Shameless Self Promotion 2

The moment before the sun's rising on the holy day of Fire is the Bull's Dawn.

On this day we give thanks for the Sun, for fire and for knowledge in the traditional way.

Little is said but partners we become forever.

I am all this and more and I am my gift to you.

This new dawn comes for the Age of Man.
It is now the time of the masses to rule their own way.
To make their mark upon the face of the planet.
To all else it is the fear of yesterday ...
becoming tomorrow ..........

There are times in a life, when a single decidion makes changes so huge that we can not know who we are anymore - much less what the outcomes will be.

In times like this we tend to fold up in upon ourselves and become all that we have heard known in the darkest recesses of our species memory.

It doesn't exist,

it has never existed

but it has always been there waiting for me to find it.

I know that now.

Now it knows you too.

I am truly sorry.

Shameless Self Promotion

It has been a long time since I interrupted you mob and said: "But first a word from your sponsor" and then barraged you with my artwork.

That being said - get some!

But first ... a message from your sponsor ...

See?

Sometimes I just can't.
I see the world outside my gate.
I see them swarming all over the place.
They trample everything I hold dear.
They don't think and so how could they care?
Their ignorance is a knife in my dreams.
By slow shaves their folly shows me Grief.
And why my family is so important.
Without them I would not know any different.
And I would not know the comfort of my children's laughter.
I would only hear my own manic giggle.

BaHaRuSu Ina Zonei .... Ana Harrani Sa Alaktasa La Tarat ...

"The passing of the Gates gives the priest both power and wisdom to use it. He becomes able to control the affairs of his life more perfectly than before, and many have been content to merely pass the first three Gates and then sit down and go no further than that, enjoying the benefits that they have found on the preliminary spheres.

But this is Evil, for they are not equipped to deal with the attack from Without that must surely come, and their people will cry unto them for safety, and it will not come forth.

Therefore, set thy face towards the ultimate goal and strive ever onward to the furthest reaches of the stars, though it mean thine own death; for such a death is as a sacrifice to the Gods, and pleasing, that they will not forget their people." - Simon

This world is but one of many despite how much importance we invest it with.

To some it is simply the surface of a lake, through which we may dive to find ourselves elsewhere.

To the skilled few reality is far from singular and far from immutable.

We rip the surface of the real so that the other real may bleed through.

Sometimes we bleed too.

Years ago a friend of mine said: "Every man, woman and child should get a little Crowley in their life" .... I thought about what that might mean and it led me to this .... here is my little Crowley!

I first saw it many years ago, watching me through the white noise between television channels.

It gets angry when I disturb it.

I think he wants to change me.

Sometimes I hear it whispering in the dark after I have turned the set off.

I think it knows where I am.

Well now .. can't say you weren't warned really!

Vatican to punish women priests
From correspondents in Vatican City
May 30, 2008 05:44am
Article from: Reuters

• Vatican issues decree against women priests
• Will excommuninate any woman who are ordained
• Church will also expel bishops who help them

THE Vatican has issued its most explicit decree so far against the ordination of women priests, punishing them and the bishops who try to ordain them with automatic excommunication.The decree was written by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and published in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, giving it immediate effect.

A Vatican spokesman said the decree made the Church's existing ban on women priests more explicit by clarifying that excommunication would follow all such ordinations.
Excommunication forbids those affected from receiving the sacraments or sharing in acts of public worship.

Father Tom Reese, a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Centre at Georgetown University, said he thought the decree was meant to send a warning to the growing number of Catholics who favour admitting women to the priesthood.

"I think the reason they're doing this is that they've realised there is more and more support among Catholics for ordaining women, and they want to make clear that this is a no-no," Father Reese said.

The Church said it cannot change the rules banning women from the priesthood because Christ chose only men as his apostles. Church law states that only a baptised male can be made a priest. Proponents of women's ordination say Christ was only acting according to the social norms of his time.

They cite the letters of Saint Paul, some of the earliest texts of Christianity, to show that women played important roles in the early church.

Attempts to ordain women priests are highly unusual. But the archbishop of St Louis earlier this year declared three women excommunicated after an ordination ceremony in his diocese.
Excommunication is usually "ferendae sententiae", imposed as punishment.

But some offences, including heresy, schism, and laying violent hands on the Pope, are considered so disruptive of ecclesiastical life that they trigger automatic excommunication, or "latae sententiae".

The decree says that women priests and the bishops who ordain them would be excommunicated "latae sententiae".

This was the same excommunication invoked against a renegade African archbishop who also broke Vatican rules when he ordained four married men bishops in 2006.

The archbishop, Emmanuel Milingo, made world headlines in 2001 for getting married himself in Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church at a mass wedding in a New York hotel. His union was never recognised by the Catholic Church.

Well now ... as I say it is not like they can claim that they weren't warned. Beyond teh swift ruthlessness of teh act I can't say that I am surprised.