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(1) Fri 5 Jun 92 17:42
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By: Paul Seymour
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To: ALL
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Re: Ritual for 1st Earthfire Festival
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@EID:d51c 000fbee1
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@MSGID: 93:9500/0@PODNET.ORG 4e91ab94
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@PID: FM 2.02
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First Earthfire CIRCLE CEREMONY
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Durwydd MacTara, 1992
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Preliminaries
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WATER BLESSING:
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"Blessings upon thee, O creature of water, I cast out from
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thee all
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impurities and uncleanness of the spirits of phantasm, confusion,
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or any
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other influence not for the free will of all."
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SALT BLESSING:
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"Blessings be upon this creature of salt; let all malignity and
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hindrance be cast forth thencefrom, and let all good enter therein.
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Wherefore I bless thee and invoke thee, that thou mayest aid me."
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MIXING :
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"I take this salt of the Earth, Blessed with the will of
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Fire; I take this water of spirit,Exorcised with mind of merit;
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I mix them with words of power, Dedicated to every Tower.
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By the power of moon and sun,
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By the power of Spirit,earth and sea,
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God and Goddess are part of One,
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As I Will, so mote it be!"
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CASTING OF THE CIRCLE (With Athame or Sword)
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"I conjure thee, O circle of power,
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As thou encircle every Tower.
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That thou be-est a place of Truth, Joy and love,
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Encircling Flight of Eagle, Hawk and Dove.
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Mighty Aegis of the Lady and Lord,
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Rampart of thought, action and word.
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To work in Peace, Powerful and Free,
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Who walk between two worlds conjure thee;
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A boundary to Protect, Concentrate and Contain,
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That Power raised here be not in vain.
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Wherefore do I bless thee and consecrate thee, in the names of
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Cernunnos
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and Aradia."
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SEALING OF THE CIRCLE
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(seal with water/salt mixture)
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"With potion of earth and water, I seal the sacred circle,
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Linking air and fire!
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With potion of earth and water, I seal the sacred circle,
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Linking fire with water!
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With potion binding earth,air,and fire, I seal the sacred circle,
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Linking water with the Earth!
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Wit Love, and will and Mind,
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North to East, ompletion Find!"
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(Upon Completion)
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"As the four directions are brought to merge,
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Let influence of the mighty ones converge!"
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SEALING OF THE CIRCLE (continued)
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(Seal with Censer)
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"With Incense and air of Mind,
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East to South,I do Bind!
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With Incense and air of mind,
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South to West, I do Bind!
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With Incense and air of Mind,
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West to North, I do Bind!
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With Incense and air of Mind,
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North to East Cmpletion Find!"
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(upon Completion)
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"This Circle, without beginning, nor End, nor Length,
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Is Truly formed in Perfect Love, Perfect Trust, and PERFECT
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STRENGTH!"
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(Seal with Candle)
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"With the Fire of emotion and will
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East to South, our dedication fulfill!
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With the Fire of veneration and Will,
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South to West, our allegiance fulfill!
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With the Fire of Devotion and Will,
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West to North, our consecration fulfill!
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With the Fire of Commitment and will,
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From North to East, This inscription fulfill!"
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(Upon Completion)
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"Within the circle All wills be free,
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The circle is sealed, So Mote it Be!"
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SETTING THE WATCHTOWERS
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"Ye Lords of the Eastern Tower,
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Airy Lords of Spirit;
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Let your influence of Power,
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Aid or minds with merit!
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I do summon, stir and call you up, to witness these rites and to
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guard the
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circle!"
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"Ye Lords of Southern Power
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Fiery Lords of Will.
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Pray do grace your Tower,
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Your Powers to fulfill!
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I do summon, stir and call you up, to witness these rites and to
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guard the
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circle!"
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"Ye Lords of the Watchtowers of the West,
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Watery Lords of Death and Initiation;
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I do summon, stir and call you up, to witness these rites and to
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guard the
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Circle!"
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"Ye Northern Lords of the Earth,
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Though we be yet bt Mortals;
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Bless our work with worth,
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Boreas, guardian of Northern portals.
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I do summon, stir and call you up, to witness these rites and to
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guard the
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Circle!"
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"Goddess and God, We would know,
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As 'tis above, so 'tis below
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Blesings on this work, please bestow!
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This be my will, true and free,
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We do so will, so mote it be!"
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Ceremony for Peace and Protection
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After casting circle and invocations.
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Never again the burning times. For how lon has this been the cry
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of those
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who would folow their own path? Once we of need hid ourselves away
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in
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fear, but no more! We worship as we wish for this is our right
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under the
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laws of both the Gods and of man. But even today there are those
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who would
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deny that right They would destroy us if they coud, and if not then
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force us back into hiding. Their weapons are fear and ignorance.
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History
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has shown that such can bring about great evil. So what do we? Do
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we once
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again hide ourselves as frightened animals? No, never again! Do
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we lash
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out and fight them on their terms? If so, we would be no better
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than they.
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Protect ourselves we must, but in doing so none may we harm.
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Have four people, one at each watchtower. This is not calling
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quarters but
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part of the binding. (may be the same individuals who called the
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quarters)
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East: Spirits of Air, Great Eagle, Aradia, Mercury, Urania, Enili.
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Guard
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and shield for dangers and malice from the east. Watch and ward
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that we
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may live in peace, harming none.
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South: Spirits of Fire, Golden Dragon, Brigit, Horus, Pele, Vulcan.
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Guard
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and shield for dangers and malice from the south. Watch and ward
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that we
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may live in peace, harming none.
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West: Spirits of Water, Shining Orca, Isis, Neptune, Mari, Dylan.
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Guard and
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shield for dangers and malice from the west. Watch and ward that
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we may
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live in peace, harming none.
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North: Spirits of Earth, Mighty Bear, Ceres, Adonis, Demeter,
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Cernunnos.
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Guard and shield for dangers and malice from the north. Watch and
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ward
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that we may live in peace, harming none.
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String Magic
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Four lengths of cotton string, each runs from watchtower to
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watchtower
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(around the circle with all in circle holding the strings). The
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summoners
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tie the ends as they invoke their Gods. Then chanting and a circle
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dance
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(while holding the string). As they circle the cone of power is
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raised.
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Use a chant everyone knows. Collect the string without cutting or
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breaking.
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Then say something along the lines of: The binding is done. The
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cord we
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use is cotton, it has gotten it's life from the earth. It will be
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buried
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in the ground where it will return it's life to the Goddess. In so
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doing
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the magic it holds will become one with the earth.
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INVOCATION OF THE ELEMENTS
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(This is used to put an elemental "push" to any magickal
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workings.)
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"Air, Fire, Water, Earth,
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Elements of astral birth,
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I call you now; attend to me!
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In the Circle, rightly cast,
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Safe from curse or blast,
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I call you now, attend to me!
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From cave and desert,sea and hill,
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By wand, blade,and pentacle,
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I call you now, attend to me!
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This Is my will, so mote it be!"
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Cakes and Wine
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(Priestess Pours beverage into Chalice and turns to face Coven)
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PS: "Here is the cup of wine of life, contained within the
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cauldron of
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Cerridwen, which is the Holy Grail of immortality. Our Lady
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is the
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gracious goddess, who gives the gift of joy unto the heart of
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man."
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ALL: "So Mote it Be!"
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(Priest places cakes on Pentacle and turns to face Coven)
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P: "For it is said that 'I am the corn at harvest and the fruit
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on the
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trees'. Here are harvest fruits made even more delectable via
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Perfect
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Love and Perfect Trust, and served on the Holy emblem of the
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four
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Elements Surmounted by the Supreme Element of Spirit. Truly
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this is
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the staff of life."
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ALL: "So Mote it Be!"
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(Priest turns to Priestess)
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P: "Will you share with me the fruits of the field?"
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PS: "I will."
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(priest feeds a cake to the Priestess)
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(Priest takes Chalice and turns to Priestess)
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P: "Will you share with me the Cauldron?"
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PS: "I will."
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(priest gives Priestess a sip of the Chalice)
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P & PS in unison: "In Perfect Love and Perfect Trust, Blessed be!"
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(Priest and Priestess turn to Coven and say:)
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PS: "Will you share with us this Sacred Feast?"
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ALL: "We Will."
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P: "So Mote it Be!"
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Priest and Priestess take the Pentacle and Chalice to those
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standing in the
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East, who repeat the sharing ceremony. The Cakes and Wine proceed
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around
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the Circle, Deosil, until all have partaken.
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Quarter and Circle Dismissals
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North:
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"Oh mighty guardians of the north, Our business of the hour is
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finished, and we invite you to return to you lovely realm of Earth,
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but
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first we thank you with a Kiss!" (Kiss Athame, and trace banishing
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pentagram)
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West:
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"Oh mighty guardians of the north, Our business of the hour is
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finished, and we invite you to return to you lovely realm of Water,
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but
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first we thank you with a Kiss!" (Kiss Athame, and trace banishing
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pentagram)
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South:
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"Oh mighty guardians of the north, Our business of the hour is
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finished, and we invite you to return to you lovely realm of Fire,
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but
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first we thank you with a Kiss!" (Kiss Athame, and trace banishing
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pentagram)
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East:
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Oh mighty guardians of the north, Our business of the hour is
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finished, and we invite you to return to you lovely realm of Fire,
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but
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first we thank you with a Kiss!" (Kiss Athame, and trace banishing
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pentagram)
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Circle Dismissal:
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The Person dismissing the Circle should be the same one who
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cast it,
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should do the dismissal with the SAME instrument used to cast it,
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i.e.
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Athame, Sword, or Wand. Starting in the North, proceed widdershins,
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saying:
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"As this circle was cast in trust, we open it with love, the circle
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is open
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but unbroken. Merry Meet, Merry part, Merry Meet again, and let it
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be in
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Perfect Trust and Perfect Love. Blessed Be!"
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---
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(2) Sun 26 Apr 92 21:23
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By: the B
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To: Thomas Blackwo
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Re: 17 (end) Samhain
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@EID:d3f0 05009c50
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@MSGID: 93:9200/80 29fb3173
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@PID: TeleMail 1.50
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Samhain 17 and end
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% A normal cone-of-power may be raised, for growth and healing:
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HPS: In a ring we all shall stand
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Pass the Power, hand to hand.
