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"The supposition that "the so-called laws of nature are the explanations of natural phenomena" is an "illusion" for two reasons...
First, "laws of nature" are mere abstractions and cannot explain anything. What exist in the natural order are concrete material substances with certain essences, and talk of "laws of nature" is merely shorthand for the patterns of behavior they tend to exhibit given those essences.
Second, that some fundamental level of material substances (basic particles, or whatever) exist and behave in accordance with such laws can also never be the ultimate explanation of anything, because we need to know, not only how such substances came into existence, but what keeps them in existence.
For as compounds of act and potency and essence and existence, they cannot possibly account for themselves; only that which is Pure Act and Subsistent Existence Itself can be the ultimate explanation of them, or of anything else. In general, whatever is composite in any way requires explanation in terms of that which is metaphysically simple. (As usual, see The Last Superstition and Aquinas for the full story.)"
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In 1 Thessalonians 5: 19-21, the Holy Spirit teaches us through St. Paul: "Do not stifle the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies. Test everything; retain what is good."
In these latter days, there are many false prophets masquerading as disciples of the Lord Jesus. How may we determine what is true and what is false? There must be a way to discern and promote the good and to determine what is false and what should be ignored. Thankfully, there is.
"Ubi Ecclesia, ibi Sanctus Spiritus! Where the Church is, there is the Holy Spirit!" Vatican II, speaking of the charismatic gifts, has said that they, "must be accepted with gratefulness and consolation.." However, at the same time, the Council also taught that, "Judgment as to their genuineness and their correct use lies with those who lead the Church and those whose special task is not to extinguish the spirit but to examine everything and keep that which is good." (Lumen Gentium, No. 2).
This is the mind of the Church: that genuine charismatic gifts are to be thankfully welcomed and it is the Church's role to evaluate their genuineness. A charismatic gift in the Church does not discover any new Gospel. In the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
"Throughout the ages, there have been so-called 'private' revelations, some of which have been recognized by the authority of the Church. They do not belong, however, to the deposit of faith. It is not their role to improve or complete Christ's definitive Revelation, but to help live more fully by it in a certain period of history. Guided by the magisterium of the Church, the sensus fidelium knows how to discern and welcome in these revelations whatever constitutes an authentic call of Christ or his saints to the Church." (No. 67).
All apparitions, private revelations and prophetical utterances must meet this first test of authenticity: conformity with the teachings of the Catholic Faith as interpreted by the Magisterium.
Getting back to false prophets. A woman from Massachusetts (who shall remain nameless) has created two "Catholic" blogs and on these blogs has informed her readers of how she experienced a "Eucharistic miracle." At the same time, this confused woman has said that she finds many of the Magisterium's documents to be "legalistic" and has associated herself with a couple of other bloggers who have promoted Centering Prayer and other New Age/Occult forms of spirituality.
These are red flags. And what they suggest is troubling. False prophets abound in these troubled times. These false prophets claim to have wisdom and to have experienced God's "wonderful love." This as they contradict the teachings of the Church or deride Magisterial documents as "legalistic."
This is not the work of the Holy Spirit. This is the work of the Devil who often comes disguised as an angel of light. "Ubi Ecclesia, ibi Sanctus Spiritus!" - "Where the Church is, there is the Holy Spirit!" No authentic disciple of the Lord Jesus will ever oppose the Magisterium of Christ's Church, deride its official documents, or promote (or associate with those who do promote) New Age Occultism.
Paul.
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Created "07/07/2011 - 3:30pm"
BY RADAR STAFF
A bizarrely named film crew has been accused of harassing and stalking a former Church of Scientology member who dared to lift the lid on the controversial religion.
MARTY RATHBUN defected from the Church seven years ago amid a myriad of claims of mental and physical abuse and is now fighting to stop a group called Squirrel Busters from filming his every move.
The 54-year-old - who was with the organisation for 27-years - claims the camera crew are targeting him at home, restaurants and airports and have even rented a house just a few blocks away from him.
And while Squirrel Busters claim their extreme measures are all in the name of documentary making local officials in the small Texan town of Ingleside On The Bay, are now trying to force them to apply for a film permit, to restrict their filming activities.
