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Making Contact: A Serious Handbook for Locating and Communicating With Extraterrestrials is a book published in 1998.
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Search Term Shoot Back, February 2014
March 1, 2014 By polyphanes in geomancy, internet, link, news, occult, whining Tags: conjuration, dearth, death, fixed stars, key of solomon, labradorite, planetary hours, psalm, rune, seal, sigil Leave a comment
I get a lot of hits on my blog from across the realm of the Internet, many of which are from links on Facebook, Twitter, or RSS readers. To you guys who follow me: thank you! You give me many happies. However, I also get a huge number of new visitors daily to my blog from people who search around the Internet for various search terms. As part of a monthly project, here are some short replies to some of the search terms people have used to arrive here at the Digital Ambler. This focuses on some search terms that caught my eye during the month of February 2014.
"+dearth spell magick on my self" — If you meant "dearth" as in famine and scarcity of resources, that's fairly easy, though people tend to work prosperity magic for themselves rather than poverty magic; invoke Saturn to keep your means and resources restricted, banish all forces of Jupiter and Venus, and invoke Mercury to lead all good and providing things away from you. If you meant "death" magic, well, dearth and death go hand in hand, so you could similarly invoke Saturn again for that, but really? You want to use death magic on yourself? You may want to read up on actual and reasonable necromancy first, hon. Try giving Tomekeeper a good read, to start with; he's working on his necromancy book, "Ars Falcis", too.
"runes to supercharge labradorite" — Labradorite was discovered by European peoples in the late 18th century, long after runes had been used, and even longer after they had been used for magical purposes (except for the occasional astrological text). Thus, there are no real runes to work with labradorite, though I'm sure associations could be made between runes and stones nowadays that are based off traditional lore. If you meant "rune" in the broader magical sense of "a magical operational symbol", then which symbol you'd want to use is entirely up to how you want to "supercharge" it. Personally, for empowering things generally, I just like setting things out in the Sun and Moon for a lunar month or so, or praying over it, or using an astrological election to consecrate them, or so many other methods. Symbols themselves are nice, but how are you going to use that symbol?
"the psalms and 'planetary hours'" — This is actually a really interesting idea. I don't know of any system that corresponds the planetary hours to particular psalms; there are seven planets and seven days, so there are 49 distinct day-hour combinations, or 98 if you consider diurnality (e.g. day solar hour on Monday vs. night solar hour on Monday), while there are 150 psalms, so there's no easily notable matchup between the two. However, I do know that the Christian Books of Hours and breviaries often have sets of prayers, especially the psalms, to be used at different times during different days, following a set of canonical hours that are not unlike the calculation and setup of planetary hours. Combining the two might be an interesting project for a Christian planetary magician.
"does criss angel consider planetary hours in his magic" — Criss Angel is not a magician. It's like, yeah, a person with a Ph.D. in Mongolian literature and the person who gives you medicine at the clinic are technically both called "doctors", but they're nothing the same; likewise, his "magic" and my magic are not the same thing, and he is not a "magician" like how I'm a magician. Criss Angel is a performer and illusionist, and his stuff has nothing to do with the magic Hermeticists, ceremonialists, and other actual magicians do. Thus, I strongly doubt he even knows about planetary hours, much less considers them in his "magic".
"conjuring spirits within you" — Generally a poor idea, especially if you don't know what you're doing. If you're an expert in it, you might end up with something like the Santería ocha ritual, where you're initiated and have a spirit share your headspace with you from then on. At worst, you'll end up performing Crowley's Choronzon experiment, and with probably even worse results than he got. It's like if I wanted to get to know you better, I'd meet you out for coffee or something, not immediately say that I'm gonna share your bed with you for cuddles and conversation. You'd be far better off conjuring spirits in a space set aside for them, like a Solomonic triangle or Table of Practice.
"how to properly bless a blade for satanic ritual" — This is contradictory on several levels. Blessing indicates that you want to consecrate something and make it holy, which is the work of God. Satanic rituals (if you're taking this in a theological direction) indicate that you're buying into the entire Judeo-Christian framework with the enmity and opposition between God and Satan, and then deliberately picking the losing side of the battle. First, that's stupid because it's already been prophesied in the tradition that Satan comes from that he's not gonna do too well in the end, nor for that matter any of his followers; second, Satan is by definition unholy in the Christian theme of things, so anything that's blessed cannot be used for a satanic ritual, nor does Satan have the capacity to bless things. You could desecrate something that was once made holy, sure, but that's not the same thing. Blessed things tend to hurt rather than help in such works, not to mention showing yourself to the spirits as a stupid whiny brat who's probably still in high school who wants to be some spookeh dark warlock of uber powerz. I'm not your guy for that kind of BS. And while an argument could be made that Satan exists as a god alongside God, you're suddenly straying into a weird dualist theology a la Zoroastrianism (where even that religion's dark god fails in the final days) that is no longer Christian nor satanic, and you better have a lot of mythos and power built up for your new god to have the capacity to bless things in his own name, which is already empty without the backing of the Judeo-Christian mythos and religion behind it.
"sphere of the fixed stars symbol" — The various spheres of heaven have many symbols associated with themselves: the planetary symbols, symbols of their ruling angels, and the like. However, the sphere of the fixed star is weird in that it doesn't have a symbol, or rather, it doesn't have any one symbol. Using the symbols of the signs of the Zodiac together can work, and similarly those for the lunar mansions (the astrology program ZET has a set based on the Vedic mansions which I've heard work well); there are also . In visualization exercises, I tend to just visualize the starry sky itself as a symbol, but I've also asked Iophiel, the angel ruling over the sphere of the fixed stars as a whole, for a seal for which I can conjure and commune with him. There are also seals for a few of the fixed stars themselves, but that's not for the whole sphere. Qabbalistically, the sphere of the fixed stars is associated with the second sephirah Chokmah, so the number 2 and anything pertaining to it would work on a numerological standpoint.
"how do you drill a hole in orgonite" — Get a drill and some orgonite, then drill a hole into the orgonite using the drill. The fact you have to ask shows that you might need something stronger for your mental and spiritual well-being than glittery congealed robot vomit, anyway.
"english sharthand" — Dear gods, I'm so sorry. You may not want to scratch your ass next time you have indigestion.
"free geomancy readings" — While I don't offer free readings often, I sometimes do if I'm doing a promotional deal or a devotional act for the gods. In the meantime, I charge $30 for a normal geomancy reading.
