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Buddhism, a major world religion and philosophy said to have developed from the teachings of Shakyamuni (“Sage of the Shakya Clan”), a teacher who lived in northern India around the mid-6th century BC. Spreading from India to Asia, and more recently the West, Buddhism has played a central role in the spiritual, cultural, and social life of the “New Age”.

In the period of the 4th through the 6th centuries BC, there was a major social and religious revolution happening, arising from discontent with the sacrificial practices of Brahmanism and the caste social system of The Vedas. New philosophies and a more personal and spiritual system arose, creating the Upanishads and other revolutionary texts and beliefs, such as “the eightfold path”, and renunciation.

At that time, there was much unrest and criticism about Hinduism, which said the Vedas were directly communicated from the Universe and could not be questioned. They were written in Sanskrit, a sacred language which means “entirely (samyak) done (krit)”. The name means perfectly done in terms of communication, but the layperson couldn’t read and write it. Interpreted by the Priests, the scriptures taught that the people were to accept their plot in life no matter the difficulty or poverty they accrued – while the priests lived lavishly on the offerings made to the temple.

Hinduism taught that there was one supreme being, Brahman who not only created the Universe, but was the Universe. Brahman established the Divine order and maintained it, and directly channeled the Vedas to humanity so that they may understand wholly the Divine order and participate in it.

Buddhists tenets are similar to the early gnostics, believing that human life is a cycle of rebirth, suffering and death (samsara) that can only be broken by balancing their karma and dharma and ultimately achieving a state of enlightenment and union with the Oversoul (atman). It is said in legends that the first person to achieve this state was Siddhartha Gautama, known as “Buddha”.

Legend of the Buddha

Born around 490 BC, Siddhartha Gautama (Shakyamuni) was born in a royal family, sheltered from the world and protected from the state of the world. According to legend, his mother Maha Maya had a dream that a white elephant with six tusks entered her right side, meaning she would give birth to a world ruler or a buddha.

After 10 lunar months, (280 days, the length of a pregnancy) she went to the Lumbini grove on the outskirts of Kapilavastu, anticipating the birth. Standing upright and holding onto a branch of a Sal tree, the tree bent toward her and offered her a pain-free birth. The Buddha came forth from under her right arm, avoiding the “pollution” of the birth canal. Being born walking and talking, Buddha decreed, “I am the King of the World. His mother died and was reborn seven (7) days later.

Suddhodhana, according to legend, invited a group of Brahmins to a feast at the palace so they could tell the future of the newborn baby. Eight of the priests predicted that Siddhartha would either become a powerful ruler of all the land or a great spiritual teacher. They warned the father that if the Buddha ever left the palace and saw the reality of the world he might have an existential crisis and turn toward a spiritual life. If he stayed within the palace walls, he would become a great ruler. One brahmin, Kondanna predicted that the baby Buddha would become an enlightened one and foretold of four signs that would influence the boy to leave his home and pursue his philisophical quest.

Suddhodhana wished for his son to be a mighty ruler and sheltered the boy from the World and showered him with a very lavish life to protect him from the brutal path of enlightenment. Essentially being held captive, he was surrounded by beautiful things and guards to keep him from leaving and seeing anything distressing. Having everything he could ever wish for, his future as the most powerful ruler seemed secured.

When the boy was eight (8) years old, he sat under a rose apple tree and watched as the farmers plowed for a new season of crop. Noticing that the plow upset the earth and harmed the insects, Siddhartha became very distraught as though he was being harmed himself. Suddenly, a wave of joy rose up in him as he sat in the shade of the tree on that beautiful day and the love and compassion for the insects gave him a moment of meditative bliss. The legend says as the sun set, all of the shadows moved but the one of the tree, which continued to shield the young Buddha.

Since his mother had passed, he was raised by his aunt Prajapati, who later would establish the first order of nuns in Buddhist practice. He married the princess Yashodhara, his cousin, at 16. She was renowned as the most beautiful girl in the land and was impressed by his feat of piercing seven trees with one arrow, according to the legend.

The Four Sights

Siddhartha begged his father to go outside of the city walls. Suddhodhana hated to disappoint his son, so he tried to convince him that life outside the palace was exactly the same as the perfect life he lived inside the gates. When he wandered outside, he saw wealth, health, and happiness everywhere he went. While sitting in his royal chariot, an old decrepit man crossed his path. The man was decrepit and withering away it seemed, as he leaned upon his walking staff. “What is this?” Siddhartha asked his driver. Chandaka explained, “that is an old man, Sir. Everyone will get old and look like this one day.” Horrified, Siddhartha contemplated how he could enjoy his life knowing such suffering awaited him.

On his second trip outside the lavish palace walls, they encountered a sickly man oozing with sores. Chandaka had to explain to the Prince that sickness and pain befalls everyone. At home, the King continued to shower the Prince with luxury and dozens of beautiful dancing girls, hoping to distract him from the newfound insights on the plights of the world outside the city’s walls. A third trip, he witnessed a funeral procession with grieving people and a corpse, leading to Chandaka’s explanation of mortality and grief, which was inevitable for all people.

Siddhartha was overwhelmed with these sights and the suffering he had witnessed – how had he not discovered these things in life? Sickness, old age, death? What are these things that torture us? And finally, his fourth excursion to the outside world led to the discovery of a yogi draped in yellow linen, a shaven head, and an empty bowl. Chandaka explained to the boy that this man was an ascetic, who had renounced all worldy things and attained peace by doing so.

Reflecting upon these things, Siddhartha discovered that everything and everyone he had loved – all of his jewels and clothes, his horses, would one day be taken from him because he would one day become old, sick, and ultimately die. He was shocked by these revelations of doom but noticed the ascetic seemed so at peace. Upon inquest, the yogi revealed to Siddhartha a great boon – he was pursuing the path of spiritual reflection and detachment, understanding that the material world and its vestiges were both an illusion. With this understanding, he had given all of his trappings and creature comforts away and thus was liberated from their golden handcuffs.

