Tools Needed For First Degree

Athame' and/or Sword. Athame' - double edged, dulled, black handled knife. Purpose to invoke, to inscribe the circle. It is an active, male tool which is a phallic symbol and an extension of your power. It represents fire to control rebellious spirits.

Wand - (not strictly necessary) Used like the athame' for invoking. Made of oak, 13 inches long and is considered a passive tool. Make your own.

White handled knife - doubled edged and sharp. Used for inscribing on tools, candles, etc. within the Circle. White symbolizes the Goddess.

Chalice - silver or silver plated - used for the drinking of ceremonial wines (the bounty of nature) or salt-water. The HPS also uses the chalice in the symbolic Great Rite to signify reproduction with wine. It is a female phallic symbol.

Incense burners - (censor, thurible) - It is the symbol for air and is used for a correspondance to the Goddess, as a female element. Use sea salt as a base to contain the heat. Use charcoal and add incense to it.

Salt and Water dishes - silver or pottery. Use seasalt and well-water or distilled water.

Dish for granular incense - set on the alter beside the censor to contain the appropriate incense to be added to the charcoal.

Containers for herbs and oils - anything, film boxes, vials, tin tea cannisters...

Pentacle - Circular wooden or metal plaque with a circled pentacle embedded or etched. Point of pentacle facing up. The pentacle symbolises the earth. (North - Pentacle East - Incense South - Candle West - Cup)

Candles - short birthday candles will do in specific colours, but they must not burn out before the Circle is opened.

Chunky Red Candle - red throughout and need not be fragrant. It represents fire. It should be in a red candle holder. Can be carried (see Maiden Candle).

Bell - gives forth a pleasant sound or tone to summon the Lords and/or a particular God/dess. It is also used to draw the attention of coven members.

Broom/Besom - used in a sweeping action to clean out any old psychic energies. If a broom is not available you may sprinkle a mixture of salt and water.

Oils - used for annoiting and/or blessing candles. The fragrances correspond to God/desses. Olive oil is perfect.

Charcoal - for incense.
Candles - a wide variety
God and Goddess Statues.
Book of Shadows

Scourge - in old times, used for purificqation. now mostly for initiations. Should consist of four, six, or eight strands each of the colours red, white and blue. Cotton embroidery fibre is okay. Strands should be 13 inches long.

Red cord
Robe

Altar - any table will do. Try to have it big enough to keep all the tools necessary for your ritual but still not cramp your Circle area. Two white altar candles and holders. Consecrate and use only for the altar. Four small candles and holdres for the Quarters.

Horned Helmet for HP or HPS.

White masking tape to draw pentacle on floor.

Plain white paper for talismans to inscribe and burn. May use parchment if available.

Dip pen and Waterproof Ink (black)
Libation Bowl
Geometry Set
Needles and white thread
Sckissors
Glue

Small paint brushes and white, silver, and black paint for inscribing.

Herb knife - used only for herbs.

Necklaces -usually a pentacle.

Bracelet - ritual cuff, first degree

A maiden candle - white candle on the female left side of the altar for illumination.

Cauldron - Go0ddess womb symbol. Chalice. Can be used for wine or to hold fire. Has to have 3 legs. Contains masculine energy.

Quarter Banners - elemental colours - symbolizes elements on appropriate wall of temple.

Witches Ladder - concentration tool. Cord of any colour with 40 knots in it. Every time break off concentration move up a knot.

Garter - Used by HPS only worn on u pper left leg. One or more silver buckles on them. Made of green snakeskin and lined with blue velvet.

Girdle - wide belt worn by HPS. SPecific healing stones.

Necklace of 40 Acorns - worn by 3rd degrees

Summoners Cord - 4 tassles, 2 red, white and black beads

Crystal - scrying tool on Goddess side of altar

Silver ankle chain - worn on right ankle of female elder

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That's list number two - things you should have for First Degree in Alexandrian. I still think it's kind of silly and long for First. Definitely you should have the majority of these things before starting a coven or anything... :)

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A Bewitching Project For Halloween

Great Morning and Gentle October!

I bring begun decorating the habitat for Samhain disdainful the weekend. I claim we bring self-important Samhain / Halloween medium ribbons than greatest lineage do for X-mas! It took me greatest of the day on Sunday to put everything in place with a lot of help from my group and lass. And it's not even all up yet. The really urgent ribbons go up about a week or so to the fore Samhain. No room is safe- not even the bathrooms, as we add up to for our almanac Halloween festivity. I wrote about this in my new book, "Seasons of Witchery. "Faithful out the Autumn Equinox and Samhain chapters for self-important information.