"angelic symbol" — There are so many of them, I don't know where to begin. You can even get original ones for your own use from the angels themselves, you know; this is how I developed my own set of seals for the elemental archangels (Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Uriel) since no common symbols for them exist. That said, the notion of a symbol is pretty wide-ranging, especially when this deals with spirits; the spoken or written name of the spirit, an image of them, their numbers, their colors, their elements or planets or celestial forces, the seal or graphical logo, all of these things are their symbols, and wherever those symbols are, so too is that spirit, and vice versa. Y̹̖̰͖̥ͨ͛͘O̡͚͋̊ͬ͂͌̀̊U̢͎̲̲̟̼̭̥̤̅ͧ͘ ̸̛̺̻͚̺̠͎̰̘̽͞ͅA̜̩͎̣͔̅̊̑̌͟R̷̢̫̖̫̓̌͌̕E͗̈̈̂͂̍̌̏҉̠̗̣̟̪̺̭ ̤̟̟̼̳͈̖̃̅̓͐̌́̐͜N̨̩̖̘͈̽ͅE̩̺̱͓̥͍͐̽̔̽̽͑͠V̸͕̩̭̼̖̤̻̂̈́ͭ̀̾̚E̴̛̻̙̠̺̺̖̱̅̀͛̎̐ͫŖ̤̌̌̿͆̈́ͮ͒͟ ̶̼͊̇ͪ̄͋T̘̮ͯ̽̓̍̉ͣ̉͢͞R̜̞͒̓̆̋ͣ͜Ü̪̙̳͍̜̗̹͈͛̉͟L͗̋̿ͦ̓̄ͮ͢҉̝̻͎̮̻͙̞Y̪ͯͦ ̰͉̞̹̞̪ͫ͡A̛̳̥̘̠̭̥ͩ̍͌̍ͭͨ̌̌̀L͍͍̜͙͙͙̮͉̎͌͆̄̈̄̆̀̚Ő͍̗̩̝̼ͯ̀̑̏̅N̵̪̠̆ͫ̈́͑̋͊͋̀E͚͉̳̠̯̱̮ͯͨ̇̔͜
"badass calligraphy alphabet" — Why, thank you.
"spirit wife ritual" — I'm…not really sure. I assume this means that you want to make a spirit your wife, so good luck with that. I might suggest talking to an angel to assign you such-and-such a spirit who's compatible with you in all regards, mentally and sexually and emotionally and etc., then perform some sort of bonding ritual between you and the spirit assuming that it's amenable to such a thing. I guess.
"how to summon hermes" — Hermes is a god, and one of the few gods given permission in Greek mythos to be given permission to go anywhere and everywhere; further, the Homeric Hymn to Hermes notes that he cannot be constrained by force or binding. To that end, unless you're the king of the gods Zeus himself, I don't think you have permission or business to summon Hermes as you would other angels or demons. You can invoke him and offer him sacrifice, performing a ritual to invite him down to a sacred or sanctified place, but that's by no means a summons to the god. Even I, as his priest and devotee, have no business saying "Yo, Hermes, get your wingy ass down here, I got shit for you to do". This is a clear case where invoking and evoking have different natures, and you want to invoke a god rather than evoke them.
"what symbol did gabriel put on solomon's ring" — I don't really know where the symbols on the Ring of Solomon came from. There are two major versions of this ring in Western magic: the one from the Lemegeton Goetia, and the one from John Dee. The former has the names "Michael, Tetragrammaton,Anepheneton" (or "Michael, IHVH, Tzabaoth" if you use an interpretation from Greekish names to Hebrew like I did for my own ring). The latter is commonly known as the PELE ring, so called because it has a circle with a V crossing the top and an L at the bottom, bisected by a horizontal lines, with the letters P, E, L, and E at the four corners clockwise from the upper left. However, Dee's books say that the angel Michael, not Gabriel, gave him such a design, and the Lemegeton remains silent on the matter as far as I can read.
"what does it mean when lighting a spritual candle and the wick lets out a poof" — I love how this was described, first of all. As for "poof", this could mean different things. If you mean that it sparked or crackled, I might say that this means a spirit came by and inhabited the candle, and is set to work on the job; more materially, this might mean that there are impurities in the wick or pockets of gas or air that perturb the flame. If you mean that a puff of smoke came out of the candle, I might say that this means there could be difficulties in getting the work done on your own; materially, that there are carbon impurities in the wick that create a sooty deposit. Both of these can be avoided by trimming the wick down to a short length, say 1/4″.
Search Term Shoot Back, January 2014
January 31, 2014 By polyphanes in geomancy, internet, link, occult Tags: angels, buddhism, charge, computer, conjuration, cursive, demon, energy, english, gematria, golden dawn, hebrew, ifa, japanese, labradorite, mem, orgone, orgonite, pentacle, pewter, phylactery, planetary hours, prayer, prayer wheel, search term shoot back, shorthand, writing, xaturing 1 Comment
I get a lot of hits on my blog from across the realm of the Internet, many of which are from links on Facebook, Twitter, or RSS readers. To you guys who follow me: thank you! You give me many happies. However, I also get a huge number of new visitors daily to my blog from people who search around the Internet for various search terms. As part of a monthly project, here are some short replies to some of the search terms people have used to arrive here at the Digital Ambler. This focuses on some search terms that caught my eye during the month of January 2014.
"honoring hermes on fourth day of the month" — One tidbit about Hermes is that he was born in the tenth month of the lunar year (starting with the first new moon after the summer solstice, so sometime in April) on the fourth day of the lunar month (four-ish days after the New Moon). The religious practices of Attic Greece, where Athens was and thus where most of our knowledge about ancient and classical Greece is focused, celebrated a bevy of gods on their "monthly birthdays", as evidenced by what we know of their calendar (which forms the basis of my lunisolar grammatomantic calendar). Thus, a monthly public ritual was performed for Hermes on the fourth of every lunar month in ancient Athens, which is the day I use as well for my monthly Hermaia ritual. For example, yesterday was the new moon, so today is the first day of the lunar month; the fourth day would then be this coming Monday, February 3, when I celebrate the next monthly Hermaia.
"letter a in shorthand", "short hand alphabet", "shorthand in english alphbet", etc. — I get a lot of talks about shorthand, and my posts on the personal shorthand I've devised as a type of private cursive are among the most popular posts on this blog. That said, I think it's important to realize that shorthand is just cursive writing taken to its logical extreme. Normal handwriting, or "print", is meant to be formal and clear; cursive (from Latin currere, "to run") is meant for faster, more fluid writing. Shorthand is handwriting sped up to keep up with speech as it happens; because it can be difficult to maintain a congruence between spoken sounds and sometimes convoluted rules of spelling, most stenographic systems use phonetic methods of writing as opposed to normal ways of spelling. A few such systems used in the Anglophone world are Pittman and Gregg, which can be found on this page at Omniglot. My style of shorthand differs in that it's meant to preserve the orthographic spelling of English while being fast to write; in that sense, it's much more a cursive than a shorthand, which is often more a style of abbreviated symbolic writing than proper orthographic writing.
"orgone pot leaf" — I…uh? I know doing a lot of drugs can lead you into some weird places, but…what? I mean, I suppose you could use cannabis leaves to make an orgone accumulator, being an organic substance that attracts orgone, but why waste good weed?
"what periodof the day does the ruling archangel of the planet start?" — I don't your English understand quite so. Angels can be said to rule over particular hours of the day based on the planetary hours, and Trithemius gives a list of them in his ritual. As always, planetary hours are based on your local latitude and longitude, since it relies on sunrise and sunset times, and may not be calculable at extreme latitudes due to the extreme brevity or complete lack of solar daytime and nighttime.
"what does each geomantic figure mean?" — You may be interested in checking out my series of posts on geomancy, De Geomanteia, where I go over what each geomantic figure means in a Western geomantic-divinatory framework.
"the magical value of mem in the hebrew alphabet" — Ah, the occult study of letters! Normally I work with Greek, but knowledge of Hebrew letters and their occult significations is also highly regarded in modern Hermetic magic, especially given the influence of the Golden Dawn. Mem is the 13th letter of the Hebrew script, with a phonetic value of /m/ and two written forms mem and mem sofit; the former is given the gematria value of 40 and the latter the value of 600, though 40 is the more important value to know. Cornelius Agrippa gives it the magical correspondence of the Zodiac sign Virgo, though the Golden Dawn (based on other qabbalistic works) give it the association of the element Water. Going by the Kircher Tree of Life used by the Golden Dawn and Thelema, Mem is associated with the Tarot card trump XII, the Hanged Man, as well as path 23, between Geburah and Hod on the Pillar of Severity. Its form is said to come from the Egyptian hieroglyph for water, and its name from the Phoenician word for the same, and is associated with the Greek letter mu and Latin/Cyrillic letters em.
