PA 0236 était situé sur l'immeuble du 50 rue de Bassano, sur la façade côté rue Magellan (Paris 8ème).

Cette mosaïque n'est pas restée en place bien longtemps : dans le tome 1 (version 1.2) de l'invasion de Paris, on trouve la célèbre photo d'un pillard en train d'arracher PA 0236 du mur.

Impuissance d'Invader ...

Il ne reste que la trace de la mosaïque ... et les éraflures du grattoir !

THIS PIECE TOOK ME PRECISELY 6 HOURS T OD AND IT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE DONE ON NEW YEARS EVE, NO THANKS TO THOSE TFL AND NEW YEARS PARTY ORGANISING IDIOTS !!!

 

Plus doing it on NEW YEARS DAY WAS A DAY TO LEARN AND PREPARE FOR NEXT TIME TOO

 

This is my superhero NEW YEARS PIECE filled with Amalgamte characters,BANANAMAN, BLuntman and Chronic and of COURSE ME GIVING YOU AN AFFIRMATIVE MESSAGE

 

"BE A HERO THIS YEAR!!"

 

HAVE A GREAT YEAR PEOPLE AND ALWAYS BE POSITIVE TOO !!

THIS PIECE TOOK ME PRECISELY 6 HOURS T OD AND IT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE DONE ON NEW YEARS EVE, NO THANKS TO THOSE TFL AND NEW YEARS PARTY ORGANISING IDIOTS !!!

 

Plus doing it on NEW YEARS DAY WAS A DAY TO LEARN AND PREPARE FOR NEXT TIME TOO

 

This is my superhero NEW YEARS PIECE filled with Amalgamte characters,BANANAMAN, BLuntman and Chronic and of COURSE ME GIVING YOU AN AFFIRMATIVE MESSAGE

 

"BE A HERO THIS YEAR!!"

 

HAVE A GREAT YEAR PEOPLE AND ALWAYS BE POSITIVE TOO !!

Geger Hill Bangkalan

  

Geger hill is located approximately 30 km southeast of the City Bangkalan, precisely in the village of Geger, District Geger. This hill is located at an altitude of about 150-200 meters above sea level.

 

According to the folk legend, Geger hill was the first place that had been visited by the first civilian who came in Madura. On 7-8 Century, it was Patih Pranggulan from Mendangkawulan kingdom in the the foothill of Semeru became the first man who landed in Planggirân ( a set of rocks) in Geger hill. At that time he came together with Princess Dewi Ratna Roroagung, the daughter of Mendangkawulan king, and she was pregnant.

 

Both Patih Pranggulan and Princess Dewi Ratna Roroagung which was called as Putri Koneng or Koneng princess was castaway. At geger hill, the princess Koneng was always did meditation at the edge of the cliff, everyday before the sunset. Now, the rock that seems like chair is being called as Palènggiyân (Madura).

 

Relating the folk legend above, in geger hill, there are five legendary caves in the form of Madurese language, like Petapan cave (the cave for meditation), Goa Potre (princess cave ), Goa Planangan (men cave), Goa Pancong Pote (white lynch cave) and Goa Olar (Snake Cave).

 

Up to now, in that location there are some visitors from Madura or the outside Madura come to those sites doing some meditating or praying, the local people call this as Tirakatan.

 

Geger hill is such a potential destination in Madura, for it has camping ground for those who want to explore more about this hill. Moreover, there is also Acacia forest, Mahogany forest and Teak forest that covering 42 hectares of the hil. We can see the beautiful rice field and some lakes over the sightseeing and a resort on the hilltop of Pelanggiran site. Furthermore, it become more potential to be the tourism destination in Bangkalan because this site is having the historical background of the first founding of Madura.

  

More info visit

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Took a walk in the hills at morrongo valley when i came back down their was this guy flying his heli he had two of them he was doing free styje flying took some shot's and then move on to the birding.Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is an internationally-recognized birding site. Several rare or unusual species are known to nest here, and many other species are abundant during the spring and fall migration seasons.

 

What does it mean to “fly 3D”? All aircraft maneuver in three dimensional space, so what separates 3D flying from just flying? Model helicopters are capable of maneuvers other aircraft, including full sized helicopters can only dream of. A modern “3D” model helicopter is capable of aggressive, accurate and axial flips and rolls. Adding the ability to pirouette, fly backwards and upside down, there is practically no limit to the maneuvers that can be flown. Although aggressive, unbelievable flights may seem wildly out of control to the untrained eye, it takes immense skill, and the models can be flown incredibly precisely with enough practice.

 

One of the beauties of modern aerobatic helicopter flight, which has come to be known as 3D, is how varied the potential is. Every 3D heli pilot exhibits their own character and style in flight. A 3D flight could be flown freestyle with nothing planned ahead of time, or it could be a highly prepared, choreographed flight put to music for competition. While 3D heli flight is, in essence, simply a combination of flips, rolls , and pirouettes, there is no end to the combinations. Once a heli pilot masters the basics, a continuously evolving world of precision aerobatics awaits. Like a dancer or figure skater, a 3D heli pilot can express style by putting simple moves together in complicated sequences for incredible effect.

 

Like any sport, art, or specialty, practice makes perfect. Some people learn faster than others, but everybody should try to step gingerly into more complicated and aggressive moves, for safeties sake (not to mention your wallet!). Excellent training tools are available; most notably computer simulators and buddy boxes. Unlike most video games which are intended for play, simulators for model aircraft are designed around one goal, helping people learn how to fly model airplanes and helicopters. Simulators are so accurate a budding pilot can master almost all regimes of flight in a simulated environment which instantly replaces a wrecked model! In real life, a crash cost not only confidence, but time and money to fix the model. By the time the pilot gets back to it, the learning experience from the crash is not fresh, and learning tends to progress slower. On a simulator, a fledgling pilot can take as much time exploring the controls as they want, and learn at their own pace without any down time between crashes.

 

THIS PIECE TOOK ME PRECISELY 6 HOURS T OD AND IT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE DONE ON NEW YEARS EVE, NO THANKS TO THOSE TFL AND NEW YEARS PARTY ORGANISING IDIOTS !!!

 

Plus doing it on NEW YEARS DAY WAS A DAY TO LEARN AND PREPARE FOR NEXT TIME TOO

 

This is my superhero NEW YEARS PIECE filled with Amalgamte characters,BANANAMAN, BLuntman and Chronic and of COURSE ME GIVING YOU AN AFFIRMATIVE MESSAGE

 

"BE A HERO THIS YEAR!!"

 

HAVE A GREAT YEAR PEOPLE AND ALWAYS BE POSITIVE TOO !!

Photograph taken in the magic of The Golden Hour around Sunrise (Sunrise was at precisely 07:46am), at an altitude of One metres, at 06:46am on Tuesday December 9th 2014 off Botany Road and Marine Drive, on the sandy shoreline of Botany Bay in Broadstairs, Kent, England.

  

A very chilly morning on the beach, around One degree, and a bracing wind that pounded flesh and bones, but well worth the one and a half hour journey there to enjoy a lovely sunrise. The seven bays in Broadstairs consist of: (From south to north) Dumpton Gap, Louisa Bay, Viking Bay, Stone Bay, Joss Bay, Kingsgate Bay and Botany Bay.

  

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Nikon D800 24mm Three seconds long exposure f/2.8 iso200 RAW (14Bit) AF-S single point focus. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.

  

Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL batteries. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Manfrotto MT057C3 057 Carbon Fiber Tripod 3 Sections (Payload 18kgs). Manfrotto MH057M0-RC4 057 Magnesium Ball Head with RC4 Quick Release (Payload 15kgs). Manfrotto quick release plate 410PL-14.Jessops Tripod bag. Optech Tripod Strap.Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.

  

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Took a walk in the hills at morrongo valley when i came back down their was this guy flying his heli he had two of them he was doing free styje flying took some shot's and then move on to the birding.Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is an internationally-recognized birding site. Several rare or unusual species are known to nest here, and many other species are abundant during the spring and fall migration seasons.

 

What does it mean to “fly 3D”? All aircraft maneuver in three dimensional space, so what separates 3D flying from just flying? Model helicopters are capable of maneuvers other aircraft, including full sized helicopters can only dream of. A modern “3D” model helicopter is capable of aggressive, accurate and axial flips and rolls. Adding the ability to pirouette, fly backwards and upside down, there is practically no limit to the maneuvers that can be flown. Although aggressive, unbelievable flights may seem wildly out of control to the untrained eye, it takes immense skill, and the models can be flown incredibly precisely with enough practice.

 

One of the beauties of modern aerobatic helicopter flight, which has come to be known as 3D, is how varied the potential is. Every 3D heli pilot exhibits their own character and style in flight. A 3D flight could be flown freestyle with nothing planned ahead of time, or it could be a highly prepared, choreographed flight put to music for competition. While 3D heli flight is, in essence, simply a combination of flips, rolls , and pirouettes, there is no end to the combinations. Once a heli pilot masters the basics, a continuously evolving world of precision aerobatics awaits. Like a dancer or figure skater, a 3D heli pilot can express style by putting simple moves together in complicated sequences for incredible effect.

 

Like any sport, art, or specialty, practice makes perfect. Some people learn faster than others, but everybody should try to step gingerly into more complicated and aggressive moves, for safeties sake (not to mention your wallet!). Excellent training tools are available; most notably computer simulators and buddy boxes. Unlike most video games which are intended for play, simulators for model aircraft are designed around one goal, helping people learn how to fly model airplanes and helicopters. Simulators are so accurate a budding pilot can master almost all regimes of flight in a simulated environment which instantly replaces a wrecked model! In real life, a crash cost not only confidence, but time and money to fix the model. By the time the pilot gets back to it, the learning experience from the crash is not fresh, and learning tends to progress slower. On a simulator, a fledgling pilot can take as much time exploring the controls as they want, and learn at their own pace without any down time between crashes.

 

Took a walk in the hills at morrongo valley when i came back down their was this guy flying his heli he had two of them he was doing free styje flying took some shot's and then move on to the birding.Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is an internationally-recognized birding site. Several rare or unusual species are known to nest here, and many other species are abundant during the spring and fall migration seasons.

 

What does it mean to “fly 3D”? All aircraft maneuver in three dimensional space, so what separates 3D flying from just flying? Model helicopters are capable of maneuvers other aircraft, including full sized helicopters can only dream of. A modern “3D” model helicopter is capable of aggressive, accurate and axial flips and rolls. Adding the ability to pirouette, fly backwards and upside down, there is practically no limit to the maneuvers that can be flown. Although aggressive, unbelievable flights may seem wildly out of control to the untrained eye, it takes immense skill, and the models can be flown incredibly precisely with enough practice.

 

One of the beauties of modern aerobatic helicopter flight, which has come to be known as 3D, is how varied the potential is. Every 3D heli pilot exhibits their own character and style in flight. A 3D flight could be flown freestyle with nothing planned ahead of time, or it could be a highly prepared, choreographed flight put to music for competition. While 3D heli flight is, in essence, simply a combination of flips, rolls , and pirouettes, there is no end to the combinations. Once a heli pilot masters the basics, a continuously evolving world of precision aerobatics awaits. Like a dancer or figure skater, a 3D heli pilot can express style by putting simple moves together in complicated sequences for incredible effect.

 

Like any sport, art, or specialty, practice makes perfect. Some people learn faster than others, but everybody should try to step gingerly into more complicated and aggressive moves, for safeties sake (not to mention your wallet!). Excellent training tools are available; most notably computer simulators and buddy boxes. Unlike most video games which are intended for play, simulators for model aircraft are designed around one goal, helping people learn how to fly model airplanes and helicopters. Simulators are so accurate a budding pilot can master almost all regimes of flight in a simulated environment which instantly replaces a wrecked model! In real life, a crash cost not only confidence, but time and money to fix the model. By the time the pilot gets back to it, the learning experience from the crash is not fresh, and learning tends to progress slower. On a simulator, a fledgling pilot can take as much time exploring the controls as they want, and learn at their own pace without any down time between crashes.

 

I know nearly-precisely when this shot was taken... it was on July 30, 1995 when both Mike Schmidt and Richie Ashburn were being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. I know the exact date b/c I was in the crowd for the ceremony!! (The trip was my high school graduation present from my family - great timing!!)

 

Schmitty made it in on his first year of eligibility. Whitey's induction was many years in the making, not because he was a borderline Hall of Famer, but because he played during the 50s and 60s when his outstanding stats were continuously overshadowed by the big-name players of his era. It was only fitting that they went in on the same day. The absolute sea of Phillies red in the crowd was just awesome to see. At the time, we set the record for the largest crowd to watch an induction ceremony. That record may still stand...

Photograph taken at an altitude of Seven metres, in the magic of the Golden hour around sunrise at 05:42am, (sunrise was at precisely 06.15am) on Saturday 6th September 2014 off the Patricia Bay Highway 17, on Lochside Drive close to Frost Avenue and the Lochside Waterfront Park, in beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

  

Here, I am standing beside the wooden decked viewing platform, looking over towards Mt Baker in Washington State, USA from beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Also known as Koma Kulshan, she is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States, standing 3,286 metres tall and was first ascended in 1868, her last eruption recorded in 1880.

  

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Nikon D800 120mm 1/400s f/5.6 iso100 RAW (14 bit) Manual focus. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.

  

Nikkor AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8G ED IF VRII. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL batteries. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Manfrotto MT057C3 057 Carbon Fiber Tripod 3 Sections (Payload 18kgs). Manfrotto MH057M0-RC4 057 Magnesium Ball Head with RC4 Quick Release (Payload 15kgs). Manfrotto quick release plate 410PL-14.Jessops Tripod bag. Optech Tripod Strap.Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.

  

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ewww.

i guess smoking is, uhhh,

is really frowned upon here,

or not?

Photograph taken at an altitude of Nine metres, in the magic of the Golden hour around sunrise at 05:02am, (sunrise was at precisely 06.15am) on Saturday 6th September 2014 off the Patricia Bay Highway 17, on Lochside Drive close to Frost Avenue and the Lochside Waterfront Park, in beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

  

Here, we are looking over towards Mt Baker in Washington State, USA from beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Also known as Koma Kulshan, (pronounced kō-ō’mah’ kool-shän’),she is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States, standing 3,286 metres tall and was first ascended in 1868, her last eruption recorded in 1880.

  

The name Mount Baker first appeared in print in Captain Vancouver’s 1798 narrative of his voyage around Vancouver Island. Legend has it that his third-lieutenant, Joseph Baker, was the first to spot the mountain while they sailed into Dungeness Bay on April 30th, 1792. Also known by the Lummi as Kwud-Shad, and Koba (meaning 'high mountain always covered with snow', was the Skagit name.

  

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Nikon D800 70mm 1/4s f/2.8 iso100 RAW (14 bit) AF-S single point focus. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.

  

Nikkor AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8G ED IF VRII. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL batteries. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Manfrotto MT057C3 057 Carbon Fiber Tripod 3 Sections (Payload 18kgs). Manfrotto MH057M0-RC4 057 Magnesium Ball Head with RC4 Quick Release (Payload 15kgs). Manfrotto quick release plate 410PL-14.Jessops Tripod bag. Optech Tripod Strap.Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.

  

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Seven metres, in the magic of the Golden hour around sunrise at 05:31am, (sunrise was at precisely 06.15am) on Saturday 6th September 2014 off the Patricia Bay Highway 17, on Lochside Drive close to Frost Avenue and the Lochside Waterfront Park, in beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

  

The large bird in the foreground is a Great Blue Heron, very often found on the shoreline here, along with the Skeins of Canada Geese which fly West across the water each sunrise and back Eastwards to sleep at sunset each day.

  

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Nikon D800 135mm 1/500s f/2.8 iso100 RAW (14 bit) Manual focus. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.

