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...

 

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I'm guessing where precisely this was near the Glacier in the geotag. Made this shot funky in my video using my chopper trip photos. Check out my set for the rest of photos from that brief, but awesome trip!

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.

 

Todos festejaron el 25 de Octubre...en paz y armonía.

 

In English for those not familiar with Uruguayan Poltics.

 

Uruguay, or more precisely the República Oriental del Uruguay (Oriental Republic of Uruguay) is a small country located on the River Plate between Argentina and Brazil.

 

Since its birth as a modern State in 1830, the Uruguayan Politics has been dominated by two political groups, the Colorados (literally the "reds") and the Blancos (the "whites"). Their names dates to the 1836 Carpinteria Battle , when each side fought using red ponchos and white ponchos to identify themselves. This groups were originally the succesors to the groups that fought during the Argentinean Civil Wars.

 

Later organized as Political Parties (the Partido Colorado and Partido Nacional) strive for political power on the elections and on the battlefields, creating a historic rivalry that exists until today, and that makes them the oldest political parties in the world.

 

However, in 2004, and for the first time in our history not the Colorado nor the Blancos won the election. The Frente Amplio triumphed for the first time, and for the first time in more than 170 years Uruguay was ruled by a party different to the traditional Colorado and Nacional parties. Not only that, it also became the first leftist government in our history.

 

National Elections for President and Parliament were held on October 25. The Frente Amplio obtained the majority on both the Senate and the House of Representatives. However, its candidate, the ex-member of the Tupamaros guerilla, didn´t get enough votes to became President on the First Round. So, a second one will be held on November 29, in which he will compete with the Blanco candidate, and Ex-Presidente, Luis Alberto Lacalle.

 

In this photo you can see the Celebrations of October 25. The historic rivals that have been involved un many civil wars and conflicts during our history, celebrated peacefuly together. Blancos were celebrating that their candidate could compete in the second round, and the Colorados celebrated the recovery of their Party after the electoral disaster of 2004. Both parties have in common their opposition to the ideas of the Frente Amplio, specially with those of their presidential candidate.

 

This photo, which represents and example of tolerance and civic virtue, was taken on the night of October 25. Both groups partied together until 1:30 AM at least. The place is Montevideo´s Rambla (Seawalk) one of the landmarks of the city.

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/

 

On the eighth day of the winter equinox at precisely 4:01 the Peralta Hoodoo will glow showing those who stand in the Dutchman's track the secret cache of the Lost Dutchman's mine.

 

The knowing eye of the Hoodoo will cast a beam from its face reflecting into Geronimo's Cave bouncing off of Weaver's Needle. It then will reflect the slightest red light (must have red colored glasses to see) to the Lost Dutchman's Mine. Look closely for the glowing eye!

 

Just a little of the Indiana Jones in me! :)

 

View On Black

Integrity Toys, or more precisely David Buttry, has done a phenomenal job with the Poppys this year. One after another these dolls represent the best in the Poppy Parker line. Their faces have become more than just doll faces, they have come alive. I notice more depth and dimension - more definition. Poppy couldn't be prettier. One after one I am blown away by these Poppys. I hope you are too.

Santuario di Santa Croce / Wallfahrtskirchlein Hl. Kreuz

High above Badia, more precisely the hamlet of Oies - the birthplace of St. Joseph Freinademetz - a lovely little church was built almost 600 years ago. The sanctuary was consecrated in 1484 by the Bishop of Bressanone and dedicated to the Holy Cross. However, savants presume that the Santa Croce Church has once been a pagan cult site, dating back to the time when the Alta Badia has been sparsely populated. The name “Col dei Paternostri” (Paternoster Hill) - referring to a place right in front of the church - could be an indication of this presumption.

 

It is documented that since 1584 Holy Masses were held in the La Crusc Pilgrimage Church, since 1649 even once a week: from the Feast of the Holy Cross on June 6 to the Feast of St. Francis on October 4. In this document also the adjacent hospice was mentioned for the first time which once hosted the sexton as well as the pilgrims. Nowadays the building houses the well-known Rif. Santa Croce in Badia mountain hut.