"can a pentacle really charge an object" — Er…it depends, really. To "charge" something implies the use of what what's known as the "energy model" of magic, where magic works due to some ethereal, nonphysical energy that can be directed around to achieve occult ends. If we "charge" something, we consider it to be filled with an energy, much as we charge batteries. To that end, I suppose you could say that some pentacles, when properly made, become a source of a particular energy or are themselves charged with an energy, and can then (if designed in a certain way) give that charge to other objects. Not all pentacles are designed to do this, though; some pentacles are used to attract love, which isn't charging any kind of object. Further, this only makes sense if you use the energy model of magic, which is a pretty modern framework; the more traditional framework is the "spirit model", where magic works due to the action of and interaction with spirits. In this model, a pentacle might be a place of habitation for a spirit or receive its blessing to attain a certain end, and using the pentacle essentially sends the spirit out to change something out in the cosmos. It's not so much a matter of "charging" as it is "spirit-action", so it depends on your worldview and which model you think works best at a given moment. Generally speaking, though, and to prevent any more use of semantic sophistry, yes, a pentacle can charge an object given that that's what the pentacle was designed to do.
"can labradorite be used for grounding" — I wouldn't suggest it. My thoughts on labradorite associate it most with the sphere of the fixed stars, along with the Sun, Moon, and Mercury. It's a very stellar, astral type of stone, and I use it for work with Iophiel as well as with pure Light. Grounding suggests bringing things in the body outward and literally grounding it out, like an electrical charge, so it helps to calm and make the body more mundane, more earthy, more relaxed, and less charged. Labradorite, on the other hand, I've found works for subtle charging generally or strong empowerment with stellar or lucid force, so it would not be good for grounding.
"geomantic wizard" — At your service.
"the hexagram of ifa" — As a prefatory disclaimer, I know little about ifá besides what I've learned from Western geomancy and its history. Ifá is the great geomantic tradition of the Yoruban people based in Nigeria, often seen in the West nowadays closely allied with Santeria communities. Ifá uses the same sixteen figures as Western geomancy, though with different names and meanings; however, unlike Western geomancy that uses four Mothers to generate 65536 charts, ifá diviners (often called "babalawo" or "father of secrets"), only use two figures to generate 256 readings. That said, each of the 256 readings has about a Bible's worth of knowledge, stories, prohibitions, rules, situations, and the like that can be ascribed to it, all of which for all the combinations must be memorized by heart. It's an intense system, and one that has my highest respect. That said, I know of no part of ifá that uses any sort of hexagram; the figures themselves have four rows of one or two marks each, and the figures are not arranged in any form of hexagram or six-figure arrangement. You may be getting ifá confused with the Chinese I Ching, which does have hexagrams instead of tetragrams.
"concave golden dawn pentacle" — My Golden Dawn-style pentacle is just a flat wooden disc I got at a Michaels that I woodburned, colored, and customized to my ends. Now, I'm no expert on Golden Dawn regalia or paraphernalia, so I'm unsure about the precise needs or designs of these things. That said, if I recall correctly from my days sneaking into my older brother's neopagan stuff long ago, Donald Michael Kraig had offered this design idea in his Modern Magick. His idea was that the pentacle, the Elemental Weapon of Earth, was used to both collect the forces of Earth as well as act as a shield for protection. If we use rays of light as a metaphor, if we use a flat mirror, we reflect the light away from the source; if we use a convex mirror (one that bulges outward), only a small portion gets reflected at the source; if we use a concave mirror (one that sinks inward), nearly all the light gets reflected back at the source. Thus, if we use a concave pentacle, anything unwanted sent towards us gets reflected back at the source; plus, it acts to "collect" the energy of Earth with its bowl-like shape, much as the chalice "collects" the energy of Water.
"is ritual and invocation one and the same?" — No; an invocation is a type of ritual, but there are many types of ritual. There are many types of ritual, some of which I've classified before in my own admittedly-arbitrary system. Sometimes you may want to get rid of something (banishing or exorcism), which is the opposite of bringing something in or up (invocation or evocation), though either type of ritual may involve the other (clearing out a space for something to be brought in, or invoking a higher power to drive something away forcefully).
"is orgone bunk?" — God, how I wish it were, yet I know from my experiments with orgone that it's actually useful magical tech. It just seems like such BS because of its modern pseudoscientific quackery language, but it's actually pretty good stuff when applied and understood from a less forcedly-modern scientific manner. It's like how people often used to phrase theories and explanations of magic based on electricity (Raphaelite 1800s occultism) or magnetism (Franz Bardon) or quantum physics (modern New Age swill); the theories offered simply don't line up with what's physically happening, and betray a deep misunderstanding of the actual physics involved with electricity, magnetism, quantum physics, etc. However, when it's removed from this sort of stuff, orgone fits right in with an energy-based model of magic, not unlike the use of ki/qi in Eastern systems of energy manipulation. So, no, orgone is not bunk, though it certainly can be seen that way when viewed from the way Wilhelm Reich wanted it to be viewed.
"digital phylactery" — This one puzzled me a bit; I have information about a phylactery of mine I made before, but I don't quite know what a digital phylactery is. Then I realized that I use several of them, based on modern advances with Buddhist prayer wheels. A prayer wheel is a device used in prayer or meditation that rotates; the rotating object is a chamber that contains a written prayer, like a mantra or holy image, that when spun generates the same effect as having said that mantra or seen that holy image. Usually, the paper inside contains many hundreds or thousands of repetitions of that mantra or prayer, so one spin of the prayer wheel would be equivalent to saying that mantra as many times as it was written. Consider that we use computers with hard disks, pieces of cylindrical or circular hardware that store data written on it and that spin at speeds of as much as or exceeding 15000 RPM. Data written on hard disks is the same as any other data just using a different writing system, theoretically, so having a mantra or prayer in a text file spinning on a hard disk can be used immensely well. Thus, you might consider saving a text file with a prayer, mantra, bitmap image of a holy image or shrine, on any computer you work with or own that has a hard drive (solid-state drives are another matter). For instance, I have prayers to XaTuring (yes, I still occasionally do a minor thing or two with that patron god of the Internet) saved in my home directory as invisible files on the UNIX servers I use at work, as well as on my personal Linux machines. You might set up your own server that contains nothing but a RAID array of prayer text files spinning up and down at regular intervals, which could easily suffice as a high-grade digital phylactery.
"how to conjure demon wordpress" — I'm unsure whether this is asking about how to conjure the demon known as WordPress (one unknown to me) or how to conjure a demon by means of WordPress, and since I know nothing of the demon called WordPress (and I'm pretty fond of the platform), I assume it must be the latter. I mean, there is the one time I made a post in thanks to and in homage of the elemental demon Paimon, but that's not really a conjuration. You might have the conjuration text along with an image of the demon's seal stored on a hard drive to use the "digital phylactery" idea from above, and draw a Solomonic triangle or Table of Practice on the hard disk or put the entire computer within one, or you might use a consecrated computer where you write WordPress blog posts within conjurations of a demon as a running liber spirituum. I dunno, really.
