Guru Nanak Dev. He, and nine successive Gurus who revealed the faith, advocated the equality of all peoples.Sikhs believe in the importance of having a relationship with God through prayer and observance of the laws of God.
Observant Sikhs do not cut their hair; male followers often cover their heads with turbans and refrain from shaving their beards.Turbans are sacred garments and Sikhs believe them to be one and the same with their bodies when they are worn.The Washington-based Sikh Coalition has reported more than 700 incidents in the US since 9/11, which advocates blame on anti-Islamic sentiment.
The temple has a 400-500 congregation and many families were arriving for a meditation service when the attacker struck this morning.It is estimated that 20 to 30 people were inside the temple when the gunman opened fire.There was an 11.30 service scheduled which was expected to be attended by hundreds.
Oak Creek is south of Milwaukee along Lake Michigan.Sikh rights groups have reported a rise in bias attacks since September 11. The Washington-based Sikh Coalition has reported more than 700 incidents in the U.S. since 9/11, which advocates blame on anti-Islamic sentiment. Sikhs don't practice the same religion as Muslims, but their long beards and turbans often cause them to be mistaken for Muslims, advocates said.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations released a statement which said that American Muslims 'stand with their Sikh brothers and sisters' following the deadly shooting.Sikhs in Milwaukee have been the targets of attacks in their community as recently as last fall. Religious leaders asked state lawmakers to visit the temple after a string of robberies and vandalism appeared to target businesses owned by Sikhs.
The attacks were part of a string of mob-like riots in a neighborhood that left several people badly beaten.State Rep Josh Zepnick and District Attorney John Chisholm visited the temple in September and condemned the violence.In New York City, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly ordered a police presence at Sikh temples today.
Remembrance: Seven people were dead and dozens injured after the shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, WisconsinLove and support: People light candles during a vigil to honor victims of Oak Creek in downtown MilwaukeeIt is estimated that 20 to 30 people were inside the temple when the gunman opened fire.
There was an 11.30 service scheduled which was expected to be attended by hundredsSikhNYPD spokesman Paul Browne said: 'The coverage is being put in place out of an abundance of caution.'The shooting was described as 'domestic terrorism' - a phrase that was not used in the Aurora, Colorado attack. FBI defines terrorism as 'the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment ther, in furtherance of political or social objectives'.
Sikhism is a monotheistic faith that was founded in South Asia more than 500 years ago.It has roughly 27 million followers worldwide. Observant Sikhs do not cut their hair; male followers often cover their heads with turbans - which are considered sacred - and refrain from shaving their beards.There are roughly 500,000 Sikhs in the U.
S. The majority worldwide live in India. The Sikh Temple of Wisconsin has more than 400 members. It was established in Milwaukee in 1997 with just two dozen families and grew quickly in the last 15 years. In 2007, a new temple was built in Oak Creek on 13 acres outside Milwaukee city limits. The 17,500-square-foot temple included a much larger parking lot and worship area, as well as a library, a nursery and a play area for children.
This is the second horrific mass shooting in a matter of weeks. On July 20, James Holmes, a 23-year-old graduate student, allegedly killed 12 people and an unborn child and wounded 58 others when he walked into a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado.Another shooting massacre will only increase calls for tighter gun control legislation to make it more difficult to for people to buy firearms and place restrictions on assault rifles and high-capacity magazines.
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