DISTAFF: ancient spinning implement. In archaic times, it was figuratively said that the Great Goddess sun the Earth and all things from Her distaff. In Nordic and Central European folklore, the line linking the axis of the Earth with the north star was called the distaff.

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CARDINAL POINT: North, East, South, & West. These are often marked in the Circle, by candles of green, red, yellow, and blue, respectively. You can use candles, crystals, & herbs. 

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ATHWART:  Also overwart, the act of ploughing east-west and then tilling the ringes or rows (usually barley, corn or wheat) north-south to assure the rows would be warmed on both sides by the Sun.

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medicine dance: A ritual dance performed by some North American Indian peoples. Its purposes include eliminating disease, inducing rainfall, and getting supernatural help.

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Slope Of The Land Surface

The surface should be elevated towards the southern and western sides and should be lower in northern and eastern sides for overall growth and prosperity.

The Land should be elevated towards south and west sides and it should be lower in NORTH and EAST sides for over all growth and happiness.

If the land is:

HIGH IN NORTH OR EAST

LOW IN SOUTH-EAST

LOW IN SOUTH

LOW IN SOUTH-WEST

LOW IN WEST

LOW IN NORTH-WEST

LOW IN CENTRE,

It can have adverse effects.

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NODES:

1) in Astrology, NODES are the places where a planet or the Moon crosses the ECLIPTIC. An ASCENDING NODE is a crossing from south to north; & DESCENDING NODE crosses north to south.

2) Power Nodes are power points in the Earth, usually along Ley Lines

3) Power Nodes also refer to the energy points that have been prepared using crystals, in creating a PSYCO, SEXUAL MATRIX

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Inner Planning of a House

·  The oven should ideally be in the south-east zone.

·  Toilets should not be in the north-eastern, central and south-western zones.

·  The most south-western location is the ideal position for your master bedroom.

·  Position the boy's room in the northern or eastern side while the girl's and guest room are to be in the north-western parts.

• Place the beds in southerly or easterly direction.

1. Kitchen fire should be in the South -East and should never be at the North-East, Centre and the south west zones.

2. Toilets should not be provided at the North-East, Center and the South-West zones

3. Master bedroom should be in or nearest to the South-west Zones

4. Boys' Rooms should be in the North and/or East Zones

5. Girls and Guest rooms should be in the North - West zones.

6. Head Seat of the Bed should be in the South or the East Direction

7. Facing of the W/C should be towards the north or West Direction

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Definition and meaning of Regulators:

Regulators

Regulators were vigilante groups active in the 1760s and 1770s in the western parts of North and South Carolina. The South Carolina Regulators attempted to rid the area of outlaws; the North Carolina Regulators sought to protect themselves against excessively high taxes and court costs. In both cases, westerners lacked sufficient representation in the legislature to obtain immediate redress of their grievances. The South Carolina government eventually made concessions; the North Carolina government suppressed its Regulator movement by force.

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Solstice [from Latin sol sun + stit stand still]

The two points in the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the equator, north or south; so called because the sun halts and turns back on its northerly or southerly course. These points are in the first degree of Cancer and Capricorn respectively -- the summer and winter solstices; south of the equator the summer solstice occurs when the sun is south of the equator and in Capricorn, and the winter solstice when the sun is north of the equator and in Cancer; north of the equator the summer solstice occurs when the sun is north of the equator and in Cancer, and the winter solstice when the sun is south of the equator and in Capricorn. The solstitial points, like the equinoctial points, retrograde and complete their circle round the ecliptic in a precessional year of 25,920 years.

The solstices and equinoxes mark the four corners of the esoteric year, each associated with particular psychospiritual events in the initiation cycle. The winter solstice is associated with the birth of the inner Christ or Buddha; the summer solstice with the great renunciation of personal progress made by those of the hierarchy of compassion.

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Kaaba, Ka'ba, Kaabeh (Arabic) The edifice at Mecca sacred to Moslems. The celebrated black stone, the principal object of veneration, is placed in the black corner -- the southeast corner (Safa). It is said to have come directly from heaven, originally being as white as snow, but subsequently becoming black because of the sins of mankind. The white stone, the reputed tomb of Ismael, is in the north side and the place of Abraham is to the east.

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Amorites 'emori (Hebrew) An Amorite; originally a mountaineer, but finally a Canaanite people living in the land east and west of the Jordan. Used in the Bible interchangeably with Canaanites (though the latter generally referred to people still living, while Amorites especially referred to the people of the past), the term is evidently connected with the Assyrian name Amurru, Egyptian Amar, and Babylonian Mar-tu, referring to the lands north of Palestine as far as Kadesh on the Orontes -- although there was a district of the name Mar-tu in the neighborhood of Babylonia.

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Dangma (Senzar-Tibetan) {BCW Index has Tibetan Dwans-ma} Purified soul; used north of the Himalayas for one in whom the spiritual eye is active and who therefore is a jivanmukta or high mahatma. "The opened eye of the dangma" is used in the Stanzas of Dzyan for the awakened, active faculty of spiritual vision and intuition, through which direct, certain knowledge is obtainable of whatever thing or subject the initiate directs his attention to. It is called in India the Eye of Siva and by theosophists, the spiritual third eye.

