Sodalite, Sodalities and Modalities.

The Healing Stone, SODOLITE.

Powers: Healing, peace, meditation, wisdom
If you're the type of person who is frequently a fool for love, this is the stone to work with. Sodalite is a stone of logic, rationality, and truth, its energies are not so easily dismissed. This stone is also a powerful tool in developing all-around emotional health. It instills confidence and restores or renews a positive self-image. In love, as in any other area of life, we all make mistakes, but this stone will aid you in the simple art of getting over a broken relationship. Extraordinarily useful for those who are getting over a divorce, recovering from a lost love, or from just plain getting dumped, sodalite will put you back in the game.

Sodalite helps one heal from more serious issues of sexual abuse, but it can also help anyone with balancing all the issues that surround sexuality. Further, sodalite is a communicator, so if you've been having sexual troubles within a relationship and need to have one of those oh-so-delicate and sometimes uncomfortable conversations, keep a bit of sodalite nearby. It particularly helps to keep those who have shut down sexually to open up again to the experience. Equally, for people who have become imbalanced because so much of their energy is invested in their sex lives, it helps them to balance and connect with other aspects of life. And since good sex is ultimately all about how we communicate with one another, it aids our ability to be in touch both verbally and nonverbally.

Sodalite is particularly useful for getting honest about your emotions, and like its sister, the lapis, serves to unite head and heart and a few other physical organs as well. It helps to dispel what is irrelevant in your love life, and that includes past mistakes, emotional upsets, and insecurities. Most important, in matters of the heart this stone promotes trust, enhances companionship, and steers a relationship toward common goals.

ATTRIBUTES: Sodalite unites logic with intuition and opens spiritual perception, bringing information from the higher mind down to the physical level.This stone stimulates the pineal gland and the third eye and deepens meditation. When in Sodalite-enhanced meditation, the mind can be used to understand the circumstances in which you find yourself.This stone instills a drive for truth and an urge toward idealism, making it possible to remain true to yourself and stand up for your beliefs.

Sodalite clears electromagnetic pollution and can be placed on computers to block their emanations. It is helpful for people who are sensitive to "sick-building syndrome"* or to electromagnetic smog*. This is a particularly useful stone for group work, as it brings harmony and solidarity of purpose. It stimulates trust and companionship between members of the group, encouraging interdependence. An excellent stone for the mind, Sodalite eliminates mental confusion and intellectual bondage. It encourages rational thought, objectivity, truth, and intuitive perception, together with the verbalization of feelings. As it calms the mind, it allows new information to be received. Sodalite stimulates the release of old mental conditioning and rigid mind-sets, creating space to put new insights in practice.

Emotionally, sodalite is extremely useful in resolving abuse issues. Because of its gentle yet powerful energy, it is of considerableassistance in restoring a sense of trust in the aftermath of trauma. Better perhaps than any other stone for helping its owner let go of deep-seated feelings of guilt, sodalite reminds us that we are meant to be happy. Also recommended for victims of post-traumatic stress disorder, it is of special value for veterans and victims of assault or accident. For all of us, however, it is a wonderful stone for daily use in times of emotional stress, as it serves to promote all-around emotional wellness and to restore a sense of wholeness, happiness, and health.

Psychologically, this stone brings about emotional balance and calms panic attacks. It can transform a defensive or oversensitive personality, releasing the core fears, phobias, guilt, and control mechanisms that hold you back from being who you truly are. It enhances self-esteem, self-acceptance, and self-trust. Sodalite is one of the stones that bring shadow qualities up to the surface to be accepted without being judged.

HEALING: Sodalite balances the metabolism, overcomes calcium deficiencies, and cleanses the lymphatic system and organs, boosting the immune system. This stone combats radiation damage and insomnia. It treats the throat, vocal cords, and larynx and is helpful for hoarseness and digestive disorders. It cools fevers, lowers blood pressure, and stimulates absorption of fluid in the body.

POSITION: Place as appropriate or wear for long periods of time.

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MODALITIES AND SODALITIES

The grass is wet with white dews.

Wind is blowing incessantly in the fall field.

The wind scattered the white dews.

They look like the beads

Which are not tied and are scattered

All over the field

　

The poet's name is Asayasu Funnya. 

• 1. Modalities 

Jesus focused on function rather than form during His earthly ministry. As the apostles and first believers (who were almost all Jewish) struggled to create a form (i.e. modalilty) to launch and develop the Christian movement they knew of only one religious structure: the Jewish synagogue. Even the greek word for “church” is ekklesia, which was used many times to describe a non- Christian gathering or meeting (Acts 19:32,39,41; 7:38; Psalms 22:22). The apostles borrowed this concept and began to start “Christian synagogues” or meetings where new believers, be they Jew or Gentile, could be built up in the faith.

