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- POINTS OF LIGHT
- 928 EAST FIFTH STREET
- VOLUME IV #6
- Brooklyn, New York 11230-2104
- Copyright 1991: Temple of the Eternal Light (718) 438-4878
- An "Omni-Denominational" Religious Fellowship
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- WISHES FOR A RELAXING SUMMER
- "POINTS OF LIGHT" will be suspended for the summer months and will resume in
- September. Happy vacationing to all. The Temple will be open for visits this
- summer. Please call in advance.
- Rt. Rev. Jerome Peartree, Publisher Rev. Karen DePolito, Editor
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- OPEN INVITATION TO ALL
- This event is open to both members and non-members. Please call a day
- in advance and let us know you are coming. (Also see workshop schedule below)
- SATURDAY AUGUST 3, 1991, at 8:00 P.M. LAMMAS SABBAT
- Donation: Bring some food or drink ($1.00 optional)
- ENJOY THE CELEBRATION WITH US.
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- A GENETIC MERCURY - Part 2 of "Tree of Life" series.
- African and ancient tribes would kill a lion and make a ritual out of
- eating its heart, to gain courage. In China, deer antlers and tiger bones were
- ingested to communicate to the eater the characteristics of those animals.
- People go to Mass, eating the bread and drinking the wine to take in the body
- and blood of Christ, and somehow becoming more divine.
- One of the functions of Hod is memory. We will discuss the function of
- memory and the role memory plays in Ceremonial Magick.
- About thirty years ago, a laboratory experimented with DNA and RNA.
- Using food, the analysts trained planeria (flatworms) to distinguish between
- the black arm and the white arm of a T-maze. They isolated the worms who
- learned rapidly, and rewarded them by grinding them into food for untrained
- worms. The untrained worms ate the flatworm food and knew how to differentiate
- between the black and white maze.
- DNA is a double helix: two ribbons of information wound around each
- other in the center of every cell. Actually, they are wound around a non-
- visible central column. The central point is not definite. DNA consists of
- different nucleic acids, linked together by base pairs (codons), long lines
- extending between the two ribbons. There are four different types of base
- pairs which contain every possible characteristic or trait that can exist in a
- human.
- Four codons combining in all possible combinations can produce sixty-
- four possibilities -- similar to the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching (the
- Chinese "Book of Changes"). These hexagrams are formed by the combining of two
- trigrams. The long line consists of two parts, sort of a + and - , four
- varieties. The base pairs link the ribbon together. It is said that DNA does
- not exist naturally within the world, but was introduced outside of it.
- Scientists say that the possibility of these compunds forming these chains
- randomly, is similar to placing a bunch of nuts and bolts into a box, shaking
- the box and having a Ford roll out. They say no inside force produced DNA.
- What does that mean? Is there a GOD?
- DNA, as represented by two coils, appears in many mystical writings of
- diverse cultures. The Chinese practiced a form of geomancy called "Fung-Shway"
- (wind-water). Geomancers could look at the lay of the land, and determine
- where buildings could be erected that would withstand natural disasters like
- earthquakes, tornadoes, and floods.
- They saw the world as being in a state of constant flux. Flowing within the
- earth wre two dragons, red and green, intertwined. It was said that these
- dragons were constantly changing and moving.
- Hindu cultures represented DNA by two coils in Kundalini: one, the Eda
- and the other the Pingala, wound around the Nshunda pillar.
- The Emerald Tablet of Hermes illustrated two serpents wound around a
- central pillar in the Caduceus, the widely-recognized medical symbol. Why
- would so many cultures develop the concept of wisdom as two coils wound around
- a center pole?
- DNA and RNA. The relationship between DNA and RNA is similar to the
- relationship between God and His angels in a Caballistic sense.
- Gematria:
- English Hebrew
- DNA Aleph, Nun, Daleth 1 + 50 + 4 = 55 = 10 = 1 (God)
- RNA Aleph, Nun, Resh 1 + 50 + 200 = 251 = 8 (Hod, Hermes,
- Thoth, Mercury all messengers)
- Why choose these names? I suppose it was coincidence!
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- WORKSHOP SCHEDULE: Saturday,July 20, 1991, August 17, 1991 at 7:00 P.M.
- Please call in advance to let us know you are coming. DONATION: $1.00
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- LITHA
- a poem for Midsummer by: Karen DePolito
- It's raining hard -- whatever "it" may be.
- In these short, schizoid hours before dawn
- the rain ignites a fire in my blood;
- It moistens the heat within that drives me on.
-
- Night has descended, here where god's life ended.
- Party time is done, the animals are gone;
- Their offerings sit in a smoldering pile:
- Perfumes of dead roses, scorched lavender, and camomile.
- They drench the air -- ah, such a tease,
- This exquisite infection, this beautiful disease.
- One drop from heaven sends you to your knees.
-
- I walk the black path, it suits me to a T.
- O goddess my goddess, why have you exalted me?
-
- But is it done? Not yet Not yet Not yet
- I would know otherwise.
-
- Shall I offer you a cunning word?
- You delighted in my words in times past.
- Put the Word in my hand and I am unbeatable,
- Describing the nameless, naming the unspeakable.
- Isis, Persephone, Venus, Demeter,
- Locking divinity into rhyme and meter.
- Would that satisfy you, pacify you, mollify you,
- Would you walk away with your belly full at last?
-
- No?
-
- Then crown me with roses, but leave the thorns intact,
- And tie me to the wheel that turns not back
- nor forward -- only round and round it goes,
- And where it stops, god only knows.
-
- And I do it for the love of the One-in-three.
- O goddess my goddess, why have you exalted me?
-
- I thirst, I thirst, give me my blood to drink.
- I'm running out of rhymes! Don't ask me to think
- about what it means: I'm sick of being clever.
- Should I wallow in my own philosophy forever?
-
- Ah sweet silence! embrace me, that your wisdom I might see.
- O goddess my goddess, why have you exalted me?
-
- Where the light hits the water,
- There you'll find the rose that bleeds.
- Mother, into your belly I commend my seeds!
- ...
- ...
- ...
-
- And the wind moves across the face of the sea.
- O goddess my goddess, why have you exalted me?
-
- It is finished
- It is begun
- It is.
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