Ravel Śāśwata Petershagen

Eating animals or being Vegetarian is often thought of as being merely a personal choise of taste or liking. But the individual beings who are being killed and eaten are not given a personal choise. If one wishes mercy for oneself, then it would only be natural and fair to grant the same to others. A choise ceases to be private and only personal when it involves the lives of others and when it may impose on their freedom and cause suffering and their premature death.
Even if you taste meat only for one second, it usually means that someone had to loose it's very own LIFE in a violent way for your tongue's satisfaction, or for the sake of your ‘curiosity’ if you only wanted to try it out. Such actions usually come from ignorance, and there is no conscious wish or intention to cause this harm. But as soon as one is made aware of what is really going on, then one ought to embrace one's humanity and abandon these harmful actions. Eating meat is harmful to one's own body and state of consciousness as well. The human body is Vegetarian by design.
Turn away from previous unconscious cruelty, and be truly good, kind, compassionate, and conscientious. Because you can. You may not have had the choise before. But now you have it.
Stamus Contra Malo (Stand Against Evil). Never accept cruelty. Be Vegetarian! Don't eat my sisters and brothers. I experience killing of animals like mammals and birds as equal to killing of human beings. Everyone has the same right to life and happiness. Meat eating can never be a private or personal matter because it involves the abuse and murder of others in order to obtain the flesh. It is chewing the private lives of others; their muscles, veins, arteries, hormones, blood, sweat, and tears! ~ And their fear, stored in every cell at the moment of death. It is feeding on fear.
There is no humane way of killing animals for meat, just like there is no humane way of killing human beings for meat. Everyone has the same right to life and happiness. Anyone who claims such a right for oneself should freely offer the same right to their fellow beings. There is a law of action and reaction, cause and effect. It is the law of karma. Organic meat is never kind to anybody. It does not spare the life of anyone.
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My profession is visual artist, fine art illustrator, and graphic designer. You can view my portfolio with illustrations at Graφical Devine ( graphicaldevine.com ).
I studied Visual Communication at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo), formerly known as The National College of Art and Design (Statens Håndverks- og Kunstindustriskole).
I live a Vegetarian life, and I eat mostly Vegan raw food.
I am a śiṣya (शिष्य) or disciple of my Gurujī (गुरुजी) or spiritual teacher Swāmi Paramānanda Mahārāj (1954 – 1999).
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“He, over the stars doth reign, that unto Wisdom can attain.”
~ George Wither, 1635
“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: We are burial places!”
~ from da Vinci’s ‘Notes’
“We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861 - August 7, 1941), Nobel Prize 1913
“Can you really ask what reason Pythagoras had for abstaining from flesh? For my part I rather wonder both by what accident and in what state of soul or mind the first man did so, touched his mouth to gore and brought his lips to the flesh of a dead creature, he who set forth tables of dead, stale bodies and ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?”
~ Plutarch (circa 45 - 125 A.D.), Writer, Philosopher, and Priest of the Delphic Oracle
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
~ Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
“if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”
~ Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
“Our task is to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
~ Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

I am The Hierophant

V. THE HIEROPHANT
This card is referred to the letter Vau, which means a Nail; of this instrument nine appear at the top of the card; they serve to fix the oriel behind the main figure of the picture.
The card is referred to Taurus; therefore the Throne of the Hierophant is surrounded by elephants, which are of the nature of Taurus; and he is actually seated upon a bull. Around him are the four beasts or Kerubs, one in each corner of the card; for these are the guardians of every shrine. But the main reference is to the particular arcanum which is the principal business, the essential, of all magical work; the uniting of the microcosm with the macrocosm. Accordingly, the oriel is diaphanous; before the Manifestor of the Mystery is a hexagram representing the macrocosm. In its centre is a pentagram, representing a dancing male child. This symbolizes the law of the new Aeon of the Child Horus, which has supplanted that Aeon of the "Dying God" which governed the world for two thousand years. Before him is the woman girt with a sword; she represents the Scarlet Woman in the hierarchy of the new Aeon. This symbolism is further carried out in the oriel where, behind the phallic headdress, the rose of five petals is in blossom.
The symbolism of the snake and dove refers to this verse of the Book of the Law---chap. I, verse 57: "there are love and love. There is the dove, and there is the serpent". This symbol recurs in the trump numbered XVI. The background of the whole card is the dark blue of the starry night of Nuit, from whose womb all phenomena are born.
Taurus, the sign of the Zodiac represented by this card, is itself the Bull Kerub; that is, Earth in its strongest and most balanced form.
The ruler of this sign is Venus; she is represented by the woman standing before the hierophant.
Chapter III of the Book of the Law, verse xi, reads:
"Let the woman be girt with a sword before me." This woman represents Venus as she now is in this new aeon; no longer the mere vehicle of her male counterpart, but armed and militant.
In this sign the Moon is "exalted"; her influence is represented not only by the woman, but by the nine nails. It is impossible at the present time to explain this card thoroughly, for only the course of events can show how the new current of initiation will work out.
It is the aeon of Horus, of the Child. Though the face of the Hierophant appears benignant and smiling, and the child himself seems glad with wanton innocence, it is hard to deny that in the expression of the initiator is something mysterious, even sinister. He seems to be enjoying a very secret joke at somebody's expense. There is a distinctly sadistic aspect to this card; not unnaturally, since it derives from the Legend of Pasiphae, the prototype of all the legends of Bull-gods. These still persist in such religions as Shaivism, and (after multiple degradations) in Christianity itself.
The symbolism of the Wand is peculiar; the three interlaced rings which crown it may be taken as representative of the three Aeons of Isis, Osiris and Horus with their interlocking magical formulae. The upper ring is marked with scarlet for Horus; the two lower rings with green for Isis, and pale yellow for Osiris, respectively.
All these are based upon deep indigo, the colour of Saturn, the Lord of Time. For the rhythm of the Hierophant is such that he moves only at intervals of 2,000 years.
This text is quoted from "The Book of Thoth" by Aleister Crowley. This card is from his "Thoth Tarot" deck, illustrated by Frieda Harris.

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You are The Hierophant

Divine Wisdom. Manifestation. Explanation. Teaching.

All things relating to education, patience, help from superiors.The Hierophant is often considered to be a Guardian Angel.

The Hierophant's purpose is to bring the spiritual down to Earth. Where the High Priestess between her two pillars deals with realms beyond this Earth, the Hierophant (or High Priest) deals with worldly problems. He is well suited to do this because he strives to create harmony and peace in the midst of a crisis. The Hierophant's only problem is that he can be stubborn and hidebound. At his best, he is wise and soothing, at his worst, he is an unbending traditionalist.

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You're blue — the most soothing shade of the spectrum. The color of a clear summer sky or a deep, reflective ocean, blue has traditionally symbolized trust, solitude, and loyalty. Most likely a thoughtful person who values spending some time on your own, you'd rather connect deeply with a few people than have a bunch of slight acquaintances. Luckily, making close friends isn't that hard, since people are naturally attracted to you — they're soothed by your calming presence. Cool and collected, you rarely overreact. Instead, you think things through before coming to a decision. That level-headed, thoughtful approach to life is patently blue — and patently you!
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You're not good at any one thing, and that's the problem. You're good at so much - you never know what to do. Change is in your blood, and you don't stick to much for long. You are destined for a life of travel and fun.
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Your power color: Bright yellow
Your power symbol: Asterisk
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