For the Other Parts of the Documentary, Click on the YouTube Link and you will see them to the right of the page in other videos. Plus lot's more.
Folks, it is TIME to stand against sexual violence everywhere. STOP looking the other way in your family, town, life, home, or church.
Monday, November 30, 2015
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Church Powers, Control and the Fight to Keep you from Knowing who you are.
by Reverend Crystal Cox
What doctrine did the church use to control the people before Jesus died on the cross and they used his death to control people?
In whose name was Jesus’s Trial carried out?
Who was the power at the time? And what “people” gave these armies, the church, the taxing powers PERMISSION to persecute, prosecute and execute someone exposing corruption and empowering people?
And what does this Energy Loop have to do with right NOW?
It is time to change the tape, and to remove the hologram. It is time to let in the Truth into our mind, souls and human bodies and truly let the teaching of the man named Jesus Christ come into play on this planet, in this time.
Why did this power that persecuted, prosecuted and executed Jesus Christ later claim to be Christian, as if they followed his word, his teachings, or even his living example?
Was it to control you? Side with you? Manipulate your thoughts so that you were confused as to what being Christ like, Christian, real was?
Why are we still today oppressed by this same power? Why do people claim to be Christian? Is it mostly because it’s a hand me down faith? And they have no personal relationship with the ascended master Jesus Christ or with the Holy Spirit, in which we all come from equally?
The “church” of the time worshipped a “God” right? Who? And why did the church work with the local powers, Caesar? The local governing body to FORCE the people to work and pay them taxation or die, be beaten, lose loved ones and be constantly tormented? The CHURCH of that time and the local taxing POWERS used violence, oppression, fear and torment to force loyalty to them. Jesus threatened this as he came here to show YOU that YOU are ALL God’s, all God’s people, all God inside and that you, they did not have to be tortured but to be like him and truly come to their power to the real GOD, and away from GREED, Oppression, Taxation, Violence and being slaves to the Church of the Time and their partner in crime, the Army of the governing power of that time.
Jesus was exposing them, he was removing the curtain and empowering the people. To be like Jesus, a Christ follower, a Christian, we would all do the same. We would not worship those behind the curtain, the puppeteers who do not want us to know who we are, to know our power or to worship, follow or know the God Within each of us.
Were the Catholics, the “church” at the time? Who were the Catholics at that time?
Who gave them the enormous barbaric perverse powers they had and have over humankind?
If they were the Church before Christ, and they, along with the taxing power of greed at that time, persecuted Jesus Christ for trying to awaken mankind, and give them back their personal power and their divine relationship with the Holy Spirit, then how can they be Christians? Or have any love or respect for who Jesus Christ was, his teachings or what he stood for?
The whole idea was to STOP Christ from his teachings, his whistleblowing against corruption, his hands on healing, his non-judgemental love of all, his “magic” that he was showing ALL they too could also do, and with no need of the Church, the Army or the Taxing Greedy Powers that be. And to STOP Jesus Christ from reaching people, awakening people so that they would have the COURAGE, the Christ like Courage and the Knowledge, Magic, Healing, and Power of Jesus Christ and therefore leave the oppressive of the Catholic Church and the Taxing Army of which violently oppressed them every single day, OWNED THEM.
Then what? Later these Powers became Christians because the masses loved Jesus Christ so much? They had to embrace it? So they conjured up the bible and made up doctrine to control people and keep in power, and oh that Jesus guy ya we love him too, Ya Right. THEY killed him after they persecuted and prosecuted him for Truth Telling and Whistle Blowing.
Jesus did not write the bible. Man did. And what women did in history at that time and before was hidden by that same partnership (Catholic Church and Greedy Army Taxing Powers).
What was Jesus really teaching?
What did Jesus really do here and what does that have to do with the powers of Greed, Government and the “Church” at the time?
They had the power to persecute Jesus for his teaching, and render this horrific images of what happens to a son of God if he goes against the Catholic Church (the “church” of the time) and the powers of taxation and army violence of that time. This image to you, to children, a violent bloody image of a man who dies a slow violent Death if he dares to heal, to love equally, to oppose taxation and corruption and to teach of the God inside, as if to say if you do this we will do the same to you and THESE POWERS stayed in charge of your bloodline, your consciousness and kept you in fear and paying them to oppress you.
