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We attract abundance when we ask from a compassionate heart.
- jonathan lockwood huieThe "Law of Attraction" is a Half-Truth
Everything regarding the so called "Law of Attraction" is an opinion. There is no scientific basis whatsoever for the "law," as there is no scientific basis for anything else in metaphysics or in religion. Does that mean all of metaphysics is wrong? No, just unprovable.
Is intent - or intention - real? While not scientifically provable, intent is certainly very real in my personal experience, and the experience of many I know well.
My Intent is my transmission to the entire Universe. It is the way I speak my vision for the future. While I can "speak" anything to the Universe, many transmissions are not received or are diverted.
My compassionate intents are generally received clearly and acted upon - perhaps not immediately, or in exactly the way I hope- but acted upon favorably, nonetheless.
However desires that are neutral - such as my desire to win the lottery - are just ignored. Further, my harmful or "evil" desires are not only rejected by the Universe, but are mirrored back to me as intense personal suffering - essentially Hell-on-earth.
The usual expression of the "Law of Attraction" states that the Universe will give you ANYTHING you want. That is half-true in that you can have anything that you request with compassion. The untruth is the expectation that the Universe will respond favorably when you ask selfishly or ask to harm others.
Consider the distinction between affluence and riches. Affluence is a state of mind. I can perceive affluence regardless of my external circumstances. The Universe responds favorably when I request affluence. I always receive the feeling of having everything I need. Sometimes I actually receive riches, and sometimes I receive that satisfied feeling with what the Universe deems is best for me. Either way, I truly receive affluence.
If you prefer to use the phrase "Law of Attraction," just remember that it will provide what you request with compassion, but not satisfy your hurtful or greedy requests.
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Copyright (c) by Jonathan Lockwood Huie.
First published on my Daily Inspirational Quotes blog. Also see Inspirational Quotes.
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"This post from Colm MacCrossan, one of our editors at the University of Oxford, illustrates how the EEBO-TCP corpus can shed new light on old proverbs-and the challenge of sifting through and making sense of the results. The links throughout this post point to EEBO, the version of EEBO-TCP hosted by the University of Michigan Library, and the Oxford English Dictionary Online, and may require authentication/authorization."
One of the greatest pleasures of reviewing new texts for EEBO-TCP is the way in which it constantly confronts each of us with new perspectives on things we may feel we know so well as to be unquestionable. This can be profound (as in Becky's recent blog post showing that 'progressive' attitudes to schooling shouldn't be assumed to be uniquely modern), but can also begin as simply as stumbling across something oddly unfamiliar in an old use of an expression we still commonly repeat today.
Reviewing John Downame's "Foure Treatises Tending to Disswade all Christians from... the Abuses of Swearing, Drunkennesse, Whoredome, and Briberie" (1609), my eye was caught by the following allusion: '...[A]S THE COMMON PROVERBE IS, THERE ARE BUT TWELVE POINTS IN THE LAW, AND POSSESSION IS AS GOOD AS ELEAVEN OF THEM.' Having grown up with the notion that 'Possession is "nine" points of the law' (that is, nine tenths), I was surprised, and began to wonder whether Downame had garbled his proverb, or whether it had simply shifted in time.
Certainly "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase the OED editors' note that "this" number is being used 'hyperbolically' is here harder to second guess.)
What begins to emerge from these sources, then, is a sense that 'nine points' has clearly come to dominate modern usage, but that 'twelve points' seems to have had some kind of currency in an earlier age. But how to pin down this hunch into a more concrete understanding of how this proverb was used in the early modern period?
Using the 'Proximity Search' feature available via the TCP's full-text search interface, it is possible to design a simple search that quickly generates several dozen examples of this proverb's usage from across the whole span of the seventeenth century - without filtering out either the 'nine' or 'eleven points' versions. This is a sufficiently large sample with which to begin to determine with more confidence the dominant form in the period to 1700.
Using the default search operator 'near', and changing the default proximity range from '40' to '120' characters, a user can search the whole corpus of over 40,000 texts in seconds, identifying all of the occasions in which all three of the words 'points', 'law', and 'possession' occurred close to one another.
