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Projection privée à la borderline biennial de "VAMPYRES" en présence de Laurent Courau
Un film de Laurent Courau sur une idée de Lukas Zpira (réalisateur du film).
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999: Initiatory visit of the Abode of Chaos Head quater artprice HD film Scenario: thierry Ehrmann 1.8 million views
999 : visite initiatique de la Demeure du Chaos QG d'artprice Film HD 1,8 million de vues scénario thierry Ehrmann. goo.gl/MpCWk
Projection privée à la borderline biennial de "VAMPYRES" en présence de Laurent Courau
Un film de Laurent Courau sur une idée de Lukas Zpira (réalisateur du film).
courtesy of Organ Museum
©2011 www.AbodeofChaos.org
در تجربه روزهای اولیه بهار ، با برف زمستانی بسی حال کردیم
in initiatory days of new spring , we really experience nice snow
Projection privée à la borderline biennial de "VAMPYRES" en présence de Laurent Courau
Un film de Laurent Courau sur une idée de Lukas Zpira (réalisateur du film).
courtesy of Organ Museum
©2011 www.AbodeofChaos.org
Projection privée à la borderline biennial de "VAMPYRES" en présence de Laurent Courau
Un film de Laurent Courau sur une idée de Lukas Zpira (réalisateur du film).
courtesy of Organ Museum
©2011 www.AbodeofChaos.org
Projection privée à la borderline biennial de "VAMPYRES" en présence de Laurent Courau
Un film de Laurent Courau sur une idée de Lukas Zpira (réalisateur du film).
courtesy of Organ Museum
©2011 www.AbodeofChaos.org
May 14, 2011 - It was Fun! Nearly 40 Brothers and sisters attended the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Kapatirang Watchdog Lodge no.1, Beach Outing and Team-Building and around 30 brothers and sisters joined the conferral of the initiatory degree and awarding ceremony held at Wuthering Heights, San Jose, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
FIORE di Datura fastuosa L, fam. Solanaceae; è una pianta allucinogena (delirogena) usata nei riti iniziatici femminili fra i Tsonga del Mozambico. Si veda:
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FLOR de Datura fastuosa L, fam. Solanaceae; es una planta alucinógena (delirógena) utilizada en los ritos iniciaticos femininos entre los Tsonga del Mozambico. Se vea: samorini.it/site/antropologia/africa/rito-di-iniziazione-...
FLOWER of Datura fastuosa L, fam. Solanaceae; it is a hallucinogenic (delirogenic) plant used in the female initiatory rites among the Tsongas of Mozambic. See:
samorini.it/site/antropologia/africa/rito-di-iniziazione-...
Projection privée à la borderline biennial de "VAMPYRES" en présence de Laurent Courau
Un film de Laurent Courau sur une idée de Lukas Zpira (réalisateur du film).
courtesy of Organ Museum
©2011 www.AbodeofChaos.org
Projection privée à la borderline biennial de "VAMPYRES" en présence de Laurent Courau
Un film de Laurent Courau sur une idée de Lukas Zpira (réalisateur du film).
courtesy of Organ Museum
©2011 www.AbodeofChaos.org
PARTE inferiore di una foglia di Datura fastuosa L, fam. Solanaceae; è una pianta allucinogena (delirogena) usata nei riti iniziatici femminili fra i Tsonga del Mozambico. Si veda:
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PARTE inferior de una hoja de Datura fastuosa L, fam. Solanaceae; es una planta alucinógena (delirógena) utilizada en los ritos iniciaticos femininos entre los Tsonga del Mozambico. Se vea: samorini.it/site/antropologia/africa/rito-di-iniziazione-...
LOWER side of a leaf of Datura fastuosa L, fam. Solanaceae; it is a hallucinogenic (delirogenic) plant used in the female initiatory rites among the Tsongas of Mozambic. See:
samorini.it/site/antropologia/africa/rito-di-iniziazione-...
Projection privée à la borderline biennial de "VAMPYRES" en présence de Laurent Courau
Un film de Laurent Courau sur une idée de Lukas Zpira (réalisateur du film).
courtesy of Organ Museum
©2011 www.AbodeofChaos.org
LA COMUNITÀ buitista della setta Ndea Narizanga presso cui mi sono fatto iniziare. Si veda:
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LA COMUNIDAD buitista de la secta Ndea Narizanga donde pasé mi rito de iniciación. Ver:
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THE BWITIST community of the Ndea Narizanga sect where I passed through the initiatory rite. See:
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LA COMUNITÀ buitista della setta Ndea Narizanga presso cui mi sono fatto iniziare. Si veda:
samorini.it/site/antropologia/africa/buiti-iboga-africa-e...
LA COMUNIDAD buitista de la secta Ndea Narizanga donde pasé mi rito de iniciación. Ver:
samorini.it/site/antropologia/africa/buiti-iboga-africa-e...
THE BWITIST community of the Ndea Narizanga sect where I passed through the initiatory rite. See:
samorini.it/site/antropologia/africa/buiti-iboga-africa-e...
LA COMUNITÀ buitista della setta Ndea Narizanga presso cui mi sono fatto iniziare. Si veda:
samorini.it/site/antropologia/africa/buiti-iboga-africa-e...