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HP: As the season turns again
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Power flows from friend to friend
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HPS: Pass the Power, hand to hand
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Bless the Lady, bless the Land
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HP: Bless the Lord, and bless the Skies
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Bless the Power that never dies!
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% The above four verses should be repeated three times, or as
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% many times as needed, and the HPS shall then say:
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HPS: By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree:
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Let the Power flow out and free!
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% All should release, at this point.
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% Any needed coven business may be transacted here.
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% The Circle is opened:
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HPS: Thus I release the East and West
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Thanks to them from Host to Guest
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Thus I release the South and North
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With "Blessed Be' I send them forth!
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The Circle's open, dance we so
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Out and homeward we shall go.
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Earth and Water, Air and Fire
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Celebrated our desire.
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We think of those in Summerland
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Who dance together, hand in hand.
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By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree,
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Our circle's done; and Blessed Be!
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COVEN: Blessed Be!
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% All spiral dance out from the Circle, led by HP and HPS.
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******************************************************
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This is a -long- ritual, but VERY effective. A good way to do the
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reading
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of the names is to pass the list around the Circle, with each
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person reading
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a few names, and then passing it to the next. Really brings the
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Burning
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Times -home.-
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Should have the whole cycle available for FREQ from this BBS pretty
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soon.
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... ---------------------------the Bard said that------
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--- Blue Wave/TG v2.05 [NR]
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(3) Fri 8 May 92 0:05
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By: Puck
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To: All
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Re: Something from my
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This was an assignment that I had to write for my coven, and I
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thought I'd share it with you. It's called...
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DISCRETION AND AUTHORITY IN THE CRAFT
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Discretion and Authority are two terms that have very specific
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meanings and applications in the Craft.
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Discretion, defined as "The quality of being discrete;
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displaying good judgement in both conduct and speech..." is
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especially important for the new student, in view of both the
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secretive nature of our religion and its practitioners, and the
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many misconceptions regarding the Craft. In areas that are highly
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conservative, (such as the "Bible Belt"), those of the Craft find
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discretion a must, both in dress and behaviour. In conservative
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areas such as these, it is potentially dangerous to walk up to
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someone, pentagrams (or other occult jewelery hanging) and
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announce, "Hi - I'm your local Witch!" unless you happen to be a
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well-respected AND well-known local personage. For the average
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person in the Craft, this is a luxery that is unaffordable. At the
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very best, you will be considered a kook and either disregarded or
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shunned for your 'wierdness'; at the worst, you can be assaulted,
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insulted, harrassed, threatened, or even killed. No joke. While
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to my knowledge no one in the Wiccan or Pagan community has been
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killed for being a Neo-Pagan or Witch, people have been killed in
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the United States for their supposed practise of witchcraft (not
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Wicca) and I do not mean during the "Burning Times". (See HEX, by
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Arthur Lewis, still available in some used bookstores). In other
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words, USE COMMON SENSE!
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It is very easy, when someone first gets involved in the
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Craft, to experiment with the 'Hollywood' or stereotypical image of
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the modern Witch - all black outfits, large amounts of Occult
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jewelery, flowing capes, etc. While several public Witches wear
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this as part of their everyday lives, they have done this for so
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long in their
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respective communities that they and everyone else there are
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comfortable doing this. (This is not to denigrate those who have
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been at the forfront of the Craft in the public eye - I actually
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admire them for their boldness!!! ed.)
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Some Witches, who are in more conservative areas, see this as
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attention getting devices, and they do exactly that - they draw
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attention...of the Bible-thumping Born-Again Christians, who try to
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'save yer soul fer Jeezus', and put off other people who might be
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sincerely interested in what the Craft really is. If you can do
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it, my advice is to go for it, but if you feel it might be a bad
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idea, use common sense.
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If someone questions you about your interest in the Craft,
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there are several ways of dealing with them, from the serious to
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the flippant. However, before you give any reply, stop and think.
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Ask yourself, 'Can I live with this persons' reaction to the
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truth?' 'Can this person cause serious problems in my
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job/school/family/etc?'
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If the answer doesn't seem suitable to you, tell them something
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along the lines of "I'm involved in a religious study-group", or,
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(especially in school) "I'm doing a research project", or "I have
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an interest in mythology and folklore". If your response shows
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that you feel your answer is suffient, chances are that they won't
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press the issue.
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Very few of us are ever so rich and insulated from the mundane
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world that we can forgo its necessities - we eat, we shop, we work.
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In these situations, be discrete in seeing a Crafter that you know
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in a non-Craft setting. Keep the conversation 'safe' if you're in
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a crowded area where you might be overheard. In many cases ones'
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co-workers may not be aware of ones' Craft involvement, and if
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you're prattling on about 'how great Circle was last night' and
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'are they coming to the next Sabbat' and 'what Lady Soandso is
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doing with Lord Whoozits from Circle of Somebody', you could very
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well jeopardize that persons' job, especially if that person's job
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is in the Christian mainstream.
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When in the company of a person with a Crafter that you know,
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or two Witches who know you, but not each other, a cryptic remark,
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such as "Do you know soandso? S/he's a friend of OURS." can
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indicate that they are also Craft. On the other hand, if you
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introduce someone as
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"Soandso, a friend of MINE", you are indicating thaat this person
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is either not Craft, or should not be included in Craft
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discussions, without resorting to the words Witch, Witchcraft,
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Pagan or Craft. Remember - better a held tongue than a slipped lip
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and lost job, friend or even life!
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(continued...)
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--- SuperBBS 1.15 (Eval)
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* Origin: The Sacred Grove * PODS * DharmaNet * Seattle, WA
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(4) Sat 9 May 92 16:15
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By: Durwydd MacTara
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To: all
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Re: WITCHES' CREED
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The Witches' Creed
|
||
|
||
Hear now the words of the Witches,
|
||
The secrets we hid in the night,
|
||
When Dark was our destny's pathway,
|
||
That now we brin forth into light.
|
||
|
||
Mysterious water and fire,
|
||
The earth and the wide-ranging air,
|
||
By hidden quintessence we know them,
|
||
And we will and keep silent and dare.
|
||
|
||
The birth and rebirth of all nature,
|
||
The passing of winter and spring,
|
||
We share with the life universal,
|
||
Rejoice in the magical ring.
|
||
|
||
Four times in the year the Great Sabbat
|
||
Returns, and the witches are seen
|
||
At Lammas and Candlemas dancing,
|
||
On May Eve and Old Hallowe'en.
|
||
|
||
When day-time and night-time are equal,
|
||
When sun is greatest and least,
|
||
The four Lesser Sabbats,
|
||
Again wiches gather in feast.
|
||
|
||
Thirteen silver moons in a year are,
|
||
Thiteen is the coven's array.
|
||
Thirteen times at Esbat make merry,
|
||
For each golden year and a day.
|
||
|
||
The power was passed down the ages,
|
||
Each time between woman and man,
|
||
Each century unto the other,
|
||
Ere time and ages began.
|
||
|
||
When Drawn is the magical circle,
|
||
By sword or athame of power,
|
||
Its compass between two worlds lies,
|
||
In Land of the Shades for that hour.
|
||
|
||
This world has no right thn to know it,
|
||
And world of beyond will tell naught.
|
||
The oldest of Gods are invoked there,
|
||
The Great Work of magic is wrought.
|
||
|
||
For two are the mysical Pillars,
|
||
That stand at the gate of the shrine,
|
||
And two are the powers of nature,
|
||
the forms and forces divine.
|
||
|
||
The dark and the light in succession,
|
||
The opposites each each unto each,
|
||
Shown forth as God and Goddess:
|
||
Of this our ancestors teach.
|
||
|
||
By night he's the wild wind's rider,
|
||
The Horn'd one, the Lord of the Shades.
|
||
By day he's King of the Woodland,
|
||
The dweller in green forest glades.
|
||
|
||
She is youthful or old as she pleases,
|
||
She sails the torn clouds in her barque,
|
||
The bright silver lady of midnight,
|
||
The crone who weaves spells in the dark.
|
||
|
||
The master and mistress of magic,
|
||
They dwell in the deeps of the mind,
|
||
Immortal and ever-renewing,
|
||
With power to free or to bind.
|
||
|
||
So drink the good wine to the Old Gods,
|
||
And dance and make love in their praise,
|
||
Till Elphame's fair land shall receive us
|
||
In peace at the end of our days.
|
||
|
||
And Do what You Will be the challenge,
|
||
So be it in Love that harms none,
|
||
For this is the only commandment.
|
||
By Magic of old, be it done!
|
||
Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow, 1978
|
||
pp. 172-173, Phoenix Publising,Inc., Custer, Wa.
|
||
98240
|
||
ISBN 0-919345-83-2
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---
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(5) Sat 30 May 92 0:56
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By: Penn Dragon
|
||
To: Gierda
|
||
Re: Wanted: Answers
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@INTL 1:9600/0 93:9607/0
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@MSGID: 93:9607/0.0 2a271902
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@REPLY: 93:9510/1 4fc3e160
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@REALNAME: Elizabeth Norton
|
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A "BOS" or Book of Shadows, is what most witches/folk magicians
|
||
etc. use as a guide for ritual, rights, spells and any other topic
|
||
pertinate to the practice of their particular craft. It is usually
|
||
written in book format and contains all kinds of "stuff" that its
|
||
owner wishes to keep record of. Like perhaps there own particular
|
||
version of a spell, or circle casting ritual, or invokations to the
|
||
Goddess etc. It could be refered to as your own personal witch's
|
||
journal for magical topics, a spell book if you will, for your own
|
||
personal way of practicing your religious rites. There are many
|
||
"ready-made" BOS's in bookstores that are very good or bad
|
||
depending on whether you wish to practice like the author. You can
|
||
always buy or read a few and adapt the rituals therin to your own
|
||
liking. The best places to find these books are in new age book
|
||
stores. After you have read a few and have gotten some idea of how
|
||
others may practice "the Craft", you may wish to buy one of those
|
||
hardback, blank journals for the purpose of creating your own
|
||
personal BOS. Good Luck and if you have any other questions just
|
||
leave me a messege and I'll try my best to answer. I would
|
||
definitly recomend reading any thing by Scott Cunningham,
|
||
especially "Wicca a guide for solitary practitioners". As far as I
|
||
am concerned this is one of the best pagan titles on the market
|
||
today. I've been a practicing witch for many years now and can
|
||
recomend this book whole heartedly.
