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The Invocation of PAN
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Sinc e we're coming up on the August full moon, I thought some of you
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wild and woolly pagan types out there might be interested in the
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following invocation of Pan
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This is an excerpt from THE BOOK OF URIEL, Part one, the Sixth Vision
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LUNA, corresponding to the twenty-ninth path of the Cabalah. There are
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a few phrases you had better understand if you are going to try this
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invocation. It's not a good idea to say words or phrases you don't
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fully understand or you could find yourself beset by long- leggedy
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beasties. If you screw up an invocation by stumbling on a word or
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phrase, you've blown it, and the ritual won't work. You have to try
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another day.
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This ritual will be posted in two parts, but first here are some
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important definitions.
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SILENT ONE - refers to Pan, of whom it was said that he slept at
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midday, and that a look from him could drive to to a 'panic'.
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FORGOTTEN ONE - Another epithet of Pan, who was officially declared to
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be dead, during the reign of the Roman emperor Tiberius.
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ARCADIA - the part of Greece where Pan hailed from.
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TWICE-MOTHERED - one of the names of the Greek god Dionysos.
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CHILD OF THE SKY - the meaning of the word 'Dionysos'.
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SHE WHO WORKS FROM AFAR - the meaning of the Greek name 'HECATE'
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goddess of the moon and of magic.
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Part 1
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O Silent One, Forgotten one, arise from your sleep of noon and
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overwhelm our hearts with ecstacies. Fill the heady air with the songs
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of reeds, and burst our breasts with passion. Bring on your sweet
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Arcadian dreams and the laughter of the revellers in the forest, for my
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beloved and I would lie in your secret places. We will build a shrine
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of leaves and upon a carpet of braided vines, celebrate your mystery,
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drink the bitter cup and fall into a rapture. Take us to the high
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hills, bind our eyes with garlands of violets, stop our mouths with the
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sweet honeycomb, and at that instant when our joy is greatest, with
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your titan hand, hurl us together into the crevice. We shall fall
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across the sky like stars. Like stars shall we explode and spread the
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veil of our essence across the heavens. O! Let me die in the arms of my
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beloved, for what can there be thereafter to eclipse that moment.
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Having climbed the mountain to its summit, I would rise higher still
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from its snowy peaks and lose myself utterly, rather than descend the
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nether side, and return again into shadow.
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Part 2
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O Silent One, Forgotten One, Lead us to the temple of the
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twice-mothered, the Child of the Sky. There, far from the gloomy world
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of men, my love and I will lose ourselves forever on the bright
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threshold of the eternal. Prince of the woodlands, my beloved and I
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would see you. You who are cloaked in forests and hills and streams,
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concealed by the warm earth itself and hidden in the hearts of
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mountains, show forth, and fill us with your madness. By it, we shall
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either be destroyed or translated into light. In the depths of night,
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within the walls of Tirzah, we cast our lot with love, and now await
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with resignation, whatever the dawn may bring. My beloved and I are in
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that sweet twilight of mind, that quiet state of victory, that comes
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only from submission. We have made ourselves outcasts, and walk the
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path of the rejected. Those who despise us are filled with envy, for
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we have had the courage to drink forbidden wine. We have done that
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which our enemies fain would do, but dare not. They are guided by the
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laws of men and have placed these laws into the mouths of their gods.
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Under the gaze of She Who Works From Afar, we have cut our ties with
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man-made things. Arise, Silent One, The reddening sun fills us with
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laughter. Come out of your midday slumber, look upon my love and me,
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that in the ensuing folly we may leap into the infinite.
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*END*
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TIRZAH - the Hebrew word for 'delight', also the name of a city
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mentioned in the biblical Song of Solomon.
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