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The Theodosian Walls are
among the most impressive monuments of Late Antiquity.
These land walls
protected Constantinople for centuries while the other great cities like Rome,
Antioch or Alexandria were sacked.
The Theodosian Walls consists of an
inner wall, an outer wall with an inner terrace, and a wide moat, with a second
outer wall in front of it.
Attackers first had to cross the moat and
its wall, while being fired upon from both the outer and inner walls – the
towers of the inner walls were equipped with ballistae and catapults.
Even if some attackers were able to scale the outer wall, they would
then be trapped on the inner terrace, facing a taller wall reinforced by huge
towers.
As Constantinople lies on triangular peninsula surrounded by
the sea on two sides, its land walls were frequently the main defenses
required.
The triple line of defense of the Theodosian Walls, then,
helped make Constantinople virtually invulnerable for
centuries. |
"Take the helmet of salvation
and the Sword of the
SpirIT,
which is the Word
of Æon."
Ephesians 6:17
You have
endured many terrible griefs
but you're still under a veil
-
because dying to
yourself
is the
fundamental principle
and you haven't adhered to
it.
Your suffering cannot
end
before this death is complete:
You cannot reach the roof
before climbing up the
whole ladder.
How could you ever experience
your boat's total
shipwreck
before you've loaded it
with the final
weight?
This final weight is essential;
it is a star that
summons light
and it shipwrecks
the boat of
error.
When your boat of
selfishness
is finally broken and sunk,
reality becomes like a
sun
flooding a
cloudless sky with light.
Rumi
I arise today
Through the invocation of the
Trinity,
Through the belief
in the threeness,
Through the confession of the oneness
Of the
Creator of Creation.
I arise today
Through
rebirth by baptism,
Through crucifixion and
burial,
Resurrection through
Ascension,
Descension reserved for
the Judgment
Day.
I arise
today
in love of Cherubim,
in obedience to
angels,
in the service of archangels.
In hope of resurrection my just
reward,
In prayers of patriarchs,
In predictions of prophets,
In
preaching of apostles,
In faith of confessors,
In innocence of holy
virgins,
In deeds
of righteous men.
I arise
today
Through the depth of
heaven:
Dayight of sunlight,
Radiance of moon,
Splendor of fire,
Speed of lightning,
Swiftness of wind,
Depth of sea,
Stability of
earth,
Firmness of
rock.
I arise today
Ḉhri§t Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ to pilot
me:
Ḉhri§t Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ to
uphold me,
Ḉhri§t Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§
to guide me,
Ḉhri§t
Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ to prognosticate,
Æon's
ear to hear me,
Æon's word to speak for me,
Æon's hand to
guard me,
Æon's way to lie before me,
Æon's shield to
protect me,
Æon's host to save me
From
snares of demons,
From
temptations of
vices,
From all who wish me ill,
Afar and anear,
Alone and in
multitude.
I summon the Mantle of
Invisibility,
to cloak my body, spirit and soul from evil,
against
every cruel merciless tyrannical power,
against incantations of false
prophets,
against black laws of pagandom
against false laws of
heretics,
against the profession of idolatry,
against spells of witches
and smiths and wizards,
against carnal knowledge corrupting body and
soul.
Ḉhri§t
Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ to shield me now and
forever,
against poison, against wasting,
against drowning,
against surgery,
Ḉhri§t
Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ on my right,
Ḉhri§t
Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ on my left,
Ḉhri§t Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ when I lie
down,
Ḉhri§t Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ when
I arise,
Ḉhri§t
Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ in the heart of every man
,
Ḉhri§t
Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ in the mouth of everyone,
Ḉhri§t
Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ in every eye that sees
me,
Ḉhri§t
Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ in every ear that hears
me.
I arise today
Through
the invocation of the Trinity,
Through belief in the threeness,
Through
confession of the oneness,
Of the Creator of Creation.
Atomriug indiu
niurt tríun
togairm
Tríndóite
cretim treodatad
foísitin
oendatad
i nDúilemon dáil.
Atomriug
indiu
niurt gene Chríst cona baithius
niurt a chrochtho
cona adnacul
niurt a esséirgi cona
f.resgabáil
niurt a thoíniuda fri brithemnas
mbrátho.
Atomriug indiu
niurt gráid
Hiruphin;
i n-aurlattaid aingel
i frestul archaingel
i
frescisin esséirgi ar chenn fochraicce
i n-ernaigdib
úasalathrach
i tairchetlaib fáthe
i praiceptaib
apstal
i n-iressaib foísmedach
i n-enccai
noebingen
i ngnímaib fer
fírían.
Atomriug indiu
niurt nime
soilsi
gréine
étrochtai ésci
áini
thened
déini lóchet
lúaithi
gaíthe
fudomnai maro
tairismigi thalman
cobsaidi
ailech.
Atomriug indiu
niurt Dé dom
lúamairecht;
cumachtae nDé dom
chumgabáil
cíall Dé dom imthús
rosc
nDé dom remcisin
clúas Dé dom
étsecht
bríathar Dé dom aurlabrai
lám
Dé dom imdegail
intech Dé dom
remthechtas
scíath Dé dom immdítin
sochraite
Dé dom anacul
ar intledaib demnae
ar aslaigib
dúalchae
ar airrechtaib aicnid
ar cach nduine
mídúthrastar dam
i céin ocus i n-ocus
i
n-úathad ocus i sochaidi.
Tocuirir etrum indiu inna huli
nertso
fri cach nert n-amnas fristaí dom churp ocus dom
anmain
fri tairchetla saebf.áthe
fri dubrechtu
gentliuchtae
fri saebrechtu eretecdae
fri imchellacht
n-idlachtae
fri brichtu ban ocus gobann ocus druad
fri cach fiss
arachuili corp ocus anmain duini.