They are refusing to halt their production however, insisting it violates their right to freedom of speech.
Despite Rathbun's claims to the contrary, the Church of Scientology insist that they have nothing to do with the group but 'Squirrel' is a well known term used to describe members who have defected from the organization but continue to practice independently.
Rathbun was once one of the organization's most trusted members and purportedly audited high profile Scientologists such as TOM CRUISE.
In April 2011 bizarre footage emerged of the Squirrel Busters turning up on Rathbun's doorstep with cameras attached to their head. The four men - who were wearing T-shirts with a photo of Rathbun's head superimposed on a squirrel - told him they needed to check his PC meters, a piece of Scientology equipment.
During the standoff Rathbun asks the film crew if they are are going to stick around at his house to which one man warns: "Yeah Marty, we are here for weeks. Weeks and weeks."
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Epiphany, the oldest festival on the Christian Church calendar, is a national holiday in at least 15 nations. Celebrations generally are The period from Epiphany (January 6), until SHROVE TUESDAY (PANCAKE DAY, OR PANCAKE TUESDAY; MARDI GRAS IN FRENCH) IS CALLED 'CARNIVAL'. IN ROMAN CATHOLIC COUNTRIES IT IS A PERIOD FOR AMUSEMENT AND REVELRY, HENCE THE FAIRGROUND MEANING OF THE WORD. THUS, THE FAMOUS 'CARNIVAL' CELEBRATIONS OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD (SUCH AS AT NEW ORLEANS, USA, BAGOLINO, ITALY AND RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL) TAKE PLACE AT THE END OF THE PERIOD WHEN ALL FOODS MAY BE EATEN, AND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD OF FASTING, ALTHOUGH THE WEEKS BEFORE SHROVE TUESDAY ARE IN FACT THE PERIOD OF CARNIVAL, OR 'REMOVAL FROM MEAT'.
The word 'carnival' doesn't, as we might presume, originate in something like 'farewell ("vale "in Latin) flesh', though that's a reasonable assumption. It comes from the Latin "carnis", flesh, and "levare", to remove. Lent, when flesh may not be eaten, immediately follows Carnival. On Shrove Tuesday, people 'shrive' (confess) their sins and might eat pancakes to use up the last of the eggs and butter before the fast of Lent... which is why the French called it Mardis Gras (Fat Tuesday)...
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"You shall have no other gods before me. "EXODUS 20:3
"Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. "1 JOHN 5:21
God considers worship of anything other than Himself idolatry! Look at the following verse:
"When you follow the desires of your sinful nature (your heart), your lives will produce these evil results: sexual immorality, impure thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure, idolatry, participation in demonic activities, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, divisions, the feeling that everyone is wrong except those in your own little group". GALATIANS 5:19-20 (NLT, author's emphasis)
Each of us struggles with the horrendous sin of idolatry on a daily basis. As Galatians 5 tells us, idolatry is a desire of our sinful nature. It is reflected in our choices, our words, our use of time, and how we spend our money. In our culture we tend to think of idolatry as an eastern religious system such as Buddhism or Hinduism, or as pagan worship of the trees and animals. But the truth is, idolatry is not only bowing down to statues, it is anything that means more to you than God does. It is manifested when getting what you want has becomes more important than what God desires for you. Simply put, anything that you are loving, desiring, or serving more than God is an idol of the heart.
We are constantly being tempted to sin in this manner. While many technological advances exist in the world, including new things to idolize and worship, Satan uses the same tricks and methods to bait the trap that he has employed since the Garden of Eden.
Our idolatry takes many forms. Some people idolize money and possessions.
"People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. "1 TIMOTHY 6:9 (NIV)
"Then he said to them, "Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions. "LUKE 12:15 (NIV)
Others idolize people such as celebrities, sports figures, and musicians. Look at the popularity of the program AMERICAN IDOL and the millions of people who watch each week and vote for their "idol."
Criminal rap artists are held in high esteem by the younger generation; the actions of high-priced athletes (who once were lauded for their abilities on the playing field but now are notorious for their antics off the field) are being emulated by high school players.