This search on September 13, 2012 resulted in 52 matches in 48 records. (Phase I-only partners conducting the same search would only have discovered 38 matches in 34 records.) In other words, the three words appeared close to one another in 48 of the
In fact, both of these turn out to be false positives - although all three search terms occur within 120 characters of one another in the texts, they do not form the proverb in question. The earliest (though numerically-unspecific) allusion to the proverb itself therefore turns out to be an account in John Taylor's "All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet" (1630) (p.137) of a man named John Rowse who is driven to despair and eventual murder as a result of losing his land to a supposed friend. The friend's declaration 'AND SEEING THAT I HAVE ALL THESE ESPECIAL POINTS OF THE LAW AND A SURE POSSESSION, TAKE WHAT COURSE YOU WILL' is taken by Rowse as irrefutable, triggering his terrible spiral.
The latest allusion to this phrase uncovered by this search meanwhile is a translation of "The Fables of Young Aesop", printed by Benjamin Harris in 1700. This concludes the fable of 'The Crocodile and the Dogs' with the moral: 'IN FINE, CONSIDER, WHEN THY TABLE IS SPREAD, IF THOU GOEST TO IT WITH AN UNSAVOURY HEART, THOU DOST NOT KNOW BUT THE DEVIL MAY BE IN THE FIRST MORSEL AND CHOAK THEE: AND THEN THOU'LT REMEMBER THIS COMMON SENTENCE, POSSESSION IS ELEVEN POINTS OF THE LAW!' (p.77)
Returning to the question that initially provoked this search: whether the understood proportion of 'possession' was 'nine points' or 'eleven': of the 39 hits which are not false positives - and which therefore do positively reference this proverb - 36 identify 'eleven points' as the magic number, with only three agreeing with the modern convention of 'nine'. It is possible to interrogate these results further in order to try to assess whether (for example) the beginning of the shift to modern usage might be detectable here, but even at this point the evidence of this corpus can be taken to strongly suggest that possession was far more likely to be assumed to be eleven points of the law before 1700, than nine.
The practical application of this specific example may be limited, but it demonstrates one way in which the EEBO-TCP corpus allows researchers to re-examine the understood contexts and significance of key words and phrases in a way which is both rapid and wide-ranging. The occurrences of this proverb uncovered by the search discussed above come from a broad range of genres including politics, philosophy, theology, astrology, poetry, and travel. Most of them are brief, passing references toward which a simple catalogue search could not possibly have pointed, but collectively they form a cohesive and potentially convincing body of usage, which in turn can form the basis of broader questions, such as what epistemological reasons might lie beneath this apparent shift from a duodecimal to a decimal scale of legal weight.
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FROM PHYLAMEANA LILA DESY, YOUR GUIDE TO HOLISTIC HEALING" HEALING MATTERSGRATITUDE AFFIRMATION - "Every day I wake up and am grateful for all the good things that I have in my life. I am lucky to be alive and live in joy, peace, and harmony. "
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Healing Holiday Scents There are certain aromas that we tend to associate with the holiday season. These include scents from the outdoors such as pine needles and cedar leaves because of the holiday trees that were hauled into our homes to be decorated. Smells from the kitchen also remind of us holiday traditions like mom's gingerbread men freshly out of the oven, grandpa's chocolate fudge boiling on the stove top, or aunt Meg's cinnamon sugar cookies arriving in the mail. It is not surprising that many of the scents that we enjoy during the holiday season have healing associations... read more Search
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Vaskania, Nekuya and Pharmakis gathered in the forest with wicker baskets and shears, they went hunting in the bright morning light, taking what they need, what they found, what called to them."
Vaskania gathered the downy fluff of withered old thistle growing in a birch grove for her cursing dolls- she stuffs them with thistle and bramble and thorn, she gives them hearts of black wisteria seeds, she sews them shut with poison-dipped thread and buries them under foundation and rock. Nekuya and I made offerings and placation at the roots of a great yew tree, and gathered fallen branches heavy with berries for our type of work, she uproots a great black hellebore and cuts its roots like a wild dog with hacking teeth, they seem quiver when she approaches. I gather snowberries and plums, pears and the last black berries. We munched on wild crab apples, drank down sweet red and played with little black snakes in the grass. Off home to ritual, to bathe in honey and goat's milk, to drink apple spice tea, to dye bolts of linen in pots of cherry-laurel and Oregon grape. Mostly, we just sit around cracking wise- we don't see each other much these days but when we do, insanity ensues...
