skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Hey, you doing anything the first week of July? There's a lucid dreaming seminar that sounds pretty damn cool. It's being held in San Diego June 30 to July 8th.
Here's how they describe it:" Using the most effective techniques and technology, derived from Tibetan dream yoga and Western science, Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. and team will present instructions on methods of developing the mental skills that foster lucidity and on directing consciousness within both dreaming and waking states towards fulfillment of personal goals. During this workshop, you will also have an opportunity to use the NovaDreamer2, and, if you wish, participate in ongoing research on a natural substance that, according to recent studies, has been shown to stimulate lucidity and mindfulness."
Here's a testimonial: "This has never, ever, ever happened to me before. My immersion in a group of people actually interested in lucid dreams was a miracle. Aside from my wife, I have never met a person who cares about dreams, or who wouldn't look for my Bellevue ID bracelet if I started discussing them. Not only did you show me a side of humanity that I had forgotten existed, you proved that that facet of the soul is a real pipeline for creativity, imagination, and love. That, and I can finally abandon the lonely, 'am I just insane?' feeling that crept in whenever I wondered if I was the only lucid dreamer I would ever know. Bless you all for reopening for me a spirited world of exploration and excitement on which I had nearly slammed a very heavy ethereal door"." - Peter L. (Kalani, Feb '02)
When you think of vacations, think outside the box. Sometimes, it's not just lying on a beach, but learning a skill you can take home. I know someone who might do this seminar and if he does, I will have him report back his experience.
Source: http://witch-selena.blogspot.com
Kuan Yin is believed to have been the daughter of a wealthy, cruel man who desired her to marry for status. Gentle Kuan Yin, in hopes of gaining spiritual enlightenment, disobeyed her father and entered a temple. There, she quickly became known for her kind deeds and compassion. But her father was so angered by her act that he had the girl killed. For her good works while alive, Kuan Yin was brought to heaven where she could enjoy an eternity of bliss.
But as she searched for heaven's gates, Kuan Yin heard a cry from below. It was someone suffering upon the earth, someone in need of her help. Then and there she vowed never to leave humanity until every last person was free from woe. For this vow, Kuan Yin was transformed into a Goddess.
Today the goddess Kuan Yin is widely worshipped. She is believed to heal those sick of heart and body, mothers and children in distress, and even seafarers in storms.
To often in life we are overwhelmed by troubles. Sorrow encompasses us-and there is only so much we can do. For those beset by worries or illness, the merciful goddess Kuan Yin is a wonderful goddess to invoke.
Many believe that the magickal act of saying Kuan Yin's name helps the troubled gain comfort. Others choose to go on pilgrimages to the goddess's temple on the mountain of Miao Feng Shan; to win her notice, they shake rattles and other noisemakers as they pray.
The next time you feel overwhelmed with worries, spend some time in nature. Choose a place that is beautiful and serene; even if you live in a city, a quiet glade of trees is often only a train ride away. Bring with you a small offering of fruit or a flower for Kuan Yin.
When you reach your destination, take some time to walk around. The act of walking suggests the passage of time: Time will pass and so will your problems, as difficult as that may be to believe.
When you find a quiet spot where is in unlikely you will be disturbed, sit and unburden yourself to Kuan Yin. State aloud what is bothering you and why. She will understand, compassionate goddess that she is. Take your time. Remember, the act of saying Kuan Yin's name aloud is believed to bring peace to even the most troubled of hearts.
When you have finished, leave the goddess your offering - and thank Kuan Yin for her help.
This information about the goddess Kuan Yin came from my enchanting book:
Embracing the Goddess Within by Kris Waldherr.
This is a lovely book and has been a wonderful addition to my collection of pagan
Reference: http://alchemy-and-alchemists.blogspot.com
LOUIS N. HIKEN, SBN 45337
Attorney at Law
One Sansome Street, Suite 900
San Francisco, California 94104
Tel: (415)705-6460 Fax: (415)
705-6444
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
United States of America,
Plaintiff,
v.