"japanese alphabet with english letters" — This is one thing I really don't get; so many people have come to my blog looking for Japanese writing translated into English, when I've mentioned Japanese four times on my blog to date, and none were about transliterating Japanese into English. First, Japanese does not use an alphabet; an alphabet is a system of writing that uses letters to indicate either consonants or vowels. Japanese uses several writing systems, among them kanji (Chinese characters that are combinations of semantic, phonetic, and pictoral images drawn in a codified way) and the syllabaries hiragana and katakana. A syllabary is a writing system that use letters to indicate syllables, often consonant-vowel combinations. Thus, while English uses the two letters "k" and "i" to write the syllable "ki" (as in "key"), Japanese might use キ (in katakana), き (in hiragana), and any number of kanji for the syllable depending on the context and meaning of the character; some might be 幾 (meaning "some" or "how many"), 氣 (meaning "energy" or "atmosphere"), 木 (meaning "tree"), 箕 (referring to the "winnowing basket" constellation in Chinese astrology), or any other number of kanji, all of which we would transliterate as "ki". So it's not as easy as it sounds; not everything is an alphabet!
"using pewter in orgonite" — Pewter is an inorganic material, not having organic sources, so in orgonic terms it'd be used in orgone systems to repel orgone. You could also use lead, mercury, arsenic, or cyanide (provided it comes from an inorganic source!) equally well, especially so if you like wasting your life on orgonite (which, unlike orgone, is bunk as far as I can reckon. Pewter is a blend of metals, any generic cheap greyish alloy, so because of its mixed material it's assigned to the planet Mercury, if that makes any difference in the waste of materials that is orgonite.
Virtues of Labradorite
September 7, 2013 By polyphanes in link, materia, occult Tags: agrippa, eskimo, feldspar, gem, inuit, jewel, labradorite, mala, melody, prayer beads, stone, virtue 9 Comments
Despite my primary focus relying on "high magic" or theurgy, which is supposed to be divested from the use of natural or physical objects, material tools and the materials those tools are made from fill many important roles in my work. For instance, the use of specific herbs, oils, or incenses for rituals, or the consecration of knives or wands using specific liquids or treatments. Specific stones and gems are important, too, and can not only significantly empower a ritual but can be consecrated tools in their own right. For instance, I have a handful of large citrine points I use as focuses or pseudo-wands for solar work, especially when I work with the Headless Rite. The ability of a particular substance to affect the world around it is called its virtue, or its occult or "magical" characteristics that lend it power. The discussion of virtues is the primary focus of Cornelius Agrippa's First Book of Occult Philosophy, in which he discusses "Natural Magic", and from which much modern Western occult literature follows.
Of the stones I like (and there are some I don't), labradorite is among my favorite. It's a feldspar mineral, and so retains all the occult virtues of feldspar, which also includes sunstone, amazonite, and others. Labradorite specifically has a particular blend of sodium and calcium that has it lie between pure albite (sodium-based without calcium) and anthorite (calcium-based without sodium). It ranges in color from dark grey to pale grey, sometimes with a brown or dark olive coloration, but it has an interesting optical property called labradorescence, where the fine layers of growth in the stone allow for a kind of metallic iridescence ranging in color from deep blue to green, red, purple, and yellow. The iridescent qualities, however, rely on a particular angle of reflection; labradorite may appear dull and boring until tilted just so. Labradorite was officially discovered by the West in 1770 in Labrador in northeastern Canada, but has also been discovered in Finland, Russia, Madagascar, and other places around the world, and occurs among the artifacts of native peoples. As a type of feldspar, it has many commercial uses of the same including road paving and ceramic integrity, but has also been used as a gemstone since its discovery due to its interesting optical beauty. Particularly iridescent or gem-quality labradorite is known as the variant spectrolite, with Ylämaa, Finland being the most well-known centers of this variant. Darker variants of labradorite are also called black moonstone.
Due to its relatively recent discovery, there isn't that much reliable knowledge on labradorite as it applies to magic, especially in Hermetic work. As such, Scott Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic lacks an entry on the stone. According to the fluffy new-agey yet highly thorough Love is in the Earth by Melody, the general mineral feldspar is said to have the following attributes [sic]:
This mineral assists one in detaching from the old, encouraging unconventional and exciting methods to attains ones goals. It provides for support in issues of self-awareness and self-love, for with realization of love one can become united with all aspects of the world.
It has been found as a constituent of moon rock and provides for a connection with inter-galactic intelligence. Feldpsar also enables one to access the communicative forces of this intelligence.
It assists one in locating that which has been mis-placed and in discovering and understanding previously unidentified messages from both within and without of the self.
It can be used in the treatment of disorders associated with the skin and muscular structure.
In her entry on labradorite, Melody has this to say [sic]:
In addition to the properties listed in the FELDSPAR section of this book, this mineral protects ones aura, and helps to keep the aura clear, balanced, protected, and free from energy leaks. It assists in the alignment of the subtle bodies, enhancing the connection between the physical and ethereal realms.
It is said to represent the "temple of the stars", assisting one in sustaining and maintaining, while providing for the understanding of the destiny one has chosen. It brings the light of the other planetary beings to the soul of the user. The labradorescence is a luminescence, derived from extra-terrestrial origin, which is enclosed in the mineral to bring the galactic evolved energies from other worlds to the Earth plane.
The energy of labradorite facilitates the transformation of intuition into intellectual thought such that one can implement the instructions provided. It assists one to traverse changes, attracting strength and perseverance. IT has been known as the matriarch of the subconscious mind, providing instructive sessions to the user concerning the implementation of inner messages and the utilization of same in the physical domain. it can help to provide clarity to the inner sight, instilling a passionless peace of imperturbability via the annihilation of disturbing thoughts.
It also symbolizes the moon and helps one to advance, without constraint, through the cycles of progression, heralding the arrival of ascension. It also symbolizes the sun, providing for vitality and for a sense of "self" during transitions, and promoting refinement of action and discernment in direction.
It unites the personal self with the understanding required to both realize and achieve the destiny of this life, relieving insecurity and apprehension, while enhancing faith and reliance in oneself and the absolute purity of the universal harmony.
It assists one in eliminating aspects of familiarity which obscures thought and blurs instinct, helping one with originality and precision, and bringing uniqueness without judgment to ones contemplative patterns.
It helps one to reflect and to facilitate transformations which are beneficial. It also enhances patience and an inner knowing of "the right time".
It allows for recognition that humanity represents the "Being of Light", transcending the limitations of the past and the thoughts of the future, and embracing the infinite possibilities of the moment. It helps one to both "be" and to proceed with the assurance that the light is always there, surrounding and pure.
