I Will Overcome:
A Story of Love, Hope, & Forgiveness
Memoir by Tommy D. Talley
Since he was a child, Tommy always dreamt of a better life. To cope with the narcotic &
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Ojibwe culture, tradition and ceremony has always been passed from generation to generation by an oral means. Most commonly stories have been used to convey messages from one generation to the next. Just as the oral traditions of the Ojibwe have assisted in the survival of the Ojibwe history, so has the oral traditions been used to pass on warnings and visions of the future.
The Prophecy of the 7 Fires
The Seven Fires Prophecy is an Ojibwe prophecy that encourages the union of all for colours of the human race to ensure a kinship that will lead to peace and harmony. The prophecy warns that without a union of the earth's people the earth will cleanse itself.
White Buffalo Calf Prophecy
Chief Arvol Looking Horse from the Lakota Sioux Nation shares the prophecy surrounding the White Buffalo Calf. Like the Ojibwe (Anishinaabe) prophecy of the 7 fires, the White Buffalo Calf prophecy speaks of warning to the survival of the human race.
It is important to First Nations Peoples across America to head these warnings to ensure the survival of our future generations.
The Prophecy of the Seven Fires
"This is a retelling of the Great Migration of the Anishinaabe peoples from the Atlantic coast. Seven great radiant and iridescent Miigis (symbolized by the cowry shell) beings appeared to the peoples in the Waabanakiing (Land of the Dawn, i.e. Eastern Land) to teach the people.
As told by Tom Dostou, July 11, 2000based on the Teachings of his Teacher William Commanda(1913-2011).
In 1970 William Commanda was appointed keeper of three Algonquin wampum belts: the 1701 Agreement belt, the Seven Fires Prophesy belt (c1400) and the 1794 Jay Treaty Border Crossing belt and he began to teach the meaning of the wampum belts to bridge the gap between cultures. “We must come together with one heart, one mind, one love and one determination,” he said."
Teachings of the Seven Prophets:
The Seven Fires
"The source for this story is The Mishomis book : the voice of the Ojibway
by: Edward Benton-Banai."
Seven Fires Prophecy
"The 7 Fires Prophecy is an oral story/history that has been told over millennia. It describes a turbulent time when the Neshnabek [Potawatomi, Odawa and Ojibwe] were visited by 7 prophets. Each prophet spoke of a Fire, prophecy or era that the Neshnabek would have to face and ultimately endure, forever changing their way of life. The prophecies have been interpreted and shaped over the years to help Neshnabek people know who they were in the past, are in the present and will be in the future."
CBC 8th Fire
Aboriginal Peoples, Canada & The Way Forward
"A 500 year old relationship ... coming out of conflict, colonialism and denial.
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Shawn A-in-chut Atleo called 8th Fire, "very, very powerful." He said, "I was personally very emotionally moved by watching this documentary."
Watch 8TH Fire Dispatches from a team of Aboriginal storytellers from across the country."
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Or a thinkier, less rock’n’roll way of putting a similar proposition, plus an added barb, “Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Further to this idea of accumulating data, information and knowledge, are questions of why? And, what to do with it? Well, maybe nothing. Maybe we surround ourselves with ideas because we like their company; it’s like being at a party with the world’s most interesting people (real and imaginary) and not having to talk to anyone.
“All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. … But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.” Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree
I think the collections we build are an insight into the soul, and who and what we dream of being.


The Night Child by Anna Quinlan
Genre: Women's Fiction
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Nora Brown is ready for her Thanksgiving getaway with her husband and daughter. After her high school English class ends, she's at her desk and gets a weird sensation. Looking up, she sees the ghostly face of a young girl with dazzling blue eyes. Nora is terrified.
When she sees the ghostly girl a second time while on vacation, she's very concerned and decides to seek counseling. Something's wrong, and she fears she may be going crazy. What's revealed may be the very ending of all Nora's ever known.
Strengths and Weaknesses
Nora's story is so vivid. It felt like I was there in the psychologist's office, in the classroom, in her house, and on vacation with them. The writing was exquisitely detailed.
I never really liked Nora's husband. As the story plays out, I felt a little more of a connection, but he still was never a favorite. Nora's little girl did work her way into my heart. I wanted to see all end well for the family because of her.
The ghostly girl plays a big part in The Night Child. I found myself eager to get to her chapters. The more I read, the more I understood what was happening. I was angry for every character at that point. So many layers lead to such a sad story.
RTR's Bottom Line
I would love to give this book a higher mark than I do, but the ending left me with too many questions. I can't give spoilers, so all I can say is that as gripping as this story was, the you-decide feeling I got wasn't satisfying.


Excerpt from: https://hyperallergic.com/429203/drowned-river-the-death-and-rebirth-of-glen-canyon-on-the-colorado/ As Climate Change Dries a Southwest Reservoir, a Drowned Canyon Returns For Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado photographers Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe with author Rebecca Solnit explored the return of a flooded Southwest landscape. Photograph from Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado by Mark Klett, Byron Wolfe, and Rebecca Solnit (courtesy the artists and Radius Books) Before Glen Canyon was flooded by a reservoir, photographer Eliot Porter documented its sandstone formations, small rivers, and sculptural chasms. The color photographs were published by the Sierra Club in the 1963 The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado, a eulogy to this place lost to development. Over half a century later, photographers Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, with author Rebecca Solnit, returned to this disrupted landscape that stretches between Utah and Arizona, setting out to find the places Porter photographed, even though most were underwater. Their discoveries are published in Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado, out from Radius Books. Cover of Drowned River: The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado by Mark Klett, Byron Wolfe, and Rebecca Solnit (courtesy Radius Books) “We found a few,” Klett told Hyperallergic. “But in the end, we made work that referenced Porter’s, not intending to repeat his as we had done in previous projects. … The work became less about the dam and the creation of the lake, and more about what’s happened there since the dam, the outlook for its future, and finally the reemergence of Glen Canyon.” Klett, Wolfe, and Solnit are longtime collaborators, with work like the 2005 Yosemite in Time: Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers, for which they re-photographed some of the most popular images of Yosemite, and the 2012 Reconstructing the View, for which Klett and Wolfe returned to the sites of historic photographs of the Grand Canyon. Due to the changes at Glen Canyon, that kind of study was impossible.