LA COMUNIDAD buitista de la secta Ndea Narizanga donde pasé mi rito de iniciación. Ver:
samorini.it/site/antropologia/africa/buiti-iboga-africa-e...
THE BWITIST community of the Ndea Narizanga sect where I passed through the initiatory rite. See:
samorini.it/site/antropologia/africa/buiti-iboga-africa-e...
FOGLIA di Datura fastuosa L, fam. Solanaceae; è una pianta allucinogena (delirogena) usata nei riti iniziatici femminili fra i Tsonga del Mozambico. Si veda:
samorini.it/site/antropologia/africa/rito-di-iniziazione-...
HOJA de Datura fastuosa L, fam. Solanaceae; es una planta alucinógena (delirógena) utilizada en los ritos iniciaticos femininos entre los Tsonga del Mozambico. Se vea: samorini.it/site/antropologia/africa/rito-di-iniziazione-...
LEAVE of Datura fastuosa L, fam. Solanaceae; it is a hallucinogenic (delirogenic) plant used in the female initiatory rites among the Tsongas of Mozambic. See:
samorini.it/site/antropologia/africa/rito-di-iniziazione-...
MENTRE riprendo i sensi dopo il lungo "viaggio" iniziatico buitista indotto da una enorme quantità di radice di iboga. Si veda:
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MENTRE me despierto después el largo "viaje" iniciatíco buitista inducido por una enorme cantitad de raíz de iboga. Ver:
samorini.it/site/antropologia/africa/buiti-iboga-africa-e...
DURING my awakening after the long Bwitist initiatory "trip" induced by a huge quantity of iboga root. See:
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Projection privée à la borderline biennial de "VAMPYRES" en présence de Laurent Courau
Un film de Laurent Courau sur une idée de Lukas Zpira (réalisateur du film).
courtesy of Organ Museum
©2011 www.AbodeofChaos.org
Foundation stone 24 Mar 1906 by the Premier, Tom Price, opened 1 Jul 1906, architect Walter C Torode, closed, demolished. WWI Honour Roll now in Woodville Uniting church. First services 1904 in schoolroom adjacent to later church.
“the foundation stone of the new Presbyterian Church at Woodville was performed, by the Premier (Hon. T. Price) on (Saturday afternoon. Notwithstanding the rain which fell during the greater part of the (proceedings there was a large attendance. . . The initiatory step was taken in July, 1903, when Mrs. Grierson, late of Flinders Street Church, in co-operation with Miss Jessie McColl and Mr. B. Bulpitt, started a Sunday school with 12 scholars and three teachers. The premises rented soon became too small to accommodate the increasing number of children, and the institute was secured. Sunday, evening services were started on April 23, 1904, and in February, 1905, the Home Mission appointed Mr. J. MeD. Forsyth to take charge. The congregation increased to such an extent that the erection of a church was decided upon. . . Hon. T. Price, Premier of S.A. [said] . . . It was a mere accident that he was Premier, and though he was a stonecutter and mason, and had laid many hundreds of stones in the course of his life, including foundation stones, that was the only stone he had had the honour of laying as Premier.” [Register 26 Mar 1906]
“the new Presbyterian Church at Woodville was opened for public worship, by the Moderator (Rev. F. B. Bardwell, M.A.). . . The building is in a prominent position, in proximity to the council chamber, and forms a handsome addition to the architecture of Woodville road. It is built of red brick, with hollow walls, in the Gothic style m architecture-, with an external finish of rough cast, and measures 50 ft. by 30 ft., with a vestry 12 ft. by 10 ft., and porch 9 ft, by 9 ft.” [Register 3 Jul 1906]
Borobudur is located at 42 kms west of Yogyakarta, on the island of Java in Indonesia, Borobudur is one of the most magnificent Buddhist shrines in the world - was built between 750 and 800 AD by the Hindu kings of Sailendra dynasty and belongs to Buddha Mahayana. Borobudur was revealed by Sir Thomas Stanford Raffles in 1814. The temple was found in ruined condition and was buried.
The overall height was 42 meters, but was only 34.5 meters after restoration, and had the dimension of 123 x 123 meters (15,129 square meters). There were 10 floors. The first floor up to the sixth floor was square form, the seventh to the tenth floor were round form.
Borobudur is facing to the East with a total of 1460 panels (2 meters wide each). Total size of the temple walls was 2500 square meters, full of relief. The total number of panels with relief was 1212. According to investigations, the total number of Buddha statue was 504 including the intact and damaged statues. The temple undergone restoration from 1905 to 1910, and the last restoration was done in 1973 to 1983.
It is interesting that the original name for Borobudur translated as “temple on the hill” – serves as an abbreviation: “Bhumisan Brabadura”. The latter translates into “The Ineffable Mountain of Accumulated Virtues”, a high symbolic title, liturgically speaking. For Borobudur was conceived as an initiatory mountain, to be ascended level by level by those seeking the enlightenment that corresponds with the unity of the shrine's top. The plan is extremely simple: a multitude of pagodas, stupas, and characterize the lower levels, with a single stupa crowning the whole. The path hence leads from multiplicity to oneness.
