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As the image shows in this famous 1500's woodcut, Christians believed that witches and Satanists would kiss the rear end of the Devil in order to show their solidarity with him. Legends like these are an important part of what Christians believe about Satanists, yet as Satanists we do not have the same understandings that they do. That is because we do not see Satan as the enemy. All the same, it is an important part in the development of the stories of Satan throughout the Medieval era.
There are also images of Holy Popes kissing the devil's rear. It is known as the 'kiss of shame' - the "OSCULUM INFAME". In legendary tales this infamous kiss is what sealed the fate of those who chose to walk in line with the devil. This shameful act sought to identify those that were in league with Satan. Unfortunately such things never occurred and they were just urban myths that were spread throughout christian lands, a useful myth that allowed Christians to unite under the cause of destroying what they thought was Satan's work here on this earth. In the end, all they did was destroy each other.
Perhaps it had to do with Christian's continual obsession with associating the body with either saintly or sinister things. Consider how holy the body of Christ is to christians. The image of the pallid, dying saviour on the cross, his body tortured beyond belief, yet he lived. He entered into the underworld through the cave and rose three days later on what was later to become a celebration of Easter. This holiday was symbolic of the coming of spring, and the ending of winter. It was adopted from earlier religions and created into a christian story.
There are other associations with the body as well - like the association with the head as the seat of the heart and spirit; the association with the head and things that are on top or above with things that are christian or holy, and the association of the bottom or things below [including the feet] as things of the devil. You see, only sweet things have potential to come from the mouth...but only stinky and sinful things come from those lower parts having to do with sexuality and elimination of bodily wastes.
Christians really thought that sweet scents and pleasing scents were more divine than those scents that are repugnant or repulsive. We see this in their association of brimstone [sulphour] to Satan, which bubbles up from below the earth and does indeed stink. In this way the Christians weren't much different than their pagan predecessors in using environmental associations and the body to describe their religion.
In this we see a map of heaven and hell, and their two entrances. Speak the name of Christ and ye shall be in heaven - kiss the ass[hole] of the devil and be eaten by it's vicious mouth after death. The 'Osculum Infame' was not just a kiss on the cheek of the ass; lets just say that it was supposed to be placed where it counts most! Gross,eh? Its an ugly and improper thing to suggest in general..but then again if you are bedfellows with the devil, whats to stop you from committing an act like that to show that you are indeed in league with Satan?
Of course it bears repeating that this is a Christian notion rather than a notion of modern Satanists. To be a Satanist is not a shameful thing. Perhaps Christians see us this way, but they have been taught to hate those kinds of things.
Throughout history, Christians are rather infamous for suggesting the most horrible things possible about those who aren't part of their religion, such as cakes made of babies, and candles made of their fat, slaughter of animals for their blood to use as a drink during rituals, incest, you name it. Of course none of it was true, but the main purpose was to defame, demonize and insult people of other cultures. This relates especially to the Jewish, and the Christian stereotype of the Jewish looking Satan, including the use of the goat as being symbolic of sin.
So as you can see, the Osculum Infame may identify what is Satanic to Christians.. But for us, as Satanists its just another lesson in how their prejudice and demonization of others and even themselves has effected the world for centuries. During the medieval era it was a subversion tactic that served them well.
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Happy Thursday! Today our next stop on the DC-40 Prayer siege is the great state of Minnesota. Please feel free to post your comments, updates or salutes here on this blog, or head over to our Facebook Group - What Makes Your State Great - and add them there.
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Hail Minnesota!
Minnesota Inventions: Masking and Scotch tape, Wheaties cereal, Bisquick, HMOs, the bundt pan, Aveda beauty products, and Green Giant vegetables. Tonka Trucks were developed and are continued to be manufactured in Minnetonka.
Minnesota has 90,000 miles of shoreline, more than California, Florida and Hawaii combined. Minnesota produces corn, wheat, rye, alfalfa, and sugar beets. Other leading farm products include butter, eggs, milk, potatoes, green peas, barley, soybeans, oats, and livestock.
