text: The most significant causes of the American Revolution are the French and Indian War, the Stamp Act of 1765, and Thomas Paine's Common Sense. These three events led to the separation of the colonies from Great Britain in 1776. In 1763 the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War, a costly war between France and Great Britain. After the war ended, Great Britain expected the American colonies to help pay for the debts incurred during the war. This led to new taxes for the colonists, and they were not happy about being expected to pay for a war they did not start. One tax was the Stamp Act passed in 1765 that required colonists to pay for an official government stamp on paper items. The Stamp Act was the first direct tax ever placed on the colonists. They were angry because they had no representation in the Parliament that placed the taxes on them. This idea of 'no taxation without representation' would be a rallying cry for the colonists. The anger over the new taxes found a voice in Thomas Paine's Common Sense. It was a pamphlet that condemned the monarchy and called for a declaration of independence. Common Sense was very influential in getting public support for independence. Six months later the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, officially separating Great Britain from the American colonies. Great Britain angering the colonists by wanting them to pay for the French and Indian War through taxes such as the Stamp Act and Thomas Paine's Common Sense giving voice to that anger are the most significant causes of the American Revolution.


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Hi everyone,
I have found a way to switch window managers from openbox's menu without logging out first. To do so, copy these lines into openbox's menu.xml file (I got them from the menu file which Debian creates automatically when it installs Openbox);
<menu id='/Debian/Window Managers' label='Window Managers'>
<item label='Ctwm'>
<action name='Restart'><execute>ctwm</execute></action>
<item label='FluxBox'>
<action name='Restart'><execute>/usr/bin/startfluxbox</execute></action>
<item label='FVWM'>
<action name='Restart'><execute>/usr/bin/fvwm2</execute></action>
<item label='Restart Openbox' icon='/usr/share/pixmaps/openbox.xpm'>
<action name='Restart'><execute>/usr/bin/openbox</execute></action>
and it should work without any problems; if you want to switch to a different window manager from the ones mentioned here, just replace one of the names and paths mentioned here with the new window manager's name and path.
[EDIT: The original version of this code had an extra </menu> tag at the bottom. It still worked but the "exit" item at the bottom of the menu disappeared.]
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- More details have been released about the education issues to be considered in the upcoming special session.
- The "$1,000 teacher pay raise" has morphed into an increase in average salaries and benefits and a "more flexible and rewarding" system.
- TCTA urges teachers to visit legislators now; you can also write, email, call or attend one of two upcoming rallies.
Top issues
Gov. Greg Abbott has issued the official proclamation for the upcoming special session, which starts Tuesday, July 18, and has released a draft of the supplemental proclamation that covers the additional items he wants lawmakers to consider, including education issues such as a teacher pay raise and vouchers for students with special needs.
When first announcing the special session in June, Abbott referred to a $1,000 teacher pay raise (without additional funding from the state) as well as flexibility in hiring and firing teachers. However, the new draft proclamation is worded quite differently:
Legislation to increase the average salary and benefits of Texas teachers; and legislation to provide a more flexible and rewarding salary and benefit system for Texas teachers.
A recent press release touted the need for a "career ladder," but the legislation has not yet been filed. Including the word "average" strongly implies that not all teachers would receive an increase, and there has been no further mention of whether increased state funding is contemplated. More details will be available when the actual bill is filed.
The draft proclamation includes the other education-related issues that had previously been announced, including the creation of a statewide commission to study school finance, vouchers for students with special needs, and prohibition of payroll deduction for association dues.
Get involved
The good news is that a summer special session means teachers can get more involved. Here's how:
Schedule a meeting with your state senator and representative this week, before the special session begins. Or, you can visit them at the Capitol after the special session starts. Make an appointment and keep your message brief. Let them know you're a constituent, and explain how the issues are affecting you and your colleagues. Once legislators are in Austin, they will be harder to reach and surrounded by lobbyists representing a multitude of interests. Catch them at their home office so you have their full attention.
Write, call or email. Personal visits are always more effective, but legislators and their staff track how many constituents make contact on an issue. Large numbers of communications can be powerful. Take the time to include personal experiences related to the issue, if possible. TCTA will alert you to specific opportunities during the special session.
Attend a rally/march. TCTA is aware of two upcoming events in Austin (click on the links below for more information):
- Texans for Public Education plans a public rally Monday, July 17, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on the south steps of the Capitol. Those attending are encouraged to wear red to show their support for public education.
- March for Public Education-Austin plans a public rally Saturday, July 22, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Capitol. This event serves as a sister rally to a march planned in Washington, D.C.
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Sampling While Drilling: An Emerging Technology
- Authors
- Julian J. Pop (Schlumberger) | Steven Villareal (Schlumberger) | Francois Bernard (Schlumberger) | Martin Baxter (Murphy Sarawak Oil Company) | Ahmad Hakam (Murphy Sarawak Oil Company) | Andrew Firth (Murphy Oil Sarawak) | Amanda Megat (Schlumberger) | Scott Fey (Schlumberger) | Shahid Haq (Schlumberger) | Nitin Vahi (Schlumberger)
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- Society of Petroleum Engineers
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- SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering
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- Publication Date
- May 2014
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- 128 - 140
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- English
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- 2014.Society of Petroleum Engineers
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- 1.6 Drilling Operations, 1.10 Drilling Equipment, 1.11 Drilling Fluids and Materials
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- drilling, oil-based mud, fluid sampling, contamination
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Even though it is the early days of the realization of sampling while-drilling (SWD) as a service, a picture of what might be achievable in practice is beginning to emerge. Previous SWD experience has demonstrated that the sampling process may be controlled sufficiently well that relatively clean samples may be acquired when sampling aquifers drilled with water-based muds (WBMs), and it has demonstrated that the SWD tool and sensors used are capable of operating effectively while withstanding the drilling process. On the basis of this experience, operational guidelines have been formulated, particularly regarding the most opportune time to sample during the drilling process. The first part of the paper describes SWD in a high-angle appraisal well drilled to assess the continuity and quality of several target sands and to establish the degree of continuity of these sands with the main field. The well was drilled by use of an oil based mud (OBM). Samples would be acquired after the well had reached total depth so that the most appropriate sampling points could be identified by means of openhole logs. Multiple water-, oil-, and gas-bearing formations were identified. Sampling duties were split between the SWD tool and a drillpipe-conveyed wirelinesampling (WLS) tool in an attempt to rationalize the sampling program of the well. To enable a comparison of the relative performance of the two tools, two oil-sampling stations were chosen where multiple samples would be acquired under similar operating conditions by both tools. In addition, water samples were collected at two stations by the SWD tool and scanning was performed at one (wet) gas station to confirm the formation-fluid type. Laboratory analysis of the oil samples at the common stations showed that the contaminations and fluid properties of the samples acquired by the two sampling tools were very similar. The second part of this paper describes results obtained in an appraisal well and sidetrack in a different field. Both pilot and sidetrack were high-angle wells drilled by use of OBMs. The purpose of these wells was to identify and evaluate the commercial potential of unproduced hydrocarbon-bearing zones. Both wells were drilled to total depth before conducting sampling operations, and no wireline operations were planned in either well. Five oil samples were acquired in the pilot well in two zones, and four oil samples and two water samples were recovered in the sidetrack. The results obtained during the SWD operations described suggest that it is possible to consistently acquire quality formation fluid samples during drilling operations, even under less-than-optimal sampling conditions and strict time-on-station constraints. The quality of the samples recovered is sufficient to perform reliable pressure/volume/temperature (PVT) analyses.