 

Inside the church, still today there is an altar in which numerous relicts of Saints are kept. The steeple, which has been constructed in the 17th century, features three big bells. The popular pilgrims’ path which leads to the sanctuary is accessible from the nearby hamlets of Oies and San Leonardo - from the latter also a funicular starts and takes you into the world of mountains. Furthermore, beautiful hiking paths lead you in summer and winter alike to this ensemble, situated near the Armentara Meadows in the heart of the Fanes-Senes-Braies Nature Park.

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 !!

Lontong Balap

 

Lontong balap is one of traditional foods from East Java, precisely from Surabaya. Lontong balap is consist of lontong or sticky rice cake, bean sprout, tofu and lentho. Lentho is more or less like fried cake, which is made by cassava and cowpea, it is tasty and make particular crunchy-ness in Lontong balap. It become more yummy by garlic dressing sauce and hot shrimp paste.

Moreover, when eating Lontong balap, do no forget to complete it with Sate Kerang or scallop satai and coconut ice.

 

Why this food named by Lontong Balap, because formerly, when the people who sell Lontong Balap they used heavy-barrel-shaped and bear it to the whole city. This barrel make the seller had to walk as fast as they can, seems like someone who taking a race. Balap is taken from Javanese language, balapan, means racing. Recently, we can find Lontong balap in stall or barrow.

 

We can find some Lontong Balap in all over Surabaya, whether in stall or barrow. Fortunately, the most popular Lontong Balap in Surabaya is located in Kranggan street, there are some stalls over the street that offering Lontong balap as their main menu, but the most special one is belong to Lontong Balap Garuda by Pak Gendut. It becomes famous for the different taste within the ingredients, and that makes Lontong Balap Pak Gendut known by people outside Surabaya.

 

More info visit:

www.eastjava.com

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

www.eastjava.com

Entropy is a measure of disorder, or more precisely unpredictability.

left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born. [odilon redon quote]

 

and i love this quote too :-)

 

365 Poladroids

[droid-a-day keeps the doctor away... ]

In the second century AD, more precisely between 129 and 131, the temple was finally completed in this configuration by Roman emperor Hadrian, a great admirer of Greek culture.

 

Hadrian dedicated the temple to Zeus, known in Rome as Jupiter, the king of the gods. He had a chryselephantine statue (in gold and ivory) of Zeus erected in the cell and, not far from it, a statue of him as big as that of the god. However, nothing remains of the interior of the temple, destroyed by the barbarians and used as a stone quarry.

Lontong Balap

 

Lontong balap is one of traditional foods from East Java, precisely from Surabaya. Lontong balap is consist of lontong or sticky rice cake, bean sprout, tofu and lentho. Lentho is more or less like fried cake, which is made by cassava and cowpea, it is tasty and make particular crunchy-ness in Lontong balap. It become more yummy by garlic dressing sauce and hot shrimp paste.

Moreover, when eating Lontong balap, do no forget to complete it with Sate Kerang or scallop satai and coconut ice.

 

Why this food named by Lontong Balap, because formerly, when the people who sell Lontong Balap they used heavy-barrel-shaped and bear it to the whole city. This barrel make the seller had to walk as fast as they can, seems like someone who taking a race. Balap is taken from Javanese language, balapan, means racing. Recently, we can find Lontong balap in stall or barrow.

 

We can find some Lontong Balap in all over Surabaya, whether in stall or barrow. Fortunately, the most popular Lontong Balap in Surabaya is located in Kranggan street, there are some stalls over the street that offering Lontong balap as their main menu, but the most special one is belong to Lontong Balap Garuda by Pak Gendut. It becomes famous for the different taste within the ingredients, and that makes Lontong Balap Pak Gendut known by people outside Surabaya.

 

More info visit:

www.eastjava.com

Aqueduct of Segovia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

The Aqueduct of Segovia (or more precisely, the aqueduct bridge) is a Roman aqueduct and one of the most significant and best-preserved ancient monuments left on the Iberian Peninsula. It is located in Spain and is the foremost symbol of Segovia, as evidenced by its presence on the city's coat of arms.