You know in your heart and soul, whether you believe in Jesus as a real man, a God, or even a Fairy Tale; YOU still know that the teachings, the parable, the tales is NOT about killing your fellow man or woman in his name or whom they claim is his father’s name.
YOU know that any church, any governing body, any religious order of any kind is not HOLY is not of the Jesus Christ’s teachings, if they are killing, oppressing, instilling fear, harming, judging, taxing, beating, hating or acting corruption and claiming they are Christian or doing such in the name of Christ in any way. You know this. In those tales, Jesus simply did not do those things, nor teach those things. So therefore being like Christ, being Christian, has NOTHING to do with those things, period, NOTHING.
Does this stuff matter? Yes to the point of those same powers, those religious persecuting powers, those powers who shut up those who speak out about corruption and greed and those powers that do not want YOU, the INDIVIDUAL, to know your truth, know your power, know that you are of God and take control of your own thoughts and beliefs.
They want to keep control over your thoughts, your life force, your energy, and the power you have in your own mind, your soul to create a world of peace, love, justice and true, beautiful equality for ALL.
Think on these matters. It is important that you know what YOU believe.
You do not have to share it with anyone ever. You do not have to teach it or preach it. Yet it is imperative that you ponder all of this and come to your truth for you, this is the Awakening we are in. This is our Gift. To have the courage to be like Christ, even if only in our certain beliefs in our own mind, values, and heart. It is a matter of mass consciousness and the Jesus Christ aspect of our history, our planet really does affect us all so the it matters to clear this energy.
While you are pondering. Ponder this; you know who you are, who you pray to, what your true intentions are, what your teachings are, and who you are at your core right?
You know what you prefer, believe, and how you wish things to be. Now think for a moment, what if 12 people in your life wrote about you, your thoughts, your love life, your morals, your teachings, your intentions, your parents, and all about what and who you are? Do you think ANY of them would get any of it TRULY Right?
Then factor in Greed and Control and think, hmmm what is this thing they call the BIBLE.
Once you have pondered this and released the controlling illusion to the LIGHT, to the Holy Spirit, then and only then can we all get on with it. And all of us live the beautiful life we came here to Truly Live.
I typed this out tonight in a matter of minutes. I feel it is a message I needed to hear and to share. And So It Is.
~ Reverend Crystal Cox
Appalachian Granny Magic; Cherokee Witch; Witchcraft is about Healing, Worship, Honoring Earth
"North American Navajo medicine men, known as Hatalii, use several methods to diagnose a patient's ailments, including the use of special tools such as crystal rocks, and abilities such as hand-trembling and trances, sometimes accompanied by chanting.
Training as a Hatalii is arduous and takes many years, the apprentice learning everything by watching his teacher and memorizes the words to all the chants.
The famous Navajo shape-shifters, the Skinwalkers or Yea-Naa-gloo-shee, are witches who assume animal forms to travel surreptitiously and to deliver their curses in secret.
The most common type of Navajo witchcraft is known as Witchery Way. On method is the use of “corpse poison”, or powdered corpses, especially from the corpses of children, particularly twins, the best body parts being the fingerprints and the bones of the back of the skull. A sub-branch of Witchery Way is based on the power of names, body material like fingernails and possessions to affect their owners by sympathetic magic and curses.
Spearfinger was a legendary Cherokee witch who had a finger that looked like a spear. She was said to have worn an impenetrable stone dress and to have eaten the liver of her victims. She supposedly haunted areas in the Appalachian Mountains, where she is believed to still inhabit today.
Appalachian Granny Magic is a form of witchcraft that dates back to the first European settlers of the Appalachian Mountains, who arrived in the late 1700s from Ireland and Scotland. Practitioners, also known as “Water Witches” (specialists in dowsing for water or energy vortexes) or “Witch Doctors” (specialists in healing and midwifery), believe in, and give daily offerings to, the fairy folk and leprechauns they believe followed them to the new country. They also believe in the spirits of the dead and seek out the guidance of ancestral spirits. Many of the older Granny Magic spells are sung and danced, and home-made cauldrons, brooms, pottery, candles, mirrors and baskets are all utilized."