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Bourgoyne A. T. Jr., Millheim, K., Chenevert, M., et al. 1991. Applied Drilling Engineering. Richardson, Texas: Textbook Series, SPE.
Chang, Y., Hammond, P. and Pop, J. 2008. When Should We Worry About Supercharging in Formation-Pressure-While-Drilling Measurements? SPE Res Eval & Eng 11 (1): 165–174. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/92380-PA.
Dong, C., Mullins, O.C., Hegeman, P.S., et al. 2002. In-Situ Contamination Monitoring and GOR Measurement of Formation Fluid Samples. Paper SPE 77899 presented at the SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia, 8–10 October. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/77899-MS.
Fordham, E., Allen, D.F. and Ladva, H.K.J. 1991. The Principle of a Critical Invasion Rate and Its Implications for Log Interpretation. Paper SPE 22539 presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Dallas, Texas, 6–9 October. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/22539-MS.
Fujisawa, G., Jackson, R., Vannuffelen, S., et al. 2008. Reservoir Fluid Characterization with a New-Generation Downhole Fluid Analysis Tool. Paper 2008-KK presented at the Society of Petrophysicists and Well-Log Analysts 49th Annual Logging Symposium, Edinburgh, Scotland, 25–28 May.
Galvan Sanchez, F., Cartellieri, A., Pragt, J., et al. 2012. Fluid Analysis and Sampling: The Next Big Step for Logging While Drilling Tools. Paper SPE 152223 presented at the SPE Latin America and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, 16–18 April. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/152223-MS.
Hammond, P. S. 1991. One- and Two-Phase Flow During Fluid Sampling by a Wireline Tool. Transport Porous Med. 6 (3): 299–330. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00208955.
Hsu, K., Hegeman, P., Dong, C., et al. 2008. Multi-Channel Oil-Based Mud Contamination Monitoring Using Downhole Optical Spectrometer. Paper 2008-QQQQ presented at the Society of Petrophysicists & Well Log Analysts 49th Annual Logging Symposium, Edinburgh, Scotland, 25–28 May.
Mullins, O. C. 2008. The Physics of Reservoir Fluids: Discovery through Downhole Fluid Analysis. Sugar Land, Texas: Schlumberger.
Mullins, O. C. and Schroer, J. 2000. Real-Time Determination of Filtrate Contamination During Openhole Wireline Sampling by Optical Spectrometry. Paper SPE 63071 presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Dallas, Texas, 1–4 October. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/63071-MS.
Pop, J., Laastad, H., Eriksen, K.O., et al. 2005. Operational Aspects of Formation Pressure Measurements While Drilling. Paper SPE 92494 presented at the SPE/IADC Drilling Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 23–25 February. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/92494-MS.
Stewart, G. and Ayestaran, L. 1982. The Interpretation of Vertical Pressure Gradients Measured at Observation Wells in Developed Reservoirs. Paper SPE 11132 presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 26–29 September. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/11132-MS.
Villareal, S., Pop, J., Bernard, F., et al. 2010. Characterization of Sampling While Drilling Operations. Paper SPE 128249 presented at the IADC/SPE Drilling Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2–4 February. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/128249-MS.
Villareal, S., Pop, J., Bernard, F., et al. 2012. Sampling While Drilling: An Emerging Technology. Paper SPE 159503 presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas, 8–10 October. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/159503-MS.


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$10,000 Tagged Trout Tournament, Smethport, PA
April 13 is the opening day of trout season and somewhere in Hamlin Lake, Potato Creek, or Marvin Creek lives a trout with a special tag worth $10,000. Any of the 200 tagged trout caught from April 13 through noon of April 20 will receive a prize, but one specially-tagged trout is worth $10,000. $5 entry fee and pre-registration required prior to 7:59 a.m. on Saturday, April 13, 2019, at McKean County E-Sales located at 311 West Main Street of Smethport.
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Sat 20th Apr
9:00 am
2:30 pm
American Ginseng & Other Wild Harvested Plants, Kinzua Bridge State Park
Learn about American ginseng, goldenseal, and ramps at the Kinzua Bridge State Park. Starting with an overview to better understand these species, the workshop offers updates on ginseng biology and stewardship. The speakers will talk about "Best Management Practices" for harvesters, collectors, and buyers. Free admission. Pack a lunch. Register by emailing: firstname.lastname@example.com or calling Chris at (570) 724-8149.
More info: 814-778-5467 or e-mail email@example.com
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Sat 20th Apr
9:00 am
11:00 am
Celebrate Earth Day, Mt. Jewett
Are you interested in helping the earth? Visit the park on Saturday, April 20 and participate in activities such as litter pick-up, raking and tree planting! Dress for the weather. meet at the Kinzua Bridge State Park Discovery Center Lobby.
For more information please call: 814-778-5467
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Sat 20th Apr
10:00 am
12:00 pm
Bunny Hop 5K Run/Walk, St Mary's, PA
5K Run/Walk non-competitive fundraiser for Brain Aneurysm Awareness.More info:Jackie Candalor,
(814) 594-7048,
Benzinger Park, Fleming Rd, St Marys, PA 15857, USA
Sat 20th Apr
2:00 pm
4:00 pm
Easter Elk-Stravaganza, The Elk Country Visitor Center
Join the Elk Country Visitor Center in making fun, flower-themed crafts. All participants take home a seed packet for their spring garden, and some sweet Easter treats.