Stephen Paul Dunifer,
Defendant
No. C 94-3542 CW
DEFENDANT'S MOTION IN
OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF'S
MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY
INJUNCTION
Date: December 2, 1994
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Place: Courtroom 2
1301 Clay Street,
Oakland
Introduction
There is no emergency in this case. The plaintiffs,
themselves, argue that Steven Dunifer has been broadcasting
for at least one and 1/2 years with low power wattage. The
FCC has had pending before it for that entire period of time
pleadings which challenge their regulatory scheme. Rather
than responding to those pleadings, and the issues raised
therein, the FCC now comes to this court seeking an
injunction.
The declarations filed by the plaintiffs indicate that
they are scrupulously monitoring the broadcasts of Radio Free
Berkeley, and know precisely when and how often it broadcasts.
If there were truly any immediate threat of injury or harm to
anybody, why did they wait for over 18 months to bring it to
this court's attention?
The obvious answer is that there is no immediate harm
posed by Radio Free Berkeley's broadcasts. There are micro-
radio broadcasters all over the country challenging the FCC's
authority to limit the issuance of radio licenses to only
wealthy commercial broadcasters. The questions posed by this
lawsuit should be resolved through thorough litigation on the
merits of the issues. An injunction as this point would only
reinforce the arbitrary and discriminatory regulatory scheme
enacted by the FCC. It would deny what little non-commercial
democratic voice exists over the airwaves and it would protect
no interests that require immediate protection.
Argument
On June 1, 1993, the F.C.C. issued a Notice of Apparent
Liability (N.A.L.) against defendant Stephen Dunifer, in which
the F.C.C. sought to impose a forfeiture of $20,000 against
defendant for allegedly engaging in two unlicensed low power
FM broadcasts. On June 28, 1993, defendant filed his Response
to the N.A.L. A copy of that Response is attached hereto as
exhibit A. We excerpt from that Response:
"The Federal Communications Commission (F.C.C.)
policies with regard to micro radio broadcasting have
failed to keep pace with the rapid proliferation of
technological advances in the field of communication.
The F.C.C.'s current regulatory scheme completely
prohibits micro radio broadcasters and their
listeners from accessing the public airwaves. To
enforce this absolute prohibition, the F.C.C. is
relying upon regulations, and case law applying the
regulations, which were intended solely for
application to large-scale, commercial broadcasters,
and which were promulgated long before the advent of
the technology that makes possible micro radio;
indeed, even before the advent of FM broadcasting.
The F.C.C.'s application of these regulations
violates the First Amendment rights of individuals
seeking to exercise those rights via methods and
mediums that were technologically impossible when the
regulations were created.
The cost of owning and operating a radio station has
skyrocketed into the hundreds of thousands and even
million dollar range, and participation in the
broadcast media has thereby become limited only to
large corporations. The individual seeking to
communicate and listen to others over the airwaves in
his or her local community is completely left out of
the licensing scheme if he or she cannot afford the
expenses entailed in purchasing, obtaining a license
for and operating a commercial broadcast station with
at least 100 watts of power.
Micro radio provides a format by which ordinary
people can communicate with one another over the
airwaves without interfering with the rights of
large-scale, F.C.C. licensed commercial stations or
their listeners. The F.C.C., however, has not
provided a means by which persons wishing to avail
themselves of this new technological opportunity can
legally do so. The problem is not that micro radio
broadcasters are refusing to comply with F.C.C.
licensing procedures. Rather, the fundamental
problem is that the F.C.C. has not provided
procedures by which micro radio broadcasters can
become licensed or authorized. Instead, the F.C.C.
is applying severe administrative and criminal
sanctions, intended for application to large-scale,
commercial operators, to micro radio broadcasters
with the goal of completely precluding all such
broadcasts. The very notion of assessing a $20,000
forfeiture against Mr. Dunifer, an individual with no
prior F.C.C. violations, accused of transmitting two
low-power, non-commercial broadcasts of approximately
1 hour duration, is ludicrous.
It is the obligation of the F.C.C. to construct and
enforce its regulatory framework in such a way as to
safeguard the First Amendment right of free speech
for all persons, regardless of their economic power.
By totally prohibiting low-power micro radio, the
F.C.C. has failed to comply with its congressional
mandate to regulate the airwaves in the public
interest, has exceeded the limits of the power
conferred upon it by Congress, and is violating the
constitutional rights of micro radio broadcasters and
their listeners." Response to N.A.L., N.A.L./Acct.