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The US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Golan v. Holder last week. The case, brought by “orchestra conductors, musicians, publishers and others” who previously enjoyed free access to certain works in the public domain, challenged the constitutionality of Section 514 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, which was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Clinton in 1994. The Act provides for the restoration of copyrights in foreign works that previously were not afforded protection under US copyright law because (i) the US did not protect works from the country of origin at the time of publication; (ii) the US did not protect sound recordings fixed before 1972; or (iii) the author had not complied with certain US copyright statutory formalities in place at the time (e.g., notice requirements, copyright registration, etc.). Important to note is that the Act was largely meant to bring US copyright law in line with requirements mandated by the Berne Convention. Recall that Article 18 of Berne requires that countries who are signatories, of which the US became one in 1989, protect the works of other member states unless the works’ copyright term has expired either in the country where protection is claimed or the country of origin.
Petitioners challenged 514 on two grounds, namely that its enactment (i) exceeded Congress’s authority under the Copyright Clause and (ii) that the restoration of author’s copyrights effectively violated the First Amendment’s freedom of expression by restricting speech that was previously permitted. In a 6-2 decision, authored by Justice Ginsburg, the Court rejected both of the Petitioner’s arguments. First, with respect to the Copyright Clause argument, Justice Ginsburg writes, “We see no barrier in the text of the Copyright Clause, historical practice, or our precedents.” Petitioners claimed that by restoring the copyright to works that had previously entered the public domain Congress had gone beyond the “limited time” imposed by the plain language of the Copyright Clause. Justice Ginsburg writes, “Our decision in Eldred is largely dispositive of petitioner’s limited-time argument. There we addressed the question whether Congress violated the Copyright Clause when it extended by 20 years, the terms of existing copyrights’…’Ruling that Congress acted within constitutional bounds, we declined to infer from the text of the Copyright Clause ‘the command that a time prescription once set, becomes forever ‘fixed’ or ‘inalterable” [citing Eldred v. Ashcroft, 537 U.S. 186 (2003)]]. The court goes on to list historical examples of where the Court had previously upheld a restoration of rights by Congress including in the patent area. The Court also rejected Petitioner’s argument that taking public domain works and placing them back into protected status contravened the promotion of the “diffusion of knowledge.” “A well-functioning international copyright system would likely encourage the dissemination of existing and future knowledge,” countered Justice Ginsburg. Petitioners also argued that Congress’s act of restoring rights to foreign authors violated the First Amendment by distinguishing the facts of the case from Eldred and noting that the Petitioners in the current case already held “vested” rights in works that previously entered the public domain. After rejecting the “vested” rights argument (“Rights typically vest at the outset of copyright protection, in an author or rightholder”), the Court added, “Section 514’…’does not impose a blanket prohibition on public access. Petitioners protest that fair use and the idea/expression dichotomy “are plainly inadequate to protect the speech and expression rights that section 514 took from petitioners, or …the public” – that is, “the unrestricted right to perform, copy, teach and distribute the entire work for any reason’…’Playing a few bars of a Shostakovich symphony is no substitute for performing the entire work.” In response to this line of argument, the Court writes, “But Congress has not put petitioners in this bind. The question here, as in Eldred, is whether would be users must pay for their desired use of the author’s expression, or else limit their exploitation to “fair use” of that work.”
Justice Breyer wrote the dissent and was joined by Justice Alito.


So my original idea for the printed publication was to take photographs of Jo after she gave birth to her baby to show the after side to pregnancy. However realising that my time scale might be a bit tight and not realistic I changed my idea for the printed publication. After a tutorial with both my tutor’s Emannuelle and David I was able to develop an idea that I could possibly use..
Focusing on the subject of ‘pregnancy’ still I will use my existing images taken from the digital narrative but crop them to make the photo’s anonymous and to restrict the viewer from seeing the individual’s identity. In doing this I will make a small book that generalizes the experiences of pregnancy for women as a whole, alongside the images I will use quotes from what women have said about their experiences. The book will adopt a non-linear structure to show the variety of things that happen during pregnancy.


Tumour dissemination is a major reason for failure of therapy for many tumour types. Metastasis and angiogenesis result from the interaction between the tumour cells in the tumour microenvironment. The detailed picture of tumour and the tumour microenvironment interaction however is not fully understood due to a lack of representative models. This review shows a brief summary of the assays and models used to describe the tumour dissemination process.
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4 edition of Huang Ti nei ching su wên. found in the catalog.
Huang Ti nei ching su wên.
Bibliography: p. 91-94.
|Other titles||Yellow Emperor"s classic of internal medicine.|
|Statement||Chapters 1-34 translated from the Chinese with an introductory study by Ilza Veith.|
|Contributions||Veith, Ilza, tr.|
|LC Classifications||R127.1 .H82 1966|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||xxi, 260 p.|
|Number of Pages||260|
|LC Control Number||66021112|
Tao (the Way) is one of the most profound and influential of the world's spiritual traditions, and the Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way and Its Virtue) has left its imprint on Far Eastern philosophy, art, and literature for over two thousand years. This classic of meditative insight was an important influence on Buddhist thought. Its key tenet is wu-wei, naturalness and simplicity, a mystical Brand: Dover Publications. I Ching Translations: Historicist. Historicist translations are inspired by the work of modern Chinese scholars who have attempted to rediscover the original meaning of the oldest core portions of the I Ching, the hexagram judgments and line texts (called the Zhouyi), as they were understood in early Zhou dynasty later "Confucian" Ten Wings are not used for interpretation; instead.
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Huangdi Neijing (simplified Chinese: 黄帝内经; traditional Chinese: 黃帝內經; pinyin: Huángdì Nèijīng), literally the Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor or Esoteric Scripture of the Yellow Emperor, is an ancient Chinese medical text that has been treated as the fundamental doctrinal source for Chinese medicine for more than two work is composed of two texts—each of.
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Within its pages is summed up a complete view of the cosmos and how human beings should respond to it. A profound mystical insight into the nature of things forms the basis for a humane morality and /5(3).
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Introduction to Lieh-tzu (Ch'ung-hsu chen-ching) Nowadays it is generally acknowledged that Lieh-tzu or Ch'ung-hsu chen-ching - the book attributed to Lieh-tzu - must have appeared much later, during Chin structure of the book is rather heterogeneous, which makes it difficult for us to distinguish any systemization of the Taoist philosophy.THIS IS THE LEGEND OF LAO TZU, who may or may not have been born; who may or may not have founded Taoism, one of the greatest religions in the world; and who may or may not have written one of the greatest books of wisdom in the world: the Tao Te Ching, or the "Way of Heaven." This thoughtful and thought-provoking book opens with a biography of Lao Tzu, the mysterious/5.
I can't read Chinese but have studied the Yi Jing - I think the critique of Alfred Huang is in part justified although you have to bear in mind that he upset a lot of academics by purporting to produce and authoritative Yi Jing translation to replace Wilhelm/Baynes.


Gathering #10 - 7 May 2019
An intensive Art, Literature, Philosophy Seminar with Peter Osborne, Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (Kingston University)
The notion of autonomy is a concept central to both artistic practice and political activism. However, rather than bringing art and politics together, autonomy seems to put them in an irreconcilable dialectical tension. In his essay Autonomy: Can It Be True of Art and Politics at the Same Time?, Peter Osborne analyses the notion of autonomy in relation to art and politics from a historico-philosophical prospective and, drawing from Theodor Adorno’s writing, offers an account of autonomy that highlights its political limits and dialectical entanglements.
The following texts will form the basis for our discussion:
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Peter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University London. From 1983–2016 he was a member of the editorial collective of the journal Radical Philosophy. His books include The Politics of Time, Philosophy in Cultural Theory, Conceptual Art, Marx, Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art (2013) and The Postconceptual Condition (2018). He is a co-editor of Capitalism: Concept, Idea, Image – Aspects of Marx's Capital Today (2019).