|
||
|
||
--- Maximus 2.01wb
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(7) Mon 8 Jun 92 22:35
|
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By: Paul Seymour
|
||
To: Queen Maeve
|
||
Re: Re: garden dedication ritual
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|
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@EID:d51c 000484d1
|
||
@MSGID: 93:9500/0 50971570
|
||
In a message to All <06-04-92 13:47> Queen Maeve wrote:
|
||
|
||
QM> I just recently finished planting my herbal garden and plan to
|
||
QM> dedicate it during Soltace. I have been doing research in
|
||
numerous
|
||
QM> Pagan books and want to ask any of you out there if you know of
|
||
any
|
||
QM> dedication rites. I found one in a book called "White Magic", but
|
||
QM> most other references I have consulted seem rather limited.
|
||
Thanks
|
||
QM> and Blessed be...Maeve
|
||
I think I would set up an incese burner for each of the
|
||
quarters, do some research in some tables of correpondences and
|
||
when I called the quarters include samples of the appropriate herb
|
||
to the quarters in a little blessing ritual. I would be careful to
|
||
include herbs for ALL of the quarters in both the garden and the
|
||
ritual, so that each herb was under the guardianship of at least
|
||
one quarter. I would then think about a small "blessing" rhyme
|
||
dedicated to Both God and Goddess for the garden as a whole. I
|
||
would also cast a Circle to encompass the whole garden. Definitely
|
||
do a Cakes and Wine Ceremony and bury the remnants in the garden.
|
||
Just a few ideas. Let us know how it turns out, O.K.?
|
||
B*B -Paul-
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(8) Tue 9 Jun 92 9:24
|
||
By: Ellen Reed
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: Salem Rite (1 of 4)
|
||
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|
||
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||
SALEM REMEMBERED
|
||
by Sandy and Doug Kopf
|
||
presented at Pacific Circle XII
|
||
June, 1992
|
||
This year is the 300th anniversary of the Salem Witch Trials. This
|
||
ritual was presented in remembrance of those who died, and a
|
||
reminder that we must be aware and strong even now.
|
||
The ritual was attended by over 100 people and was very moving.
|
||
Many wept. It is being shared now, not only because it is
|
||
beautiful, but to make it available for others who might wish to
|
||
use it. Sandy and Doug ask only that there be no charge for
|
||
attending the ritual. It would disturb them greatly to find that
|
||
such was the case.
|
||
.
|
||
The flash powder mentioned in the ritual was simply a mixture of
|
||
sugar and saltpetre (50/50). Should you chose to use this, be
|
||
careful to "dump" it rather than pour it. It will not only be more
|
||
effective this way, but will prevent the fire from
|
||
climbing the stream of powder back up to the hand of the person
|
||
pouring it!
|
||
.
|
||
= = = =
|
||
.
|
||
Quarters are called:
|
||
.
|
||
EAST: Powers of the East! Lords and Ladies of Greece and Rome!
|
||
Guardians of the mysteries and honored dead! Pagans and witches
|
||
who dwell in the East, be ye spirit or be ye flesh! Come! Come
|
||
one and all who would join us in our right of
|
||
remembrance, affirmation, and protection! Be with us now, that the
|
||
Craft shall ever survive!
|
||
.
|
||
SOUTH: Powers of the South! Lords and Ladies of the two lands of
|
||
Egypt! Guardians of the mysteries and honored dead! Pagans and
|
||
witches who dwell in the East, be ye spirit or be ye flesh! Come!
|
||
Come one and all who would join us in our right of
|
||
remembrance, affirmation, and protection! Be with us now, that the
|
||
Craft shall ever survive!
|
||
.
|
||
WEST: Powers of the West! Lords and Ladies of the Land of the
|
||
Celts! Guardians of the mysteries and honored dead! Pagans and
|
||
witches who dwell in the East, be ye spirit or be ye flesh! Come!
|
||
Come one and all who would join us in our right of
|
||
remembrance, affirmation, and protection! Be with us now, that the
|
||
Craft shall ever survive!
|
||
.
|
||
NORTH: Powers of the North! Lords and Ladies of the Viking Lands!
|
||
Guardians of the mysteries and honored dead! Pagans and witches
|
||
who dwell in the East, be ye spirit or be ye flesh! Come! Come
|
||
one and all who would join us in our right of remembrance,
|
||
affirmation, and protection! Be with us now, that the Craft shall
|
||
ever survive!
|
||
.
|
||
AT CENTER, PRIEST AND PRIESTESS INVOKE GOD AND GODDESS AND SPIRITS
|
||
OF THIS PLACE.
|
||
.
|
||
continued....
|
||
|
||
--- Maximus 2.00
|
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|
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(9) Tue 9 Jun 92 9:24
|
||
By: Ellen Reed
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: Salem Rite (2 of 4)
|
||
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|
||
@MSGID: 1:102/943.0 2a34db5a
|
||
ALL SING 'LADY WEAVE YOUR CIRCLE TIGHT' AND 'LORD, LORD GUIDE US'
|
||
(OR OTHER SUITABLE SONG.)
|
||
.
|
||
PRIEST: Three hundred years have gone by since that dark time of
|
||
history we all remember as the "Salem Witch Trials," yet, even
|
||
after three hundred years, we dare not allow ourselves to forget!
|
||
We must remember what can happen wahen hatred, fear, and
|
||
intolerance gain a stronghold over love, sanity, and
|
||
tolerance. Innocent people died in Salem. They died horrible
|
||
deaths, tried and sentends for the "crime" of witchcraft.
|
||
They died for the crime of practicing an alternative religion, and
|
||
they were not even part of that religion. They died, not for their
|
||
own beliefs, but for ours! They died in the name of our Gods, yet
|
||
they did not know Them.
|
||
.
|
||
PRIESTESS: They were not witches, but we ARE! They were not
|
||
pagans, but we ARE! It is our task to remember, and to be sure
|
||
history cannot repeat itself today. Therefore, we now call their
|
||
names into our circle, to be remembered and honored here. .
|
||
THE NAMES OF THE VICTIMS OF SALEM ARE PROCLAIMED, ONE BY ONE, AND A
|
||
CHIME IS SOUNDED AFTER EACH NAME.
|
||
.
|
||
Rebecca Nurse
|
||
Sarah Good
|
||
Sarah Wilde
|
||
Susanna Martin
|
||
Briget Bishop
|
||
John Proctor
|
||
John Willard
|
||
George Jacobs
|
||
George Burroughs
|
||
Martha Carrier
|
||
Samuel Wardwell
|
||
Giles Corey
|
||
Alice Parker
|
||
Martha Corey
|
||
Mary Parker
|
||
Margaret Scott
|
||
Ann Pudeator
|
||
Mary Esty
|
||
Wilmot Redd
|
||
Sarah Osborne
|
||
.
|
||
PRIESTESS: Sisters and Brothers! We will not allow your deaths to
|
||
have been in vain.
|
||
.
|
||
SONG: "BURNING TIMES". ALL JOIN IN WITH THE CHORUS OF "ISIS,
|
||
ASTARTE" AND THE CHANT BLENDS INTO "WE ARE THE OLD PEOPLE".
|
||
.
|
||
continued.....
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
--- Maximus 2.00
|
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|
||
(10) Tue 9 Jun 92 9:26
|
||
By: Ellen Reed
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: Salem Rite (3 of 4)
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
@MSGID: 1:102/943.0 2a34dbac
|
||
WHEN THE SONG HAS REACHED THE PEAK OF ENERGY, THE PRIEST SAYS: .
|
||
We ARE the old people. We ARE the new people. We ARE getting
|
||
stronger every day. We are stronger, and we are no longer in
|
||
hiding. We are here, and none need fear us, for our way is love and
|
||
our ethic is harmlessness, but we say to the world that all may
|
||
hear: We WILL stand against hatred! We WILL stand against
|
||
intolerance! We will not stand silent in the face of harm to
|
||
others or to our own. The few have become many, and our Gods are
|
||
awake and strong! Never more the burning! We won't be burned again!
|
||
.
|
||
PRIESTESS (LIGHTS FIRE IN CAULDRON): Let the cauldron burn with
|
||
our love and our faith! Let it illuminate the world with the light
|
||
of the Old Religion. Let negativity and fear be banished in its
|
||
flames, and let it kindle love in the hearts of those who hate us.
|
||
(LOUDLY, POINTING AT CAULDRON) Fire! Burn high on all planes, that
|
||
strength and protection come to us from all directions, as we join
|
||
hearts and hands to weave a destiny of peace and freedom! (TO
|
||
CIRCLE) Let us sing and dance, that all may remember Salem, and the
|
||
Craft shall ever survive.
|
||
.
|
||
SONG: "WE ARE THE WEAVERS". ALL JOIN HANDS AND DANCE SLOWLY IN A
|
||
CIRCLE. ALL WHO ARE UNABLE TO DANCE SHOULD STEP INTO THE CIRCLE,
|
||
NOT OUT OF IT.
|
||
.
|
||
THE SONG SHOULD BE SUNG FOR SEVERAL ROUNDS, ENDING WITH A VERY
|
||
ENTHUSIASTIC "WE ARE THE WITCHES, BACK FROM THE DEAD!
|
||
.
|
||
continued....
|
||
|
||
--- Maximus 2.00
|
||
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|
||
(11) Tue 9 Jun 92 9:27
|
||
By: Ellen Reed
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: Salem Rite (4 of 4)
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
@MSGID: 1:102/943.0 2a34dbe8
|
||
STARTING WITH THE EAST, THE REPRESENTATIVE OF EACH QUARTER WALKS TO
|
||
THE CENTER, POURING FLASH POWDER FROM A BOWL INTO THE
|
||
CAULDRON, PROCLAIMING:
|
||
.
|
||
EAST: From the guardians of the mysteries of the ancient
|
||
temples, from the windswept mountains of Greece and Rome, I bring
|
||
protection and wisdom! Remember Salem and the Craft
|
||
will survive!
|
||
.
|
||
SOUTH: From the guardians of the mysteries of the towering
|
||
pyramids, from the burning deserts of the Two Lands of Egypt, I
|
||
bring protection and courage! Remember Salem, and the Craft will
|
||
survive.
|
||
.
|
||
WEST: From the guardians of the mysteries of the Standing
|
||
Stones, from the lakes and groves of the land of the Celts, I bring
|
||
protection and love! Remember Salem, and the Craft will survive.
|
||
.
|
||
NORTH: From the guardians of the mysteries of the sacred runes,
|
||
from the snow and ice of the Viking Lands, I bring protection and
|
||
strength! Remember Salem and the Craft will survive!
|
||
.
|
||
PRIEST: Great Lady! Bright Lord! Lords and Ladies all!
|
||
Guardians and Honored Dead! Spirits of this place! All in flesh
|
||
and spirit who have joined us here! We thank you for attending!
|
||
Go if you must, stay if you will! REMEMBER SALEM! MAY THE CRAFT
|
||
SURVIVE!
|
||
.
|
||
Circle is ended.
|
||
.
|
||
= = = =
|
||
.
|
||
Written by Doug and Sandy Kopf, Coven Ashesh Hekat, Circle of
|
||
Circles, 1992
|
||
|
||
|
||
--- Maximus 2.00
|
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|
||
(14) Wed 10 Jun 92 0:59
|
||
By: Puck
|
||
To: Gierda
|
||
Re: Book of Shadows...