No. 315SF0050, SF-93-13555, at pp. 1-2. [Footnote
omitted, emphasis in original].
After the F.C.C. denied defendant's June 28, 1993 request
for relief, defendant, pursuant to 47 C.F.R. SS1.115, filed
with the F.C.C. an Application for Review of Action Taken
Pursuant To Delegated Authority. That Application set forth,
in detail, the constitutional and procedural arguments as to
why the F.C.C.'s N.A.L in defendant's case, as well as the
absolute ban of all low-power FM broadcasting, is illegal.
A copy of that document is attached hereto as exhibit B
and incorporated herein by reference. As of the date of this
filing, the F.C.C. has not acted upon that Application for
Review. At footnote 21 of the Application, defendant asks the
F.C.C. to provide defendant with any rules or authority that
would permit him to seek and obtain F.C.C. authorization to
engage in low-power FM broadcasts. The F.C.C. has not
responded to that request for the simple reason that no
regulations exist by which defendant or any other citizen can
apply for or be granted F.C.C. authorization to engage in low
power FM broadcasts.
Defendant's formal application for F.C.C. review has been
pending for nearly a year and a half with absolutely no
response or action by the F.C.C. In July of this year, the
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down the entire
administrative fine structure upon which the F.C.C. relied to
levy its $20,000 fine against plaintiff. Now, plaintiff comes
to this Court seeking the extraordinary relief of a Temporary
Injunction, claiming imminent and irreparable harm.
In his Answer to the plaintiff's Complaint, Defendant
will set forth in detail the constitutional and procedural
reasons why the F.C.C.'s regulatory scheme must be rejected by
this Court. At this juncture, however, there are several
compelling reasons why this Court should reject plaintiff's
request for injunctive relief:
1) The F.C.C., itself, has pending before it documents
which seek to permit Mr. Dunifer to broadcast with low-power
transmissions. They have been sitting on those documents for
over a year without acting on them. They should be compelled
to respond to those arguments, even if their response is to be
in the negative, before seeking the assistance of this court.
2) Evidence to be presented at hearing will demonstrate
that Mr. Dunifer, if authorized to broadcast at a low-power
frequency by the F.C.C. can insure that agency that his
transmissions will not interfere with emergency channels, or
with other licensed broadcasters. The transmitters he has
created possess the same ability to insure filtering and
frequency accuracy as any officially approved by the F.C.C.
Because of the F.C.C.'s current licensing scheme which
completely prohibits all low power FM broadcasting, there are
no means by which Mr. Dunifer can get formal approval to
broadcast with these transmitters. At trial, expert evidence
will be presented to demonstrate the adequacy of these devices
to broadcast without interference.
On the rare occasions in the past when Free Radio
Berkeley broadcasts did possibly interfere with another
channel, it immediately went off the air, corrected any
problem that caused the interference or moved to a frequency
where such interference would not occur.
The Communications Act of 1934, section 324, requires
that broadcasters use the "minimum amount of power necessary
to carry out the communications desired" for their broadcasts.
Instead of authorizing micro-broadcasting, the F.C.C. licenses
stations with tens of thousands of watts. These high-power
stations (some of which are as powerful as 100 kilowatts)
result in frequent reception difficulties due to the
overloading of the FM receivers possessed by many individuals,
thereby preventing the reception of nearby F.C.C. licensed
broadcast signals of a lessor power. This problem results in
a much greater degree of interference than anything that could
be accomplished by a micro-broadcaster.
At trial, defendant will offer expert testimony to
support his representation that his transmitters meet all
technical requirements which are constitutionally imposed by
the F.C.C.
3) Mr. Dunifer is currently accused of broadcasting for
a 3-hour period once a week from the Berkeley Hills. In an 18
month period, the F.C.C. has cited to only two possible
occasions when they believe Mr. Dunifer interfered with
another station. Evidence at trial will demonstrate that many
stations actually licensed by the F.C.C. regularly interfere
with other potential broadcasters more frequently than any
interference alleged to have been caused by Mr. Dunifer, and
with more harmful results.
4) Plaintiffs cite to this Court the Ninth Circuit's
decision in U.S. v. Nutri-Cology, 982 F.2d 394 (1992) for the
proposition that the government has met their burden of
showing the "irreparable injury" required before this Court
can grant the Temporary Injunction. As that decision clearly
states, however, the fact that a statutory violation is
alleged does not relieve the government of its obligation to
make a showing of irreparable injury. 982 F.2d 394,398.
