#oblation vessel

[lailoken]

Oblation Vessel of the Wending Way: Reborn

After two years of heavy use, having utilized it continuously for my monthly Lunar Rites, the Attercob's Oblation Vessel has begun to show signifcant wear and tear. Given its preciousness, my husband and I came to the conclusion that it was time to "retire" this vessel from active use. Instead, we plan to place it upon a simple corner shelf altar we'll be constructing with the purpose of giving spiders a place to have free reign within the the boundary of our Fane, while allowing us to keep the rest tidier (we've been struggling with letting spiders just sort of colonize our domestic temple, given their holiness within the context of our tradition, but ended up finding this compromise.)

Knowing that a new vessel would be needed to fulfill the aforementioned Lunar Rites—and specifically one we find through providence—my husband and I started casually keeping an eye out in places of interest, in hopes that one would present itself. Finally, one day, I experienced a fairly in-your-face Spidereal Omen, which made me think we would be finding the new vessel soon, and lo and behold, I came across it later that same day.

The moment I saw this pot—which came from an estate sale in Britain—I knew it was the right one. Between the intuitive response I had, the fact that its Celadon coloration matches the color of our Fane exactly, and the fact that it's marked with twelve eyes for each month of the year it will be used to fulfill its purpose, it was glaringly apparent. What's more, the Eye, and Multiple Eyes in particular, are an important symbolic motif within the context of my tradition in general. Plus, as a cherry on top, it was quite cheap and was constructed/glazed in a way that should stand up much better to long-term moisture exposure.

I love it, and look forward to the years ahead with it.

[ninibeingdelulu]

His biggest fan ✧

Plot: You’re Michael’s girlfriend, cheering him at one of his games.

A/N: It’s so bad I hate it😓

The roar of thunderous cheers flooded the stadium as Michael unleashed another stupefying display of lethal precision and brute physicality that defied mortal comprehension.

You watched with breathless awe seated front row as that signature blue mohawk wove a hypnotic cyclone of calculated ferocity carving apart the helpless defense trailing hopelessly in his wake.

Each savage yet eerily choreographed burst from Michael's heavyweight strides reverberated across the pitch warping the boundaries of space and time itself directly proportional to his gravitational soccer supremacy.

Until the entire cosmos distilled into that infinite singularity split-second with just your striker boyfriend, the ball and the yawning maw of the goal awaiting its inevitable oblation.

You bit down hard stifling the visceral shudder trying to escape as Michael's rocket-powered thunderbolt smashed past the defenseless keeper and ignited the back of the net in a blaze of cosmic glory.

Celebrating with that bone-chilling sovereign roar staking his unchallengeable dominion once more before this mortal realm of sporting conquest still so far beneath his transcendent plane of greatness.

Even after the final whistle sounded you remained spellbound observing Michael bask in those rapturous post-coital moments savoring his ineffable feat.

Utterly transfixed upon the hyper-masculine sculpture of your man still slicked with the spoils of carnal supremacy while casting that chiseled nordic profile against the floodlit heavens he reigned sovereign over.

Until his peripheral laser focus abruptly snapped in your direction lancing directly through your aura with a telepathic tractor beam manifesting into actual physics-warping forces.

Almost like each molecule surrounding Michael compressed and bent inward before being shunted aside clearing his path towards you with terrifying inevitability.

You barely had a chance to brace yourself as the unstoppable tsunami slammed into your front row section without mercy or resistance.

The concussive shockwave blasting through your senses while those titanium bulwarks materialized around you scooping your diminutive frame against Michael's furnace-stoked musculature with crushing intensity.

"My sweet empress…I could only hear your voice back there. It motivated me, thank you.”

His rough-hewn bassline resonated against every nerve ending vibrating at some untapped primordial stratum while you strained to surface through the endless whitenoise overloading your synapses.

Only Michael's low gravitic pulses penetrating the oblivion flooding your faculties from that unholy cosmic union now peeling away every layer keeping you distinct individualities during submersion into this event horizon state of indistinguishable polarities collapsed together.

Until finally resurfacing from that singularity after an eternity compressed into nanoseconds - though still deliriously consumed by the aftershocks rippling across your intertwined vessels smoldering in the embers of rapturous conflagration yet still ravenous for more extreme escalations eternally rebirthing from the expended remains!

