Swanspirit
October 18th, 2001, 01:48 PM
Now this is according to his belief system but I think it bears reading.....
"Dear Witches, Druids, and Magicians:
As Samhain approaches our thoughts turn to
September 11, and what we
can do to help. Many plan to ease the transition
of the many souls
struggling to find their way to the other side,
and this is noble and
honorable work. But there's another job to be
done.
How have things been since 9/11? Setting aside the
grief, the rage,
the fear, "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was
the show?" How has
that part of life not directly related to
terrorism or war actually
been? Here's what I've seen:
Three plane accidents, unrelated to terrorism, in
the 4 weeks since
the attacks. One train wreck with fatalities, and
one crazed killer
on a bus, also unrelated. I can't think of any
other one-month period
that had so many tragedies. A single plane crash
used to fill the
news media for months on end, now they're coming
too fast to follow.
A wave of colds and flu. Not unusual as the
weather changes, but
notable in massive absenteeism, and my doctor
tells me he's had many
patients relapsing and coming back for another
visit. My first
thought was that immune suppression is normal when
people are upset,
and undoubtedly that's a big part of it. Pet
owners tell me that many
of their pets are sick, and my kitty, already ill
but managing,
turned suddenly worse and died, although the vet
couldn't say why.
Crime is down as people treat one another with an
outpouring of human
kindness, but accidents and injuries of all kind
seem to be way up.
(I live in the New York area, things may or may
not be worse here.)
What does any of this have to do with terrorism or
with Samhain?
One of the principals of magical ritual is that
creating a particular
kind of energy attracts a particular kind of being
(or Being). Prayer
and sacrifice brings the gods. Invocation brings
the elementals. In
my 20-plus years of magical practice, I've also
noticed that
non-corporeal beings can also be summoned
accidentally. For example,
a house fire can attract Fire Elementals, so that
small fires erupt
for weeks thereafter.
On September 11, terrorists did more than attack
New York and
Washington. They made a blood sacrifice in the
name of their deity,
sacrificing their own lives and murdering
thousands to achieve a
"religious" goal of extreme evil. We know that
physically, they
achieved many of their goals -- the World Trade
Center was destroyed.
I believe that they succeeded magically as well.
This immense blood sacrifice, this outpouring of
evil and death, has
opened a gate, and negative energies have poured
through that gate.
Forces that you might call "demonic" have been
drawn to us. They
must be sent back!
On Samhain, CLOSE THE GATES. Show the energies of
negativity and
destruction OUT. They have overstayed their
welcome, we don't want
them! On Samhain, when the gates are meant to be
opened, it's the
perfect opportunity to complete the Samhain ritual
by closing the
door afterwards, first making sure that "The
Outsiders," the beings
of pain, anguish, terror and blood are absolutely
clear that they
MUST go through, back to the other side.
Brightest blessings for the New Year,
Deborah Lipp"
--
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a
descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
Instead of diminishing
evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may
murder the liar, but
you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the
truth. Through violence
you may murder the hater, but you do not murder
hate. In fact,
violence merely increases hate. So it goes.
Returning violence for
violence multiplies violence, adding deeper
darkness to a night
already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out
darkness; only
light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate:
only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love and Light
Swannie
"Dear Witches, Druids, and Magicians:
As Samhain approaches our thoughts turn to
September 11, and what we
can do to help. Many plan to ease the transition
of the many souls
struggling to find their way to the other side,
and this is noble and
honorable work. But there's another job to be
done.
How have things been since 9/11? Setting aside the
grief, the rage,
the fear, "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was
the show?" How has
that part of life not directly related to
terrorism or war actually
been? Here's what I've seen:
Three plane accidents, unrelated to terrorism, in
the 4 weeks since
the attacks. One train wreck with fatalities, and
one crazed killer
on a bus, also unrelated. I can't think of any
other one-month period
that had so many tragedies. A single plane crash
used to fill the
news media for months on end, now they're coming
too fast to follow.
A wave of colds and flu. Not unusual as the
weather changes, but
notable in massive absenteeism, and my doctor
tells me he's had many
patients relapsing and coming back for another
visit. My first
thought was that immune suppression is normal when
people are upset,
and undoubtedly that's a big part of it. Pet
owners tell me that many
of their pets are sick, and my kitty, already ill
but managing,
turned suddenly worse and died, although the vet
couldn't say why.
Crime is down as people treat one another with an
outpouring of human
kindness, but accidents and injuries of all kind
seem to be way up.
(I live in the New York area, things may or may
not be worse here.)
What does any of this have to do with terrorism or
with Samhain?
One of the principals of magical ritual is that
creating a particular
kind of energy attracts a particular kind of being
(or Being). Prayer
and sacrifice brings the gods. Invocation brings
the elementals. In
my 20-plus years of magical practice, I've also
noticed that
non-corporeal beings can also be summoned
accidentally. For example,
a house fire can attract Fire Elementals, so that
small fires erupt
for weeks thereafter.
On September 11, terrorists did more than attack
New York and
Washington. They made a blood sacrifice in the
name of their deity,
sacrificing their own lives and murdering
thousands to achieve a
"religious" goal of extreme evil. We know that
physically, they
achieved many of their goals -- the World Trade
Center was destroyed.
I believe that they succeeded magically as well.
This immense blood sacrifice, this outpouring of
evil and death, has
opened a gate, and negative energies have poured
through that gate.
Forces that you might call "demonic" have been
drawn to us. They
must be sent back!
On Samhain, CLOSE THE GATES. Show the energies of
negativity and
destruction OUT. They have overstayed their
welcome, we don't want
them! On Samhain, when the gates are meant to be
opened, it's the
perfect opportunity to complete the Samhain ritual
by closing the
door afterwards, first making sure that "The
Outsiders," the beings
of pain, anguish, terror and blood are absolutely
clear that they
MUST go through, back to the other side.
Brightest blessings for the New Year,
Deborah Lipp"
--
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a
descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
Instead of diminishing
evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may
murder the liar, but
you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the
truth. Through violence
you may murder the hater, but you do not murder
hate. In fact,
violence merely increases hate. So it goes.
Returning violence for
violence multiplies violence, adding deeper
darkness to a night
already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out
darkness; only
light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate:
only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love and Light
Swannie