  

Nikkor AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8G ED IF VRII. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL batteries. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Manfrotto MT057C3 057 Carbon Fiber Tripod 3 Sections (Payload 18kgs). Manfrotto MH057M0-RC4 057 Magnesium Ball Head with RC4 Quick Release (Payload 15kgs). Manfrotto quick release plate 410PL-14.Jessops Tripod bag. Optech Tripod Strap.Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.

  

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Rodeo sex night happened every Thursday , starting at 7:30 and finishing at 10:27 precisely, the neighbours complain if there is too much noise after that, and one wouldn't want to disturb the neighbours. Rodeo Sex Night was so named because of all of the hard riding and horsey noises that went on, and that it was frequented by Texans. Recently, Nic LaForge, the renowned French coccinelle documentary maker had decided to do a warts and all film, showing the seedier life of the bugs. Some called it a "fly on the wall" documentary, but Nic hated that term, he was a professional, an artiste, and hated the comparison with simple diptera! Nic was filming for the bug discovery channel, he wanted all the money shots, and often went in close to organise the action. Unfortunately, he wasn't as fast on his 6 feet as he used to be, and he occasionally got "caught in the action." This was one of those occasions, the action was steamy, the lighting perfect and the models smiling. Only one thing could spoil the perfect shot, and Nic managed to do that all on his own.

We went out mapping, or more precisely doing aerial photography, flying a digital camera under a nice big green balloon from the green of Goldsmiths University. The MA is Design at Goldsmiths has an option called “Design & Environment” supervised by Prof Jennifer Gabrys. It is a course that initiates students to alternatives design and environmental methods and pratices. This hands-on experiment was lead by Cesar Harada acting both as Goldsmiths tutor and Public Laboratory instructor. The mappers -who are also the authors of this post- were Anuja Uttamrao Borker, Inessa Demidova, Shan-Yu Hsu, Dk Hajah Hazwani Pg Dato Haji Jaberudin, Federica Sterpos, Chian-Yun Yang, Yifan Zhang, Elvira Grob.

 

designandenvironment.co.uk/

 

I've enjoyed watching Jack process through precisely the same steps as I did in this tiny area of life for several years now. But it has all ramped up these past 3 weeks as I've watched the culmination of his work here at the end of his senior year.

I've bubbled with pride as I've watched his performance peak at exactly the time it should. I've felt deep emotions with him, simply because I've felt them before.

Track is a special sport because its main focus of competition is within each individual. Of course, to everyone watching, it appears as if the athletes are competing against one another. But don't be fooled you're witnessing each and every athlete competing against himself together with all the others. Of course, this is not said to diminish the importance of other sports that teach us to find our place, and to contribute within team and community, but track provides the opportunity to struggle within yourself to strengthen you contribution to team and community.

The track is a microscope that focusses weakness, laziness, fault, victory, overcoming, success exactly where it must be dealt with - on each individual on the team. And it forces it to be addressed by the only appropriate person - the individual.

Perhaps, only when we learn to compete with ourselves are we equal to the task of contributing to team and community.

(further information you can get by clicking on the link at the end of page!)

Historical data

The first settlement core of Wolkersdorf was the "Old Market" to the west of the present course of the Brünnerstraße (Brno street) direction Ulrichskirchen. An exact age determination of the emergence of the "Old Market" is not possible, but the evidence points to the time just before 1050. However, it seems that even before a settlement whose provenance cannot precisely determinated has existed. The foundation is often associated with the legendary figure of a Wolfger, who allegedly was a Frankish follower of the Salian king Henry III. (from 1046 Emperor). After him, the naming of the place is supposed to be done, but it is rather to presume that the place-name, as in other places in the Weinviertel, also can be explained from the settlement history and it's the case of a secondary place name, which refers to the surroundings of the actual Nuremberg.

The castle buildings in its present location - about a whatsoever former noble residence in the "Old Market" can only be speculated - in the first half of the 13th Century was built, as well as the "new market" was born. The Lords of Wolkersdorf who called themselves after the place were emerged from a lesser branch of the lords of Ulrichskirchen.

A close binding to the Babenberg Duke House in the connection with the third Crusade should have emerged, which has been rumored frequently, but it is not possible for various reasons. If the close binding to the Babenberg Court, which in the 13th Century undeniably has existed, really through joint crusade participations came off, this only can be the case of the so-called "German Crusade" under the Emperor Henry VI., however, this was canceled very quickly due to the death of Henry.

Thither also suggest other evidences, such as today's Wolkersdorfer city coat of arms, consisting of ​​the colors of the burgraves of Nuremberg (Black/Silver). Even the oldest surviving deed of gift for Wolkersdorf end of the 13th Century comes from the Nuremberg burgraves, the fief relationship but already seems to have existed far longer.

The nobility of the Wolkersdorfer after the extinction of the Babenberg in the 70s of the 13th Century stood in opposition to King Ottokar of Bohemia, what made him object of a mention in Grillparzer's drama "King Ottokar's Fortune and End".

After the nobility of the Wolkersdorfer had left the place, there were frequently changing owners, among them the Dachsberger and the Starhemberger. Since 1481 and completely in 1538 was the domination Wolkersdorf owned by the Habsburgs and was following the testament of Queen Anne in 1547 the Wiener Hofspital (Court Hospital of Vienna) incorporatedl and belonged even after its repeal in 1782 to the endowment fund of the Hofspital until the purchase by Hugo Graf Abensperg-Traun in the year 1870. In 1884, the Wolkersdorfer Savings Bank acquired the castle, in 1967 it became the property of the former market town, since 1969 the municipality of Wolkersdorf.

In the eventful history of the place it came in the wake of the sieges frequently to devastations, such as in 1275 in the course of the siege by King Ottokar of Bohemia, in 1458 by the Bohemian King George of Podebrad or 1605 by the Calvinist Prince of Transylvania Stephan Botchkay. In the course of the Thirty Years' War it were mainly the Swedes under Field Marshal Torstensson Lienhart by which Wolkersdorf was affected. 1809 finally Napoleon's troops burned a portion of the "Old Market" down. 1866, the Rußbach (brook) was the demarcation line between Prussia and Austria, thus separating Wolkersdorf into a northern Prussian and a southern Austrian part.

Wolkersdorf was in the first half of the 14th Century raised to market; 1436 with Lewpolt Gerngrass first a citizen of the market Wolkersdorf documentarily is mentioned. Under King Albert II 1439 the district court Wolkersdorf by transfers from the regional courts Marchegg and Korneuburg was created, as the name suggests, the High Court was located on the Judgment mountain. Sometimes Wolkersdorf even had three judges, one for the "Old Market", one for the "New Market" and one for the approximately 1784 emerged 'settlers line" (New Line), today the Kaiser-Josef-Straße.

A school in Wolkersdorf is first mentioned in 1446. 1460 took place the meeting of the Lower Austrian estates in Wolkersdorf.

Of importance to Wolkersdorf was already in the Middle Ages a trade route that ran from Vienna, at Stadlau crossing the Danube, via Wolkersdorf, Gaweinstal and Mistelbach to Poysdorf and there reaching the old "Nikolsburger road", which was the forerunner of the in 18th Century developed Brünnerstraße. Through the construction of the Brünnerstraße under Joseph II Wolkersdorf quickly developed into the largest settlement of the beginning hill landscape of the Wine Quarter and in 1870 it was connected to the railway network.

Promoted business settlements of the municipality from 1960 made ​​Wolkersdorf to an important economic center. This position was taken into account on 22 June 1969 by elevating Wolkersdorf to the status of the city. In the years 1966-1972 Wolkersdorf grew through the association with the communities Riedenthal, Münichsthal, Pfösing and the market town of Oberndorf.

Intensive infrastructure projects were formative for the 70s and 80s. In 1978, the Provincial Government of Lower Austria founded the industrial center Lower Austria Nord/Wolkersdorf to the south of the Ostbahn (eastern railway) and to the east of Brno road. Intensive residential construction activity, active youth work and the development to school center shape the face and character of the city as a gateway to the Wine Quarter.

Wolkersdorf successfully puts up the gap between urbanized and rural structure. The result is a high quality of life - with high developed infrastructure, diverse recreational spaces, rest areas and green spaces in and around Wolkersdorf. The proximity to Vienna as well as the pronounced Weinviertler cultural landscape attract many guests to Wolkersdorf .

www.wolkersdorf.at/index.php/subsection=Wolkersdorf_-_His...

Took a walk in the hills at morrongo valley when i came back down their was this guy flying his heli he had two of them he was doing free styje flying took some shot's and then move on to the birding.Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is an internationally-recognized birding site. Several rare or unusual species are known to nest here, and many other species are abundant during the spring and fall migration seasons.

 

What does it mean to “fly 3D”? All aircraft maneuver in three dimensional space, so what separates 3D flying from just flying? Model helicopters are capable of maneuvers other aircraft, including full sized helicopters can only dream of. A modern “3D” model helicopter is capable of aggressive, accurate and axial flips and rolls. Adding the ability to pirouette, fly backwards and upside down, there is practically no limit to the maneuvers that can be flown. Although aggressive, unbelievable flights may seem wildly out of control to the untrained eye, it takes immense skill, and the models can be flown incredibly precisely with enough practice.

 

One of the beauties of modern aerobatic helicopter flight, which has come to be known as 3D, is how varied the potential is. Every 3D heli pilot exhibits their own character and style in flight. A 3D flight could be flown freestyle with nothing planned ahead of time, or it could be a highly prepared, choreographed flight put to music for competition. While 3D heli flight is, in essence, simply a combination of flips, rolls , and pirouettes, there is no end to the combinations. Once a heli pilot masters the basics, a continuously evolving world of precision aerobatics awaits. Like a dancer or figure skater, a 3D heli pilot can express style by putting simple moves together in complicated sequences for incredible effect.

 

Like any sport, art, or specialty, practice makes perfect. Some people learn faster than others, but everybody should try to step gingerly into more complicated and aggressive moves, for safeties sake (not to mention your wallet!). Excellent training tools are available; most notably computer simulators and buddy boxes. Unlike most video games which are intended for play, simulators for model aircraft are designed around one goal, helping people learn how to fly model airplanes and helicopters. Simulators are so accurate a budding pilot can master almost all regimes of flight in a simulated environment which instantly replaces a wrecked model! In real life, a crash cost not only confidence, but time and money to fix the model. By the time the pilot gets back to it, the learning experience from the crash is not fresh, and learning tends to progress slower. On a simulator, a fledgling pilot can take as much time exploring the controls as they want, and learn at their own pace without any down time between crashes.

 

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We had a complete change this Christmas – we cancelled it! - we went walking in The Lakes, or Wasdale more precisely. We were staying at Irton Hall B & B, they had over 70 in for Christmas dinner but we ate jam bread on the slopes of Sca Fell Pike. Fantastic. We had a front wheel puncture on a run flat tyre on the new car with a 100 mile still to drive on the afternoon of Christmas eve on our way there. I drove straight to the nearest ATS – where I have an account – they shook their heads and directed me to Westhoughton Tyres, the lads there were fantastic and got us on our way in good time. BMW dealer advice was run on the flat tyre and then throw it away - £250! Where I would have got a tyre on the western side of the Lakes over Christmas I don’t know, ATS didn’t have one to sell me.

 

The weather was forecast good for Christmas day but after a fine start it was raining before we even left the car park in Wasdale. We headed up Lingmell and ran into snow on the summit. The path onto Sca Fell Pike was very icy, snow covered and visibility was low, the snow kept falling. We didn’t linger long, it was too cold to have dinner up there so we dropped down onto the Corridor Route, where we had our dinner. We went that way to stretch the walk out, having originally intended to cross to Great End. The tops were so icy, glazed, with not enough snow to get a grip on that we decide to leave it for another day. From Styhead we headed back to Wasdale and a dull but fine finish to the day. A drink in the bar at Irton Hall was on the radar.

 

Every morning we headed into Wasdale early, it got colder, icier and sunnier as the days went by. We went up Yewbarrow, it was an icy scramble up and I decided it was too dangerous to go down Stirrup Crag to Dore Head so went back the same way. It turned out to be the right decision as we lingered on the top, going to view points that we wouldn’t have and getting some decent photos. One morning we walked over the Screes tops, Illgill Head and Whin Rigg, dropping down the steep slope to The southern end of Wast Water. Having said that I would never walk the Screes path alongside Wast Water again the memory of how awful it is in the rain had faded. There is only really a quarter of a mile out of three miles that is really bad, every rock was like glass with the potential to break a leg every step. It seemed a long way and I was getting killer looks from Herself.

 

We made our way onto Sca Fell on a beautiful morning, clear blue sky. The snow line had got lower most nights but we never had the low level snow that caused problems in the rest of the country. I chose a, sometimes, pathless way to the summit, partly because I’d never been that way but also to stay in the sun, to keep the view and to avoid the ways that would be a touch dangerous, it was -4 and seared with ice for the last 600 feet. After 15 minutes on the summit wispy thin cloud came racing in, crossing the Lake District in minutes, the photos show it heading towards us and I was glad to have got the clear photos first. Looking out to sea a great mattress of cloud was heading straight for us. It was calm and sunny one minute and the next we were engulfed in thick cloud with 30 yards visibility at the most. I have never had a clear sky turn to cloud so fast – ever! We were going down to Slightside next which was OK, about a mile following the ridge down, the problem was getting back to Wasdale from there. We needed to get to Great Howe which meant a pathless trek a mile SW across Quagrigg Moss – a bog full of tarnlets, it would be a nightmare in low visibility. After getting some accurate compass bearings and heading down off Slightside we suddenly dropped out of the cloud and could see our target, brilliant, we legged it across the semi frozen bog and finally felt able to rest and grab a sandwich and cup of tea. We had to find our way down Raven Crags, which was interesting – and steep! We needed to get to the footbridge to get onto the Burnmoor Tarn path back to Wasdale. As we got closer to Burnmoor Tarn the light that I had been cursing gave us a gorgeous sunset. I had one eye on a gap in the cloud low down in the sky out at sea and I was hoping the sun would break through, it did. Burnmoor Tarn was like a mirror, reflecting the surrounding mountains, including Yewbarrow and parts of the Mosedale Horseshoe in the far distance. There was just the two of us, we had barely seen a soul all day, it was a fantastic end to a tough day. As we dropped into Wasdale I caught the deep pink and orange of the last of the sun, I was shooting into it but I had nothing to lose. There would have been quite a few tripods at the opposite end of the lake but I think I was in the better place – for a change.

 

On our final walking day we decided to head up Great Gable. It was clear of cloud for a change but ominously the surrounding tops, including the Sca Fells were cloud covered. Another beautiful but very cold morning, it was going to be very icy up there so we elected to go via Styhead and the tourist track. We would choose a way off once we were up there. Long before we got to the top, although we couldn’t see it, we knew the cloud was swirling in and out on the summit so it was going to be hit and miss for the photos. The cloud was down for the last 500 feet but once on the frozen top it kept clearing briefly – very briefly. There were more people up there than we had seen the entire trip previously. People were getting out after Christmas, many had parked at the top of Honister for the fairly easy walk in across Green Gable, some were not dressed for winter walking it has to be said. We left for an icy scramble down to Arron Slack, up onto Green Gable them we galloped down Arron Slack to Styhead and back to Wasdale.

 

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Five metres in the golden hour around sunrise, (Sunrise was at precisely 05:26am), at 05:17am on Thursday May 3rd 2018 off Botany Road and Foreness Close on the sandy shoreline of Botany Bay, the northern most of seven bays in Broadstairs , Kent, England.