Indeed, in Nutri-Cology, both the district court and the Ninth
Circuit found the government had failed to make an adequate
showing of irreparable injury, and both courts denied the
government's request for injunctive relief. A primary factor
in the Court's decision was that the statutory violation
alleged was "substantially disputed, and has been disputed
since 1982." 982 F.2d 394,398. Also of importance to the Court
was the considerable delay in the government's seeking relief.
982 F.2d 394, 396. Immediately following the passage quoted by
plaintiffs in their Points and Authorities Memorandum (p.6),
the Court stated:
"However, in statutory enforcement cases where the
government can make only a "colorable evidentiary
showing" of a violation, the court must consider the
possibility of irreparable injury." 982 F.2d 394,398.
In the present case, as in Nutri-Cology, the alleged
statutory violation is disputed, and has been consistently
disputed from the inception of the still-pending
administrative proceedings. Furthermore, the only injury
alleged by the government here consists of the two minor
incidents in which Free Radio Berkeley has been said to have
interfered with the licensed broadcasts of a high school radio
station late on a Sunday night. As defendant has repeatedly
pointed out to the F.C.C. (see exhibits A and B), the agency's
allegations of potential interference with aircraft
navigational broadcasts have never been documented, and are
spurious.
If there is irreparable harm to be found in this case, it
is the on-going policy of the F.C.C. to license only the rich,
and a handful of educational institutions, that creates such
harm. Technology currently exists to allow thousands of
Americans to have access to the airwaves in ways that could
assure their democratic use and a meaningful voice in the
democratic process. Instead, the F.C.C. has created a system
whereby the public listens, and the elite broadcast.
Allowing Steven Dunifer to continue broadcasting within a
5 - 30 watt limit on a frequency that is not being used by
other licensed broadcasters poses a threat to no one. Mr.
Dunifer is willing to inform the F.C.C. as to what frequency
he will be broadcasting from, and what the wattage will be, if
the F.C.C. will permit him the opportunity to continue
broadcasting during the pendency of these proceedings. This
court has the power and discretion to seek such a compromise
from the F.C.C. during these proceedings. Such would provide
an excellent test case regarding the opposing assertions made
by the parties herein. The F.C.C. has refused to acknowledge
that there could be safe, non-interfering micro-power
broadcasts, and have made no provisions for authorizing them.
The myriad of constitutional violations set forth in
exhibits A and B, which arise as a result of the F.C.C.'s
decision to preclude the poor from having any access to the
airwaves, must not be sanctioned by this court. There are
numerous less restrictive alternatives to the current
licensing scheme enforced by the F.C.C. that would provide the
American people with use of the airwaves.
For the reasons set forth in the Response and Application
currently pending before the F.C.C., their request for a
Temporary Injunction should be denied. The F.C.C.'s current
regulations result in the prior restraint of speech, the
suppression of diverse ideas, and the unavailability of the
airwaves for democratic communications in this country. Those
are the rights which defendant seeks to vindicate in this
proceeding, and he should not be cut short at this stage by
the unfounded accusations of the plaintiffs.
DATED: "at San Francisco, California.
Respectfully submitted,
LOUIS N. HIKEN, SBN 45337
Attorney for Defendant
United States Telephone Association v. F.C.C., No. 92-1321, No. 93-1526,
1994 U.S. App. Lexis 17002.
Had defendant, rather than plaintiff, come to this Court seeking
injunctive or declaratory relief, the F.C.C. would be vehemently urging
denial of review pending exhaustion of administrative remedies. In fact, in
a very similar case, Dougan v. F.C.C., 94 C.D.O.S. 2735, No. 92-70734 (9th
Cir. 1994) the F.C.C. argued to the Ninth Circuit that the only avenue for
judicial review in these cases is appeal to the District Court after the
F.C.C. has initiated formal enforcement proceedings to seize the forfeiture
amount.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
-1-
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Tags: map of easter myth enoch jewish how to do magic spells team america aids aids aid john smallman tools uk how to make light work experiment
The cards are not to be sold without the book.
If the book can be printed without illustrations it need not
cost more than [L]300.