Only the roaring crescendos from those frenzied supporters still filling the stadium slowly penetrated the vacuous void reverberating between you both savoring that suspended infinitesimal post-orgasmic bliss together.

You felt Michael's stern facade gradually reassemble while withdrawing from your interiors just fractionally enough to restore individuation-yet sense his alpha dominion expanding throughout your reconstituted synaptic matrices cementing his reign over your fused polarities once more.

Then with a subtle shift his smokey granite stare cleaved directly through the veil drawing your reawakened senses under that spellbinding trance spellbinding instantly.

A hushed imperious rasp now caressing your essence from that primal domain where all worldly laws bent to his sovereign decrees:

"Why don’t I reward you tonight, huh, meine liebe ?”

Just experiencing the infinitesimal microcosm of his supreme essence bleeding into your rematerialized corporeal vessel already whiplashed your senses through multiple clinical deaths and resurrections beyond this plane's dimensional limits.

His seismic vibrational frequencies triggered endorphin avalanches detonating every neurotransmitter into frenzied paroxysms anticipating the ineffable escalations still awaiting together...

[maddie-grove]

I have a popular post about how I don’t enjoy it when love stories act like it would undermine the central romance if one or both of the protagonists had a positive experience with an ex or former sexual partner, and I just want to say: it’s really all about the framing.

It’s totally chill if a protagonist has never been in love before, for whatever reason. Maybe they have intimacy issues, or they were literally raised by wolves in the Canadian wilderness, or they’re too busy, or they were a child oblate, or they just never clicked with anyone that way, or they were married to a grotesquely evil Renaissance nobleman. If we’re supposed to be like “awww that’s nice, they are experiencing romantic love for the first time” or “I am so happy that something nice is happening to this girl after her experiences with the horrible duke,” that’s cool.

It’s also fine, in my book, if a protagonist has never had really good sex before. Not everyone has an easy time getting into it and, to be frank, not everyone has the good luck to encounter a considerate or generous lover immediately after becoming sexually active.

Here are some examples where I do think there are problems:

The historical romance author wants to establish that the hero is not a virgin, but she doesn’t want to make him a player and she doesn’t want to give him a bad ex as a source of angst and she doesn’t want him to have been in love before. So she gives him a long-term paid mistress. But, instead of going with “Adrian enjoyed Lily’s company and thought she was pretty/clever/pleasant, but obviously it was a business relationship on both sides,” you get something like “Adrian had never felt anything for Lily. She was merely a vessel for his manly needs.” And it’s like you knew this woman for years! Yet I have warmer feelings towards the friendly lady who works at the pharmacy! What’s wrong with you?

The Regency heroine was happily married to one dude, who died tragically young. She falls in love with her late husband’s best friend, also her friend, who has been in love with her since before the husband died but he never acted on it because it would have been wrong and hurtful to his friend. They both feel a little weird/guilty about getting together, but it’s clear that they aren’t actually disrespecting the late husband’s memory and he’d probably be happy for them if he knew. This is all good and fine, until the hero and heroine are making love and the heroine muses to herself that the hero is better in bed than her late husband. This honestly wouldn’t feel so sour if it had been established at the beginning that they never clicked sexually despite loving each other, but in that moment it feels like a cheap shot at a nice dead guy. And for what? So the audience has no doubt that the hero is the best sex man in the world?

Someone writes a fanfic where Character A has a non-endgame romance with Character C, when eventually Character A will end up with Character B. The A/C romance is obviously not going to last for well-established reasons, but it’s sweet and C is presented sympathetically. Until the author abruptly makes C a bitch in a non-canonical way when it’s time for them to break up, even though that’s far from the most natural way for the breakup to happen.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

This is What the Lord Says…

1 Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

5 Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompence to his enemies.

7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.

8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the Lord: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.

10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:

11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

12 For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.

13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

14 And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the Lord shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.

15 For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

16 For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.

17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.

18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.

20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.

21 And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord.

22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.

23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.