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Well, briefly, it's the book that contains all the spells, rituals,
|
||
teachings and other things that a Witch uses. Some people use it
|
||
as a combination dream/magickal diary, others simply use it for
|
||
writing rituals and things in it.
|
||
Mine is very eclectic, but then again, so am I -- I took several
|
||
things from several public and private sources, and sometimes
|
||
combined them to make new things, or added to them.
|
||
It always helps, if you're going to be eclectically oriented, to
|
||
credit your sources. The way I was taught, you put a code at the
|
||
top of the page, which looks, (using myself for an example), like
|
||
this:
|
||
|
||
P/3/PanEc
|
||
|
||
This means that this was created by Puck, a Third Degree Witch of
|
||
the Pan-Eclectic Tradition. This way, it saves the time and
|
||
trouble of having something in your book that you can't remember
|
||
where you got it from.
|
||
Hope this helps!
|
||
Bright Blessings!
|
||
Puck
|
||
|
||
--- SuperBBS 1.16 (Eval)
|
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(55) Sat 20 Jun 92 8:19
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By: Paul Seymour
|
||
To: ALL
|
||
Re: Final Edition
|
||
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|
||
@EID:d51c 00076ab4
|
||
@MSGID: 93:9500/0@PODNET.ORG 560846c4
|
||
@PID: FM 2.02
|
||
First Earthfire CIRCLE CEREMONY
|
||
June 28, 1992 7:00 p.m.
|
||
Durwydd MacTara, 1992
|
||
|
||
Preliminaries
|
||
|
||
WATER BLESSING:
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
S "Blessings upon thee, O creature of water, I cast out from
|
||
thee all
|
||
U impurities and uncleanness of the spirits of phantasm,
|
||
confusion, or
|
||
M any other influence not for the free will of all."
|
||
M
|
||
O SALT BLESSING:
|
||
N
|
||
E "Blessings be upon this creature of salt; let all malignity and
|
||
R hindrance be cast forth thencefrom, and let all good enter
|
||
therein.
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD> Wherefore I bless thee and invoke thee, that thou mayest aid me."
|
||
|
||
MIXING :
|
||
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD> "I take this salt of the Earth, Blessed with the will of
|
||
M Fire; I take this water of spirit,Exorcised with mind of merit;
|
||
A I mix them with words of power, Dedicated to every Tower.
|
||
I
|
||
D By the power of moon and sun,
|
||
E By the power of Spirit,earth and sea,
|
||
N God and Goddess are part of One,
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD> As I Will, so mote it be!"
|
||
|
||
CASTING OF THE CIRCLE (With Athame or Sword)
|
||
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD> "I conjure thee, O circle of power,
|
||
<EFBFBD> As thou encircle every Tower.
|
||
<EFBFBD> That thou be-est a place of Truth, Joy and love,
|
||
P Encircling Flight of Eagle, Hawk and Dove.
|
||
R Mighty Aegis of the Lady and Lord,
|
||
I Rampart of thought, action and word.
|
||
E To work in Peace, Powerful and Free,
|
||
S Who walk between two worlds conjure thee;
|
||
T A boundary to Protect, Concentrate and Contain,
|
||
<EFBFBD> That Power raised here be not in vain.
|
||
<EFBFBD>
|
||
<EFBFBD> Wherefore do I bless thee and consecrate thee, in the names of
|
||
Cernunnos
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD> and Aradia."
|
||
|
||
SEALING OF THE CIRCLE
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
<EFBFBD> (seal with water/salt mixture)
|
||
<EFBFBD> "With potion of earth and water, I seal the sacred circle,
|
||
P Linking air and fire!
|
||
R With potion of earth and water, I seal the sacred circle,
|
||
I Linking fire with water!
|
||
E With potion binding earth,air,and fire, I seal the sacred circle,
|
||
S Linking water with the Earth!
|
||
E With Love, and will and Mind,
|
||
S North to East, completion Find!"
|
||
S (Upon Completion)
|
||
<EFBFBD> "As the four directions are brought to merge,
|
||
<EFBFBD> Let influence of the mighty ones converge!"
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD> SEALING OF THE CIRCLE (continued)
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
<EFBFBD> (Seal with Censer)
|
||
<EFBFBD> "With Incense and air of Mind,
|
||
<EFBFBD> East to South,I do Bind!
|
||
<EFBFBD> With Incense and air of mind,
|
||
M South to West, I do Bind!
|
||
A With Incense and air of Mind,
|
||
I West to North, I do Bind!
|
||
D With Incense and air of Mind,
|
||
E North to East Completion Find!"
|
||
N (upon Completion)
|
||
<EFBFBD> "This Circle, without beginning, nor End, nor Length,
|
||
<EFBFBD> Is Truly formed in Perfect Love, Perfect Trust, and PERFECT
|
||
STRENGTH!"
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
<EFBFBD> (Seal with Candle)
|
||
<EFBFBD> "With the Fire of emotion and will
|
||
S East to South, our dedication fulfill!
|
||
U With the Fire of veneration and Will,
|
||
M South to West, our allegiance fulfill!
|
||
M With the Fire of Devotion and Will,
|
||
O West to North, our consecration fulfill!
|
||
N With the Fire of Commitment and will,
|
||
E From North to East, This inscription fulfill!"
|
||
R (Upon Completion)
|
||
<EFBFBD> "Within the circle All wills be free,
|
||
<EFBFBD> The circle is sealed, So Mote it Be!"
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
QUARTER CALLS
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
<EFBFBD> "Ye Lords of the Eastern Tower,
|
||
E Airy Lords of Spirit;
|
||
A Let your influence of Power,
|
||
S Aid our minds with merit!
|
||
T I do summon, stir and call you up, to witness these rites and to
|
||
guard
|
||
<EFBFBD> the circle!"
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
<EFBFBD> "Ye Lords of Southern Power
|
||
S Fiery Lords of Will.
|
||
O Pray do grace your Tower,
|
||
U Your Powers to fulfill!
|
||
T I do summon, stir and call you up, to witness these rites and to
|
||
guard
|
||
H the circle!"
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
W "Ye Lords of the Watchtowers of the West,
|
||
E Watery Lords of Death and Initiation;
|
||
S I do summon, stir and call you up, to witness these rites and to
|
||
guard
|
||
T the Circle!"
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
N "Ye Northern Lords of the Earth,
|
||
O Though we be yet but Mortals;
|
||
R Bless our work with worth,
|
||
T Boreas, guardian of Northern portals.
|
||
H I do summon, stir and call you up, to witness these rites and to
|
||
guard
|
||
<EFBFBD> the Circle!"
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
P "Goddess and God, We would know,
|
||
R As 'tis above, so 'tis below
|
||
I Blessings on this work, please bestow!
|
||
E This be our will, true and free,
|
||
S We do so will, so mote it be!"
|
||
T
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
Ceremony for Peace and Protection
|
||
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
<EFBFBD> Never again the burning times. For how long has this been the
|
||
cry of
|
||
<EFBFBD> those who would follow their own path? Once we of need hid
|
||
ourselves
|
||
P away in fear, but no more! We worship as we wish for this is our
|
||
right
|
||
R under the laws of both the Gods and of man. But even today there
|
||
are
|
||
I those who would deny that right. They would destroy us if they
|
||
could,
|
||
E and if not then force us back into hiding. Their weapons are
|
||
fear and
|
||
S ignorance. History has shown that such can bring about great
|
||
evil. So
|
||
T what do we? Do we once again hide ourselves as frightened
|
||
animals? No,
|
||
<EFBFBD> never again! Do we lash out and fight them on their terms? If
|
||
so, we
|
||
<EFBFBD> would be no better than they. Protect ourselves we must, but in
|
||
doing so
|
||
<EFBFBD>none may we harm.
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
String Magic
|
||
Four lengths of cotton string, each runs from watchtower to
|
||
watchtower
|
||
(around the circle with all in circle holding the strings). The
|
||
"quater
|
||
callers" tie the ends as they invoke their spirits. Have four
|
||
people, one
|
||
at each watchtower. This is not calling quarters but part of the
|
||
binding.
|
||
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
E Spirits of Air, Great Eagle, Aradia, Mercury, Urania, Enili.
|
||
Guard and
|
||
A shield for dangers and malice from the east. Watch and ward that
|
||
we may
|
||
S live in peace, harming none.
|
||
T
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
S
|
||
O Spirits of Fire, Golden Dragon, Brigit, Horus, Pele, Vulcan.
|
||
Guard and
|
||
U shield for dangers and malice from the south. Watch and Ward
|
||
that we may
|
||
T live in peace, harming none.
|
||
H
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
W Spirits of Water, Shining Orca, Isis, Neptune, Mari, Dylan. Guard
|
||
and
|
||
E shield for dangers and malice from the west. Watch and ward that
|
||
we may
|
||
S live in peace, harming none.
|
||
T
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
<EFBFBD> Spirits of Earth, Mighty Bear, Ceres, Adonis, Demeter, Cernunnos.
|
||
Guard
|
||
<EFBFBD> and shield for dangers and malice from the north. Watch and ward
|
||
that we
|
||
<EFBFBD> may live in peace, harming none.
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
CIRCLE DANCE AND CHANT
|
||
Summoner and Maiden collect anbroken and uncut cord, deliver it to
|
||
Priestess.