Borobudur should be on anybody’s list of the ten greatest art-complexes in the world for its size quality, sophistication and excellent state of preservation.
New Initiatory Degree Members
Steve Bush - Rockford #140
Brian Piwowar - Century #492
Phillip Brown - Century #492
Gerry Myers - Century #492
Initiated October 22, 2011
Built 1863 as Wesleyan by local farmers, enlarged & re-opened 2 Apr 1865, Methodist after Union 1900, closed 1950, converted to dwelling. The outline of the porch can be seen on the wall behind the water tank.
“. . . initiatory steps were taken for the erection of a place of worship in connection with the Wesleyan denomination at Finniss Point, near Kapunda. The members of the Wesleyan cause in this neighborhood having lately received an addition of some twenty or more to their number . . . An amount of £112 was given or guaranteed for the building, which is to be 20 feet by 30 feet in the clear, and proceeded with at once; the site being given by Mr. Ackland.”[Advertiser 22 Aug 1862]
“The anniversary services of the above church were held on Sunday and Monday last, those on the former day being conducted by the Rev. E. B. Burns. On Monday a well-attended tea meeting was held, followed by a public meeting, at which also the attendance was very satisfactory.” [Kapunda Herald 1 Mar 1872]
“A very devotional and interesting watch-night service was held in our Wesleyan Chapel, when the old year was watched out and the new one in by the congregation listening to appropriate addresses by two laymen and by singing songs—all in harmony with the pending object of importance. Some of the more apparently zealous of the company—not having been trained to sing in harmony, however— did not seem abashed when singing several tones or semi-tones above or below the proper notes.” [Kapunda Herald 10 Jan 1873]
Built 1963.
This delightful description of Kingston in 1899 -
“We have a Church of England with two services every Sunday, and occasionally on weekdays; a Wesleyan Church with a resident minister; occasional services for Roman Catholics; a Presbyterian Church (but that don't count for much, as it has not been used for years, and is now the home of innumerable sparrows and swallows); a strong band of the Salvation Army, with flag, tambourines, drums, etc. all complete and up to date. Then we have two Sunday schools and a state school, a Mechanics' Institute with a good library; a Baud of Hope; a Dorcas Society; a branch of the Good Endeavours; an anti-gambling society, an Oddfellows club, and now the latest new banking is a Mother's Union. This for a population of 885 — the number given at last census — spread over an area of 1165 square miles, is not a bad list. Truly our opportunities are great! but I forgot to say that we have a jetty 3,555 feet in length, and a railway capable of running a train three times a week, with an extra one in any great emergency.” [Narracoorte Herald 24 Mar 1899]
KINGSTON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Congregation began 1868 in schoolroom which was also used as library & council chambers. Chapel opened 1870, “work diminished” after 1873, building let to Free Presbyterians and Anglicans, sold 1882.
“Mr. Milne . . . thought that this church should be erected in connection with the Congregational Church Union. Some one must take the initiatory step, whether it be Wesleyans, English Church, Presbyterians, or Congregationalists. He then stated why he thought it best to join it with the Congregational Church Union. He had formerly belonged to the Bush Mission, but when that Mission was dissolved he had joined himself to the Church Union. He had not changed his religion, only the name, while most of the inhabitants of Kingston belonged to the Congregational Church.” [Border Watch 8 Jan 1868]
“It is reported that the bazaar in aid of the Congregational Church, Kingston, netted; £62 – an amount that is regarded, as highly satisfactory.” [Border Watch 3 Apr 1872]
“Kingston Sabbath School. The anniversary services in connection with the above school were held in the Congregational Church on Sabbath, the 13th October. The Rev. Mr. Sinclair, of the Free Presbyterian Church, preached in the forenoon, and delivered an address to the Sabbath School children in the afternoon. The Rev. Mr. Milne preached in the evening. On Wednesday following the annual out-door treat was given to the Sabbath School scholars. At 10 o'clock, in the morning they assembled.in the school-room, and marched in order through the township to a well-chosen spot, called the Round Hill, a short distance from Kingston. . . There were over 100 children on the ground, and a considerable number of the inhabitants came out to participate in the day's enjoyment. [Border Watch 23 Oct 1872]
“Referring to the report on Congregationalism at Kingston, read at the meeting of the Congregational Union April, Mr. D. Matheson, of Kingston, writes to an Adelaide journal stating that with regard to the place of worship, it has been let to the Free Presbyterian Church for six months, from the 1st March last, and on the Sabbaths that the Rev. Mr. Sinclair is absent, Mr. Robert Redman, deacon of the Congregational Church, holds service there. As to the Sabbath school, there has never been one in connection with the Congregational Church at Kingston. The only one in the place, which is held in the schoolroom, had been established, many years before there was any church at Kingston, and continues to the present time in
connection with no particular denomination.” [Border Watch 16 May 1874]
“For Sale. The Congregational Church, now used by the Church of England, at Kingston. Tenders will be received for purchase of these premises.” [Border Watch 5 Apr 1882]
1795 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe produced his tale of tales-The fairytale of "The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily," an extraordinary masterwork that is unique among Goethe's works. An initiatory fable of transformation, the tale arose out of the Rosicrucian, alchemical impulses that play an important role in Faust and Goethe's other writings.