 

At its tallest, the aqueduct reaches a height of 28.5 m (93 ft 6 in), including nearly 6 m (19 ft 8 in) of foundation. There are both single and double arches supported by pillars. From the point the aqueduct enters the city until it reaches Plaza de Díaz Sanz, it includes 75 single arches and 44 double arches (or 88 arches when counted individually), followed by four single arches, totalling 167 arches in all. The construction of the aqueduct follows the principles laid out by Vitruvius as he describes in his De Architectura published in the mid-first century.

 

History

As the aqueduct lacks a legible inscription (one was apparently located in the structure's attic, or top portion), the date of construction cannot be definitively determined. The actual date of the Aqueduct's construction has always been considered a mystery although it was thought to have been during the 1st century AD, sometime during the reigns of the Emperors Domitian, Nerva, and Trajan. At the end of the 20th century, a German archaeologist managed to decipher the text on the dedication plaque by studying the anchors that held the now missing bronze letters in place. Using this method, he was able to determine that actually it was the Emperor Domitian (AD 81-96) who ordered its construction. The beginnings of Segovia itself are likewise not definitively known. The people called Vaccaei are known to have populated the place or area before the Romans conquered the city. Roman troops sent to control the area stayed behind to settle there. The area fell within the jurisdiction of the Roman provincial court (Latin conventus iuridici, Spanish convento jurídico) located in Clunia.

 

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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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

www.eastjava.com

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.

 

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 !!

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/

 

唯有拥有新颖和先进的3D立体科技与操作技能,加上实际的科学数据,人们才可以制造出更加文明化,更加真实化,具体化,实际化或动画式等等的图案比例画面.例如透过此科技, 人们也可以带出每个物体的光泽, 影子, 或反射等等数码效能...

 

没有类似迈向国际化的基本条件,人们将非常困难的摆脱困境, 稳健美好的未来前程....

 

愿您会好好把握它哟!

 

These are our latest discoveries since some time ago....

 

From this logical statistical chart onwards, I guess it can help human beings forecast things more precisely and fast now. At least, you may have an in-depth thought of what you wish to fill your body with and what and how you may invest your sharp and powerful business now from today onwards?

 

Who dares to say nothing is uncontrollable or predictable at all? Many things are possible & will be improved sooner or later…Right?

 

Have you ever tested such experiment or been making any mathematical calculations in your house or any where?

 

Our health is relied on the daily accumulation of valuable data & figure, does our life success also rely on the daily accumulation of valuable data & figure too.... it is not a nice game probably, but we have no other choice if we do not challenge further, right?

 

Do we have other better choice?

 

健康是靠我们每天里所累积的珍贵数据和数字，成功的人生与否也是靠我们每天里所累积的珍贵数据和数字。。。也许不好玩吧？？

 

我们有其它更美好的选择吗？

 

If you are interested to know better, kindly please refer to the video神化的宇宙梦境-008- at: video.cctv.com/opus/178681.html

We used to keep accumulating all kinds of molecules and pollutant substances every second into our body silently via perspiration process no matter we like it or not. Among these substances possibilities may include many unknown viruses and other categories as well. The main reason is this universe is full of too many mysterious items which beyond our forecast. Of course, such tinniest air particles may vary according to how polluted or how hygienic the situation of a particular place.

 

Have we ever controlled these problems? Can we minimize them?

How can we get rid of such problems cheaply? In fact, I am sure we can resist such problems via mathematical calculations clearly and fast through the valuable information data as shown above.

 

Do we still dare to counter attack such problems? Can we bet our life that we will be able to live under minimum virus and pollution condition spontaneously? We can’t deny that many people used to work or visit smelly fish or meat stalls environment no matter in the indoor hypermarkets or at the outdoor compound areas, stuffy factories or massive population density area such as during the schools general meeting & many official general meetings, toilets and etc places usually everyday either accidentally or unknowingly. All these pollution matters can not be solved logically if we never make a single change.

 

Since someone has invented certain electrical device which can allow us to minimize the virus and pollutant count effectively? If not mistaken it can release10,000,000,000,000,000 ion/second, this means it can neutralize up to 10,000,000,000,000,000 cations/second instantly.

 

Since we need to neutralize thousands of unknown positive metallic ions especially everyday, it doesn’t mean we can apply too powerful kind of such device.

 

The important reason here is excessive voltage or radial reaction supply may probably damage our human body’s internal tissue.