The Buddha’s Departure

Drum panel with scenes of the Great Departure and Temptation of the Buddha, Limestone, India, Nagarjunakonda, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh

Now 28 and a father of a son, and realizing that both his father and wife would both try to sway him from this novel path and realizing this newly discovered path would be filled with great suffering and loss he was unable to sleep. He reflected on his life. As he walked through the harem, he saw the once beautiful dancing girls now sleeping off their drunkeness.

Some snored, some drooled, some lay open mouthed. Others talked in their sleep, passed gas, or grinded their teeth. Their beauty now dispelled by the reality of the situation was a harsh realization for the Buddha. It was like being in a morgue. The once disciplined, enchanting dancers now resembled corpses, with the foul smells and noises to boot. He decided to secret away in silence. The gods aided him on his journey, sending the now doubled amount of guards into deep sleep. Siddharta roused his charioteer Chandaka and his favorite horse Kantaka and left the palace, with the gods lifting the hooves as to not disturb the marble terrace with their clanking.

He traveled to the river Anomiya with his charioteer Chandaka and horse Kaṇṭhaka, and cut off his long, scented hair. Leaving his servant and horse behind, he journeyed into the woods and changed into monk’s robes. The horse and charioteer were dismissed, after many pleadings by Chandaka to join him on his quest. Some legends say that the horse was so grieved that he died, leaving the saddened driver doubly distraught at his loss.

Reaching a monastery, he changed his name to Gautama and practiced monkhood for six (6) years. He attempted to conquer his mortal desires: food, sex, and comfort by fasting and practicing yoga. Gautama found after a while that the monks were not able to satisfy his urgent spiritual needs, so he became a wandering beggar.

He began to practice terrible self-torture, hoping to gain merit thereby. Five young men were so taken with Siddhartha’s efforts that they joined him as ascetic disciples. They sat at his feet and watched him devoutly as he attempted to discard his own body. Some records reflect that he had fasted for so long that he boasted about being able to feel his spine by pressing his finger into his belly. Almost at death, he accepted a bowl of rice from a young girl. Once he had eaten he realized that physical austerities were not the means to spiritual realization.

The Attack of Mara

Daughters of the demon Mara

Gautama then traveled to Bodhgaya where he sat under a pipal tree in meditation for 49 days. The meditation grew into a profound experience. The demon Mara tried to distract Gautama by sending his seductive daughters to distract him with their seductive movements, but they had no effect on the young prince. Mara then sent squads of disgusting and deformed spirits who hurled themselves on him as he sat but failed to move him or to interrupt his meditations. Finally Mara tried his ultimate weapon, a fiery disc capable of splitting mountains; but the sharp missile turned into a garland of flowers and hovered reverently over Gautama’s head like a halo.

Mara fled, in fury. The prince remained steadfast and the next morning he achieved blissful enlightenment. He saw clear to the root-causes of suffering, and knew how it was to be avoided, namely by reaching a state of non-desire. In the weeks of meditation which followed, Gautama realized that he could either enter Nirvana or stay on earth to help his fellow men, renouncing for a time his absorption into ecstatic awareness. Mara wanted him to leave earth but Brahma implored him to stay.

Now a Buddha, he continued to sit in meditation under the tree for some weeks. During the fifth or sixth week, he was barraged with heavy rain fall, but was in such a state of bliss went on unperturbed. Buddha was protected by the Serpent King Muchilinda, who coiled around Buddha seven (7) times and then opened his hood over him like an umbrella.

The Sermon in the Deer Park

Seven (7) weeks after his enlightenment, he departed from the tree and began to teach his method of teaching in the Deer Park, “The Middle Way”, which is said to facilitate enlightenment by avoiding the extremes of sense gratification on one hand and ascetism on the other.

The basic elements of the Eightfold Noble Path are:

  • (1) correct view, an accurate understanding of the nature of things, specifically the Four Noble Truths
  • (2) correct intention, avoiding thoughts of attachment, hatred, and harmful intent
  • (3) correct speech, refraining from verbal misdeeds such as lying, divisive speech, harsh speech, and senseless speech
  • (4) correct action, refraining from physical misdeeds such as killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct
  • (5) correct livelihood, avoiding trades that directly or indirectly harm others, such as selling slaves, weapons, animals for slaughter, intoxicants, or poisons
  • (6) correct effort, abandoning negative states of mind that have already arisen, preventing negative states that have yet to arise, and sustaining positive states that have already arisen
  • (7) correct mindfulness, awareness of body, feelings, thought, and phenomena (the constituents of the existing world)
  • (8) correct concentration, single-mindedness.

He soon had many followers and spent the next forty five (45) years delivering his sermons and performing miracles and is said to have died at 80 years old.

The Miracle at Kapilavastu

According to Buddhist texts, when the Buddha returned to his home kingdom of Kapilavastu following his enlightenment, his fellow tribesman refused to bow to him because he was a junior member of the tribe.] In order to ensure that they paid him proper respect as an enlightened one, the Buddha levitates and emits fire from his head and water from his feet, and alternates their positions. This results in the Buddha’s father, Suddhodana, bowing to him in respect, with the rest of the Shakya Tribe following suit. Buddha returns to the ground and sits down and it suddenly starts raining, with the rain only falling on people who wanted to get wet, and no rain falling on those who wanted to remain dry. Following this event, the Buddha tells the Vessantara Jātaka

The Miracle at Savatthi

According to the Pali version of the story, in the Buddha’s time, a wealthy treasurer suspended a sandalwood bowl in the air with a cord, hoping to find an enlightened being who can fly up and take it. For six days, teachers from six other religious sects attempted to trick the treasurer into giving them the bowl, but failed. On the seventh day, news of this reached one of the Buddha’s disciples, Pindola Bharadvaja, who then proceeded to fly up and take the bowl, thus converting the treasurer to Buddhism. While on his way back to the monastery, he was asked by people who missed the miracle to perform it again, which he did.

