Love is Not Pain
Love is Not Pain
Highlight on Lesson 10 of ANU Spiritual Training:
Love need not be pain or sacrifice.
When we enter our rituals and life experiences with this notion we create a vortex of expectations surrounding what it is that we are offering.
If you do not, first, love yourself in loving another; you will feel uncomfortable. Your expressions of “love” become filled with an underlying resentment.
This discomfort is like the Grecian army inside of the Trojan Horse given to the city of Troy.
When people receive unbalanced love it weighs down on them like a ton of bricks. So, in time, the intended recipients deny or reject your love based on this implanted seed of discontent.
When we cannot love ourselves but offer love, we feel like we have become martyrs in the process; sacrificing what we do not have, for another. The same goes for kindness, gratitude, charity, kwk...
When not possessed by the giver, the one who is the receiver of these expressions feels the sense of guiltiness, impotency, and demands that shroud the offering/expression.
Now, transliterate this over to our spiritual studies.
When you offer an archetype adimu (offering), it can be “rejected” because the seed of it holds a hardened feeling of martyrdom. The degree that you can offer these same elements to yourself is the degree of intensity and purpose that the recipients will feel it.
If you offer rum to the Orisha for celebration yet take no time for yourself to celebrate your achievements, you weaken your offering. If you offer Obi to the Orisha for vitality and fruitfulness but do not engage in any activities to fortify yourself or to produce creatively you weaken your offering. You can offer all the Palm Oil you would like to Elegba but, you intentionally abuse yourself by making things harder in your journey than need be, the petition for a smoother road is less felt.
Many of us walk with splintered personalities, in this way. We offer love and devotion to the entities that we feel guide us and protect us but, we send none to ourselves.
The introductory step in all this, is being kind to yourself. This is the trigger.
Then learn the metaphorical significance of what you would choose to offer. Why rum? Why Gin? Why Efun? Why Camwood? Why Chants? Why Songs?
To learn, further, why love is not pain join the ANU Spiritual Training here:
http://saduluhouse.org/SH/spiritual-training/
Tetragrammaton, Eshu, and Ibori – Q&A
Tetragrammaton, Eshu, and Ibori
In this session of foundational Friday's on Blogtalk Radio we had an opportunity to cover some of the questions that have been asked by students and listeners about various spiritual and occult lessons.
Who is YHVH...Yahweh...Yehovah
There was a question asked on the wall of the spiritual training class in regards to correlating the sense of touch with the form known as the tetragrammaton. Let me share a little bit of information about the tetragrammaton with you all. For those of you enrolled in the spiritual training course you've been given a background and working knowledge of the tetragrammaton but, here are some more “fun facts” that I decided to share with you all to open up your understanding.
Y – Yod - Father- The Self
H – Heh -Mother – The inactive Self
V – Vav – Son – The subtle self or body – Shango
H – Heh – Daughter – The unredeemed animistic nature – Yemoja/Onile
The Father God and the Mother God represent your transcendental nature. The Daughter of God and the Son of God represent your higher self manifested in the material realm.
So, YHVH or the four letter word for “god” represents aspects of yourself but, when given partially can form a lock down code. This lock down code blocks light from actually entering into you spiritual structure.
YHVH is the god of the old testament but, more importantly is a FORMULA for light transmission.
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What does Eshu do?
Eshu, the independent phenomena, is a master segregate. He is responsible for species, choices, and travel through the various astral paths. Eshu holds many titles and functions as he is an extremely versatile force but, he's most known as the archetype who holds post at the crossroads of life. He governs our power of choice and the power we need to enact those choices.
Eshu brings chaos in the form of muddled choice and the loss of with and dexterity. This is the “hell” of Eshu/Elegba.
Eshu also distributes power to us after insuring, through test, that we can handle it. He maintains the delicate balance of five sense reality and spiritual authority within in us through the transforming of our nervous system.
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All transformation and evolution is a product of choice. Through choice all creation comes into being or dissolves into the waters of Olokun. It's all a choice. Eshu will often tempt us and, unfortunately, we've come to see this as a trick of oppression when it is actually a gift. To be tempted is to be given a further look down the road of consequence of a choice. It's the universe's way of allowing us to see the product of a possible choice and either avoid it or indulge in it. We entertain the entire process of the choice without the Karmic obligation of it. Temptation is a gift, not an encumbrance.
To listen to this Q&A on the Kaballah, the Tetragrammaton, Eshu, and more...listen here
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/enlightenmentandtransformation/2013/04/12/tetragrammaton-chaos-esu--qna
The Seven Seals
The Seven Seals
Revelation 6:1
"I watched as the lamb opened the first of the seven seals..."
Is the number seven the supreme number of the divine?
When we consider the frequency of the recurrence of this number in spiritual text it must lead us to further research. In the book of revelations we see various forces unleashed on the planet as a result of the opening of the seven Seals.
Of course this book is filled with various metaphorical/metaphysical references that are meant to explain the souls journey through various levels of it's re-balancing.
Our entire life experiences are designed to, not only evolve our souls position, but to also re-balance any "damage" we may have done to our soul during our last incarnation.

