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amnesty international candle

Flame of the small candle is very admirable, we can not take our eyes off it. Many of us still believe in magic of burning light of candle, which can keep off bad powers and cover us from misfortune. Praying and hoping we put candles to icons. And they cry for people, melting, they burn out to ashes. We know from history about the flame of wax house which neutralizes conflict situation, creates atmosphere of communication, peace and relax, clears harmonizes neofield of human being and room space. Usually the amnesty candle is shown in black, sometimes it drawn in white on the black background.

Black candles are considered as attributes of black mass  since olden times.

Black color of candles lays a ghost, heals difficult diseases, takes up and destroys negative, removes limitations. It is used for induction of deep meditation sense, opens deep levels of unconscious . Black candles are also used for destructive magic. White color symbolizes purity, truth, sincerity , wisdom . It inspires the spiritual enlightenment , purification. White is used for clairvoyance , healing, peace, chastity , divineness and protection. It equalizes all other colors. Ecclesiastical candle is the ecclesiastical heritage of orthodoxy. It is the symbol of the spiritual unit with the holy mother-church.

Candle is also evidence of believe, of involvement with the god light. Candle expresses affection and flame of human love to the god. Burning life- its symbol, visible sign, it expresses our hot love and goodwill to somebody for whom we set the candle.

But if the love is not real the candles do not mean anything, our sacrifice is useless.

Unfortunately it happens too often. Many people who set candles for health, for rest, for success of any case, they do not love people for whom are candles, they even do not know them.

Some of us think about god, godmother, holies and saints just entering the church and just for several seconds and minutes, they think it is enough to set a candle in front of icon, our raying will come true just quasi god and saints need our candles. Then they think if they set candles in church or in their homes in front of icon, so god will excuse them for lie, for deception , for injuring other people. Such kind of people are mistaken! Without love to god, without love to our neighbor and to ourself, without execution of commandments of the god- there is no need for candles.

Light as a mythological and philosophic symbol.

Light is always beginning of physical understanding and manifestation of thing.

Ancient Greeks often used fire rituals. In this ritual fire of altar was connected with the moving of sun around it. They thought flame from fire gets high along with the smog of sacrifice to the god heaven. Fire for ancient Greeks was connected with the life sense of god, with his absence. In the mysteries, said Plutarch, ancients were happy not just because of abundance of wine and roast, but because of hope and believe in presence of favorable god.

Along of all sources of light exactly fire differs from other with it social role, with it real personification of physical sense of mystic ideas, with its ability to manipulate these ideas in level which was given to human to manipulate fire.

Fire like animal needs prey:he feeds itself with bushes, dry grasses, bird dung, it can grow and cause other lights, but it can also die. Its growing is unlimited, in the same time you can stop it, its all parts can live undependable. It becomes lower while getting no food, it becomes small like a bee, like a fly, it can be reborn from blade of grass, it can become wide like a swamp. Fire is animal, in the same time it does not resemble to anyone of them, it has no foot, no body, but it is faster than antelope, it has no wings, but it flies in the sky; it has no snout, but it breathes, howls, growls; it has no hands, no nails, but it owns the whole world…Fire does not choose anyone and it is ready to devour even these who feed it, it is cleverer than hyena and more bloodthirsty than panther, but its presence is beautiful: it eases cruelty of the cold nights, relaxes the tired people and makes them strong. People own the world just in part, stretching from owners into victims. Because of this, power over fire is connected with involvement and assistance of gods. Connected rituals and symbols become method of immersion in the special condition of spirit, it becomes instrument of individual and social mobilization.

Fire is jolly, restless, inexhaustible. It is almighty, exterminating. Everything disappears in it and everything resign itself. There is self destroying instinct in its tender hugs and kisses, it wishes to absorb everything and absorbing to destroy itself.

There is a real pagan, satanic triumph all-knowing and blind destiny. Clever light is given in a kind of perfidious flame and its power is invisible but suddenly it becomes apparent with unlimited energy. Fire is a eternal creation and eternal death and destruction, there is nothing to do except of excepting it.

Physical light or electricity is versatile, high-strung and not specified in its movements, it is capricious , insidious, self-willed, majestic, wrathful, hysteric, glancing and incredible.