When the Buddha hears about this, he reprimands Pindola for doing this, and lays down a rule forbidding monks from using supranormal powers for such purposes. Hearing that the Buddha laid down a rule forbidding his monks from showing off miracles, six jealous teachers from rival religious sects try to win back followers by publicly challenging the Buddha to a miracle tournament, thinking he would refuse to perform one.

 In the Sanskrit account of the event, the sandalwood bowl story is absent and the six jealous teachers, confident in their own supranormal powers, challenge the Buddha to a miracle contest on their own accord in hopes of regaining followers.

The Miracle Tournament

Thai amulet showing the twin miracle

According to the Pali account of the story, the six rival teachers go to King Bimbisara of Magadha to sponsor the contest. To the rival teachers’ surprise, the Buddha accepts the challenge, stating that the rule forbidding miracles applied to his monks but not to him, in the same way that subjects are forbidden from picking from the royal orchard, but not the king himself.

 In the Sanskrit version of the story, the rival teachers go first to King Bimbasara to host the contest but are turned down, and then go to King Pasenadi of Kosala who agrees to host the tournament if the Buddha agrees. In this version, the Buddha advises his followers against doing such miracles, but states he will do this miracle because all Buddhas are supposed to perform the twin miracle.

The Buddha declares that he will perform the miracle at the foot of a mango tree in Savatthi on the full moon day of Asalha Puja in four months time. According to the Pali version of the story; the rival teachers, desperate to avoid the contest, uproot all of the mango trees in the area prior to the miracle tournament. On the day of the tournament, a royal gardener finds a mango on the floor that he prepares to give to the king, but upon seeing the Buddha walk by, he gives it to the Buddha instead. When the time of the miracle contest approaches, the Buddha eats the mango and plants the seed in front of the city gate, after washing his hands over the area, a full mango tree immediately grows.

The Buddha starts by creating a jeweled walkway in midair and prepares to perform the miracle for the crowd of observers, but is interrupted by several of his disciples, who ask to perform a miracle in his place to save him the trouble. The disciples each propose a different miracle for them to perform in the Buddha’s place but he refuses each request. Finally Maha Moggallana, the Buddha’s chief disciple foremost in psychic powers, offers to perform a miracle in his place but the Buddha still refuses. He then states that he must perform the miracle himself, as it is one of the duties of a Buddha. Standing on top of the jeweled walkway, the Buddha enters a meditative state and emits fire from the top half of his body and streams of water from the lower half and then starts alternating the fire and water between the positions, creating an array of six colors.

The fire and water then shoot up to illuminate the cosmos to the applause of the audience while the Buddha teaches the Dhamma to the observers as he walks along on the jeweled walkway. The Sanskrit version also includes the Buddha creating several duplicates of himself that fill the air during the miracle, with some walking, lying down, and sitting.

At the conclusion of the miracle, it is the rival religious leaders’ turn to perform a miracle but they are unable to move. A strong wind knocks down the pavilion they prepared for the tournament and the rival teachers flee, with one committing suicide. The Buddha continues the miracle and proceeds to create a single duplicate of himself and then have the duplicate ask him questions which he would in turn answer in order to teach the observing audience.

Following the miracle, the Buddha is said to have ascended to Tavatimsa Heaven for three months to spend his rains-retreat and teach his deceased mother Maha Maya the Abhidhamma, in accordance with what all Buddhas are believed to have done after performing the miracle.

Taming the Mad Elephant

Buddha’s cousin, Devadatta, was extremely jealous of him. Devadatta felt that he was as good as Buddha should have been honoured the way people honoured the Buddha.

One day he devised a plot to kill Buddha. He knew that day Buddha was going to pass through town. Before Buddha came into the town, Devadatta brought the elephant to town, hiding it behind a wall. He intoxicated the elephant with liquor with the intent to make the drunken elephant trample Buddha to death.

When he saw from a distance that the Buddha was coming, he beat the elephant with sticks. The drunken elephant was enraged by the pain. Once the elephant saw red, Devadatta released the elephant in the Buddha’s direction.

Overwhelmed with anger and pain, the elephant was now blind with rage and rand at full speed towards Buddha. It flared its ears, and waived its tail and trunk, and bellowed loudly. All the disciples with Buddha were terrified by this and scrambled out of harm’s way. Only Ananda, Buddha’s attendant, stood firm beside the Buddha.

Buddha remained totally at ease, looking at the elephant feeling love and compassion for the poor creature. He radiated his love and kindness towards the elephant. Buddha’s love and compassion was so strong and powerful that the elephant could feel it. Just a few steps before it was about to charge into the Buddha, it stopped in its path and calmed down. The bull trotted towards Buddha and bowed its head in deep reverence. Buddha stroked the elephant’s trunk and comforted it with soft & kind words. The elephant was totally tamed by this.

The Gift of the Monkey

Buddha retreated to the wilderness of Parileyya forest to bring peace between two quarrelling factions of disciples. According to legend, a monkey and an elephant brought him alms and fruit during this time, the elephant bringing fruit and the monkey bringing a honeycomb. Buddha denied the monkey, until he removed the flies and debris. The monkey was so excited when the Buddha accepted his gift that he began leaping from tree to tree and had a great fall. As a result of his generosity, he was immediately reborn in Tavatimsa.

The Bhikkhus of Kosambi ended the disunity in their ranks and went to the Buddha in the forest to take a vow of unity and cooperation. In his sermon, Buddha pointed to the elephant and said, “This elephant lives alone in the forest in the absence of a proper partner. If you do not get associates with wisdom and high thoughts, it is better to live alone in this world, for foolish associates will only increase your suffering.”