  

Thanet offshore windfarm was officially opened on September 23rd 2010 and was for a time, the largest offshore windfarm project in the world. The eight lines of turbines, one hundred of them in total, run north-west to south-east, covering a total area of 35sq km off Foreness Point near Margate. Each turbine is 115 metres high with 44-metre blades, and the project cost between £780-900million

  

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Culmore Fort, Culmore Point, Derry – 12 Oct 2025

 

74A Culmore Point, Londonderry BT48 8JW

Grid Coordinates: 55°02'48.1"N 7°15'14.7"W

 

Culmore (from Irish Cúil Mór, meaning 'the great corner') is a village and townland in Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is at the mouth of the River Foyle. In the 2011 Census Culmore had a population of 3,465 people.

It is not known precisely when the fort was built. A fortification was likely erected by the ruling O’Doherty’s in the early 16th century, but may have been built as a Tower House as early as 1450, from which they controled access to the River Foyle. Culmore at that time would have been considered part of Inishowen and Donegal.

 

From 1556 a fort was in the possession of the crown and granted by Queen Mary I dated 12th Sept 1556 to Richard Bethell and William Piers (d.1603).

Culmore Fort appears to have been abandoned by the English soon after and was possibly destroyed either by them or by Sir John O’Dogherty (b.1540 d.1601) because when Henry Docwra, landed there in 1600 he found “the butt end of the old broken castle.”

 

The current Fort is a two-storey stone building in Culmore Village, northeast of Derry City. It was originally built between 1600 and 1649 alongside earthen ramparts and a ditch, serving as a strategic defensive site overlooking Lough Foyle. Due to its advantageous location, Culmore Fort has witnessed many significant events that have shaped the history of Ireland and the establishment of the city of Derry.

 

Sir Henry Docwra (b.1564 d.1631), 1st Baron Docwra of Culmore, was an English soldier who landed with a force of 4000 foot and 200 horse troops at Culmore on 16 May 1600, as part of an attempt to quell a war against the crown in Ulster. On the 22 May he marched into Derry without resistance and occupied and fortified the town. Facing stronger local Irish opposition, Docwra's troops became almost prisoners, unable to make any progress while slowly starving. Aged 15, Cahir O’Dogherty (b.1587 d.1608) lord of Inishowen, a Gaelic chieftain joined the forces of the English Governor of Derry, Sir Henry Docwra, who were fighting to defeat Tyrone's Rebellion. With the help of O'Dogherty and other Gaelic lords, Docwra advanced from Derry into the heart of Gaelic territory. Docwra praised O’Dogherty courage while under fire, and recommended him for a knighthood.

The sympathetic Docwra was replaced by Sir George Paulet (b.1553 d.1608), who took a much harder view of the Gaelic lords, even loyalists like Cahir O'Dogherty. Docwra had resigned his command because he felt that English veterans of the Nine Years War (1594–1603) and their Irish allies had been poorly rewarded after the Treaty of Mellifont in 1603 as land promised to them had been returned to the 2nd Earl of Tyrone, Hugh O'Neill (b.c.1550 d.1616) and the 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Rory O'Donnell (b.1575 d.1608).

While in Derry on business, Paulet struck O’Dogherty on the face. O'Dogherty began to suspect that he could not hope for fair treatment from English justice. O'Dogherty remained reluctant to rebel and with "tears in his eyes" he approached English officers asking them how he could regain the Lord Deputy's favour. He even turned over one of his relations, Phelim Reagh MacDavitt (b.1568 d.1608), a wanted man, to the authorities. O'Dogherty's lobbying on behalf of MacDavitt led to his release just in time to take part in the rebellion.

The night before the rising, 18 April 1608, O'Dogherty dined with his friend Captain Henry Hart (b.1566 d.1637) who was the constable of Culmore Fort and Hart’s wife Frances. O'Dogherty explained his reasons for rebellion and asked Hart to hand over Culmore to him. Hart refused, even when threatened with death. To save her husband's life, Hart's wife, Frances (nee Bosville b.1582 d.1654) agreed to help. She lured the garrison out of the fort, who fell into an ambush by O'Dogherty's men.

Having armed themselves with munitions taken at Culmore Fort, at 2:00 am on 19 April 1608 O'Dogherty led around 100 men on a surprise attack on Derry.

Phelim MacDavitt killed Governor Paulet during the battle; a sheriff named Hamilton was also killed. The rest of the garrison and inhabitants surrendered. O'Dogherty declaring that he was not there to spill blood, he let a number of English prisoners go but kept some important hostages. Every house within the settlement of Derry was then burned, including public buildings. Shortly after this incident the town of Strabane was burnt to the ground.

 

Cahir O'Dogherty was killed on 5 July 1608 near Kilmacrennan, Co Donegal during a skirmish with English and Irish soldiers. He was fatally injured after being shot in the head. This led to the immediate collapse of his rebel army. His death marked the end of his rebellion. The severed heads of O’Dogherty and his foster father, Phelim MacDavitt were impaled on pikes and displayed on Newgate prison, Dublin.

 

Docwra was granted 2000 acres (8 km2) in the Precinct of Liffer (Lifford) for his service. He served as Governor of Loughfoyle, and on 15 May 1621, by a patent dated at Westminster, was created Baron Docwra of Culmore. He was also Treasurer at War and a member of the Privy Council. Sir Henry Docwra died on 18 April 1631 in Dublin, shortly after retiring from his public offices, and was buried in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.

 

Most of the original structure was destroyed in 1688 when the political landscape in Ireland was marked by rising tensions between Protestant and Catholic factions. The fort was destroyed during this period, but the tower and some earthworks remained intact, although specific details about the exact events leading to its destruction are not extensively documented.

 

The fort remained in disrepair until 1780, when General Henry Hart (b.1566 d.1689) reconstructed it. Hart was born in 1566 to John Hart of Highgate (b.abt.1540) and Bridget Ashfield (b.abt.1545), most likely in England.

According to ‘Landed Gentry’, Henry founded the Irish branch of the family, going to Ulster from England with Walter Devereux, (b.1541 d.1576) 1st Earl of Essex who led an unsuccessful colonizing expedition of Ulster from 1573 to 1575, during the reign of Elizabeth I.

Hart served in Ireland under Sir Henry Docwra during the Nine Years' War (1584-1603) rising to the rank of Captain.

The earliest mention of Henry Hart in his official capacity seems to have been at the defeat at the Battle of Carrickfergus in 1597, when Sir John Chichester was out maneuvered by James MacSorley MacDonnell, and Chichester was killed and beheaded. Lieut. Hart was present at the battle having been wounded along with others.

 

Despite Hart’s loss of Culmore, he was rewarded as a servitor like other veteran officers in the Plantation of Ulster. He was granted land close to Kilmacrennan, Co. Donegal. This was in the heart of old O'Donnell territory, which had been confiscated following the Flight of the Earls. Several of Hart's former comrades also received land nearby which had been mapped out by the 1609 Bodley Survey.

Hart married Frances Bosville on 5 Dec 1603. Henry was 38 years old and Frances was 22. Her father was Sir Robert Bosville of Eynesford and her mother Elizabeth Sybyll. Frances was very little, ugly and vain, and used to say that "her father could put money-bags under her feet to make her tall as anybody". They had two sons.

Henry lived at Muff House, Co. Donegal where he died on the 6th September 1637, he was buried at St Columb's Cathedral, Derry on the 9th.

 

Sir John Chichester Junior (b.1565 d.1597) was born in Devon, England, his father, Sir John Chichester (b.1516 d.1569), was 49 and his mother, Gertrude Courtenay (b.1521 d.1566) was 44. Sir John Chichester was the younger brother of Sir Arthur Chichester (b.1563 d.1625), Lord Deputy of Ireland John & Gertrude had 12 siblings, 7 sons and 5 daughters.

 

In the latter part of June, 1597, Sir John Jnr. was appointed Governor of Carrickfergus. It was a most critical period, Tyrone (Hugh O’Neill) was in the height of his power.

On the day of the planned meeting, 4th November 1597, the English saw James MacSorley MacDonnell (b.1550 d.1601) coming towards Carrickfergus Castle leading about 700 soldiers. Governor Chichester didn't want to seem weak, so he marched out with most of his own men. He had five groups of foot soldiers and one group of horse soldiers, his men were very tired from a previous trip.

Chichester led his troops about four miles to Altfracken near Ballycarry where they met the Scottish forces. He stopped to let his soldiers catch up. During this time, his officers discussed tactics. One experienced officer told the governor to just have the parley meeting.

But when his troops were ready, Chichester turned to his commander, Captain Nichols Marmion (b.1635 d.1598) and asked, "Now, Captain, those are your old friends. What do you say? Should we attack them?" Marmion agreed, and so did the horse commander, Moyses Hill (b.1573 d.1629).

 

The order to attack was given. The Scottish soldiers started to fall back over the hills. But the English horse riders were not sure where to go. Governor Chichester quickly found him-self alone with a small group of men. These men had managed to keep up with him.

MacDonnell had led the English into a trap as he had hidden 800 soldiers behind his main group. These hidden soldiers included Scottish archers, swordsmen, and Irish pikemen, but most importantly, there were 500 Irish soldiers with guns.

Suddenly, many shots were fired at the English soldiers; these shots came from Tyrone's hidden gunmen. The Scottish and Irish soldiers then rushed forward and broke the English army's formation.

Governor Chichester was shot in the leg, but he got back on his horse and lead his men down the hill, he was then shot in the head and died right away, aged 32. Another officer was shot in the head and captured while another had his horse shot from under him, with another being shot in the shoulder.

After the battle, James MacSorley (d.1601) had Chichester's head cut off, packed in a barrel and sent to the Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone at Dungannon.

 

Anderson McCausland Esq, (b.? d.1857), occupant of Culmore House in 1830 carried out repairs to the fort. In 1858 it is referred to as a coastguard station in Griffiths Valuation of 1858. The coastguards were withdrawn by the Admiralty in 1870.

 

Sir Thomas Phillips (b.1560 d.1633) was an English knight and soldier of fortune. He was knighted in 1607. Originally granted land at Coleraine, he forfeited it to the London Livery Companies in exchange for grants of land at Limavady and what became the Moyola estate as part of the Plantation of Ulster. In 1622 he sold the Moyola estate to Thomas Dawson. A son, Sir Dudley Phillips, who was a key figure in the defence of Coleraine and Londonderry during the 1641 Rebellion.

 

Phillips records a Raven’s illustration of the Culmore Fort in his publication of Londonderry and the London Companies 1609-1629. The fort was ruined in the escapades of 1688-9 and remained in a ruinous condition until reconstructed by General George Vaughan Hart (b.1752 d.1832) in 1780s. A garrison was based in the fort up until 1688 as the original chapel (Holy Trinity Church of Ireland) built in 1687 was for the convenience of the military staff.

 

Before 1860 Culmore Fort and 300 acres of land attached to it were allotted to the governors of the Fort. Field Marshal John Byng, (b.1772 d.1860) 1st Earl of Strafford who was governor from 1833 up until his death he received £200 from the Irish Society on his appointment and the rent from the lands. It is unlikely he ever set foot in Culmore. When he died in 1860 the fort and lands reverted back to the Irish Society.

 

The remains of a moat can easily be discerned west and north of the fort. It is overgrown and much of the land contained within it has been built upon.

 

The Latest Restoration

Historically, the Fort at Culmore was held by the Crown until 1840, when it and its surrounding lands were sold to The Honourable The Irish Society, who remain its owners to this day. For the past 50 years, the Fort has been had been closed to the public on leased to Lough Foyle Yacht Club and used for storage, however the Culmore Community Partnership (CCP) acquired the lease and successfully completed the conversion of the Fort for community use following a major funding of £265,000.

This followed many years of planning, community engagement and work on site beginning in 2021, seeing the project completed in June 2025. It now accommodates much-needed mental health support for youth in the area, in addition to hosting meetings for a variety of sports, heritage and cultural organisations.

The restoration project was made possible through the Village Catalyst grant scheme, a collaborative initiative between the Department for Communities (DfC), the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF), the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA), and the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE).

Additional financial support was also provided by The Honourable The Irish Society, the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Pilgrim Trust and Lough Foyle Yacht Club.

 

The Supermarine Spitfire Mk1 replica represents as precisely as possible the aircraft YT-J, serial number R6675, flown most by Flying Officer Jeffery Quill OBE AFC during his short operational attachment to 65 Squadron from 6 August to 24 August 1940.

Amongst the many distinguished pilots associated with the Spitfire, one name stands out above all others, Jeffery Kindersley Quill, OBE AFC. Born on 1 February 1913 at Littlehampton in Sussex, Quill was educated at Lancing College before joining the RAF. His ab initio training was on Avro Tutors at No. 3 Flying Training School, Grantham where he also undertook advanced flying on the Armstrong Whitworth Siskin Mk IIIA. With the pilot rating ‘Exceptional’ stamped in his logbook, he was posted to No. 17 Squadron at Upavon to fly Bristol Bulldogs. At Grantham Quill had shown a natural aptitude for instrument flying and his next posting was to the Meteorological Flight at Duxford, where he became its CO in November 1934. Back on Siskins, he had the misfortune to crash-land on 14 March 1935 in marginal weather conditions, resulting in the almost inevitable ‘Siskin nose’ which only served to aggravate a condition acquired earlier while boxing for the RAF.

 

In November 1935 he left the RAF to become assistant to ‘Mutt’ Summers, the Chief Test Pilot at Vickers (Aviation). On 5 March 1936 Quill flew Summers to Eastleigh in the company’s Miles Falcon so that Summers could carry out the first flight in the F.37/34 fighter. Quill did not have to wait long to fly it himself and carried out his own maiden flight in Spitfire K5054 on the 26th March. Over the next 12 years Quill flew every version of the Spitfire, right up to the Seafire Mk 47 in 1946.

 

Such was his dedication that he managed to secure an attachment to No. 65 Squadron at Hornchurch in August 1940 at the height of the Battle of Britain, to obtain operational experience so as to appreciate more fully the requirements demanded of the Spitfire and find ways of eradicating its few shortcomings. He also had a deep desire to fight for his country. On 16 August he shot down a Messerchmitt Bf 109E fighter and two days later shared in the destruction of a Heinkel He 111 bomber.

 

Quill was Chief Test Pilot of Supermarine until 1947 when he was forced to retire on medical grounds. Thereafter he undertook various ground-based tasks with Vickers and the British Aircraft Corporation involving the development of the TSR2, Jaguar and Tornado, culminating in the role of Director of Marketing at Panavia. He died on 20 February 1996, aged 83.

We had a complete change this Christmas – we cancelled it! - we went walking in The Lakes, or Wasdale more precisely. We were staying at Irton Hall B & B, they had over 70 in for Christmas dinner but we ate jam bread on the slopes of Sca Fell Pike. Fantastic. We had a front wheel puncture on a run flat tyre on the new car with a 100 mile still to drive on the afternoon of Christmas eve on our way there. I drove straight to the nearest ATS – where I have an account – they shook their heads and directed me to Westhoughton Tyres, the lads there were fantastic and got us on our way in good time. BMW dealer advice was run on the flat tyre and then throw it away - £250! Where I would have got a tyre on the western side of the Lakes over Christmas I don’t know, ATS didn’t have one to sell me.

 

The weather was forecast good for Christmas day but after a fine start it was raining before we even left the car park in Wasdale. We headed up Lingmell and ran into snow on the summit. The path onto Sca Fell Pike was very icy, snow covered and visibility was low, the snow kept falling. We didn’t linger long, it was too cold to have dinner up there so we dropped down onto the Corridor Route, where we had our dinner. We went that way to stretch the walk out, having originally intended to cross to Great End. The tops were so icy, glazed, with not enough snow to get a grip on that we decide to leave it for another day. From Styhead we headed back to Wasdale and a dull but fine finish to the day. A drink in the bar at Irton Hall was on the radar.

