what is or does ascension mean 2012 about religious or spiritual?

a popular topic this year in 2012 is going to be ascension and what it means and is it part of religion or religious beliefs, for me ascension should be more to a individual and how they find there way in the world, rather then a defined event at some defined date.

i think ascension is more a personal thing for each individual and something you live through your daily activities and finding what suits you in your life and your religious beliefs.

ascension is not something to be forced or chased, it is something i would put in to the same bracket as just growing and learning as you do in life, whereas a lot of people have a belief of ascension being something they can make happen.

whereas they would be better letting god control there lifes more then anything, and being more open minded then closed minded to the world and there beliefs, while letting other people have there own religious beliefs.

i do not think there is any specific date of ascension for anyone, jesus christ said himself "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father."



this would mean there is no specific ascension 2012 date or day or time and your spiritual life is your own journey planned by god.









the reason i think there is no ascension date is due to the quote from the bible where jesus says in Matthew 24:36 "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father". this is what jesus christ said about ascension in the bible, only god knows if 2012 is real.



this christian passage describes ascension and says no one knows date of each persons ascension this means ascension is a personal event and not a group event it only happens to the individual and not groups of individuals, but to the person by themselves, as said by jesus christ in the bible.

Aldous Huxley New American Library Bhagavad Gita Hinduism

Aldous Huxley in the introduction to the New American Library edition of the Bhagavad Gita interprets the Gita as not only the distillation of Hinduism but also the distillation of religion in general. Huxley claims that the theology of the Gita is relevant to all religious people not just to the Hindu because he says it presents the four basic elements of a spiritual world view.
He presents these four fundamental doctrines as what he calls the Perennial Philosophy:

"First: the phenomenal world of matter and of individualized consciousness - the world of things and animals and men and even gods - is the manifestation of a Divine Ground within which all partial realities have their being, and apart from which they would be nonexistent.

Second: human beings are capable not merely of knowing about the Divine Ground by inference; they can also realize its existence by a direct intuition, superior to discursive reasoning. This immediate knowledge unites the knower with that which is known.

Third: man possesses a double nature, a phenomenal ego and an eternal Self, which is the inner man, the spirit, the spark of divinity within the soul. It is possible for a man, if he so desires, to identify himself with the spirit and therefore with the divine Ground, which is of the same or like nature with the spirit.

Fourth: man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground."

Of course, Huxley's Divine Ground is called Brahman in the Gita. But after Huxley discusses these four aspects of religion giving examples from a variety of religious traditions, he comes to the modern world-view and conjectures about why modern people have turned away from religion - he blames industrialization and technology.

Because of technological progress, Huxley claims that a utopian vision of life on earth has driven people away from the thurst for spiritual knowledge. He writes about the doctrine of progress through technology: "These false and, historically, aberrant and heretical doctrines are now systematically taught in our schools and repeated, day in, day out, by those anonymous writers of advertising copy who, more than any other teachers, provide European and American adults with their current philosophy of life."

I think we should put Huxley's pessimistic remarks about modern technology into historical perspective. He wrote these words in 1944 at the height of World War II. The technological innovations that he was witnessing were the most destructive forces of terror that man had ever unleashed on the planet. It is no wonder, then, that he sees technology as the antithesis of the religious life.

what is the witchcraft religion

The Craft, or alternatively, Wicca, Witchcraft, or Paganism, has been traced successfully through a 25,000 year history, by Dr. Margaret Murry. The Craft originated in the ancient past, and has maintained a more or less unbroken line to the present. The Craft was born out of the ancient Animistic cults of prehistory, where a God controlled the wind, rain, hunt, waters, etc... It was in this time that Magic first mixed with the beginnings of religion. This early Magic was likely of the sympathetic variety.

Together with the God, the Goddess evolved, and Fertility was her domain. The Fertility of the animals and the peoples that hunted them was important to the continuance of the race. The God has changed little over the intervening millennia, while the Goddess changed dramatically with the advent of the agricultural society, and the Goddess expanded to cover the Fertility of the crops. The year then fell into two halves, the Summer, when the Goddess and the crops predominated, and the Winter, when the people had to revert to hunting and the God predominated. With the Goddess and the God of hunting growing in power in the society, as the chiefs among the deities, the other Gods fell into secondary roles, and were then, finally, forgotten. As the race spread across Europe, the Goddess and God were carried with them, and as the nations rose, and languages changed, the Names of the deities changed, but the essential force of the deities remained the same. The Celts, Heathens, Nordic, Greek, Latin's, and all the other races have the same Goddess and God at the center of their religions.