The original inhabitants of Minnesota were:
The Dakota Sioux tribe
The Ojibwe tribe (also known as Chippewa, Ojibway, or Ojibwa)
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SNOW ON THE PORCH
BURGERS ON THE GRILL
The other day my wife asked me if we were going to put up a Christmas tree this year. Last years' Thanksgiving and Christmas was a bust. In fact I pretty much ruined the entire Holiday season for her here at the house. Don't get me wrong, we did drive up to Pennsylvania to enjoy other people's decorations. But last year I was too immersed in taking a stand against the paganism that has infiltrated our holidays. After all, that's the right thing to do... right?
However, over this last year it occurred to me that it is not possible to take a proper stand. Lucifer's army has so thoroughly permeated our lives that the only way you can avoid it is to leave the planet. Short of hijacking one of those Stan Deyo Top Secret anti-gravity space buggies, I'm not sure how you intend to pull that off.
The counterfeiting and symbolic stamping of "Property of Satan" is everywhere. From the sodas and wine bottles to the clothing our children wear, right down to the logos painted on our neighborhood church signs, there is Satanic symbolism and "alien-ware". There are grey alien heads and demonic anagrams every direction you turn your head. These freaks have literally "marked their territory" like dogs. There is no question, the earth is the devil's domain. He can have it.
I await the KING. And the King is coming to Kick some Ass.
PUTTING DOWN THE BINOCULARS
November 9th has passed and no off-shore nuke... PRAISE JESUS! GLORY BE TO GOD! I have a number of theories about why nothing happened. It falls into the category of "Calling Audibles" as I believe the enemy does. But most of us have to admit, we were expecting something big to happen. From the ATM interruptions that occurred on Sunday morning, to the mysterious missile shoot in Los Angeles... we were watching.
Personally I wouldn't be surprised if the military industrial "cabal" took a shot at one of those Federation of Light "earth avengers" with that "rogue" missile. It wouldn't surprise me a bit. If fact I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if the whole November 9th "false flag event" was thwarted by those ever-so-friendly Pleiadian galactic intercessors. Lucifer is just that clever.
If you study the Bolshevik revolution, the Chinese revolution, even Nazi Germany, you will quickly note that it is a common "modus operandi" to pit your own "top dogs" against one another to maintain control within your own ranks. From Lucifer's vantage point, I would not at all be surprised to see the Council of Nine waging war against the semi-earth-bound Reptilian Black-Ops "cabal" in order to set the stage for a forthcoming battle. Of course, 99% of the earthlings would be none-the-wiser, and the Federation of Light people would look like some really "cool cats". And the alien-demon factions probably have no idea they are technically on the same side.
Fascinating.
But what good would it have done us anyway? Let's say we guessed November 9th correctly. What then? Do we all hand out T-shirts that say "I Warned You!" or "You Coulda' Had a V-8!"? What exactly is our goal in staring out the window with our binoculars?
It's time to put down the binoculars for a little while and give thanks to our awesome God for mercifully saving the lives of those who "might have died".
PRAISE JESUS FOR THIS TEMPORARY HALL PASS.
TAKING IT BACK IN JESUS NAME
I take back my holiday in Jesus Name! In fact I take back my LIFE in Jesus name. I refuse to allow this evil to infiltrate MY LIFE and my family any longer. I don't care if "they" hijacked everything Holy and good. I am TAKING IT BACK!
This year I have cleared out my front living room. This year I am setting up a VERY LARGE Thanksgiving Day table. This year I am decorating with NO GUILT.
The main difference is that I am going to make absolutely sure that the NAME OF JESUS is splashed everywhere you look. No more shall I get "hung up" over the "dates of Christmas" being inaccurate. No more shall I get "hung up" over the music being played. I am not going to fight back by becoming a "stick in the mud" this year. Instead I am going to fight back by "MAKING EVERYTHING JESUS".
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, JESUS, JESUS, JESUS, JESUS, JESUS, JESUS, JESUS...