After the monsoon rains retreated the monks who had split into two groups agreed to make up their differences, due to the local lay people not making any offerings to them. The monks sent a representative to see the Buddha and invite him to go back to the city. The elephant palilayaka was heartbroken to see the Buddha go, and followed him out of the forest, and even made as if he would follow the Buddha into the city. The Buddha turned to him and said, “Palilayaka. This is the limits of your territory. From here on is the territory of man, which are a great danger to animals such as you. You cannot come with me! Palilayaka the elephant stood and roared in grief, but did not dare follow the Buddha. As soon as the Buddha was out of sight, his heart broke and he died right there. The texts state that the elephant and the monkey, after dying at that time, were reborn as devas in the Tavatimsa heaven.

Traditional accounts relate that he died at the age of eighty (2015.500.4.1) in Kushinagara, after ingesting a tainted piece of either mushroom or pork. His body was cremated and the remains distributed among groups of his followers. These holy relics were enshrined in large hemispherical burial mounds, a number of which became important pilgrimage sites.

In India, by the Pala period (ca. 700–1200), the Buddha’s life was codified into a series of “Eight Great Events” (1982.233). These eight events are, in order of their occurrence in the Buddha’s life: his birth, his defeat over Mara and consequent enlightenment, his first sermon at Sarnath, the miracles he performed at Shravast, his descent from the Heaven of the Thirty-three Gods, his taming of a wild elephant, the monkey’s gift of honey, and his death.

There are also many legends of he and his wife being together in their past lives together, as told in the Jakata

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Links

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/jataka.html

http://members.tripod.com/~srinivasp/mythology/jataka.html

http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php3?author=babbitt&book=morejataka&story=_contents

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/kawasaki/bl135.html

http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/jt/index.htm

http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-ENG/wen.htm

http://www.ignca.nic.in/jatak038.htm

Jatakas at Borobudur, Indonesia

Prince Vessantara

The turtle that saved lives

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3. USER REPRESENTATIONS

By using the Services, you represent and warrant that: (1) all registration information you submit will be true, accurate, current, and complete; (2) you will maintain the accuracy of such information and promptly update such registration information as necessary; (3) you have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Legal Terms; (4) you are not a minor or government agent in the jurisdiction in which you reside; (5) you will not access the Services through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script or otherwise; (6) you will not use the Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose; and (7) your use of the Services will not violate any applicable law or regulation.

If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, we have the right to suspend or terminate your account without refund or notice and refuse any and all current or future use of the Services (or any portion thereof).

4. USER REGISTRATION

You may be required to register to use the Services. You agree to keep your password confidential and will be responsible for all use of your account and password. We reserve the right to remove, reclaim, or change a username you select if we determine, in our sole discretion, that such username is inappropriate, obscene, or otherwise objectionable.

5. PRODUCTS

We make every effort to display as accurately as possible the colors, features, specifications, and details of the products available on the Services. However, we do not guarantee that the colors, features, specifications, and details of the products will be accurate, complete, reliable, current, or free of other errors, and your electronic display may not accurately reflect the actual colors and details of the products. All products are subject to availability, and we cannot guarantee that items will be in stock. We reserve the right to discontinue any products at any time for any reason.

Prices for all products are subject to change.

6. PURCHASES AND PAYMENT

We accept the following forms of payment:

– donations ONLY.

You agree to provide current, complete, and accurate purchase and account information for all purchases made via the Services. You further agree to promptly update account and payment information, including email address, payment method, and payment card expiration date, so that we can complete your transactions and contact you as needed. Sales tax will be added to the price of purchases as deemed required by us. We may change prices at any time. All payments shall be in lawful money (gold and/or silver). You agree to pay all charges at the prices then in effect for your purchases and any applicable shipping fees, and you authorize us to charge your chosen payment provider for any such amounts upon placing your order.

We reserve the right to correct any errors or mistakes in pricing, even if we have already requested or received payment. We reserve the right to refuse any order placed through the Services. We may, in our sole discretion, limit or cancel quantities purchased per person, per household, or per order. These restrictions may include orders placed by or under the same customer account, the same payment method, and/or orders that use the same billing or shipping address. We reserve theright to limit or prohibit orders that, in our sole judgment, appear to be placed by dealers, resellers, or distributors.

7. SUBSCRIPTIONS

Billing and Renewal

Your subscription will continue and automatically renew unless canceled. You consent to our charging your payment method on a recurring basis without requiring your prior approval for each recurring charge, until such time as you cancel the applicable order. The length of your billing cycle is annual.

Cancellation

You can cancel your subscription at any time by logging into your account. Your cancellation will take effect at the end of the current paid term. If you have any questions or are unsatisfied with our Services, please email us at [email protected].

Fee Changes

We may, from time to time, make changes to the subscription fee and will communicate any price changes to you in accordance with applicable law.

8. RETURN/REFUNDS POLICY

All sales are final and no refund will be issued.

9. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES

You may not access or use the Services for any purpose other than that for which we make the Services available. The Services may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by us.

As a user of the Services, you agree not to:

▪ Systematically retrieve data or other content from the Services to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us.

▪ Trick, defraud, or mislead us and other users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive account information such as user passwords.

▪ Circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Services, including features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on the use of the Services and/or the Content contained therein.

▪ Disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Services.

▪ Use any information obtained from the Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another

person.

▪ Make improper use of our support services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct.

▪ Use the Services in a manner inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations.

▪ Engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to the Services.

▪ Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) viruses, Trojan horses, or other material, including excessive use of capital letters and spamming (continuous posting of repetitive text), that interferes with any party’s uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the Services or modifies, impairs, disrupts, alters, or interferes with the use, features, functions, operation, or maintenance of the Services.

▪ Engage in any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to send comments or messages, or using any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.

▪ Delete the copyright or other proprietary rights notice from any Content.

▪ Attempt to impersonate another user or person or use the username of another user.

▪ Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) any material that acts as a passive or active information collection or transmission mechanism, including without limitation, clear graphics interchange formats (“gifs”), 1×1 pixels, web bugs, cookies, or other similar devices (sometimes referred to as “spyware” or “passive collection mechanisms” or “pcms”).