 

We have to choose the adequate & mild enough electrical consumption supply kinds of equipments only. We must be careful always what brand and what products we shall choose. Brutal choices and actions may lead to subsequent adverse life impact and life happiness.

 

Shall we confirm and improve this beneficial factor further?

 

Isn’t it amazing enough if we can minimize our indoor air pollution problems by a simple touch yet under very cheap condition only? Just imagine if the electrical consumption cost for such smart device is only at around RM5/month in long run. In other words it costs less than RM0.20/day only, isn’t it worthwhile for us to challenge? Prevention is better than cure definitely..

 

According to such company, their products are complied with the rules & regulations from MYIPO, FDA & and they have obtained many other certified laboratory test accreditation s too.

 

I think we have to take such kind of logical action no matter how; otherwise our life journey will be just like that forever. That is that… Can you let it go then? I am sure you will not, since you have been equipped with so much knowledge, experience, and power and so on etc

 

Some of them are beneficial for our body, whereas the rest might be harmful enough. The consequences of these reasons may result many big realistic health and life problems besides other interlinking disadvantaged consequences and possibilities as well.

 

If we can't filter certain harmful particles out from our body easily, what consequences we may face? Can we depend our luck by praying hard only in this literate world? It must be too ridiculous then if based on the principle of " Nothing Comes From Nothing ". If not, how? For those who are rich enough might be quite alert to undergo various kinds of detoxifications methods regularly.

 

What about for the poor categories of people, don’t you think they also want to detoxify their body?

 

Are the current solutions reliable and cheap enough? Have their products been tested & proven working well? Is there any side effect?

 

What rules & regulations our governments apply? How they govern our countries?

 

Why can’t human beings prevent them in the first place? This world is too huge, and we are so tiny.... It brings us too many mysterious stories... The more we read, hear and see the more exciting & thrilling we feel …. The consequences of certain experience making us sad and hard to bear sometimes…. Can’t we help our people get rid of certain possible problems? Can’t we help our people to challenge for better conditions ???

 

???? Too many unknown questions keep spinning in my head everyday ...and causing me exhausted and headache only sometimes...

 

Can any angels help in this world? Well ... many there .... I hope. Just be confident...

   

The ramé-hart Oscillator (p/n 100-28) provides precisely controlled periodic oscillatory deformation of sessile and pendant bubbles and drops in order to allow for the measurement of surface dilatational elasticity and viscosity using the axisymmetric drop and bubble shape method. Designed to sit inline between the Automated Dispensing System and the final dispensing tip or needle, the Oscillator is motor-driven and fully software controlled using ramé-hart DROPimage v2.4 or higher software. The Oscillator requires an Automated Dispensing System and current-generation Model 250, 290, 500, or 590 or a legacy system that has been sufficiently upgraded. DROPimage Advanced includes a methods editor which incorporates an array of parameters for controlling the frequency, acceleration, timing and steps of the oscillation commands. This product includes (1) one year parts and labor warranty.

Overlayed (not very precisely) on the slightly swept back flat bar of a Norco Charger. Oops, it's also upside-down. The finish puddle on the weld is actually out of sight when the bar is the right way up.

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/

One more slight bend in the long descent of Kettle Bottoms and the it was, dead ahead, the devilish and dreaded Canada Corner. More precisely, there were the brake-lights of the cars in the formation ahead of us, as if they were screaming "slow down, slow way down!" to be trifled with, C.C. was the track asserting itself over the foolish confidence of drivers of any level, from novice to Jackie Stewart. Like the rest of the Road America layout, it was basically unchanged from the original course, built in 1955 by the members of a sports car club from Chicago: quirky but an excellent test of cars and drivers. Why it's called 'Canada Corner' is a mystery. Certainly it is not real estate that Canada claims or wants, because they have no open positions for rowdies and 'hosers.'