In fact, I might even print out a case of 8 1/2 x 11 pages with...
PROPERTY OF JESUSAND PASTE THEM EVERYWHERE!
If Alex Jones can put Obama Joker Posters all over the United States, than we can put "Property of Jesus" posters all over the place. I am going to "take back" Jesus' property and stick these signs everywhere.
One thing is for sure, I am going to make sure that the NAME OF JESUS is all over my home.
I am NO LONGER going to pout in the corner and sulk like a beaten dog! This world was created by YESHUA / YAHUSHUA MESSIAH... JESUS CHRIST and by DAMNED I am taking it back.
I am going to put down the binoculars, play silly games with the family, roast chestnuts on the fire, and drink rum spiked egg nog. But every time I tip my head back to take delicious swallow of that "pagan nectar" I will say...
PRAISE JESUS!
SUMMARY IN JESUS NAME
Let's not forget the "reason for the season". Let's try to remember to put down the binoculars once in a while and enjoy this awesome opportunity to "make a difference" for Jesus Christ. This year I am going to join Metropolitan Ministries. Here in Tampa they need "Prayer Warriors" and pastors to lead their prayer tents. I LOVE THAT. I am going to make a difference in someone's life. I am going to feed the poor and help the underprivileged just like my KING told me to do.
Let's not forget the real reason we are here on this earth.
Let's not forget to enjoy this time and give GOD THE GLORY
WHAT A WONDERFUL PRIVILEGE TO BE HERE
WHAT AN AWESOME CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
TO GOD BE THE GLORY
... be blessed IN JESUS NAME
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After Snofru two even larger pyramids were to come and another 14 million tons of stone were to be piled up on the desert plateau. One cannot help feeling that the Egyptians gloried as much in this stupendous achievement, towering over their living world, as over having sent off their pharaohs to accompany the sun. Pyramid building was now getting on for a century; for three or four generations of Egyptians it had become their normal life. By then, we may assume, the social object of the gigantic technological project had been attained. The country had now lived for so long in its new social and political environment that the old 140 tribal existence was largely forgotten. It was time to give up what had become an unnecessary and wasteful occupation, and it is remarkable that the running down of the pyramid project should have been achieved with what appears a minimum of trouble.
Ancient Egyptian Pyramids
As happens with any large and heavily entrenched programme, the pyramid age may have gone on for a bit too long. The administration had evidently manoeuvred itself into a vortex of pyramid construction from which it was difficult to escape. A large section of the civil service, reaching down into low levels of administration and comprising several thousand officials, derived and justified its livelihood from pyramid building. It represented a large vested interest. Keeping this in mind, certain upheavals in the dynastic orbit which we have already touched upon and which have usually been explained as a palace revolt, acquire a more profound aspect.
There was obviously some trouble at Khufu's death. The legitimate heir, Kawab, was dead and the succession should have passed to one of his full brothers, all sons of Khufu and Queen Mery tyetes, who alone carried the royal blood. Instead, the throne was usurped by Djedefre, who then married the great queen of the next generation, Hetepheres n, the widow of Kawab. So far it all looks like a harem intrigue, except for one point. Djedefre, although he put the finishing touches to Khufu's monument, had all further work at Giza stopped. Since we know that at that time Khufu's pyramid was essentially finished, work must have been well advanced on the next large pyramid, eventually to be used by Khafre. However, Djedefre did not complete this Giza pyramid for himself but selected for his own burial a site at Abu Roash, and it is significant that the pyramid which he planned there for his own use was almost ten times smaller than that of Khufu.
Far from being the seizure of power by the son of a concubine, it very much looks as if Djedefre's succession to Khufu was based on a movement to break away from the pyramid building establishment of Heliopolis. He occupied the throne for only seven years and we do not know how he died. During Djedefre's reign a gradually decreasing labour force was probably employed on the construction of the immense causeway at Abu Roash. Such a reduced force would have been quite capable of building the small projected pyramid as well at the same time with no undue difficulty.