Labradorite brings the commencement of the recognition of ones inherent and analytical and rational abilities. It further promotes the synthesis of intellectual thought with the intuitive, mystical, and psychic wisdom.
It assists in inspiring one to introduce the teachings of other worlds to this world of love and light, bringing assimilation and illumination to further the advancement of humanity.
It can be used during radionic analysis; holding a sample and placing a sample on the witness or using a pendulum of this stone, the energy of the stone interferes with the energy of the user and points to the problem[s] involved.
It has been used in the treatment of disorders of the brain, to stimulate mental acuity, and to reduce anxiety and stress. It can assist in digestion, regulation, and metabolism. It has also been used to clarify the eyes.
Labradorite has an associated myth according to its Canadian origin. A common version of this myth says:
According to an Eskimo legend, the Northern Lights were once imprisoned in the rocks along the Labrador coast, until one day an Eskimo warrior found them and freed most of the lights with a blow from his spear. Not all the lights could be freed from the stone however and for that reason we have today what is known as labradorite.
All this is well and good, but even with the nice Native American legend and the wealth(?) of Melody's new age fluff, this doesn't speak much about its virtues in Hermetic magic, though it is helpful. The labradorescent light within the stones definitely has a varying and ephemeral quality not unlike the Aurora Borealis, formed from the interplay of the Sun and the magnetic sphere of the Earth. This also ties labradorite in with the Roman goddess Aurora, or Dawn, who heralded the coming of the Sun with her many colors, or "rosy fingers" as is frequently seen in literature. From the legends, then, we can already assign a celestial, nocturnal, and luminary quality to labradorite, a kind of interplay of the Sun and the Moon against the larger firmament of the stars.
Since labradorite was discovered well after Cornelius Agrippa's time, and since he otherwise doesn't mention feldspar in his tables of correspondence or discussion of virtues, it helps to look at the qualities of things Agrippa lists to figure out what forces labradorite might play best with. For this, Agrippa might say that labradorite is lunary, solary, and mercurial based on the qualities of things he ascribes based on these planets:
Moon (book I, chapter 24): silver, white, or green things, crystals generally
Sun (book I, chapter 23): opal, rainbow quartz (Iris, or "Rainbow"), glittery things
Mercury (book I, chapter 29): things that are mixed, those which are of diverse colors or are mixed with yellow and green, things that change forms or appearances
Of these, the connections to Mercury and the Sun are probably the strongest, with the Moon being a little less likely. Of course, all celestial forces are present in all sublunary things anyway (book I, chapter 30), but labradorite's strongest connections might lie with Mercury and the Sun. Peculiar to labradorite, however, we have definite nocturnal tendencies; the Northern Lights are primarily a nocturnal feature, and the darkness of labradorite combined with its bright luminescence is similar to those famed lights at night, or light shining in the darkness from otherwise hidden features. Mercury is probably the strongest connection to go with, then, with the Sun and Moon playing equal parts in its virtue (or slightly unequal, biased towards the Sun). If it is mercurial, however, it's a kind of holy, celestial, or ouranic force of Mercury. Given the variance in color with labradorescence, it might not be wrong to say that labradorite is definitely stellar, as in pertaining to the sphere of the fixed stars in addition to or instead of any one particular planet.
In addition to its almost-gaudy beautiful radiance, the magical feel, or aura or dweomer, of labradorite is what really hooks me. It feels very cooling as far as stones go, like smooth, soft, light water or a thick cool mist that washes away filth. It doesn't have a strong centering aspect to its feel, but it is clarifying, sharpening the mind into precision. It doesn't feel slow or heavy, but it doesn't seem to speed up the mind or jolt it into activity, either. It's not luxurious like stones of Venus or Jupiter, but it has a kind of safe and still feeling that I've associated with the Moon and Sun in the past. It tastes (metaphorically speaking) clean and refreshing, more pleasant than unpleasant, again tastes which are lunar and solar. It would seem like it would be a spiritual kind of ruby or carnelian; these stones are known for energizing and supercharging physical acts, while labradorite might be better for energizing or supercharging spiritual activity, more than star sapphire or other "celestial" or "spiritual" stones which seem only to draw upward. Its varied colors do help in unifying various forces within the mind, certainly, and would seem to help act as a kind of "spiritual grounding" stone, in which one can ground "higher up"; use of labradorite in astral ritual would not be a bad thing, using it as an anchor for the physical body to link to the astral one. Its iridescence that comes from within, normally hidden until turned just right towards the light, can be an indication that this stone can help bring out magical power, talent, or genius from within; again, this ties into supercharging spiritual activity, giving these things more light than would otherwise be known or seen.
During the last gem show that I go to every so often with some of my crafty occult friends, I kept getting distracted (as in past gem shows) with labradorite. Its interesting appearance kept tricking me, leading me to inspect samples and beads over and over again until I realized that it was just the same stuff. At the gem show before the last one, I ended up buying a labradorite orb about the size of a small orange, which is beautiful and dark with bright labradorescence showing, which will be good for meditation or scrying of specific entities. At the most recent one, however, I decided to finally suck it up and got a few strands of labradorite beads that I fashioned into a mala, or prayer beads not unlike a rosary.
A mala is a string of 108 beads, the number 108 assuming high importance in Hinduism, Buddhism, and other dharmic religions. I've always liked malas, and have owned several in my life, but I've never crafted one myself before. Using repetitions of prayers is helpful in my work, and I use Buddhist mantras, my magical motto, or other short prayers with these things. My mala design uses 108 beads as the actual prayer counter beads, plus four extra beads: a large banded onyx bead plus three extra labradorite beads, with a black tassel and held together with black silk cord. The four (or three plus one) beads assume different meanings, depending on tradition. In Buddhism, the larger bead represents the guru or teacher, and the three smaller beads represent the Three Jewels of Buddhism (Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha). For me, since I'm less Buddhist than other things, these extra beads can also refer to the three persons of the Triune God, plus the larger bead to represent the One God, or the One Thing or Whole of Hermeticism. I used onyx since it's a stone associated with Saturn, representing the firmament and black night sky against which all the stars shine and the celestial light is filtered through from the Divine Supernals down all the way to our sphere of the Earth. Plus, onyx is a fairly heavy and dark stone, which can also represent the physical power and material result of prayer, magic, and meditation; in this sense, the three extra labradorite beads and onyx bead can also represent the Hebrew understanding of the elements, where the elements of Fire, Air, and Water are independent in their own right and Earth is a combination of the other three elements.
So, that's my contribution to widening the scope of magical knowledge on this stone. What about you, dear readers? Have you used labradorite in your work for anything? Are there any particular experiences or thoughts on this stone you'd like to share, or theories on how it might be used in rituals or talismanic magic?