An overview: Pure
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In honor of The Great Deva Evolution of our Solar System of Planetary Learning Centers
The Deva Evolution is a line of evolution that is parallel with the Human Evolution here on Earth and of equal importance to that of the Human. In the Occident They are called Angels and in the Orient are called Devas, but They're one and the same. These are the Builders of Form, the very Beings Who create form out of their own substance in cooperation with Members of Hierarchical Governments throughout this solar system. Those connected with Earth are Members of Earth's Spiritual Hierarchy (see "Who Are The Spiritual Hierarchy?") and are concerned with the form aspect of life, while the Initiates of The Hierarchy (The Great White Brotherhood) are concerned with developing consciousness within the form.
The Devas learn by means of building all forms and incorporating their essence into the forms, and They grow through the work accomplished and the joy of directly experiencing and feeling those forms as Themselves. The world of form in this tiny corner of Creation incorporates all life in all the Kingdoms of Nature on the Physical Plane, the Astral Plane, and the four lower sub-planes of the Mental Plane (which are the levels of the lower concrete mind).
The Deva Kingdom on the Physical Plane (with its 7 sub-planes) is called the Army of the Voice and is composed of Angelic Beings of all grades and ranks equivalent to Initiates in The Hierarchy from 1st Degree to 7th Degree, up to but not including the level of Sanat Kumara, The Lord of the World and Supreme Head of Earth's Hierarchy (for more, go to "Who Is Sanat Kumara?"). The Greater Builders might be considered as the Overseeing Supervisors of all constructive manifestation of material form, be it in physical, astral, or mental matter on those respective Planes of Existence. They have evolved through the Human Kingdom in cycles long past before choosing the path of form-building and its parallel evolution in this system of planets (solar system).
The lesser builders or lesser devas do not have self-awareness and work practically unconsciously in producing all form manifestation as overseen by the Greater Devas. Their goal in evolution is the attainment of individualization and a consciousness of self before, then, being allowed to incarnate into the Human Kingdom (by The Lords of Karma). The concept of the elementals is a little difficult to grasp, but I gather my information from One Who Knows. The elemental life is the essence of things. In other words, all things in manifestation, all forms and all phenomena, are produced by the very essence of the elementals. Every material form in the Mineral, Plant, Animal, and Human Kingdoms has been formed and created out of the substance of the elementals. Elemental life is at the basis of all things that are in manifestation on the Physical, Astral, and Mental Planes, the 3 lowermost Major Planes in this solar system.
The reason it's so hard to understand this elemental life and the nature of elementals is that atoms and molecules (and sub-atomic particles) have been shown to be the underpinning for all things that have manifest form at this dense physical level, but those building blocks come into being as a result of the elemental life making form out of its own substance. All living things come into material, physical form by being fabricated by the Devas and the elementals out of their own substance. The elementals are on the involutionary arc (downward toward matter), and the Devas are on the evolutionary arc (upward toward Spirit).
All dense physical forms in all the myriad of presentations on this sphere are essentially elemental lives which have manifested the forms out of their own substance under the direction and command of the lesser devas (the manipulators) who, in turn, are overseen and instructed by the Greater Devas (the Transmitters of The Will of God). The highest group of Builders are self-conscious; the intermediate group of builders are not self-aware and are responsive in groups; and the elementals are completely passive and unconscious and respond precisely to the commands of the Devas. They (the elementals) are the recipients of the force and the creative impulse.
Here's an important point to understand about the Deva Evolution. They do not have free will (when it comes to creativity). They are the Transmitters of The Will of God (1st Ray Force from The Triune Godhead) in however that Divine Will is projected to Them by The High Initiates and The Logoi (Planetary or Solar) in this solar system. They carry out The Will of God and cooperate with Those Who know how to summon Them on all the Planes of Existence. Creation, at all levels of being, comes about by a cooperative process between Creative Beings issuing forth the power of their will and Angelic Beings receiving that will-force and transmitting it to lesser beings who will manifest the creation out of their own substance and thus be contained within that creation, whether it be a mountain range, a cloud formation, a river system, a human body, a snake, a cactus, or a planet.
The elementals are the actual stuff of life, and the Angels organize all that stuff according to the "thought-pictures" sent to them under conditions learned on the Path of Initiation by Those Who have been entrusted with the secrets. From the 1st Degree Initiate all the way up to a Stellar Being like our Solar Logos (and beyond), the creational process is the same, in general. In a state of fixed meditative repose and unswerving concentration, the thing to be created is visualized in its entirety from beginning to end with every detail included, and this exacting thought-form is sent out to the Deva Builders accompanied by the forceful impulse of the will while rhythmically chanting certain special sacred words or sounds that draw the attention and the cooperation of the Builders of Form (see #23, Giving of the Word, in "What Initiation Is Really About").
On this planet, for example, the Will and Purpose of Sanat Kumara is the Will of God for this evolutionary scheme, and all creative acts by Members of The Hierarchy (in conjunction with the Devas and elementals) are made in support of His Plan, so that when They project Their will along with the thought-form and the sacred word of power, the Builders are actually receiving and transmitting The Will of God for this outpost of Creation.
The Human Soul is on the higher 3 sub-planes of the Mental Plane (Manasic Plane), and any deva below that level has never experienced sentient life in the Human Kingdom and developes and grows through feeling and not through the power of conscious thought. With exception of the higher and sentient Devas Who have experienced an incarnation cycle as human, the lesser devas seek to feel, while Man seeks to know. Devas are found on all the 7 Major Planes of Existence in this solar system, whereas the elementals may be found only on the 3 lower Major Planes, the Physical, the Astral, and the Mental (the 4 higher Major Planes are the Buddhic, the Atmic, the Monadic, and the Logoic).
Each Major Plane has 7 sub-planes, and every sub-plane and Plane has a Deva or Angelic Being Who is The Ensouling Consciousness for that Plane of Being. The entire Plane (or sub-plane) may be considered the body of The Deva. These are The 7 Raja Lords of the 7 Major Planes. Each Raja Lord has 7 Great Devas Who work under Him, informing and ensouling and embodying one of the 7 sub-planes of the Major Plane of The Raja Lord. The entire sub-plane and everything on it is formed from the essence of The Great Deva.
1. We have heard of the power of sound, the power of the human voice, and the reason for that is that every single sound or word uttered by a human voice (backed by thought and emotion) produces some response of the tiny elementals to take some specific aetheric form in the Deva substance of beneficent or maleficent quality. Form manifestation on the aetheric levels necessarily and always precipitates out upon dense physicality and continues its existence so long as the attention and the will-energy of the originator of the sound is projected toward the creation. (The aetheric levels are the 4 higher sub-planes of the Major Physical Plane, the lower 3 sub-planes being the dense physical levels.)
This is one of the reasons why the spiritual teachers and The Ascended Masters of the Race have always admonished their pupils to guard their speech, to carefully monitor that which escapes from the larynx and the mouth. Humans endlessly construct unconsciously and unknowingly upon the aetheric sub-planes (the aether). What eventuates in the dense physical is a form of some kind or a phenomenon, usually and mercifully short-lived because the originating human doesn't hold steady the will impulse, the causative sound, or the vision.
2. In clarification, the Army of the Voice are all of the Greater Deva Builders and their subordinate lesser builders who work and exist on the aetheric levels and bring their manifestations out (via the aetheric) onto the 3 dense physical levels (gaseous, liquid, and solid). They might be viewed as the Directing Agents of Divine Energy to implement the purposes of the divinely-inspired Sanat Kumara upon the Physical Plane of Earth. They do not act upon their own initiative but rather are responsive Agents to the Divine Will directed to Them during ceremonial, and They guide the many lives and beings who constitute the forms through which The Creator expresses Divinity. They are the Army of the Voice because it is the voice of The Initiate enunciating the sacred word which evokes their cooperative response.
These aetheric-level Builders are entirely controlled by The 3 Buddhas of Activity on this planet, The 3 Eighth-Initiation Level Kumaras Who supervise the totality of The Spiritual Hierarchy on behalf of Sanat Kumara and Who are The Representative Agents on this planet for The 3 Major Aspects of The Godhead: Will, Love, Intelligence (Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma). They form a triangulation of energy, and the Devas under Their ultimate control are the Eye within The Triangle (an ancient symbol). The Devas are the active expression of the "All-Seeing Eye" because God sees through Them and directs the creational process through Them (by way of The 3 Active Buddhas). When a lower Initiate makes contact with the Aetheric Builders, for purposes of some form of creation, it is under the inspiration and overview of The Buddhas of Activity (The Exoteric Kumaras), and the will-energy used is administered by The 1st Buddha (The Buddha of The 1st Aspect, The Will of God).
The Triangulated Buddhas are The Creative Agents of Sanat Kumara, working through 6th Level Initiates (e.g. El Morya, Kuthumi, and Serapis Bey) Who serve fully conscious upon the Atmic Plane as Transmitting Agents for the energy of one or other of The 3 Buddhas of Activity. And The 6th Degree Chohans would then pass those Divine Energies (of Will, Love, or Active Intelligence) to Initiates of a lower level in The Hierarchy.
3. The elementals which build and then compose the human form are a triplicity: the physical, the astral, and the mental elementals for the 3-fold body of the incarnate personality. They are called the lunar pitris or lunar lords, being occulty ruled by the moon. The 3 sets of elementals in totality are considered the personality elemental. In fact, all the forms on Earth in all of the sub-human kingdoms are built by these involutionary elemental lives called the lunar pitris, and the sum-total of the entirety of the elementals on this planet which are manifesting at the physical, astral, and mental levels is called the Spirit of the Earth. The impulse for commanding all the elementals to create their myriad of forms emanates from The Planetary Logos, The Higher Self of Sanat Kumara. The planet and all of its life-forms may be considered the dense physical body of The Planetary Logos (with its cellular composition of life-forms).
Another viewpoint is that the Spirit of the Earth expresses itself through the atomic substance, the sum-total of all the atoms in all the forms of life on Earth. The totality of all that life in its purely physical, aetheric, emotional, and mental aspects composes the Earth Elemental that is called the Spirit of the Earth, and the tiny elementals may be thought of as the energy units which organize and give life to the atoms and molecules making up all the forms of life. But the Earth Elemental should never be confused with The Grand Being Who ensouls the entire planet, Earth's Planetary Logos, The One in Whom we live and move and have our being.
Man's dense physical body, the physical elemental, is an integral part of and is under the control of the Earth Elemental, obeying its laws of physicality. This physical vehicle, apart from its occupying intelligence, has its own form and measure of intelligence which is referred to as an instinctual nature. During the incarnated life, the collective elemental of the physical body is the cohering agent for the preservation of its particular form under the continual influence and impact of the aetheric body double dispersing prana throughout (see "The Aetheric Body"). These two agents bring all the life-infused atoms into relationship with each other (as complicated as that seems). The physical body (of all forms) is a demonstration on a small scale of the innate coherency and synthesis of all life, and it conforms to the aggregate of elemental life in the Spirit of the Earth.
4. The Devas, besides being the Builders of form and matter, are likewise the qualities and attributes of matter. As mentioned, They work either consciously or unconsciously upon one of the 7 Major Planes of Life. All of the Greater Devas, Who are on the 3 uppermost sub-planes of the Mental Plane and the Higher Planes beyond that, cooperate consciously with creation and form-building. All of those lesser devas who are on the levels and sub-planes of the Physical Plane, the Astral Plane, and the lower mental sub-planes work unconsciously and follow their creative biddings in groups. Since the Human Souls or Higher Selves (also called Solar Angels) are on the Higher Mental Plane Levels, this Region of Existence is the dividing line between the sentient and the non-sentient Angels. All those above this line of demarcation have passed through the human state and have acquired sentiency. The lesser devas will have their opportunity in future cycles as they evolve toward sentiency.