With Khafre's accession, work at Giza was resumed but it is obvious that it never regained its original strength or impetus. Khafre's own pyramid, which, when he became pharaoh, was probably in the last phase of construction, was completed, though R.p-8 141 not with the same care as that of Khufu. In fact, it is even doubtful whether after Djedefre's death the number of men employed again at Giza were brought up to anything like the original strength. It would be more rational to assume that the labour force was not appreciably increased again and it was evidently run down to a low strength for building the last Fourth Dynasty pyramid, that of Menkaure. For the next monument, Shepseskaf's Mastabat Fara'un, a quite modest number of workmen will have sufficed.
One certainly would not wish to claim that our analysis of the end of the Pyramid Age will be correct in detail. However, these last conclusions were arrived at by correlating the technological evidence with the known succession of kings at the end of the Fourth Dynasty and, on the whole, they seem to make sense. It is also interesting to compare these deductions with the legends concerning the pyramid builders that were handed down through Egyptian history. While Snofru was always remembered as a beneficent pharaoh, the same cannot be said of Khufu and Khafre. Herodotus records a story that Khufu and Khafre were hard and wicked kings who suppressed the people and closed the temples, and that it was Menkaure who opened them again and was beloved. Popular legends, while they can hardly be regarded as established historical accounts, often contain a grain of truth. In the present case they fit rather too well to be discounted.
It is not unlikely that the vested interest of the administration tended to prolong the pyramid project beyond the stage when its usefulness had been exhausted. Moreover, bringing the villagers together to a common, and remunerative, task will at first have brought about friendly relations between strange tribesmen. On the other hand, this fusion must eventually have had the effect of turning them into an organised force which was capable of discovering common interests other than those in the mind of the establishment. In other words, once a homogeneous nation had been created, it was likely that paternalism gave way to a trade union spirit. The newly established state of the Egyptian people may have taken on a life of its own.
The core and driving force in the administration was the Heliopolitan priesthood of Re who had initiated and sustained the pyramid project. Starting with Imhotep's escalation of the labour force, the programme had proved eminently successful. The enterprise had spawned an immense and well-organised civil service which permeated and regulated all aspects of life. Its close connection with the pharaoh was ensured by the fact that the vizier and the highest officials were royal princes. Thereby the administration was fully integrated with the religious leadership of the nation and opportunity was provided for consultation on all important decisions. The pharaoh himself had become the spiritual figurehead of a large and highly efficient administrative machine whose directives came from the priesthood of Re, who were the real government of Old Kingdom Egypt.
However, there was still the priesthood of Ptah with its hold on the scribes and learned men, and, as evidently happened at the end of Menkaure's reign, the pharaoh, in this case Shepseskaf, may have felt assured of popular support against the pyramid diehards of Heliopolis. He evidently brought it off, at least for the time being. There is an echo of priestly schism in the legend that Khufu and Khafre closed the temples. Possibly these were the temples of Ptah. One thing is quite certain, Shepseskaf's refusal to build a pyramid brought the Heliopolitan priesthood to their senses. They eschewed further construction of gigantic pyramids and settled for a new and relatively inexpensive solar emblem, the obelisk. A period of greater influence of the Ptah priests may have temporarily intervened during Shepseskaf's reign but again the reorientation towards the solar cult of the Fifth Dynasty appears to have taken place without spectacular disorders.
A similar mastaba to Shepseskaf's was constructed for Queen Khentkaues, the carrier of the royal inheritance. However, whereas Shepseskaf forsook the Giza necropolis for Saqqara, his sister Khentkaues returned to Giza with a tomb built between the causeways of the Khafre and Menkaure pyramids. In one way or another, probably by marriage to the high priest of Heliopolis, Userkaf, she became the founder of the Fifth Dynasty. It is interesting to note that Userkaf was probably not a usurper but may have had his own share of the royal blood. However, it seems that he inherited it, not through the branch of the royal family represented by Khafre, Menkaure and Shepseskaf, but from his mother Neferhetepes who was the daughter of the much married great Queen Hetepheres II by the renegade Djedefre.