▪ Interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on the Services or the networks or services connected to the Services.

▪ Harass, annoy, intimidate, or threaten any of our employees or agents engaged in providing any portion of the Services to you.

▪ Attempt to bypass any measures of the Services designed to prevent or restrict access to the Services, or any portion of the Services.

▪ Copy or adapt the Services’ software, including but not limited to Flash, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, or other code.

▪ Except as permitted by applicable law, decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Services.

▪ Except as may be the result of standard search engine or Internet browser usage, use, launch, develop, or distribute any automated system, including without limitation, any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, or offline reader that accesses the Services, or use or launch any unauthorized script or other software.

▪ Use a buying agent or purchasing agent to make purchases on the Services.

▪ Make any unauthorized use of the Services, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email, or creating user accounts by automated means or under false pretenses.

▪ Use the Services as part of any effort to compete with us or otherwise use the Services and/or the Content for any revenue-generating endeavor or commercial enterprise.

▪ Use the Services to advertise or offer to sell goods and services.

▪ Sell or otherwise transfer your profile.

▪ share any information, logos, or copyrighted material on the site.

▪ use this information to cause harm to anyone.

▪ use this information to gain power over anyone.

▪ reveal any trade secrets.

▪ copy any information and then terminate your account.

▪ use false identities or persons to spy, hack, or otherwise cause harm or injury.

▪ agents of any secret society, luciferian or satanist organization are strictly forbidden.

▪ agents of any foreign government are strictly forbidden.

▪ feminists, racists, or any other typr of “social justice warrior” are strictly forbidden.

▪ reverse engineer or copy patented, copyrighted, or trademarked material.

▪ pose as an agent or affiliate of Ordo Lux, The Nation of Luxton, or any subsidiary.

▪ harass, stalk, “reverse lookup”, target, or reveal the identities of our agents, members, or

viewers.

▪ insert any code, “trojan horse” or any other kind of virus on our servers, third party apps, or

electronic devices.

▪ leave negative, defamatory, or otherwise false reviews, comments, or feedback.

10. USER GENERATED CONTRIBUTIONS

The Services may invite you to chat, contribute to, or participate in blogs, message boards, online forums, and other functionality, and may provide you with the opportunity to create, submit, post, display, transmit, perform, publish, distribute, or broadcast content and materials to us or on the Services, including but not limited to text, writings, video, audio, photographs, graphics, comments, suggestions, or personal information or other material (collectively, “Contributions”).

Contributions may be viewable by other users of the Services and through third-party websites. As such, any Contributions you transmit may be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. When you create or make available any Contributions, you thereby represent and warrant that:

▪ The creation, distribution, transmission, public display, or performance, and the accessing, downloading, or copying of your Contributions do not and will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or moral rights of any third party.

▪ You are the creator and owner of or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, releases, and permissions to use and to authorize us, the Services, and other users of the Services to use your Contributions in any manner contemplated by the Services and these Legal Terms.

▪ You have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in your Contributions to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of your Contributions in any manner contemplated by the Services and these Legal Terms.

▪ Your Contributions are not false, inaccurate, or misleading.

▪ Your Contributions are not unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, pyramid schemes, chain letters, spam, mass mailings, or other forms of solicitation.

▪ Your Contributions are not obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing, libelous, slanderous, or otherwise objectionable (as determined by us).

▪ Your Contributions do not ridicule, mock, disparage, intimidate, or abuse anyone.

▪ Your Contributions are not used to harass or threaten (in the legal sense of those terms) any other person and to promote violence against a specific person or class of people.

▪ Your Contributions do not violate any applicable law, regulation, or rule.

▪ Your Contributions do not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party.

▪ Your Contributions do not violate any applicable law concerning child pornography, or otherwise intended to protect the health or well-being of minors.

▪ Your Contributions do not include any offensive comments that are connected to feminism, political biases, race, national origin, gender, sexual preference, or physical handicap.

▪ Your Contributions do not otherwise violate, or link to material that violates, any provision of these Legal Terms, or any applicable law or regulation.

Any use of the Services in violation of the foregoing violates these Legal Terms and may result in, among other things, termination or suspension of your rights to use the Services.

11. CONTRIBUTION LICENSE

By posting your Contributions to any part of the Services, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to us an unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide right, and license to host, use, copy, reproduce, disclose, sell, resell, publish, broadcast, retitle, archive, store, cache, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, transmit, excerpt (in whole or in part), and distribute such Contributions (including, without limitation, your image and voice) for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such Contributions, and grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. The use and distribution may occur in any media formats and through any media channels.

This license will apply to any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed, and includes our use of your name, company name, and franchise name, as applicable, and any of the trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, and personal and commercial images you provide. You waive all moral rights in your Contributions, and you warrant that moral rights have not otherwise been asserted in your Contributions.

We do not assert any ownership over your Contributions. You retain full ownership of all of your Contributions and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with your Contributions. We are not liable for any statements or representations in your Contributions provided by you in any area on the Services. You are solely responsible for your Contributions to the Services and you expressly agree to exonerate us from any and all responsibility and to refrain from any legal action against us regarding your Contributions.

We have the right, in our sole and discretion, (1) to edit, redact, or otherwise change any Contributions; (2) to re-categorize any Contributions to place them in more appropriate locations on the Services; and (3) to pre-screen or delete any Contributions at any time and for any reason, without notice. We have no obligation to monitor your Contributions.

12. GUIDELINES FOR REVIEWS

We may provide you areas on the Services to leave reviews or ratings. When posting a review, you must comply with the following criteria:

(1) you should have firsthand experience with the person/entity being reviewed;

(2) your reviews should not contain offensive profanity, or abusive, racist, offensive, or hateful language;

(3) your reviews should not contain discriminatory references based on religion, race, gender, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation,

or disability;

(4) your reviews should not contain references to illegal activity;

(5) you should not be affiliated with competitors if posting negative reviews;

(6) you should not make any conclusions as to the legality of conduct;

(7) you may not post any false or misleading statements; and

(8) you may not organize a campaign encouraging others to post reviews, whether positive or negative.