Projection privée à la borderline biennial de "VAMPYRES" en présence de Laurent Courau
Un film de Laurent Courau sur une idée de Lukas Zpira (réalisateur du film).
courtesy of Organ Museum
©2011 www.AbodeofChaos.org
A part of the camp is the initiatory trip: a symbolic trip of 4 hours, with different challenges (funny competitions, essays to write, sportive tests, cooking proofs) in order to understand life is full of events, but what is really important is the support we get or we offer to our friends/family/neighbor.
Bora is an initiation ceremony of the Aboriginal people of Eastern Australia. The word "bora" also refers to the site on which the initiation is performed. At such a site, boys, having reached puberty, achieve the status of men. The initiation ceremony differs from Aboriginal culture to culture, but often, at a physical level, involved scarification, circumcision, subincision and, in some regions, also the removal of a tooth. During the rites, the youths who were to be initiated were taught traditional sacred songs, the secrets of the tribe's religious visions, dances, and traditional lore. Many different clans would assemble to participate in an initiation ceremony. Women and children were not permitted to be present at the sacred bora ground where these rituals were undertaken.
The word Bora was originally taken from the Gamilaraay language spoken by the Kamilaroi people who lived in the region north of the Hunter Valley in New South Wales to southern Queensland. It was then adopted broadly to describe similar ritual sites and the ceremonies associated with them performed throughout Eastern Australia. Many other terms exist across Australia to denote similar initiatory rites on a ceremonial ground, such as burbung (Wiradjuri), and kuringal (Yuin). The specific word is said to come from the belt worn by initiated men.
The appearance of the site varies among cultures, but it is often associated with stone arrangements, rock engravings, or other art works. In the bora rites of southeastern Australia, two circles were drawn, connected by a pathway, a schema which appears to replicate a sky Bora, or the configuration of a series of positions in the Milky Way. Typically, bora ground comprised a larger circle with a diameter of between 20–30 metres, and a smaller ring around 10–15 metres in diameter. The former was a more public space while the latter was sacred, and restricted to male participants who were either the instructing male elders or the initiants.
n south-east Australia, the Bora is often associated with the creator-spirit Baiame. In the Sydney region, large earth mounds were made, shaped as long bands or simple circles. Sometimes the boys would have to pass along a path marked on the ground representing the transition from childhood to manhood, and this path might be marked by a stone arrangement or by spirit footprints (mundowa), cut into the rock. In other areas of south-east Australia, a Bora site might consist of two circles of stones, and the boys would start the ceremony in the larger, public, one, and end it in the other, smaller, one, to which only initiated men are admitted. Robert Hamilton Mathews (1897) gives an excellent eye-witness account of a Bora ceremony, and explains the common use of the two circles. One very fine example of a two ring bora ceremonial site used to exist in Alberton, Queensland till it was destroyed, and made way for a pineapple plantation in the late 1950s. The smaller southern ring contained a dolmen-like structure.
The rings are joined by a sacred walkway. While most are confined to south-east Queensland and eastern New South Wales, five earth rings have been recorded near the Victorian town of Sunbury, although Aboriginal use has not been documented.
Bora rings in the form of circles of individually placed stones are evident in Werrikimbe National Park in northern New South Wales.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_(Australian)
Built 1863 as Wesleyan by local farmers, enlarged & re-opened 2 Apr 1865, Methodist after Union 1900, closed 1950, converted to dwelling. The headstone is of James Inglis who died 1864.
“. . . initiatory steps were taken for the erection of a place of worship in connection with the Wesleyan denomination at Finniss Point, near Kapunda. The members of the Wesleyan cause in this neighborhood having lately received an addition of some twenty or more to their number . . . An amount of £112 was given or guaranteed for the building, which is to be 20 feet by 30 feet in the clear, and proceeded with at once; the site being given by Mr. Ackland.”[Advertiser 22 Aug 1862]
“The anniversary services of the above church were held on Sunday and Monday last, those on the former day being conducted by the Rev. E. B. Burns. On Monday a well-attended tea meeting was held, followed by a public meeting, at which also the attendance was very satisfactory.” [Kapunda Herald 1 Mar 1872]
“A very devotional and interesting watch-night service was held in our Wesleyan Chapel, when the old year was watched out and the new one in by the congregation listening to appropriate addresses by two laymen and by singing songs—all in harmony with the pending object of importance. Some of the more apparently zealous of the company—not having been trained to sing in harmony, however— did not seem abashed when singing several tones or semi-tones above or below the proper notes.” [Kapunda Herald 10 Jan 1873]
This shot was taken from the Petit Palais, just across the street called Avenue Winston Churchill.
The Grand Palais ("Big Palace") is a large glass exhibition hall that was built for the Paris Exhibition of 1900.
Though the Nave is emblematic of the Grand Palais, the building is in fact a complex which also includes the Palais d'Antin, home to the Palais de la Découverte science museum, and the Galeries Nationales, with its art collections managed by the Réunion des musées Nationaux.