As the traffic jam ahead of the sharp right curve cleared and we got closer, the one significant alteration came into view: a sand pit directly at the end of the straightaway, to catch cars going too fast to make the turn. Ashley was quick to spot the car in the sand. "Hey...That's Larry's car, isn't it? Wonder how long he's been sitting there with the windows rolled up and why?", she chuckled. "Probably got tired of the restless fans laughing at his misfortune and jeering ," she concluded. "And he lost his little Lotus flag too. Karma just wasn't poor Larry's co-pilot today, was it?" "i guess that explains the yellow flags we've been seeing for a while," i reasoned, "Larry's lucky that it's early in the afternoon and the Canadians aren't buzzed enough yet to start raining beer cans down on him."

Fortunately, we got through C.C. without mishap and began to pick up some speed again going into the stretch known as Thunder Valley.

 

12 May 2019, Kolasin, Montenegro - Svjetlana Milosevic making Kolasin Lisnati cheese, knowing precisely when to fold the cheese and when to press the water out using the weight of a rock (on top of a non-porous tray, not pictured), just like generations before used to do. With help from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Some 100 smallholder farmers from small mountain villages are now reaping the benefits of agro-tourism and getting recognition for preserving centuries-old culinary traditions and a way of life that, elsewhere, has been long abandoned or is slowing dying out. The FAO-EBRD project has linked smallholder farmers, hotel and restaurant owners to local government and tourism agencies to promote their agro-tourism initiatives. It connected farmers with restaurant and hotel owners; trained farmers and chefs in how to store and cook local products to meet the European Unions’ hygienic standards, and adapt old recipes for today’s use – all with the aim of encouraging locals to keep their traditions alive whilst boosting their incomes and bettering their lives. Elsewhere in the small mountainous villages of northern Montenegro, FAO and EBRD, with funding from Luxembourg, helped farmers get international recognition - Geographical Indication (GI) status - for some of their foods thanks to their high quality and unique production process.

 

Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/EBRD/Dermot Doorly. Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO.

The chambers of Emperor-Elect Sigillius Maximus II

 

“I will go soon. They have attacked another village. Burned it to the ground” he said, pacing his palace chambers.

“And do what precisely?” asked Dan’ nor Chang, standing motionless in the doorway.

“Save them”, replied the Emperor-Elect simply, “kill the damned Goblins, rescue the villagers. You will attend me, Chang; assist me, as it were.”

“I will do no such thing”, she replied, still completely motionless, “and neither will you.”

“You will assist me as I command, or I shall have you whipped”, he said, coming face to face with her, anger in his face.

“The Villagers are either dead or dying”, Chang replied, unimpressed by his outburst, “skinned and pickled for the goblins’ winter. The village burned to the ground, any not taken will have been slaughtered or roasted alive.”

“We can’t just do nothing?” his anger began to falter. He knew her words, as ever, rang true.

“You can do as you please”, she replied flatly, “you can whip me till I bleed, if you wish. Those villagers of yours will still be just as dead. As will you be if you go charging off. As it is, we would be better waiting until they are gone, track them to their lair, then set a fire in the entrance and smoke them to death”.

“A good plan”, Sigilius Maximus reflected, “I’ll…hold off the whipping”, he said ruefully, a smile playing on his lips. She did not return the smile.

“You should tell the watchmen to prepare wood for the fires”, she said, still motionless. When you return, I shall teach you the hidden blade technique.”

He nodded, smiling. He loved to spar and train with her. She knew so much, was so eye-blinkingly fast with her weapons. Someday, he hoped to be as fast himself, but, no doubt, he reflected glumly, being Emperor would inevitably get in the way

She watched as he raced out the door to prepare wood for the smoke fires. Allowed herself to smile inwardly at his puppy dog enthusiasm for amateur heroics, at his childish tantrums and hollow threats to have her whipped. Chang could not begin to imagine how that would ever happen. She was the Emperor-Elects personal guard…well, unofficially. Officially, she was his personal servant, with no more rank or privilege than a common house slave. But Dan’ nor Chang was both feared and deadly. No one could remember her ever losing a fight, whether with a blade or bare handed. Never in the history of her time with the Emperor had her blood ever been spilled. Never a graze upon her. The Emperor had made her swear loyalty to his son above all else, even him. She would defend young Maximus to the very death, advise him and keep him safe. She knew that the old Emperor, in his twilight years, had begun to fear her and her influence on his son. But he was powerless to do anything about it.