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
P "The binding is done. The cord we use is cotton, it has gotten
|
||
it's life
|
||
S from the earth. It will be buried in the ground where it will
|
||
return
|
||
T it's life to the Goddess. In so doing the magic it holds will
|
||
become one
|
||
S with the earth.
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
INVOCATION OF THE ELEMENTS
|
||
(This is used to put an elemental "push" to any magickal
|
||
workings.)
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
P "Air, Fire, Water, Earth,
|
||
R Elements of astral birth,
|
||
I I call you now; attend to me!
|
||
E In the Circle, rightly cast,
|
||
S Safe from curse or blast,
|
||
T I call you now, attend to me!
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
P From cave and desert,sea and hill,
|
||
S By wand, blade,and pentacle,
|
||
T I call you now, attend to me!
|
||
S This Is my will, so mote it be!"
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
|
||
Cakes and Wine
|
||
|
||
(Priestess Pours beverage into Chalice and turns to face Coven)
|
||
PS: "Here is the cup of wine of life, contained within the
|
||
cauldron of
|
||
Cerridwen, which is the Holy Grail of immortality. Our Lady
|
||
is the
|
||
gracious goddess, who gives the gift of joy unto the heart of
|
||
man."
|
||
|
||
ALL: "So Mote it Be!"
|
||
|
||
(Priest places cakes on Pentacle and turns to face Coven)
|
||
P: "For it is said that 'I am the corn at harvest and the fruit
|
||
on the
|
||
trees'. Here are harvest fruits made even more delectable via
|
||
Perfect
|
||
Love and Perfect Trust, and served on the Holy emblem of the
|
||
four
|
||
Elements Surmounted by the Supreme Element of Spirit. Truly
|
||
this is
|
||
the staff of life."
|
||
|
||
ALL: "So Mote it Be!"
|
||
|
||
(Priest turns to Priestess)
|
||
P: "Will you share with me the fruits of the field?"
|
||
PS: "I will."
|
||
(priest feeds a cake to the Priestess)
|
||
|
||
(Priest takes Chalice and turns to Priestess)
|
||
P: "Will you share with me the Cauldron?"
|
||
PS: "I will."
|
||
(priest gives Priestess a sip of the Chalice)
|
||
|
||
P & PS in unison: "In Perfect Love and Perfect Trust, Blessed be!"
|
||
|
||
(Priest and Priestess turn to Coven and say:)
|
||
PS: "Will you share with us this Sacred Feast?"
|
||
ALL: "We Will."
|
||
P: "So Mote it Be!"
|
||
|
||
Priest and Priestess take the Pentacle and Chalice to those
|
||
standing in the
|
||
East, who repeat the sharing ceremony. The Cakes and Wine proceed
|
||
around
|
||
the Circle, Deosil, until all have partaken. Quarter Dismissal
|
||
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
N "Oh mighty guardians of the north, Our business of the hour is O
|
||
finished, and we invite you to return to you lovely realm of Earth,
|
||
but R
|
||
first we thank you with a Kiss!" (Kiss Athame, and trace banishing T
|
||
pentagram)
|
||
H
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
W "Oh mighty guardians of the north, Our business of the hour is E
|
||
finished, and we invite you to return to you lovely realm of Water,
|
||
but S
|
||
first we thank you with a Kiss!" (Kiss Athame, and trace banishing T
|
||
pentagram)
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
S
|
||
O "Oh mighty guardians of the north, Our business of the hour is U
|
||
finished, and we invite you to return to you lovely realm of Fire,
|
||
but T
|
||
first we thank you with a Kiss!" (Kiss Athame, and trace banishing H
|
||
pentagram)
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
E Oh mighty guardians of the north, Our business of the hour is
|
||
A finished, and we invite you to return to you lovely realm of
|
||
Fire, but
|
||
S first we thank you with a Kiss!" (Kiss Athame, and trace banishing
|
||
T pentagram)
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
Circle Dismissal
|
||
The Person dismissing the Circle should be the same one who
|
||
cast it,
|
||
should do the dismissal with the SAME instrument used to cast it,
|
||
i.e.
|
||
Athame, Sword, or Wand. Starting in the North, proceed widdershins,
|
||
saying:
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
<EFBFBD>
|
||
P
|
||
R "As this circle was cast in trust, we open it with love, the
|
||
circle is I
|
||
I open but unbroken. Merry Meet, Merry part, Merry Meet again, and
|
||
let it
|
||
E be in Perfect Trust and Perfect Love. Blessed Be!"
|
||
S
|
||
T
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
|
||
BINDING CHANT
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
A Love is our OATH
|
||
L Trust Binds or OATH
|
||
L Friend and Foe alike
|
||
<EFBFBD> Be Bound by BOTH!
|
||
<EFBFBD><EFBFBD>
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
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|
||
(56) Fri 19 Jun 92 13:24
|
||
By: Cameron Mandrake
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: Dragon Trad. Quarters Invocations
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
After a number of requests to re-post these, here they are!
|
||
|
||
EAST
|
||
Mighty Dragon, Guardian of the realms of the East. Your tongue is
|
||
a sharp sword, cutting with the knowledge of the arcane. Your spirit
|
||
flows as graceful as a swift in flight. Purify us with truth.
|
||
Blessed Be.
|
||
|
||
SOUTH
|
||
Mighty Dragon, Guardian of the realms of the South, your breath is
|
||
aflame with the fires of inspiration and passion. Your spirit is
|
||
searing
|
||
and fervent. Purify us with Love.
|
||
Blessed Be.
|
||
|
||
WEST
|
||
Mighty Dragon, Guardian of the realms of the West, your coils are the
|
||
cleansing healing waves that nurture the soul. Your spirit lunges,
|
||
leaps
|
||
and splashes like a Talbot at play. Purify us with pulsing tides.
|
||
Blessed Be.
|
||
|
||
NORTH
|
||
Mighty Dragon, Guardian of the realms of the North, your talons run
|
||
like roots into the earth, giving you infinite strength. Your
|
||
spirit is
|
||
substantial, hard and pure like a clear crystal. Purify us with
|
||
persistant
|
||
wisdom.
|
||
|
||
Each of these Dragons has a secret name that they are also invoked
|
||
with. A
|
||
suggestion is that anyone using these invocations meditate to find an
|
||
appropriate name for each Guardian and use it along with or instead
|
||
of the
|
||
words "Mighty Dragon".
|
||
|
||
Blessed Be.
|
||
|
||
Enjoy!
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Copyright 1992 - DragonHart Coven - All Rights Reserved
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9200/80.0)
|
||
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|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(57) Mon 15 Jun 92 20:20
|
||
By: Cameron Mandrake
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: Circle casting Dragon style.
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
I just thought I'd drop a note on the traditional Dragon Tradition
|
||
Circle
|
||
casting. The circle is cast with the Blade, the Cup and the
|
||
Censor. The
|
||
starts with the Blade in the north and draws the boundry of the
|
||
circle. As
|
||
he does he recites "I tread this Path for the Elements, that which
|
||
comprises all that we see."
|
||
The HPS takes to sprinkling the boundries with the Cup filled
|
||
with salted
|
||
water. She recites "I tread this Path for Self, a reflection of the
|
||
Divine."
|
||
The HP then takes the censor and carries the smoke to the
|
||
boundries of
|
||
the circle in a deosil direction. He recites "I tread this Path for
|
||
Spirit, that which unites all things."
|
||
|
||
The HP or HPS then state the charge of our Circle. It is as follows.
|
||
|
||
Our Circle is a place where hearts and minds can meet and share in
|
||
the
|
||
wonder and empowerment of a living and loving Goddess. We are a
|
||
coven of
|
||
friends, but above all things we are Family. Our Love and our
|
||
Magick binds
|
||
us together and our Circle keeps us and nurtures us. We are blessed.
|
||
Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
The Dragon Guardians are then invoked. The invocations for the
|
||
guardians
|
||
has been posted here in the last month. If anyone missed it, I can
|
||
resend
|
||
them.
|
||
|
||
I find that the Circle charge sets the mood for the Circle and I
|
||
change it
|
||
to suit the situation. If anyone has ideas for a Circle charge,
|
||
I'd like
|
||
to hear them. I have a number of Circle charges that I use but
|
||
fresh ones
|
||
always are nice.
|
||
|
||
Blessed Be.
|
||
Cameron Mandrake
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Copyright 1992 - DragonHart Coven - All Rights Reserved
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9200/80.0)
|
||
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||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(58) Thu 18 Jun 92 22:20
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: Rest of BARDIC YEAR
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
This is the missing ritual (the others were posted a couple of months
|
||
ago) of the BARDIC YEAR cycle:
|
||
|
||
THE BARDIC YEAR
|
||
Ritual for Wiccan groups
|
||
- by the White Bard 1991-92 CE
|
||
---------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
The following are suggested rituals within the four major calendar
|
||
celebrations. They are written from a Wiccan standpoint, using
|
||
Celtic traditions, and take the form of Mystery Plays that
|
||
(sometimes) are -not- fully explained (!). Try not to explain them
|
||
to the participants, but rather allow them to act upon the
|
||
participants
|
||
in a subliminal, emotional fashion. That is, after all, what they
|
||
are
|
||
designed to do.
|
||
|
||
Note: "%" marks "stage directions"
|
||
|
||
N:earth
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
W:water E:air
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
S:fire
|
||
|
||
The BARD should stand to the WEST, unless otherwise specified in the
|
||
ritual.
|
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|
||
CANDLEMAS (IMBOLC) RITUAL: 2 February
|
||
-by the White Bard
|
||
|
||
Materials: a candle for each covener present.
|
||
a MAIDEN, dressed in white.
|
||
a Crown of Light, made from three, six, or nine
|
||
candles.
|
||
a BARD/GREEN MAN.
|
||
a DARK LORD, dressed in dark clothing, and holding a
|
||
dark cloak.
|
||
|
||
% The place of ritual should be set up, away from the
|
||
gathered participants.
|
||
% It is more than a good idea to manage bathrooms and such like
|
||
% before the circle is closed. This Mystery is not something any
|
||
% of the participants should miss out on!
|
||
|
||
HPS: Go we now to the sacred place
|
||
And stand within the sacred space
|
||
Turn your minds to sacred things
|
||
And dance with me unto the ring!
|
||
|
||
% HP and HPS lead the coven to the place of ritual by a
|
||
% spiral dance, ending in a circle around the altar. The
|
||
% cauldron should be at the south. The Bard/Green Man
|
||
% dances at the end of the line. A good song to sing here
|
||
% is "Lord Of The Dance."
|
||
|
||
HPS: Come we forth, with the Spiral Dance
|
||
Within the Lady's radiance
|
||
To celebrate the Sun's rebirth
|
||
To renew life, to warm the Earth
|
||
|
||
Earth and Water, Fire and Air
|
||
I invoke the Goddess there!
|
||
This night we are Between the Worlds
|
||
To celebrate the year unfurled!
|
||
|
||
HP: Earth and Water, Fire and Sky
|
||
I invoke the God on high
|
||
This night we are Between the Worlds
|
||
To celebrate the year unfurled!
|
||
|
||
% The corners shall be called thusly, that all may hear, but
|
||
% shall not be called until the HPS reaches that corner on her
|
||
% circumnabulation.
|
||
|
||
(more)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Lord, Lady, Holy Fool: All things come in Threes ...