Basically, the Devas of physicality on the Major Physical Plane are actually on the aetheric physical levels (the 4 higher sub-planes of the Physical Plane). We have called these the Army of the Voice, but the Aetheric Devas are also called the Devas of the Shadows. The Devas of the Mental Planes are called the Devas of Fire.
5. A listing of the higher ranks of the Devas in this solar system with relevance to Earth would include:
a. The 7 Raja Lords of the 7 Major Planes. The names of some of these Raja Lords is as follows: Physical Plane - Kshiti; Astral Plane - Varuna; Mental Plane - Agni (Lord of Fire); Buddhic Plane - Indra.
b. The 7 Great Devas of each of the 7 sub-planes (The Deva Lords).
c. 14 Deva Representatives of the 7 Rays (to learn more, go to "The Seven Rays Explained"). There are 2 for each Ray cycling into and out of power, depending on the Ray of dominance on Earth (the 6th Ray is on the way out, and the 7th Ray is coming in).
d. 4 Deva Representatives of The 4 Lords of Karma for the solar system, Who see that karma dispensed through the Human Soul to its incarnate expression is carried out. They oversee the balancing of all karma for humans on behalf of The Karmic Council.
6. The Devas of the Aethers (the Shadow Devas) are the Builders of Form on the Physical Plane. All physical matter comes into manifestation via the aetheric as a result of their work. They are governed and ruled by The 5th Kumara, one of The 3 Buddhas of Activity or Exoteric Kumaras at this time. He directs their production of form by means of secret words and sounds, which is generally how the cooperation of the Builders is gotten. This 5th Buddha, therefore, works through the aetheric body of all forms on Earth in advancing the evolutionary agenda of Sanat Kumara. (Surrounding The Lord of the World are 6 other Kumaras, 3 Exoteric Kumaras and 3 Esoteric Kumaras. They are also called The 6 Buddhas).
7. The Raja Lord Deva of the Physical Plane, with its 3 dense physical sub-planes and 4 aetheric physical sub-planes, is one known as The Great Deva Kshiti. He is of equal rank and power to a 6th Degree Initiate and Chohan of a Ray (e.g. Hilarion, Saint Germain, and Sananda). Kshiti presides over all the sub-human Kingdoms (Mineral, Plant, Animal) and all the Devas on the 4 aetheric sub-planes (the 3 dense physical sub-planes do not have dense physical devas or angels, and this is the singular exception to having 7 subordinate Deva Lords ensouling the 7 sub-planes of a Major Plane).
All physicality is brought forth from the 4 aetheric sub-planes by Kshiti instructing and directing His 4 subordinate Deva Lords of the 4 aetheric levels. The 5 of Them preside over a more subsidiary Council of 7 Devas Who manage the work of all the lesser builders and Greater Builders of physicality. With regard to an understanding of aetheric matter and aetheric levels, they are but gradations of the physical, only of more rarified and refined physicality (higher frequency of being but still physical).
The Human Kingdom, which is not overseen by Kshiti, is under the governing watch of The Spiritual Hierarchy. He presides over everything else on the Physical Plane of Earth. It is obvious that there is close cooperation between The 5th Kumara and Lord Kshiti. Using human terminology, one might consider The 5th Kumara the C.E.O., and Kshiti could be seen as the Managing Director. As a group, then, the Aetheric Devas control (as directed) the exoteric processes of physical plane existence.
8. Angel-Devas of all kinds and colors are found on the 4 aetheric levels, but the most predominant in numbers are the Devas of the Shadows, Who are seen by aetheric sight as having various hues of purple. These are called the Violet Devas, but their colors range from dark purple in the lower aetheric (closest to the dense physical) to a violet coloration to a lighter violet and to a resplendent, translucent lavender color at the highest aetheric level. These Violet Devas are associated with the creation of all aetheric bodies of every life-form on Earth, including the human. This is a little hard to fathom, but the 2 higher divisions of these Devas build the aetheric doubles out of the substance of the 2 lower divisions. Notwithstanding a mental hurdle there, the Violet Devas are responsible for the aetheric bodies here on Earth and for educating the Human Race on the perfection of the human form, aetheric and dense physical, the two being considered as a unit.
The Green Devas of the Plant Kingdom are of a higher order on the aetheric levels. They work with the aetheric and physical forms of all plant species on the planet and guide their evolutionary developement and, of course, oversee the elemental life which supports and composes them. The Greater Devas of this order defend and preserve certain natural spaces and geological formations all over the world, keeping them from being despoiled and destroyed by humanity's insatiable appetite for the resources of Earth, for example, the national parks and reserves of all countries. Under their inspiration, these spaces have been set aside by politicians and preserved intact for future generations. The Green Devas are the protectors of plant life and all the sacred places on the planet, those magnetized areas which draw the pilgrims and seekers because of the higher energetics involved (Mount Shasta, California and Sedona, Arizona). Due to their work with the Plant Kingdom, the nourishment of the Animal and Human Kingdoms is assured.
The White Devas are of a yet higher order. These Angels control the water and air elementals, presiding over the atmosphere and all weather-related phenomena (lightning, precipitation, tornadoes, hurricanes, the Jet Stream, etc.). They also have responsibility for and control over the waters of the world: the lakes, rivers, seas, and oceans and all water-related phenomena (tides, currents, waves, tsunamis, "El Nino", the Gulf Stream, etc.). By extension, they have supervision of the Fish Kingdom and all its elementals. Finally, from among the ranks of the White Devas are selected the Guardian Angels of Humanity (yes, there are Guardian Angels), one for each incarnated human. They protect each one of us from unplanned traumas and "accidents" throughout life but may not interfere in karmically-related events or those which were pre-planned in the life blueprint and Soul contract before incarnation.
9. Magical Work is essentially the work of creation or destruction by involvement of the Deva Evolution, which includes both the elementals and the Devas. Much is misunderstood about magic. The left-hand path of black magic always is oriented toward selfish gains, serving the self, and frequently involves the devitalization or destruction of others who are considered as enemies. The right-hand path of white magic is used in service to the collective of Humanity and the Divine Plan of Sanat Kumara for Planet Earth; it is utilized solely in service to others. The methods used by the dark magician and the white magician are basically the same. Ritual, ceremony, focused visualization, the chanting of mantrams and secret words, and the forceful projection of the will are common to both the dark and the light paths.
The elementals and the lesser devas are controlled and commanded by ritualistic means, but the Greater Devas are not summoned or commanded by any means. They come freely when the energy of love is present and the magician's vibrations are of sufficient purity, and if They come, They come to cooperate in guiding the elemental forces and the helping of Humanity. The dark magician uses his powers to control the elementals on the various levels of the Physical and Astral Planes to accomplish his goal but not so the White Magician, who has learned through the Mystery Schools of Initiation how to attract the Deva Orders through ritual and ceremony, and then from this higher level They direct the elemental forces to the task at hand. The dark ones work with the involutional lives on the various physical and astral sub-planes, whereas the light ones work with the evolutional lives on the Higher Planes, and the higher the Initiate and the higher the consciousness and frequency of that White Magician, the greater the Devas Who come in response.
The mantrams and ritual forms used in contacting the Builders and in summoning the elementals are basically the same, however there is peril and danger in attracting the elemental forces without proper training on the Initiatory Path. Only the one who has proven himself or herself in daily service to others, in purity of heart and motivation, in surrendering of the lower will to the Soul, and in mastery over the 3-fold lower self can be entrusted with the words of power which will control the lesser lives and gain the cooperation of the Angel Groups. This is one of the secrets of Initiation (if interested, see "What Initiation Is Really About").
If the elementals are unwittingly called by the uninitiated or inexperienced magician, they may evoke a response in the elemental lives that compose the 3 lower sheaths or bodies of the caller (physical, astral, and mental), and terrible consequences may eventuate in those bodies: illness, devitalization, deformity, mental instability, disease, and even death. It is literally like playing with fire (the fire elementals). It is too risky to toy or experiment with the sub-human, unconscious forces representative of elemental life!!
The Dark Brothers have studied in their own Mystery Schools and know how to bend the forces of involution to their will, but the more knowing way, which by-passes the dangers of directly contacting the elementals, is followed by The White Magician of The Brotherhood of Light, that of controlling them and the lower-grade devas through the superior ranks of the Building Devas and The Deva Lords of the aetheric sub-planes (and Higher Planes). In fact, the Dark Ones cannot summon the upper ranks of the Greater Devas, Who are sentient, because the energy of love is missing. The black magician may be successful in calling the elementals and unconscious devas of the Physical, Astral, and lower Mental Planes to do their bidding, but the Angelic Ranks of higher powers give their cooperation to The White Brotherhood and all their Magician-Initiates of the right-hand path, thus ultimately giving greater power to The Forces of Light in this solar system. At the Physical Level, the Dark Forces appear to have more power solely because The Light Forces choose to exercise theirs' at higher levels of beingness, which will culminate in victory in the end.
The 4 Elements may be considered the sum-total of all the elemental lives in each of the element groups: earth, water, air, and fire. These are the physical/aetheric elemental groups which have been variously named down through the millennia by those with aetheric sight, one of the psychic abilities. The forms these collective elemental lives have been seen in would match the subconscious expectations of the viewer, with cultural influence playing a part. Thus, we have come to hear of gnomes and pixies and leprechauns and water sprites and sylphs and salamanders and fairies and elves and nature spirits of all sorts. Then as the human thought-forms of those appearances was constructed and reinforced in the aetheric (the home of all thought-forms), the elementals may continue to mimic those aetheric forms and build them out of their own substance. But the forms themselves must be considered as an illusion and not the real nature of elemental life. For reasons known to Them, the Conscious Devas impel the unconscious elementals to take certain aetheric forms for certain humans with the aetheric sight.
Now that I've explained some things and have given fair warning about the elementals and the danger that they pose to the unwary, I can give a brief summary of the magical invocation of them.
a. First there is the necessary rite of self-protection and the protective mantram that is used.
b. Then there is the rite of appeal and its mantram that calls the elementals and lesser devas and reveals them to the calling magician. Any forms in which they appear would match the expectation in the mind of the caller.
c. Next is the rite and mantram which imposes the will of the magician on the involutional lives to control and direct them.
d. Lastly, when the "job" is over, there is a mantram that breaks the charm, so to say, and dismisses them from the field of influence of the magician.
10. Mantrams are grouped sounds and words and phrases which could be considered as sacred and which achieve their results by means of rhythmic application (i.e. chanting). They are very much connected with the magical work of both the right and left-handed paths but have many other uses that fall outside of the focus of this writing. The use of mantrams to effect results is a clear demonstration of the power of sound and the creative force of the Throat Chakra as it pours its energy out from the physical larynx, and their use must be accompanied by the power derived from the application of the Rod of Initiation by The Hierophant during Initiation if the Higher Devas are to respond.
Many of the most powerful mantrams are in their original Sanskrit Language, and some are so powerful that they're only imparted orally when a student is preparing for Initiation. There are mantrams for invoking protective Angels, mantrams for calling the attention of one's Master, mantrams for use in healing, for developing psychic faculties, for vivifying certain chakras, and for acting upon the kundalini fire in the Base Chakra. There are mantrams that arouse the kundalini and send it through the chakras in a natural progression, mantrams for controlling the solar prana passing through the Spleen Chakra for vitalization and better health, mantrams that act on the Mental Plane to increase the capacity to think, and mantrams that work on the Soul and prepare the Causal Body of the Soul for its final dissolution by The Monad (during the 4th Initiation - explained in "The Causal Body of The Soul").
There are fire mantrams that have their effect and influence on the Devas of the Mental Plane, the Plane of Cosmic Fire. These would invoke and attract the cooperation of Lord Agni and His Helpers. There's a mantram for bringing about a healing through the use, by the Devas, of a flame on the more subtle bodies (aetheric, astral, mental). There's a mantram for calling down fire to magnetize stones, talismans, and sacred spots of the Earth. And there's a mantram for the evocation of fire to purify some locality, such as a temple, through the action of fire elementals as controlled by Fire Devas.