After much trial, error and failure, I finally have a fully stable and playable Project64 setup on my new laptop, the settings of which I will share for those who may have a similiar hardware/software setup.
Note: I could not get the C buttons of my N64 Controllers (OEM) to register with any version of N-Rage, so I gave up and brought in JoyToKey to fake it. For those unfamiliar, this software maps gamepad input to emulated keyboard presses.
6. Assign a random key to every button that contains the word 'Axis' in the label.
8. Switch back to JoyToKey, and using the information gained from notepad, clear all keys except those corresponding to the c buttons. If you wish, you may also change the key assignments to something neater, like w(up) s(down) a(left) d(right) rather than the random keys you entered before. Be Sure NOT to use the same keyboard key assignments for additional controllers!
Project64 should be run without any compatibility settings other than running it as administrator+Disable DPI Scaling, whereas JoyToKey should be both RaA and compatibility mode set for Windows XP SP3. I also force the NVidia card in the Nvidia control panel. That's it!
and a program called AdvancedRun by nirsoft, you can run both of these programs on any computer without having to remember any setup or compatibility settings. In my particular case, the batch file resides in the Project64 root directory, the installation of JoyToKey resides in a subfolder of the root called 'JoyToKey', and a copy of AdvancedRun is in both of these directories. If you decide to create a portable setup like this, just make sure to open both copies of the AdvancedRun program from File Explorer one time, enter in the corresponding target exe MANUALLY (Don't browse or it will save the full path, which defeats the goal of portability), then enter in the aforementioned compatibility settings, run it, and in the background it will save a file called AdvancedRun.cfg in the same directory from which you ran the AdvancedRun executable.
Hope this helps somebody out, peace.
Last edited by CCTEX; June 20th, 2018 at 08:19.


