Sacrifice.
Summary: A collection of statements by the Tibetan.
"The sense of sacrifice is faintly seen in every soul that loves the Plan.
Sacrifice
The offering of a gift to a deity or a being in petition, thanksgiving, or appeasement. These offerings usually consist of food, drink, the first fruits of harvest and the blood sacrifices of animals and fowl.
Animal Sacrifice
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Before we look at possible Satanic practices we will first consider animal slaughters as carried out by other religions and communities: ...
Sacrifice Word comes from "Sacer" meaning "holy," and "facere" - "to make," therefore "to make holy"; ...
Sacrifices and Prayers.
(I am likewise in doubt in regard to the sacrifices, what utility or power they possess in the world and with the gods, and for what reason they are performed, ...
ON SELF-SACRIFICE.
ENQUIRER. Is equal justice to all and love to every creature the highest standard of Theosophy?
THEOSOPHIST. No; there is an even far higher one.
Sacrifice the ego, and there is no fear for tomorrow. There is no failure, for there is no longer an ego there to fail. There is no sorrow, for there is no longer any feelings there to sorrow.
sacrifice should be made to the Yoginis on the South (56), and then to Kshetra-pala on the West of the rectangle, with the
Mantra
"To Kshetra-pala namah," ...
sacrifice of the Christ; not a few hours' agony in dying, but century after century of crucifixion on the cross of matter, until salvation has been won for the people who bear His name, or until they have passed under some other Lord.
the sacrifices The part of the liturgy recounting the sacrifices offered in Temple times, v. Authorised Daily Prayer Book, ed. Singer, pp. 9-13
the psalms Singer, pp.16-36
recited while sitting Singer, 37-44 Shema. Singer, p.40 ...
During the sacrifice that took place before the marriage, Hera was associated with Artemis and with the Morai. They both received the cuttings of hair that young girls sacrificed before them before a ceremony of matrimony.
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" … the fires of sacrifice that glow
Upon my altar shall, before thou go,
Make plain thy destiny in this for ever."
The seeds of the idea of associating Emilia with the imagery of the rose are also planted by Chaucer: ...
liveth And fasting and Cleannesse and Clarity sacrifice
wth orison be the house of holy altar soules
and trust in the author of good. Wherfore each man
that hath these abovesaid in himself he shall attaine
or neigh and he shall have profitt.
I see him as the Grain King who is sacrificed after a year of royal living, his limbs thrown into the fields in the fall fertility ritual.
These they placed in this Tablet of Isis, before the eyes of those admitted to the sanctum sanctorum in order to teach the nature of the Gods and the prescribed forms of sacrifice.
( excerpt: Blood Sacrifice and the Death of Jesus)
The "shroud of Turin" : Faith, doubt, and the real process of self-transcending God-Realization.
Generally this sort of sacrifice happens as a public act and receives the esteem of the community which it serves to bind.
Sacrifices in Ancient Cultures
1- Gundestrup Cauldron (2- 3C BCE) - Style La Tene - Himmerland, Gundestrup: Celtic Sacrifice
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that book he read upon, which, if he continued to do, they would get no more service of Brownie; but he, being better instructed from that book, which was Brownie's eyesore and the object of his wrath, when he brewed, would not suffer any sacrifice ...
It has to be brought out of the darkness by blood and sacrifice, by Death and Resurrection. Only by dying and living again do we know; all else is idle speculation. But from Knowledge comes Inspiration and this guides us with certainty and truth.
For the esoteric disciple meditation can become a ceremonial sacrifice - an everyday surrender of one's body, heart, and mind, to the soul; a giving over of one's personal identity to identification as the soul; ...
In the Welsh Mabinogion Bran sacrificed himself so that the sovereignty of Wales, and the entirety of Britain, would be secure. He accomplishes this by having his head cut off.
But after action must come penance and meditation, and above all we must meditate, not merely on physical death, but still more on that greater mystery, the mystical death; and being thus prepared, we must offer our sacrifice.
Firstly, there is the simple cycle of the birth, waxing, sacrifice, waning and death of light or a solar god. Secondly, there is the conception and gestation of the light that is reborn at Yule.
HIEROMANCY or HIERSCOPY is divination by observing object of ancient sacrifice.
HIPPOMANCY is a form of divination from the stamping and neighing of horses.
HOROSCOPY is the practice of casting of astrological horoscopes.
Flexibility of mind and a willingness to adapt to changes. Sacrifice in the present to reap benefit in the future. A waiting period. Rebirth. Sacrificing one thing to obtain another. Transformation. Circumstances literally turned on their head.
In Mahayana (Great Boat) Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is one who has taken a vow to sacrifice one's own personal enlightenment to work for the enlightenment of others.
It emphasizes his willingness as Corn King to sacrifice himself so that the tribe may endure the winter months ahead with sustenance and hope; that hope being grounded in the mystery of the Cauldron of Rebirth.
A great Being, originally from Venus, who sacrificed Himself to become the personality vehicle for the ensouling deity of our planet 18,5 million years ago. The nearest aspect of God that we can know.
God, the biblical creator, likewise takes the form of Fire: He is in the burning bush (Exodus, iii, 2-3) and descends as Fire from Heaven to consume his sacrifice in the new temple (2 Chronicles. vii, I).
 See also: World, Spirit, Ritual, Spiritual, Death
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