We cannot leave the Pyramid Age with its stupendous achievements in both buildings and social change without having a look at its life and people. As for the pyramid builders themselves, a seated statue of Zoser was found in a small chamber attached to the north side of the Step Pyramid. Unfortunately, its face was badly damaged by thieves who broke out the eyes which were probably made of rock crystal. Even so, the features reveal the high cheekbones, characteristic of some of his successors. There exist a number of good profile representations in the reliefs of the underground chambers, which show a man with strong features and an aquiline nose.
Until recently we did not know what Snofru looked like, but the post-war excavations at Dahshur have yielded a stela with the king's portrait. His profile shows a surprisingly weak face with receding chin. Only one likeness of Khufu has been found so far. It is a small ivory figure and, although it is not too well preserved, the king's features are clear enough to indicate determination, underlined by high cheekbones and tight lips. The same high cheekbones and firm determined mouth characterise the life-size quartzite head of Djedefre in the Louvre Museum. Far better preserved than any of these is the magnificent diorite statue of Khafre from the valley temple of his pyramid. Here the full mastery of the Old Kingdom sculptors is revealed for the first time. The artist has created an intensely human portrait, which at the same time is far removed from the everyday world. Out of his human face the king's eyes gaze into space and the incomprehensible realm of the divinity. His companions are not the mortals but the sun god who, in the shape of the Horus falcon, spreads his wings protectively around the king's head. The pharaoh has become the sacred link between man, whose form he bears, and the gods who rule the universe. The same enigmatic detachment is expressed in Khafre's other surviving portrait: the head of the Sphinx. Havoc, wrought for over 4,000 years by man and the elements, has failed to obliterate the serene majesty of the features which the ancient Egyptian sculptor carved out of the living rock. The mastery in the expression of this face, which seems to look from our world into the next one, has haunted man for hundreds of generations.
Khafre's portraits seem to stand between the ages of divine kingship and of the human beings on the throne who followed him. There is nothing divine or supernatural in the sensual face of Menkaure with its generous lips and slightly bulging eyes. It is again the uncanny skill of the sculptor who, in this representation, was to bring the pharaoh down to earth without sacrificing the family similarity with his father Khafre. This unmistakable likeness is retained in the portrait of Shepseskaf, in which the sensual countenance of Menkaure is almost degraded into vulgarity.
Neither is there any transcendental quality in the representations of the great queens. In spite of its mutilated state, the head of
Khufu's great wife, Queen Merytyetes, shows beauty and feminine warmth. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has a charming double statue of the much-married queen, Hetepheres n, and her equally royal daughter, Meresankh m. The mother's arm lies protectingly over Meresankh's shoulder; they were both carriers of the dynastic inheritance and both spouses of Khafre. In Menkaure's sister-wife, Khameremebti n, her brother's sensual expression is mildly accentuated through her feminine features. Passing on to the Fifth Dynasty, we search in vain in the face of Userkaf for traces of the uncompromising determination of Khufu and Djedefre, or for Khafre's divine mission. It is the face of a human executive with all his virtues and failings.
We have dealt earlier with the civil service in the pyramid age and we are fortunate that the consummate skill of the Fourth Dynasty sculptors, coupled with the demand for the closest possible likeness, has provided us with numerous portraits of high officials and their wives. Many of these are the strange 'reserve heads' found in their tombs. These may have served as substitutes if the mummy was destroyed, but we are in the dark as to their definite purpose. It is astonishing that on many of them the ears seem to have been broken off purposely. In one case they highlight the close connection with Africa, since the facial features of the wife of a high official leave no doubt that she was a Negress.