Source
http://www.witchcraftandwitches.com/world_americas.html
Training as a Hatalii is arduous and takes many years, the apprentice learning everything by watching his teacher and memorizes the words to all the chants.
The famous Navajo shape-shifters, the Skinwalkers or Yea-Naa-gloo-shee, are witches who assume animal forms to travel surreptitiously and to deliver their curses in secret.
The most common type of Navajo witchcraft is known as Witchery Way. On method is the use of “corpse poison”, or powdered corpses, especially from the corpses of children, particularly twins, the best body parts being the fingerprints and the bones of the back of the skull. A sub-branch of Witchery Way is based on the power of names, body material like fingernails and possessions to affect their owners by sympathetic magic and curses.
Spearfinger was a legendary Cherokee witch who had a finger that looked like a spear. She was said to have worn an impenetrable stone dress and to have eaten the liver of her victims. She supposedly haunted areas in the Appalachian Mountains, where she is believed to still inhabit today.
Appalachian Granny Magic is a form of witchcraft that dates back to the first European settlers of the Appalachian Mountains, who arrived in the late 1700s from Ireland and Scotland. Practitioners, also known as “Water Witches” (specialists in dowsing for water or energy vortexes) or “Witch Doctors” (specialists in healing and midwifery), believe in, and give daily offerings to, the fairy folk and leprechauns they believe followed them to the new country. They also believe in the spirits of the dead and seek out the guidance of ancestral spirits. Many of the older Granny Magic spells are sung and danced, and home-made cauldrons, brooms, pottery, candles, mirrors and baskets are all utilized."
Source
http://www.witchcraftandwitches.com/world_americas.html
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
THE ORACLE AT DELPHI
"The oracle at Delphi is a figure of great historical importance that was, and still is, shrouded in mystery. She spoke for the god Apollo and answered questions for the Greeks and foreign inquirers about colonization, religion, and power.
By her statements Delphi was made a wealthy and powerful city-state.
The oracle was at the height of power around 1600 B.C. when Greece was colonizing the Mediterranean and Black Seas (Hale), but was stationed in Delphi from 1400 B.C. to 381 A.D.(Roach). Despite her long tenure it is still debated today how she received the words from Apollo, weather by hallucination or suggestion.
The history of an oracle at Delphi existed long before Apollo came there. According to Diodorus Siculus the first oracle appeared to a shepherd. The shepherd approached a chasm and as he neared he noticed his goats acting strangely. When he got close to the chasm he was affected with divine frenzy and began to tell of future events.
Word spread and others began to visit the oracle of the Earth to divine their own futures.
Unfortunately too many people fell into the chasm and it was decided that only one person would be the prophet. It would be a woman and she would sit upon a tripod so as to not fall into the chasm.
Later stories in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo tell how the site was conquered by Apollo. The Earth mother Gaia kept a holy serpent at Delphi known as Python. Apollo slays Python and keeps the oracle for himself to speak to mortals. Hence, the oracle at Delphi is known as Pythia in honor of the killing of Python.
Also, unlike tradition where the gender of the priestess or priest is the same as the divinity they served, the oracle was female because she originally served Gaia (Lloyd-Jones, 61). Once Apollo secured the oracle a temple was built.
According to myth there were five temples to Apollo, only two of the five exist in historic record. The first temple was a hut of laurel branches, the second was built by bees of wax and feathers and eventually sent by Apollo to the land of Hyperboreans, the third was of bronze and was either burned or swallowed by the earth in an earthquake.
The fourth temple was built by Trophonios and Agamedes, respected architects, and was burned in 548 B.C.. The fifth temple was also damaged by an earthquake in 373 B.C. and took fifty years to rebuild, by which time the Pythia had lost power (Sourvino-Inwood, 231).
Over the entrances were inscribed three sayings “Nothing in Excess”, “Know Thyself”, and “Go bail and ruin is at hand” that all would have seen and thoughtfully considered before entering the temple (Lloyd-Jones, 65).