If Lady Harris likes, she can give it away with the cards, I do
not want any money out of it: and she can say she wrote it, I don't
care.
But I will not allow the cards to be issued so that they can be
used only for gambling or fortune-telling.
The new catalogue, full of grotesque blunders which discredit
the scholarship of the Work, must be withdrawn.
.PA
[Actually written by Crowley, to himself; the "SOCIETY" is
fictitious as such.]
An open letter to Alestair Crowley
SOCIETY OF HIDDEN MASTERS
Dear Sir
For many years we have watched your career with benevolent
interest; wile we have been unable to approve many of your
activities in particular your policy of revealing secret knowledge
which we consider dangerous if in the possession of untrained and
uninitiated people. We have always respected your passionate
integrity, your fanatical (AND IN OUR OPINION, INDISCREET) love of
Truth.
I our view, this mistaken policy has been responsible for many
of your own personal mishaps. For this reason we re surprised that
you should acquiesce, even by silence, in so blatant and impudent a
hoax as the exhibition of Tarot Cards at the Royal Society of
Painters in Water Colours, 26/7 Conduit Street, W.1. beginning 4th
August 1942.
We hereby challenge you to deny any of the statements here
following:-
1. During the winter of 1898/9 you were entrusted by the Order of
A..A.. with the Secret Lecture on the Tarot, giving the initiated
attributions.
2. You published these attributions at the command of the Secret
Chiefs of the order in a Book of Reference numbered 777 in 1909.
3. You issued the Official Lecture of the Order on the Tarot, in the
Equinox Vol. I Nos VII and VIII, March and September 1912.
4. You have made the Tarot your continual study and used it daily,
since the Winter of 1898/9.
5. You have made the Tarot the skeleton or schema of all your
writings on mystical and magical subjects. We would instance
particularly "AMBROSIA", "MAGI HORTUS ROSARUM" (THE WAKE-WORLD),
"THE VISION AND THE VOICE", "THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MAGICK".
6. You have been recognized everywhere in Europe and America (even,
to a less extent, in India) as the supreme Authority on the Tarot;
that is, by serious students of the subject.
7. You have contemplated the construction and publication of a
properly designed and executed pack, based on the Equinox
information ever since the issue of the grotesque and falsified
parody which appeared under the auspices of the later A.E. Waite.
6. In a series of conversations in 1937 beginning at Mr. Clifford
Bax' chambers in Albany St., W.1., you suggested to Lady Harris that
she might be able to carry out this work. Although she very rightly
protested that her knowledge of the subject hardly extended beyond
the name, you, with the imbecile optimism characteristic of you,
persuaded her that the descriptions of the cards given in the
Equinox would be sufficient guide, and persuaded her to make the
attempt.
9. It became obvious almost at once that the Equinox designs were
artistically impracticable. Lady Harris very properly asked you to
take the whole subject in hand ab ovo esque ad umbilicum. You
thereupon agreed to devote your whole knowledge to the work of
designing an entirely original pack of cards, incorporating the
results of your 39 years of constant study of the subject with your
profound-if at times unacceptably unorthodox-knowledge of
comparative religion, mathematical physics, philosophy and Magick.
Also nthat you should compose a Treatise explaining the subject in
full. It appears from a notice in the Exhibition that there is a
proposal to publish the cards as a pack without this book. To do so
would limit their use to fortune-telling, a form of fraud against
which you have constantly set your face your whole life long. We
refuse to believe that you have now consented to prostitute the
Sacred Wisdom of Thoth to this base and dishonest purpose and we
insist upon this point being made clear.
10. On May 11, 1938, Lady Harris became officially your disciple,
and was permitted to affiliate to the other Order of which you are
Head, the O.T.O.
11. You made an agreement with Lady Harris by which you were to have
a 66 2/3% interest in the work.
12. For the next four years approximately, Lady Harris prepared
water-colours of the cards. She did this from your rough sketches
and descriptions under your continual direction, subject to your
constant and repeated corrections. In some cases you made her redraw
and re-paint a card which you found unsatisfactory as many as five
or six times. She has, when left to herself, no sense of dignify or
congruity; one of us has seen some attempts which you rejected, for
instance, her ideal figure for "THE FOOL", the Holy Ghost, was Harpo
Marx. Did you really pass this and Trump I? She gave the Sphinx in
Trump X a French cabahy sabre! And her first conception of "The Lord
of the Winds and the Breezes; the King of the Spirits of the Air",
was a clown in plate armour, waving rapier and dagger, sprawling
over a demented nag, diving through a paper screen in a circus!