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Fakir (Arabic) (from faqir poor)

An Islamic religious mendicant, synonymous with dervish; the term is loosely applied to any mendicant devotee or yogi in India. According to T. P. Hughes, there are five principal orders of fakirs in North India and Pakistan: the Naqshbandia, Qadiria, Chishtia, Jalalia, and Sarwardia -- all being ba-shara (with the law) fakirs -- those who govern their conduct according to the principles of Islam. Fakirs should not be confounded with sannyasins or Hindu yogis.

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Eldorado (Spanish) (from el the + dorado golden, gilded)

An imaginary region supposed to abound in gold and other precious elements, often located by early European explorers in the New World somewhere in Central or South America; figuratively, a speculative goal of blissful hopes.

Such ideas, like that of the Promised Land, Elysium, or Paradise, are echoes of intuitive and traditional awareness of mankind's divine origin and destiny -- traditions also connected with certain spots on the earth, such as the north pole.

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Dis (Sanskrit) (from the verbal root dis to show, point out, direct)

A direction or point of space, a cardinal point or quarter; the four cardinal points: prachi (east); dakshina (south); pratichi (west); and udichi (north). The noun disa likewise means direction, region, quarter, or point of space.

Used as a philosophical term, dis means space.

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Internal Planning of any Industrial Building

·  Heavy plant and machinery should be installed in the south-western, southern & western parts.

·  Light weight and auxillary machines should be in the northern & eastern zones. Install boiler, AC panels, generator, heater, dryer, oven, furnace etc. in the north-west & east sections.

·  Toilets should be placed in the north-east, centre or south-west.

·  Make sure not to place spare parts stores in the north-west, centre & south-east.

·  Rest rooms for labour should be in the northern & eastern zones.

1. heavy plant machinery should be installed in the South-West, South and West Zones

2. Light Weight and Auxillary machines should be installed in North and East Zones

3. Boiler/AC Panels/ Generetor/Heater/Dyer/Oven/Furnace etc are Best in the South East but can also be installed in the North-West and East Zones.

4. Toilets or Fire/Power installations should not be provided in the North-East, Center and South-West zones.

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Meru (Sanskrit). The name of an alleged mountain in the centre (or "navel") of the earth where Swarga, the Olympus of the indians, is placed. It contains the "cities" of the greatest gods and the abodes of various Devas. Geographically accepted, it is an unknown mountain north of the Himalayas. In tradition, Meru was the " Land of Bliss" of the earliest Vedic times. It is also referred to as Hemadri "the golden mountain", Ratnasanu, "jewel peak", Karnikachala, "lotus- mountain", and Amaradri and Deva-parvata, "the mountain of the gods" The Occult teachings place it in the very centre of the North Pole, pointing it out as the site of the first continent on our earth, after the solidification of the globe.

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South Pole In a general cosmic sense, any nether pole wherever situated. However, the different hells mentioned in ancient literatures have other meanings, and are not necessarily connected with the south or nether poles of the celestial globes.

From immemorial antiquity occultly it was taught that the south pole was the vent of the earth, and hence the abode of elemental entities, whether terrestrial or cosmic, or of inferior kinds. Thus is was sometimes called the Pit. "The two poles are called the right and left ends of our globe -- the right being the North Pole -- or the head and feet of the earth. Every beneficent (astral and cosmic) action comes from the North; every lethal influence from the South Pole. They are much connected with and influence 'right' and 'left' hand magic" (SD 2:400n).

Another teaching of theosophy in regard to the poles is that all civilizations originate in the far north of the globe, and through the revolving minor ages of a root-race gravitate gradually and steadily towards the south pole as they approach their end.

See also POLES, TERRESTRIAL AND CELESTIAL

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Meru (Sanskrit) The mythological sacred mountain, said in Hindu mythology to be the abode of the gods. Each nation also has its own sacred mountain -- Mount Sinai for the Hebrews, Olympus for the Greeks, Tai-shan for the Chinese, etc. T

heosophical and Puranic teachings place it as the north pole, pointing to it as the center of the site of the first continent of our earth after the solidification of the globe: "It is the north pole, the country of 'Meru,' which is the seventh division, as it answers to the Seventh principle (or fourth metaphysically), of the occult calculation, for it represents the region of Atma, of pure soul, and Spirituality" (SD 2:403).

It is described in the Surya Siddhanta as passing through the middle of the globe, and protruding on either side. On its north end are the gods, on the nether end are the demons or hells. Its roots are in the navel of the world, which connects it with the central imperishable land, the land in which each day and night lasts six months. The above also has its symbolism in the human body.

See also MOUNTAINS, SACRED

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Definition and meaning of Battle of Guilford Court House:

Battle of Guilford Court House

In this fiercely fought Revolutionary War engagement on March 15, 1781, near modern Greensboro, North Carolina, British forces under Lord Cornwallis and Americans commanded by General Nathanael Greene both sustained heavy losses. The British technically won by were forced to withdraw to Wilmington, North Carolina.

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Definition and meaning of Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge:

Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge

In this Revolutionary War engagement that occurred on February 27, 1776, near Wilmington, North Carolina, an American force of approximately one thousand militia clashed with about eighteen hundred Loyalists, most of them Highland Scots. The smashing American victory disrupted British plans for the Loyalists to link up with a large British expedition that sailed from Ireland to North Carolina during the winter of 1775-1776.

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Definition and meaning of King George's War:

King George's War

This was the third Anglo-French war in North America (1744-1748), and was part of the European conflict known as the War of the Austrian Succession. During the North American fighting, New Englanders captured the French fortress of Louisbourg, only to have it returned to France after the peace negotiations.

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