It is known that the temple was built upon a spring that was used for purification by the oracle and her attending priests.
Plutarch, a priest to the oracle, described the vapors from the spring as “sweetest and most expensive perfumes” (Littleton, 77). It was these perfumes that made the oracle ready to speak the words of Apollo.
Inquiries could only be made of Apollo once a year on the seventh day of the Greek month of Bysios-Apollo’s birthday. However according to Plutarch in a passage from Quaestiones Graecae this was eventually changed to the seventh day of each month except the winter months when Apollo did not reside in Delphi. The change from yearly inquires to monthly was made no later than 480 B.C.. Obviously many people wanted to consult the oracle.
So many that Plutarch describes times of there being three oracles on hand, two that worked in shifts and a third in case one wished a reprieve. To organize the people and communities that wished to see the oracle on the given day precedence was given. The city of Delphi always received first precedence and bequeathed second place to a city of their choosing. Those without precedence drew lots for place. Unfortunately, those at the end of the line may not have gotten a chance to see the oracle because of the setting sun and would then have to wait until the next month to try again.
Often the Pythia was asked about colonization. If land was gained because of prophesy by the oracle it was believed that the oracle had some possession of the land and legitimized the conquest, thus increasing the stature of Delphi even more.
The oracle was also asked frequently about introducing religion to the new colonies. She would often respond with what gods would be proper to worship there. Her answers could be direct, conditional on some particular thing, or entirely ambiguous. The more direct the answer given the more legitimate the colony was considered to be.
Before the Pythia could be questioned she had to ritually prepare herself. Much of the purification rites involve laurel as it is the tree of Apollo and associated with divination.
The Pythia would chew laurel leaves and bay leaves, drink from the sacred spring and wear a crown of laurel while sitting on a tripod adorned with laurel over a fissure in the cellar of the temple.
Vapors rose from the fissure and caused the Pythia to go into a trance like state. When she was ready inquirers would be led in by a priest who would ask the question. The oracle would respond and the priests would interpret the answers for the visitor.
Any type of woman could be chosen to be an oracle. Education, marital status, wealth, and age were of no consideration. Women were chosen for their aptitude to speak for the god. However, if a woman was married she would give up all family duties while stationed as the oracle (Hale). Similarly, despite the precedence system, any person could consult the oracle as long as they made an offering to Apollo according to their means.
The reasoning for the Pythia’s riddled answers and the nature of the vapors rising from the floor of the temple has been richly debated in the twentieth century. Early research believed there to be no vapors or chasms below the temple, despite descriptions in ancient texts. New research shows that there are two definite fault lines intersecting below the temple. The Delphic Fault runs east to west and the Kerna Fault runs north and south. Analysis of the hydrocarbon gases in the spring water near the temple are shown to contain ethylene which is sweet smelling and if rising into an enclosed chamber would have been potent enough to cause a trance state (Roach).
Today the concentration of gasses is weaker because of the absence of seismic activity to push the gasses to the surface. It is also believed that the earthquake that damaged the temple in 373B.C. closed the fissures that were releasing the gasses. The oracle’s last response in 362B.C. states that “the temple has fallen” and as Christianity gained power she states that it was interrupting the flow of divine power from Apollo (Hale). It is accepted today that the Pythia lost power not only because of the rise of Christianity, but also because she lacked the hallucinogens necessary to prophesy."
Source
By her statements Delphi was made a wealthy and powerful city-state.
The oracle was at the height of power around 1600 B.C. when Greece was colonizing the Mediterranean and Black Seas (Hale), but was stationed in Delphi from 1400 B.C. to 381 A.D.(Roach). Despite her long tenure it is still debated today how she received the words from Apollo, weather by hallucination or suggestion.
The history of an oracle at Delphi existed long before Apollo came there. According to Diodorus Siculus the first oracle appeared to a shepherd. The shepherd approached a chasm and as he neared he noticed his goats acting strangely. When he got close to the chasm he was affected with divine frenzy and began to tell of future events.
Word spread and others began to visit the oracle of the Earth to divine their own futures.
Unfortunately too many people fell into the chasm and it was decided that only one person would be the prophet. It would be a woman and she would sit upon a tripod so as to not fall into the chasm.