We may accept, reject, or remove reviews in our sole discretion. We have absolutely no obligation to screen reviews or to delete reviews, even if anyone considers reviews objectionable or inaccurate. Reviews are not endorsed by us, and do not necessarily represent our opinions or the views of any of our affiliates or partners. We do not assume liability for any review or for any claims, liabilities, or losses resulting from any review. By posting a review, you hereby grant to us a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid, assignable, and sublicensable right and license to reproduce, modify, translate, transmit by any means, display, perform, and/or distribute all content relating to review.

13. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND CONTENT

The Services may contain (or you may be sent via the Site) links to other websites (“Third-Party Websites”) as well as articles, photographs, text, graphics, pictures, designs, music, sound, video, information, applications, software, and other content or items belonging to or originating from third parties (“Third-Party Content”). Such Third-Party Websites and Third-Party Content are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by us, and we are not responsible for any Third-Party Websites accessed through the Services or any Third-Party Content posted on, available through, or installed from the Services, including the content, accuracy, offensiveness, opinions, reliability, privacy practices, or other policies of or contained in the Third-Party Websites or the Third-Party Content. Inclusion of, linking to, or permitting the use or installation of any Third-Party Websites or any Third-Party Content does not imply approval or endorsement thereof by us. If you decide to leave the Services and access the Third-Party Websites or to use or install any Third-Party Content, you do so at your own risk, and absolute you should be aware these Legal Terms no longer govern. You should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of any website to which you navigate from the Services or relating to any applications you use or install from the Services.

Any purchases you make through Third-Party Websites will be through other websites and from other companies, and we take no responsibility whatsoever in relation to such purchases which are exclusively between you and the applicable third party. You agree and acknowledge that we do not endorse the products or services offered on Third-Party Websites and you shall hold us blameless from any harm caused by your purchase of such products or services. Additionally, you shall hold us blameless from any losses sustained by you or harm caused to you relating to or resulting in any way from any Third-Party Content or any contact with Third-Party Websites.

14. ADVERTISERS

We allow advertisers to display their advertisements and other information in certain areas of the Services, such as sidebar advertisements or banner advertisements. We simply provide the space to place such advertisements, and we have no other relationship with advertisers.

15. SERVICES MANAGEMENT

We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to:

(1) monitor the Services for violations of these Legal Terms;

(2) take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, violates the law or these Legal Terms, including without limitation, reporting such user to law enforcement authorities;

(3) in our sole discretion and without limitation, refuse, restrict access to, limit the availability of, or disable (to the extent technologically feasible) any of your Contributions or any portion thereof;

(4) in our sole discretion and without limitation, notice, or liability, to remove from the Services or otherwise disable all files and content that are excessive in size or are in any way burdensome to our systems; and

(5) otherwise manage the Services in a manner designed to protect our rights and property and to facilitate the proper functioning of the Services.

16. PRIVACY POLICY

We care about data privacy and security. Please review our Privacy Policy. By using the Services, you agree to be bound by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Legal Terms. Please be advised the Services are hosted in the United States. If you access the Services from any other region of the world with laws or other requirements governing personal data collection, use, or disclosure that differ from applicable laws in the United States, then through your continued use of the Services, you are transferring your data to the United States, and you expressly consent to have your data transferred to and processed in the United States.

17. DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (DMCA) NOTICE AND POLICY

Notifications

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that any material available on or through the Services infringes upon any copyright you own or control, please immediately notify our Designated Copyright Agent using the contact information provided below (a “Notification”). A copy of your Notification will be sent to the person who posted or stored the material addressed in the Notification. Please be advised that pursuant to federal law you may be held liable for damages if you make material misrepresentations in a Notification. Thus, if you are not sure that material located on or linked to by the Services infringes your copyright, you should consider first contacting an attorney.

All Notifications should meet the requirements of DMCA 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) and include the following information:

(1) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;

(2) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works on the Services are covered by the Notification, a representative list of such works on the Services;

(3) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;

(4) information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an email address at which the complaining party may be contacted;

(5) a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and

(6) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed upon.

Counter Notification

If you believe your own copyrighted material has been removed from the Services as a result of a mistake or misidentification, you may submit a written counter notification to [us/our Designated Copyright Agent] using the contact information provided below (a “Counter Notification”). To be an effective Counter Notification under the DMCA, your Counter Notification must include substantially the following:

(1) identification of the material that has been removed or disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or disabled;

(2) a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court in which your address is located, or if your address is outside the United States, for any judicial district in which we are located;

(3) a statement that you will accept service of process from the party that filed the Notification or the party’s agent;

(4) your name, address, and telephone number;

(5) a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material in question was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled; and

(6) your physical or electronic signature.

If you send us a valid, written Counter Notification meeting the requirements described above, we will restore your removed or disabled material, unless we first receive notice from the party filing the Notification informing us that such party has filed a court action to restrain you from engaging in infringing activity related to the material in question. Please note that if you materially misrepresent that the disabled or removed content was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may be liable for damages, including costs and attorney’s fees. Filing a false Counter Notification constitutes perjury.

Designated Copyright Agent

Lord Ron Junior, House of Jones, Attorney-in-Fact

Attn: Copyright Agent

c/o Randleman National Bank 3157 Adeline Street, Suite 3617

Berkeley, CA 94703-9998

United States

[email protected]

18. TERM AND TERMINATION

These Legal Terms shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Services. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THESE LEGAL TERMS, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION AND WITHOUT NOTICE OR LIABILITY, DENY ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICES (INCLUDING BLOCKING CERTAIN IP ADDRESSES), TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION FOR BREACH OF ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, OR COVENANT CONTAINED IN THESE LEGAL TERMS OR OF ANY APPLICABLE LAW OR REGULATION. WE MAY TERMINATE YOUR USE OR PARTICIPATION IN THE SERVICES OR DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT AND ANY CONTENT OR INFORMATION THAT YOU POSTED AT ANY TIME, WITHOUT WARNING, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION.