 

Every morning we headed into Wasdale early, it got colder, icier and sunnier as the days went by. We went up Yewbarrow, it was an icy scramble up and I decided it was too dangerous to go down Stirrup Crag to Dore Head so went back the same way. It turned out to be the right decision as we lingered on the top, going to view points that we wouldn’t have and getting some decent photos. One morning we walked over the Screes tops, Illgill Head and Whin Rigg, dropping down the steep slope to The southern end of Wast Water. Having said that I would never walk the Screes path alongside Wast Water again the memory of how awful it is in the rain had faded. There is only really a quarter of a mile out of three miles that is really bad, every rock was like glass with the potential to break a leg every step. It seemed a long way and I was getting killer looks from Herself.

 

We made our way onto Sca Fell on a beautiful morning, clear blue sky. The snow line had got lower most nights but we never had the low level snow that caused problems in the rest of the country. I chose a, sometimes, pathless way to the summit, partly because I’d never been that way but also to stay in the sun, to keep the view and to avoid the ways that would be a touch dangerous, it was -4 and seared with ice for the last 600 feet. After 15 minutes on the summit wispy thin cloud came racing in, crossing the Lake District in minutes, the photos show it heading towards us and I was glad to have got the clear photos first. Looking out to sea a great mattress of cloud was heading straight for us. It was calm and sunny one minute and the next we were engulfed in thick cloud with 30 yards visibility at the most. I have never had a clear sky turn to cloud so fast – ever! We were going down to Slightside next which was OK, about a mile following the ridge down, the problem was getting back to Wasdale from there. We needed to get to Great Howe which meant a pathless trek a mile SW across Quagrigg Moss – a bog full of tarnlets, it would be a nightmare in low visibility. After getting some accurate compass bearings and heading down off Slightside we suddenly dropped out of the cloud and could see our target, brilliant, we legged it across the semi frozen bog and finally felt able to rest and grab a sandwich and cup of tea. We had to find our way down Raven Crags, which was interesting – and steep! We needed to get to the footbridge to get onto the Burnmoor Tarn path back to Wasdale. As we got closer to Burnmoor Tarn the light that I had been cursing gave us a gorgeous sunset. I had one eye on a gap in the cloud low down in the sky out at sea and I was hoping the sun would break through, it did. Burnmoor Tarn was like a mirror, reflecting the surrounding mountains, including Yewbarrow and parts of the Mosedale Horseshoe in the far distance. There was just the two of us, we had barely seen a soul all day, it was a fantastic end to a tough day. As we dropped into Wasdale I caught the deep pink and orange of the last of the sun, I was shooting into it but I had nothing to lose. There would have been quite a few tripods at the opposite end of the lake but I think I was in the better place – for a change.

 

On our final walking day we decided to head up Great Gable. It was clear of cloud for a change but ominously the surrounding tops, including the Sca Fells were cloud covered. Another beautiful but very cold morning, it was going to be very icy up there so we elected to go via Styhead and the tourist track. We would choose a way off once we were up there. Long before we got to the top, although we couldn’t see it, we knew the cloud was swirling in and out on the summit so it was going to be hit and miss for the photos. The cloud was down for the last 500 feet but once on the frozen top it kept clearing briefly – very briefly. There were more people up there than we had seen the entire trip previously. People were getting out after Christmas, many had parked at the top of Honister for the fairly easy walk in across Green Gable, some were not dressed for winter walking it has to be said. We left for an icy scramble down to Arron Slack, up onto Green Gable them we galloped down Arron Slack to Styhead and back to Wasdale.

 

We had a complete change this Christmas – we cancelled it! - we went walking in The Lakes, or Wasdale more precisely. We were staying at Irton Hall B & B, they had over 70 in for Christmas dinner but we ate jam bread on the slopes of Sca Fell Pike. Fantastic. We had a front wheel puncture on a run flat tyre on the new car with a 100 mile still to drive on the afternoon of Christmas eve on our way there. I drove straight to the nearest ATS – where I have an account – they shook their heads and directed me to Westhoughton Tyres, the lads there were fantastic and got us on our way in good time. BMW dealer advice was run on the flat tyre and then throw it away - £250! Where I would have got a tyre on the western side of the Lakes over Christmas I don’t know, ATS didn’t have one to sell me.

 

The weather was forecast good for Christmas day but after a fine start it was raining before we even left the car park in Wasdale. We headed up Lingmell and ran into snow on the summit. The path onto Sca Fell Pike was very icy, snow covered and visibility was low, the snow kept falling. We didn’t linger long, it was too cold to have dinner up there so we dropped down onto the Corridor Route, where we had our dinner. We went that way to stretch the walk out, having originally intended to cross to Great End. The tops were so icy, glazed, with not enough snow to get a grip on that we decide to leave it for another day. From Styhead we headed back to Wasdale and a dull but fine finish to the day. A drink in the bar at Irton Hall was on the radar.

 

Every morning we headed into Wasdale early, it got colder, icier and sunnier as the days went by. We went up Yewbarrow, it was an icy scramble up and I decided it was too dangerous to go down Stirrup Crag to Dore Head so went back the same way. It turned out to be the right decision as we lingered on the top, going to view points that we wouldn’t have and getting some decent photos. One morning we walked over the Screes tops, Illgill Head and Whin Rigg, dropping down the steep slope to The southern end of Wast Water. Having said that I would never walk the Screes path alongside Wast Water again the memory of how awful it is in the rain had faded. There is only really a quarter of a mile out of three miles that is really bad, every rock was like glass with the potential to break a leg every step. It seemed a long way and I was getting killer looks from Herself.

 

We made our way onto Sca Fell on a beautiful morning, clear blue sky. The snow line had got lower most nights but we never had the low level snow that caused problems in the rest of the country. I chose a, sometimes, pathless way to the summit, partly because I’d never been that way but also to stay in the sun, to keep the view and to avoid the ways that would be a touch dangerous, it was -4 and seared with ice for the last 600 feet. After 15 minutes on the summit wispy thin cloud came racing in, crossing the Lake District in minutes, the photos show it heading towards us and I was glad to have got the clear photos first. Looking out to sea a great mattress of cloud was heading straight for us. It was calm and sunny one minute and the next we were engulfed in thick cloud with 30 yards visibility at the most. I have never had a clear sky turn to cloud so fast – ever! We were going down to Slightside next which was OK, about a mile following the ridge down, the problem was getting back to Wasdale from there. We needed to get to Great Howe which meant a pathless trek a mile SW across Quagrigg Moss – a bog full of tarnlets, it would be a nightmare in low visibility. After getting some accurate compass bearings and heading down off Slightside we suddenly dropped out of the cloud and could see our target, brilliant, we legged it across the semi frozen bog and finally felt able to rest and grab a sandwich and cup of tea. We had to find our way down Raven Crags, which was interesting – and steep! We needed to get to the footbridge to get onto the Burnmoor Tarn path back to Wasdale. As we got closer to Burnmoor Tarn the light that I had been cursing gave us a gorgeous sunset. I had one eye on a gap in the cloud low down in the sky out at sea and I was hoping the sun would break through, it did. Burnmoor Tarn was like a mirror, reflecting the surrounding mountains, including Yewbarrow and parts of the Mosedale Horseshoe in the far distance. There was just the two of us, we had barely seen a soul all day, it was a fantastic end to a tough day. As we dropped into Wasdale I caught the deep pink and orange of the last of the sun, I was shooting into it but I had nothing to lose. There would have been quite a few tripods at the opposite end of the lake but I think I was in the better place – for a change.

 

On our final walking day we decided to head up Great Gable. It was clear of cloud for a change but ominously the surrounding tops, including the Sca Fells were cloud covered. Another beautiful but very cold morning, it was going to be very icy up there so we elected to go via Styhead and the tourist track. We would choose a way off once we were up there. Long before we got to the top, although we couldn’t see it, we knew the cloud was swirling in and out on the summit so it was going to be hit and miss for the photos. The cloud was down for the last 500 feet but once on the frozen top it kept clearing briefly – very briefly. There were more people up there than we had seen the entire trip previously. People were getting out after Christmas, many had parked at the top of Honister for the fairly easy walk in across Green Gable, some were not dressed for winter walking it has to be said. We left for an icy scramble down to Arron Slack, up onto Green Gable them we galloped down Arron Slack to Styhead and back to Wasdale.

 

Student: Regarding the gravitational center... you seem to imply that your center of gravity is in Yesod, and that the center of gravity of gnosis (the Aquarian message of Master Samael), has its center of gravity in the Son of Man, in Tiphereth, and that is similar, or equal, to the center of gravity of the teaching that the great Kabir Jesus gave. Am I right or am I wrong, master?

Samael Aun Weor: Well, you are correct. It is clear that every confessional religion has its specific center of gravity.

If we study esoteric and transcendental Buddhism judiciously, we can show that it is very abstract, very deep, that it belongs to certain transcendental states of Kether. This allows us to deduce, with full certainty, that the specific center of gravity of the Buddhist religion is Kether, the ancient of the days, the elder of the centuries... Now, if we analyze the Egyptian religion, or Nahua (Aztec), Mayan or Zapotec, Persian or Chaldean, we discover the specific center of gravity in Yesod (we already know, between parentheses, that the cubic stone of Yesod is sex, and that sephirah is located exactly in the sexual organs). But if we carefully study Christian esotericism, we discover its specific center of gravity in Tiphereth, the Son of Man. and it is in the light of its sephirah that we must try to understand the mystique of authentic Christianity.

The Tree of Life of Kabbalah: We already know that Kether, as a sephirah, is, let us say, the mathematical point, the ancient of the centuries, the truth of truths, the hidden of the hidden, the mercy of mercies. Chokmah is the second logoic aspect, the Chrestos, the second Logos. Binah is the third Logos, the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, Shiva of the Hindustans. By studying some Kabbalists, we discovered certain errors; there is someone (whose name I do not mention), who emphasizes the idea that Chokmah is masculine and that Binah is feminine; thus, they want to put Chokmah and Binah as the two columns of the temple, something like the Jakin-Bohaz of Freemasonry. It is indisputable that author is wrong. because it turns out that Binah, in itself, is masculine and feminine. Shiva of the Hindustans is polarized in masculine form, but when unfolding himself he becomes Shakti, that is, the Divine Mother Kundalini, that Isis or Marah that appears in Christianity, that, in terrible sufferings, appears with seven daggers stuck in her heart. So Binah, in itself, becomes our secret Father and our Divine Mother. Thus, considering the Logos as Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, or as Kether, Chokmah and Binah, they form a perfect trinity within the unity; together they are what we could call the "Father" and if we look at Binah, unfolding as the Shakti potential, then obviously we have the Logos and his wife: the Father who is in secret and our Divine Mother Kundalini Shakti. It is already known that the Father, in himself, and the mother, come to meet, properly, in Yesod; in some way they are related to Yesod, because they govern creation. Malkuth, the kingdom, the physical world, could not exist without the force of Yesod, that is to say, without the vital sexual potential of that sephirah. Unquestionably, then, the Logos have to use that sephirah Yesod, in order to create, to reproduce all species, all things, to shape all that is, has been and will be... (In the throat, where the word, the λόγος, is gestated), there is a secret sephirah named Daath, which is found related precisely to Yesod; the secret sephirah Daath is in a matter of tantra, all that tantric knowledge that properly used allows us the intimate self-realization of the being. Therefore, in synthesis, the first triangle: Kether, Chokmah and Binah, is the indivisible Father. Then comes the second triangle: Chesed, Geburah and Tiphereth, which is convenient to understand. Unquestionably, the second triangle is Christic, and the basic center of the second triangle, its nuclear center, shall we say, fundamental, is Tiphereth. Chesed, Geburah and Tiphereth, is the manifested triune spirit (the Son of the Father), yet its basic, structural center, is precisely the human soul, Tiphereth. Then comes the third triangle. Well, the third triangle is made up by Netzach, Hod and Yesod. Netzach is properly the mental, the mind; Hod is the astral; Yesod is the sexual seat, or the organic life seat of the physical body; finally we have Malkuth, which is the physicality. Well then, the truth is that the gravitational center of the third triangle is Yesod (the center of practical magic, right?); Malkuth is a detached sephirah... Well, now, what we must not lose sight of, is the following: that although it is true that Buddhism has as its center of gravitation the elder of the centuries, the Kether of the Hebraic Kabbalah, it is not for that reason less true that Tantric Buddhism - without which one could never reach the initiation of Kether, right? - that Tantric Buddhism has its basis in Yesod, in sex, since we already know that Tantric Buddhism is what is needed in order to reach the intimate self-realization of the Being. Well, continuing a little along this path of the great mysteries, we come to discover Yesod in the Egyptian religions. But this does not mean, for that reason, that Yesod (the basis or foundation of this entire universe, which is sex), is the only thing that the Persian, Egyptian, Aztec, etc., etc. religions are occupied with. No! We already know that deep down there is the most pure doctrine of a Quetzalcoatl, the Mexican Cosmic Christ...Now for example, in authentic Christianity we can see, with dazzling clarity, as the center of gravity the Son, Tiphereth; but if we delve into Christian esotericism, we discover the great arcanum in the very redeemer's own cross, since we already know that the vertical pole is male and that the horizontal one is female, and that at the intersection of both is the key to all power; on top of the cross is written INRI (ignis natura renovatur integra). So, tantra is the background of all that authentic, true Christianity, right? It is therefore convenient to understand all that...Student: Master, you mentioned, you were explaining something that is very important when teaching neophytes. I was asking you about the immaculate conception of the virgin, to which you replied that for this one has to know the kabbalah, and that only with a thorough knowledge of the ten sephiroth, of the three triangles and of Malkuth, can one intuit the immaculate conception of the mother of God; since you are addressing the sephiroth, would you like to repeat that concept, please? Samael Aun Weor: With greatest pleasure we will give an answer. It is clear that in no way could the mystery of the sacred conception be understood, if we did not really know the Tree of Life. We have already said that the first triangle, the Logoic triangle, is made up by Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the kabalistic Kether, Chokmah and Binah. We also said that Binah, the third sephirah, unfolds as the Divine Mother Kundalini; Shiva unfolds into his wife; thus, the Divine Mother Kundalini is the goddess. She, herself, is the feminine aspect of Shiva, the feminine aspect of Binah, the wife of the Holy Spirit; then the other sephiroth come, as we have already explained.

Christ and the Initiation of Tiphereth

An Isis with the Horus child in her arms is always portrayed in all theogonies; the goddess Venus with Cupid; Marah or Maria with her baby Jesus, the savior, in her arms; it is clear that the other sephiroth (second triangle) emerge from her and from him (in Daath); Binah unfolds in her, his wife; and she unfolds in Chesed, in Geburah and finally in Tiphereth; Tiphereth being the basic gravitational center of the second triangle.