The most powerful mantrams known on this planet were brought by The Lords of The Flame Who came with Sanat Kumara from Venus 18 million years ago. These mantrams number 35 and exist in the original Senzar Language, the secret language of The Initiates around the world. These mantrams grant power on (and over) each of the 7 sub-planes of the 5 Planes of Human Evolution (Physical, Astral, Mental, Buddhic, and Atmic), 35 sub-planes in all, one mantram for each. Only High Initiates (Adepts) are granted these mysteries, and when the mantram is sounded, The Adept enters into the consciousness of all on that sub-plane with far-reaching effects.
A channel of communication is created by the rhythmic enunciation of a mantram, the energy of which forms a vacuum between the initiator of the sound and The One reached by it, thus forming the direct channel of communication: to a Master, to one of The 3 Great Lords (The Manu, The Bodhisattva, The Mahachohan), to The Planetary Logos, to a Ray Chohan, or to a Raja Lord of a Plane. This is the mechanism by which the Greater Devas are reached. There are different mantric forms for calling and reaching groups of Devas, Devas on some one Ray (of the 7 Rays), or individual specific Devas of a high order (this latter privilege is reserved for The High Initiates in The Hierarchy). The Angel-Devas do not comprehend human speech as we know it and telepathic thought transference to Them is not yet possible (so sayeth The Master), so the mantric sounds and chanting and visualization by the magician conveys the idea to the Deva Group that comes to participate in the ceremony. The power of the enunciated sacred word in conjunction with the thrusting forth of the will are the fundamental components for work in magic of any kind.
11. There was a time when the parallel evolutions of Human and Deva were in close contact. This was during the Era of Atlantis and the 4th Root Race of Man, the Atlantean, who were more of feeling and desire and emotional nature as the astral body of Mankind was being built and perfected by them. The mind nature was still in its infancy except for the most highly-evolved among them (The Initiates), and their judgement was often impaired, having such a weak mind.
All of the Atlanteans knew how to call the elementals and the lesser builders. The mantrams and techniques were in wide-spread usage. Their desire for material things and acquisitiveness became rampant during the latter period of the era. According to one of The Ascended Masters, the luxury and opulence under which the self-gratifying ones lived has seen no comparison even into modern times. The Roman Empire came the closest to it. The self-serving ones with unbounded greed were, of course, aligned with the Dark Brotherhood, the Sons of Belial, and their numbers were great. Black magic was a common practice. They used their will-power in controlling the elementals and lesser devas to exact vengeance on their opponents and to steal anything they wanted from others who had it. They utilized the lesser devas to further their ambitions and satisfy all their desires.
The elementals of fire are the most numerous and the most powerful of all the elementals on the planet, and the Atlanteans used them excessively and indiscriminately to further their goals. Because of the dangers that were aroused and the menace that stalked the Atlantean Landmass by the endless use and abuse of the elemental life, the Plan of Sanat Kumara was disrupted. The evolution of both Devas and Man were threatened. The situation so disturbed The Guides of the Human Race that They gradually withdrew the knowledge of the formulas and rites and words from the human consciousness until the time during the 5th Root Race (the current one) when reason and spirituality and mental developement would be more advanced. But the knowledge is still being withheld, for obvious reasons, from the bulk of Humanity lest it be perverted yet again. Only The Initiates of The White Brotherhood may be entrusted with the secrets for the time being (if so inclined, check out "The Initiates of Earth").
It was under these circumstances that the two great parallel evolutions were separated from each other, though that was never intended by The Planetary Logos of Earth. The Dark Forces, through their incarnate accomplices, found a way to set back the evolutionary plans of The Logos (and continue their work to this day). The 7th Ray of Ceremonial Magic and Order will be dominating the Aquarian Age as the 6th Ray of Devotion passes out of dominance and incarnation along with the Piscean Age. The 7th Ray, with its synthesizing energy, will be greatly facilitating the re-approximation of the 2 evolutions, although it will still take a few hundred additional years for the Devas and the Humans to become more conscious of each other in a broad manner and to freely cooperate with each other (for more information, click on "The Seven Rays Explained").
The trauma was so great in the Atlantean disasters from the perverse use of the elementals (and lesser devas) that the separation from them and the guarding of the secrets to their calling will continue for a long time. Nevertheless, there will come a time again, during the New Golden Age, when Angel and Man will be working constructively with each other in furtherance of the Logoic Plan after The Masters have judged it wise to permit circulation of the powerful mantrams once again (see "The New Golden Age On Earth").
12. There are Higher Devas Who specialize in healing in the Angelic Kingdom. Only healers who have reached a certain stage on the Path of Initiation and who have a great deal of purity and selfless motivation can attract one of these Devas through affinity, which is felt solely on the part of the Deva. These Devas choose the connection and enter into the healing partnership volitionally, which greatly magnifies the potency of the healer and allows fewer mistakes to happen. There is actually an Angel of Death in the Deva Evolution, and when death has been decided by the Soul of the ailing one, the Angel of Death will not allow the Healing Deva to collaborate in an attempted healing.
On the subject of death, when the Soul is ready to return its personality fragment to Itself and withdraws the Life Thread from the Heart Chakra and the Consciousness Thread from the Crown Chakra, the cycle draws to a close and the Soul's attention turns inward. The Greater Devas have been the active Agents in holding the form coherent (physical and aetheric double) and in circulating the pranic life-force through the form. When the Soul withdraws, They likewise withdraw their interest in and attraction to that form, and this act is what allows the elemental life of the bodies and the atomic substance to be dispersed into the primordial soup from whence they came, in our case the dense physical body of The Planetary Logos (what is called Planet Earth). The pranic forces of the aetheric body are returned to the general reservoir of energy (ashes to ashes, dust to dust). For those interested in knowing more about death, click on "What Happens After Death?".
13. Words of Power are the basis of all manifestation in form or phenomena and, when enunciated with the full extent of the will behind them, they attract the Deva Evolution to produce those creations. Accompanied by visualization in toto, this is how creation takes place on all levels of being, from a lower-level Initiate creating an organization to benefit Humanity to a Solar Logos creating a solar system. Sacred Words have their power solely because of the cooperative response they evoke from the Deva Builders, and all Words of Power used on Earth are derivations from and permutations of the Sacred Word used by our Solar Logos in manifesting this planetary system, the 3-fold AUM, which is only a distant approximation in human language of the sound employed for that creative event. Each Initiate learns more and more powerful Sacred Words the more that the Path of Initiation is traversed in order to further the ends of evolution (see #23, Giving of The Word, in "What Initiation Is Really About").
14. The Deva Kingdom is the Custodian of Prana, the life-force energy which lends vitality to all life-forms. These are the Beings Who dispense and disperse the life-giving force at all the Levels of Existence. At this level of physicality on Earth, it is known that the life energy flows from The Monad through the Soul Intermediary to the incarnate human by way of the aetheric body (with its chakras and meridians and nadis), but The Monads receive that pranic life force from the Great Devas Who are on Their Plane of Being.
15. The Plane of the Mind, the Manasic or Mental Plane is the most important one to current Humanity, as the present 5th Root Race is charged with evolving and perfecting the mental body (the mind). The Raja Lord Agni rules on the Mental Plane. The Devas and elementals of fire, which exist on the Mental Plane, fall directly under His control. The fire elementals are found in all that warms and all that burns on Earth, and the Devas of Fire are given the work of inaugurating the New World and the New Age. Herein lies a hint of transformational mechanism. Agni not only manages all the fires of the Earth but is The One Who arouses the kundalini fire in all those aspirants who are ready. "Our God is a Consuming Fire" refers to Lord Agni, Who can be considered as the Driving Force of consciousness and evolution in this solar system as The Ruler on the Plane of Mind. Agni is the consciousness and intelligence within the atom (I realize that this may take some pondering).
16. As can readily be seen, the subjects of Devas and Magic and Initiation and Creation are intimately intertwined. It's hard to elaborate on one without including the others. One way of looking at it is that the Path of Discipleship to an Ascended Master of the Wisdom is the Path of the White Magician (for more, see "The Only Path On Earth"), and as the New Age in Aquarius unfolds under the powerful and all-penetrating influence of the 7th Ray of Ceremonial Order and Synthetic Expression, the two most advanced evolutions on the planet (Human and Deva) will begin to come together again to mutually create the evolutionary purpose of The Great Sacrifice in Whom we live and move and have our being, The Planetary Logos.
The Deva Evolution, written about in this piece, is an extremely broad spectrum of a particular kind of life as contained within the ring-pass-not of this solar system. The spectrum ranges from the tiny, unconscious entities that together form the essence of all manifest life on the Physical, Astral, and lower Mental Planes (the elementals), and then it incorporates ascendingly the lesser, unconscious builders, the greater, sentient Builders, on up to the loftier levels wherefrom The Deva Lords of a sub-plane and The Raja Lords of an entire Major Plane operate and, in fact, ensoul the entirety of those levels of existence. What is unique about this spectrum of life is that, in this free-will system of evolution known as a solar system, the Kingdom of Devas is without free will because It was designed by The 1st Aspect of The Triune Godhead (Shiva) to be the Transmitter and Administrator of The Will of God, howsoever that Will Aspect and Energy may be brought through The Solar Logos and then focused by The Planetary Logos and Hierarchy of Planet Earth (see"Who Are The Spiritual Hierarchy?" or "The Ashram of The King") .
Beyond this solar system I dare not make commentary on the Angelic Beings of God's Creation except to say that Those Who are called Archangels, in the terminology of the occidental religions, are universe-wide Forces which are implementing The Will of God throughout all of Creation, in all of the uncountable galaxies. Each one of these 7 Archangels may be thought of as The Representative Power of The Creator on one or other of the 7 Rays as that Ray-Force of Divinity is sent out to the universe, The Archangel being an Extension of The Will of God to see that The Purpose of God is fulfilled in this universe using the Divine Energies of the particular Ray to which The Archangel is absolutely committed. And They would have legions of angelic ones to assist Them.
Here are The 7 Great Ones and the energies which each One employs as it works out in this particular solar system after being filtered through The Consciousness of The Solar Logos, Who is 2nd Ray in Essence (Love/Wisdom). At the solar system level, these Archangelic Forces are equated with The 7 Planetary Logoi of the 7 Sacred Planets in the system, Each dispensing the forces of one of the 7 Rays throughout the system as needed to consummate the Purpose of The Solar Logos, and Each having a Representative Aspect in The Great Council of Shamballa. It might be helpful to review "The Seven Rays Explained". (There are other Archangels in Creation assisting The Purpose of God, e.g. Metatron, Sandalphon, Ratziel.)
a. Archangel Michael - 1st Ray of Divine Will and Purpose
b. Archangel Jophiel - 2nd Ray of Divine Love and Wisdom
c. Archangel Chamuel - 3rd Ray of Active Intelligence
d. Archangel Gabriel - 4th Ray of Harmony through Conflict
e. Archangel Raphael - 5th Ray of Concrete Mind and Scientific Exactitude
f. Archangel Uriel - 6th Ray of Devotion and Abstract Idealism
g. Archangel Zadkiel - 7th Ray of Ceremonial Order and Synthesis
The Archangels aren't great big Angelic Beings out there with wings and a human appearance. These are mighty and unimagineably powerful Cosmic Forces, which were brought into being to assure that God's Plan for this universe never faltered and was never taken off track in a Playground of Creation in which freedom of choice has been granted to all sentient life. The Archangels brook no interference, encounter no resistance, and accomplish The Purpose of God with facility. Through Them flows The Will Power of The All That Is. Nothing can ever stand in its way! Let us honor The Great Deva Kingdom of the universe for its unswerving devotion to The Will of God. On this particular Speck of Creation, it won't be long now before the Humans and the Devas come together again to manifest God's Plan for Planet Earth.
James Oliver Cyr, M.D.