24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. — Isaiah 66 | King James Version (KJV) The King James Version Bible is in the public domain. Cross References: Genesis 9:27; Leviticus 2:2; Leviticus 11:7; Numbers 7:3; 1 Samuel 8:19; Ezra 7:9; Psalm 72:3; Psalm 97:6; Isaiah 3:13; Isaiah 37:3; Isaiah 49:23; Isaiah 64:4; Matthew 3:12; Matthew 5:3; Matthew 5:10; Matthew 5:34-35; John 10:27; John 16:21; Romans 15:10; 2 Corinthians 1:3-4; 2 Thessalonians 1:7; 1 Peter 2:5; Revelation 12:2; Revelation 15:4

[stuckinuniformdevelopment]

@candbrp

(Previous) “The Crowns enter a dormant state upon the death of their bearer,” they begin. “I grew up in a monastery, and my teachers had the crowns in their possession, and as their oblate I was to earn the crown when I was of age…” They grow quiet a moment, distant before coming back. “On my 15th birthday I was allowed to finally awaken my crown, becoming its bearer, obtaining its power.” They hum. “Others could wear it potentially, but it’s loyalty would ultimately be to me, unless I’ve granted the power to a vessel, then I would have to wait until the vessel died to reclaim it…” they give a hum and a slightly amused smile. “But creating a vessel is only something to be done when desperate…”

Ah... As much as Teddy wanted to press for details... he had an inkling of what happened.

It took awhile for him to work up the nerve to speak again, and even then his voice was hesitant. "...Is fifteen the year people come of age here?"

If it was he'd ask more. If it wasn't... he wasn't sure what he'd say.

[astrovastukosh]

Vedic and accurate Hindu calendar of today's date - 04 August 2024

⛅Date - 04 August 2024 ⛅Day - Sunday ⛅Vikram Samvat - 2081 ⛅Ayan - Dakshinayan ⛅Season - Rain ⛅Month - Shravan ⛅Paksha - Krishna ⛅Date - Amavasya till 04:42 pm followed by Pratipada ⛅Nakshatra - Pushya till 01:26 pm thereafter Ashlesha ⛅Yoga - Siddhi till 10:38 am followed by Vyatipat ⛅Rahu Kaal - 05:41 pm to 07:19 pm ⛅Sunrise - 06:12 ⛅Sunset - 07:19 ⛅Disha Shool - In the west direction ⛅Brahma Muhurta - from 04:45 to 05:28 in the morning ⛅Abhijeet Muhurta - from 12:19 in the afternoon to 01:12 in the afternoon ⛅Nishita Muhurta - from 12:24 in the night of August 05 to 01:08 in the night of August 05 ⛅Vrat festival Description - Darsh Amavasya, Hariyali Amavasya, Ravi Pushya Yoga and Sarvartha Siddhi Yoga (from sunrise to 01:26 pm) ⛅Special - On Amavasya day, sexual intercourse with a woman and eating and applying sesame oil is prohibited. (Brahma Vaivart Purana, Brahma Khand: 27.29) -34)

🔹Things to keep in mind on Amavasya day🔹

🔸1. The person who eats someone else's food on Amavasya, his merits for a month go to the owner/donor of that food.

(Skanda Purana, Prabhav Khand. 207.11.13)

🔸2. On the day of Amavasya, flowers, leaves, straws etc. should not be plucked from trees and plants, this leads to the sin of "Brahma Hatya"! - Vishnu Purana

🔸3. On the day of Amavasya Eating and applying sesame oil is prohibited. (Brahmavaivart Purana, Brahma Khand: 27.29-38)

🔸4. The land is yours… If you do farming, then do not do farming on Amavasya day, nor let a labourer do it.

🔸5 . Chant, read the 7th chapter of Bhagavad Gita on Amavasya and offer the virtue of that reading to your ancestors. Offer Arghya to the Sun and pray, what I read today…on Amavasya day, those who passed away in my house Yes, may he get his blessings. " Then we will get their blessings and happiness and wealth will increase in the house.

🔸6. If you have debt, then offer water to the moon every night from the second day of Amavasya to the full moon, prosperity will increase.

🔹Classical remedy to get rid of poverty🔹

Poverty is If there is no prosperity or unemployment has strangled you, then don't worry. On every Amavasya, use a small oblation at home.

🔸Ingredients: 1. Black sesame seeds 2. Barley 3. Rice 4. Cow ghee 5. Sandalwood powder 6 . Guggal 7. Jaggery 8. Desi camphor and cow sandalwood or kanda.