 

The Menger

 

So that Tiphereth, that child, is the one that she, the Isis-María, carries her child in her arms. Of course, that child has to come into the world, and he comes when everything is ready. It has been written that he is "born in a manger or stable"; lay people think of a stable over there, located in a village, no! First of all, it is good to know that Belen or Bethlehem, where it is said that the child was born, the little village, did not exist in the time of Jesus of Nazareth...If we analyze the word “Belen,” it has its root in a Chaldean etymology: “bel”, which means “tower of fire.” So such “Belen or Bethlehem” is symbolic, because everything is within ourselves...It is necessary first of all to create an astral body, because no one is born with the [solar] astral body; We already know that it is possible to create it through the transformations of the Mercury of the secret philosophy; then a mental body, which is the body of objective reasoning, and finally to create the body of the conscious will…Thus, when one already possesses the physical, astral, mental and causal bodies, everything is ready for that one to receive the child; nevertheless, many could, for example, have the luxury to create these vehicles, to possess a healthy, strong and vigorous physical body; a magnificent astral body, an extraordinary mental body and the causal body, and nonetheless, not for that, to incarnate the child (that child that the Divine Mother carries in her arms). At that point there is something very subtle, very delicate, that easily escapes any kabbalist; we could properly confuse the kabbalistic Tiphereth with the causal body, such is the danger that exists in this. Just by analyzing a little the passages, for example, from the "Epistles of Paul of Tarsus to the Corinthians", we could clarify this subject-matter… Paul of Tarsus states: “Howbeit that was not first which is pneumatikos, but that which is psychikos; and afterward that which is pneumatikos. The first human is of the earth, earthy: the second human is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.” - 1 Corinthians 15: 46-49. Unquestionably, the earthly human is constituted by the physical, with its organic vital seat (naturally they form a single whole); then Hod (the sidereal vehicle, or the Kedsjan body, of which Gurdjieff spoke), the mental body or body of objective reasoning, and finally, the body of the conscious will; This is what we could define as "earthly human." First of all, if we want Tiphereth (the Son) to come into the world, it is necessary for the true human, the earthly human, to come into existence, because ordinary humanoids are not yet human beings, although they think they are, but they are not yet; only when one has given to oneself the luxury of creating the existential bodies of the being, can one then be called "human", although one is a earthly human, but "human (anthrōpos in Greek)." The second human that Paul of Tarsus tells us about is the heavenly human, and Paul of Tarsus is very wise in this; Paul of Tarsus tells us: "And as we have borne the image of the earthy," that is, as we created the earthly human, likewise "we shall also bear the image of the heavenly human," who is the Son of Man. Someone may have received, for example, the fifth initiation of fire, and yet, not because of that, that one has incarnated, within his or herself, the Son of Man. The birth of the Son of Man comes after having passed through the fifth initiation of fire. This is very "detailed," this is very delicate and only on the basis of a rigorous observation can one avoid falling into error. Properly, the advent of the Son of Man is a grace from the Most High; the Son of Man comes, in himself, when he must fulfill some specific mission on earth, when the initiate has really taken the strait path..., the direct path, to be more clearer, the path that can lead him or her to the final liberation... He comes into a humble stable, he is born, then, in a "manger" among the animals of desire; it is clear that when he enters into the "stable", such "stable" is not yet clean, because the initiate has not yet had time to dissolve the animal elements that one carries within. The child is born, therefore, very weak; he has been conceived by the work and grace of the Third Logos and of the Divine Mother who carried him in her arms; a newborn child is made, who has to grow and develop... As we eliminate the inhuman elements, he grows and develops; In the beginning, the change in the initiate who has had the good fortune to incarnate the Son of Man is not noticeable; apparently he is the same personage, his weaknesses are more or less the same, the change of is not immediately noticeable because the child is born very weak; but he has to subdue all things, he has to eliminate the animals of desire, and he does it with the help of his Divine Mother Kundalini; he has to work hard until he submits all things to his Father; the last thing he does is defeat death, because he always conquers death. After he has subdued all things, after he has disintegrated all the inhuman elements that we carry within, after he has already eliminated everything undesirable from the inner kingdom, then he himself submits to the Father; his posthumous work is to defeat death, to destroy it. Thus, he resurrectes in the Father and the Father resurrectes in him, because: "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father;… Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me." - John 14: 10, 11

 

INRI

 

It is clear that when he comes into the world he will be rejected by the elders (that is to say, by people full of experiences); hated by the scribes (even mocked by them, that is, by the great intellectuals of his time); and third, persecuted, hated, cursed, excommunicated, etc., by the Pharisees (who are the religious of his time).

 

He will have to be killed with the death of a cross; that is, since he has entered into that earthly human, and that human must die in himself, here and now, that is why it is said that he "must be killed with the death of the cross"...

 

Keep in mind that it is with the cross that the undesirable elements can be eliminated; bear in mind that fidelity to the Father is tested with the cross.

 

Many are those who say: "I am faithful to Gnosis, I am firm", but at the hour of the hour, they fail with the cross. Where is the cross? At the crossing of the lingam-yoni; they fail there, there they fornicate, there they adulterate, there they commit their evil deeds, and then, where is their fidelity? And it is with that instrument of the sexual cross that the inhuman elements must be disintegrated, and the earthly human also dies.

 

Once the earthly death has been reached, then the Son of Man resurrects after three days. Those three days are the three purifications by iron and by fire. Those three days are represented with the three nails of the cross, and by INRI itself. It is through these three purifications, based on iron and fire, that the Son of Man can die and rise from the dead.

 

All this must be understood with dazzling clarity. Many are those who say "I am faithful to Gnosis, I follow the Father", but when the time comes to be tested with the cross, they show that they are not faithful, nor do they follow the path...

 

The Seven Days of Genesis and the Seven Seals of the Apocalypse

Student: All of that which you are telling us now, and which is extremely transcendental, and is directly connected with the festivities of the Easter Holy Week. Simply, to study its connection a little, to what we understand profanely, would you like to refer to all of Palm Sunday, the... well, everything related to Easter Holy Week, in synthesis as possible, master?

 

Samael Aun Weor: Well, we are going to give an answer in synthesis, but quite concrete, because the subject on which you ask is equivalent to writing several volumes. In any case, what I can assert is that we have to live the Easter Holy Week within ourselves, here and now, in the great work.

 

The book of Genesis of Moses and the book the Apocalypse or Revelation of Saint John complement each other. we should take a look at the bible and see the coordination of Genesis and the Apocalypse. For this, we are going to quote, here, the sacred scriptures. It is stated in Genesis:

 

“In the beginning Elohim created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Elohim moved upon the face of the waters. And Elohim said, Let there be light: and there was light. And Elohim saw the light, that it was good: and Elohim divided the light from the darkness. And Elohim called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” - Genesis 1: 1-5

 

That relates to the first day of the great work of Easter Holy Week, in which it is necessary to "separate the light from the darkness." the initiate then has to go down to the infernal worlds and know the secret of the abyss: the secret of Malkuth, the secret of Klipoth and of the second death.

 

“And Elohim said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And Elohim made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And Elohim called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day....” - Genesis 1: 6-8

 

This is the second alchemical work that must be done. In this second alchemist work, one has to "divide the waters from the waters."

 

Take into account that when Genesis speaks about "waters", Genesis is referring to those spermatic waters of the first instant, to the metallic chaos of alchemy. It is clear that within the sperm there is, let us say, the "soul" of the semen itself, the soul of chaos; such soul is the Mercury of the secret philosophy.

 

That it is necessary to "divide the waters from the waters" is a fact: the superior waters or the "milk of the virgin" as it is stated in alchemy, the Mercury of the secret philosophy or the metallic soul of Azoth, must be separated from the gross part, this is done by means of transmutation; this is obvious.

 

There are three types of Mercury, namely, brute Mercury or the sperm; the metallic soul of the Mercury, which are, let's say, the sexual, seminal currents, rising through ida and pingala (that is the second Mercury), and the third Mercury, it is clear, which is when the solar and lunar atoms of Mercury make contact in the triveni, near the coccyx and awakens the kundalini, the sacred fire, the Sulfur.

 

This Sulfur fertilizes the Mercury and forms the third Mercury that comes to penetrate better said, to ascend through the sushumna canal, along the spinal column to the brain; and it is with that third Mercury (with the surplus of that third Mercury) with which the astral body comes to crystallize, and much later, in a higher octave, the mental body, and much later the causal body.

 

Therefore, "to divide the waters from the waters" is indispensable by means of sexual transmutation. This is the second day of creation… Genesis continues:

 

“And Elohim said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And Elohim called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and Elohim saw that it was good.

 

And Elohim said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and Elohim saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day. ” - Genesis 1: 9-13

 

Behold, here is the third work: the creation of the astral body or the sidereal vehicle, which must "come to yield fruit." And when does it yield "fruit"? The astral body has already yielding “fruit” when it is already a vehicle of pure gold, in this third vehicle, the astral body is, we might say, life...

 

“And Elohim said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seaSons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And Elohim made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And Elohim set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and Elohim saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.” - Genesis 1:14-19

 

This is when one comes, then, to give shape, properly said, to the fourth initiation, when it comes, well, properly said, to possess that vehicle of the mind, when it comes to christify it in the great work (and this is very important)...

 

So those "signs" that are seen above: the sun, the moon, the stars and all that subject-matter, refers to the hermetic wisdom; because in the world of Netzach is the world of hermetic wisdom, there is where you find hermetic knowledge. So that the fourth day is very interesting, which has to do with the fourth initiation… Genesis continue:

 

“And Elohim said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And Elohim created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and Elohim saw that it was good. And Elohim blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.”... - Genesis 1: 20-23

 

It is well known that in the fifth initiation (which corresponds to the causal world), is where one has to become master of the elements, to learn how to handle everything that has life, to become lord of fire, air, water and earth; to learn to handle the powers of nature, but that is only possible by working on oneself.

 

That is why I said that before trying to handle the elements of nature (the elementals of fire, air, water, earth), one has to handle one's own elements: to learn how to handle the atomic elementals of the sperm; to learn how to handle the atomic elementals of sexual fire; to learn how to handle the sylphs of one's own mind, the atomic sylphs of the mind (that is, to become master of his own mind), and to learn how to handle also the atomic gnomes that form the flesh and bones; to become master of the atomic elementals within himself...

 

Only the one who becomes master of one's own body can become master of nature. One could not learn to handle the elementals of the universe if one has not yet learn how to handle one's own atomic elementals, those of one's own body. All of this is learned on the fifth day of creation.

 

“And Elohim said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And Elohim made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and Elohim saw that it was good. And Elohim said, Let us make Adam in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So Elohim created Adam in his own image, in the image of Elohim created he him; male and female created he them. And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And Elohim said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And Elohim saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” - Genesis1: 24-31

 

So Elohim created Adam; male and female created he them.” But, when is it that one truly becomes male and female? When do the masculine and feminine principles of the Seity merge?

 

Bear in mind that this, the work of the sixth day in alchemy belongs to the sixth work in which the buddhi, the Valkyrie, after having married the knight, the human soul, merge themselves integrally through fire. Then the perfect androgyne human being becomes. Yes, this is the perfect male and female, with powers over fire, over the air, over the waters, over the earth, and over all that is, has been and will be. This is the last day of creation...

 

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day Elohim ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And Elohim blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which Elohim created and made… - Genesis 2: 1-3

 

When the seventh work is done, on the seventh day of the Easter Holy Week, the work is finished (“consummatum est!,” that is, “everything has been finished!”); then comes the supreme surrender of the spirit to the Father.

 

Later, on the eighth day, the Father resurrects in the Son and the Son resurrects in the Father, the Son rises from his crystal tomb, after the resurrection of the dead; but the whole of that work, in itself, forms the Easter Holy Week...

 

We have looked at this from the angle of Genesis, because with the same laws that the Logos (the perfect multiple unity) used in order to create this solar system, those same laws have to be used by the alchemist in order to create his inner universe, this, in order to have reality, in order to create one's own universe, these are the same laws...

 

When one works with alchemy, one is working with the same laws with which the creator created the universe. Even more, one is expanding the work of the creator, because the work of the creator is enlarged when a new master is born.

 

Therefore, when the work is consummated and when one reaches what one wanted to reach: this becomes what the creator, the Logos, ultimately wanted, which is, that the self-realized adepts, the resurrected humans, the Elohim, all of this, become the consummation of his work.

 

Genesis is closely related to the apocalypse of Saint John, with the seven seals, as with the seven trumpets that each angel is going to blow...

 

When the initiate receives the initiation of Malkuth, one unquestionably breaks the first seal; when one passes through the initiation of Yesod one breaks the second seal of the sacred book, which is the human himself; when one goes through the third initiation one breaks the third seal; when one passes through the fourth one breaks the fourth seal; when one passes through the fifth one breaks the fifth seal; when one passes through the sixth initiation one breaks the sixth seal and the work has been completed, because the seventh is the one of rest, prayer, meditation, supplication, as it is seen there, in the Apocalypse of Saint John. It is clear that when the seventh seal is broken, the work is already, in fact, finished, since the eighth day is always for the resurrection.

 

One has to live Genesis individually or collectively. One lives it collectively with the creation of the universe, as a divine particle that comes to this creation.

 

Now, the Apocalypse, one has to live it individually or live it collectively. Collectively it is the book of life, the book of wisdom, thus throughout history each seal is broken. At this time the last seal is about to be broken... at least the sixth seal, the penultimate; I mean, humanity is experiencing the apocalypse collectively...

 

If the alchemist has to make gold, that is, he has not only create the superior existential bodies of the being, but also has to convert those bodies into pure gold before they can be "swallowed" by the serpent. Likewise the Logos, he wants an age of gold; and in order for the Logos to be able to have a golden age, he has to do the same thing that the alchemist does in his laboratory, to start breaking seal by seal.

 

Thus the Logos has to make humanity live, in all nature, make it live or breaking off each seal. Of course, when it ends, when the sixth seal is broken, the work is practically finished, right? Then the final catastrophe is coming; and with the breaking of the seventh seal there is practically nothing left of everything that was. Finally comes the resurrection of the Logos in everything created, in all of nature, and that happens when it is the new age: the golden age...

 

Just as a human in order to make gold (I am speaking in alchemist science) needs to break the seven seals, so too the Logos (in order to be able to make a golden age) needs all of humanity to break the seven seals, that all of nature breaks them, and then the golden age begins; but he has to put all of this to pass through a tremendous and frightening Apocalypse.

 

So, either we live the Apocalypse individually or we have to live it collectively.

 

Better, to live it individually, which gives us the triumph! For this, we have to fix the gold in ourselves, we achieve, then, the golden fleece of the ancients...

 

Otherwise we have to live it collectively, with the great worldly Apocalypse, and to enter in the infernal worlds, in order to go through the second death in order for later, to have the right to live in the golden age as pure essences in new organisms, of course, without self-realization! As simple elementals... for a new golden age... So either way, we still have to live the great book and break its seals...

 

Holy Week, if it is called “Holy” is for that reason, because it is the week in which one has to live the cosmic drama, and each of those days is equivalent to long periods of work. but, at the end of the day, the great work is always summarized, symbolically, in the book of Job, in the eight years of Job (they are the summation or the extract itself), but as a whole, the great work, since even if it is summarized in eight days, in eight years totally (together with the resurrection and everything), that is to say, the easter holy week can last many years, right?

 

In any case, everyone has to live his holy week, right? The Son of Man lives his; when the Son of Man is born in the "manger", he must live his easter holy week, to perform all the work in his holy week...

 

All of this cannot be explained to laypeople, because laypeople do not understand. Laypeople receives the "crust", the "husk" of the teachings, but the initiates are taught the "meat of the doctrine", they are given the doctrine to "eat"...

 

Student: Does the visit to the seven churches refer to our seven chakras?

 

Samael Aun Weor: Well, of course it refers to that!...

 

Therefore, Christianity has two aspects: exoteric or public Christianity, for laypeople, and esoteric or sacred Christianity for the initiates...

 

Student: Venerable master, in order to become cognizant of our work, I want to ask you: if the bodhisattva (even if he is a fallen bodhisattva) has to form the body of the conscious will, that is, the causal body, in order for Tiphereth to enter?

 

Samael Aun Weor: Well, the bodhisattva, being a bodhisattva, then, does not have to enter to create the causal body, since that one is known to be a bodhisattva, that is, the human soul of a master; It is already understood that these vehicles were created in the past. However, that one has to light the fire in each of the vehicles, restore the fire in each of the vehicles, and then regenerate the gold in the bodies. Having achieved that, then, the bodhisattva rises.

 

But well, not going so far but starting at the base, we would say that after the fire has been lit in each of the vehicles, after the igneous principle has been restored, let us say, in the physical, vital, astral, mental and causal bodies. If the Father wants, if it is his will, he can send Tiphereth to be born in the "inner stable."

But I understand that the iniation of Tiphereth is a grace from the highest; because someone may have reached, I repeat, the fifth initiation of fire, and yet, not because of that, the child (who carries the Divine Mother in her arms) has penetrated into his vehicles, into the "stable." However, if you really yearn for it, if you want to work for humanity, then you can get the Son of Man to come into the world, and if it is the will of the Father…

 

Student: Venerable master, concretely the soul..., when an initiate has formed the causal body, does he then achieve the formation of the human soul, or is the human soul Tiphereth?