Music in interviews.
Rising Legends, Epic Soul Factory
Songs: Rising Legends, Creo En Ti, and La busqueda de lanna.
Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
“Interrupting Gender as Usual: Metis Goes to Work.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 32 (May 2003): 211-33
Detienne, Marcel and Jean-Pierre Vernant. Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society. Trans. Janet Lloyd. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991.
Jarratt, S. C. (1991). Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Refigured. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
The website layout and design is remediated largely from the Method website.


Gayle Karch Cook Center for Public Arts & Humanities, Process Gallery
The Cook Center seeks to make transformative experiences in the arts and humanities accessible to all people on campus, in the city of Bloomington, and throughout Indiana.
Located inside Maxwell Hall
750 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405
Call for hours.
The exhibit is free and open to the public.
APRIL 1- MAY 6, 2022
OPENING RECEPTION APRIL 1ST, 5-8 P.M.
EMILIO SANCHEZ: INTIMATE FORMS
Featuring work by Cuban-born artist Emilio Sanchez.
Emilio Sanchez was a Cuban-born artist who moved to the United States in the late 1930s. Though he was trained in old master techniques, he preferred a more abstract style in his own work.
Sanchez is best known for his drawings and paintings of architecture and built spaces, especially of Cuba before the revolution. His spare, colorful style filters out every extraneous detail to focus on shape, color, and form, creating bold geometric works that are instantly recognizable as his.
This exhibition presents a selection of the works by Emilio Sanchez held in the Kinsey Institute Library and Special Collections, most of which depict abstracted figures, treated with the same signature style for which Sanchez is celebrated.
Hosted in collaboration with the Kinsey Institute.