I finally got around to trying out some of the incense I had been curing for the last two months; smelling like baked goods, sex, summer and love- all the best things! I won't be selling any, but I'll be adding it to Lala's care package because she's my pumpkin and I love her dearly.
I also finally got around to painting my hand sculpted Poisoner statue: her hands full of morning glory, poppy pod and datura pod, snake and skull at her feet- trumpet flower and amanita growing from her dress. She didn't turn out perfect but I'm content with my creation. She can be seen on my facebook page: Ivy On the Path. I also finished my copper leaf clay Hekate altar statue (above) done in two tones of copper leaf- a reddish one for her dress and solar/star crown (she is after-all the night-wandering daughter of starry-eyed Asteria) and pale copper for herself and snakes. Lastly, she holds three keys; having dominion on earth, the heavens and the underworld) and I'm thankful to everyone who helped me with the concept- especially Mark, Keri, Carol and Missa. I'm also happy to say that the success of the design has gotten me a few commissions in my circle of hags for their own personal Hekate cult statues- I'm working on a design for Hekate Nyktipolos for V and for Nekuya, a Bee Queen spirit statue honoring the spirit of those witches, spirits and souls who work the magic of the bee (in her hands she holds a jug of mead and a hive, she stands on a honey comb and she is positively infested with worker bees. I love doing folk-art for friends, those who know me well know that I take my sweet time and do only what I like, which is why I'm not in business with my art lol, but when I do take commissions, I'm happy to be of service.
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Please forgive me for being late posting this. I had meant to do it last night, but forgot until moments after my head touched my pillow!
Let me first tell you about our men's conference from this past weekend. My husband had a burden for men to become strong leaders in their churches even before we started the church here, so the first year after we started and every year since, our church has hosted a Men of the Word conference. Each year he asks a different pastor or teacher to come and teach the men on topics to help build them up to be the strong leaders we need in our churches. This year he had Dr. LeRoy Pennell, pastor of Heritage Baptist Church in Barrie, Ontario. Being a lady, I wasn't there, but from what I heard, Dr. Pennell did an excellent job of teaching. Apparently, we will soon have the husbands of our dreams, as that was the title of one session: How To Be the Husband of Your Wife's Dreams! :) About 55 men from independent Baptist churches all over BC attended. My husband said everything turned out well, from the food to the fellowship and games to the preaching.
Now to the title of this post. Many times we pastors' wives and missionary wives like to report on all the shining moments and good times happening in our ministries, and there are many of those times happening. But there's the other side of any ministry, the side that isn't quite as glamorous and we don't like to dwell on. With any ministry where people are involved (and I think that's pretty much all ministry!), you will have times of disappointment, tears, frustration, and hurt. At any given time in our church here, we have one or more people struggling with sickness, addictions, pain, fear, and outright sin. We pray with folks, try to help them overcome sin and addiction and fear, minister to their physical needs... all while attempting to keep ourselves spiritually refreshed and available to help others. And it gets hard. Very hard. We love what we do, but many times it's not easy.
Am I telling you this to elicit sympathy? Not at all! I'm telling you so that you can know how to pray for your pastor and for the missionaries your church supports. We're in a battle for the souls and lives of people. Satan will not let go without a fight. So we need your prayer. We need to hear from you every now and then. One of the biggest blessings I received on deputation was a simple postcard from a lady in one of our supporting churches who said she was praying for me. It came at a time when we were very discouraged, and it was like the Lord Himself reached down and gave me a hug!
I would encourage you today to take a few extra minutes to pray for your pastor and his wife. They will never tell you a word of the burdens they carry, but remember that on any given day, one or both of them are probably dealing with some problem or other. Write your pastor's wife a note to let her know you're praying for her. It may arrive at just the time she needs it! Send an email to a missionary's wife, just to see how she's doing. It will make her day!