With the development of civilization and the the learning of the ability to store food, hunting became less important, and the God took the role of God of Nature and the Wild Places in general. The Goddess grew into both the Goddess of Fertility and the Goddess of Rebirth, as life after death and reincarnation had evolved in the religion. As time progressed, and the Rituals became more involved, a Priest class developed to insure the Rituals were carried out properly and the knowledge was carried on. These people became known as the Wicca, the "Wise Ones." The power of the Wicca was such that it infused the entire religious and political structure of the nations. The Kings of Anglo-Saxon England would never make any important decision without consulting the Witan, the Council of Wise Ones.

With the coming of christianity, there never was the mass conversions that the christians claim. While whole nations were classified as christian due to the fact that the leaders had converted, the populace, in general, kept the old ways. The most important attempt at mass conversion was imposed on the Wicca by pope Gregory the Great. He ordered the construction of new churches on the sites of the old temples and the creation of new holy days on the Wicca Sabbats. In reality, the attempt was only partially successful, for the only available craftsmen to build these temples were the Wiccan, and these craftsmen very cleverly hid their own Goddess and their God in the decorations of these churches. That way, when the Wicca were forced to worship here, their Goddess and God images were also present. It was at this time that Lucifer, became the Horned Satan, the new christianized image of the Horned God, and the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, was Sainted, a new christianized Image of the Goddess. The charge of Devil Worship is therefore a contrivance of the christian church in an attempt to eradicate it's rival for the attentions of the populace. The contrived god of the new religions is the god of a complex civilization, developed to control a rebellious people, rather than the loving embrace of the people, as they are, that the more Human Old Gods offer. As the influence of the new religion grew, through force of arms, the Old Ways only survived in the outlying districts and counties. These people became known as Pagans, from the Latin Pagani meaning people who live in the country and the Heathens, which means one who dwells on the heath. The derogatory connotations are again undeserved and a contrivance of the new religion.

The persecution of the Old Way continued and grew with the advent of the Papal Bull against Witches of pope Innocent the VIII, in 1484. Two years later, two infamous German Monks, Hienric Isnstitoris Krammer and Jacob Sprenger, produced the most baleful contrivance of of anti-Witchery ever produced, the Malleus Maleficarum (the Witch Hammer). In this book they provided definite instruction for the persecution of Witches. Although this book was never accepted by the appointed church censor, the approval was forged by the authors, and then the hysteria spread like wildfire throughout all of Europe. The forgery was not discovered until 1898.

Throughout all of Europe, the new religion used Witchcraft as an excuse to murder any people they felt were an enemy of the church. The old, invalid, mentally ill, women, healers, and of course, the true Witches. Since the Witches held fertility as an object of great importance, the christian Judges gave these sexual rites unnecessary prominence and seemed to delight in the prying, often through torture, the details concerning them from those accused of participating in them. The religion of Wicca is an extremely happy and joyous religion that was totally incomprehensible to the dour and repressed inquisitors and reformers. The total estimated number of people burned, hung, or tortured to death on the charge of Witchcraft is nine million.

It was during these times, the burning times, that the Craft began to go underground, for safety. Also the members of the Craft realized that the Craft was in danger of losing it's knowledge, as the Craft was being so mercilessly hunted and killed. The High Priestesses and High Priests began to keep records of the Rites, Rituals, and esoteric knowledge. These books of the Craft were kept hidden from the enemies of the Craft, they were kept "in the shadows" and it was thus that gave rise to the term for the Witch's Book as the Book of Shadows. It the Burning Times there was but one such book in a Coven, and all were contributors, but with the resurgence of above ground Witchcraft in these modern times, it has become accepted for each individual member of the Craft to have their own personal Book of Shadows, which is, in the view of the Coven of the Fiery Skies, a very good thing, as this will help ensure the dissemination of reclaimed knowledge, and thereby help insure that it is not lost again. Modern Witches still use this as the title for their book to Honor our lost Sisters and Brothers.

By the late seventeenth century, the Craft was well underground, as it was also illegal to be a Witch, as well as against the Cannons of the church. In 1951, the last of these laws was repealed, and the first Witch to speak up in defense of his religion was Gardner, and through him, all of Witchcraft was able to resurface, in its many forms. Now there are many Covens out in the open, and many many more still in hiding, fearing a resurgence of the persecutions. In America the first Witch to come forward was Raymond Buckland. Sybil Leek and Gavin and Yvonne Frost followed in his footsteps, then a rush as more and more Covens came out into the open. Now, even the US Army, with the publication of Army pamphlet 165-13, A Handbook for Chaplin's, recognizes Witchcraft as a Religion