13. You left Lady Harris a comparatively free hand in respect of
insignificant details; but at no time did she contribute a single
idea of any kind to any card, and she is in fact almost as ignorant
of the Tarot and its true meaning and use as when she began. We
cannow however, blame you for this.
14. You have followed with as much fidelity as was possible the
traditional designs of the mediaeval packs; but you have notably
enriched and revivified some of them, especially the Trumps, with
your scholarship, as observed above in paragraph 9.
15. In every trump you have not only incorporated symbols
illustrating the doctrines of Payne Knight, Hargrave Jennings,
Arthur Eddington, J.G. Frazer, Bertrand Russell, J.W.N. Sullivan,
Eliphaz Levi and how many others! -but introduced very many ideas
purely personal to yourself and based on your own personal magical
experience-see "THE VISION AND THE VOICE", "THE PARIS WORKING" etc.
16. In certain cases, in order to make sure that your doctrine of
the New Aeon is clearly manifest as the spiritual-magical basis of
the whole work, you have given new names to the cards. Notably
Trumps XI, XIV, and numerous "SMALL" cards. You have made the final
correction to the attributions-Trumps IV and XVII, according to the
Book fo the Law given to you in Cairo April 8, 9, and 10 1904. You
have used "THE STELE OF REVEALING" (SEE "THE BOOK OF THE LAW" Chap.
I 49, III 19) to replace "THE LAST JUDGMENT" (TRUMP XX) to affirm
the supersession of the Aeon of Osiris the Dying God by that of
Horus the Crowned and Conquering Child. The entire composition is
soaked in and reeks of your own private and personal point of view
with regard to Magick.
17. You undertook this Work with two main motives:-
1. That it should serve as a Magical Atlas of and Guide to the
Universe, for this "NEW AEON OF HORUS", that is, for the next
2,000 years.
2. That its undeniable beauty and majesty should be an
intelligible vindication of the whole of your life's work.
You rightly foresaw that sooner or later it would be clear
that you are the sole responsible author of the Work and Lady
Harris only your more or less docile and intelligent
instrument.
18. You and Lady Harris were at first agreed that the Work should be
put forth anonymously. She wrote to a friend "I intend to remain
anonymous when the cards are shown". You had, of course, pointed out
that any student of the subject would recognise your authorship at a
glance.
19. Too well aware that in the past your work has been stolen and
exploited by unscrupulous rascals and also that doctrinal argument
of a lightly technical kind may all too frequently prove rather hard
for a jury, you took the precaution of introducing certain symbols
into the designs of susch a character that the most stupid would be
compelled to acknowledge your authorship of the Work.
Your conduct is abominable and inexcusable to allow Lady Harris
to issue a catalogue crammed with the grossest errors of fact,
blunders of scholarsip, irrelevancies and absurdities; to allow her
to make herself the laughing-stock of London by larying claim to the
authorship of pictures of which all artists know her to be utterly
incapable, her work having been that of a wealthy amateur persistent
enough to acquire a good technique but with no personality, no
"MESSAGE" groping in Bloomsbury forgs for the parasitic adulation of
a gaggle of sycophants.
We can understand your passionate wish to get these cards
exhibited, even by a subterfuge, but you had no right to sacrifice
Lady Harris and you have no right to lend yourself, even by silence
to the perpetration of a hoax transparent and nausient as it must
naturally be, which affects the honour of the Fraternity of Art and
Letters.
We repeat that we are surprised; for whatever your faults, you
have always been honourable and truthful with more than ancient
Roman rigour. You must speak now.
for the Society of Hidden Masters.
Justus M.
Sic vos non vobis.
Sunur evique.
.PA
[1st page of letter missing-this is Crowley's "REPLY" to the letter
from the Society of Hidden Masters.]
Their estimate in paragraph 6 is exaggerated: it depends on the
definition of "serious students."
Nor would it be useful to deny them, as in every case their
truth is guaranteed by evidence independent of my asseveration,
internal evidence of documents easily accessible.