 

Samael Aun Weor: Well, the human soul, properly, is in the same causal body, right? A fraction of the causal is what constitutes the buddhata, the essence.

 

In the bodhisattva, then, that buddhata or essence is the already organized golden embryo...

 

In any case, we must bear in mind what I already said at the beginning, which is, that this is too subtle, meaning, that this subject-matter about the causal body and the Christic Tiphereth is easily given to confusion. It is so subtle and fine that one can make mistakes, one can "confuse gymnastics with jinn-gnostics"...

 

Tiphereth, that is to say, the living expression of the intimate Christ, is very correlated, then, with the causal body, with the human soul; Tiphereth becomes an integral part with the human soul, but when it is the will of the Father, when the Son of Man comes into the world...

 

I think you have already understood it, although this is very fine, because it turns out that you have to have a very elastic, very ductile, and very receptive mind in order to understand this.

 

Student: Well, in short, master, in order to achieve the initiation of Tiphereth, do you have to have the solar vehicles?

 

Samael Aun Weor: Well, unquestionably, if one does not possess the superior existential bodies of the being, one could never reach the initiation of Tiphereth.

 

Transmigrations of the Essence

Student, Master, what is the origin of our essence? We who want to rise up, why haven't we done it before?

 

Samael Aun Weor: Well, with the greatest pleasure I am going to give an answer to all that... the essence comes from the Milky Way (I am speaking in synthesis), it reaches the Sun and then, finally, it penetrates into nature.

 

In the beginning, the essence manifests itself as a simple primeval elemental, right? It ascends through the mineral, vegetable and animal stages, until finally penetrating into the body of the "humanoid" or "rational mammal"...

 

It is clear that the essence needs to become the golden embryo, it needs to work to create the superior existential bodies of the Being and transform itself into a bodhisattva.

 

When the essence does not achieve, then, its mission in the first cycle of manifestation, which is 108 lives, then it has to descend into the bowels of the earth in a devolving processes, with the purpose of eliminating the inhuman elements or psychic aggregates in which it comes to be bottled up due to mistakes.

 

Once it has passed through the second death, it rises again to the surface of the world to restart new evolutionary processes from the mineral.

 

Unquestionably, these new processes have as their starting point a higher spiral within the great spiral of life: it will begin or return, or it will restart its evolutionary processes, again, from the mineral, but in a higher octave, no longer as a simple inferior elemental, but as a superior gnome, until the humanoid state is reconquered (after having passed through the vegetable and animal levels) where it will be assigned, as we already know, the 108 existences. If that essence does not succeed, the process will continue repeating itself for 3,000 cycles (cycles or wheels of manifestation, or ages)...

 

Well, you who are not bodhisattvas yet, it is because you did not work in that sense, you did not reach those heights in past cycles of manifestation, but right now you can become bodhisattvas if you want to.

 

In any case, do not forget the origin of the essence: it comes from the Milky Way, passes into the Sun and finally enters here, in our nature, in our world. Of course, if we think that the Milky Way has Sirius as its central capital, those esotericists who think that we are going to Sirius, are not wrong. It is true: towards Sirius we are going!...

 

Student: And when did our essences leave the Milky Way?

 

Samael Aun Weor: Well, that was already, at the dawn of life, right? Let us think that these essences had to first pass through involutionary processes, they descended into the mineral, forming part of many principles, let us say, in the superior worlds. Upon reaching the mineral state, they began as primival essences, they restarted an evolutionary ascent...

 

Obviously, you have already done the cycle several times; you have passed several times not only through the "mill wheels", but also through each one of the "grinding wheels" of the "mill wheels", several times...

 

Student: Oh boy we already have “tusks”!...

 

Samael Aun Weor: That's obvious! Now, naturally, you have to take advantage of this cycle of manifestation to achieve your self-realization, and above all, in moments when we are living the final parts of the collective or worldly Apocalypse.

 

It would be unfortunate if you, at this time, did not realize yourselves, because you would have to descend into the bowels of the earth and at a very bad time, along with all this world catastrophe. I therefore advise you to become bodhisattvas once and for all.

 

Student: Could you explain more or less briefly, how the government of this solar system of Ors originated and who governs it?

 

Samael Aun Weor:

 

“In the beginning (the archē) was the Logos (the word), and the Logos was with (theos) God, and the Logos was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”...

 

Therefore, the universe is governed by the Logos; the Logos is the army of the voice, the great word, the architect demiurge, the archeaus.

 

Each of the Logoi (already speaking separately, since the Logos is a perfect multiple unit) has its mission, its work, its ministry, in relation to this solar system of ors, and the entire set of Elohim (to speak more clearly, they form the army of the great word, the herupa-khroat), they constitute in themselves the government of our solar system of ors. So that's my answer…

 

Student:... and Jesus Christ crucified?

 

Samael Aun Weor: Well, let it be understood that the paschal lamb is the agnus dei, the sacred fire, which is immolated in nature, which underlies in all organic and inorganic matter… this is the sacrifice of the second Logos, of the chrestos. That is why the word "INRI" is on the redeemer's cross, which means: "ignis natura renovatur integra", "fire renews nature incessantly."

 

It is wonderful to know that the second Logos, the agnus dei or the sacred fire, is really immolated in the depth of all this creation; it is known that it underlies at the bottom, I repeat, of all organic and inorganic matter.

 

If we strike two stones we will see the spark, the fire, jump. Thus, fire is in everything; the same ice burns (because it is fire in another form). Nature could not exist without fire. The first thing that exists is always fire. The fire becomes air, and that air becomes water, and water becomes earth, it is true, but the fire always remains as the center, as the base. Thus, that is the agnus dei, "the immolated lamb, that erases the sins of the world." because only through fire can we clean every stain, only through fire can we eliminate all our mistakes, incinerate them... It is understood that the fire is completely sexual, you know this...

 

Student: Master, do the gunas initiate the manifestation of everything created?

 

Samael Aun Weor: The three gunas are sattva, rajas and tamas, that is, harmony, emotion, and inertia. when they are in perfect equilibrium we have the night of the great pralaya; but when the gunas are disequilibrated, cosmic manifestation comes...

 

Now, why are the gunas disequilibrated? That is something very important. Why is a mahamanvantara coming? For the karma of the gods, right? This is not an inferior karma? No, that is superior karma that corresponds to the law of katancia, this is obvious...

 

This is why we (the microcosm), really, should never have pride. If we examine our life, we discover it full of blemishes, errors. If we review our previous lives, they are all full of very serious mistakes.

 

Reintegration of the Ten Sephiroth

Now, if we consider the divine (our monad) in us, we discover that as workers of the great work, we are in a process of reintegration: what we want is to reintegrate the ten sephiroth of the Kabbalah.

 

Who does the work of reintegration of the ten sephiroth? Tiphereth, the Son of Man does it! That is why the Son of Man must come into the world, to do his work, he needs to reintegrate the ten sephiroth in us. Once all ten are reintegrated, they constitute in themselves, an atom with ten characteristics, an ineffable atom that has to submerge, naturally, within the bosom of the omnimerciful and eternal common cosmic Father...

 

Who is the eternal common cosmic Father? It is the unmanifested Absolute, Sat. However, we must not look at the unmanifested Absolute in that cold way as the Asians see it [as shunyata, emptiness]. The Absolute in itself, is the Father of all Fathers; the Absolute is what is, what has always been and what will always be: the omnimerciful, the omnipresent, the infinitude that sustain everything. Within the Absolute we are only, each one of us, a simple atom. The day we manage to integrate, we will be a luminous atom within the sublime bosom of the eternal cosmic Father, but nothing more than that: an atom...

 

It so happens that when a unity yearns to be something more than a simple atom within the bosom of that which has no name, then, it immediately falls into the world of the 3 laws (ayocosmos), and later in the world of the 6 laws (macrocosmos) , and later in the world of 12 laws (deuterocosmos) and in the world of 24 laws (mesocosmos); then if his pride becomes too great (in the microcosmos governed by 48 laws), that essence will fall into the world of 96 laws (tritocosmos) and will continue to submerge until the second death...

 

The grave error of those divine atoms, let's call them, Elohim, gods (or whatever you want), is to yearn to be something more than a simple atom within the bosom of that which has no name.

 

If one were content to be what one is (a simple divine atom within the bosom of the eternal common cosmic Father), one would in fact become a paramarthasatya, plunging deeper and deeper into states within the bosom of the eternal common cosmic Father; then one would enjoy states of infinite, inexhaustible happiness.

 

But it is the impulse of to be something else is what brings the monads into manifestation; such progressive yearning, in the beginning, originates the protocosmos: then the world of the 3 laws. As the impulse becomes even more progressive (the impulse to stand out, to be someone or something), it comes in a world of 6 laws, and then 12 laws, and then 24 laws, and so on and so forth. Thus, the universe, properly speaking, is the outcome of the karma of the gods, and karma is the outcome of imperfection; and it is because of this imperfection that one wants to be more than one is. Sadly, even if one says that one is more, one is never more than what is; that's the truth.

 

Therefore, to die within oneself is indispensable. And if we want to one day achieve definitive liberation, if we really want to immerse ourselves within the bosom of the eternal common cosmic Father, then, from now on we must (as microcosmoses) worry about the radical elimination of pride. So, you have to pay close attention to this...

 

The Three Gunas

Student: we would like, to see if it were possible to explain a little more in depth the subject-matter of the three gunas? You already explained unto us the three gunas on a macrocosmic, universal level, but we would like to know, if those same three gunas are, then, on our (microcosmos) level; and if they are on what does their manifestation consist of?

 

Samael Aun Weor: Well, it is necessary to clarify more... undoubtedly that the three gunas: sattva, rajas and tamas, I said that during the cosmic night they are in perfect equilibrium; later I also spoke about what we are: I affirmed that each atom of the divine must be submerged within the bosom of the eternal common cosmic Father; when one (as a monad) does not want anymore to be immersed within a pralaya: and want to be more than what one is, and to stand out, to climb to the top of the ladder, to make oneself felt, to be someone or something, in fact, one immediately falls into the world of three laws because a disequilibrium occurs: the disequilibrium of the gunas.

 

Such disequilibrium becomes collective, when such disequilibrium relates to all the gods, those who organized or who gave rise to this great creation. This disequilibrium of the gunas, in the solar system of Ors (in which we live, move and have our being), was due to the fact that those divine atoms of the Ain, of the unmanifested absolute, wanted to be someone or something; such yearning, then, caused the disequilibrium of the gunas, and as a consequence they fell into the world of manifestation. This is how the universe came into being: a product of karma and error.

 

We also know that sattva is harmony, that rajas is emotion, and that tamas is inertia.

 

It is clear that these three gunas exist in prakriti, they are saturating the entire universal principle (what is, has been and will be). These three elements exist in everything: there are in food, there are in atoms, there are in molecules, there are in organisms; these three principles are everywhere...

 

In order to enjoy the cosmic night, without hindrance of any kind, it is necessary that the three gunas remain in perfect repose. and the three gunas remain in perfect repose, when the ineffable (those particles that form the army of the voice), calmly submerge themselves within the bosom of the eternal common cosmic Father...

 

The cosmic night lasts until the moment when such divine particles, such atoms, wake up and yearn to be something or someone; then, immediately, they fall into the world of the 3 laws.

 

This is how the gunas become disequilibrated, and that is why they fall into the world of the 3 laws and then into that of 6 laws, and then into that of 12 laws, and so on and so forth.

 

The three gunas would not become disequilibrated in themselves, if those atoms did not yearn to be something or someone.

 

This is why we from the beginning, if we want to achieve the true freedom that is in the eternal common cosmic Father, we must, above all, not to want to be something else, not to want to climb to the top of the ladder, or to make ourselves to feel grandiose...

 

Student: Master, is the world of the 3 laws that of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit?

 

Samael Aun Weor: The important thing in life is to always die, die, and die, and die... So that when one day, when the ten sephiroth in each one of us are completely integrated, we will be able to immerse ourselves in the bosom of the eternal common cosmic Father, then, If we truly no longer wish to exist, if all desire for “sensitive” life has ended, then we will enjoy infinite bliss forever...

 

Student: Venerable master, since our brother xx asks us about the three gunas (which relate to the ignous serpent that is coiled three and a half times in the muladhara chakra), now I want to refer to the half, the vittris or vikritis, that is, is it the root of the cosmos, is it the root of the being? Or is it fire, let's say, that can help us to get back to the primordial?

 

Samael Aun Weor: Well, the igneous serpent of our magical powers is naturally coiled three and a half times inside the muladhara chakra, on the tailbone. From there she must wake up in order to climb the spine; but it is said to be coiled three and a half times; the half belongs to the vikritis; These vittris (or vikritis) are nothing else but, simply, what we could call the Klipoth of the Hebraic kabbalah. Thus you have to take that into account...

 

Student: Venerable master, then the vittris or vikritis, are not the Divine Mother?

 

Samael Aun Weor: No, the Divine Mother, in herself, symbolizes them; She symbolizes the existence of the three gunas and also symbolizes the vittris (or vikritis) that are part of the Klipoth, and of the sentient life, or of the sublunar processes, right?

 

Student: Master, how symbolism, what primordial part then represents the Divine Mother? Because if sattva is harmony or purity, if an initiate, for example, is in a state of purity, especially in the state of a master? We are always in another state and very rarely are we in a sattvic state, so is there some special particularity in the atoms of the Divine Mother, say, especially in sattva or in the three parts of the three gunas?

 

Samael Aun Weor: All three parts are necessary: sattva, rajas and tamas, but when they are in perfect equilibrium they are wonderful. sattva is harmony; rajas is the emotion that becomes the pure soul, that type of ineffable vibration, and inertia, because, properly, already viewed from a higher angle, is the deep repose within the bosom of the Absolute.

 

But in the world of manifestation, inertia is inertia; a stone is inert; the individual who does not work on his or her self is an inert person; that's a fact. The pure emotion of the soul can be transformed into the lower emotions of the physical world. The same harmony from above becomes disharmony from here below. So all these factors have to be taken into account...

 

Student: In short, the Divine Mother, then would it be a triangle of these three gunas?

 

Samael Aun Weor: The Divine Mother is above the three gunas. She is what she is, what she has been and what she will always be; She is the wife of Shiva, the wife of the Third Logos. That such qualities exist in the prakriti during manifestation, that is something else, but She is beyond such qualities. She is Brahma deep down...

 

Student: Venerable master, in fact and by right, through his talk, can it be considered that we do not have the Divine Mother incarnated, but only the qualities of the Divine Mother are in us?

 

Samael Aun Weor: For they are in all nature, but the Divine Mother is coiled three and a half times in our coccyx, she is the sacred fire deposited in the muladhara...

 

Now, that word, "incarnate", is a word that we have to know how to measure, little by little.

 

What is called "incarnate" and what is not called "incarnate"? So that the Divine Mother, then, can express herself through a human, definitely, well, she will have to "swallow" that human, and as long as she does not swallow that human, she will not be able to express herself totally in that human, right?

 

The serpent has to swallow the initiate; only when the serpent "devours" the initiate, then does the serpent remain manifesting itself without interventions, let us say, of any kind; but the serpent has to swallow the initiate first...

 

Student: Master, now we understand you well, according to your talk, what is concretely then in our coccygeal center or in the muladhara chakra, in relation to the Divine Mother?

 

Samael Aun Weor: The Divine Mother is in a potential state, the serpent is coiled, waiting for the moment when she can not only climb the spine, but also swallow the initiate, she awaits...

 

Student: In potential state... understood master, thank you very much...

 

Samael Aun Weor: You are welcome!