When we incarnate our personalities are celestially designed in order to reflect emotional, mental, and spiritual postures that we need in over to balance out what we call our "soul karma". For example, if we have lessons to learn about anger we may be born with a personality that lends itself towards anger as a first level reaction to conflict. Once we learn anger's lessons and outcomes (guilt, shame, fear, disconnect, vengeance, etc...) this emotion is replaced with one that offers a more functional karmic outcome. We learn lessons through the positive and negative polarities of our own emotional choices.
These emotions express themselves through our chakra wheels/houses.
These houses can be a heaven or they can be a hell, depending on our own inclinations, habits, and patterns. Far too often, when we think of chakras or chakra activity we immediately project ideas of euphoria leaning only on pleasant aspects their polarities. Chakras can be used to release an emotion or to constrict one.
There are 7 major chakras that are commonly referenced (Crown, Brow, Throat, Heart, Solar, Sacral, and Root).
For the most part, having to choose between polarities is a cage within itself. The opening of these wheels/houses allows us to go beyond choice and, even, karmic responsibility.
The seven can be your pathway to a freedom or to emotional and spiritual enslavement. Regardless of your soul's position in either of the chakra houses, it's (soul) movement is always forward. If you are unable to reconcile and release your karmic responsibilities in this lifetime, your next incarnation will manifest a personality that will assist you in doing it then. This will continue to happen until all seven seals are fully opened.
I am only using the chakras for one base example of the trap of the number 7. In truth this number is flanked throughout various forums our material understanding.
To learn more about the seven seals and how they are opened and sealed in our lives, listen to the blogtalk radio show on the seven seals here:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/enlightenmentandtransformation/2013/03/29/the-seven-seals
Love Spell
Love Spell
Supplies needed:
- 1 Brass Bell
- Fine Yellow Corn Meal
- Spring Water (Collected Rain water from storm preferable)
- 3 Red Candles
- 3 Yellow Candles
- 1 Green Candle
- Lavender Oil
- Patchouli Oil
- Papyrus paper (If you can not obtain papyrus use a brown paper bag)
- 1 Cigar
- Black Cloth
For this ritual we're going to all upon the energy of the Marassa.
We'll create a space to bring the energy of the Marassa forward , first.
1. Begin this ritual with a dance to the Marassa. You can use any music that is playful. I suggest you use music that reminds you of your childhood.
Dance in spinning motions. You don't have to go fast but, be sure to create the motion of a cyclone with your body.
You can also drum or sing to the Marassa, as well.
Do this for at least 3 minutes.
2. Once this is done, burn your Lavender Oil in an oil burner.
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4. Draw the Veve for the Marassa with your Cornmeal
5. Place the 3 red candles on the bottom points of the Veve
6. Place the 3 Yellow Candles on the Upper Most points of the Veve
7. Place the green Candle inside the center of the Veve
8. Trace the veve now with your water.
9. Chant:
I call forth the Powers of polarities
I call forth the Powers of the Twins
I call forth the Power of he Lovers
I call forth the Gemini
I call forth The Ibeji
I call forth The Marassa (say 3x)
10. Light All Yellow Candles
Say: Elders of Heaven Listen to me (say 3x)
11. Light all Red Candles
Say: Spirits of Transformation Listen to me (Say 3x)
12. Take your paper and cut it into a rectangular strip.
Option 1
In Pencil write what or who it is you desire a love relationship with.
or
Option 2
It's best at this stage to write the qualities you desire in a love relationship.
Make a copy of this list.
13. Cut another strip of rectangular paper-
Write your name nine times on the paper
14. Create a cross with the piece of paper with your name on it and the one from either option 1 or option 2
15. Place them under your Green Candle.
16. Light the Green Candle.
17. Now say:
Energies of Polarity, known as the lovers, known as the twins, known as the Ibeji, known as the Marassa; I offer you fire, I offer you water, I offer you earth, and I offer you wind.
18. Take your lit cigar and blow it over your veve.
19. Say: I make this offering sacred and give it to you for the purpose of bring a healthy love relationship into my life with a person who fits the following qualifications:
(Read off your list)
or
Say:
I make this offering sacred and give it to you for the purpose of bring a healthy love relationship into my life with (Say the name of the person your wrote).
20. Say: I seal this and quicken this ritual with the sacred tobacco.
21. Blow your Cigar over the Veve again.
22. Leave candles burning for one night. This night you will sleep in front of this shrine.
23. Every night recite your list of qualifications or name of the person desired over the shrine. Ring your Brass Bell 5 times over the shrine before making your affirmations.

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24. Do this for three days.
25. Then take the materials from the veve and rituals and wrap them in a black cloth and bury them either near where the person you desire passes or at the foot of a running stream or river.












































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