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Post by LorrB on Nov 2, 2011 8:39:17 GMT 9.5
I tried it but couldn't see a thing. Will try again tonight, just in case
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Post by paul on Nov 17, 2011 14:53:45 GMT 9.5
I noticed this: “Though my body is without the wings of the colorful phoenix, I need not fly there to be with you but will communicate with you mentally as if through the sacred unicorn” (from an untitled seven character regular verse by Li Shangyin, a renowned poet in the Tang Dynasty). This verse has remained one of the most frequently chanted poems for thousands of years. www.pureinsight.org/node/218
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Post by cwhite on Nov 28, 2011 4:37:10 GMT 9.5
Just came across this pic of Shiva and thought I'd share. Kinda reminds me of Baphomet.
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Post by paul on Nov 28, 2011 5:48:11 GMT 9.5
Nice
Does it imply that Shiva is a sea god?
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Post by Henka on Nov 28, 2011 7:40:59 GMT 9.5
No Paul, it represents Shiva as Destroyer, not sea god.
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Post by LorrB on Nov 28, 2011 9:26:09 GMT 9.5
In that picture I see the fire that destroys so that regeneration is possible. Sychronistic that cwhite should post it while paul is talking about the phoenix. Note the 7 'offices' or 'officers'. Can't help but notice that half the image is in darkness and half in light, just like our lodges.
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Post by paul on Dec 12, 2011 17:46:53 GMT 9.5
So what mythological being(s) would be associated with Masonry?
Apart from KS of course.
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Post by paul on Dec 13, 2011 10:50:54 GMT 9.5
What about the lion?
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Post by paul on Jan 27, 2012 8:55:46 GMT 9.5
I have a friend who does spiritual portraits. She did one for a girl she had met once for a few minutes. The portrait contained a large egg, that the artist identified as dragon's egg.
When the portrait was delivered it turned out that the girl has a fascination with dragons, always drawing them.
For those interested in dragons, this particular dragon uses the entire South Pacific as its nest. The stones and sand of the beaches around the rim of the South Pacific are the edges of its nest. Have an inward look to see if you can locate the dragon.
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Post by paul on Feb 7, 2012 12:35:19 GMT 9.5
Any attempts to see the "dragon"? There are some forumites that it rather likes.
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Post by stewart edwards on Feb 7, 2012 18:21:00 GMT 9.5
I am hopeless at RV Paul but here goes anyway.
As you look at a mental picture of the pacific rim, as of 08.46 GMT 7 Feb, there is a cluster around the ssw point. When I check oceonographic charts I am going to prove myslef an idiot here, but I think that the fresh cold deep waters from the anctaractic gyre and significant, but that does not make intuitive sense as the mental image is more in your neck of the woods, where the water is warmer, mind you that is only surface water.
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Post by paul on Feb 7, 2012 19:03:00 GMT 9.5
The "dragon" has put its "tail" in a long estuary at the SSW. I have a friend staying there at present.
A good call Stewart.
The dragon is not alone there. A Makara showed up there a couple of years ago and Ceres was wandering around for a bit too.
As you note, proximity to Antarctica is relevant but perhaps more for cosmic energetic reasons.
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Post by sekhmet on Feb 8, 2012 14:55:35 GMT 9.5
I admit to a fascination with the great salamander Oromasis, Who was supposed to have been the deity of the Zoroastrians. It must have been a mighty priestess indeed, who mated with him and birthed his child!
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Post by paul on Feb 8, 2012 15:10:12 GMT 9.5
I had not heard the name Oromasis before. I will keep an eye/ear open.
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Post by sekhmet on Feb 9, 2012 11:40:20 GMT 9.5
You have in fact heard it; more probably spelled "Ormuzd". It is said the Zoroastrians have a sacred fire that has been kept burning continuously for over 2000 years. That is a remarkable feat by any standard.
Another being that appeared early in my "ordeal" was the "uroboros" or how I in particular spelled it at the time: "Auroboros".
This version of the spelling I contrived in 1992, as an ex-boyfriend can well attest. I never saw it spelled this way anywhere else before so I can rightfully make the claim that at the time this particular variation of the spelling of the word was my exclusive "property".
Now I see it has been usurped by a rock band, which appears to be making a name for itself. I sincerely hope the symbol does for them what it did for me: introduced me to the Universal Cause and made me into Her priestess.
The funny thing about all this was that it was a rock band that started me on this most remarkable of journeys, under the aegis of the Hebrew letter "Daleth". ("door")
I will remark here that in my early days of training, when a physical "master' needed to be present, I once participated in an evocation of the Intelligence of Netzach.
My physical eyes did not see anything much that could not have been attributed to a trick of the candlelight, but there was a definite sense of a presence in the room that had not been there before the Name was invoked.
Now that I think of that long-ago event, I rather think that the one event may well have spawned the other, since , after all, anyone who knows their Qabalah as they should would have immediately spotted the fact that "daleth" is the letter associated with both the Sephirah Netzach ("Victory"), and with the planet Venus.
Thus "the nature of my assignment" was "The Things We Do for Love."
The ideal to be attained was a realization of the need to transmute bodily appetites and karmas into spiritual currency; as Dion Fortune put itin more euphemistic terms: when the aspirant has gotten his animal nature under full control of the Will and has developed a measure of objectivity about it.
It is only them one can participate in the "play of God", as the Hindus put it;
Or, 'take part in the play of the Mother" as Ramakrishna used to put it.
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Post by paul on Feb 9, 2012 12:04:15 GMT 9.5
I have indeed heard of Ormuzd - even in the form of Mazda
As for a fire burning for 2000 years, it rather reminds me of the alleged alchemical flame that requires no fuel
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Post by paul on Feb 9, 2012 15:03:45 GMT 9.5
The "dragon" has put its "tail" in a long estuary at the SSW. I have a friend staying there at present. I do not recall any close encounter with a "dragon" before. In that respect I note that 2012 is the Chinese year of the dragon www.about-sichuan-china.com/year-of-the-dragon.html"the Han Chinese still call themselves the descendants of the Dragon."
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Post by LorrB on Feb 10, 2012 7:43:03 GMT 9.5
My husband refers to me as the dragon sometimes ... ;D
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Post by LorrB on Feb 10, 2012 7:48:09 GMT 9.5
The ideal to be attained was a realization of the need to transmute bodily appetites and karmas into spiritual currency; as Dion Fortune put itin more euphemistic terms: when the aspirant has gotten his animal nature under full control of the Will and has developed a measure of objectivity about it. It is only them one can participate in the "play of God", as the Hindus put it; Or, 'take part in the play of the Mother" as Ramakrishna used to put it. A perfect example of the work in the First Degree of Freemasonry - voluntarily undertaken by the Sons of the Widow. Looks like we might be speaking the same language Sekhmet.
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Post by sekhmet on Feb 10, 2012 8:23:40 GMT 9.5
I am glad you finally noticed that fact! :-)
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