 

**I originally intended Chang to be played by someone else, but I loved Knightley's vague smirk, plus the fact she looks anything but deadly, and quite unassuming. Dan' nor Chang should BE deadly, but never ever look anything but harmless. **

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.

 

Photograph taken at an altitude of Seven metres, in the magic of the Golden hour around sunrise at 05:43am, (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 1/1600s 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.

  

LATITUDE: N 48d 38m 15.75s

LONGITUDE: W 123d 24m 12.76s

ALTITUDE: 7.0m

  

RAW (TIFF) FILE SIZE: 103.00MB

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HP Pavillion P6-2388EA Desktop with AMD A10-5700 APU processor. AMD Radeon HD 7570 graphics. 2TB with 8GB RAM. 64-bit Windows 8.1. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. Nikon VIEWNX2 Version 2.10.0 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit

   

Only an Alumni could park so precisely.

The reason I know the date so precisely is that it was the weekend of the rugby world cup (won by England).

 

Almost the whole roll is out of focus (an AF camera) but I got the same camera out of a drawer recently, where it had been for years, and it's worked perfecly ever since, including the AF

At precisely midnight all three dogs began barking and growling, shattering the reverie of deep slumber.

 

The excitement of the New Year was evident. The dogs (apparently lighter sleepers) heard the exploding, honking sounds of the city, and thought it was worth mentioning.

 

My wife and I shushed the hounds and exchanged muffled "Happy New Years" and dropped off before the clock struck 12:01.

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 !!

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Seven metres, in the magic of the Golden hour around sunrise, (Sunrise was at precisely 06:58am), at 07:00am on Sunday 21st September 2014 off 1st Street and Beacon Avenue, from the concourse above the shoreline 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 140mm 1/800s f/2.8 iso100 RAW (14 bit) Mirror up. 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.

  

LATITUDE: N 48d 38m 54.80s

LONGITUDE: W 123d 23m 38.70s

ALTITUDE: 7.0m

  

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Poster by Annette du Plessis

 

This is where the missionaries played their part. It was precisely at Graaff Reinet, the seat of recent disturbance that Van der Kemp set to work. His first function was to divide unity. Van der Kemp co-operated with Maynier, Resident Commissioner at Graaff Reinet, in breaking unity amongst the indigenous people. He was able to draw a number of Khoikhoin into the Christian fold whom he subsequently persuaded to accompany him to Algoa Bay. Here he placed them in a temporary location at Zwartkops River. The missionary's first attempt at "divide and rule" received a temporary set-back when a number of Khoikhoin joined David Stuurman, who, together with his ally, the chief Ndlambe, attacked the mission station. Soon afterwards, however, the mission settlement was permanently established at Bethelsdorp.

 

The experiment was a significant one from several points of view.

 

Note that the missionaries followed the principle of segregation from the outset. (The earlier Moravians had done likewise.) The confiscated land of the Khoikhoin was “restored” to them – in only one form: “the segregated missionary settlement”.

 

Another point is this that the site of the mission settlement was chosen for military reasons. In a nearby district, what is now known as Uitenhage, the Khoikhoin concentrated their resistance - and to the north of it the Xhosa tribe of Ndlambe was situated. Bethelsdorp, therefore, operated doubly for the purpose of “divide and rule". The missionary station intended controlling Khoikhoin. The ruling powers were intended on smashing their resistance, making it easier to pursue the attack against the Ama-Xhosa. And so it came to pass. The Khoikhoin resistance had been long and hard, but one by one their last leaders were captured or slain and Xhosa-Khoikhoin unity was broken. The missionary Khoikhoin, as we shall see, were recruited in the wars against Ndlambe.

 

Bethelsdorp missionary settlement illustrates in other ways the usefulness of the missionaries to the Government. It is interesting to observe that the pattern of the subsequent labour policy emerged earlier on. The traveller, Lichtenstein, had left a picture of Bethelsdorp as a place of shameful poverty; it was on a barren strip of land, insufficient to enable the Khoikhoin to live - without going out to labour for the White man. As Dr. Philip was later to point out, such mission settlements were reservoirs of labour from which the neighbouring farmers could draw their supplies. Be it mission station, location or reserve, the principle had not always been the same: - that the land thus occupied did not belong to the people, nor was it sufficient for their needs. It may be added that, in addition to their other duties, the missionaries assisted the Government in procuring forced labour for the roads, and it was also their business to collect taxes from the destitute Khoikhoin.