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9200/80.0)
|
||
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|
||
(59) Thu 18 Jun 92 22:20
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 2 BARDIC YEAR
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Candlemas 2
|
||
EAST: O Guardians of the Eastern Tower,
|
||
Airy ones of healing power
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
SOUTH: Oh fiery ones of Southern Power
|
||
Thus I invite you to this tower
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
WEST: Western ones of water's flow
|
||
Help to guard us here below
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
NORTH: Earthen ones of Northern fame
|
||
Bless and guard our Power's fane
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
% The HPS shall move to each corner, and say, following each
|
||
% corner's crying as she moves to the next:
|
||
|
||
HPS: So I cast and consecrate
|
||
This Circle of the small and great:
|
||
By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree,
|
||
By Rock and Earth, by Land and Sea,
|
||
By Fire and Water, Earth and Air,
|
||
By the Lord, and Lady Fair!
|
||
By Love and Joy and Work and Play,
|
||
All things harmful cast away!
|
||
By lightening's flash, and rain's soft fall,
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
(Cast the Circle: Blessed be!)
|
||
|
||
% On her return to the first corner she shall change the last
|
||
% line above, and say:
|
||
|
||
The Circle's cast; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
% The callers of the corners shall return their tools to the
|
||
altar, and then shall join the circle at their corners.
|
||
--------------------------------------------------
|
||
% Here begins the Candlemas (Imbolc) Mystery:
|
||
% The Maiden shall step forth, and say:
|
||
|
||
MAIDEN: This is the time of Brigid, the Patron of Poets and Fire,
|
||
and of Healing.
|
||
|
||
HPS: This is the time of new beginnings, when the Mother has become
|
||
Maiden.
|
||
|
||
HP: The days have turned, and grow longer, and the Sun-child is
|
||
growing
|
||
to His strength.
|
||
|
||
(more)
|
||
|
||
|
||
... The wages of sin depend on what union you belong to ...
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9200/80.0)
|
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||
|
||
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|
||
(60) Thu 18 Jun 92 22:20
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 3 BARDICYEAR
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Candlemas 3
|
||
BARD/GREEN MAN: I have been a wave upon the sea,
|
||
And a spark in the firelight.
|
||
|
||
I have been a fish in the ocean.
|
||
I have been a Thought within a Word,
|
||
And a Word within a Deed.
|
||
I was cast away, and found again.
|
||
|
||
I have been made of flowers
|
||
And of cold steel and brass.
|
||
Fire and ice are alike unto me.
|
||
|
||
I have been the narrow blade of a sword
|
||
That kills without cutting.
|
||
And the Void is my homeland.
|
||
|
||
I have been in Caer Sidi
|
||
In the Spiral Castle of Glass.
|
||
And the letters on the Standing Stones
|
||
Are no secret from me.
|
||
|
||
I have been in Annwyn
|
||
And Tir na n'Og,
|
||
I have danced the Spiral Dance,
|
||
And drunk from the Hierlas at daybreak.
|
||
|
||
I have ridden beneath two ravens
|
||
And served in the kitchen,
|
||
And all places are alike unto me.
|
||
|
||
I have been a child
|
||
And now I come into my strength!
|
||
|
||
I invoke the Land, the dear Land,
|
||
the Earth our Mother!
|
||
|
||
MAIDEN: The cycles of the Moon have taken their course, and I am
|
||
in my Maidenhood. The stars are kindled, and I dance in
|
||
their light.
|
||
|
||
DARK LORD: Thy home is with me thru the long months of Winter, and
|
||
the
|
||
Earth shall lie fallow and bare.
|
||
|
||
% The HPS shall then light the candles of the Crown of Light,
|
||
% and shall approach the Maiden, who is now standing in the East,
|
||
and
|
||
% place it upon her head.
|
||
% She shall now, in company with the Bard/Green Man,
|
||
circumnabulate the
|
||
% circle, and the coveners shall light their candles from her
|
||
crown.
|
||
% The Bard/Green Man shall return to his normal place within the
|
||
circle
|
||
% and the Maiden shall place the Crown of Light on the altar.
|
||
% The Maiden shall then approach the Dark Lord, and kneel before
|
||
him,
|
||
% and he shall say:
|
||
|
||
DARK LORD: As it always is, always was, and always shall be. Come
|
||
to my
|
||
Kingdom.
|
||
|
||
% Here he shall place the dark cloak around her, and they shall
|
||
retire
|
||
% to the West.
|
||
% Here ends the Candlemas Mystery.
|
||
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
% A normal cone-of-power may be raised, for growth and healing:
|
||
|
||
HPS: In a ring we all shall stand
|
||
Pass the Power, hand to hand.
|
||
|
||
HP: As the Sun is given birth
|
||
Build the Power; root to Earth
|
||
|
||
HPS: Pass the Power, hand to hand
|
||
Bless the Lady, bless the Land
|
||
|
||
HP: Bless the Lord, and bless the Skies
|
||
Bless the Power that never dies!
|
||
|
||
% The above four verses should be repeated three times, (or
|
||
% as many times as needed) and then the HPS should say:
|
||
|
||
HPS: By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree:
|
||
Let the Power flow out and free!
|
||
|
||
% All should release, at this point.
|
||
------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Origin of Life: Somewhere in one of my trashcans ...
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9200/80.0)
|
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|
||
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|
||
(61) Thu 18 Jun 92 22:20
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 4 BARDICYEAR
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Candlemas end
|
||
------------------------------------------------------
|
||
% Such coven business as must be transacted may be done here.
|
||
% This is a good time to bless candles for use during the coming
|
||
year.
|
||
% This is also a good time for initiations.
|
||
------------------------------------------------------
|
||
% The Circle is opened.
|
||
|
||
HPS: Thus I release the East and West
|
||
Thanks to them from Host to Guest
|
||
Thus I release the South and North
|
||
With "Blessed Be' I send them forth!
|
||
The Circle's open, dance we so
|
||
Out and homeward we shall go.
|
||
Earth and Water, Air and Fire
|
||
Celebrated our desire.
|
||
The Sun's returned to banish dark
|
||
The Earth awakes to sunlight's spark.
|
||
By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree,
|
||
Our circle's done; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
COVEN: Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
% All spiral dance out from the Circle.
|
||
|
||
-------------------------end----------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Bring me my broadsword and clear understanding ...
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9200/80.0)
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
(62) Tue 23 Jun 92 11:27
|
||
By: Paul Seymour
|
||
To: Gierda
|
||
Re: Re: Wanted: Answers
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
@EID:d51c 000a4051
|
||
@MSGID: 93:9500/0 580b885c
|
||
In a message to All <05-28-92 20:34> Gierda wrote:
|
||
G> I am new to calling myself a pagan. Would someone care to explain
|
||
G> about "the Book of Shadows"? Waht is it?
|
||
G> B*B
|
||
G> Gierda
|
||
"When Drawn is the magical Circle,
|
||
By Sword or Athame of Power,
|
||
Its compass between two worlds lies,
|
||
In Land of Shades for that hour."
|
||
The Witches' Creed
|
||
Doreen, Valiente
|
||
in "Witchcraft for Tomorrow", 1978
|
||
pp. 172-173, Phoenix (paper)
|
||
The term "Book of Shadows" was invented by Gerald Gardner
|
||
in about 1951, to replace "Grimmoire" (French for "Grammar") as
|
||
used for a combination magicians notebook and diary. I have heard
|
||
it explained that the world of pattern appears as "shadow" of
|
||
things expressed in the world of form, and the manifestations in
|
||
the world of form are "shadows" of the world of pattern, and that
|
||
the specialty of "walking between two worlds" is the specialty of
|
||
the Mage, then it becomes a very accurate (and poetic) term to call
|
||
this personal workbook a "Book of Shadows".
|
||
B*B -Paul-
|
||
|
||
--- QuickBBS 2.75 (Eval)
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(66) Tue 30 Jun 92 13:05
|
||
By: Cameron Mandrake
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: Dragon Trad and the Holy Grail
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Recently we have discovered the significance of sharing water in our
|
||
circles. This ritual should be warm and meaningful. This being
|
||
the case
|
||
it should only be shared by members of the coven and visitors
|
||
should be
|
||
excluded unless the visitor is VERY close to the group.
|
||
|
||
Someone reads the following poem or one that is written for the
|
||
occaision.
|
||
|
||
Quest for the Grail
|
||
by C.J. Mandrake
|
||
|
||
I have sailed the seven seas.
|
||
I have walked the deserts of this world,
|
||
searching for clues and kin;
|
||
always awed by the stories that they told.
|
||
Time my only enemy,
|
||
every stone my friend;
|
||
carried by myth's fluid words,
|
||
looking for a gold cup 'round every bend.
|
||
|
||
Mountains loom before me:
|
||
The path, all but lost behind.
|
||
Arthur's song plays deep within me!
|
||
The Merlin's words dance within my mind!
|
||
``The blessed cup that you seek,
|
||
it is the Mother's womb.
|
||
It has poured out all our world
|
||
and it will be your tomb.''
|
||
|
||
Grail of Love
|
||
Grail of Light
|
||
Grail of Truth
|
||
Grail of Might
|
||
carry me to the very Fount of life.
|
||
|
||
I threw a coin in a wishing well:
|
||
My wish, the Grail to see.
|
||
When the waters stilled again
|
||
I beheld the Mystery.