Later stories in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo tell how the site was conquered by Apollo. The Earth mother Gaia kept a holy serpent at Delphi known as Python. Apollo slays Python and keeps the oracle for himself to speak to mortals. Hence, the oracle at Delphi is known as Pythia in honor of the killing of Python.
Also, unlike tradition where the gender of the priestess or priest is the same as the divinity they served, the oracle was female because she originally served Gaia (Lloyd-Jones, 61). Once Apollo secured the oracle a temple was built.
According to myth there were five temples to Apollo, only two of the five exist in historic record. The first temple was a hut of laurel branches, the second was built by bees of wax and feathers and eventually sent by Apollo to the land of Hyperboreans, the third was of bronze and was either burned or swallowed by the earth in an earthquake.
The fourth temple was built by Trophonios and Agamedes, respected architects, and was burned in 548 B.C.. The fifth temple was also damaged by an earthquake in 373 B.C. and took fifty years to rebuild, by which time the Pythia had lost power (Sourvino-Inwood, 231).
Over the entrances were inscribed three sayings “Nothing in Excess”, “Know Thyself”, and “Go bail and ruin is at hand” that all would have seen and thoughtfully considered before entering the temple (Lloyd-Jones, 65).
It is known that the temple was built upon a spring that was used for purification by the oracle and her attending priests.
Plutarch, a priest to the oracle, described the vapors from the spring as “sweetest and most expensive perfumes” (Littleton, 77). It was these perfumes that made the oracle ready to speak the words of Apollo.
Inquiries could only be made of Apollo once a year on the seventh day of the Greek month of Bysios-Apollo’s birthday. However according to Plutarch in a passage from Quaestiones Graecae this was eventually changed to the seventh day of each month except the winter months when Apollo did not reside in Delphi. The change from yearly inquires to monthly was made no later than 480 B.C.. Obviously many people wanted to consult the oracle.
So many that Plutarch describes times of there being three oracles on hand, two that worked in shifts and a third in case one wished a reprieve. To organize the people and communities that wished to see the oracle on the given day precedence was given. The city of Delphi always received first precedence and bequeathed second place to a city of their choosing. Those without precedence drew lots for place. Unfortunately, those at the end of the line may not have gotten a chance to see the oracle because of the setting sun and would then have to wait until the next month to try again.
Often the Pythia was asked about colonization. If land was gained because of prophesy by the oracle it was believed that the oracle had some possession of the land and legitimized the conquest, thus increasing the stature of Delphi even more.
The oracle was also asked frequently about introducing religion to the new colonies. She would often respond with what gods would be proper to worship there. Her answers could be direct, conditional on some particular thing, or entirely ambiguous. The more direct the answer given the more legitimate the colony was considered to be.
Before the Pythia could be questioned she had to ritually prepare herself. Much of the purification rites involve laurel as it is the tree of Apollo and associated with divination.
The Pythia would chew laurel leaves and bay leaves, drink from the sacred spring and wear a crown of laurel while sitting on a tripod adorned with laurel over a fissure in the cellar of the temple.
Vapors rose from the fissure and caused the Pythia to go into a trance like state. When she was ready inquirers would be led in by a priest who would ask the question. The oracle would respond and the priests would interpret the answers for the visitor.
Any type of woman could be chosen to be an oracle. Education, marital status, wealth, and age were of no consideration. Women were chosen for their aptitude to speak for the god. However, if a woman was married she would give up all family duties while stationed as the oracle (Hale). Similarly, despite the precedence system, any person could consult the oracle as long as they made an offering to Apollo according to their means.
The reasoning for the Pythia’s riddled answers and the nature of the vapors rising from the floor of the temple has been richly debated in the twentieth century. Early research believed there to be no vapors or chasms below the temple, despite descriptions in ancient texts. New research shows that there are two definite fault lines intersecting below the temple. The Delphic Fault runs east to west and the Kerna Fault runs north and south. Analysis of the hydrocarbon gases in the spring water near the temple are shown to contain ethylene which is sweet smelling and if rising into an enclosed chamber would have been potent enough to cause a trance state (Roach).