More info: 814-787-5167
Or visit: www.ExperienceElkCountry.com
The Elk Country Visitor Center, 950 Winslow Hill Road, Benezette, PA, United States
Sun 21st Apr
6:45 am
8:15 am
Sunrise Walk, Mt. Jewett
Enjoy an early morning stroll out onto the Sky Walk at the Kinzua Bridge State Park to watch the sunrise. Later meet in the classroom for hot cocoa or hot coffee and reminisce about the Bridge.
Dress for the weather and meet on the bridge.
For more information please call: 814-778-5467
Or visit:
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Mon 22nd Apr
1:00 pm
3:00 pm
Earth Day Walk, Smethport
Walk the Shamut Trail to the Poor Farm Cemetary with the chair for the event, Barbara Bowman, who will share interesting facts along the way. For more information please call 814-887-5142.
Or Visit:
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Mon 22nd Apr
5:30 pm
8:00 pm
Academy Award Film Series: Blackkklansman, Bradford, PA
Filmmaker Spike Lee gives an incredible true story of an American hero. It's the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth is the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make a name for himself, Stallworth bravely sets out to infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan. The young detective soon recruits a more seasoned colleague, Flip Zimmerman into the undercover investigation of a lifetime. Rated R. $7.
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Main Street Movie House, 123 Main St, Bradford, PA 16701, USA
Thu 25th Apr
10:00 am
to Sun 28th Apr
7:00 pm
Chainsaw Carvers Rendezvous, Ridgway, PA
Spend 3 days with some amazing carvers. Throughout the Rendezvous, there will be opportunities to interact with skilled artists, enjoy live music, and purchase finished pieces directly from the artist.
Main Street, Main St, Ridgway, PA 15853
Thu 25th Apr
6:00 pm
9:00 pm
Ladies Night, Olean, NY
Do you need a night out? Plan for a Ladies Night Out the last Thursday of every month. ! Prizes, wine and spoon tastings in The Point, live music from Ade Adu, 50% off our specialty drink menu 25% off all other drinks and much more!!
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Adam A7 Nearfield Monitors
But to carry the analogy further, what intrigues me about Adams is they're like a woman who looks great without makeup. I first heard Adam speakers at the Frankfurt Messe many years ago, and they had a certainly quality that made me take notice. It's too easy to use words like "transparent," "detailed," or "open," because a lot of speakers do that. It was the high end: You know what an acoustic guitar sounds like when someone plays it in your room? The Adam's highs had a kind of "this is the instrument, not a reproduction of the instrument" sound that appealed to me instantly.
So I asked about the price. My credit card looked at me with shock and dismay. I filed Adam speakers under "maybe someday, when I'm rich." Well, someday is here, and you don't have to be rich. The A7s sell for under a grand per pair, but they sound like they cost a lot more.
Another Frankfurt story, this time from 2006: I had heard about the A7s, so I went to the Adam booth. They had a display with a bunch of their speakers, from the Big Guys to the Little Guys, with a switchbox for A-B comparisons. I heard that unmistakable Adam sound, and thought I'd check out how the A7s compared. So I asked the representative to please switch over to the A7s instead. "They are what you're hearing," he replied.
That did it.
You're adults and know how to use computers, so go to the Adam website for details. The short form is two-way active monitor, 50W amp per driver, some woofer voodoo, and Adam's proprietary tweeter.
That tweeter is responsible for what I consider the "Adam sound." The website explains how this works; to paraphrase, it squeezes air out like an accordian instead of pushing air out like a piston. Whatever; I'm not sure I get the concept, but I can definitely hear it.
My only beef is that although there's a balanced XLR in, the unbalanced in is RCA. I know the tech reasons — you can't short out an in or out when plugging into an RCA — but I would have preferred a combi LXR+1/4" input.
I won't utter the usual speaker review cliché of "It revealed sounds I never heard before!" — because it didn't. But playing a variety of mixes through the Adams did highlight the differences between those mixes to a greater extent than other speakers. In other words, the Adams did not impose their personality onto the mixes; the mixes' personalities imposed themselves on the Adams. The Adams just pass along the mix to your ears, without making value judgments, tarting it up, or dressing it down.
I've already described the high end, but the lows are surprisingly forceful and accurate for such a small speaker. The balance among highs, lows, and midrange sounds close to textbook-perfect; what you hear is what you mix, and while that can sometimes be unflattering, it also means that a mix that sounds good on the A7s will transport well.
In practice, I never had much of a problem with transportability. I used my knowledge of a set of speakers, and spectrum analysis as a reality check for when I didn't totally trust the speakers, to produce mixes that my clients felt were extremely transportable. But with the A7s, you don't have to work to create transportable mixes: They just happen.
Although I've met only a handful of people who didn't like Adams, I've met a ton of people who couldn't afford them. However, the A7 isn't a "lite" or "budget" version; it's a great speaker that, frankly, makes it hard to justify spending more. Granted, nearfield speakers in general have never been better, or more cost-effective. Still, even in a crowded field where the bar is set high, the Adam A7 sets the bar just that much higher. They're sweet, detailed, accurate, and affordable. Bingo.
Product type: Nearfield monitoring speakers.
Target market: Project studios, higher-end home studios.
Strengths: What you hear is what you mix. Less expensive than previous Adams, with no drop in sound quality. Uncanny realism in the high end; tight low end.
Limitations: No 1/4" input for unbalanced (RCA only).
Price: $999 per pair.


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What Are The Most Atheist Countries? | NowThis World
Religion has played a major role in the development of the culture and society, but in recent years, more and more countries have turned their backs on the whole idea of believing in a central diety. So, which countries are the most atheist, and why?


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In a recent national government survey, Kensington and Chelsea College scored well above the national average for learner satisfaction, improving their score by 2.8 per cent on the previous year.
The survey captures learners' experiences of their college or training organisation through a series of questions.
Stuart Barlow, Vice Principal of Curriculum & Quality at Kensington and Chelsea College said "We're delighted that our College ranked highly in this year's Learner Satisfaction survey. We are committed to the success of each of our learners and provide them with a wide support network throughout their time with us."