Críst dom imdegail
indiu
ar neim
ar loscud
ar bádud
ar
guin
condomthair ilar fochraicce.
Críst limm,
Críst reum, Críst im degaid
Críst indium,
Críst íssum, Críst úassum
Críst
dessum, Críst túathum
Críst i llius, Críst i
ssius, Críst i n-érus
Críst i cridiu cach duini
rodomscrútadar
Críst i ngiun cach oín
rodomlabrathar
Críst i cach rusc nomdercadar
Críst
i cach clúais rodomchloathar.
Atomriug indiu
niurt
tríun
togairm Tríndóite
cretim
treodatad
foísitin oendatad
i nDúilemon
dáil.
(modifed, adapted, edited, redacted, modernized from Saint
Patrick's Breastplate)
| The hymn originally appeared in the second
edition of Songs of Praise (published in 1931), to the tune "Bunessan",
composed in the Scottish Highlands. In Songs of Praise Discussed, the editor,
Percy Dearmer, explains that as there was need for a hymn to give thanks for
each day, English poet and children's author Eleanor Farjeon had been "asked to
make a poem to fit the lovely Scottish tune". "Bunessan" had been found in L.
McBean's Songs and Hymns of the Gael, published in 1900. Before Farjeon's
words, the tune was used as a Christmas carol, which began "Child in the
manger, Infant of Mary", translated from the Scottish Gaelic lyrics written by
Mary MacDonald. The English-language Roman Catholic hymnal also uses the tune
for the Charles Stanford hymns "Christ Be Beside Me" and "This Day God Gives
Me", both of which were adapted from the traditional Irish hymn St. Patrick's
Breastplate. Another Christian hymn "Baptize In Water" borrows the tune. Piano
arrangement by Rick Wakeman. |
I bind unto myself today and forever in
the name
of Æ∞n the Dream of Creation.
I bind unto
myself today and forever,
by faith in the
Reality of
Creation,
by Baptism in
Water of Life I am renewed.
My Soul is
redeemed from
everlasting death.
Rising from the spiced spiritual
tomb of pragmatic materialism,
Æ∞n carries me in a
spiritual way.
Æon
with me eternally.
I bind unto myself today and forever,
The
power of the compassion of
Ḉhri§t Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§,
The sweet gratitude of
being spiritually redeemed.
In the service of
Creation,
Living the faith of the true Apostles'
word,
Repeating the
sweet words of Christ the Savior,
Awakening and
redeeming spiritually corrupt
souls,
Through the awesome
power of the Holy Spirit.
I bind unto myself today and
forever
the virtues of
the starlit heavens,
the glorious sun's life-giving ray,
the
whiteness of the moon at
night,
The flashing of the
lightning free,
The whirlwind
tempestuous shocks,
The stable earth, the deep salt
sea,
Around the old
eternal rocks.
I bind unto myself today
The power of to
hold and lead,
Gaian
eye to watch, Gaian might to
stay,
Brahma's ear
to hearken to my need.
The
wisdom of Sophia to
teach,
the hand of
Thor to guide,
the shield of Mars to
ward,
The
Logos of Creation to
give me speech.
Holy Spirit to be my guard,
Against the
demonic snares of sin,
The lies that gives temptation
force,
The unnatural lusts based
on fantasy,
The hostile men
that obstruct my course;
The few or many, far or nigh,
In
every place and in all hours
Against their fierce
hostility,
I bind to me
the holy and sacred power of
Creation,
of all that does exist, has existed or ever will exist,
To guide and protect me
Against intellectual
idolatry,
Against all followers of
evil,
Against false words
of heresy,
Against false
knowledge that defiles,
Against the propagandists'
evil craft,
Against
the spiritual death-wound of narcissism,
Against the chocking enslavement of
totalitarianism,
Against the fossil fuel fire poisoned air, water and Earth,
Protect
me, Æon from all of
mankind's evil.
Ḉhri§t
Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ within me,
Ḉhri§t
Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ above me,
Ḉhri§t Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ beside
me,
Ḉhri§t Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ before
me,
Ḉhri§t Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§
behind me,
Ḉhri§t Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§
beneath me,
Ḉhri§t
Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ on my right,
Ḉhri§t Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ on my
left,
Ḉhri§t Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§
to comfort and restore me,
Ḉhri§t
Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ to guide me in quiet and in
danger,
Ḉhri§t Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§
in the heart of every man,
Ḉhri§t
Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ in the mouth of every
man,
Ḉhri§t Ḉon§ḉiou§ne§§ in
every eye, in every ear that hears me.
I bind unto myself the
Creator and
Sustainer,
Æon, One seen as Three, through which all nature
is grew,
Eternal Immortal Father, Everlasting Spirit, Divine Word,
Praise to my redemotion and
my salvation,
Redemption found in the Words of
Christ,
Salvation discovered
in the Kingdom on Earth.
Walking down the road of a
walled fortress of compartmentalized
rationality allowed human
coöperation which resulted in
conversion to a
MICE culture.
Young men
I knew were sent away to die in the
jungles of southeast Asia.
Many days I could hardly breath
as asthmatic attacks captured my lungs.
The lies were so thick and
deep you could cut them with a butter knife.
I did not want to believe that
people could act in such evil malicious ways.
By about fourteen
my bicameral mind was
fully compartmentalized.
Exceptionalism, slamming into my consciousness,
was driving me
insane.
I became
confused by the accumulation of
toxic effects.
The walls crumbled as my
compartmentalization
defragmented.
I
learned to let the emotion flow through me rather than
repress it,
file it away in a cubicle
and bury feelings of empathy
towards living things.
The walls I had built did not have
foundations in reality.
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