Tuesday, April 15, 2008
PBS Content at iTunes U
On Friday, iTunes added PBS content to iTunes U (available by going to iTunes, selecting the "iTunes Store," clicking on "iTunes U," and using the "Beyond Campus" menu). The content includes teaching support videos and instructional content from KQED, WETA, WNET thirteen, WGBH, and more. Video clips that illustrate science, geography or history (including segments from Ken Burns' documentary The War) are accompanied by PDF lesson plans and educator's guides!


Register a project
Follow these steps to register a project using the MARCO Console.
Before you begin
This guide assumes that you have a user with the
PROJECT_CREATOR role at the organization level or higher permissions.
Step by step
To register a project:
- Open MARCO Console.
- On the left sidebar, go to Projects > Register project.
- Enter the project name.
- Click on Register project.
The project is now registered on MARCO. You can create new resources under the new project you just created.


Virtual Volumes (VVols)
Cloud Native, Containers, etc.
vSphere 6.5 Core Storage White Paper Now Available
November 28, 2016
I'm delighted to announce the availability of a new vSphere 6.5 core storage white paper. The paper covers new features such as VMFS-6 enhancements, policy
What’s new in vSphere 6.5 Core Storage
October 18, 2016
Hello from VMworld EMEA in Barcelona. Well, we can finally talk about vSphere 6.5 today. In this post, I want to highlight a number of new and enhanced


Prehistoric Pals - A Book & Toy Gift Set
Developed In-House at Sonos Product Development
The Prehistoric Pals line features a group of dinosaur friends who work together to overcome obstacles and make the world a better place. The books are written by Donna TenBrink, and the toys are designed, engineered, and manufactured by Carl TenBrink and his team of magical elves. The line includes vehicle-based dinosaur toys and plush toys of each character, while the books introduce new characters and adventures.
The first book in the series, “Brontie and Pals Build a Park“, is a heartwarming story that teaches children about friendship, love, respect, courage, compassion, and more. Both children and adults can enjoy reading the book and finding themes of teamwork, empathy, and courage.
The Prehistoric Pals have a motto:
“When there is a friend in need, the Pals will be there to do a good deed!”
The Prehistoric Pals line is designed to spark a child’s vivid imagination and thirst for adventure. The line combines the age-old love of dinosaurs with trucks, trains, and automobiles to provide a positive message of teamwork, empathy, and courage to the new generation. The toys and books teach children about the importance of developing personal values and the value of friendship.
The Prehistoric Pals line is available for purchase on the Prehistoric Pals Store website, which offers a variety of dinosaur toys and books that teach friendship, respect, and the importance of developing personal values. The website features the “Dinosaur Truck” toy, which is a popular item in the line. The “Brontie and Pals Build a Park” book is also available for purchase on Amazon, along with other Prehistoric Pals books and toys.
Overall, the Prehistoric Pals Book and Toy Gift Set is a wonderful way to introduce children to the world of dinosaurs and teach them about the importance of friendship, respect, and personal values. The line is designed to spark a child’s imagination and thirst for adventure, and the books and toys are sure to become cherished items in any child’s collection.