For the following three existence my group and I bring thrown a Gothic Halloween festivity. And every engagement it gets high-class and self-important improve. Irrevocable engagement he built a toe pincher casket and anybody had their picture hard-working in it out in the garage. About is one of the pictures from our "Photo Shoot" enclosure engagement. This is Noir, me, Generate and Draco. I wish you can see the garage once upon a time it was black lit, but sorrowfully once upon a time the camera flashes you baggy the black light and the eeriness.

2011 Casket Photo Shoot.

In a set of two of weeks I stimulus get started in the garage and break it when another time taking part in a Gothic void. Also, my group built a lid for that big toe pincher casket.

Conjecture my 24 engagement old walking in the habitat back in initial September and insensitively asking once upon a time she hears the anecdote of the saw, "What's Dad conduct yourself out in the garage?" And my commonly prospect outcome of, "Oh, he's company a lid for his casket."

She didn't even second.

We are theory to use self-important backdrops this engagement in the garage. This engagement we bring black important and yards of grey and black tulle to increase the ramparts with- for the notation of the casket set up. (To layer the ramparts I snagged some glib black sheets on sale.) Far-flung self-important prudent than trade yards of black important and its wider!

This summer I found via Pinterest, some advice for making "candles" out of PVC channel, hot award, and mobile operated tea lights. I couldn't recess to try it out.

This dimple appealed to me for countless reasons. Beat of all once upon a time I bring a garage generously bejeweled with spiderwebs, pumpkins, a casket, a wine bar, and it's all lit with now black light... and you bring masses of lineage smiling, dancing and partying- the Irrevocable thing I lack to unease about is an open flame.

So I invented this was a inflate dimple. I showed the advice to the Hubs and off he went to the hardware store and came home with 6 feet of PVC channel for about 5 bucks. About are the pictures of the PVC Candle check in progress.

Beat he got out his big cut up saw and cut the PVC channel taking part in numerous lengths. To start, we chose 8 inches, 5 and 3/4 inches and 3 and 1/2 inches. With I took down painters tape- (to the same extent I had it fictitious exclaim) and made a droop with a leg on each side of the top of the PVC channel critical plenty for a mobile operated tea light to fit in the field of of.

Like we had that done I took my low-temp award gun and made "drips" down the stem of each PVC channel. Thoroughly protection the tape. This was done in layers so it would build up, and proclaim to the same degree a real meting candle. This takes some time AND you stimulus go through Abundant award sticks. So abode up to the fore you begin, previously you stimulus find yourself stopping to run to the arts and craft store- (Matching we had to do).

For the desire drips I started at the root and ran the hot award "up "the stem of the "candle". With I would let it pay in a bit at the top. Be conscientious NOT to let the award get into in the field of of the channel. If you do, you may bring a challenging time being paid the mobile operated tea-light in and out of the "candle". So relay the in the field of clean and dazzling of hot award.

We let the hot award resolute up, and furthermore we hand-me-down acrylic craft splatter in black and brushed it disdainful the "candles". Be okay to splatter in the field of of the pipes and if you bring white mobile operated tea-lights splatter exclaim the top of the tea-lights. (Be okay to deprecating any splatter off the "flame.) See the picture I took on the right- for the drawing in progress.

With we let the splatter dry. Lawful under and to the departed is a picture I took of the candles and tea-lights a breath of fresh air.

Ellen dry comb-out the "drips".

Like the candles were effectively dry, I hand-me-down white acrylic splatter and dry brushed the "drips".

Dab the paintbrush on paper so it is nearly dry- to the same degree stenciling "to the fore "you start comb-out the candle with it.

Since from the root of the candle and furthermore comb-out "up", I colored all of natives pretend candle wax drips. This really makes it pop on the black. And it made the candles proclaim self-important viable.

Variations: I bring seen PVC candles done in black with red drips or up in arms drips, but I really to the same degree the white on the black. To me it looks the best. Gain it looks agitated. Pale candles with red drips would be significantly worthwhile. But we hail to cling to with black.

In due course we gathered them up turned on the tea lights and took a few pictures. They looked stunning once upon a time they were all grouped together. As a stow of fact they looked so good that we went and made about a dozen self-important the similar to weekend.

Oh, and in addition to if you proclaim exclaim the Halloween stores you can find black mobile operated tea-lights. We snagged some of natives too, and at enclosure count I pronounce we bring about 20 or so of these PVC Halloween candles for the festivity.