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KCHA Sports Report (5/8)
The Charles City Comet girls and boys track teams hosted the Northeast Iowa Conference track meet yesterday at Comet field. The Comet girls placed fourth overall as they finished with 97 team points. Decorah won the meet with 205 team points. Charles City finished with one conference champion event and that was the team of Lynn Hoeft, Tayler Schmidt, Alex Litterer and Sadie Ruzicka in the shuttle hurdle relay. The Comet girls had a few second place finishes with Sydney Loeckle getting second in the discus throw, the team of Ruzicka, Sami Heyer, Schmidt, and Kiki Connell were second in the 4×200 meter relay, Ruzicka was second in the 100 meter hurdles and the last second place finish was the team of Schmidt, Heyer, Litterer and Liz Fiser. On the boys side, the Comets came in sixth place as a team with 66 points. It was Decorah's boys who won the meet with 182 points. The best placing for the Comet boys was the team of John Sibuma, Marcus Cranshaw, Hakeem Sharief and Mason Deeter with their second place finish in the sprint medley. The team of Sibuma, Elliott Sinnwell, Jeremiah Chapman and Dylan Koresh got a third place finish in the shuttle hurdle relay. The Comet girls and boys track teams will now shift their focus to the State Qualifying Meet which will take place on Thursday in Decorah.
The Charles City Comet girls golf team was in Cresco yesterday competing in the Northeast Iowa Conference Golf Meet. Charles City's girls came in a tie for fifth place with 468 team strokes. New Hampton won the meet with a team score of 358. Emma Williams earned All-Conference honors with her score of 103 which was good enough for 13th overall. The other Comet girls who scored in the meet were Madee Tjaden and Marissa Daniels who each shot 109 and Hope Slinger who finished with a 112. The Charles City girls golfers will be in action again on Friday in Forest City.


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The last post requires some context, some explanation, and some answers to questions. To begin with, I should apologize to anyone who likes Gregory Maguire's Wicked. The book offers a lot that a reasonable person could enjoy. For instance, it presents an interesting world -- derivative, but interesting. Its principle addition to Baum's world, the idea that the Witches of the West and North were once fellow students, is a terrific idea. Even if the Shiz Academy loses to Hogwarts like a snail to a gazelle in the race of imagination, it allows us to see an intelligently offbeat young Elphaba pitted against a preppy, too-pretty-for-her-own-good Glinda. And even if the best new character, Boq, mostly disappears halfway through, at least he's there to entertain for a while, oblivious to the deep kinship he has with Elphaba because all his conversations with her center around his shallow infatuation for Glinda. There's plenty here to like. For me, the weaknesses simply far outweighed these strengths.
But then, if it's not a great book, why read it? The first answer is that I've run out of light reading for the year -- literally light, I mean, books that I can carry around and read while walking. I'd seen this book in the bookstores for years, and the idea of a Fractured Fairy Tale (remember this from Bullwinkle?) for adults intrigued me. I'm also fascinated by the whole postmodern nexus of derivative works speaking to each other (true postmodernists say "texts," not "works"): the original book spawned a great cinematic musical, and a century or so later, a reworking of original book and movie spawned another (so my daughter and others tell me) great musical. Reading Wicked makes me want to experience the original book and movie again and to see the new musical.
But the experience quickly turned dreary. Once I found out I didn't like the book, why continue reading? For one thing, endings can make a huge difference. The last page of A Farewell to Arms, for instance, retroactively sets the tone for the whole book. If we find out that the events in the book lead to understanding or some other reward, we are inspired. Instead we learn that all is purposeless, and suddenly the book becomes dark enough to help explain its author's end. Hoping for a reverse effect, I kept reading Wicked. (I did not get my wish.)
For another thing, I want to keep reading just for the mental discipline. If I stop reading any book I don't enjoy, I'll never get through my list. The plan is a pact I've made with myself, and I don't want to let myself down. Besides, it's very difficult for me to leave a book unfinished. Some people would call it OCD, but I don't see why OC always has to be a D.
But then I know I won't enjoy everything on the list, and I put some particular things on the list that I'm fairly certain I won't enjoy. Why should I do this to myself? I have to admit that I sometimes read things I don't enjoy because I think they're good for me, like bitter medicine or exercise. Aristotle's Logic, for example, is hard to read but has helped to focus and discipline my thinking.
Sorry to say, however, Wicked has provided neither hope, enlightenment, nor strength. At least not directly. Bad examples always teach, though, and less-than-great books help us appreciate great books by comparison, just as encountering the villains in great books (Uriah Heap, for instance) helps us to understand the virtues of the heroes (David Copperfield, in this instance). Boq's disappearance in Wicked provides a foil for Dickens's care in recalling even tertiary characters near the ends of his books, and gives me greater appreciation for his artistry. So I kept reading.
But there's also the road-accident effect. People look because they want to see something out of the ordinary and perhaps tragic. They want a story to tell. I keep reading books I don't like partly for the satisfaction of being able to say, "You've got to be kidding!" And if the book is bad in a fascinating way, it gives me something interesting to say. I hope the reader finds it so, for -- to mention a final reward -- I just got two blog posts out of it.


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Part IEdit
As Amaterasu enters Kusa Village, the curse presiding over the village saps her ink, rendering her Celestial Brush techniques unusable. Quickly rush toward the path on the other side of the opening, and continue to follow it. When she reaches it, cross the wooden walkway (not the one with the Konohana Blossom), and rush up the stairs. Amaterasu will discover a woman under demonic possession in the courtyard. A Blue imp and a few other imps will appear to challenge her. After killing them, the woman will be freed of their possession, and she will introduce herself as Princess Fuse. Listen to her speech about Crimson Helm, its legion of demons and the missing Canine Warriors. When she is done explaining, she will give Amaterasu the Canine Tracker to find the five Canine Warriors who are still in Kusa Village.
Part IIEdit
First, run back down the wooden walkway, then stop at where another wooden walkway with the Konohana Blossom would be. Use Vine and jump onto the walkway. At the middle of the walkway there is a tunnel in the rock wall - jump into the tunnel and follow it until it widens into a small room, in which Canine Warrior Ko waits. Give him a Meat Feedbag, and he will return to Princess Fuse.
After exiting the tunnel, continue back down the village, and head to the cursed patch of ground near the village center. Purify the ground, and Canine Warrior Shin will appear. Give him a Meat Feedbag, and he will return to Princess Fuse.
On the other side of the clearing is another path (not the one leading to Princess Fuse's home). Follow it and Susano will be encountered in the way. After a short conversation with him, continue along the path. On the left side of the path is a small cliff, which Amaterasu will need to scale by jumping. There, Komuso will be encountered. He will challenge Amaterasu to defeat a certain number of imps within a set time frame. Quickly kill all the demons; farming may still be possible, but be quick. After all the demons are killed, look to the cliff - there will be a crack in the stone, on which Amaterasu will need to use Cherry Bomb to blast it apart and reveal Canine Warrior Rei. Give him a Meat Feedbag, and he will return to Princess Fuse.