I have known mothers who idolize their children by building a child-centered home. These children grow up believing they are the center of the world and expect others to cater to their every need and whim-to be idolized by someone else once mom and dad are gone.
The bottom line is simple-we were born to worship. We have been created to worship God, but our sinful lusts have driven us to worship and idolize the things of the world.
Are you beginning to see how perhaps some of the things we struggle with are from an idolatrous and self-centered heart?
Along the way of our life we came to believe that we needed certain things or people to "make us happy": for some of us it is success or security, for others it is acceptance, and still for others it is being motivated by fear. It's a type of fear of not succeeding or being accepted or secure.
These motivations spurred on by the desires of the heart have born exactly the kind of fruit you would expect- awful. If this were not so, people would not be seeking counseling!
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Vimana (Sanskrit: ) is a Sanskrit word with several meanings ranging from temple or palace to mythological flying machines described in Sanskrit epics. It is made of vi- = "apart" and ma-na- = "having been measured". Sanskrit vi-mana literally means "measuring out, traversing" or "having been measured out". It can refer to (ref Monier-Williams):
The palace of an emperor or supreme monarch (especially one with seven stories)
The adytum of a Rama temple, or of any other temple
A temple or shrine of a particular form, see Vimanam (tower)
From that meaning, "a god's palace", Ravana's flying palace Pushpaka in the Ramayana.
From that, a chariot of the gods, any mythical self-moving aerial car (sometimes serving as a seat or throne, sometimes self-moving and carrying its occupant through the air; other descriptions make the Vimana more like a house or palace, and one kind is said to be seven storeys high.
From that, any chariot or vehicle (especially a bier)
In medicine, the science of (right) measure or proportion (e.g. of the right relation between the humours of the body, of medicines and remedies etc.)
In the Vimanavatthu, a small piece of text used as the inspiration for a Buddhist sermon.
In some modern Indian languages, vimana or viman means "aircraft", for example in the town name Vimanapura (a suburb of Bangalore).
Vedas
The predecessors of the flying vimanas of the Sanskrit epics are the flying chariots employed by various gods in the Vedas: the Sun (see Sun chariot) and Indra and several other Vedic deities are transported by flying wheeled chariots pulled by animals, usually horses (but the Vedic god Pusan's chariot is pulled by goats, as is that of Norse Thor).
The Rigveda does not mention Vimanas, but verses RV 1.164.47-48 have been taken as evidence for the idea of "mechanical birds":
47. k'a niy^ana h'araya supar^a / ap'o v'asana d'ivam 'ut patanti
t'a ^avavtran s'adanad t'asy^ad / 'id ght'ena pthiv^i vy `udyate
48. dv^ada'sa pradh'aya's cakr'am 'eka / tr^ii n'abhyani k'a u t'ac ciketa
t'asmin sak'a tri'sat^a n'a 'sak'avo / 'rpit^a a'ir n'a calacal^asa
"Dark the descent: the birds are golden-coloured; up to the heaven they fly robed in the waters.
Again descend they from the seat of Order, and all the earth is moistened with their fatness."
"Twelve are the fellies, and the wheel is single; three are the naves. What man hath understood it?
Therein are set together spokes three hundred and sixty, which in nowise can be loosened." ("trans." Griffith)
In Swami Dayananda Saraswati's "translation", these verses become:
"jumping into space speedily with a craft using fire and water... containing twelve stamghas (pillars), one wheel, three machines, 300 pivots, and 60 instruments." Ramayana
Rama being welcomed back to Ayodhya, also shown him flying in the Pushpaka Vimana, which here is depicted as a boatIn the Ramayana, the pushpaka ("flowery") vimana of Ravana is described as follows:
"The Pushpaka chariot that resembles the Sun and belongs to my brother was brought by the powerful Ravana; that aerial and excellent chariot going everywhere at will... that chariot resembling a bright cloud in the sky... and the King [Rama] got in, and the excellent chariot at the command of the Raghira, rose up into the higher atmosphere.'"
It is the first flying vimana mentioned in Hindu mythology (as distinct from the gods' flying horse-drawn chariots).