Today the concentration of gasses is weaker because of the absence of seismic activity to push the gasses to the surface. It is also believed that the earthquake that damaged the temple in 373B.C. closed the fissures that were releasing the gasses. The oracle’s last response in 362B.C. states that “the temple has fallen” and as Christianity gained power she states that it was interrupting the flow of divine power from Apollo (Hale). It is accepted today that the Pythia lost power not only because of the rise of Christianity, but also because she lacked the hallucinogens necessary to prophesy."
Source
Now it is time to heal and not just this lifetime. You are processing many lifetimes. You are and have been grieving them. You have been clearing old stuff from many lifetimes. As you heal the layers in this body, and in your eternal energy field. You clear all your past and future lifetimes, and not just on this planet, but on any planet you have incarnated on throughout universal time.
~ Reverend Crystal Cox
~ Reverend Crystal Cox
Monday, November 23, 2015
The Goddess of Peace; Please Be with Mother Earth and Her People Right Now
"EIRENE (or Irene) was the goddess of peace (eirênê) and of the season of spring (eiar, eiarinos). Late spring was the usual campaign season in Greece when peace was most at risk. Eirene was one of three Horai, goddesses of the seasons and the keepers of the gates of heaven. Her sisters were Eunomia (Order or Good-Pasture) and Dike (Justice).
She was probably identified with the Hora Thallo (Green Shoots), whose name Hesiod gives to Eirene as an epithet in the Theogony. Her opposite number was Polemos (War).
In classical art she usually appears in the company of her two sister Horai bearing the fruits of the seasons. Statues of the goddess represent her as a maiden holding the infant Ploutos (Wealth) in her arms. In this guise she was identified with Demeter and Tykhe.
Hesiod, Works and Days 212 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) :
"But they who give straight judgements [i.e. those who invoke the goddess Dike (Justice)] to strangers and to the men of the land, and go not aside from what is just, their city flourishes, and the people prosper in it: Eirene (Irene, Peace), the nurse of children, is abroad in their land, and all-seeing Zeus never decrees cruel war against them. Neither famine nor disaster ever haunt men who do true justice; but light-heartedly they tend the fields which are all their care. The earth bears them victual in plenty, and on the mountains the oak bears acorns upon the top and bees in the midst. Their woolly sheep are laden with fleeces; their women bear children like their parents. They flourish continually with good things, and do not travel on ships, for the grain-giving earth bears them fruit."
Homer's Epigrams 15 (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) :
"Open of yourselves, you doors, for mightly Ploutos (Plutus, Wealth) will enter in, and with Ploutos comes jolly Euphrosyne (Mirth) and gentle Eirene (Irene, Peace)."
Pindar, Olympian Ode 4. 16 ff (trans. Conway) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) :
"And with a heart unsullied labours for Eirene (Irene, Peace), the city's friend."
Pindar, Olympian Ode 13. 6 ff :
"Here [in this city] dwells Eunomia (Good Governance) and that unsullied fountain Dike (Justice), her sister, sure support of cities; and Eirene (Peace) of the same kin, who are the stewards of wealth for mankind--three glorious daughters of wise-counselled Themis.
Far from their path they hold proud Hybris (Insolence), fierce-hearted mother of full-fed Koros (Disdain) . . . But to you sons of Aletes, how often the Horai [i.e. Eunomia, Dike and Eirene], decked in their wreaths, have given the glory of the victor's triumph for supreme valour in the sacred games."
Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragments 101 (from Stobaeus, Anthology) (trans. Campbell) (Greek lyric B.C.) :
"Listen, Moirai (Fates) ... hear our prayers ... send us rose-bloomed Eunomia (Good Order) and her bright-throned sisters Dike (Justice) and garland-wearing Eirana (Peace), and make this city forget its heavy-hearted misfortunes."
Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragment 1021 (from Theogorus the Metochite, Miscellany) :
"O sweet Eirana (Peace), wealth-giver to mortals!"