In Acts 2:41-47, they experienced a rude awakening at Pentecost, when after 3,000 responded to the gospel, they were forced to create some structure real fast. This instant crowd of 3,000 baby Christians were in immediate need of baptism, teaching, fellowship, prayer, not to mention room and board! The befuddled Apostles grabbed and tweaked the only model they knew to create tracks to run on─the Jewish synagogue!

These permanent bases of ministry were essential to nourish and strengthen all believers and were led by generalists, who could help direct and develop all aspects of the local effort. Later, in the Pastoral Epistles, Paul provided a number of guidelines how these local congregations were to operate.

• 2. Sodalities

Jesus and the apostles were fully aware that the Jews not only had stationary bases of operations, called synagogues, but also mobile teams of Jewish evangelists whose job it was to expand the movement. Jesus described in Matthew 23:15 how they would “travel around on sea and land to make a single proselyte.” Later, in Acts 15:21, Peter acknowledged that “Moses is preached in every city.”

These sodalities (i.e. organized societies) provided the model Paul drew from as he created his traveling missionary band in Acts 13. After the church at Antioch laid hands on he and Barnabus, they were “sent out by the Holy Spirit.” There was no mission board, policy manual, or weekly report to send in. They simply went from town to town, preaching the gospel, forming fellowships, selecting leadership, and recruiting workers. In other words, it was on the job training and they were figuring it out─as they went!

These more temporary efforts were mobile and pioneering in nature, going where the local churches could not, and were led by specialists─individuals who had a very unique calling, gifting, or ministry target. An example: Paul’s traveling team of missionaries was made up of seven men from four different locations, banding together to establish believing communities in unreached areas (Acts 20:4).

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The whole body of sodalities of different countries, as those of Austria, Switzerland, and Rumania, have united with the main society, and this action is contemplated for the United States also. (d) In 1894, at Salzburg, Austria, the "St. Peter Claver Sodality" was founded by

Countess M. Theresia Ledóchowska

to aid the African missions and to foster the pious work of freeing slaves.

Leo XIII favoured the organization by granting indulgences and privileges the very same year. The sodality includes: (1) the members of a female religious institute who devote themselves totally as helpers of the work of the African missions. These lead a community life in civilized countries and have their headquarters at Rome (via dell' Olmate 16); (2) laymen and women, who devote themselves, as far as their state in life permits, to the work of the sodality, especially by managing the succursals; (3) common helpers of either sex, who foster the work by contributions and other means. From the outset the work of the sodality was carried on with great zeal and has borne much fruit.


WAYS OF TRANSCENDENCE: ELIE WIESEL
Elie Wiesel was snatched as an adolescent from the warmth and security of the simple faith of his Hasidic surroundings into the hell of Auschwitz.

He comes out of it dazed, silent at first, and then the torrent of his witness pours out, perceptive and feeling. His is a strange dialectic -- anger at the silence of God at this dreadful abyss that witnessed what he saw as the death of humanity; and at the same time a passionate urge to confront God, to speak to Him, to hear from Him, to engage Him in dialogue, to call Him to account.

A little of Abraham, a little of Jeremiah, a little of Reb Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev speak through him.
As he reflects, he finds the yearning for dialogue with the transcendent a pressing fact. He sees a parallel in the writer's task, this drive to dialogue, this communication of solitudes:

Between author and reader there must be a dialogue. The creative process is a strange one; it comes from solitude and it goes to solitude, and yet it is a meeting between two solitudes. It is just like man's solitude faced with God~s solitude. Once you have this confrontation, you have art, and religion, and more. You have a certain communion in the best and purest sense of the word... When both are sincere God is there.(9)

For Weisel the transcendent veil is broken in the process of dialogue. He likes to cite Franz Kafka, who could observe that man has the power to speak to God but not about God.(10)

Implicit too, is a deeply felt need for worship.

For Wiesel writing was such a need. A need to adore. But he is ambivalent when he raises the question: "To whom? " He can understand our purposes for God. He wonders about God's purposes for us. Wiesel often stated that Sinai and Auschwitz are the two central Jewish mysteries of all time.

At Sinai the covenant was made. At Auschwitz was the covenant broken? The Jewish people did its part to keep it, he avers. Did God do his?

A people was taken, he tells us in his poetic language, and turned into flames, and the flames into clouds. Now they come back to him as clouds to haunt him, to make him remember, an echo of the cloud that hovered over the Ark of the Covenant. The covenant was broken, but

Maybe it will be renewed, perhaps later; maybe it was renewed even then, on a different level. So many Jews kept their faith or even strengthened it. But it was broken because of the clouds and because of the fire.(11)

We shall encounter that theme of stubborn, unilateral renewal of the covenant again and again.
Hayim G. Perelmuter:
      Transcendence in Context: A Contemporary Jewish View