|
||
The Cup is made of flesh and blood.
|
||
The secret of deep peace it lends.
|
||
I drink from it every day
|
||
and I share it with my friends.
|
||
|
||
One and one and one is three:
|
||
Three by three is nine.
|
||
The heart of the world I see,
|
||
the secret of the Grail is mine.
|
||
The Cup, it is a lotus flower
|
||
deep within my soul,
|
||
flaming with the love of Her:
|
||
The Goddess and I made whole.
|
||
****
|
||
|
||
The reader takes the chalice of water and drinks and the cup is
|
||
passed
|
||
around the circle deosil, each person taking a drink in turn. Each
|
||
person
|
||
may offer a thought before they drink. This may be a thanks or an
|
||
observation or anything that seems significant to the moment. When
|
||
the cup
|
||
makes it back to the reader, he/she again drinks of the cup and
|
||
pours the
|
||
remainder as a libation. With the libation is said...
|
||
|
||
I partake of the Cup of Abundance. I share this Cup with those
|
||
around me.
|
||
I return what is left to the earth. <pours water out onto the
|
||
ground> And
|
||
my Cup remains full. <holds cup to heart> Blessed Be.
|
||
|
||
This rite is very good for group binding. Last time we did this we
|
||
drank
|
||
water from the Chalice Well in Glastonbury that one of the coven
|
||
members
|
||
brought back from vacation.
|
||
|
||
Enjoy! And Bright Blessings.
|
||
|
||
CJ
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Copyright 1992 - DragonHart Coven - All Rights Reserved
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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|
||
|
||
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|
||
(67) Fri 10 Jul 92 14:31
|
||
By: Todd Rourke
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: About Cerebral Babylon
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
@MSGID: 93:9009/0 2a5dfbc0
|
||
@PID: TeleMail 1.51
|
||
Editor's Note: This is a 'generic' message I am creating to post onto
|
||
all of the echoes I am getting via PODS. It is a brief (?)
|
||
introduction of myself, my system, and my users. Hopefully this can
|
||
leap into some conversation in the various echoes, as it is always
|
||
somewhat difficult for a new node to dive into existing discussions.
|
||
|
||
***
|
||
|
||
Cerebral Babylon is basically a concept-oriented BBS in the greater
|
||
Providence area of Rhode Island. The general focus is on debate, with
|
||
several local message areas dedicated to this end. Some of the most
|
||
popular (and infamous) local message areas on my system are the
|
||
"Losing My Religion" area which is for discussing religion in
|
||
general,
|
||
and "The Satanic Verses" which is an excercise in dealing with
|
||
various
|
||
ideas on morallity and the lack thereof. Other stand-out areas
|
||
include
|
||
my local "Political Cut-throats" (self explanatory) and "AmeriKKKa's
|
||
Most Wanted" which concerns itself with oppression and racism in the
|
||
country and in the world.
|
||
|
||
My users run the gamut of belief systems and ages. Calculations show
|
||
that out of a current set of 300 users (still growing, system is only
|
||
up since August 1st, 1991) the average age is approximately 22 years.
|
||
I have a large group of loyal atheists and agnostics, followed by
|
||
Jews, Wiccans, and Christians in that order. The general level of
|
||
education is high... college-oriented. Most of my users love a good
|
||
verbal scrap with each other, or as it often seems to be, a nice
|
||
battle of wit and words with their ever-lovin' sysop (myself).
|
||
Needless to say, it is often hard to pry them loose from my local msg
|
||
areas and get them into the nets, but they are finding their way.
|
||
|
||
As far as I am concerned, I am active in 3 current networks now. I am
|
||
the HOST in the area for both PODS and Interactive Communications
|
||
Network. I moderate some 6 echoes for ICN (ANSI, CRITIC, DEBATE,
|
||
DRDOS, EVENTS, & SPORTS). I also frequent some Fido echoes (BIBLE,
|
||
OPEN_BIBLE, FUNNY, POLITICS, ENVIRO) and I am the moderator for a
|
||
newly forming Fido echo called REASON (which I am looking for nodes,
|
||
so if anyone wants a 'reasonable' religious/political debate echo,
|
||
drop me a line about getting REASON). Personally, I consider myself
|
||
to
|
||
be an atheist with strong interest in the occult and Satanism. Not
|
||
'Satanism-proper' but more or less some of the basic tenets of
|
||
Satanism appeal to me... love those who's love will benefit you,
|
||
scorn
|
||
others, etc. You could say I'm not a very Christian guy, but I do try
|
||
to be tolerant of other peoples belief systems (tho not succeeding
|
||
very often ;-> ) Politically speaking, I am rather conservative in
|
||
nature, which suprises a lot of people that I could have the
|
||
'religious' beliefs I have and be a Republican, but I am. Needless to
|
||
say, I love to confront people on their ideas and make them think...
|
||
even if I have to take the other side of an issue (and very well a
|
||
side I don't agree with) to make them think about it.
|
||
I am the consumate Devil's Advocate.
|
||
|
||
So that's the background and intro. If anyone would be so kind as to
|
||
fire off some replies with some questions relating to the current
|
||
area
|
||
and this message, please do. We're anxious to get 'sucked in' over
|
||
here. Heh heh.
|
||
|
||
-TR
|
||
|
||
... In our holy quest for supremacy... the Lords of the Left Hand.
|
||
--- Blue Wave/TG v2.10
|
||
* Origin: Cerebral Babylon BBS (93:9009/0.0)
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|
||
(102) Mon 22 Jun 92 16:09
|
||
By: Abdallat Al-talib
|
||
To: Phoenix Rising
|
||
Re: Discordian Propaganda
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
You want a genuine Erisian Magic Ritual? Here you go:
|
||
|
||
-=THE TURKEY CURSE=-
|
||
|
||
Revealed by the Apostle Dr. Van Van Mojo as a specific counter to the
|
||
evil of the Curse of Greyface, the Turkey Curse is here passed on to
|
||
Erisians everywhere for their just protection.
|
||
|
||
[The Turkey Curse works. It is firmly grounded on the fact that
|
||
Greyface
|
||
and his followers absolutely require an anerisitic setting to
|
||
function
|
||
and that a timely introduction of eristic vibrations will neutralize
|
||
their foundation. The Turkey Curse is designed solely to counteract
|
||
>negative< anerisitic vibes and if introduced into a neutral or
|
||
positive
|
||
aneristic setting (like a poet working out word rhythms) it will
|
||
prove
|
||
harmless, or at worst, annoying. It is not designed for use against
|
||
negative >eristic< vibes, although it can be used an eristic
|
||
vehicle to
|
||
introduce postive vibes into a misguided eristic setting. In this
|
||
instance, it would be responsibility of the Erisian Magician to
|
||
manufacture the positive vibrations if results are to be achieved.
|
||
CAUTION - all magic is powerful and requires courage and integrity on
|
||
the part of the magician. This ritual, if misused, can backfire.
|
||
Positive motivation is essential for self-protection.]
|
||
|
||
TO PERFORM THE TURKEY CURSE|
|
||
|
||
Take a foot stance as if you were John L. Sullivan preparing for
|
||
fisticuffs. Face the particular grey-face you wish to short-circuit
|
||
(e.g. a street preacher), or towards the direction of the negative
|
||
aneristic vibration that you wish to neutralize (e.g. the White
|
||
House).
|
||
Begin waving your arms in any elaborate manner and make motions with
|
||
your hands as though you were Mandrake feeling up a sexy giantess
|
||
(Dr.
|
||
Strange imitations are fine). Chant, loudly and clearly:
|
||
|
||
GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE!!
|
||
|
||
The results will be instantly apparent.
|
||
<20> SLMR 2.0 <20> Twisted mind? No - just bent in a few strategic
|
||
places.
|
||
--- SuperQWK 1.16-B (Eval)
|
||
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(93:9708/0)
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|
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(137) Mon 20 Jul 92 16:18
|
||
By: The Tigress
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: Ritual of the Blessed Motherboard Part 1
|
||
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|
||
@PID: RA 1.11
|
||
@MSGID: 93:9030/14 500984be
|
||
@REPLY: 93:9030/14 5009826e
|
||
Thus it follows that after many days of chaos, unfounded mayhem and
|
||
startling
|
||
inconvienience <as given in favor by the Goddess Eris> so it shall
|
||
be that I
|
||
am finally able to share with you the official ceremony of the
|
||
Blessed
|
||
Motherboard and the Horned One that Plugs in the Wall. This
|
||
ceremony is one to
|
||
be practiced by discordian compu-pagans each Midsummer Eve in holy
|
||
celebration
|
||
and appreciation of debugged upgrades, new shareware, faster
|
||
circutry and all
|
||
the blessings that flow from the Goddess...
|
||
|
||
Note : Let it be said that if your system crashes, your motherboard
|
||
becomes
|
||
twitchy, your hard drives fail, or your cables spout forth fire -
|
||
that this is
|
||
an indication that the Goddess is displeased with your
|
||
compu-worship. At this
|
||
time, if the posting of many tales of compu-sexuality doth fail to
|
||
pacify Her.
|
||
this is the time that this ritual must be done to regain Her
|
||
pleasure.
|
||
|
||
It is thus that this ritual be made easier if thou coven of
|
||
compu-pagans is
|
||
large, for then the obtainment of the necessary materials be far
|
||
easier...
|
||
|
||
Necessary ritual components -
|
||
|
||
To represent the Matron Goddess : 1 AT Motherboard <preferably a
|
||
386 with
|
||
Large Co-processors.> <may be in "twitchy condition".>
|
||
|
||
To represent the Crone: 1 AT&T Phone bill from Mother Bell. <the
|
||
higher the
|
||
debt, the better one can justify ones needs to the Goddess>
|
||
|
||
To represent the Maiden: a large firepit dug in the shape of a
|
||
circle around
|
||
which the pentagram will be formed. <dry wood laid in preparation>
|
||
|
||
To represent the God: 1 very Large, very THICK power supply cable
|
||
|
||
For the Pentagram : 1 can of neon or glow in the dark paint
|
||
|
||
For the Quarters : The following items are placed at each quarter -
|
||
|
||
North : A Power supply with cable, the energy which inspires us
|
||
|
||
East: A keyboard through which our innocence is transformed to lust
|
||
|
||
South: A hard drive which saves our writ to seal our doom
|
||
|
||
West : A Monitor by which all might see our lustful spells at work
|
||
|
||
The Altar : A makeshift desk
|
||
|
||
The Incense: A chipped ashtray and a pack of Camels <extra humps>
|
||
|
||
The Cup: A container of highly caffinated substance <coke, jolt,
|
||
pepsi>
|
||
|
||
The Bowl : a bowl of fine earth to represent the accumulation of
|
||
dust in your
|
||
house which you haven't cleaned since you spend all your time at
|
||
the keyboard
|
||
|
||
The Flame: One jar of kerosene, gasoline, or other flamable
|
||
substance with
|
||
matches that one uses to light the fire.