Designed in 1937 initially for the purposes of a temporary exhibition, the Palais de la Découverte has for 70 years fulfilled its initiatory role in the popularisation of scientific knowledge.
The Galeries Nationales were developed in 1962. André Malraux, then the French Minister of State for Cultural Affairs, was looking for a venue for major temporary exhibitions of international stature. He decided to earmark part of the Grand Palais, subsequently to become the Galeries nationales, for this purpose. Programming is the responsibility of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux.
The myth of Demeter and Persephone was of central importance in ancient Greek religion. The narrative lay at the heart of the Eleusinian Mysteries, the secret religious initiatory rites held each year, which offered the participants hope of rebirth to a better afterlife.
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, composed about the eighth century BCE, recounts the story in vivid detail, which seem to reflect some of the ritual actions carried out in the performance of the Mysteries.
May 14, 2011 - It was Fun! Nearly 40 Brothers and sisters attended the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Kapatirang Watchdog Lodge no.1, Beach Outing and Team-Building and around 30 brothers and sisters joined the conferral of the initiatory degree and awarding ceremony held at Wuthering Heights, San Jose, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
Mary Magdalene Pilgrimage
May 3-20 2023
with Ariana Brackenbury
"The Throne of Isis is an ancient stone seat embedded in the earth and surrounded by what can only be described as a “Lord of the Rings” enchanted forest. Situated high above the remains of an old Roman Spa town (now known as Rennes les Bains) is the Throne of Isis. It is reputed to be an Initiatory Seat of Power for the Mystery School of Isis. Every year hundreds of men and women flock to this spot praying to receive wisdom, healing and initiation into the Feminine “Way”.
Because you ‘sit’ on the throne, I feel that this sacred site is connected with fertility, sexuality and womb wisdom. Historically, Rennes les Bains is officially marked on The Rose Line (Paris Meridian) a time/energy line that runs through St Sulpice in Paris, all the down to the region's holy mountain, Mt Bugarach.
The Throne of Isis is also situated within the Pentagram as discovered by Henry Lincoln in Holy Blood, Holy Grail. This is a mystical portal mapped out into the land surrounding Rennes les Chateau by five mountainous peaks. Many of us in the region call this pentagram The Venus Temple, with its epicentre at La Pique (the Venus Temple transmission)"
from the site:
Projection privée à la borderline biennial de "VAMPYRES" en présence de Laurent Courau
Un film de Laurent Courau sur une idée de Lukas Zpira (réalisateur du film).
courtesy of Organ Museum
©2011 www.AbodeofChaos.org
The outline of the porch can be seen on the wall behind the water tank. Built 1863 as Wesleyan by local farmers, enlarged & re-opened 2 Apr 1865, Methodist after Union 1900, closed 1950, converted to dwelling.
“. . . initiatory steps were taken for the erection of a place of worship in connection with the Wesleyan denomination at Finniss Point, near Kapunda. The members of the Wesleyan cause in this neighborhood having lately received an addition of some twenty or more to their number . . . An amount of £112 was given or guaranteed for the building, which is to be 20 feet by 30 feet in the clear, and proceeded with at once; the site being given by Mr. Ackland.”[Advertiser 22 Aug 1862]
“The anniversary services of the above church were held on Sunday and Monday last, those on the former day being conducted by the Rev. E. B. Burns. On Monday a well-attended tea meeting was held, followed by a public meeting, at which also the attendance was very satisfactory.” [Kapunda Herald 1 Mar 1872]
“A very devotional and interesting watch-night service was held in our Wesleyan Chapel, when the old year was watched out and the new one in by the congregation listening to appropriate addresses by two laymen and by singing songs—all in harmony with the pending object of importance. Some of the more apparently zealous of the company—not having been trained to sing in harmony, however— did not seem abashed when singing several tones or semi-tones above or below the proper notes.” [Kapunda Herald 10 Jan 1873]
questi oggetti nascono per riti sacrificali connessi alla terra, come si evince dalla posizione che si deve assumere sedendosi, da cui il loro nome - toòpàr, e usato nel Thìlduù luogo sacro preposto a tali sacrifici da cui uscirà solo dopo la morte del proprietario per essere ereditato dai figli o da chi prosegue il culto. Cambiando il proprietario cambia il nome, che diviene daakà contrazione della perifrasi à da à cà hirè che letteralmente significa -arrivo subito dopo di te senza fermarmi- esprimendo così il senso di continuità della vita. La raffigurazione zoomorfa indica l'alto grado del proprietario , capo religioso di Jòrò, rito iniziatico collettivo settennale
these objects were created for sacrificial rites connected to the earth, as can be seen from the position that must be assumed when sitting down, hence their name - toòpàr, and used in the Thìlduù sacred place in charge of such sacrifices from which it will emerge only after the death of the owner to be inherited by children or by those who continue the cult. Changing the owner changes the name, which becomes daakà a contraction of the periphrasis à da à cà hirè which literally means -I arrive immediately after you without stopping- thus expressing the sense of continuity of life. The zoomorphic representation indicates the high rank of the owner, religious leader of Jòrò, a seven-year collective initiatory rite
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Tantalus
Story of Tantalus
Tantalus is known for having been welcomed to Zeus' table in Olympus. There he stole nectar and ambrosia, brought them back to his people, and revealed the secrets of the gods. He also offered up his son, Pelops as a sacrifice to the gods, an archetypal story of shamanic initiation in which he cut Pelops up, boiled him, and served him up as food for the gods.