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La saison 1985-1986 du Championnat du Koweït de football est la vingt-cinquième édition du championnat de première division au Koweït. La Premier League regroupe les sept meilleurs clubs du pays au sein d'une poule unique où ils s'affrontent deux fois au cours de la saison, à domicile et à l'extérieur. À la fin de la compétition, il n'y a pas de relégation et le champion de deuxième division est promu parmi l'élite pour faire passer le championnat à .

C'est le Kazma Sporting Club qui remporte le championnat en terminant en tête du classement final, avec deux points d'avance sur Qadsia Sporting Club et sept sur le quadruple tenant du titre, Al Arabi Koweit. C'est le tout premier titre de champion du Koweït de l'histoire du club, qui manque le doublé en s'inclinant en finale de la Coupe du Koweït face à Al Fehayheel.

Les clubs participants

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Classement
Le barème utilisé pour établir le classement est le suivant :
 Victoire :
 Match nul : 1 point
 Défaite : 0 point

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Matchs

Bilan de la saison

Voir aussi

Références

Liens internes
 Championnat du Koweït de football

Liens externes
 Résultats et classement sur le site RSSSF

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The Cromford 2 ELS is our twist on the classic hybrid. With its low step through frame, short travel suspension forks and 26" wheels its classic meets practical, becoming a versatile bike that gets you there with ease and comfort.
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greater control over varying terrain.
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This summer, we teamed up with camera giants Canon, to offer two lucky winners the chance of winning two incredible prize bundles.
All summer, we've been asking you to tag your best action, outdoor, and adventure photographs on Instagram with #CanonFirsts. And literally thousands of you have entered. Almost 4,000 of you, in fact.
From incredible landscapes, blistering mountain bike shots, dreamy snowboard photographs, gritty skateboard snaps and everything in between, we've been blown away by the creativity, the action, and the standard of the entries over the last six weeks.
Along with Canon, we've created two incredible prize bundles that the two lucky winners, as selected by Editors from the Factory Media network, will get their hands on.
The judges have had the tough task of sorting through the near 4,000 photographs you tagged #CanonFirsts. Since the competition closed a few days ago, the editors of the biggest action, outdoor, and adventure publications have been locked away, deliberating and cogitating about who the two lucky winners of the two fantastic prizes on offer should be.
There have been tantrums, arguments, and sleepless nights here at Factory Media Towers but, at last, we've whittled our favourites down to eleven (representing all of the areas Factory Media cover). But, of course, only the top two places will walk away with a whole heap of new camera gear, courtesy of Canon.
So without further ado, and in time-honoured reverse order, here are your #CanonFirst finalists and two winners.
Traditionally, BMX Racing is a series of races consisting of 8 riders battling away, banging both bars and elbows trying to get to that number one spot. The adrenalin, the speed, the rush, and the thrill of getting across the finish line first ahead of your competitors is second to none. But every now and again, the thought of being out on the track doing your own thing on a purely solo mission is great (and much needed). The only competition being yourself and the only winner being the feeling of going fast and sending big jumps.
Blue skies, a fresh track and me, myself and I.
We had more images to chose from than any other title, so narrowing it down was no easy task. However, this climbing shot from Claire Clifton really stood out. Not only is it technically a beautifully composted photo – the climber sits beautifully in that golden ratio, framed perfectly be the rock above and the mountain below – but, like all good photographs it makes you ask questions; Where have they been? Where are they going? What's captures the climbers attention beneath? Yet, at the same time, it gives you context and a story, all captured in a single shot.
A big vista but not in the way you'd expect from a mountain bike shot. The disused Blackpool Pit quarry is an industrial scar, far from the usual high mountains and woods of mountain bike photography. It's great to see action sports transported to new and unusual environments and Jake Varker has one a great job of capturing it.
The contrast of light and dark splits the photo in two and draws attention to the silhouetted rider. It's a big, burly line with no clear run out, fair play to Mawgan Pownall for committing!
This epitomises what cycling means to us, and what it can bring to anyone. The sense of adventure starts when you take the first few pedal spins from your doorstep, then, from there, the adventure never ends. The humble bike can take you around the world, both metaphorically and physically, and by the looks of it, Catherine has let it do just that. I want to be transported into this image, to see what's around that corner.
We're all used to those shots of the Northern Lights over Iceland, Norway or Sweden, but North Wales? You don't see that very often. In one shot, Grant has managed to capture just how incredible Snowdonia is for its night skies – showing exactly why it was designated as an International Dark Sky Reserve in recent years. It's clear Grant worked for this shot as well, in both a technical sense and in a physical one. Getting up to where he took it, on the tops of the Glyderau, is no walk in the park, that's for sure.
While we may all dream of conquering sun-drenched mountain passes, this shot by Tobias King captures the flip-side and what is ultimately the reality for UK cyclists for much of the year. Tobias has captured the dedication of the rider perfectly against the backdrop of a stormy sky that looks set to burst at any moment. Despite the leaden sky, there's a tranquility to the shot, too – a lone rider happily ticking off the miles, despite Mother Nature saying otherwise. Chapeau, Tobias!
There are few experiences in surfing as blissful as sitting in the line up on a summer night, in front of the setting sun. This dreamy shot transports you right into that moment of calm. The soft pink light reflects off the water's surface, making it seem as though it could continue endlessly into the sky, while a single streak of light across the waves draws your eye towards the anonymous local surfers in the horizon. You feel as though you could paddle out into the frame and towards those silhouettes, to join their moment of tranquility.
First off, look at the shapes in this one! Body position, the arms, and the tip toe control on the front foot – banging. And it absolutely sums up the potential treachery in that old ledge mainstay the backlip. Spot-wise Josh is onto a winner here too – if there's one constant in skate photography (as far as spots, architecture, and backdrops go at least) it's circles. Black and white too – extra points: gives the sky a sense of foreboding (probably justified as it no doubt pissed down five minutes later) along with the contrast on the stone making the scene look like it could be anywhere from ancient Athens to Newcastle. Finally, you can't front on a backside lipslide – especially not if it's gapped out to like this – and it's in The Toon.
This photo is immediately striking. An amazing spot, solid riding, great composition. Kelvin Waterman is an excellent rider and lives for the adventure of finding new spots to ride – just like these crazy brick transitions under a bridge in the south of England. Kelvin's doing a grand job here, those transitions are TIGHT! The repetitive pattern of the bricks and curves draws you right in, seeing Kelvin roasting up there on the vert and then onwards, further into the frame to admire the entire brick structure. Although the choice of black and white and those strong patterns give it a very graphic, almost flat quality, the depth shines through and that's what makes it such an appealing image to look at. Hats off to Gavin Ripton for capturing this one!
Love this shot by Rob Caddy of a winter warrior running out for a dip in the icy North Sea brine, for lots of reasons. The soft wintry light, the clean empty peak textured with a little bit of speed blur promising endless opportunities… and most of all the fact that our man in rubber looks like he's all alone with his thoughts. A great capture of the essence of the lure of the sea.
Saas-Fee is one of the first European snow parks to get going each winter and – with jagged peaks and glaciated terrain all around – it's a great spot for shooting snowboarding. Scotty has gone for an unusual angle here, donning a fisheye and getting right into the action, but still capturing some of that insane scenery that Saas is all about.
Thank you to everybody who entered the competition. Congratulations to all of our top pics, and of course to our two fantastic winners.


