Isilion

December 25, 2007

Hallelujah, Noel

Filed under: Spiritual, Music



“I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave new year
All anguish pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
They said there’d be snow at Christmas
They said there’d be peace on Earth
Hallelujah, Noel be it Heaven or Hell
The Christmas we get we deserve”

December 23, 2007

This made me cry

Filed under: War in Iraq

From a post on RonPaulFourms.com

What an amazing picture.
You never see that on tv.
“Katherine Cathey was expecting a phone call from her husband, Marine 2nd. Lt. Jim Cathey, so she could tell him if their baby would be a boy or a girl. Instead, she got a knock at the door — the knock every military family dreads. When his body finally arrived at the airport in the Marine’s hometown of Reno, Katherine never wanted to leave his side. ‘You take for granted the last night you spend with them,’ she said. ‘I think I took it for granted. This was the last night I’ll have to sleep next to him.’ She said about her all night vigil by Jim’s casket the night before his burial. “

The night before the burial of her husband’s body, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time. The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below the flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened her laptop computer and played songs that reminded her of ‘Cat,’ and one of the Marines asked if she wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept. “I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it,” she said. “I think that’s what he would have wanted.”
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=60048

If your heart can stand it.

December 20, 2007

A Christian Christmas in Snowy Iran

Filed under: Spiritual, War In Iran

Countering the propaganda against Iran with photos of real people, places, events that show the opposite of what the media wants us to fear.


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December 14, 2007

Slightly Modified For the Sake of Universality

Filed under: Spiritual

“Then I saw a burning light, as large and as high as a mountain, divided at its summit as if into many tongues. And there stood in the presence of this light a multitude of white-clad people, before whom what seemed like a screen of translucent crystal had been placed, reaching from their breasts to their feet.

“And before that multitude, as if in a road, there lay on its back a monster shaped like a worm, wondrously large and long, which aroused an indescribable sense of horror and rage. On its left stood a kind of market-place, which displayed human wealth and worldly delights and various sorts of merchandise; and some people were running through it very fast and not buying anything, while others were walking slowly and stopping both to sell and to buy. Now that worm was black and bristly, covered with ulcers and pustules, and it was divided into five regions from the head down through the belly to its feet, like stripes. One was green, one white, one red, one yellow and one black; and they were full of deadly poison. But its head had been so crushed that the left side of its jawbone was dislocated. Its eyes were bloody on the surface and burning within; its ears were round and bristly : its nose and mouth were those of a viper, its hands human, its feet a viper’s feet, and its tail short and horrible.

“And around its neck a chain was riveted, which also bound its hands and feet and this chain was firmly fastened to a rock in the abyss, confining it so that it could not move about as its wicked will desired. Many flames came forth from its mouth, dividing into four parts: One part ascended to the clouds, another breathed forth among secular people, another among spiritual people, and the last descended into the abyss. And the flame that sought the clouds was opposing the people who wanted to get to the Upper World And I saw three groups of these. One was close to the clouds, one in the middle space between the clouds and the earth, and one moved along near the earth; and all were shouting repeatedly, “Let us get to the Upper World!” But they were whirled hither and thither by that flame; some did not waver, some barely kept their balance and some fell to the earth but then rose again and started toward the Upper World. The flame that breathed forth among secular people burned some of them so that they were hideously blackened and others it transfixed so that it could move them anywhere it wanted. Some escaped from the flame and moved toward those who sought the Upper World, reiterating shouts of “O you faithful, give us help!” But others remained transfixed. Meanwhile, the flame that breathed forth among spiritual people concealed them in obscurity; but I saw them in six categories. For some of them were cruelly injured by the flame’s fury; but when it could not injure one of them, it burningly breathed on them the deadly poison that flowed from the worm’s head to its feet, either green or white or red or yellow or black. But the flame that sought the abyss contained in itself diverse torments for those who had worshipped Darkness in place of Light, not washed by the font of baptism or knowing the Light. And I saw sharp arrows whistling loudly from its mouth, and black smoke exhaling from its breast, and a burning fluid boiling up from its loins, and a hot whirlwind blowing from its navel, and the uncleanness of frogs issuing from its bowels; all of which affected human beings with grave disquiet. And the hideous and foul-smelling vapor that came out of it infected many people with its own perversity. But behold, a great multitude of people came, shining brightly; they forcefully trod the worm underfoot and severely tormented it, but could not be injured by its flames or its poison. And I heard again the voice from the Upper World, saying to me: Light strengthens the faithful so that the Darkness cannot conquer them.” ~Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias

Transcendental

Filed under: Music

Joni Mitchell, For Free

December 11, 2007

Because I must?

Filed under: Qabalah, Spiritual

As if something neglected had been going on behind the scene.

Tree

Three Mothers: Alef (א), Mem (מ) and Shin (ש).
In the Creation are Air, Water, Fire.
Heaven was created from Fire;
Earth was created from Water; and
Air from Spirit decides between them.
~ Sefer Yetzirah 3:3.

December 8, 2007

Banjo Maestros

Filed under: Music

This is pretty much sublime.

December 7, 2007

Last One For Now

Filed under: Qabalah, Spiritual

 

 

To Remind myself

Filed under: Qabalah, Spiritual

 

 

Zeitgeist

Filed under: General

 Absurd

 

Couldn’t resist

Filed under: General

 Some things don’t stop being true just because you forget them.

 

 

December 2, 2007

A little too much silence in the beginning

Filed under: Music

But, my, it’s worth it.

Freedom
by Alpha Ya Ya Diallo

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