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Merry Meet :))) One of my favorite activities when I was little was making stained glass out of waxed paper and old crayons. You can make these as simple or as intricate as you like. I loved the beautfiul scene done in the pic above however you can make anything from pentacles, to cats, to flowers, the possibilities are endless. They can make great pages to dress up your Book of Shadows.
What You Need
- Waxed Paper
- Leftover crayons
- black sharpie marker
- crayon sharpener or something to shave the crayons with
- Iron
- Towels one thick and one thin.
Cut two pieces of waxed paper to the size you want your artwork to be.
Set one flat on your work surface, set the other to the side for later. You should set it down on top of a towel so that you can iron on top of it when you are done.
You can sketch the design you want onto the waxed paper using the marker.
Grate the crayons so that you have shavings of the color that you desire.
Use the shavings to color in your design as you want.
When you are happy with the results set the other piece of wax paper on top of it.
Heat the iron to a low setting.
Set a thin towel over the top of the two pieces of waxed paper.
Press the iron slowly over the towel gently heating up the waxed paper so that the crayon melts.
Continue until all the crayon is melted be sure not to hold the heat on too long as it can burn it.
Much Love and Many Blessings,
Jasmeine Moonsong
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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.13-a0-2236-g7be3fc8 (webtiles) character file.
46 4tharraofdagon the Vexing (level 1, -1/9 HPs)
Began as a Spriggan Enchanter on July 4, 2013.
Slain by a kobold
... wielding a +0,+0 club
(3 damage)
... on Level 3 of the Dungeon.
The game lasted 00:00:52 (187 turns).
4tharraofdagon the Vexing (Spriggan Enchanter) Turns: 187, Time: 00:00:52
HP -1/9 AC 3 Str 4 XL: 1 Next: 58%
MP 13/13 EV 18 Int 16 God:
Gold 42 SH 0 Dex 16 Spells: 1 memorised, 1 level left
Res.Fire :... See Invis. : + a - +1 dagger {=f}
Res.Cold :... Warding :. b - +1 robe
Life Prot.:... Conserve :. (shield restricted)
Res.Poison:. Res.Corr. :. (helmet restricted)
Res.Elec. :. Clarity :. (no cloak)
Sust.Abil.:.. Spirit.Shd :. (gloves unavailable)
Res.Mut. :. Stasis :. (boots unavailable)
Res.Rott. :. Flight :. (no amulet)
Saprovore :... (no ring)
g - ring of magical power
@: very quick, not resistant to hostile enchantments, stealthy
A: unfitting armour, see invisible, herbivore 3, speed 3, slow metabolism 2 a: no special abilities
You were on level 3 of the Dungeon.
You were not hungry.
You visited 1 branch of the dungeon, and saw 3 of its levels.
You collected 22 gold pieces.
Inventory:
Hand weapons
a - a +1,+1 dagger (weapon) {=f}
Missiles
d - 12 darts (quivered)
Armour
b - a +1 robe (worn)
Comestibles
h - a bread ration
Scrolls
f - a scroll of identify {unknown}
i - a scroll of fear {unknown}
Jewellery
g - a ring of magical power (left hand)
Potions
e - a potion of porridge
You are tiny and cannot use many weapons and most armour.
You have supernaturally acute eyesight.
You are a herbivore.
You cover ground extremely quickly.
You need consume almost no food.
Message History
You hit the kobold but do no damage. The kobold hits you with a club.
You closely miss the kobold. The kobold hits you with a club.
You closely miss the kobold.
You hit the kobold but do no damage. The kobold misses you.
You hit the kobold.
The kobold is severely wounded.
The kobold barely misses you.
You closely miss the kobold.
The kobold is moderately wounded.
The kobold hits you but does no damage.
You barely miss the kobold.
The kobold is moderately wounded.
You closely miss the kobold.
The kobold is moderately wounded.
The kobold hits you with a club.
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
You closely miss the kobold.
The kobold is moderately wounded.
The kobold hits you with a club.
You die...
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You could see a kobold.
Vanquished Creatures
A giant gecko (D:3)
2 kobolds (D:3)
A rat (D:3)
4 creatures vanquished.