🔸Method: Put cow sandalwood or kanda in a vessel and make a havan kund, then with the material prepared by mixing the above 8 things, all the members of the house gather and put it below. by the given mantras Offer 5 offerings. Aahuti Mantra 1. Om Kul Devtabhyo Namah 2. Om Gram Devtabhyo Namah 3. Om Graha Devtabhyo Namah 4. Om Lakshmipati Devtabhyo Namah 5. Om Vighnanashak Devtabhyo Namah: By doing this experiment, you will see health, prosperity and happiness of mind in a few days.

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[the-hem]

"The Sacred Flower Tree." From the Bhasma Jabala Upanishad, "The Exploration of the Mysteries of the Son of the Ash Heap."

We maintain our discussion about the role of Shiva, the Destroyer of Ignorance in destroying the fruits of our actions.

The kind Lord Paramesvara “The supreme being” said: At first the devotee after understanding the influence of the celestials at the prescribed time, should fetch some sacred and pure cow-dung early in the morning, keep it in the leaf of a Palasa-tree (a species of butea) and then dry it with the Vedic Mantra ‘Tryambakam’ etc. (in the sun).

Then he should burn that dry cow-dung, placed in a convenient place, with any fire that is available, according to the rules laid down in the Grihya Sutras (domestic duties) of his sect, and then pour Ahutis of seasamum and paddy together with ghee, with the Mantra ‘Somaya Svaha’ "into my hand may the Soma, the medicine come". The number of Ahutis should be 1008, or if possible, 1 ½ times this.

The instruments for pouring ghee should be made of leaf; in that case man does not commit any sin. Then, at the end, the devotee should offer the oblation of Sveshtakruta "to mine own self, may I feel grateful" at the time of Purna-Ahuti "perfection", with the Mantra ‘Tryambakam’ etc.

With the same Mantra Bali (an offering) should be placed in the eight directions (of the fire). That Bhasma should be sprinkled with water by the Gayatri Mantra. Then that sacred ash should be placed in a gold, silver, copper or earthen vessel and sprinkled again with the Rudra Mantras. It should then be kept in a clean and decent place.

In the prior set we talked about the proper accoutrements needed to replace the wicked seed flowers of the fruits of the actions. One must first pray the Maha Mritunjaya "separate me from evil fruits, twist them from the vine" and perform certain oblations including the leaves of an orchid tree, butea, shown below, symbolizing one should push the mind towards the qualities of a saint, called Sattva.

In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna explains:

14: 10-11:

Sometimes goodness (sattva) prevails over passion (rajas) and ignorance (tamas), O scion of Bharat. Sometimes passion (rajas) dominates goodness (sattva) and ignorance (tamas), and at other times ignorance (tamas) overcomes goodness (sattva) and passion (rajas).

 When all the gates of the body are illumined by knowledge, know it to be a manifestation of the mode of goodness. When the mode of passion predominates, O Arjun, the symptoms of greed, exertion for worldly gain, restlessness, and craving develop. O Arjun, nescience, inertia, negligence, and delusion—these are the dominant signs of the mode of ignorance.

The Upanishad says we should congratulate ourselves when we are able to overcome evil with the good. We know, for example, that Mike Johnson and the scum in his party planned a genocide of the Jewish and Muslim persons living in Israel. Still he gets up, put his cat glasses on and that ridiculous preppy outfit and looks like huge gaping sagging oozing twat hole and pretends like nothing is wrong.

Once the people of America overcome this evil, and separate them all from the vine and let them drop into the sacrificial vessel, where they can be burnt, we will know we are capable of overcoming the dominant signs of corruption and will be glad. This instinct, to be heroic, while it must extroverted into the political realm it is first triggered within. Its thought actions and desires will activate the conscience, the mind and motivate the behavior in a way a saint would find attractive.

The ashes of our party politician past should be consecrated with hymns. The Upanishad suggests the Gayatri Mantra, a prayer for the full illumination of humanity:

Om bhur bhuvah svaha Tat savitur varenyam Bhargo devasya dhimahi Dhiyo yonah prachodayat

"Homage to the Supreme Soul, who resides in the earth, the sky and heaven, may he, the Light of the Sun illuminate our minds, may we accomplish our meditation, may we go where God shall lead."

Literal translations of the words are below after splitting the sandhi:

oṃ - The sacred syllable, praṇava;

bhūr - The earth;

bhuvaḥ - The atmosphere;

svaḥ - The heaven;

tat - that;

savituḥ - of Savitṛ (Sun god);

vareṇyam - best amongst;

bhargaḥ - Splendour;

devasya - of the devas (Gods);

dhīmahi - May we meditate;

dhiyaḥ - Buddhi (Intellect);

yaḥ - he who;

naḥ - Our;

pracodayāt: shall lead.