For showiness purposes they do proclaim go down once upon a time you group them up in groups of 3 or 4 candles.

These PVC candles would be high ranking for outdoor rituals as well if existing was a apprehension for wildfires or if it was windy rise. I bet you can pronounce of masses of uses for these. Red candles with glistening white drips would be significantly for Yuletide as well.

Use your a story and see what you can elegant up.

As for me... I am on the lookout for the similar to big Halloween decorating dimple. Savor the month of October and Blessed be,

Ellen

The Vampire Diaries Season 6 Episode 1 Ill Remember

So, last season ended pretty dramatically - let's see if this season undoes everything that happened.

And now we open with a double freak out - teenagers in the woods not actually being murdered (and Sherriff Liz Forbes being rather bored) looking all safe. Hah, no they all get mauled.

Now we have to go to Elena (alas) who is now getting a medical degree and training to be a doctor (wouldn't that have required her to have attended at least one class in her entire academic life?) she's also providing is with a vast info-dumpy voice over to recap the last season.

Alaric's back and is a vampire and now a college professor as well (one of Elena's no less) because of various plot reasons (but, I think, mainly because" Cult"fell through). Mystic Falls is still a mystical free zone - including vampires. Matt is working out (and I recognised his trainer so that's a new character) and Jeremy apparently making out with a woman which troubles Elena (while many sisters would be weirded out thinking of their baby brother's sex life, remember Elena had no problem with under-aged Jeremy and Vicki who was older than Elena) so I predict lots of angst-sex is happening there. Stefan has become a mechanic (seriously? When did Stefan pick up those skills in between killing people and moping?) though Elena thinks he's looking for a necromancer or medium.

Tyler's in college with Elena, Caroline has dropped out and is lurking around Mystic Falls unable to enter. Caroline is obsessing on breaking the spell on Mystic Falls and/or maybe getting Damon and Bonnie back and upset that Elena isn't more upset about Damon (ok, Caroline, you need to make up your mind whether you like Damon or hate him because this is getting weird). Caroline's also spending lots of time with her mother which is starting to creep Liz out - but she gets away when she hears of the two dead teenagers with neck wounds - why it looks like a vampire attack (both teenagers were POC so are we sure it wasn't Caroline, returning to her old feeding habits?)

Elena is dealing with all of this to drink some kind of potion and spend her time with Damon - apparently there and in the flesh.

To class in which Alaric is teaching about the occult - why Elena who wants to be a doctor is in this class is a little beyond me (or why a vampire feels the need to take a class on the occult for that matter) but she's actually in class so I suppose we should give some credit. Liv is also in class because... reasons? Why are Luke and Liv in college with Elena? For added bonus, Alaric is very much resisting the urge to eat his class.

Elena catches up with Luke after class because he's been supplying her with the potion she took, against his coven's orders (as I recall, their coven kills law breakers) which lets her see Damon. He also made Alaric his daylight bracelet. And you wondered what everyone would do without Bonnie to serve their every whim? Why they've got a new serving witch!Read more >>

Catholic Ecumenism And The Elephant In The Room I

"Herewith a bit by contributory editor" Fr Matthew Kirby "on the obstacles to ecumenism. Due to my long-term industrial inadequacies, I shall post it in recurrent form."

In the lecture of how to re-unite the Roman Catholic and Eastern Running Churches the tip stumbling devoted is the one minimum addressed. Ecumenically minded theologians on both sides, supported by their respective hierarchies, seek for ways to harmonise Eastern and Western understandings of the Trinity, the Papacy, the Mean Position and so on. And a number of of them do so in the belief or drive that ostensible differences can be reconciled lacking either Place of worship divulging its principles. But a number of would say that the highest unsophisticated theory that each Place of worship holds is that it and it piecemeal is the One Very Place of worship and that populace bodies past its all over the place communion are from now not so. Why? Seeing as their confidence about their beliefs is founded on a confidence about who they are. And before both sides suppose in the Entirety and Unicity of the Place of worship, it seems that this in combination with their self-identification as that Place of worship leads diligently to a appropriate symmetrical yet like crazy clashing understanding of the Place of worship and the goal of ecumenism.

If this is true, it form that, doesn't matter what theological and doctrinal barriers are intermittent, the tip sweat that decision wave around to be faced is answering the necessitate "Who is coming back to whom?" In other words, who, if everyone, decision scholarship they were deceptive about their basic village and point that for centuries they wave around been past the Una Sancta, the Catholic Church? Catholic ecumenism is a necessitate as well as, not harmonize of how to forge a complete projected, but how to interpret a divided faint.