Aeschylus, Fragment 281 (from Papyri Oxyrhynchus) (trans. Lloyd-Jones) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) :
"Not to sow evil . . ((lacuna)) Then Eirene (Irene, Peace) is . . ((lacuna)) for mortals. And I praise this goddess; for she honours a city that reposes in a life of quiet, and augments the admired beauty of its houses, so that they surpass in prosperity the neighbours who are their rivals), nor yet to engender it. And they earnestly desire land for ploughing, abandoning the martial trumpet."
Euripides, Suppliant Women 484 ff (trans. Vellacott) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) :
"How far peace outweighs war in benefits to man; Eirene (Irene, Peace), the chief friend and cherisher of the Mousai (Muses); Eirene (Peace), the enemy of revenge, lover of families and children, patroness of wealth. Yet these blessings we viciously neglect, embrace wars; man with man, city with city fights, the strong enslaves the weak."
Euphorion of Chalcis, Fragments (trans. Page, Vol. Select Papyri III, No. 121 (2b)) (Greek Epic C3rd B.C.) :
"Ares [war personified] allot them their wages in his scales, and rest again from chilling warfare, and send Eirene (Irene, Peace) with her prosperity to men! And in the market let him set Themis (Order) up, requiter of good deeds : and, beside her, Dike (Justice)."
Anonymous, Epigram (trans. Page, Vol. Select Papyri III, No. 113) (Greek elegiac C1st B.C.) :
"Caesar calmed the storm of war and the clash of shields [i.e. at the battle of Actium], and there he cut short the sufferings of fair Eirene (Irene, Peace)."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5. 72. 5 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.) :
"The Horai (Horae), as they are called, to each of them, according as her name indicates, was given [assigned by Zeus and Hera] the ordering and adornment of life, so as to serve to the greatest advantage of mankind; for there is nothing which is better to build a life of felicity than obedience to law (eunomia) and justice (dike) and peace (eirene)."
Source and More
http://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/HoraEirene.html
She was probably identified with the Hora Thallo (Green Shoots), whose name Hesiod gives to Eirene as an epithet in the Theogony. Her opposite number was Polemos (War).
In classical art she usually appears in the company of her two sister Horai bearing the fruits of the seasons. Statues of the goddess represent her as a maiden holding the infant Ploutos (Wealth) in her arms. In this guise she was identified with Demeter and Tykhe.
EIRENE GODDESS OF PEACE
Hesiod, Works and Days 212 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) :
"But they who give straight judgements [i.e. those who invoke the goddess Dike (Justice)] to strangers and to the men of the land, and go not aside from what is just, their city flourishes, and the people prosper in it: Eirene (Irene, Peace), the nurse of children, is abroad in their land, and all-seeing Zeus never decrees cruel war against them. Neither famine nor disaster ever haunt men who do true justice; but light-heartedly they tend the fields which are all their care. The earth bears them victual in plenty, and on the mountains the oak bears acorns upon the top and bees in the midst. Their woolly sheep are laden with fleeces; their women bear children like their parents. They flourish continually with good things, and do not travel on ships, for the grain-giving earth bears them fruit."
Homer's Epigrams 15 (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) :
"Open of yourselves, you doors, for mightly Ploutos (Plutus, Wealth) will enter in, and with Ploutos comes jolly Euphrosyne (Mirth) and gentle Eirene (Irene, Peace)."
Pindar, Olympian Ode 4. 16 ff (trans. Conway) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) :
"And with a heart unsullied labours for Eirene (Irene, Peace), the city's friend."
Pindar, Olympian Ode 13. 6 ff :
"Here [in this city] dwells Eunomia (Good Governance) and that unsullied fountain Dike (Justice), her sister, sure support of cities; and Eirene (Peace) of the same kin, who are the stewards of wealth for mankind--three glorious daughters of wise-counselled Themis.
Far from their path they hold proud Hybris (Insolence), fierce-hearted mother of full-fed Koros (Disdain) . . . But to you sons of Aletes, how often the Horai [i.e. Eunomia, Dike and Eirene], decked in their wreaths, have given the glory of the victor's triumph for supreme valour in the sacred games."
Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragments 101 (from Stobaeus, Anthology) (trans. Campbell) (Greek lyric B.C.) :
"Listen, Moirai (Fates) ... hear our prayers ... send us rose-bloomed Eunomia (Good Order) and her bright-throned sisters Dike (Justice) and garland-wearing Eirana (Peace), and make this city forget its heavy-hearted misfortunes."