The gods were said to be aware of his plan for their feast, so they didn't touch the offering; only Demeter, disturbed by the rape of her daughter Persephone, "did not realise what it was" and ate of the boy's shoulder. Fate, ordered by Zeus, brought the boy to life again (she collected the parts of the body and boiled them in a sacred cauldron) rebuilding his shoulder with an ivory one presented by Demeter.
Pelops, thus reconstituted, was brought back to life having gained new qualities. To reinforce the initiatory theme, the revived Pelops is kidnapped by Poseidon and taken to Olympus to be the god's lover.
The Greeks of classical times claimed to be horrified by Tantalus' doings, and accused Tantalus of trying to trick the Olympian gods back into their older identities by offering them a sacrifice-banquet of human flesh.
The kernel of myth embodied in this tale reinforces Olympian suppression of human sacrifice, which had apparently been offered in earlier times, especially to Demeter in her earlier embodiment as the Great Goddess, but which was now taboo. Alternatively, Tantalus is cast as a Promethean figure who divulges divine secrets to mortals and presides over sacred initiations consisting of mystic death and transfiguration.
Tantalus' punishment, now proverbial for endless efforts to achieve results, was to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches. Whenever he reached for the fruit, the branches raised his intended meal from his grasp. Whenever Tantalus bent down to get a drink, the water receded before he could get any.
In a separate story, he was also blamed for having stolen the dog of Hephaestus (god of metals) (alternatively, he convinced his friend, Pandareus to do so).
Projection privée à la borderline biennial de "VAMPYRES" en présence de Laurent Courau
Un film de Laurent Courau sur une idée de Lukas Zpira (réalisateur du film).
courtesy of Organ Museum
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Bora is an initiation ceremony of the Aboriginal people of Eastern Australia. The word "bora" also refers to the site on which the initiation is performed. At such a site, boys, having reached puberty, achieve the status of men. The initiation ceremony differs from Aboriginal culture to culture, but often, at a physical level, involved scarification, circumcision, subincision and, in some regions, also the removal of a tooth. During the rites, the youths who were to be initiated were taught traditional sacred songs, the secrets of the tribe's religious visions, dances, and traditional lore. Many different clans would assemble to participate in an initiation ceremony. Women and children were not permitted to be present at the sacred bora ground where these rituals were undertaken.
The word Bora was originally taken from the Gamilaraay language spoken by the Kamilaroi people who lived in the region north of the Hunter Valley in New South Wales to southern Queensland. It was then adopted broadly to describe similar ritual sites and the ceremonies associated with them performed throughout Eastern Australia. Many other terms exist across Australia to denote similar initiatory rites on a ceremonial ground, such as burbung (Wiradjuri), and kuringal (Yuin). The specific word is said to come from the belt worn by initiated men.
The appearance of the site varies among cultures, but it is often associated with stone arrangements, rock engravings, or other art works. In the bora rites of southeastern Australia, two circles were drawn, connected by a pathway, a schema which appears to replicate a sky Bora, or the configuration of a series of positions in the Milky Way. Typically, bora ground comprised a larger circle with a diameter of between 20–30 metres, and a smaller ring around 10–15 metres in diameter. The former was a more public space while the latter was sacred, and restricted to male participants who were either the instructing male elders or the initiants.
n south-east Australia, the Bora is often associated with the creator-spirit Baiame. In the Sydney region, large earth mounds were made, shaped as long bands or simple circles. Sometimes the boys would have to pass along a path marked on the ground representing the transition from childhood to manhood, and this path might be marked by a stone arrangement or by spirit footprints (mundowa), cut into the rock. In other areas of south-east Australia, a Bora site might consist of two circles of stones, and the boys would start the ceremony in the larger, public, one, and end it in the other, smaller, one, to which only initiated men are admitted. Robert Hamilton Mathews (1897) gives an excellent eye-witness account of a Bora ceremony, and explains the common use of the two circles. One very fine example of a two ring bora ceremonial site used to exist in Alberton, Queensland till it was destroyed, and made way for a pineapple plantation in the late 1950s. The smaller southern ring contained a dolmen-like structure.
The rings are joined by a sacred walkway. While most are confined to south-east Queensland and eastern New South Wales, five earth rings have been recorded near the Victorian town of Sunbury, although Aboriginal use has not been documented.
Bora rings in the form of circles of individually placed stones are evident in Werrikimbe National Park in northern New South Wales.
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Watch Your Dreams, by Ann Ree Colton. As I've just started reading the book, I don't have much to say about it.
Here is the brief description of the book: "...In her research, she discovered that there are seven dream levels, and that there is a progressive process and sequence in one’s dreams that reveals the initiatory action in one’s life. Watch Your Dreams describes the spiritual significance of dreams and discusses the Night Ministry, during which one may aid others, research the higher worlds, learn of past lives, and gain prophetic insight into coming events..."