 

Student... Regarding the rounds, we wanted you to talk to us a bit; since this is not very clear to our understanding yet, thus, now, we would like you to tell us about the rounds...

 

Samael Aun Weor: Well, it is clear, that in the beginning any planet has a first round, when it becomes a simple mental form, right? When it's a mental planet. This mental planet arises in a very extraordinary way: the army of the voice, the army of the word, makes the chaotic waters fertile. In the beginning fertilizes by means of certain rites and sacred words, so that life may arise, right?

 

From an alchemist point of view, it is very interesting to know how life comes into being, right?: there is the need to "separate the waters from the waters", because the basic or spermatic waters, the alkaest of alchemists, is coexistent with Sat, but in those primival, primogenic and chaotic waters, underlie, let us say, also, the Mercury of the secret philosophy, the metallic soul, let us say, of the chaotic waters...

 

Well, separating such "waters" by means of transmutation (the same thing that one does within the organism), "separating the superior waters from the inferior waters," this is a task that is performed by means of fruitful and creator work of the holy gods.

 

Thereafter when the superior waters have already been separated from the inferior waters, then, in turn, these superior waters make the inferior waters fertile, this, we might say, makes an even more higher third type of Mercury to appear, whose crystallization comes to be the world of the mind. Then the planet appears in its mental form: First round.

 

Second round, when that planet becomes astral matter; third when it becomes ethereal matter; fourth when it becomes physical matter; fifth when it becomes ethereal again; sixth when it becomes astral again; seventh when it becomes mental again. Well, here comes the dissolution of such a planet, and the great pralaya.

 

What we say for a planet applies to a whole system of worlds: To the solar system, and thus we speak of the great days and the great nights of Brahma. There are seven rounds in total.

 

Maha Kalpa

 

Thus, we are now in the fourth round; after this (terrestrial) round is over, life will unfold in the ethereal world: round five; then life will be processed in the astral world: sixth round; and then in the mental world: round seven. Then the dissolution of this planet and of all the planets of the solar system, will come; and then the cosmic night will arrive, that is, the mahapralaya, the profound night...

 

Student: The equilibrium of the three gunas?

 

Samael Aun Weor: The equilibrium... then the three gunas equilibrate again.

 

Student: Let's say that there are three rounds more to go before the cosmic night arrives?

 

Samael Aun Weor: Yes, we are currently in the middle of the great cosmic day. Three more rounds to go so that the night will fall...

 

Student: So then does a cosmic day have seven rounds?

 

Samael Aun Weor: The seven rounds is a week of seven days: "the easter holy week." The octave is the glory in the Logos, in the Absolute, to be even more clear... "the holy week"...

 

Student: Venerable master, I want to refer in relation to the Klipoth. You told us that the vittris are the Klipoth; and that the Klipoth, let's say, represent a gravitational force of weight in the planetary organism and in ourselves, then in relation to this, say, the three qualities, what forces do the Klipoth represent, especially?

 

Samael Aun Weor: The Klipoth are, let us say, the sephiroth in reverse. the sephiroth in their negative aspect; that's the Klipoth...

 

Student: Master, if the Klipoth are tenebrous, and are introduced, at the same time, with the three qualities, how to understand this?

 

Samael Aun Weor: Listen, the Klipoth are not introduced in the three qualities, which are symbolized by the Divine Mother, and she represents them, and this is why it is stated that "she is coiled three and a half times"; so she is coiled three and a half times; that "half" symbolizes the Klipoth...

 

The Klipoth are called "vittris (or vikritis)" or "vibration", I think very differently. Those "vittris (or vikritis)"..., the vibration is infinite, but when specified in the case of the three and a half times, then here it represents, precisely, the antithesis of the sephiroth, meaning, the sephiroth in reverse, the sephirotic qualities on the negative, the virtues in reverse.

 

What is a virtue in reverse? Let us have, for example, the quality of Geburah: the rigor, the law in reverse is tyranny, is dictatorship. From what region? we have to see to which region this sephirah belongs to. Obviously Geburah is the sixth of the sephiroth, right? if we count from Malkuth up right? Undoubtedly, in that sixth region we would already find Geburah, then, in a form of rigor taken to the devil, that is, a dictatorship, a terrible, frightening tyranny...

 

Student: A Hitler?

 

Samael Aun Weor: A Hitler, a Mussolini... thus, the same happens with charity, which is a patrimony of Chesed, it could become, let us say, complacency with crime. To become complacent with crime is charity taken to the extreme, right? in its negative aspect.

 

For example, out of charity, we would say: "the drunkard must be given enough tequila, let him continue drinking because that is his vice, so that he keeps drinking"... that is the sephirah of charity in reverse.

 

Prostitutes, for example, Many times they give themselves up to males, supposedly out of charity, right?; So here is that sephirah in reverse, is it not?

 

Student: Venerable, excuse me, the sephiroth in reverse, in other words, the Klipoth, are they related to the kundabuffer organ? Since we now understand that the Klipoth are tenebrous.

 

Samael Aun Weor: Yes, the Klipoth and the kundabuffer organ are all one; in the kundabuffer organ are the Klipoth of the Hebraic kabbalah. The Klipoth are, let us say, the virtues in reverse, turned upside down, that's all. And where is the world of the Klipoth? It is within the interior of Malkuth; and what is Malkuth? Well, the whole planet Earth. Within the "pouch" of this planet, of this "great whale" are the famous Klipoth...

 

Student: So let's say then that the Divine Mother, is the three qualities?

 

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Samael Aun Weor: Listen, the Divine Mother is beyond the three qualities, she is far beyond all those three qualities, beyond all of that has been, and will be; she is the wife of the third Logos; deep down she is also Brahma, and she is beyond the three qualities of prakriti.

 

Student: Understood venerable master; thank you so much...

 

glorian.org/learn/courses-and-lectures/lectures-by-samael...

  

Sometimes nature leads you in precisely the wrong direction...

Took a walk in the hills at morrongo valley when i came back down their was this guy flying his heli he had two of them he was doing free styje flying took some shot's and then move on to the birding.Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is an internationally-recognized birding site. Several rare or unusual species are known to nest here, and many other species are abundant during the spring and fall migration seasons.

 

What does it mean to “fly 3D”? All aircraft maneuver in three dimensional space, so what separates 3D flying from just flying? Model helicopters are capable of maneuvers other aircraft, including full sized helicopters can only dream of. A modern “3D” model helicopter is capable of aggressive, accurate and axial flips and rolls. Adding the ability to pirouette, fly backwards and upside down, there is practically no limit to the maneuvers that can be flown. Although aggressive, unbelievable flights may seem wildly out of control to the untrained eye, it takes immense skill, and the models can be flown incredibly precisely with enough practice.

 

One of the beauties of modern aerobatic helicopter flight, which has come to be known as 3D, is how varied the potential is. Every 3D heli pilot exhibits their own character and style in flight. A 3D flight could be flown freestyle with nothing planned ahead of time, or it could be a highly prepared, choreographed flight put to music for competition. While 3D heli flight is, in essence, simply a combination of flips, rolls , and pirouettes, there is no end to the combinations. Once a heli pilot masters the basics, a continuously evolving world of precision aerobatics awaits. Like a dancer or figure skater, a 3D heli pilot can express style by putting simple moves together in complicated sequences for incredible effect.

 

Like any sport, art, or specialty, practice makes perfect. Some people learn faster than others, but everybody should try to step gingerly into more complicated and aggressive moves, for safeties sake (not to mention your wallet!). Excellent training tools are available; most notably computer simulators and buddy boxes. Unlike most video games which are intended for play, simulators for model aircraft are designed around one goal, helping people learn how to fly model airplanes and helicopters. Simulators are so accurate a budding pilot can master almost all regimes of flight in a simulated environment which instantly replaces a wrecked model! In real life, a crash cost not only confidence, but time and money to fix the model. By the time the pilot gets back to it, the learning experience from the crash is not fresh, and learning tends to progress slower. On a simulator, a fledgling pilot can take as much time exploring the controls as they want, and learn at their own pace without any down time between crashes.

 

Empty rooms: "I have always thought that there was such a beauty about a room like that, even though there weren't any people in it, perhaps precisely when there weren't any."

 

A restricted palette: "I'm utterly convinced that a painting has the best effect in terms of its colour the fewer colours there are."

 

A clear pictorial structure: "What makes me choose a motif are ... the lines, what I like to call the architectural content of an image. And then there's the light, of course. Obviously, that's also very important, but I think it's the lines that have the greatest significance for me."

 

"Gran part de l'obra del pintor Hammershøi -que és també la part més valorada de la seva obra- són els quadres d'interiors. Bordwell el defineix com el pintor que representa "l'interior com a natura morta" (9). Retrobem de nou el concepte mort i és que els interiors de Hammershøi estan buits d'acció física, estan pràcticament buits de mobiliari i d'ornamentació extra, són interiors senzills molts cops només habitats per un raig de llum -veure quadre de l'esquerra- o per una tímida silueta de dona quasi sempre immòbil i amb el rostre girat sense mirar l'espectador. A més, les tonalitats de gris emprades en la majoria de les seves composicions reforcen aquesta idea de quietud, de silenci, de temps esmorteït i aturat. Les imatges de Hammershøi són, en definitiva, una posada en escena del desemparament, que amaga sobre una aparent calma extrema i immòbil la possibilitat de l'aparició d'un element indefinible i amenaçador dins dels interiors de les cases de Christianshavn on visqué el pintor."

 

www.geocities.com/ctdreyer/pintura.htm

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhelm_Hammersh%c3%b8i

 

arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2287897,00.htm...

  

Pueblo Bonito, the largest and best known Great House in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico, was built by ancestral Pueblo people and occupied between AD 828 and 1126.

 

Pueblo Bonito is divided into two sections by a precisely aligned wall, running north to south, through the central plaza. A Great Kiva is placed on either side of the wall, creating a symmetrical pattern common to many of the Great Houses. In addition to the great kivas, over thirty other kivas or ceremonial structures have been found, many also associated with the large central courtyard. Interior living spaces were quite large by the standards of the Ancient Pueblo.

 

The site covers almost two acres (8,000 m²) and incorporates at least 650 rooms, with some estimates rising to 800. In parts of the village, the tiered structure was four and five stories high. During later construction, some lower level rooms were filled with debris to better support the weight of the upper levels. The builder's use of core and veneer architecture and multi-story construction produced massive masonry walls as much as three feet (1 m) thick.

 

It is possible that Pueblo Bonito is actually neither a village nor city. While its size has the capacity for a significant population, the environment may not have been ideal for sustaining a large population. Excavations at the site have not revealed significant trash middens indicating residential areas. A common suggestion is that Pueblo Bonito was a ritual center. This is not only evident in the existence of the kivas (which are more often than not attributed to ritual function) but also in the construction of the site and its relation to other Chaco Canyon sites. Although there were many occupants, only 50-60 burials were found here.

 

Examination of pack rat middens revealed that, at the time that pueblo bonito was built Chaco Canyon and the surrounding areas were wooded by trees such as Ponderosa Pines. Evidence of such trees can be seen within the structure of Pueblo Bonito, such as the first floor support beams. Scientists hypothesised that during the time that the pueblo was inhabited the valley was cleared of almost all of the trees, to provide timber for construction and fuel. This, combined with a period of drought, led to the water table in the valley to drop severely, making the land infertile. This explains why Pueblo Bonito was only inhabited for about 300 years and is a good example of the effect that deforestation can have on the local environment. The Anasazi, no longer able to grow crops to sustain their population, had to move on.

 

A multi-year field study, centered in Pueblo Bonito, has been launched in order to obtain new information on the economic conditions of the Bonito phase. The ultimate goal of this recent fieldwork is to obtain data that will enable researchers to examine the development of great house communities in respect to relationships between demographic change and economic productivity.

 

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We went out mapping, or more precisely doing aerial photography, flying a digital camera under a nice big green balloon from the green of Goldsmiths University. The MA is Design at Goldsmiths has an option called “Design & Environment” supervised by Prof Jennifer Gabrys. It is a course that initiates students to alternatives design and environmental methods and pratices. This hands-on experiment was lead by Cesar Harada acting both as Goldsmiths tutor and Public Laboratory instructor. The mappers -who are also the authors of this post- were Anuja Uttamrao Borker, Inessa Demidova, Shan-Yu Hsu, Dk Hajah Hazwani Pg Dato Haji Jaberudin, Federica Sterpos, Chian-Yun Yang, Yifan Zhang, Elvira Grob.

 

designandenvironment.co.uk/

 

The date of the church’s construction was not precisely known until 1969, particularly as the pisanie (inscription) is partly deteriorated.

That year, the parish priest discovered a petition from the Christians of the Broșteni district to the Metropolitan of Ungro-Wallachia.

Authored by Manul "Cavaful", head of the shoemakers’ (cavafi) guild, the document asks permission for building a church on the land of the late Hagi Dumitrache Papazoglu, in accordance with his will.

It is dated July 1815, and construction probably started on August 15, a date mentioned on the inscription.

The structure was probably erected by summer 1816, and was completely finished by November 1817, as attested by a document of that date.

 

Repairs were carried out in 1868, 1891 and 1906, while the painting was redone in 1929.

Thorough repairs took place in 1949–1950 and 1957.

Repainting was done under Patriarch Justinian, whose portrait appears among the ktetors.

The 1930 parish house was demolished in 1985 to make way for the surrounding apartment blocks.

The church has two spires, one above the nave, the other, the bell tower, above the narthex.

The iconostasis is carved in wood and gilt.

The facades are simple, with a classical cornice and pediment on the western side, painted with three panels of saints’ icons.

 

Saint Haralambie, whose relics are here, awaits them every day.

The church, in the shape of a cross, was built between 1815 and 1817 on the land left by Hagi Dumitrache Papazoglu, by Maria and Manea Cavafu, the latter being the elder of the tanners in the Broşteni slum.

Over time, the church was repaired several times.

Among the objects of historical or documentary value, the very old icons stand out (the oldest is from the 17th century), but also the iconostasis, which is carved in wood and gilded.

The current painting dates from 1986, made by a certain Gheorghe.

THIS PIECE TOOK ME PRECISELY 6 HOURS T OD AND IT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE DONE ON NEW YEARS EVE, NO THANKS TO THOSE TFL AND NEW YEARS PARTY ORGANISING IDIOTS !!!

 

Plus doing it on NEW YEARS DAY WAS A DAY TO LEARN AND PREPARE FOR NEXT TIME TOO

 

This is my superhero NEW YEARS PIECE filled with Amalgamte characters,BANANAMAN, BLuntman and Chronic and of COURSE ME GIVING YOU AN AFFIRMATIVE MESSAGE

 

"BE A HERO THIS YEAR!!"

 

HAVE A GREAT YEAR PEOPLE AND ALWAYS BE POSITIVE TOO !!

We went out mapping, or more precisely doing aerial photography, flying a digital camera under a nice big green balloon from the green of Goldsmiths University. The MA is Design at Goldsmiths has an option called “Design & Environment” supervised by Prof Jennifer Gabrys. It is a course that initiates students to alternatives design and environmental methods and pratices. This hands-on experiment was lead by Cesar Harada acting both as Goldsmiths tutor and Public Laboratory instructor. The mappers -who are also the authors of this post- were Anuja Uttamrao Borker, Inessa Demidova, Shan-Yu Hsu, Dk Hajah Hazwani Pg Dato Haji Jaberudin, Federica Sterpos, Chian-Yun Yang, Yifan Zhang, Elvira Grob.

 

designandenvironment.co.uk/

 

We went out mapping, or more precisely doing aerial photography, flying a digital camera under a nice big green balloon from the green of Goldsmiths University. The MA is Design at Goldsmiths has an option called “Design & Environment” supervised by Prof Jennifer Gabrys. It is a course that initiates students to alternatives design and environmental methods and pratices. This hands-on experiment was lead by Cesar Harada acting both as Goldsmiths tutor and Public Laboratory instructor. The mappers -who are also the authors of this post- were Anuja Uttamrao Borker, Inessa Demidova, Shan-Yu Hsu, Dk Hajah Hazwani Pg Dato Haji Jaberudin, Federica Sterpos, Chian-Yun Yang, Yifan Zhang, Elvira Grob.