Greek Lyric V Anonymous, Fragment 1021 (from Theogorus the Metochite, Miscellany) :
"O sweet Eirana (Peace), wealth-giver to mortals!"
Aeschylus, Fragment 281 (from Papyri Oxyrhynchus) (trans. Lloyd-Jones) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) :
"Not to sow evil . . ((lacuna)) Then Eirene (Irene, Peace) is . . ((lacuna)) for mortals. And I praise this goddess; for she honours a city that reposes in a life of quiet, and augments the admired beauty of its houses, so that they surpass in prosperity the neighbours who are their rivals), nor yet to engender it. And they earnestly desire land for ploughing, abandoning the martial trumpet."
Euripides, Suppliant Women 484 ff (trans. Vellacott) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.) :
"How far peace outweighs war in benefits to man; Eirene (Irene, Peace), the chief friend and cherisher of the Mousai (Muses); Eirene (Peace), the enemy of revenge, lover of families and children, patroness of wealth. Yet these blessings we viciously neglect, embrace wars; man with man, city with city fights, the strong enslaves the weak."
Euphorion of Chalcis, Fragments (trans. Page, Vol. Select Papyri III, No. 121 (2b)) (Greek Epic C3rd B.C.) :
"Ares [war personified] allot them their wages in his scales, and rest again from chilling warfare, and send Eirene (Irene, Peace) with her prosperity to men! And in the market let him set Themis (Order) up, requiter of good deeds : and, beside her, Dike (Justice)."
Anonymous, Epigram (trans. Page, Vol. Select Papyri III, No. 113) (Greek elegiac C1st B.C.) :
"Caesar calmed the storm of war and the clash of shields [i.e. at the battle of Actium], and there he cut short the sufferings of fair Eirene (Irene, Peace)."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 5. 72. 5 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.) :
"The Horai (Horae), as they are called, to each of them, according as her name indicates, was given [assigned by Zeus and Hera] the ordering and adornment of life, so as to serve to the greatest advantage of mankind; for there is nothing which is better to build a life of felicity than obedience to law (eunomia) and justice (dike) and peace (eirene)."
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Living in the Here, the Now
Each Day, A new assessment
We look around, Who is Left
what is before us.
Can we smile though
the loss and life we
bear witness to
may not bring a smile?
Can we forgive ourselves,
and smile at the mirror,
and at those who pass us by?
Each day, in the NOW
we look around, we set our intentions
we say a pray, allow the energy
of the day to wash over us,
without Judging it, without Mourning,
without Fear, simply with Faith.
Can we Laugh and Play in the NOW.
As we are STILL HERE. Even though
so many are leaving Mother Earth
at this time?
Can we leave their fate up to them,
and between that individual and the divine,
and make sure we set the intention for what
we, ourselves want to experience?
YOU are in the NOW.
Look Around. Smile.
Set your Intention. Laugh, Walk,
acknowledge the beauty of
Mother Earth and simply be,
without judging yourself,
without the proverbial
woulda, coulda, shoulda,
and simply live until you
Go Home.
~ Reverend Crystal Cox
Each Day, A new assessment
We look around, Who is Left
what is before us.
Can we smile though
the loss and life we
bear witness to
may not bring a smile?
Can we forgive ourselves,
and smile at the mirror,
and at those who pass us by?
Each day, in the NOW
we look around, we set our intentions
we say a pray, allow the energy
of the day to wash over us,
without Judging it, without Mourning,
without Fear, simply with Faith.
Can we Laugh and Play in the NOW.
As we are STILL HERE. Even though
so many are leaving Mother Earth
at this time?
Can we leave their fate up to them,
and between that individual and the divine,
and make sure we set the intention for what
we, ourselves want to experience?
YOU are in the NOW.
Look Around. Smile.
Set your Intention. Laugh, Walk,
acknowledge the beauty of
Mother Earth and simply be,
without judging yourself,
without the proverbial
woulda, coulda, shoulda,
and simply live until you
Go Home.
~ Reverend Crystal Cox
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