Has the procedurally-generated game been done to death by this point? Keen Games doesn't think so, and they hope that their latest release of Portal Knights shows that there are still plenty of ideas to apply to an area of gaming that is dominated by the likes of Minecraft. Let's see if their RPG-centric ideas agree with the zaniness that can occur when your world is procedurally created.
Keen Games used their own in-house game engine for Portal Knights, which is fairly rare to see from a more independent developer. The result is a game that runs at a fairly consistent and high frame rate, dipping only in action-heavy moments in split-screen (more on that in a bit). Water blocks also have the occasional odd block-ish look to them, which thankfully doesn't last for very long. Overall, the graphical fidelity of Portal Knights falls somewhere between the Unity and Unreal engines, featuring all the different biomes you'd expect, from lush forests to harsh deserts, winter wonderlands, and the amusingly-named Brackenburg.
These biomes are presented in a way unique to Portal Knights. The game has a story about the splitting of the world into multiple islands, separated by portals (hence the game's name). So each island that you travel to is a randomly-generated version of a particular biome. While the exact layout of a given island may vary from game to game, the number of portals and which islands they link to do not change. You are also guaranteed to see certain resources on certain islands, thus giving the game some more consistency that is easy to keep track of. Islands also occasionally include time-limited events, which task you with completing certain objectives such as killing a minimum number of enemies in order to earn a reward. NPCs also frequent these islands, and offer quests for you to complete at any time. This shows some of the focus that Portal Knights has in always giving the player some concrete goal to achieve.
Don't let Portal Knights' cheery visuals and easy-going soundtrack fool you; this game has some combat chops. Enemies often put up quite a fight, and the larger ones will require teamwork in order to defeat. There are even boss characters after passing through a certain number of islands, which each need to be approached in a certain way in order to kill. These boss characters also help to break up some of the same-ness of the regular levels, something you don't really see in this type of game.
Portal Knights supports multiplayer, and some of the later enemies practically require it. This includes split-screen support: up to two players per console for a total of four players. For some reason, split-screen caused issues when playing on the same console as the host player, leading to game-stopping crashes out to the PlayStation 4 system menu and bug report screen. Once the host player was on his own and the other two players shared a guest PS4 system, the game stopped crashing entirely.
Thankfully, Portal Knights doesn't take itself too seriously. For starters, you can obtain a pet such as a rat, frog, owl, cat, or other creature, either by freeing one from a cage in a dungeon or by purchasing one from a merchant, but these pets do nothing other than follow you around, occasionally making noise. You'll probably also die fairly often in this game, whether from taking on an enemy (or group of enemies) who was too powerful, or dodging your way right off an island into the abyss, it's bound to happen to even the best of us. Yet the only penalty for falling in battle is a percentage of coins that you currently have, which are dropped by almost every enemy in the game. That's right, you won't lose your items, or experience, or anything other than some relatively easy to obtain currency.
RPG elements are also added onto Portal Knights. You have three different classes to choose from – Warrior, Ranger, and Mage. Each have different weapons and armor that only they can use. In addition, leveling up unlocks special abilities unique to each class, such as regenerating health as a warrior, stealth attacks as a ranger, and other magical abilities for the mage. These abilities can be swapped at will, encouraging experimentation to find your perfect build. There are also specialized crafting stations that can be built, which produce each class' exclusive items, such as an anvil for the warrior or an archer station geared towards the ranger. These are necessary items to build and upgrade to unlock more powerful weapons and armor to ensure your victory in the game's late stages.
Portal Knights presents some interesting ideas for procedural games. However, it lacks a sense of ownership that games like Minecraft offer. Once you've cleared available quests and found all portals for an island, there is little incentive to ever come back to that area, save for the odd resource. While tougher enemies come out at night, they generally stay in their spawn area, thus the necessity of crafting a home diminishes considerably. Furthermore, rather hefty loading times discourage frequent traveling, or make it a bit of a pain to have to backtrack. Islands aren't particularly large, so the loading times can be perplexing. Any structures that you do create will end up looking impressive, however, because the game automatically generates interesting wall, window, and roof textures using a single block type. You can also carry up to 200 of the same blocks in one stack, though picking blocks up requires you to get abnormally close to them.
If you're in the mood for a more light-hearted take on the procedurally-generated survival genre, then you may want to check out Portal Knights. Its inclusion of major RPG elements gives you new unlocks to look forward to and experiment with, and its easy yet robust crafting system always tasks you with collecting something different. Combined with specialized and upgradeable crafting stations, Portal Knights feels like it has more focus than many games in the procedural genre. These varying gameplay mechanics all meld together to produce a game that is good fun to play with friends.
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Q: xgettext --join-existing resulting multiple comments in my pot file I've a build script that scan source dir (PHP) and execute the xgettext --join-existing ... for updated translation and save into a pot file, e.g.
find . -type f -name '*.php' -not -path './vendor/*' |
xargs xgettext --join-existing --keyword=_e --keyword=_x
--keyword=__ --from-code=UTF-8 --default-domain=myapp
--output=languages/myapp/myapp.pot

I don't know why, after several times of code refactoring and building, the pot file will have something like this
#: src/Member/Auth.php:196
#: src/Member/Auth.php:135
msgid "Login failed!"
msgstr ""

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*Why there are two lines of source/line in the comment? (I guess it was due to we've moved the message around in the source.)

*So, how to make the xgettext ignore if the same file has updated content?

*Or should I not recommend to use --join-existing in the build script? (But sometimes we have manual item in the pot file, so how to solve?)

A: Sounds logically that xgettext appends information (even source reference), because it is explicitly set with the option --join-existing. But following workarounds could help.

Workaround 1
Remove previous source references from the pot file with sed before building the new pot:
sed -i.old '/^#: /d' languages/myapp/myapp.pot

Workaround 2
Do not use the option --join-existing and place the manual items in a dummy php file.

A: Would here be a problem if using poedit? It is GUI application with "Update" button. Poedit scans all files and collects all translatable strings. I have used it a lot for a long time and it does its job perfect.

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