The Upanishad finally says to meditate upon Rudra, the god of beatification, the relief of suffering:

Rudra Gayatri Mantra:

"Om Tatpurushaya Vidmahe Mahadevaya Dhimahi Tanno Rudrah Prachodayat. Meaning - I pray to Mahadev, the most powerful, ideal man of the gods. Bless me with wisdom and signify me with wisdom."

Try as we might, we cannot see or apprehend the Lord of the Universe, and only occasionally do His angels manifest in order to help us. Otherwise all we have are these allusions to His grandeur and ongoing plan to help us orchestrate our reality. So while the Upanishad calls Him Shiva, Gayatri, and Rudra, Parameshwara etc. none save a few have seen or heard the God of Reality. Thus the rest must resort to the names that best explain who He is.

To transfer the wisdom inherent in these allusions to the plight of humankind is the essence of Godliness. As much as we long to be sure we are able to do this, so few actually try.

The Upanishad will continue.

[craftylovegentlemen]

Numbers

Chapter 18

1 And the LORD said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood. 2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness. 3 And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die. 4 And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you. 5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel. 6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the LORD, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. 8 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever. 9 This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, every meat offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every trespass offering of theirs which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons. 10 In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.

11 And this is thine; the heave offering of their gift, with all the wave offerings of the children of Israel: I have given them unto thee, and to thy sons and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it. 12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee. 13 And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it. 14 Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine. 15 Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem. 16 And those that are to be redeemed from a month old shalt thou redeem, according to thine estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs. 17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD. 18 And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine. 19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee. 20 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

21 And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation. 22 Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die. 23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance. 24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. 25 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe. 27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress. 28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD's heave offering to Aaron the priest. 29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it. 30 Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.

31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward for your service in the tabernacle of the congregation. 32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best of it: neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die.

Numbers 18

Diane Beauford

[lailoken]

Our retired Oblation Vessel has a new home in this wall cabinet we found being sold for a few dollars, which is also designated haven for the spiders in our Fane.

[human-antithesis]

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[chaitanyavijnanam]

శ్రీ మదగ్ని మహాపురాణము - 250 / Agni Maha Purana - 250

🌹. శ్రీ మదగ్ని మహాపురాణము - 250 / Agni Maha Purana - 250 🌹 ✍️. పుల్లెల శ్రీరామచంద్రుడు, 📚. ప్రసాద్ భరద్వాజ శ్రీ గణేశాయ నమః ఓం నమో భగవతే వాసుదేవాయ. ప్రథమ సంపుటము, అధ్యాయము - 74 🌻. శివ పూజా విధి వర్ణనము - 6 🌻

అమృత (ధేను) ముద్ర ప్రదర్శించి, తన ఆసనముపై పుష్ప ముంచి, లలాటముపై తిలకము ధరించి, మూల మంత్రముతో దేవతకు పుష్పము అర్పించవలెను. సాధకుడు - స్నాన - దేవతాపూజా - హోమ - భోజన - యజ్ఞా - నుష్ఠాన - యోగ సాధన - ఆవశ్యక జపసమయములందు, స్థిరబుద్ధి యై మౌనముగా ఉండవలెను, నాదపర్యంతము ప్రణవోచ్చారణముచేయుచు మంత్రశోధనము చేయవలెను. ఉత్తమసంస్కారముక్తుడై దేవపూజా ప్రారంభము చేయవలెను.

మూలగాయత్రి చేత గాని, రుద్ర గాయత్రిచేత గాని అర్ఘ్యపూజనము చేసి ఆ సామాన్యార్ఘ్యమును దేవతకు సమర్పింపవలెను. బ్రహ్మపంచకము (పంచగవ్యములు, కుశోదకముతో చేసిన బ్రహ్మకూర్చము) సిద్ధముచేసికొని, శివలింగమునుండి పుష్పనిర్మాల్యమును తీసివేసి, ఈశాన్యము నందు ''చండాయ నమః'' అని చెప్పుచు చుండునకు సమర్పించవలెను. బ్రహ్మపంచకముతో పిండికా శివలింగములకు స్నానము చేయించి, 'ఫట్‌' అని ఉచ్చరించుచు, మరల ఉదకముతో స్నానము చేయించవలెను. ''నమో నమః'' అని ఉచ్చరించు���ు అర్ఘ్యపాత్రగతజలముతో ఆ శివలింగమునకు అభిషేకము చేయవలెను. ఇది లింగశోధన విధానము.

