Winter Solstice Communions

Sunday, December 21, 1997

. . . marks for me a significant and transformative rite. In my self-created sect
of one, based on the Creator & Bible, Tarot & Symbolism, and Science & Nature,
I will perform a rite and ritual including many different elements, such as
baptism and communion, prayer and magick, and the transformative power
of outer and inner forces.

Here's part of the ritual that I adapted (very slightly) from
_The Gospel of the Essenes_.

Communions

The morning Communion is with

our Earthly Mother,

She who sends forth her Angels

to guide the roots of man

And send them deep into the blessed soil.

We invoke the Earthly Mother!

The Holy Preserver!

The Maintainer!

It is She who will restore the world!

The earth is hers,

and the fullness thereof -- the world

And they that dwell therein.

We worship the good, the strong,

the beneficient Earthly Mother

And all her Angels,

bounteous, valiant, and full of strength;

Welfare-bestowing, kind,

and health-giving.

Through her brightness and glory

Do the plants grow up from the earth,

By the never-failing springs.

Through her brightness and glory

Do the winds blow, driving down the clouds

Toward the never-failing springs.

The Earthly Mother and I are One.

I have my roots in her,

And she takes her delight in me,

According to the Holy Law.

 

The evening Communion is with

the Heavenly Father,

Who is, Who was,

and Who ever shall be.

O Great Creator!

Thou didst create the Heavenly Angels,

And thou didst reveal the

Heavenly Laws!

Thou art my refuge and my fortress,

Thou art from everlasting.

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place

In all generations.

Before the mountains were brought forth,

Or ever thou hadst formed the earth,

Even from everlasting to everlasting,

Thou art God.

Who hath made the waters,

and who maketh the plants?

Who to the wind

hath yoked the storm-clouds,

The swift and even the fleetest?

Who, O Great Creator!

Is the fountain of Eternal Life

within our souls?

Who hath made the Light

and the Darkness?

Who hath made sleep

and the zest of the waking hours?

Who spread the noontides

and the midnight?

Thou, O Great Creator!

Thou hast made the earth by thy power,

Hath established the world by thy wisdom,

And hath stretched out the heavens by thy love.

Do thou reveal unto me,

O Heavenly Father,

Thy nature, which is

the power of the Angels of thy Holy Kingdom.

Immortality and the Heavenly Order

hast thou given, O Creator,

And the best of all things,

thy Holy Law!

I will praise thy works

with songs of thanksgiving,

Continually,

in all the generations of time.

 

With the coming of day

I embrace my Mother,

With the coming of night,

I join my Father,

And with the outgoing of evening and morning

I will breathe Their Law,

And I will not interrupt these Communions

Until the end of time.

 

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