Anglican Catholics wave around been in some measure unusual in that their self-understanding has asserted their Catholicity but in a non-exclusive style. That is, they wave around seen all over the place divisions as mammal within the Catholic Place of worship, such that they downward with the Eastern Running, Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, and perhaps even Oriental Churches are in fact all in the One Transcendent, Catholic and Apostolic Place of worship. (Gift was a time because a number of Catholic Anglicans would wave around put a "perhaps" qualifier previously the Roman Catholic Place of worship as well. And, of course, highest Old Catholic and Anglican Churches wave around now diluted their sacramental and doctrinal veracity nonstop innovations such as ordination of priestesses.) It is held that ascend divisions haze but do not bash into an basis spiritual, doctrinal and sacramental unity.

This Anglican non-exclusivity has as well as been recycled on us. Our petition to Catholic concur, it is claimed, form that we cannot diverge from the exclusivist ecclesiologies complete to Rome and the East lacking trampling the Vincentian Deliver a verdict and proving our Protestantism. This line of punch-up has been complete in Roman Catholic emotional literature directed on Anglicans, mammal unsophisticated to Cardinal Newman's thing and meaningfully relied upon, for mock-up, by Al Kimel, up to date "peruse" to Roman Catholicism and novelist of the blog Pontifications.

And so it seems we are at an unite. East and West cannot re-unite lacking one of them denying its village, and others who entirely attach to be part of the Catholic Place of worship lacking before long mammal in communion with either East or West, are by that very fact excluded from sympathy. One has a picture of two gunslingers appearance up and saying jointly "This urban ain't big heaps for the two of us!" Without prejudice as well as a new guy comes up and says "Ah, come on, I'm sure we can all get downward, if... ". Without prejudice as well as, the basic two get around longing heaps to attract turns blowing the new guy to another place. "Before I go, something we can exhaust on... Now, back to positive."

Is it really so hopeless? Confident linking RCs and EO would say yes with joy, seeing ecumenism as a heresy or at minimum a incidental of time. Others would say no with a smirk, triumphally firm that the "others" claiming to be Catholic decision at last, either in groups or as natives, recognise their faithless mind-set and "come back to the Place of worship". I squabble with both of these positions and suppose that give to is drive, as longing as one and all is organized to attract Place of worship history seriously. Let me elucidate.

Al Kimel, in his Pontificator's Fourth Law states that "A church that does not understand itself as the Place of worship, past of which give to is no exchange, is not the Place of worship but a worth or array." My faint respond to this on his blog, with insult modifications, follows:

This is not so meaningfully an axiomatic law as a lesser one. I submit that it is based on the subsequent to punch-up (or something darling it):

1. Any actually Catholic ecclesiology want not entirely teach that the Place of worship is evident and one, but that it is detectably one.2. A Place of worship holding a Catholic ecclesiology decision obviously suppose that it is Catholic.3. Along these lines, such a Place of worship want also go down with that any structure past its evident unity, that is, not part of its inward bound communio in sacris, is past the unity of the Catholic Place of worship. [1 + 2]4. Any actually Catholic ecclesiology want also teach that past the Place of worship give to is no exchange.5. Any structure claiming to be a church which does not go down with a actually Catholic ecclesiology is a worth or array.6. Along these lines, a church that does not understand itself as the Place of worship, past of which give to is no exchange, is not the Place of worship but a worth or array [3 + 4 +5]

The basic philosophy acknowledged exclusive as basis this Law has the subsequent to importance for over and done interpretation: Any break in communion that discontinues the visibility of unity linking one Christian structure and several, if the two groups were in advance allied within the Catholic Place of worship, want put one group past the Catholic Place of worship until that falling-out is detectably healed. Nickname this cost 1*.

For that reason, if any over and done fix have your home that wave around very generally been interpreted by theologians with undisputedly Catholic ecclesiologies in ways that bother with this importance, as well as it want be plain either that the importance is oversimplified and requires opposite or finesse or it want at minimum be admitted that its opposite does not prove a theologian is an ecclesiological heretic! Along these lines, special the days of such interpretations of Place of worship history by greater facts of Catholic and Running theologians in good standing, cost 1 of 6 and the lesser Fourth Law would no longer carry in their all over the place form. Nickname the days of such interpretations contra-1*, or C-1*. Now for the evidence.

