"There are three conditions which often look alike
Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow:
Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment
From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, 
indifference
Which resembles the others as death resembles life,
Being between two lives—unflowering, between
The live and the dead nettle. This is the use of memory:
For liberation—not less of love but expanding
Of love beyond desire, and so liberation
From the future as well as the past."

P
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Chokh Raj
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: OT - Halloween


some more harm, then

On Hallowe'en, I'd love to borrow another supplication from Yeats -- 
this one written for initiation into the highest grade of the Golden Dawn:

"We are weighed down by the blood & the heavy weight of the bones
 We are bound by flowers, & our feet are entangled in the green
 And there is deceit in the singing of birds.
 It is time to be done with it all
 The stars call & all the planets
 And the purging fire of the moon
 And yonder is the cold silence of cleansing night
 May the dawn break, & gates of day be set wide open."

Amen,
 CR

From: Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: OT - Halloween


All Saints' Day

The vigil of this feast is popularly called "Hallowe'en" or "Halloween".
'Solemnity' is celebrated on the first of November -- instituted to honour 
all the saints,
known and unknown, to supply any deficiencies in the faithful's celebration 
of saints'
feasts during the year.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01315a.htm

Faced with 'darkness', one may surely implore some 'light'.
No harm, I suppose.
CR


From: Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: OT - Halloween


"O sages standing in God's holy fire
 As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
 Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
 And be the singing-masters of my soul."

 CR

From: Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: OT - Halloween


That sounds very reassuring, Peter. Thanks. - CR




From: Peter Montgomery <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 8:41 AM
Subject: Re: OT - Halloween

//Hallow means Holy.
Hallowe'en is the evening of the day of all saints,//
The dark before the light.

P.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Chokh Raj
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 2:41 PM
Subject: OT - Halloween


Halloween: The Day of the Dead

http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20111028-travelwise-halloweens-past-and-present

"Dust inbreathed was a house—
 The walls, the wainscot and the mouse"

"The parched eviscerate soil
 Gapes at the vanity of toil,
 Laughs without mirth."

"Water and fire shall rot
 The marred foundations we forgot,
 Of sanctuary and choir."


 CR