Notes
Turn Place Note
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0 D:1 4tharraofdagon, the Spriggan Enchanter, began the quest for the Orb.
0 D:1 Reached XP level 1. HP: 9/9 MP: 4/4
187 D:3 Slain by a kobold
Action total
Melee: Dagger 19
Stab: Sleeping 1
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UFO SCIENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS CONFERENCE IN JOZI
CONSPIRACY THEORISTS WILL BE IN FOR A TREAT WHEN ALIENS, UFOS AND WHAT THE VATICAN KNOWS ABOUT THEM COME UP FOR DISCUSSION AT AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN JOHANNESBURG NEXT MONTH.
THE UFO SCIENCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS CONFERENCE, ORGANISED BY '80S MUSICIAN AND RAPPER MICHAEL TELLINGER, WILL INCLUDE EVERYONE FROM SERIOUS SCIENTISTS TO PEOPLE WHOSE VIEWS ARE BASED MORE ON FAITH THAN FACT."OF COURSE, EXTRATERRESTRIALS EXIST - ALL ANCIENT TEXTS AND EVEN THE BIBLE TALK ABOUT THEM. PEOPLE MUST REMEMBER THAT WE ARE THE DESCENDANT'S OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS," SAID TELLINGER.EXPERTS ON THE PANEL INCLUDE CLAIRE JANISCH, A CHEMICAL ENGINEER FOCUSED ON ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY AND SPECIALISING IN BIOMIMICRY.US PANELLIST LLOYD PYE IS A RESEARCHER, AUTHOR AND LECTURER KNOWN FOR HIS INTERVENTION THEORY. HIS BREAKTHROUGH GENETIC RESEARCH ON THE STAR CHILD SKULL, A 900-YEAR-OLD HOMINID SKULL THAT CONTAINS DNA UNLIKE THAT OF HUMANS, HAS RAISED A GLOBAL DEBATE ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF ITS COSMIC ORIGINS.
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SPECTRUM, LAURA EISENHOWER, GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER OF FORMER US PRESIDENT DWIGHT D EISENHOWER, WILL SPEAK ABOUT ALIENS AND A TREATY THAT SHE BELIEVES HER GREAT-GRANDFATHER SIGNED WITH AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL DELEGATION.
"WHEN EISENHOWER WAS PRESIDENT HE MET AN EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL DELEGATION; IT WAS THERE WHERE HE SIGNED A TREATY. THERE WAS ALSO AN EXCHANGE OF TECHNOLOGY.
"WHY DO YOU THINK THERE WAS A DRASTIC IMPROVEMENT IN TECHNOLOGY AFTER EISENHOWER WAS PRESIDENT?"
PEOPLE WILL ALSO BE TREATED TO A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT ON THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE VATICAN. THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER WILL BE IRISH ACADEMIC MICEAL LEDWITH, WHO SPENT 17 YEARS AS AN ADVISER TO THE LAST TWO POPES AND 16 YEARS AS PROFESSOR OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY AND AS DEAN OF THE THEOLOGY FACULTY AT ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE, DUBLIN.
TELLINGER SAID HE WILL REVEAL THE MANY SECRETS KEPT WITHIN THE VAULTS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
TELLINGER INSISTS THAT ALIENS ARE MERELY "HIGHLY EVOLVED BEINGS WHO EXIST ON EARTH AND ON OTHER PLANETS TOO".
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What are spiritual guides? Who are they? Who has them? What are the advantages and disadvantages of having Spiritual Guides? How do we validate they are who they say they are and how accurate is the information they provide?
Are guides nothing more than astral predators who provide snippets of information for us to trust and become reliant on their connection to us? Since we are spirit ourselves why not rely on our own judgement and connections instead of giving our power away to an outside force.
When spirit guides are seen. Could it not be a simple mind game technique by the entity to make themselves appear in a form acceptable to us?
Extract taken from 'Practical Mediumship Level 2' Notes - copyright Matthew James Sept 2012. For more information on IMT Self Development Workshops facilitated by Matthew James, please visit Matthew James on Facebook... www.facebook.com/MJMEDIUM
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