Jump down from the high ground and continue to follow the descending path down to Mr. Bamboo's house. He will engage in a short conversation with Amaterasu. After that, cross the bamboo bridge to his house, and use Power Slash on the large glowing bamboo shoot to the left of his house. It will be cleaved in half, revealing Canine Warrior Chi sleeping inside. Wake her up, and give her a Meat Feedbag. She will then return to Princess Fuse.


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Stone Sour, fronted by Slipknot singer Corey Taylor, have posted a cover of Bad Brains track 'Sailin' On' online.
The track is taken from the band's second cover-based EP, 'Straight Outta Burbank…', which is due out as a vinyl-only Record Store Day release on November 27. Listen to the track below.
The band's forthcoming release will also feature covers by Iron Maiden, The Rolling Stones, Mötley Crüe, and Slayer.
It is the second of three EP releases. Earlier this year, the band brought out 'Meanwhile In Burbank…', which featured five covers that influenced the band including Metallica's 'Creeping Death', Black Sabbath's 'Children Of The Grave' and Alice In Chains' 'We Die Young'.
Stone Sour will release new EP 'No Sleep Till Burbank…' in 2016. The band released their last album – 'House of Gold & Bones – Part 2' – in 2013.
Taylor was recently involved in a (staged) physical altercation with WWE wrestler Baron Corbin at an event in Sacramento, California.
The incident took place at the Aftershock festival, consisting of WWE NXT wrestlers. WWE is World Wrestling Entertainment's developmental arm, featuring up and coming stars.
Taylor was in the crowd for Corbin's match against fellow wrestler Samoa Joe. After Corbin and Taylor exchanged heated words with one another, the rock singer slapped Corbin in the face, leading to Samoa Joe countering and picking up a victory.
The singer also recently spoke out about Slipknot's parting of ways with drummer Joey Jordison, explaining he left out of "necessity".
"It was hard at first," he said. "Nothing worth doing is ever easy right out of the gate. When we parted ways with Joe, it was honestly because of necessity; he was going one way and we were going another, and we just couldn't go that way any more. And honestly, that's all I can really say about it."
Jordison left the band in 2013, with the departure put down to "personal reasons" at the time.
"It is with great pain but quiet respect that for personal reasons Joey Jordison and Slipknot are parting ways," the statement – released in December 2013 – said. "We all wish Joey the best in whatever his future holds. We understand that many of you will want to know how and why this has come to be, and we will do our best to respond to these questions in the near future."


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Another guest blogger at Joey's blog: Susie Ng. She makes us tangle Asian Fans. I added Borbz, Bud and Dyon.
Monday, 17 July 2017
Joey's challenge #174
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Labels: Asian Fans, Borbz, Bud, Dyon, Joey
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Bijzonder mooi gedaan en zoals altijd prachtige contrasten!!!ReplyDelete
Another lovely bold tile Ilse!ReplyDelete
Looks really good Joey!ReplyDelete
What can I say, Ilse? Your perfection in drawing is amazing and WOW, you made a wonderful Asian Fans, indeed! Look at that shading! I looooove your tile and the tangles you chose are fantastic. I am so happy you participated in my challenge, Ilse, thank you very much.ReplyDelete
This is truly gorgeous work Ilse! A beautiful blend of your signature clean, graphic style with Susie's fluid string and start. Outstanding!ReplyDelete
Beautifully done! 😍ReplyDelete
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Good morning. There is a tiny tyrant in my life who decided this week, after seven months of sleeping in until noon or 2pm, that we should start rising at 9am. So here I am, before ten in the morning. Bizarrely, I'm beginning to get a taste for mornings.
Now, I've kept journals before -- but only ever online -- and it's been a few years. I discovered online journaling in the wild and crazy days when people thought they could post every thought they had on the internet and no one they actually knew would ever find it. That lasted, what, a few months? What can I say? I was young and stupid. Hey, a lot of people were. At any rate, after more than five years away, I think I'm ready to try journaling again. So here we are.
One chapter into editing my first novel; one chapter into writing my second; and seven months into raising my tiny tyrant. Let's see where this takes us...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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Mr. Francis K. "Frank" Wismer, 93, died peacefully at the home of his daughter Betty Phillips in Pittsboro, NC on September 26.
Born in Norristown, PA, Frank received a degree in structural engineering in 1936 from Penn State University, where he played on the varsity football team for three years, and received academic honors in The Tau Beta Pi honorary fraternity. After graduation he joined the Bethlehem Steel Company, where he worked for forty-two years, advancing to the rank of Division Superintendent for Labor and Construction. His division built and maintained the now historic blast furnaces. In 1939, he married Frances McCormick of Laurel, MS. The family resided in Bethlehem, PA, until 1983 when they moved to Delton, FL. His beloved wife died in 2001, and Frank moved to Pittsboro in February of this year.
Frank is survived by two daughters, Betty and her husband Robert Phillips, and Barbara and her husband John McManus of Rye, NY; three grandchildren, Prentice Clark of West Harrison, NY, and Jason and Joshua Pells of Austin, TX; and a niece, Nadine Reiff of Norristown, PA. He will be buried beside his loving wife in Bethlehem. Memorial donations may be sent to St Julia Catholic Church, 210 Harold Hart Road, Siler City, NC 27344.
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Has this been noted? Check the May 27 issue of The New Yorker, page 48,
for a brief casual called "The Magic Basement." It discusses the move of
a Saturday afternoon group of NYC regulars (Herb Zarrow, Oscar Weigle,
Doug Edwards,etc.) from Reuben's Deli to the basement of Maui Tacos. In
this new meeting place, according to the article, the regulars discuss moves,
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This was on the Magic Times web page. The "reporter" really comes off as a sarcastic piece of work.
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Meir Yedid called it sarcastic too. Bit of a thin-skinned response, IMHO. It's a short, arch observation of a slice of New York life, very much in the long tradition of the Talk of the Town column. I enjoyed it.
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Stop the presses! I got a little something for all of you, my fellow adventurers. A couple of days ago I showed off my take on Old One Eye. Well, you cannot send the Alpha Leader off to war without his band. Enter the Distractions.
I'll do some proper Paint job post on each of the Carnifexes but until then here's a moody family photograph.
And like that I quadrupled my DreadTober tally and I can also finished my Unit-ed entry for Azazel's paint challenge. Not too shabby!