సశేషం....

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🌹 Agni Maha Purana - 250 🌹 ✍️ N. Gangadharan 📚. Prasad Bharadwaj Chapter 74 🌻 Mode of worshipping Śiva (śivapūjā) - 6 🌻

38-39. After having shown the amṛtā mudrā (formation with fingers denoting non-decay) and putting flower on its seat and a mark on the forehead consecrated by the principal mantra (of the god) a bold man should remain perfectly silent at the time of bathing, worship of the god, (offering) oblation unto fire, eating, practising yoga and repetition of necessary (mantras).

40. The mantra should be purified by pronouncing the nāda (oṃ) at the end. That purified mantra should then be used in the worship along with the gāyatrī (mantra) and the general water of oblation should be offered.

41. After having repeated the brahmapañcaka[2], (the worshipper) should collect the garland from the liṅga and offer it to Caṇḍa in the north-eastern direction.

42. The purification of the liṅga consists in the washing of the pedestal and the liṅga with the water (consecrated) by the mantra of weapon and hṛdmantra and sprinkle with the water (for washing) from the vessel of arghya.

43. All the celestials should be worshipped for the purification of the self, the materials, the mantra and the liṅga. Hāṃ, Salutations to God Gaṇapati in the north-western direction. One should pay obeisance to the preceptor in the north-east.

44-45. One should worship the goddess of the seat (of the god) in the kūmaśilā (the tortoise form on the stone) as possessing complexion of the tender shoots and the seat of Śiva known as ananta (endless) should be worshipped as seated on the brahmaśilā along with the attendants of the god such as Vicitra-keśa, Kṛta and Tretā who form the seat and shoes as they were of divinity.

Continues....

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[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Drought, Famine, Sword, Pestilence

1 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.

2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

5 Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

7 O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

8 O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.

10 Thus saith the Lord unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the Lord doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

11 Then said the Lord unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.

12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

13 Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.

14 Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.

15 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

17 Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.

19 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

20 We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.

21 Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.

22 Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things. — Jeremiah 14 | King James Version (KJV) The King James Version Bible is in the public domain. Cross References: Genesis 49:21; Leviticus 26:40; Judges 19:17; 1 Samuel 5:12; 1 Samuel 12:22; 2 Samuel 15:30; 2 Kings 19:21; Job 39:5-6; Psalm 25:11; Psalm 79:2-3; Psalm 119:101; Isaiah 5:6; Isaiah 22:2; Isaiah 56:10; Jeremiah 2:37; Jeremiah 4:10; Jeremiah 5:12-13; Lamentations 1:20; Acts 14:15; Acts 15:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; 1 John 4:1; 1 John 5:16; Revelation 6:8

[artoklasia]

Occlupanid Tags

A running list of the common tags used by this tag project. Artoklasia is a tagging experiment to observe the interplay of tag clouds for particular mature themes.

At the risk of my engineered charm of nuance and mystery, I have decided to add concept clouds to the tags list. Think of these less as strict definitions, and more of a general concept of what to expect from a given tag.

The most common CWs I do my best to tag for: blood, emeto, gore, nihilism, trypo, violence, unsanitary.

In order to guarantee this blog is only visible on PC to people who are 18+ and have opted into seeing Mature Content, I am officially giving my pinned post Labels.

Anointment: rain, oiled surfaces, orthotics, corsetry, posturing; saliromania

Apostasy: emeto, tissue rejection, violent/abrupt excretions

Apotheosis: terato, supernatural creatures, transformation

Asitophilia: pica, unsettling food

Aureole: haloes, fluorescence, crowns, horns

Bathwater: baths, tanks, bodies of water

Censer: respirators, particulates like smoke, smoking

Cephalophoria: headlessness, object heads

Chum for Chums: moodboard collages of a curated theme, chumboxes, clickbait

Devotion: (body) worship, intricate rituals, (religious) conceit

Discipline: BDSM

Elephant chan: the Elephant's Foot

Enkyoku na Seppun / 婉曲な接吻: contact transfer, contaminants; nyotaimori (previously "an indirect kiss")