This shot was taken from the Petit Palais, just across the street called Avenue Winston Churchill.
The Grand Palais ("Big Palace") is a large glass exhibition hall that was built for the Paris Exhibition of 1900.
Though the Nave is emblematic of the Grand Palais, the building is in fact a complex which also includes the Palais d'Antin, home to the Palais de la Découverte science museum, and the Galeries Nationales, with its art collections managed by the Réunion des musées Nationaux.
Designed in 1937 initially for the purposes of a temporary exhibition, the Palais de la Découverte has for 70 years fulfilled its initiatory role in the popularisation of scientific knowledge.
The Galeries Nationales were developed in 1962. André Malraux, then the French Minister of State for Cultural Affairs, was looking for a venue for major temporary exhibitions of international stature. He decided to earmark part of the Grand Palais, subsequently to become the Galeries nationales, for this purpose. Programming is the responsibility of the Réunion des Musées Nationaux.
February 6, 2010 - I.O.O.F, Watchdog Lodge, Dumaguete City, Philippines, conferral of initiatory degree to Brothers Cyril Jaymes Plantilla and Dax L. Clavano.
This master painter chose spoons carved in villages some way from Konya, and these three differ in their handle carving. Two of the spoons depict a Sufi initiatory belt.
Opened 21 Nov 1858 as Free Presbyterian, purchased by Baptists when Presbyterian congregations merged, opened 23 Jun 1861 as Baptist.
“The opening of the Free Presbyterian Church at Castlemaine took place on Sunday last, when Dr. Cairns, of Melbourne, preached morning and evening to overflowing congregations. The style of architecture of the building is a sort of Continental Gothic, consisting of a central nave and two side aisles. . . On the day following the opening (Monday) a tea-meeting was hold at the Mechanics' Institute.” [Bendigo Advertiser 24 Nov 1858]
“ Presbyterian Union. . . The Moderators of the four Synods then reported that the latter bodies had determined to enter the Union, three of them unanimiously [sic] and the fourth-the United Presbyterian Church of Victoria-by a majority.” [The Argus 7 Apr 1859]
“to sell by tender . . . very valuable property known as the Presbyterian Church, Templeton St., Castlemaine. The ground contains ¼ of an acre . . . on which is erected a Stone Building, 40 feet wide by 60 in length; a good height, well ventilated, slate roof. The reason of this property being disposed of is owing to the union of the two congregations.” [Mount Alexander Mail 12 Apr 1861]
“The initiatory services in connection with the establishment of a Baptist Church in this town will take place on Sunday, when two sermons will he preached by the Rev. James Taylor, of Melbourne. The building recently the property of the Presbyterians, in Templeton-street, has been purchased by the Baptists. A. tea meeting will be held in the church on Wednesday evening.” [Mount Alexander Mail 21 Jun 1861]
Projection privée à la borderline biennial de "VAMPYRES" en présence de Laurent Courau
Un film de Laurent Courau sur une idée de Lukas Zpira (réalisateur du film).
courtesy of Organ Museum
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bientot une exposition au Club de Chinon Beaumont
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La galerie A[rt] part présente Natsha Lemton au travers d'une exposition intitulée "A[part] of me, A [part] of her". Quatre parties, quatre époques de la vie, quatre manières d'envisager l'existence humaine. Natsha nous emmène avec elle dans l'exploration de nous-même, de la naissance à la maturité et de l'auto-destruction à la renaissance.
Chacun se retrouve en face du miroir de sa propre existence et suit ce parcourt initiatique menant à la libération.
The gallery A[rt ] part present Natsha Lemton through an entitled exhibition " A [part] of me, A [part] of her ". Four parts, four periods of life, four manners to envisage the human existence. Natsha takes us with her in the exploration of ourselves, from the birth to the maturity and from the self-destruction to the revival.
Each meets in front of the mirror of its own existence and follows this initiatory route until the liberation.
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Une ballade initiatique au cœur du joyau naturel du pays des Sorgues.
De cascade, en ruisseaux et de forêts, en rivières, je vous ferai découvrir toutes les subtilités de ces magnifiques techniques
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A walk in the heart of initiatory natural jewel of Sorgues.
Cascade in streams and forests, rivers, I will discover all the subtleties of these magnificent technical
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Man’s origin is essentially not natural, which can also be said about nature itself.
32. Spiritual and theistic world-views should be markedly different from materialistic and atheistic ones in each aspect of life: in eating, sleeping, walking but first of all in their views.
133. The aim of man’s activity in life can be the Absolutum or nothingness.
138. Sticking to the only-human leads not to remaining in the human sphere but to becoming sub-human. For persisting in something is to loose it: to loose that which was intended to be retained.
139. The one in whom the problems of life, consciousness and death do not arise cannot in the strictest sense of the word be regarded as a human being. Undoubtedly he looks like a man but in reality he is not.
140. If superhuman principles does not stand behind man’s intention of changing himself then he will not remain in the human state but descend to a subhuman condition.
141. Without aims going beyond life one does not only go in the wrong way but strictly speaking, one should not be called a man.