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Carissa Wages (the questioner) If you have a bank of smart meters on the wall of the bedroom I don't think a canopy would be enough , and it is definitely not the right move. Smart meters emit very strong RF Radiation, in addition to ELF magnetic and electric fields. The protection there should be full metal boards on the wall, with an addition of wallpaper.
In any case I would not recommend to sleep near this wall even if protection is installed.
A Future home should be searched using an RF/ELF meter. Only homes with as less as possible RF and ELF should be considered.
In a future home, that does not have smart meter (or a smart meter bank) installed over it's walls and have good levels of RF/ELF, a canopy might be good, but the recommendation is still to measure the RF in this house and find the penetration points that should be protected (at the outer circle).
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This is Part 4 of my reflections on the schism of 2012 in South Carolina. This time I want to address the question:
Why did the Episcopal Church remove Mark Lawrence as a bishop in 2012?
Actually, this is not a good question, because in fact Lawrence removed himself from the Episcopal Church voluntarily on Oct. 15, 2012. The Church's official "release and removal" of Lawrence as a bishop came seven weeks later (Dec. 5). Then, the question should be:
Why did Lawrence leave the Episcopal Church? That is the issue at hand.
There is a great deal involved in this. We have already discussed the causal factors of the schism, the underlying causes, direct causes, and initiating events.
Entwined in all of the many layers of events was a crucial permeating factor, how to leave the Episcopal Church with the local property in hand. Anyone may leave the Church at any time. However, not anyone can leave with the property, not under Episcopal Church law.
That was the dilemma of the schismatics in South Carolina: how to take the diocese out of the Episcopal Church with the diocesan and parish properties in hand. The first four cases of dioceses that voted to leave the Church (2007-08) all had to go to court, and all to mixed results. Only one of the four went on to win in court (Quincy). Two went on the lose outright (San Joaquin and Pittsburgh). One is still pending (Ft. Worth). Thus, South Carolina's leaving the Episcopal Church with perhaps $500m in property was problematical at least. Schism would be a risk, but one worth taking in the view of the secessionists.
The Episcopal Church adopted the Dennis Canon in 1979, the DSC in 1987. The canon said that all local church property was held in trust for both the Episcopal Church and the diocese. What this meant in practice was that the deed holder could not dispose of any property without permission of the two trustees. This would be true even if the local parish held the legal title to the property. Under Church law, the trustees held control over the property. For the secessionists of South Carolina then, the problem was how to leave the Episcopal Church in defiance of the Church law. The diocese could surrender its own trust interest, but could it do the same for the national Church?
Here is a summary of how this problem evolved in DSC:
1. On Jan. 26, 2008, Lawrence made a sacred oath before God, dozens of bishops, hundreds of clergy, and a thousand laity: "I, Mark Joseph, (...) do solemnly engage to conform to the doctrine, discipline, and worship of the Episcopal Church." At the time, DSC explicitly recognized the Dennis Canon and held in its corporate charter that it existed "under" the authority of the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church. Lawrence and DSC were under the Dennis Canon.
On October 15, 2012, Lawrence effectively rejected the discipline and, together with the Standing Committee and lawyers, unilaterally agreed on the independence of the diocese, property in hand. This was the schism of 2012.
Thus, in less than five years, DSC went from recognition to rejection of the Dennis Canon. How did that happen?
2. It began with building a platform of hostility to the Episcopal Church, something that had actually been going on in the diocese since 1982. Lawrence attended the GAFCON I meeting and welcomed the Jerusalem Statement of June 29, 2008. This statement rejected the authority of the Episcopal Church (because of its support of rights for homosexuals). Lawrence supported the statement. The DSC Standing Committee unanimously adopted the statement on Nov. 6, 2008. In effect, the diocesan leadership renounced the legitimate authority of the parent Church. This set the diocesan trajectory for all subsequent events.
3. On May 30, 2009, in a secret meeting of the Standing Committee, chaired by Jeff Miller, and attended by Lawrence, the committee approved the transfer of several million dollars worth of property held by St. Andrew's Church, of Mt. Pleasant, into a special trust of the parish beyond the control of the diocese and Church. Recall that the Dennis Canon was still diocesan law. This event remained hidden from the public until the minutes of the Standing Committee were uncovered in the circuit court trial. This transfer set the template for the diocese from then on.
4. Three months later, the SC Supreme Court issued its All Saints decision, on September 18, 2009. The court ruled that All Saints was entitled to its local property because the diocese had issued the parish a quit claim deed a century earlier. The justices said that, in SC, only the title holder could make a trust. It could not be imposed by another party. This decision greatly bolstered DSC's disregard of the Dennis Canon.
DSC refused to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. The local Episcopal congregation at All Saints did file an appeal with SCOTUS but got no help from DSC. Shortly thereafter, they made a negotiated settlement with the breakaway parish and withdrew the appeal to SCOTUS.
Also, shortly after All Saints, Alan Runyan met with Lawrence and agreed to become the lawyer for the Standing Committee.
5. A month after All Saints, DSC held a special convention and declared virtual independence from the Episcopal Church. It resolved to withdraw from the governing bodies of TEC as well as to nullify all the acts of General Convention with which they disagreed. TEC made no response.
6. On Dec. 17, 2009, St. Andrew's of Mt. Pleasant voted to leave TEC and DSC for the Anglican Church in North America, property in hand. This was finalized in 2010. DSC did nothing to enforce the Dennis Canon to which it still officially adhered. TEC began to respond.
7. In January of 2010, Atty. Thomas Tisdale contacted Wade Logan, the chancellor of DSC, to seek agreement that the Episcopal Church could exercise its particular trust interest in the properties of the diocese, as per the Dennis Canon. Tisdale sent several letters to this effect Jan. 25-29, 2010. He asked for the minutes of the Standing Committee.
Unknown to him, at that very moment, DSC was apparently preparing to issue the first quit claim deeds, to three parishes. On Feb. 1, 2010, DSC secretly gave the quit claims to St. John's Church of Johns Island, Church of the Holy Communion in Charleston, and Church of the Cross in Bluffton. If DSC granted Tisdale's requests, he would discover the St. Andrew's and the quit claim acts of the diocese. (Two more were issued in March of 2010: Christ/St. Paul's of Yonges Island and St. James of James Island.)
Lawrence assumed control of the Tisdale affair and declared a crisis. He moved the upcoming diocesan convention back by three weeks and loudly demanded that the Presiding Bishop remove her counsel from the diocese. He adamantly refused to surrender one item to Tisdale who wound up with nothing. DSC's rising disregard of the Dennis Canon remained hidden.