Filament: fibers, threads, roots, wires, hair, rope

Flux: melt fetish body horror, melting, coagulating

Galatea: agalmato, objectum

Hagiography: conceit of sainthood/martyrdom. figures of interest

Hanahaki: Hanahaki disease; organs filled with foreign matter

Herakleophorbia: oversized things, macro

Kholodets / холодец: cross-sections, resin/gelatin suspensions, anatomical diagrams, dissections, fetish gear under plain clothes

Lace: lace, fishnets, mesh

Laces: corsetry aesthetic, shibari

Latex: vinyl, latex, esp. wetlook

Leaks: mirrors, masks, screens/monitors, reflective surfaces

Leather: only used when I can be mostly confident it isn't latex

Lichinka / личинка: tentacles, tongues, invertebrates, sex organs

Likhoradka / лихорадка: disease, symptoms, infectiousness; nosophilia

Louboutin: contrast-sole aesthetic, hidden linings/coatings

Myxomatosis: leporine, blistered, tumescent

Oblations: paraphernalia *****INDISTINCT TAG*****

Ontology: holes, voids; trypophilia

Optical Disc: distorted visuals, implicit of impaired/altered sensory input

Or the Crown Slips: edging, particular head tilts; symphorophilia, especially the rehearsal ("Chin up, Princess...")

Pachy chan: the corium slags produced by the Fukushima disaster, where three separate reactors melted down

Pearls: pearls, teeth

Raiment: wearables *****INDISTINCT TAG*****

Rapture: the "O"; erotic nihilism

Therapy: parasites, (bad) medicine; trypophilia, formicophilia

Thriai: apiaries, honey curation, telling of the bees

Unction: sploshing/gunge/WAM; more messy/sloppy than anointment tag, though there's overlap

Underfoot: foot fetishism, footwear, corium slag

Satin: silk, satin

Saturnine: afterglow, necro, decomposition

Second Skin: wearables fetishism; second skin

Shuba / шуба: fur, velvet, velour, suede, moss, mold, matte textured surfaces

Stimulating: looping stim gifs

Surfeit: swelling, excess, tumescence; expansion

Synecdoche: setting porn, warning signs, environmental storytelling. abandoned places, urbex, exclusion zones

Syzygy: concentrism, convergence, overlay

Tryasovitsy / трясовицы: contagiousness, transcendentalism

Vagusblogging: appetites, (sensory) gluttony, compulsive behaviors; feederism

Vessels: containers, rooms, dishes; (clothes) stuffing

Wetware: clinical apathy, cybernetics, body hacking

Wetware Softhack: drug use, nerve tweaking, cybernetic malfunctions (historically I've also had a #Wetware Hack tag, but I've been trying to merge that tag into #Discipline)

With the devotion of an Earl Marshal: symphorophilia, especially the planning (Often blurs with #Or the Crown Slips.) "[He] thought of nothing else but her death, a coronation of wounds he had staged with the devotion of an Earl Marshal."

Wonderbread: (Wonder)bread, adulterated bread, extremely processed food products, hypercapitalist environmental damage

Wormwood: radiochemical symphorophilia, hazardous waste, apocalyptica

wundermöpse: I haven't decided whether to add this one to the mix or not

Functional non-aes tags

Chum for Chums: moodboards in this are made by me

Dimercaprol: my adult art

Fav: personal favs

Mine: content I've uploaded, compiled, and/or myself

Music: music tag

Peak B.A.L.: something of a best-ofs where I'm OP

We Just Don't Know: Catch-all nonsense. I started using it originally for raunchy shitposts, memes, and text posts I wanted to be able to reference again. Trying to use it less often and focus on the abstract for this blog.

In addition to the above, I've done my best to tag as many posts as possible with the contributing artists. If it's a publication like a zine, I try to remember to tag that, too. If you ever feel cheeky and want to help me source anything in my #Needs Source tag, you're lovely.