 

From this brief outline the early stages of the activities of the London Mission can therefore be detected, and some of the main functions of the missionaries clearly emerged. They carried out the policy of "divide and rule" and they established the mission station for the greater control of the Khoikhoin as a labour force. On the resumption of British rule at the Cape in 1806 a government official expressed his appreciation of Dr. Van der Kemp in the following terms: “He will be of the greatest assistance in retaining the Hottentots (Khoikhoin' present favourable opinion of the English, as well as in communicating with Gaika (Ngqika).”

 

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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/

 

edited by Richard Kostelanetz & Stephen Scobie.

 

New York (USA), november 1977.

 

5-3/8 x 8-5/16, 16 sheets white bond folded to 64 pp & stapled twice into grey byronic brocade wrappers, all except inside covers & pp.14 & 22 printed black offset.

 

cover graphic unacknowledged.

contributors ID'd:

Jerome Klinkowitz, Stephen Scobie

 

includes:

i) THE WORDS YOU TRUST TO TAKE YOU THRU : an introduction to bp Nichol's The Martyrology, by Stephen Scobie (pp.15-21; prose essay in 3 parts (the title a quote from Nichol's "in the midst of life we are in death" draco", part of line 14):

--1. "bp Nichol is a Canadian poet, living mostly in Toronto; for the last ten" (p.15)

--2. "The model for the long poem in English in the 20th century has been Ezra" (pp.15-19; with quotes by & about Nichol from:

----a. ""in the midst of life we are in death" draco" (p.15; lines 14-15 of 1st edition version, again on p.18)

----b. A Poem from the Edge of Time to the Days that Pass, by Douglas Barbour (p.16)

----c. "sleepless night nothing takes shape" (part of line 5, p.16)

----d. "for lea" (p.16; line 5)

----e. "of those saints we know the listing follows" (p.17; line 2)

----f. "the world of sense" (from --?--, p.17)

----g. "so it is that you traverse a continent" (lines 17-18, p.17)

----h. "intervene between him and the world of sense" (from --?--, p.17)

----i. from The Writings of Saint And (p.17)

----j. "i only now your story comes to me in sections / i have no control" (from --?--, p.18)

----k. "apprentice to language" (from --?--, p.18)

----l. "early morning victoria's streets" (part of line 12, p.18, lines 2-3 after (i2n) below)

----m. "that far world you might return from" (p.18)

----n. "looking out the window at the snow" (lines 44-49, p.18)

----o. "surely when they fell" (part of line 2, p.19))

--3. "In a sense, The Martyrology, Books I and II, could be read as a" (pp.19-21; with quotes by Nichol from:

----a. "so it is that you traverse a continent" (lines 17-18, p.19)

----b. "father i have so much to say" (lines 1-3, p.19)

----c. "where is my place in this world father" (line 11, p.19; linked elliptically to (i3b) above)

----d. "out of the side of the buddha's mother" (lines 17-19, p.19)

----e. "ellie & me" (lines 1-4, p.19)

----f. "where is my place on this world father" (lines 1-2, p.19; 54-58 after (i3g) below, p.2o)

----g. "love" (lines 36-37, p.19)

----h. "an issue of names" (line 1, p.2o)

----i. "a frog drops in the pond" (lines 39-4o, p.2o)

----j. "accidents" (p.2o)

----k. the martyrology Book 4 (lines 1251, part of 1255 misquoted lowercase, parts of 1252-1253, part of 1256, Steve McCaffery quote on Nichol parts of lines 1256-1257, the rest of 1257, all p.2o; lines 1356-1357, 1299-13o5 p.21 (after (i3l) below))

----l. "within the difference" (lines 7-13, p.2o)))

 

...or, more precisely, the remaining 6 columns of the Temple of Jupiter, which once was the greatest of the three temples of Baalbek.

 

Sacred to Jupiter Baal, or "Heliopolitan Zeus", identified here with the sun, constructed between the first century BC and 62 AD, was the largest temple in the Roman empire.

 

Baalbek, Lebanon

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