This newsletter is a publication of the Mystical Order of the White Rose, an emerging multi-faith cyber-community for people interested in--or actively involved with--traditional and/or new, post-modern, expressions of mysticism, monasticism, and contemplative living. The newsletter is published about every two weeks and each issue contains two weeks of daily multi-faith and multi-media devotional readings as well as writings and profiles of mystics, contemplatives, artists and visionaries.  If you are not already a subscriber, you may become one by clicking here.  

     Our intention is to encourage, support and educate people about mystical and contemplative ways of living with special emphasis on prayer, meditation, lectio divina (reflective reading of sacred or uplifting texts), journaling, creative and artistic expression,  and service.

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                          Table of Contents

 - Daily Multi-faith, Multi-media Devotional Readings for March 16-March 31

-  Article on: "Eileen Smith And The Path of the White Rose"

- A Prayer Campaign For The Presidential Campaign by Rev. C. McTush

- Animated Online Mandala for Meditation

- Recipe for "Pears Poached In Scented White Wine"

-  Links of Interest

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     "We begin where we are standing.  As we assess our situation, our families, our communities, our world, we ask ourselves what each of us individually must do to change.  Not only must we be willing to change, we must be ready to grow.  And as we grow, we shed those aspects of ourselves--our attitudes, our beliefs, our way of listening and relating--that constrict and limit us."

     - Kimmy K. Johnson, Ph.d., excerpt from an article "I Grow Old - An Elder In Training" on p. 36, Revision Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 1

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Daily Multi-Faith, Multi-Media Devotional Readings for March 16-March 31

      You can access the daily devotional readings by clicking here.  In addition to one or more quotes or poems for each day, you will find videos, audio files, and links to relevant websites for many (but not all) days.  Our daily devotionals have been described as "engagingly eclectic" and "delightfully quirky."  Take the time to explore them for yourself. 

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Eileen Smith And The Path Of The White Rose 

                          by Cynthia Kiteley Lee                   

      Eileen Smith works in and with many dimensions but doesn't make a big deal out of it. A warm, vivacious, down to earth native of New Jersey with an impish sense of humor, Eileen has channeled other-dimensional spiiritual entities and energies for decades.  These include direct and frequent interaction with her spirit guide Alonya, ascended masters, the Christ, the Blessed Mother Mary, and healing energies. 

      A busy, self-employed healer, spiritual teacher and visionary artist, Eileen spends a lot of time on the road offering workshops and healing sessions up and down the East Coast. 

       Eileen's work enables her to share her extraordinary healing, spiritual and artistic gifts with many people and to work with them in small groups or one-on-one settings. She has recently been guided to collect, edit and publish a selection of her channelled messages so that she can share her messages with even larger groups, however, and become more publicly known and available as a spiritual leader and resource person in the energetically intense times we have entered and will be entering. 

     The name of her book is The Path of the White Rose: Alonya Answers and you can get on the list for receiving the announcement of the book's publication by clicking here.  

      You can visit Eileen's online "Spirit Art Gallery" here. You will see a selection of her prints and jewelry using the same motifs in the prints. Shamanic and angelic influences feature strongly in Eileen's art. 

       Below you will find a channeled communication from Eileen's spirit guide Alonya about the White Rose spiritual hierarchy. You can find a couple of other "answers from Alonya" on this page.    

         Here is Alonya's reply to Eileen's question about the path of the white rose:

     The Order of The White Rose is an actual spiritual hierarchy. I (Alonya) am connected to, and work with this set of High Masters. Some of you are called upon by this Spiritual Hierarchy to do important work within this world, and will be given the White Rose as a symbol of this call in dreams, visions, meditations or continuously see it in your waking life.

     Usually, those who are of angelic, extraterrestrial or interdimensional origin, who have special or unusual abilities (unusual even in regards to those who have psychic abilities) and who have agreed to come to the Earth to assist it and all beings on it, will be "awakened" by this High Order.

     This order is linked to The White Brotherhood, but seems to be the feminine aspect of it, or feminine energy, essence and workings of it.  It also involves the Blessed Mother Mary, who's symbol is also the White Rose, and her essence is directly involved with this group.

     The White Rose is the symbol used for Highest Grace, Truth, Honor, Purity of Heart, and of Spirit's healing power and love made manifest on Earth through us, all of us. The White Rose is the "Calling Card" of the Ascended Masters.

     When the White Rose appears in your life in such a way, it is a message that very, very high spiritual work will be done with you and through you, and that you have been touched and blessed by the very highest of beings that work within our Universe.