"I do however most strenuously deny participation in the hoax.
This was perpetrated by Lady Harris without my knowledge or consent;
I only learnt of the exhibitions, in the first case several days
after the opening, from information supplied by loyal friends.
This letter is to authorize and to request you to publicize its
substance, either by a letter addressed to the Times and other
newspapers, or as you in your best judgment may see fit.
Believe me,
Gentlemen,
Yours faithfully,
Aleister Crowley
Tags: psychic predicti judaism messianic pic firefly firefly gem guide pocket reference john sherwin chris sherwin greg sherwin candles magic candle magic love spells
The two "Any Witch Way" centers are complete except for the eyelashes. My photos are not the best but you can see how bright and fun the colors are. I used a "Fairy Frost" fabric in green and peach for the witches' faces. I love how the sheen shows up, even in these so-so photos!
This one below was the first one I put together. Again, the colors are not true. I'll take another shot of each in daylight once I get the borders/quilting done. All of the fabrics for the hats and hair I bought at JoAnn's as fat quarters. I love this black and white print that reads gray and has flowers and birds-kind of spooky looking I thought.
And below is a closeup of the black hat fabric with the gray swirls. The black multiprint I had in my stash and also the pink for the lips.
I've had lots of fun with this project though it is definitely not for a beginner-I counted 19 pieces for each witch! My witches seem to have very long chins but most witches do, don't they?
Tags: messianic musings another point of view mastering astral projection magic spell love what political views do i have plantel no
Man has always been fascinated with the Moon and it's effects on the human consciousness. On Full Moon nights, something happens to us. With the initiation of the trance dance experience Full Moon nights turn out to be unforgettable experiences ranging across the spectrum of extreme polarities. There are some of us who take the opportunity to rejuvenate our connection with the Moon, dancing to the mystical vibe we collectively create when we come together on higher ground of collective consciousness. The beauty of our thoughts manifests as our collective experience as we individually transcend our acquired identities and commune as ONE, Cosmic Spirit ! Infinite ! We see everyone as reflections of the ONE divine source of all creation ! Everything is God ! God is Love ! Love is All !
One of the biggest Full Moon Festivals is the Full Moon Festival, Germany held each year at a picturesque location in Germany for a period of 4 days. They have a Psychedelic / Full On Stage, a Progressive-Electronic Stage, a Chill Out-Ambient Stage and this year they had a special Dark Psychedelic Stage with about 150 major Global Artists spinning foot stomping music non stop for 4 days ! Organizing a festival as big as this takes a whole lot of planning and ensuring all accounts are taken care of. You can see the details about the festival on their home page.
The Boom Festival Portugal has come really strong over the years bringing together music, art and creative innovation to all these wonderful people from all cultures of the world. The Healing Area was a novelty at Boom 2008. With therapies and holistic projects being held every day, a new concept of entertainment was being made at Boom. Going to Boom Festival should be on your things to do list !
Nepal has an ancient heritage of Shamanic rituals on Full Moon Nights. One of Nepal's most famous religious places of pilgrimage is Gosainkunda lake situated at an altitude of about 4312 m. Surrounded by high mountains on the north and east, this lake is grand and picturesque. Every year during Janai Purnima in August, thousands of Hindu pilgrims come here for pilgrimage and it is quite a sight.
The large rock in the center of the lake is said to be the remains of a Shiva shrine and it is also claimed that channel carries water from the lake directly to the tank at the Kumbheshwar Temple in Patan, 60 km to the south. Shamans ("Dhami") come from all over Nepal arrive to the lake and on full moon night.
There is much dancing and singing. This day is considered holy by the shamans whereby apprentices or "Jhankris" graduate into full shamans. Trekking in August can be a bit wet as the monsoon is at its last stages, but the greenery is at its best and since it is not peak season, it is best for people who do not want to be part of the crowd.
There are many more Full Moon Festivals and we shall cover each of these individually, including the BoOm Festival which deserves an exclusive article to it's name !
((( We are One... BoOm )))
Tags: beltaine 2013 bush storm clouds on horizon cientific revolution enlightenment revolution connected blood sacrifice paganism the lord hears the cry of the poor blessed be the lord magickal talisman audio book book dvd free indexed urantia version