On the whole, these intelligent and determined faces would equally fit any modem meritocracy, and officials often liked to be represented at their work as 'scribes'. There are also many family groups, among them that of the dwarf Seneb. Dwarfs were much in demand as treasurers since they would be easily recognised and therefore less likely to attempt a quiet getaway with the valuables under their care. Even the earliest examples of portrait sculpture, such r.s that of Prince Rahotep and his wife, who lived at the time of Snofru, show the stamp of a sophisticated and astonishingly 'modern' society. He could be an army officer of today and the Lady Nofret would effortlessly pass muster in any elegant set of our own time. We even know what their servants and craftsmen looked like from the effigies which accompanied their masters in the life after death. Finally, Reisner's discovery of the tomb of Hetepheres has provided us with the furniture of Snofru's great queen which, in sheer elegance and the restrained use of gold, surpasses anything which the tomb of Tutankhamun discloses.
What little has been left of Old Kingdom literature agrees with this picture of a cultured and dignified world. The advice of such men as Ptahotep, Kagemi and others reflects a sober wisdom which would have done credit to the philosophers of any later age. They praise the ideal of the 'silent man' who receives the order given by his superior without argument and who carries it out conscientiously and without giving himself airs. He must not boast of his learning but should always be ready to learn himself, if necessary from the poor and humble. He should be kind to petitioners and patiently hear out their case before making a decision. Greed and corruption are described as the worst malady, which is incurable and so contagious that any dealings with it are impossible.
Together with these stern precepts for the civil servant goes a good deal of more homely advice, such as not to bring a case against one's superior unless you are sure of its outcome. One should eat sparingly at a banquet, even if one has to master one's desire - which only takes a moment because it is disgraceful to appear greedy. Finally, some good advice to those who visit their friends' houses not to approach the women: 'Men are made fools by their gleaming limbs and brief enjoyment soon turns into bitter regret.'
These brief glimpses of life in the Pyramid Age have been included to show the social and intellectual background against which we must regard the gigantic technological project. They reflect a sober and essentially practical society whose mind and reactions were eminently sensible and show little sign of devoting much effort to esoteric issues. Building pyramids, as we suggest, for political and economic reasons seems to fit a good deal better into the picture of this level-headed and sophisticated community than devoting prodigious effort in erecting several gigantic tombs to bury one pharaoh. The pyramids do not represent an aim in itself but the means to achieve an aim : the creation of a new form of society. These huge heaps of stone mark the place where man invented the state.
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Baheda [], known in Sanskrit as Vibhitaka [] Botanical name Terminalia Bellirica [Belliric Myrobalan] is a tree the produce of which has since long been uses in Indian traditional medicine.
This tree is also said to have certain unique magical properties. Numerous Simple Remedies for a variety of problems are also performed using the parts of this tree.
This here is one such Powerful Remedy for Protection from Black Magic, Curses, Evil Eye and all sorts of Evil Energies. In the period of the constellation Purvaphalguni Nakshatra [Beta Leonis] bring home a leaf of this tree and keep it in secure place.
This is said to keep you and you home safe and secure from all sorts of Black Magic and the Evil Energies which I have mentioned.
Note - Information has been given for educational purposes only and not to advocate the use of the same.
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BBC Two is showing two-part documentary looking at Ancient Egypt. The programme, called Ancient Egypt: Life and Death in the Valley of the Kings, starts on Friday 22 March at 9pm. The first episode is about the everyday lives of Egyptians who worked in the Valley of the Kings in historic times.
The BBC website says: "Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher goes on a fascinating journey in search of people like us - not the great Pharaohs, but the ordinary people who built and populated this incredible ancient civilization. In this first episode we explore life in Ancient Egypt; the village that was their home, how they dressed and what they ate. We discover their love poetry, their enthusiasm for interior design, use of colour, and what it was like to work in the most famous cemetery on earth, the Valley of the Kings."
In the second part, which will be shown the following week, Dr Joann Fletcher visits tombs and explores the Ancient Egyptian afterlife.
Dr Joann Fletcher is a Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York and Consultant Egyptologist for Harrogate Museums and Arts. She has written several Egyptian Book of Living and Dying: Wisdom, Magic and Ritual; Gods and Pharaohs; Earth and the Cosmos; The Underworld
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