     The Path of the White Rose is when one is walking this particular path with this Ascended Soul Group. The type of work we do is hard to decribe in limited earthly language, but to simpify it, it combines with the wisdom, the love and healing of the Mother Earth, the Nature Realm and its energies, elements and nature beings; Interdemensional and Extraterrestrial beings of Light; combined with the God the Creator, Mother Mary, and the true essence of spirituality: love and compassion. The promise to us that it is our birthright to be one with that rose, to smell it, touch it , feel it, teach it, be it, walk it.

 This is the first in a series of articles about and interviews with Eileen Smith.  Future articles will feature guidance on "Staying Spiritually Strong In the 21st Century," "Spiritual Aspects of Political Process" and more.

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A Prayer Campaign For The Presidential Campaign

     This message, my spiritual sisters and brothers, is about the need for your assistance.  You may or may not be aware of the gross all -out effort to keep the people of the world, encapsulated in the circle of repression and depression. Yes...everyone is feeling the hopeless emotions that have purposely been dispelled to cause a deep sleep to fall upon the people. To keep resistance from rising up and succeeding to side step and overthrow their plans.

     Simply pray for the success and breakthrough of the chosen one who is destined to take this position, by the design of the highest spiritual counsels and God himself.
Join with us in the prayer below every day at 12 noon from the time you get this
message until that person has been put in their rightful position. ...and watch the miraculous action happen right before your eyes. Then there will be no doubt that the birth of change is coming forth to stop all the pain, blood shed and abuse of power that has been going on for a long time.

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Animated Online Mandala for Meditation

Beautiful  animated mandala without any sound track to use as a focus for meditation.  

Another link of the same moving mandala, which is "a visual representation of Earth's newly evolving energy grid. It is also a symbolic representation of Earth's evolutionary path as well as our own spiritual evolution."  You will find tips on meditating on this mandala and other helpful and interesting information.  Be sure to scroll down below all the ads at the top of the page to find the mandala and text. 

Be sure to visit David Bookbinder's new Beliefnet.com blog: "Mandalas, Art, Healing, and Transformation blog"  http://blog.beliefnet.com/flowermandalas .  He designed the White Rose Mandala on this website (top left hand corner).  You can find out more about David and mandalas by clicking here.

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 A Recipe For Pears Poached In Scented White Wine

Ingredients:  3 cups dry white wine (e.g., Chablis); 1 cup water; 1/4 cup sugar; 1 tablespoon honey; 4 whole cloves; 1 cinnamon stick (3 inches long); 1 long strip of orange peel (removed with a paring knife); 4 firm Bartlett or Anjou pears, peeled; juice of 1 lemon; 4 mint springs for garnish.

1. Combine the wine, water, sugar, honey, cloves, cinnamon stick and orange peel in a nonreactive saucepan large enough that the pears will fit inside comfortably.  Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer.

2. Meanwhile, carefully peel the pears, leaving the stems on.  Toss with the lemon juice to prevent discoloration.  Add the pears to the simmering wine and cook until tender when poked with a toothpick, about 25 minutes.  (To turn pears without bruising, tilt the pan as they cook.)  With a wooden spoon, carefully transfer pears to a bowl.  Strain the syrup over them and let cool slightly, 20 minutes.  (The pears can be eaten warm or chilled).

3. Carefully place each pear upright in a stemmed serving dish and spoon some syrup on top.  Garnish each pear with a mint sprig at the step to look like a leaf.  If desired, serve with bowls of chocolate sauce, raspberry sauce and whipped cream alongside, for topping.

From Parade Magazine for October 1, 2006, p. 12.

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Links Of Interest

Our White Rose -- A website put together a couple of years ago that provides a brief account of the White Rose group that opposed the Nazi regime during World War II and lengthy remarks about the decaying state of civil rights and democracy in the U.S. Follow the links to get more information and resources, including a movie you can purchase that has reviewed glowing reviews.

 A video on "God And The Myth Of The Big Bang" -- This is an overview of contemporary cosmological theory, theoretical physics and the parallels between religion and science when it comes to adherence to established dogma and resistance to new ideas and evidence. I want to note that the narrator's faith in pure logic and scientific determinism as the ultimate arbiters of truth and reality may be a form of adherence to dogma as well. If you like space photographs and space art, you're in for a treat. Very visually exciting stuff. 

Synchronicity Foundation -- Information about high-tech meditation CDs, wholistic living and apparitions fo the Blessed Mother. 

Earthlight - Elegantly articulated vision and mission statement for evolving earth spirituality. The rest of the website has much to offer as well. 

The Great Rethinking and The Prophets Conference were created by an international organization committed to assisting in the birthing of a new humanity, and the related creation of a sustainable world.  http://www.greatmystery.org/