Pushpaka was originally made by Vishwakarma for Kubera, the God of wealth, but was later stolen, along with Lanka, by his half-brother, the demon king Ravana.
Mahabharata
One example in the Mahabharata is that the Asura Maya had a Vimana measuring twelve cubits in circumference, with four strong wheels. Apart from 'blazing missiles', the poem records the use of other deadly weapons. 'Indra's Dart' (Indravajra) operated via a circular 'reflector'. When switched on, it produced a 'shaft of light' which, when focused on any target, immediately 'consumed it with its power'.
In one exchange, the hero, Lord Krishna, is pursuing his enemy, Salva, in the sky, when Salva's Vimana, the Saubha, is made invisible in some way. Undeterred, Lord Krishna immediately fires off a special weapon: "I quickly laid on an arrow, which killed by seeking out sound".
The Mahabharata compliments "the all-knowing Yavanas" (sarvajnaa yavanaa, the Greeks), as the creators of the vimanas: The Yavanas, O king, are all-knowing; the Suras are particularly so (sarvajna yavana rajan shuraz caiva vishesatah).
Jaina literature
Vimana-vasin ('dweller in vimana') is a class of deities who served the tirthakara Maha-vira. These Vaimanika deities dwell in the Urdhva Loka heavens.
According to the Kalpa Sutra of Bhadra-bahu, the 24th tirthakara Maha-vira himself emerged out of the great vimana Pupa-uttara ; whereas the 22nd tirthakara Aria-nemi emerged out of the great vimana Aparijita. The tirthakara-s Abhinandana (4th) and Sumati-natha (5th) both traveled through the sky in the "Jayanta-vimana", namely the great vimana Sarva-artha-siddhi, which was owned by the Jayanta deities; whereas the tirthakara Dharma-natha (15th) traveled through the sky in the "Vijaya-vimana".
A vimana may be seen in a dream, such as the nalini-gulma.
Vimanas and the Vaimanika Shastra
The Vaimanika Shastra is an early 20th century Sanskrit text on aeronautics, claimed to be obtained by mental channeling, about construction of vimanas, the "chariots of the Gods".
The existence of the text was revealed in 1952 by G. R. Josyer, according to whom it is due to one Pandit Subbaraya Shastry, who dictated it in 1918-1923. A Hindi translation was published in 1959, the Sanskrit text with an English translation in 1973. It has 3000 shlokas in 8 chapters and was attributed by Shastry to Maharishi Bharadvaja, which makes it of purportedly "ancient" origin, and hence it has a certain notability in ancient astronaut theories.
A study by aeronautical and mechanical engineering at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1974 concluded that the aircrafts described in the text were "poor concoctions" and that the author showed complete lack of understanding of aeronautics.
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Are you afraid that an enemy will cast a witchcraft spell against you? This henna hex spell should help prevent them from casing a spell on them. It is offered considered to be an offensive spell so be cautious in using it. Not only will it let your enemies know who they are, it will create bad karma for you if used maliciously.
YOUR INGREDIENT LIST
* Henna paste
* Tumeric
* Fresh water
* A bird feather
Mix the tumeric with the fresh water until it develops into a paste. Mix enough to create a deep pigment. Draw the name of the enemy on the bottom of your foot using the paste. Use the stem end of the feather to write with. If you don't know their name then symbols will suffice to create a general protection.
Let the tumeric dry and then wipe clean. Now, go over the yellow stained tumeric areas with a colored henna paste. Again, let dry and scrape off. The double coating of color from the tumeric and water paste, and henna and water paste, should make a lasting tattoo on the bottom of your feet. As long as the stain remnant remains, you should be protected from your enemy.
If you have a specific enemy give thought to making amends with them to create positive karma. If you can make them merely an acquaintance rather than an enemy consider doing so. That way, you won't to continue the magic hex protection. Think positively and don't antagonize your enemy. Eventually, such haters will tire of you and move on to a new target.
To strengthen the potency of this spell, use well water or fresh spring water to mix the paste with, and create pastes of strong color. A raven's quill feather or a crows used to apply the paste will also help to make the spell more potent.
Reference: http://animals-and-shamanism.blogspot.com