If we terminate or suspend your account for any reason, you are prohibited from registering and creating a new account under your name, a fake or borrowed name, or the name of any third party, even if you may be acting on behalf of the third party. In addition to terminating or suspending your account, we reserve the right to take appropriate legal action, including without limitation pursuing civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.

19. MODIFICATIONS AND INTERRUPTIONS

We reserve the right to change, modify, or remove the contents of the Services at any time or for any reason at our sole discretion without notice. However, we have no obligation to update any information on our Services. We also reserve the right to modify or discontinue all or part of the Services without notice at any time. We will not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, price change, suspension, or discontinuance of the Services.

We cannot guarantee the Services will be available at all times. We may experience hardware, software, or other problems or need to perform maintenance related to the Services, resulting in interruptions, delays, or errors. We reserve the right to change, revise, update, suspend, discontinue, or otherwise modify the Services at any time or for any reason without notice to you.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Ordo Lux and The Nation of Luxton to no liability whatsoever for any loss, damage, or inconvenience caused by your inability to access or use the Services during any downtime or discontinuance of the Services. Nothing in these Legal Terms will be construed to obligate us to maintain and support the Services or to supply any corrections, updates, or releases in connection therewith.

20. GOVERNING LAW

These Legal Terms shall be governed by and defined following the laws of Luxtonia. ORDO LUX and yourself irrevocably consent that the courts of Luxton shall have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve any dispute which may arise in connection with these Legal Terms.

21. DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Binding Arbitration

Any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Legal Terms, including any question regarding its existence, validity, or termination, shall be referred to and finally resolved by the International Commercial Arbitration Court under the European Arbitration Chamber (Belgium, Brussels, Avenue Louise, 146) according to the Rules of this ICAC, which, as a result of referring to it, is considered as the part of this clause. The number of arbitrators shall be twelve (12). The seat, or legal place, or arbitration shall be Luxton, American Republic. The language of the proceedings shall be Luxtonian. The governing law of these Legal Terms shall be substantive law of Luxton.

Restrictions

The Parties agree that any arbitration shall be limited to the Dispute between the Parties individually. To the full extent permitted by law,

(a) no arbitration shall be joined with any other proceeding;

(b) there is no right or authority for any Dispute to be arbitrated on a class-action basis or to utilize class action procedures; and

(c) there is no right or authority for any Dispute to be brought in a purported representative capacity on behalf of the general public or any other persons.

Exceptions to Arbitration

The Parties agree that the following Disputes are not subject to the above provisions concerning

binding arbitration:

(a) any Disputes seeking to enforce or protect, or concerning the validity of, any of the intellectual property rights of a Party;

(b) any Dispute related to, or arising from, allegations of theft, piracy, invasion of privacy, or unauthorized use; and

(c) any claim for injunctive relief.

If this provision is found to be illegal or unenforceable, then neither Party will elect to arbitrate any Dispute falling within that portion of this provision found to be illegal or unenforceable and such Dispute shall be decided by a court of competent jurisdiction within the courts listed for jurisdiction above, and the Parties agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of that court.

22. CORRECTIONS

There may be information on the Services that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions, including descriptions, pricing, availability, and various other information. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and to change or update the informationon the Services at any time, without prior notice.

23. DISCLAIMER

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN AS-IS AND AS-AVAILABLE BASIS. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES AND YOUR USE THEREOF, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE SERVICES’ CONTENT OR THE CONTENT OF ANY WEBSITES OR MOBILE APPLICATIONS LINKED TO THE SERVICES AND WE WILL ASSUME NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY

(1)ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES OF CONTENT AND MATERIALS,

(2) PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICES,

(3) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR SECURE SERVERS AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION AND/OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION STORED THEREIN,

(4) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM THE SERVICES,

(5) ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR THE LIKE WHICH MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH THE SERVICES BY ANY THIRD PARTY, AND/OR

(6) ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY CONTENT AND MATERIALS OR FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF ANY CONTENT POSTED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE VIA THE SERVICES. WE DO NOT WARRANT, ENDORSE, GUARANTEE, OR ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE ADVERTISED OR OFFERED BY A THIRD PARTY THROUGH THE SERVICES, ANY HYPERLINKED WEBSITE, OR ANY WEBSITE OR MOBILE APPLICATION FEATURED IN ANY BANNER OR OTHER ADVERTISING, AND WE WILL NOT BE A PARTY TO OR IN ANY WAY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MONITORING ANY TRANSACTION BETWEEN YOU AND ANY THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES. AS WITH THE PURCHASE OF A PRODUCT OR SERVICE THROUGH ANY MEDIUM OR IN ANY ENVIRONMENT, YOU SHOULD USE YOUR BEST JUDGMENT AND EXERCISE CAUTION WHERE APPROPRIATE.

24.LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

IN NO EVENT WILL WE OR OUR DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT, LOST REVENUE, LOSS OF DATA, OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, OUR LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE LESSER OF THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO US DURING THE ONE (1) MONTH PERIOD PRIOR TO ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OR 12 ROUNDS OF SILVER. THERE ARE NO IMPLIED WARRANTIES.

25. INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless, including our subsidiaries, affiliates, and all of our respective officers, agents, partners, and employees, from and against any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, made by any third party due to or arising out of:

(1) your Contributions;

(2) use of the Services;

(3) breach of these Legal Terms;

(4)any breach of your representations and warranties set forth in these Legal Terms;

(5) your violation of the rights of a third party, including but not limited to intellectual property rights; or

(6) any overt harmful act toward any other user of the Services with whom you connected via the Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate, at your expense, with our defense of such claims. We will use reasonable efforts to notify you of any such claim, action, or proceeding which is subject to this indemnification upon becoming aware of it.

