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Follows: Casting Circle
Witches' Rune
Next: The Charge
HPS stands in God position in N. before altar, holding scourge and athame.
Coveners are in S. facing altar.
HP kneels before HPS and salutes her with the Fivefold kiss (as he kisses
her womb, she opens into blessing position).
HP again kneels before HPS who stands in Goddess positon (right foot
slightly forward). HP invokes the Goddess, saying:
HP: "I invoke thee and call upon thee,
Mighty Mother of us all, (touch right breast)
bringer of all fruitfulness; (touch left breast)
by seed and root, (touch womb)
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by stem and bud, (touch right breast)
by leaf and flower and fruit, (touch left breast)
by life and love (touch womb)
do I invoke (raising wand)
thee to descend upon the body
of this thy servant and priestess.
Here, speak with her tongue,
touch with her hands,
kiss with her lips,
that thy servants may be fulfilled."
As he invokes, HP touches HPS gently with wand upon r. breast, l. breast,
womb and upon the same three places again.
As he finishes the invocation, he spreads his arms in adoration (still
kneeling) and says:
HP: "Hail, Aradia ! From the Amalthean Horn
Pour forth thy store of love; I lowly bend
Before thee, I adore thee to the end,
With loving sacrifice thy shrine adorn.
Thy foot is to my lip [kiss], my prayers upborne
Upon the rising incense smoke; then spend
Thine ancient love, O Mighty One, descend
To aid me, who without thee am forlorn."
HP stands and takes a step back. All adore in silence as HPS traces
invoking Earth pentagram in air before them with athame, saying:
HPS: "Of the Mother, darksome and divine,
Mine the scourge, and mine the kiss,
The five-point star of love and bliss -
Here I charge you, in this sign."
This completes Drawing Down the Moon. HPS and HP now face the Coven
and deliver the Charge.
The Great Rite
(Alternative Verse Version of Priest's Declamation)
Assist me to build
As the Mighty Ones willed
An altar of praise
From beginning of days.
Thus doth it lie
'Twixt the points of the sky
For thus was it placed
When the Goddess embraced
The Horn'd One, her Lord,
Who taught her the Word
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That quickened the womb
And conquered the tomb.
Be thus as of yore,
The shrine we adore, [kiss]
The feast without fail,
The life-giving Grail. [kiss]
Before it uprear
The Miraculous Spear [touches own phallus]
And invoke in this sign
The Goddess divine ! [kiss]
Thou who at noon of night doth reign
Queen of the starry realms above,
Not unto thee may we attain
Unless thine image be of love. [kiss]
By moon-ray's silver shaft of power,
By green leaf breaking from the bud,
By seed that springeth into flower,
By life that courseth in the blood, [kiss]
By rushing wind and leaping fire,
By flowing water and green earth,
Pour us the wine of our desire
From out thy Cauldron of Rebirth. [kiss]
Here may we see in vision clear
Thy secret strange unveiled at length,
Thy wondrous Twin Pillars rear
Erect in beauty and in strength. [kisses on the breasts]
Altar of mysteries manifold,
The Sacred Circle's central point
Thus do I sign thee as of old;
With kisses of my lips anoint. [kisses of the Third Degree Sigil]
Open for me the secret way,
The pathway of intelligence
beyond the gates of night and day,
Beyond the bounds of time and sense.
Behold the Mystery aright;
The five true points of fellowship,
Here where the Lance and Grail unite,
And feet and knees and breast and lip.
Air
Maiden
Astrological Rulers: Jupiter, Mercury
Keys: Life Principle, Intellect
Raphael (instructor, traveller, healer)
Rules: mind, essential qualities, spiritual plane, knowledge,
abstract learning, theories, windy or high places, breath, speech
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Plegmatic; Thinking; weak inhibitory
Virtues: gregarious, diligent, optimistic, dexterity, joie-de-vivre,
persuasive, friendly, healthy, knowledgeable
Vices: frivolity, boasting, absent mindedness, rootless, easily distracted,
loquacious, tends to intellectualize emotions (rather than experience
them)
Spring & sunrise
East, Eurus
Colour: yellow
Symbols: topaz, galbanum, aspen, frankincense, vervain, birds, eagle & hawk
Tools: wand, censer (arrow stabs air & conveys message Outer to Inner)
Spirits: sylphs under Paralda (very hard to see & know, teach mind control
and how to level out your thinking processes)
Shortage: mind blank, shortness of breath, non-comprehension of known data
Excess: "gas bloat", inability to focus attention, "spacey" thoughts
Earth
Crone
Astrological Rulers: Venus, Saturn
Keys: Law Principle, Solidity
Auriel ("Lord of Awe")
Rules: birth & death, body, growth, nature, stones & metals, material things,
caves, chasms, silence, graves, fields
Sanguine; Sensation; calm, imperturbable
Virtues: strength, endurance, commitment, responsibility, thoroughness,
practicality, wisdom, patience, sense of timing
Vices: dullness, lack of conscience, melancholy, boredom, inertia, stagnation,
hoarding of resources (including information)
Yule & midnight
North, Boreas
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