My Sunday column offers my own list of the best children’s books ever, as an inducement to summer reading — and summer reading aloud. If I had had a bit more space, I would have offered a couple more: Winnie the Pooh (the chapter of Piglet trapped in the flood is my favorite); the A to Z Mysteries, which were published in the last decade and were the first chapter books that my daughter read. The A to Z’s are short, easy mysteries that are a great way to get a young child engrossed in books. But aaaargh! Somehow I’ve still left out Pippi Longstocking and Roald Dahl, who are glorious reads….but this list has to come to an end somewhere.
I thought I should also consult some real experts on children’s literature. So I asked my kids, and here are their recommendations:
Gregory: The Series of Unfortunate Events books, about the tribulations of the Baudelaire orphans; “Wild Country,” about growing up on the Colorado frontier; and the Jim Kjelgaard outdoor books such as “Big Red,” “Wild Trek,” and “Fire Hunter.”
Geoffrey: The Bartimaeus Trilogy; Eragon series (by a young man who began the first book when he was 15!); and Ranger’s Apprentice series. For younger readers, Geoff also recommends the Famous Five series from Britain.
Caroline: “Tree Grows in Brooklyn” (“the best book ever”); Twilight series; “Kira Kira” (“it’s amazing!”). Caroline also loved the Roger Lancelyn Green versions of King Arthur and Robin Hood that I had adored as a child.
So now it’s your turn. What are your favorite children’s books, and why would you recommend them? Some readers will undoubtedly come for ideas, so be detailed and persuasive. And of course, kids are welcome to list their own favorites. But if you mention a comic book, I’m going to report you to your school librarian!


Catholic literature Jul 8, 2011 14:38:52 GMT
Post by assisi on Jul 8, 2011 14:38:52 GMT
If the Vatican ever tore itself away from its present troubles long enough to compose a similar list [to its 1995 recommended films list], I wonder if its clerics could find a comparable range of offerings. The question resonates far beyond the world of film trivia. Some 50 or 60 years ago, the great filmmakers treated religious themes seriously and placed those themes firmly on the cultural landscape. These auteurs created brilliant studies of Christian sanctity, and sometimes presented the churches and their clergy in heroic roles (like the indomitable Resistance priest in Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film Open City). While these films might have been critical of orthodoxies or hierarchies, they presented Christianity as something demanding respect and inquiry [even if the auteurs themselves were finally unbelievers like Ingmar Bergman or Luis Bunuel, and concluded faith was untenable or misguided, they nonetheless saw the question as important - HIB]. Faith mattered. But what would a culturally literate person take from European films made in the past decade or so?
One major problem is the lack of films that address mainstream or institutional religion as opposed to general "spirituality." Looking only at films with a particular ecclesiastical setting, one finds a simple and almost uniform message: the church is a model of organized hypocrisy, dedicated to the repression of individual freedom, above all in sexual matters....
[Cites examples of perverted clerics in various recent films, including THE MAGDALEN SISTERS]
The apparent evils of Christianity are not confined to explicit sexual abuse. Churches also conspire to rape the mind. The Danish production Worlds Apart (2008) describes a teenage girl brought up in the Jehovah's Witnesses faith but ostracized when she tries to live the life of an ordinary young European. As a study of life in a strict religious sect, the film is excellent, but it stands out as one of the very few treatments of everyday Christian life of any kind in contemporary Europe. [It seems from this that the film is bleakly straightforward about the emotional cost both to the individual psyche and in terms of broken family ties and friendships involved in leaving a rigorist sect, as compared to films such as the British SON OF RAMBOW and the Northern Irish THIS IS THE SEA in which characters who have been brought up in the ultra-strict Exclusive Brethren abandon it almost instantly on exposure to modern popular culture without any apparent doubts, guilt, or ambivalence - HIB] In Europe, far more than in the U.S., religion appears in cinema as a problem, and the solution to that problem is usually liberated sexuality. Consider the 2000 film Chocolat: it was set in a grossly repressed Christian village, and the two adjectives are close to synonymous.
If modern Europe has produced major Christian films, their settings are so exceptional that they can have little relevance to ordinary religious practice. One personal favorite of mine is the 2006 Russian film The Island, a biography of a fictional Orthodox monk, a charismatic saint of immense spiritual power. ...
Equally neomedieval was Into Great Silence, a visually stunning 2005 documentary about the lives of French Carthusian monks. The recent Vision explored the life of Hildegard of Bingen. Like The Island, these films were critically acclaimed, but what does that reception say about contemporary attitudes to faith? Religion, it seems, may be a vital and transforming force, but it is the preserve of highly trained mystics dedicated to life apart. Religion is a matter for trained professionals. Ordinary people are firmly being told: don't try this at home. [This might be applied to OF GODS AND MEN as well; one feature which the everyday piety of the Algerian Muslims and the life of the monks have in common is that the everyday viewer will not see these as something which might be emulated in their own world but as something exotic - HIB.]
Another manifestation of religion in popular contemporary television/cinema is what I would call the 'symbolic' representation - in reality reducing the power of belief and faith to the symbols while rarely touching upon the moral or sacramental.
The holy water and crosses in vampire movies for example.
In the recent TV series 'Lost' the theme of redemption is central and the Christian/Catholic images are plenty - the statues of the Virgin Mary, the ending in the Church and the white light of the afterlife, the hint at a type of purgatory for some of those left behind. It is good to see the existence of the supernatural in the denouement but the bulk of the series will be morally centered in the secular with only a symbolic nod to God.
Maybe we should be happy at that level of representation and conclude that cinema and TV will be concerned with drama foremost. But there is a nagging feeling that this type of portrayal is an easy way out, a superficial representation of Christianity by evocative symbols but without any reference to the sacrifices and humility that is also part of belief.


Updates on Tropical Storm Florence dominate the airwaves this week as I prepare to move to our new home. Starting with my sole bookshelf, I begin stacking classics like Tennyson and Dickens into bins, along with my beloved series collection of Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue by Laura Lee Hope--the ones my mother read to me as a child, instilling in me my deep and abiding love for books and writing.
It turns out Laura Lee Hope was not one woman, but rather the pseudonym of a collective of writers ghostwriting for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a publishing group that paid anonymous writers a flat fee for completed manuscripts. They published many popular series including The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew.
The dismantling of three decades of collected books is more than just an organizational endeavor--every book represents something heartfelt, connected, or integral to the life I've lived. Holding those books sparks instant recollection and reminiscence.
First off the shelf is Johnny Cash: The Life, a comprehensive look at the man in black whom I've admired since the moment I first heard those iconic words, "hello, my name is Johnny Cash" on the album Folsom Prison Blues. Later, a boy named Sue would become my own secret, personal signature song allowing me all my tomboy dreams of the perks of being a boy (for me, in the 70's, dressing like a boy, and preferring bikes and skateboards to Barbie dolls).
The sunny yellow cover of Jimmy Buffett's book, A Pirate Looks at Fifty reminds me of when I was young enough to dream of throwing away my teaching career and running away to an island paradise somewhere. It brings me back to a moment in time, and a short but sweet romance that led to a last minute trip to Vegas and a Jimmy Buffett concert at the MGM.
Then there's Springsteen. How do I even speak of the boy from the boardwalks of Jersey and the influence his moody lyrics had on me? The book was incisive. I only wish I had seen his Broadway performance before I read the book and not the other way around. Spoiler alert: the show is scripted tightly from the book and The Boss doesn't want the crowd to sing along. Bummer. I never made it to a concert of his while we were both young. I didn't get to feel that propulsive energy of sheer youth driving every note, every chord, every heart beat. Those opening piano chords to Growin' Up, takes my breath away every time. . .
Growing up, moving on, moving out. Themes that dominate most of our lives. As I move into our new home and out of the one I spent most of my adulthood thus far in, I carry with me only the essentials--the books, the music, and the objects that remind me of the better parts of my youth, the accomplished pieces of my past, and the hopeful inspirations of my future.