26. USER DATA

We will maintain certain data that you transmit to the Services for the purpose of managing the performance of the Services, as well as data relating to your use of the Services. Although we perform regular routine backups of data, you are solely responsible for all data that you transmit or that relates to any activity you have undertaken using the Services. You agree that we shall have no liability to you for any loss or corruption of any such data, and you hereby waive any right of action against us arising from any such loss or corruption of such data.

27. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSACTIONS, AND SIGNATURES

Visiting the Services, sending us emails, and completing online forms constitute electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications, and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Services, satisfy any legal requirement that such communication be in writing.

YOU HEREBY AGREE TO THE USE OF ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES, CONTRACTS, ORDERS, AND OTHER RECORDS, AND TO ELECTRONIC DELIVERY OF NOTICES, POLICIES, AND RECORDS OF TRANSACTIONS INITIATED OR COMPLETED BY US OR VIA THE SERVICES. You hereby waive any rights or requirements under any statutes, regulations, rules, ordinances, or other laws in any jurisdiction which require an original signature or delivery or retention of non-electronic records, or to payments or the granting of credits by any means other than electronic means.

28 CALIFORNIA USERS AND RESIDENTS

If any complaint with us is not satisfactorily resolved, you can contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, California 95834 or by telephone at (800) 952-5210 or (916)445-1254.

29. MISCELLANEOUS

These Legal Terms and any policies or operating rules posted by us on the Services or in respect to the Services constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and us. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Legal Terms shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. These Legal Terms operate to the fullest extent permissible by law. We may assign any or all of our rights and obligations to others at any time. We shall not be responsible or liable for any loss, damage, delay, or failure to act caused by any cause beyond our reasonable control. If any provision or part of a provision of these Legal Terms is determined to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is deemed severable from these Legal Terms and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remainingprovisions. There is no joint venture, partnership, employment or agency relationship created between you and us as a result of these Legal Terms or use of the Services. You agree that these Legal Terms will not be construed against us by virtue of having drafted them. You hereby waive any and all defenses you may have based on the electronic form of these Legal Terms and the lack of signing by the parties hereto to execute these Legal Terms.

30. OFFICIAL PUBLIC NOTICE

This website is intended for adults of sound mind and age of the majority. If you are neither of these, may you turn around in peace. By contining to use this website or any of our services, you agree that you are of the age of the majority and of sound mind; to be bound by the terms stated herein; and you agree to indeminify and Hold Harmless Ordo Lux, The Nation of Luxton, and all of their agents, assigns, relatives, friends, pets, homes, property, resources, business, operations or endeavors.

31. PAPAL DECREE

Any individuals or groups engaging in deliberate attacks, such as hacking or electonic/vibrational, magickal, through slander, legal attack or otherwise, against Minister Enid or the Jones Family Estate and their family, friends, pets, home, property, resources, business, operations or endeavors, or engages in games, legal and other hoaxes to intentionally attempt to create paranoia or fear in Minister Enid or the Jones Family Estate does hereby consent to grant general power of attorney and forfeit their eternal soul, in whole unto Minister Enid or the Jones Family Estate first lein position of said souls regardless of any previously made pacts or contracts for those souls with any third parties and those individuals or groups who have previously bargained with said souls with third parties shall be in violation of those previous pacts and contracts by granting Minister Enid and the Jones Family Estate first position rights for their souls. Minister Enid claims full ownership rights on said souls and may transfer or sell them to any entity, spirit, deity, or third party, living or deceased at the sole discretion of Minister Enid, for whatever purpose he deems necessary. This notice is non-negotiable and self-executing at the instant of said event,  and is withstanding in this world and the next.

32.CONTACT US

In order to resolve a complaint regarding the Services or to receive further information regarding use of the Services, please contact us at:

ORDO LUX

For general inquiries:

[email protected]

For healing and supplies:

[email protected]

To book a Catering Event or to Serve the Houseless:

[email protected]

For Weddings, Baptisms, Funeral Services, Consecrations, Blessings or Ordainment:

[email protected]

For Website related inquiries or problems:

[email protected]

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[email protected]

NATION OF LUXTON

For General Inquiry:

[email protected]

If you are looking to join our Micronation:

[email protected]

If you are foreign seeking refuge or treaty:

[email protected]

To inquire about Education:

[email protected] and [email protected]

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To Request Access our 600G library:

[email protected]

To recieve updates and event invites:

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Once you have read and understood these terms, type I AGREE to continue to the site.

 

 

Public Notice:

This website is intended for adults of sound mind and age of the majority. If you are neither of these, may you turn around in peace. By contining to use this website or any of our services, you agree that you are of the age of the majority and of sound mind; to be bound by the terms stated herein; and you agree to indeminify and Hold Harmless Ordo Lux, The Nation of Luxton, and all of their agents, assigns, relatives, friends, pets, homes, property, resources, business, operations or endeavors.

 

Any individuals or groups engaging in deliberate attacks, such as hacking or electonic/vibrational, magickal, through slander, legal attack or otherwise, against Minister Enid or the Jones Family Estate and their family, friends, pets, home, property, resources, business, operations or endeavors, or engages in games, legal and other hoaxes to intentionally attempt to create paranoia or fear in Minister Enid or the Jones Family Estate does hereby consent to forfeit their eternal soul, in whole unto Minister Enid or the Jones Family Estate first lein position of said souls regardless of any previously made pacts or contracts for those souls with any third parties and those individuals or groups who have previously bargained with said souls with third parties shall be in violation of those previous pacts and contracts by granting Minister Enid and the Jones Family Estate first position rights for their souls. Minister Enid claims full ownership rights on said souls and may transfer or sell them to any entity, spirit, deity, or third party, living or deceased at the sole discretion of Minister Enid, for whatever purpose he deems necessary. This notice is non-negotiable and is withstanding in this world and the next.

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