When the diocesan convention did meet, in March of 2010, it handed over to Lawrence absolute control over the interpretation of the constitution and canons of DSC.
8. On October 15, 2010, the special diocesan convention completed the virtual independence from TEC that the Oct. 2009 convention had begun. It resolved to revoke its accession to the canons of TEC (including the Dennis Canon), and to alter the corporate charter to remove all reference to TEC (this was done on Oct. 19, 2010). This ended DSC's official recognition of the Dennis Canon.
9. DSC secretly issued 15 more quit claim deeds to parishes between Oct. 19, 2010 and Nov. 16, 2011.
10. May 25, 2011, Atty. Melinda Lucka sent letter of complaint against Lawrence and supporting documents to TEC. This led to the first investigation of Lawrence by the Disciplinary Board for Bishops on abandonment of communion. Since the diocesan property actions remained secret, the investigation centered not on property but primarily on Lawrence's role in the diocesan conventions' actions withdrawing from TEC. On Nov. 29, 2011, the DBB announced decision not to charge Lawrence with abandonment.
11. On Nov. 15, 2011, two weeks before the DBB announcement, Lawrence notified the clergy he had issued quit claim deeds to all parishes. Logan mailed the deeds the next day and the stunning news became public. However, the DBB could not consider the deeds at that point since they had not been part of the original May 25 complaint.
12. DSC's open and public defiance of the Dennis Canon in Nov. of 2011 finally forced the Episcopal Church to respond since it maintained that all dioceses were required to adhere to the constitution and canons of TEC. It could not allow one diocese to defy canon law. On Mar. 23, 2012, Lucka and 23 other lay people of DSC filed a new complaint with the DBB. The first item was "Failure to Safeguard Property." The second investigation, of 2012, remained secret, but everyone knew Lawrence was likely to be charged anew following the sensational news of the quit claim deeds.
13. The DBB voted in secret on Sept. 18, 2012, that Lawrence should be charged with abandonment, primarily on the strength of his issuance of the quit claim deeds in direct violation of the Dennis Canon. This remained secret for the moment. Finally, it was the issue of property that effected the break between DSC and TEC. This was where the Episcopal Church finally lost patience with Lawrence.
14. Knowing that Lawrence could very well be charged anew following the quit claim deeds, in August of 2012, DSC leadership met secretly and apparently planned the final act of schism. They would break away from the Episcopal Church to protect their claims to the properties. On September 20, 2012, the Standing Committee requested of Lawrence his interpretation of how they could effect the schism. On Oct. 2, 2012, Lawrence told the Standing Committee they could "disassociate" the diocese from TEC; the committee resolved that DSC would separate from TEC if TEC took any action of any kind against Lawrence. This remained secret. It was a trap set for the completely unsuspecting Presiding Bishop as a justification for the schism.
15. On Oct. 10, 2012, the DBB reported its decision to the Presiding Bishop. On Oct. 15, 2012, PB called Lawrence and placed a restriction on him. Immediately after the call, Lawrence, his lawyers, and the Standing Committee agreed among themselves that DSC had disassociated from TEC. Lawrence announced this to PB on Oct. 17. DSC announced this to the world on Oct. 19.
16. Before and after the schism, DSC established several talking points to justify the schism:
a-TEC was out to remove Lawrence in order to flip the diocese from "orthodox" to liberal. There is no evidence to support this claim.
b-TEC deliberately set up the Title IV revision to "get" Lawrence. Ditto.
c-Lawrence was trying to negotiate a peaceful settlement with TEC when he was "attacked." The evidence shows the opposite.
d-Lawrence was "mistreated" by TEC. DSC witnesses in the circuit court trial repeated this opinion.
17. In fact, after the schism, DSC immediately initiated legal actions to retain the diocesan and parish properties. The local parishes were brought in as parties to the lawsuits. All of the litigation since Jan. 2013 has basically revolved around ownership of the properties.
Back to the original question on why Lawrence left the Episcopal Church. He left when it finally became clear that the Episcopal Church would enforce the Dennis Canon. Everyone knew in 2012 it was likely he would be investigated a second time by DBB and probably charged with abandonment following the violation of the Canon in the quit claim deeds.
So, how well did it work for DSC to leave the Episcopal Church with the property in hand? It worked very well for the majority of diocesan communicants. So far so good for DSC. Today, going on five years since the schism, DSC is completely in control of the property in question and the state supreme court seems unable to decide what, if anything, to do about it.


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I took part in a bird painting challenge on Instagram and painted five birds, the only one I was truly happy with being this American avocetc.
On a bird theme, I found myself on the River Thames last month at a point where swans gather to strut around on shore and do whatever they do when in large social groups. I painted a sketch at Caversham Bridge and managed to get quite a few swans into the picture.
I had a bit of a gap in the middle of the month as I was building website for the church and also developing my daughter's online shop. I soon realised that painting was too precious to me to leave it for long so sat down to draw this painting of Chateau Chenonceau
There have been quite a few other paintings since I last posted so I'll finish with just one more, a sketch of a house that took my eye when I was walking around Eastbourne one morning last month.


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Chaos magician Dave Lee discovers Andromalius from the Lesser Key of Solomon:
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My answer to How can I summon Zepar?
The original poster added by way of details:
I tried many times to summon Zepar but failed every time ! I know Goetic demons are human friendly. I also did dedication ritual.
Answer by Alex Sumner:
First of all, Goetic demons, like Zepar, are not human friendly. They are in fact very dangerous. It is because they are dangerous that they are powerful.
This does not mean that one should be terrified of them. The elaborate procedures laid down in the Lesser Key of Solomon for evoking Demons are safety precautions for dealing with spirits properly.
Perhaps the reason for your apparent failure to summon is Zepar is unrealistic expectations of what happens when Goetic spirits manifest? If so, I recommend reading the accounts of what other magicians have experienced when working with the Goetia, e.g. Lon Milo Duquette's My Life With The Spirits.
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New video: in which I record my efforts at making a full-size Goetia floor cloth, a la Lesser Key of Solomon the King.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain
It takes a certain amount of experience in evocatory magick to realise that not all "evil spirits" are either the same, or indeed "evil" per se – it is a philosophically redundant term anyway.
For example: take the spirits of the Goetia, and contrast them with (e.g.) the Qlippoth.
The raison d'etre of the latter is that they are unbalanced forces left over from the creation of the universe – but the former are "fallen angels" (at least – that is how they are described in the Lesser Key of Solomon). In practice this is a huge difference – the Spirits of the Goetia were once in Heaven, but now are not: but the Qlippoth were never in Heaven to begin with.