 

designandenvironment.co.uk/

 

More precisely, it's a Bandtail Searobin.

Many individuals consider weight-loss and dieting first whenever they hear the phrase "nutrition". The fact is that these words are merely element of nutrition. Nutrition involves weight, but in addition staying hydrated, eating correctly and having your nutrients everyday. Each physique demands a certain nutrition regimen. The subsequent article will allow you to determine the most effective nutritional plan for you type. When you digest the content, you will possess what must be done to boost your very own nutrition.

 

Women that are pregnant or breast feeding, need to be conscious which they have the proper nutrition. Expecting mothers want to get a lot of protein inside their diet. Lots of women do not have a want to take in the protein yet it is still essential. Possessing a smoothie created using egg whites may be a sensible way to get enough protein. Egg whites are really less cholesterol and have a good amount of protein along with other nutrients. It's best just to use eggs which can be pasteurized.

 

Try packing your very own work or school meals. Food you prepare beforehand is practically always healthier than something you obtain coming from a restaurant or even a vending machine. In certain short minutes of preparation, you may have several meals which can be of high quality.

 

Make certain you get at the very least 8 ounces of protein on a daily basis. You can keep on top of your protein and iron in this way. Great choices include bison, venison or other type of lean meat.

 

Whenever you go in the market to eat, break up your meal with all the person you're eating with. Also a carefully chosen entree might have way too much food, and thus, calories and fat. Sharing costs you less money and might enable you to stay inside your calorie goals during the day. Now you may eat within a restaurant without breaking your plan.

 

It is possible to boost your nutrition when you eat vegetarian meals a couple of times a week. It will assist you to understand other foods besides meat that have protein and ways to incorporate them into meals.

 

Again, to possess proper nutrition does not necessarily mean you need to go on a diet. An excellent nutrition is the easiest method to make certain your system gets each of the nutrients and vitamins you will need. As this article has shown, there are numerous nutrition plans available. Should you be capable of locate tips that be right for you then it will be beneficial to help you each of the advice presented to you as best it is possible to. www.beyond-diet-reviews.com/how-to-determine-your-metabol...

Photograph taken at an altitude of Forty four metres, prior to the magic of the Golden Hour around sunrise (Sunrise was at precisely 04:42am), at 03:10am on Thursday 19th June 2014 off Lullingstone Lane and overlooking a blanket of morning mist as it rolled across the River Darent in the village of Eynsford, Kent, England.

  

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Nikon D800 23mm 1/13s f/2.8 iso200 RAW (14 bit) Mirror up. AF-S Single point mode. Manual exposure. Matrix metering.Auto white balance.

  

Nikkor AF-S 14-24mm f/2.8G ED IF. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL batteries. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Manfrotto MT057C3 057 Carbon Fiber Tripod 3 Sections (Payload 18kgs). Manfrotto MH057M0-RC4 057 Magnesium Ball Head with RC4 Quick Release (Payload 15kgs). Manfrotto quick release plate 410PL-14.Jessops Tripod bag. Optech Tripod Strap.Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.

  

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HP Pavillion Desktop with AMD A10-5700 APU processor. HD graphics. 2TB with 8GB RAM. 64-bit Windows 8.1. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. Nikon VIEWNX2 Version 2.90 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit

 

Patented NITRO® carrier tape is Tek Pak’s top line. It has precisely formed pockets that are exceptionally strong. The dimensional accuracy of the pockets is within 0.002 inches (0.05 mm), which permits exact presentation of components to automatic handling equipment. NITRO® carrier tape is the perfect choice for your difficult to place components. In many instances, components have been so exactingly located in NITRO® carrier tape pockets that no vision correction during placement has been required. Depending on the dimensional accuracy of your part, Tek Pak can design a NITRO® carrier tape with essentially zero lateral and rotational movement a slip fit. This capability extends to complex components including clips, pins, connectors, and metal shields. Tek Pak has created NITRO® carrier tape for many parts where packaging in carrier tape was previously thought to be impossible.

Supplies of carrier tape have become tenuous for many North American electronics companies because many suppliers have moved their manufacturing facilities to Asia. But Tek Pak still manufactures at our plant near Chicago. This means we can provide case quantities of open-tool and custom tapes in a matter of days, not weeks, and without exorbitant offshore shipping charges.

 

So if you have been quoted lead times of 6 to 12 weeks for carrier tape, it is time to give Tek Pak a call. We have a large open-tool list and also produce custom tooling quickly, including a 24-hour service time.

 

More information available at: tekpakinc.thomasnet.com/category/carrier-tape?

     

  

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Eight metres, in the magic of the Golden hour around sunrise at 05:41am, (sunrise was at precisely 06.15am) on Saturday 6th September 2014 off the Patricia Bay Highway 17, on Lochside Drive close to Frost Avenue and the Lochside Waterfront Park, in beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

  

Here, I am standing beside the wooden decked viewing platform, looking over towards Mt Baker in Washington State, USA from beautiful Sidney by the sea on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Also known as Koma Kulshan, she is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States, standing 3,286 metres tall and was first ascended in 1868, her last eruption recorded in 1880.

The name Mount Baker first appeared in print in Captain Vancouver’s 1798 narrative of his voyage around Vancouver Island. Legend has it that his third-lieutenant, Joseph Baker, was the first to spot the mountain while they sailed into Dungeness Bay on April 30th, 1792. Also known by the Lummi as Kwud-Shad, and Koba (meaning 'high mountain always covered with snow', was the Skagit name.

  

These Canada Geese, along with many other small groups, fly across the lake from East to West every morning and back again every evening at Sunset, and I love to watch the classic Vee formations and listen to the honking as they pass me by. In flight, a group of Geese are called, a Skein. For this frame, in the dawns early darkness, I was shooting the sunrise over Mt Baker and I could hear the geese honking as groups of up to ten flew byu me East to West. I waited until they entered the frame, amazed at how close they actually were to me, and began manually pressing the shutter.

 

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Nikon D800 70mm 1/1000s f/2.8 iso100 RAW (14 bit) Manual focus. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.

  

Nikkor AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8G ED IF VRII. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL batteries. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Manfrotto MT057C3 057 Carbon Fiber Tripod 3 Sections (Payload 18kgs). Manfrotto MH057M0-RC4 057 Magnesium Ball Head with RC4 Quick Release (Payload 15kgs). Manfrotto quick release plate 410PL-14.Jessops Tripod bag. Optech Tripod Strap.Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.

  

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We went out mapping, or more precisely doing aerial photography, flying a digital camera under a nice big green balloon from the green of Goldsmiths University. The MA is Design at Goldsmiths has an option called “Design & Environment” supervised by Prof Jennifer Gabrys. It is a course that initiates students to alternatives design and environmental methods and pratices. This hands-on experiment was lead by Cesar Harada acting both as Goldsmiths tutor and Public Laboratory instructor. The mappers -who are also the authors of this post- were Anuja Uttamrao Borker, Inessa Demidova, Shan-Yu Hsu, Dk Hajah Hazwani Pg Dato Haji Jaberudin, Federica Sterpos, Chian-Yun Yang, Yifan Zhang, Elvira Grob.

 

designandenvironment.co.uk/

We went out mapping, or more precisely doing aerial photography, flying a digital camera under a nice big green balloon from the green of Goldsmiths University. The MA is Design at Goldsmiths has an option called “Design & Environment” supervised by Prof Jennifer Gabrys. It is a course that initiates students to alternatives design and environmental methods and pratices. This hands-on experiment was lead by Cesar Harada acting both as Goldsmiths tutor and Public Laboratory instructor. The mappers -who are also the authors of this post- were Anuja Uttamrao Borker, Inessa Demidova, Shan-Yu Hsu, Dk Hajah Hazwani Pg Dato Haji Jaberudin, Federica Sterpos, Chian-Yun Yang, Yifan Zhang, Elvira Grob.

 

designandenvironment.co.uk/

 

In Urdu, “Numaish” means exhibition, and the Numaish in Hyderabad is precisely just that; it is an open-air exhibition to display all the ingenious products and goods that the city of Hyderabad produces. Held annually since 1938 during the ruling period of Hyderabad’s Nizams, the fair gets about 2.5 million people each year, with up to 2600 stalls set up for the perusal of the buying public. To say that it is a massive event is pretty much an understatement. Numaish Masnuaat-e-Mulki or Numaish is an annual industrial exhibition held in Hyderabad, India.[1] The exhibition has remained the only event of its kind in the world to be organised at a stretch for a 46-day period at its 23-acre (93,000 m2) permanent venue in Nampally.[2] It features joy rides, eateries and other entertainment options for the visitors.[3]

Took a walk in the hills at morrongo valley when i came back down their was this guy flying his heli he had two of them he was doing free styje flying took some shot's and then move on to the birding.Big Morongo Canyon Preserve is an internationally-recognized birding site. Several rare or unusual species are known to nest here, and many other species are abundant during the spring and fall migration seasons.

 

What does it mean to “fly 3D”? All aircraft maneuver in three dimensional space, so what separates 3D flying from just flying? Model helicopters are capable of maneuvers other aircraft, including full sized helicopters can only dream of. A modern “3D” model helicopter is capable of aggressive, accurate and axial flips and rolls. Adding the ability to pirouette, fly backwards and upside down, there is practically no limit to the maneuvers that can be flown. Although aggressive, unbelievable flights may seem wildly out of control to the untrained eye, it takes immense skill, and the models can be flown incredibly precisely with enough practice.

 

One of the beauties of modern aerobatic helicopter flight, which has come to be known as 3D, is how varied the potential is. Every 3D heli pilot exhibits their own character and style in flight. A 3D flight could be flown freestyle with nothing planned ahead of time, or it could be a highly prepared, choreographed flight put to music for competition. While 3D heli flight is, in essence, simply a combination of flips, rolls , and pirouettes, there is no end to the combinations. Once a heli pilot masters the basics, a continuously evolving world of precision aerobatics awaits. Like a dancer or figure skater, a 3D heli pilot can express style by putting simple moves together in complicated sequences for incredible effect.

 

Like any sport, art, or specialty, practice makes perfect. Some people learn faster than others, but everybody should try to step gingerly into more complicated and aggressive moves, for safeties sake (not to mention your wallet!). Excellent training tools are available; most notably computer simulators and buddy boxes. Unlike most video games which are intended for play, simulators for model aircraft are designed around one goal, helping people learn how to fly model airplanes and helicopters. Simulators are so accurate a budding pilot can master almost all regimes of flight in a simulated environment which instantly replaces a wrecked model! In real life, a crash cost not only confidence, but time and money to fix the model. By the time the pilot gets back to it, the learning experience from the crash is not fresh, and learning tends to progress slower. On a simulator, a fledgling pilot can take as much time exploring the controls as they want, and learn at their own pace without any down time between crashes.

 

We had a complete change this Christmas – we cancelled it! - we went walking in The Lakes, or Wasdale more precisely. We were staying at Irton Hall B & B, they had over 70 in for Christmas dinner but we ate jam bread on the slopes of Sca Fell Pike. Fantastic. We had a front wheel puncture on a run flat tyre on the new car with a 100 mile still to drive on the afternoon of Christmas eve on our way there. I drove straight to the nearest ATS – where I have an account – they shook their heads and directed me to Westhoughton Tyres, the lads there were fantastic and got us on our way in good time. BMW dealer advice was run on the flat tyre and then throw it away - £250! Where I would have got a tyre on the western side of the Lakes over Christmas I don’t know, ATS didn’t have one to sell me.

 

The weather was forecast good for Christmas day but after a fine start it was raining before we even left the car park in Wasdale. We headed up Lingmell and ran into snow on the summit. The path onto Sca Fell Pike was very icy, snow covered and visibility was low, the snow kept falling. We didn’t linger long, it was too cold to have dinner up there so we dropped down onto the Corridor Route, where we had our dinner. We went that way to stretch the walk out, having originally intended to cross to Great End. The tops were so icy, glazed, with not enough snow to get a grip on that we decide to leave it for another day. From Styhead we headed back to Wasdale and a dull but fine finish to the day. A drink in the bar at Irton Hall was on the radar.

 

Every morning we headed into Wasdale early, it got colder, icier and sunnier as the days went by. We went up Yewbarrow, it was an icy scramble up and I decided it was too dangerous to go down Stirrup Crag to Dore Head so went back the same way. It turned out to be the right decision as we lingered on the top, going to view points that we wouldn’t have and getting some decent photos. One morning we walked over the Screes tops, Illgill Head and Whin Rigg, dropping down the steep slope to The southern end of Wast Water. Having said that I would never walk the Screes path alongside Wast Water again the memory of how awful it is in the rain had faded. There is only really a quarter of a mile out of three miles that is really bad, every rock was like glass with the potential to break a leg every step. It seemed a long way and I was getting killer looks from Herself.

 

We made our way onto Sca Fell on a beautiful morning, clear blue sky. The snow line had got lower most nights but we never had the low level snow that caused problems in the rest of the country. I chose a, sometimes, pathless way to the summit, partly because I’d never been that way but also to stay in the sun, to keep the view and to avoid the ways that would be a touch dangerous, it was -4 and seared with ice for the last 600 feet. After 15 minutes on the summit wispy thin cloud came racing in, crossing the Lake District in minutes, the photos show it heading towards us and I was glad to have got the clear photos first. Looking out to sea a great mattress of cloud was heading straight for us. It was calm and sunny one minute and the next we were engulfed in thick cloud with 30 yards visibility at the most. I have never had a clear sky turn to cloud so fast – ever! We were going down to Slightside next which was OK, about a mile following the ridge down, the problem was getting back to Wasdale from there. We needed to get to Great Howe which meant a pathless trek a mile SW across Quagrigg Moss – a bog full of tarnlets, it would be a nightmare in low visibility. After getting some accurate compass bearings and heading down off Slightside we suddenly dropped out of the cloud and could see our target, brilliant, we legged it across the semi frozen bog and finally felt able to rest and grab a sandwich and cup of tea. We had to find our way down Raven Crags, which was interesting – and steep! We needed to get to the footbridge to get onto the Burnmoor Tarn path back to Wasdale. As we got closer to Burnmoor Tarn the light that I had been cursing gave us a gorgeous sunset. I had one eye on a gap in the cloud low down in the sky out at sea and I was hoping the sun would break through, it did. Burnmoor Tarn was like a mirror, reflecting the surrounding mountains, including Yewbarrow and parts of the Mosedale Horseshoe in the far distance. There was just the two of us, we had barely seen a soul all day, it was a fantastic end to a tough day. As we dropped into Wasdale I caught the deep pink and orange of the last of the sun, I was shooting into it but I had nothing to lose. There would have been quite a few tripods at the opposite end of the lake but I think I was in the better place – for a change.

 

On our final walking day we decided to head up Great Gable. It was clear of cloud for a change but ominously the surrounding tops, including the Sca Fells were cloud covered. Another beautiful but very cold morning, it was going to be very icy up there so we elected to go via Styhead and the tourist track. We would choose a way off once we were up there. Long before we got to the top, although we couldn’t see it, we knew the cloud was swirling in and out on the summit so it was going to be hit and miss for the photos. The cloud was down for the last 500 feet but once on the frozen top it kept clearing briefly – very briefly. There were more people up there than we had seen the entire trip previously. People were getting out after Christmas, many had parked at the top of Honister for the fairly easy walk in across Green Gable, some were not dressed for winter walking it has to be said. We left for an icy scramble down to Arron Slack, up onto Green Gable them we galloped down Arron Slack to Styhead and back to Wasdale.