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The terms incubus and succubus have been applied indiscriminately by the Church Fathers to elementals. The incubus and succubus, however, are evil and unnatural creations." - Manly P. Hall
"The Church gathered all the elementals together under the title of demon. This is a misnomer with far-reaching consequences, the average mind thinks a demon means an evil thing."
"The Nature spirits are essentially no more malevolent than are the minerals, plants, and animals. Many of the early Church Fathers asserted that they had met and debated with the elementals."
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Ritual is not habit or Routine. Routines focus on the what, rituals focus on the why. Whereas the purpose of a routine becomes more mundane and obscure each time it's performed, a ritual is a celebration of its purpose. While habits make the ordinary invisible, rituals make the ordinary extraordinary.
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Yunomine Onsen, Japan, The World Heritage Site, Nachi Falls, A 600-year-old large ginkgo tree at Kagu Shrine in Hiroshima Prefecture.
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Abdul Alhazred was on to something when he said: "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."
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Fun fact: For decades, a great Djinn spirit has secretly been in charge of BlackRock's Aladdin financial computer system, the backbone of much of the global economy.
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The problem with Mikkyo (Esoteric Buddhism) is that it is extremely effective even years after an operation was completed and one has long forgotten about it.
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Ipsissimus is hard to translate directly from Latin to English, but it is essentially the superlative of "self,” translating rather approximately to "His most Selfness," or "self-est." The Ipsissimus Knows Nothing.