In other words, the Goetic spirits are the same sort of "creatures" as Angels – but in exile from the main body of the Angelic host. Moreover, despite being fallen, they are theoretically capable of redemption – which is to what, in fact, many of them aspire.
(NB: in the foregoing description, Heaven should really be thought of as "what humans believe to be heaven." When one analyses their origin – as primordial deities – it becomes clear that their "fall" was not caused by their own disobediance, but by Humans' increasing inability to relate to them.)
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This is in response to an interesting question posted on Facebook, which I decided merited a lengthier response than can normally be fitted in to the usual reply box.
Celina Huezo wrote:
Just curious, do you guys use prayers invocations and hymns taken from books and the internet or do you write your own?
My initial response was a glib "Yes." However, a fuller explanation would go something like this:
I have performed a large number of rituals in my time, so I have had the opportunity to both use adapted resources and compose my own. When I first read The Golden Dawn by Regardie, I noticed that he had no qualms about copying and pasting from various sources, so I thought: "Hell! Why don't I do the same?"
What I tend to do is use the Golden Dawn's Z2 formula, which because it is a skeleton outline only, actively requires the composer to incorporate ritualistic passages which they have acquired from somewhere, whether that be a pre-existing source or from their own devising.
Fortunately, all of the classic grimoires are now in the public domain, and freely available on the internet, so I often use large chunks lifted from them. Resources which I would recommend include:
I do not claim to be a purist. As I suggested with the Lesser Key of Solomon above, on occasions I have made slight though not radical alterations to the words in their various forms to suit my particular purpose. For example, in regard to the Greek Magical Papyri, I took an invocation of Aphrodite for the purpose of Divination, changed about half a dozen words, and thereby turned it into an invocation of Aphrodite generally. I have published the results here – from memory I believe the words I inserted were "the knowledge of Thy divine self."
On other occasions I have attempted to compose my own – some of which have been spectacularly successful. I have fond memories of a Mercurial ceremony I performed several years ago in which the main conjuration was an eight-line poem I had written specifically for the purpose.
Another method I have found effective is to ask an appropriate spirit-guide for assistance when composing an invocation. So, for example, weeks or months in advance of invoking Water, one might clairvoyantly go on a tattva-journey into the realm of Elemental Water and ask the beings one meets there to help compose a suitable invocation for your ceremony – likewise with other Elemental etc forces. This can be particularly effective as then one will automatically know that the invocation is linked to the forces one has already experienced psychically.
Regarding Hyms per se, I have recently been experimenting… though not in the field of ceremonial magick. At the request of the Worshipful Master of a certain Masonic lodge, who asked not to be named, I re-wrote the lyrics of the Opening & Closing Odes for their meetings, to reflect the kind of spiritual forces envisaged by Walter Wilmshurst – a masonic writer whom Israel Regardie admired. Wilmshurst is known today as a writer on the spiritual dimension of Freemasonry: although what is less well-known is that he attempted to compose variations to the Masonic ritual which would have made them comparable in efficacy to the Golden Dawn. Needless to say, because UGLE does not deal with spirituality, according to its Deputy Grand Master, I have full confidence that my attempts at lyric-writing may yet get banned – I shall report back if this happens.
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Often I find that, when I am facing a new challenge, perhaps one that I find daunting for some reason, the simplest solution is to apply basic principles. This is especially true in magick. In the Golden Dawn the most important rule of thumb is referred to as "invoke the highest first," which is a reference to one of the clauses of the Adeptus Minor obligation: "I furthermore solemnly pledge myself never to work at any important symbol without first invocating the highest Divine Names connected therewith."
The Highest First Principle ensures that no real magick – certainly no real GD magick – can be performed without first aligning one's will and intentions to God. Even if the spirit that is ultimately low-down on the hierarchy of such things – a supposed "goetic" (with a small "g") spirit, the Highest First principle – invoking first the God-name qabalistically associated with such a demon – ensures that such an operation still fits in elegantly with the transcendentalist paradigm.
This incidentally is also how to tell, in grimoire magick, the difference in quality between grimoires. The Keys of Solomon both Lesser and Greater (for example) are both clear on the point that spirits are to be commanded only by first making invocations to the Almighty.
But I digress. In my experience (and this is what I mean by simple solutions) the mere act of aspiring to the Highest First is often enough to cure you of what ails you, even without having to go through the whole rigmarole of going through a full ceremonial magickal operation. For example, the Middle Pillar Ritual – especially when performed on the astral, where the currents of energy can be experienced immediately and directly. Invoking the Highest First is really an essential principle of spiritual and psychic integration in its own right.
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So there I was, thinking, "What can I, Alex Sumner, the world's greatest expert on the occult, do to help the people of London who have been affected by the riots recently? I know: I'll evoke the demon Andromalius to get all the looters to return the property they have stolen!" So I decided to cast a Horary figure to see whether this was a good idea or not.
And what do you know? The Moon – which, in Horary astrology indicates the circumstances in which the question arises, would not form a major aspect with another planet until after it left the current sign (Capricorn). It would however form several minor aspects, i.e. be inconjunct to a retrograde Mercury, and semi-sextile to Neptune and Caput Draconis.
So here is my dilemma. According to one definition, if the Moon does not form a major aspect to another planet before it leaves the sign it is in, it is said to be "Void of Course" (VOC). If a Horary figure is drawn when the Moon is VOC, the only information it provides is that "Nothing will come of this question" (NB: not "the whole chart is meaningless" – the chart has a meaning, just not a very helpful one). So unless VOC is defined as "any aspect" instead of "any major aspect," it would appear that the looters have been spared the wrath of Sumner by a Void of Course moon.
(If however the chart is not VOC, I would still be put off because the Lord of the Ascendant – Mercury is not only retrograde, but opposed to retrograde Neptune. Deceit, deception and illusion (retrograde Neptune) are likely to cause my project to go awry (retrograde Mercury)!)
More generally though, when looking at the chart for the day, one notices that there is a Grand Cross featuring four Malefic planets – Mars, Saturn, Pluto (r) and Uranus (r). At the height of the trouble several days ago, the Moon transitted retrograde Pluto!
This could of course be a coincidence … or it could mean that THERE WILL BE FRESH TROUBLE NEXT WEEK – when the Moon transits Uranus. There will also probably be a new development in the phone hacking scandal when it transits the Mercury-Neptune (both retrograde) opposition.
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