[bills-bible-basics]

MOUNT MORIAH: MY HOLY MOUNTAIN -- KJV (King James Version) Bible Verse List King James Version Bible verse list compiled by Bill Kochman concerning the topic "Mount Moriah: My Holy Mountain". Visit my page at https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/ to see all the lists I've compiled to date. Thanks! "And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of." Genesis 22:2, KJV "Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite." 2 Chronicles 3:1, KJV "And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it." Isaiah 2:2, KJV "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." Isaiah 11:9, KJV "Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people." Isaiah 56:7, KJV "When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;" Isaiah 57:13, KJV "But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number . . . The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD." Isaiah 65:11, 25, KJV "And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD." Isaiah 66:20, KJV "For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things." Ezekiel 20:40, KJV "Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire." Ezekiel 28:14, KJV "O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us . . . And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;" Daniel 9:16, 20, KJV "And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him." Daniel 11:45, KJV "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;" Joel 2:1, KJV "So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more." Joel 3:17, KJV "For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen

drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been." Obadiah 1:16, KJV "In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain." Zephaniah 3:11, KJV "Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain." Zechariah 8:3, KJV If you would like more info regarding the origin of these KJV Bible verse lists, go to https://www.billkochman.com/VerseLists/. Thank-you! https://www.billkochman.com/Blog/index.php/mount-moriah-my-holy-mountain-kjv-king-james-version-bible-verse-list/?feed_id=23789&_unique_id=63c937aa738b8&MOUNT%20MORIAH%3A%20MY%20HOLY%20MOUNTAIN%20--%20KJV%20%28King%20James%20Version%29%20Bible%20Verse%20List

[the-hem]

“The Wish.” From the Pranagnihotra Upanishad, the Exploration of the Mysteries of the Sacrifices to the Vital Air.

21. In this bodily sacrifice, unadorned by the girdle round the sacrificial post, who is the sacrificer?

Who is (his) wife ? Who are the officiating priests ? Who are the attendants ? Which are the sacrificial vessels ? 

What are the oblations ? Which is the altar ? Which is the interior of the altar ? Which is the wooden container (for the soma juice) ? 

Which is the chariot ? Which is the sacrificial animal ? Who is the officiating priest ? Who is the invoking priest ? Who is the assistant of the Chief priest ? 

Who is the assistant of the Adhvaryu “door opener”? Who is the first chanter ? Who is the assistant of the Hotir “sacrificer”? Who sings the Sama “calm” songs aloud ? Which is the libation to (Agni) ? Who is the assistant of the Brahma “creator” priest ?

What are the Darbha “cattle” grass ? Which is the ladle ? Which is the container of the ghee ? Which are the two ghee offerings ? Which are the two parts of the ghee ? What are the preliminary offerings ?

 What are the final sacrifices ? Which is the Ida libation (in between the two) ? What is recitation ? 

What is the Samyorvaka formula “grain producing”? Which are the four Ajya oblations “yoga, compassion, forbearance, non-violence ? Which is the sacrificial post ? Which is the cord ? 

Which are the Ishtis “wishes” (oblations of butter, fruits, etc.,) ? What is the sacrificial fee ? What is the ritual bath after the sacrifice ?

The answers:

22. In the bodily sacrifice, unadorned by the cord round the sacrificial post, the sacrificer is the self; (his) wife is the intellect. 

The great officiating priests are the Vedas. The ego is the Adhvaryu. The mind-stuff is the invoking priest. Prana is the assistant of the chief priest; Apana is the assistant of the Adhvaryu. Vyana (intercouse) is the first chanter. Udana (orgrasm) is the loud Sama (calmness) singer. Samana (stillness) is the assistant of Hotir. 

The body is the altar. The nose is the interior of the altar. The crest is the wooden container. The foot is the chariot. The right hand is the ladle. The left hand is the container of the ghee. 

The ears are the two ghee offerings. The eyes are the two parts of the ghee. The neck is the libation. The Tanmatras (atoms) are the assistant of the Brahma Priest. The great elements are the attendants. 

Gunas (delusion, ambition, nobility) are the supplementary offerings. The tongue is the final sacrifices. Teeth and lips are the middle libation. 

The palate is the hymn-recitation. Memory is the Samyorvaka formula. Compassion, forbearance, non-violence are the four Ajya oblations (to Soma, etc.,). Om is the sacrificial post. 

Desire is the cord. Mind is the chariot. Lust is the sacrificial animal. The hair is the Darbha grass. The sense organs are the sacrificial vessels. The organs of action are the oblations. Non-violence is the Ishtis. 

Renunciation is the sacrificial fee. The post-sacrificial bath (follows) from death. In this body are stationed all the divinities.

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