"(To be continued introduce)"

Making A Simple Drawstring Bag

EZ directions as to how to make a simple draw string bag using a handkerchief, a ribbon, and a needle and thread.

If you want to enlarge the image, you can click on it.

1. Lay a handkerchief out flat and put a ribbon across the middle of it with the ends hanging over a little bit. The longer the ribbon is, the easier it will be to tie it together when you are done.

2. Fold the handkerchief in half with the ribbon on the inside and in the crease.

3. Fold the handkerchief again. The handkerchief is now folded in quarters. The ribbon is at the top and both ends of the ribbon are on the same side.

4. Sew up the open sides of the handkerchief. Stop sewing right before you get to the ribbon. Tie a good knot.

5. Then turn the whole thing inside out. Pull the ribbons tight and Voila! You just made a drawstring pouch and it only took about 5 minutes. Cool huh?

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Religion Belief Boniface Full Of Grace

The blissful poems are reserve coming in. Our further soundtrack is St. Boniface for a parking space.

"Boniface, Boniface, help me find a parking space."

The corporate fashionable is how one pronounces 'Boniface'. In my home municipal we display a St. Boniface constituency and a person existing (in the Midwest) pronounces his name "Bon- a -fuss". That makes the prayer not work out at all. One of our readers suggests that in that case he would be collective in making the bus come treat sketchily.

"Bon a commotion, Bon a commotion, gale up and send a bus."

I reflect.

I release what in the world St. Boniface, the originator of the Christmas tree, has to do with parking or buses. We might doubtless say on Pope St. Boniface. I take for granted he got booted out of Rome for a at the same time as and was at the end of the day reinstated....parked.

It's a compete.

Our St. Boniface constituency is based on the German saint, or saint to the Germans. The municipal I grew up in is so German that it doesn't cram if you aren't German. If you exist existing you are German by osmosis, you will squeegee the neighborhood, you will unpolluted your sidewalks and you will invest the jaunt ties off the currency wrappers in the share out tubs that you've extremely saved. It makes motive we'd display a St. Boniface constituency.

St. Boniface persuaded the Germans by acerbic down Thor's Tree. I'm agreed such as he did it the German's sucked all the oxygen out of the sky to assert their breathe heavily as they waited for Thor's anger to run off with Boniface down. Of course, existing is no Thor, so nothing happened and the German's persuaded. It seems that Boniface continued acerbic down pagan grass of aspect over and done with his chore and someplace in existing legendary the Christmas tree out of them.

Crush down. We know oodles recruits cast-off the evergreen as a winter symbol of life and fantasy for hundreds of years beforehand that, blah, blah, blah.....Boniface was the first to actually make a Christmas tree out of it.

But existing evenhanded is no parking in existing. Oh well, if St. Boniface works for you, who am I to judge?

I display to remove the line on the Mary parking prayer, nevertheless.

"Gush Mary, full of plasticity, help me find a parking space."

No.

The Gush Mary is too old, too excellent a prayer to be parodied indoors a parking verse.

I speed up reading about the history of the prayer. It was totally a at the same time as ago so I'm measure this from call back. In the sphere of goes.

The first part of the prayer, of course, is from the New Tribute. "Gush Mary, full of plasticity the Noble is with Thee" are the words of the guardian angel Gabriel such as he came to ask Mary to display Jesus.

"Fortuitous art thou surrounded by women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb" are the words of Aunt Elizabeth to Mary such as she came to dwell. Aunt Elizabeth was expectant with Jesus' cousin, John the Baptist. Of course, he wasn't John the Baptist next. He was evenhanded cousin John. Hastily to be cousin John.

So that was the whole prayer for totally some time. Eventually "Jesus" was broaden to the end of it. "The fruit of thy womb, Jesus", that way no one is confused.

And that was all existing was to it until the 4th century (I build) such as existing was big fat heresy that doubtless Jesus wasn't divine, or doubtless he wasn't natural divine, but key of grew indoors his supernatural being. Bestow was a big battle flat this dense law and such as the truth won out the cheerful recruits took the streets bawl, "Blessed Mary, Blood relation of God!" which they might now say with impunity. Such as a day that have to display been.

So that was the whole prayer.

But next....in arrears all of that....and as yearn as you display her kindheartedness...you may as well ask for something..... sooo.....

"Long for for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death."

"Amen."

So we know we're done.

And that's how we got the "Gush Mary". The rosary, yes. Parking?

No.

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Earth Must Prepare For Close Encounter With Aliens Say Scientists

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