From: Khephera Area: MagickNet To: Morpheus Shapiro 27 Oct 96 20:11:28 Subject: A small essay.... UpdReq On Oct 22 06:19 96, Morpheus Shapiro of 93:9710/5 wrote: RR>> Anyway: Morpheus, whet I've written to you includes a long RR>> post about ministry to old people, and Kheph, I wrote you a ton of RR>> stuff, including a long one about ways to free up your hands in RR>> ritual and how to make a staff stand and such. Each has been posted RR>> three or four times trying to get it through, and I'm really RR>> frustrated. MS> No, Rain, I haven received any replies from you. I'm not on the internet MS> and have no netmail privalages here. I never mentioned anything because on MS> this sub I am used to never getting any replies, so its always a surprise. MS> Got this reply, but the others on helping elders and such I have not seen. I reply to you. I hope you get them. I also hope Rain's stuff finally makes it to me. The "hands free" info would be appreciated. Blessed Be, may Yahweh and His Asherah guide and keep thee, Ar ReX Em SeXem Eref Neter Au-a Rx Khephera 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Khephera Area: MagickNet To: Morpheus Shapiro 27 Oct 96 20:12:22 Subject: Book Of Enoch UpdReq On Oct 24 06:19 96, Morpheus Shapiro of 93:9710/5 wrote: MS> Thankyou for that ISBN number for the Ethiopian Book Of Enoch. I just MS> started a book by Frank Grey called Contacting The Primorial Goddess. Grey MS> is so level headed that it was a surprise when he suddenly went off on a MS> tangent and claimed that the Book Of Enoch is a record of extraterestial MS> visits to the earth.Space Brothers. Gimme a break. Glad to see YOU so level headed. ;) You ought to read the first chapter of Ezekiel- which is also often heralded as an "alien encounter". Blessed Be, may Yahweh and His Asherah guide and keep thee, Ar ReX Em SeXem Eref Neter Au-a Rx Khephera 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Khephera Area: MagickNet To: Morpheus Shapiro 27 Oct 96 20:14:18 Subject: Book Oracles UpdReq On Oct 24 06:12 96, Morpheus Shapiro of 93:9710/5 wrote: MS> Just got 4 new replies from you, finally. Thought I would let U no about MS> it. and reply. Great. I was down for a while, but am FINALLY back up and running. ;) Blessed Be, may Yahweh and His Asherah guide and keep thee, Ar ReX Em SeXem Eref Neter Au-a Rx Khephera 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Rain Area: MagickNet To: Morpheus Shapiro 26 Oct 96 18:05:40 Subject: A small essay.... UpdReq On 10-26-96 Morpheus Shapiro wrote to Rain... MS> No, Rain, I haven received any replies from you. I'm not on the MS> I never mentioned anything because on MS> sub I am used to never getting any replies, so its always a surprise. MS> Got this MS> reply, but the others on helping elders and such I have not seen. Okay, here goes: On 09-05-96 Morpheus Shapiro wrote to Craneman... MS> Why bother? If you had the choice of anything U wanted in the world, MS> you're going to make a coffee cup float in the air? Old Zen story: A monk who has devoted himself to meditation for years without anything dramatic happening runs in great glee to his _roshi_, shouting. "Master! Master! I was meditating today and I floated off the ground! I truly levitated...there are witnesses!!" Calmly, the master replies: "Oh, that's all right. Keep up your meditation and it will stop." Sometinme same week, you wrote: MS> Instead, I generally help out shutins like extremely lonely and isolated MS> elderly. I counsel, make trips to the doctor with them and the pharmacy fo MS> them, I feed them, help them in and out of bed, and take them for small MS> outings. There are more of these prisoners than the ones in correctional MS> facilities. You lengthen their lives and improve their health with variety MS> fresh air, stimulus and pleasant conversation-which is mostly listening, t MS> MUST tell their story before they die, you know? I wish I could put this post in a full-page ad in every newspaper in North America. My parents are in a retirement home, and the number of people in their facility who get NO outside visitors EVER--zilch, none, _nada_--is heartbreaking. And some of them have families; the families are just "too busy" or too lazy to come, too freaked by an institutional atmosphere to cope with visiting, or too unappreciative and impatient to enjoy listening to anyone who doesn't get straight to the point or talking to someone who doesn't hear well. They are missing SO much. My own father finally has time to tell all the great stories of his first, exciting career in journalism (WWII correspondent, shared a London flat with the legendary reporter Ernie Pyle, went in with the first wave on D-Day, witnessed the Bikini A-bomb tests, toured the displaced-persons camps in Europe after the war, met Hemingway, knew and detested Patton, interviewed Huey Long once when Huey was drunk enough to be frank about some of his pecadilloes, was a Pulitzer finalist for getting himself snuck into one of the staging camps for the Bay of Pigs disaster and predicting how it would happen, etc.) and his later, less dramatic but just as useful years in the Methodist ministry. And since he is 86, anybody who wants to hear his fascinating story needs to listen *now*, while he can still tell it. Mother's story is less mundanely glamorous, but just as wonderful. She was born in a Tennessee Irish Methodist parsonage in the foothills of the Smokies in 1913; she remembers the end of World War I, the coming of women's suffrage, how to stoke a coal furnace, how to make apple butter and good Irish bread, what Shakespeare said in act whatever, scene whatever of nearly any play, how to parse a sentence in Latin, how to make up silly songs about nearly anything, how to entertain graciously on nearly no money, and how to be tough without becoming hard. We who love the Crone/Elder face of Deity would do well to recognize It in old people and begin serving them in the sort of priestly ways you're talking about....especially since one day it's likely to be *us* in those cold corridors. On 08-31-96 Morpheus Shapiro wrote to Khephera... MS> time, nobody else will. In time he will change, I know, so I keep MS> working with MS> him instead of choosing some other more permanent solution like MS> bottling him MS> up in a shield untill he cooks in his own negativity. Also, he's too The only problem with this, in my experience, is that such people generally don't change till they're forced to deal with enough karmic rebound to make continuing the behavior more painful than giving it up. By interfering with his magickal results and thus the consequences from them, isn't it possible you're enabling him to stay sick longer? Just a thought. * OFFLINE 1.58 * D.A.M.N.: Naked Mothers Against Dyslexia. 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Rain Area: MagickNet To: Khephera 26 Oct 96 21:25:30 Subject: geeze! UpdReq On 10-26-96 Khephera wrote to Rain... K > That would be true if that's what I was doing. I was quite K > specifically K > speaking about those people who ARE carbon copies of each other and, K > as M put K > it, "asleep". Ah, understood. I missed some posts, possibly. * OFFLINE 1.58 * Coffee - Pharmacological basis of all human consciousness. 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718 From: Chris Roedocker Area: MagickNet To: Khephera 25 Oct 96 22:14:00 Subject: Magic UpdReq K> Well...what do you think it is? And why does it interest you? K> Blessed Be, may Yahweh and His Asherah guide and keep thee, K> Ar ReX Em SeXem Eref Neter Au-a K> Rx K> Khephera I don't know much about it. Since I was small I love to imagine being a wizard. I know that there is something real to it. I know that you don't turn people to frog or anything. Can you give me some genral details? Should I spell magic magick? Whats the diffrence? 201434369420143436942014343694201434369420143436942014343694718