142. The one who is not able to live his life as a constant ascension, which attains its perfection in the period right before death, but from a certain age starts to descend, in reality abuses his life.
143. He who does not strive upwards, descends.
144. He who lets himself be taken by the current, is certain to follow the wrong path.
174. Without exception, everyone reaches their goals, if they really have these goals.
175. Man is always born in the place where he has to be born.
176. Man should arrange his external world forever so that it fits his inner world.
177. Between man’s inner world and the more increasingly chaotic surrounding external world there is a definite correspondence.
178. All that is somatic in man, that is, which is in connection with body and face, mainly expresses the past.
179. Resignation to one’s fate as well as revolt against one’s fate are lunar attitudes. A truly spiritual attitude aims at transcending fate: one does not resign and does not revolt, but by depriving fate from its importance transcends it.
188. Concerning metaphysical realisation every »must« refers only to the man who wants to do something with himself. The one who does not intend to do anything with himself, does not have to do anything.
190. In times past, one school, one sacred book, even one sentence of such a book was enough: through that everything could be reached. Today, if one wants to get back to the spirit, one has to surround oneself with several traditions, schools and trends.
191. The spiritual path even two thousand years ago was called the »narrow path«, or was compared to the edge of a sword. However, this path is not simply narrow, but is also getting narrower and more impassable. The »wide path«, on the contrary, which many people follow quite happily, is indeed a wayless way; a wide path, which is not a real path: it leads nowhere, to nothing, to death...
194. Whatever a man wants to reach he reaches. If it should not happen, it is because he is unable to want it.
195. He who wants to awake, awakes.
196. Not gaining initiation is never due to the fact that a man could not find an appropriate initiatory centre, but because he is not mature enough for initiation.
203. Every true ascent from below is an ascent controlled from above. I want to get higher for what is higher in me »calles for« what is lower in me.
204. The adequate and legitimate way of getting back to Heaven is well symbolized by the ladder of Jacob: getting back to Heaven is only possible by climbing up the ladder which descends from Heaven. The inadequate and illegitimate way is the story of the Tower of Babel: the ascent from the Earth necessarily leads to collapse and confusion of mind.
218. He who wants the Goal, should also want the means that lead to the Goal. For if he does not want the means leading to the Goal, he certainly does not want the Goal.
224. Man should not ensure reservations of darkness in his life.
244. By gaining power over consciousness man gains power over being.
245. While I do not have control over my circumstances I should at least try not to let circumstances have control over me.
293. Knowledge of the origin, knowledge of the path, knowledge of the all-transcending, ultimate goal: this is metaphysical realisation.
294. Tradition springs forth from the eternal, points at the eternal, and in the human modality of being represents the aspiration towards the eternal.
376. One has to accommodate himself to the modern world so that his powers will not wear him out - but not in the sense of bending and assimilating to it, but as a kind of acclimatisation; for he who gets acclimatised will not »serve« the climate but resists the climate.
377. Despite all its losing track, deterioration and dissipation, today’s world and the tendencies operating in it show one direction: the direction of nothingness.
404. As light magnetises certain insects, so spiritual darkness attracts the overwhelming majority of people.
405. Darkness can not be recognised by its declaring itself to be dark. Things can not be accepted at their nominal value. Most things are not what they say or what they show about themselves.
424. Man’s origin is essentially not natural, which can also be said about nature itself.
427. Everything that is against the supernatural also turns, sooner or later, against the natural.
513. Essentially each epoch is a state of consciousness - as is the Dark Age. They are historical periods only in the second place.
553. Though religion has developed in the period of Kali-yuga, it cannot be considered as the product of a darkening process, but rather as the reaction to it. Since prior to Kali-yuga man had lived in a circum-spiritual state, there was no necessity for a particular religion or rite.
567. The under-valuation of any religion entails the undermining of all religions including one’s own.
642. Problem-solving thinking is not real thinking, but only the intense degradation of thinking. The real thinking is creative thinking which means thinking at high intensity.
644. Thinking imbued with emotionality, which drifts toward a problem, is undoubtedly a kind of concentration: although not I am who concentrates, rather I am concentrated on.
660. There is no hierarchy in the Centre and from the Centre; but this is much more the case with the realisation of the Centre.
661. The grades in the sphere of beings are the grades of the withdrawal from the centre of being and the grades of the returning to the centre of being.
673. Quantitative aspects have no value at all, because value is, essentially, attached to quality.
676. Quantity is by the side of chaos.
755. The past has the strongest connection with neglecting. There is past because man continuously misses opportunities, he fails to collect and hold together the totality of being.
756. There is past because the presence of man in the present is not sufficient.
757. We have temporality because our experience of the present is not intense enough. If it were completely intense, there would be no temporality, the temporal present would absorb both past and future, and Time itself too.
May 14, 2011 - It was Fun! Nearly 40 Brothers and sisters attended the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Kapatirang Watchdog Lodge no.1, Beach Outing and Team-Building and around 30 brothers and sisters joined the conferral of the initiatory degree and awarding ceremony held at Wuthering Heights, San Jose, Negros Oriental, Philippines.