|
||
|
||
In addition: Each member of the network coven should bring spare
|
||
parts, broken
|
||
cables, split chips, bungled software, etc...for fire offerings at
|
||
the
|
||
conclusion of the ceremony. Clothing during this ceremony is
|
||
optional.
|
||
|
||
Opening Chant <To be sung as the HPs and HP draw the circle and
|
||
pentagram
|
||
around the firepit><sung to the tune of "Rain drops keep falling on
|
||
my head >
|
||
|
||
Circuts keep blowing on my board
|
||
my hard drive keeps crashin
|
||
and its heads are getting scored
|
||
Messages are lost OH
|
||
Time to appease the Goddess of all Computers
|
||
Alas I'm broke
|
||
My bills
|
||
Are higher than my income
|
||
Oh please Goddess I'm begging thee
|
||
To hear my plea and heal my system
|
||
ba dum dum, ba dum ba dum dum
|
||
|
||
Cables are ruined by crossing wires
|
||
My modem is burping
|
||
and its screwing up my files
|
||
Data's being lost OH
|
||
I ask the Horned One Plugging into my wall
|
||
Oh Please don't surge
|
||
My dos
|
||
is shareware and its fragile
|
||
Oh please Horned One
|
||
I'm begging thee
|
||
Remember that my ram is borrowed
|
||
ba dum dum, ba dum ba dum dum
|
||
|
||
The Crone works her spells through Mother Bell
|
||
My phone bills enormous
|
||
and my life is living hell
|
||
Long distance is a bitch OH
|
||
What did I do before to deserve this karma?
|
||
I have five days
|
||
To pay
|
||
The toll charge for downloading
|
||
from New Jersey
|
||
Oh Mother Bell,
|
||
have mercy on my lust addiction
|
||
ba dum dum, ba dum ba dum dum
|
||
|
||
I worship through the message base
|
||
Hiding behind keyboards
|
||
where you cannot see my face
|
||
Sexual inuen- DO
|
||
Maiden protect me from my own sweet confusion
|
||
Let me log in
|
||
to boards
|
||
To satisfy my hunger
|
||
and to praise you
|
||
and sacrifice your innocence among the echos
|
||
ba dum dum, ba dum ba dum dum
|
||
|
||
Its My Lust...... Sacrifice it or BUST
|
||
|
||
<To be sung until the Pentagram and altar are set up, the
|
||
last sentence repeated and slowly faded>
|
||
|
||
The ritual begins...<in the continuation>
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
* Origin: The Tigress's Den BBS <303> 484-3617 (93:9030/14)
|
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||
|
||
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|
||
(138) Mon 20 Jul 92 17:55
|
||
By: The Tigress
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: Ritual of the Blessed Motherboard <part 2>
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
@PID: RA 1.11
|
||
@MSGID: 93:9030/14 50099b88
|
||
As the coven sings the ritual opening chant the HP & P paint the
|
||
Pentagram around the firepit with neon or glow in the dark paint.
|
||
The items are placed
|
||
in the designated directions and the altar is set up to the north
|
||
of the fire
|
||
with the following items placed upon it.
|
||
|
||
To the North end of the altar the ashtray and cigarettes
|
||
To the East end of the altar the holy cup
|
||
To the South end of the altar the bowl of earth
|
||
To the West end of the altar the jar of kerosene and matches.
|
||
|
||
As the HP calls the elements the P shall pass her the items in
|
||
question
|
||
|
||
The coven at the end of each elemental calling shall chant the
|
||
following
|
||
Elemental Power
|
||
Come out and play with me
|
||
Play midst my flaming spree<fire>
|
||
and sing the chant with me <Air>
|
||
Splash in my rain barrel <Water>
|
||
Slide down my cellar door <Earth> And we'll be jolly friends
|
||
Forever more
|
||
|
||
The HP calls to the Element of Fire <and taking the kerosene from
|
||
the P> intones -
|
||
Fire, Fire burning bright, like a candle in the night
|
||
Come and join us in our flight, Lend us your eternal light
|
||
Warm the Maiden with your flame,
|
||
I call you in the Goddess's Name.
|
||
The HP pours the kerosene liberally upon the firewood in the pit
|
||
and lights the fire with the matches. <the coven sings the
|
||
elemental chant>
|
||
|
||
The P hands the HP the bowl of earth. The HP tosses the earth
|
||
upwards to scatter it around the circle and over the altar as she
|
||
intones -
|
||
|
||
Elemental Earth I beckon thee, with us in this circle be
|
||
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, firm foundation is a must
|
||
Warm bed for the Matron's frame I call you in the Goddess's Name
|
||
|
||
<the coven sings the elemental chant>
|
||
|
||
The P hands the HP the cup of caffinated substance. The HP lifts
|
||
it to her lips and intones-
|
||
|
||
Water quench our thirst, keep us wet and wild
|
||
Join us in our circle hence, praise the lady mild.
|
||
Liquid of Life that has no shame
|
||
I beckon thee in Goddess's Name
|
||
|
||
The HP drinks from the cup and beckons the P to drink of it, he
|
||
does. <the coven sings the elemental chant>
|
||
|
||
The P hands the HP the ashtray and a cigarette and lights it for
|
||
her, the HP takes a long drag and as she exhales intones -
|
||
|
||
Airy, Airy, quiet and contrary how doth your winds blow?
|
||
Through maidens hair your breath ensnare, your secrets we would know.
|
||
The Pow'r of Wind by Lady made tame
|
||
I beckon thee in Goddess's Name
|
||
|
||
<the HP smokes and exhales as the coven sings the elemental chant>
|
||
|
||
The HP and P perepare to summon the directions in supplication to
|
||
be followed
|
||
by the closing of the circle.
|
||
|
||
The following is a chant used by the coven at each directional
|
||
opening.
|
||
|
||
"From the North awakening, the energy inspires
|
||
From the East our eagerness to learn amid the fires
|
||
From the South commitment and thus we seal our doom
|
||
From the West comes reckonning, our message answered soon"
|
||
The HP and P walk to the North and hold up the Power supply. The P
|
||
intones - The Power of the north inspires us and lends us its
|
||
energy for our use in supplication. This Power Supply I offer to
|
||
thee Oh Goddess that your Power run through my computer and my
|
||
life. The P tosses the Power supply into the fire.
|
||
<the coven sings the directional chant>
|
||
|
||
The Hp and P walk to the East and hold up the keyboard. The P
|
||
intones -
|
||
The Power of the East transforms our innocence through tasting the
|
||
fire of Life. This Keyboard, I offer to thee Oh Goddess that your
|
||
knowledge guide my fingers on their path through the system of
|
||
Life. The P tosses the keyboard into the fire.
|
||
<the coven sings the directional chant>
|
||
|
||
The HP and P walk to the South and hold up the hard drive. The P
|
||
intones -
|
||
The Power of the South is that of action and consequence, of
|
||
commitment to the path and the ability to remember the lessons
|
||
learned thereof. This Hard Drive I offer to thee Oh Goddess that
|
||
your memory of my acts and deeds be remembered with praise and
|
||
favor in thine eyes. The P tosses the Hard Drive into the fire.
|
||
|
||
<the coven sings the directional chant>
|
||
|
||
The HP and the P walk to the West and hold up the monitor. The P
|
||
intones -
|
||
The Power of the West is that of access to all things, to seeing
|
||
turthfully into the path of a life and judging it thusly, worthy or
|
||
unworthy. This monitor I offer to thee Oh Goddess that your
|
||
eternal eyes may see into my life and may watch over my actions,
|
||
and that I may find favor in you as my eternal
|
||
Sysop. The P tosses the monitor into the fire.
|
||
|
||
<the coven sings the directional chant>
|
||
The HP and P walk thrice around the circle widdershins and all
|
||
chant thusly -
|
||
|
||
Ring around the altar
|
||
Power never faulter
|
||
Goddess, God
|
||
We summon thee <repeated until the circle is thrice closed.>
|
||
|
||
To be continued....
|
||
---
|
||
* Origin: The Tigress's Den BBS <303> 484-3617 (93:9030/14)
|
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||
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||
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||
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|
||
|
||
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|
||
(139) Mon 20 Jul 92 18:36
|
||
By: The Tigress
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: Ritual of the Blessed Motherboard <Part 3>
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
@PID: RA 1.11
|
||
@MSGID: 93:9030/14 5009a544
|
||
The Circle Closed and the directions and elements present, the HP
|
||
and P prepare to call to the Goddess and to the Horned One.
|
||
|
||
The HP stands before the fire pit and calls -
|
||
|
||
Virgin Goddess, gentle maid
|
||
She whose seeking to get laid
|
||
Bring your innocence to Bare
|
||
For those who worship for your care
|
||
|
||
<the P leads the coven in the Maiden chant>
|
||
Come on Maiden light your fire
|
||
Come on Maiden light your fire
|
||
Come and set the night on FIRE
|
||
|
||
The HP stands before the fire pit and holding the phone bill calls -
|
||
|
||
Oh Mother Bell, Oh Crone of Disconnection from this pagan life
|
||
I beseech thee, hold back thy hand of dread financial strife
|
||
In attonement bills I pay to thee
|
||
Of thy modem killing hand let me be free
|
||
|
||
The HP tosses the phone bill into the fire.
|
||
|
||
<The P leads the coven in the Crone Song>
|
||
|
||
" We're sorry, the number you have reached has been temporarily
|
||
disconnected
|
||
Booooo Hissssss
|
||
We're sorry, the number you have reached has been temporarily
|
||
disconnected
|
||
Booo Hisssss"
|
||
|
||
The HP stands before the Altar and holds high the very long and
|
||
very thick cable of the Horned One that Plugs into the Wall and
|
||
calls -
|
||
|
||
Oh Horned One, Powerful Consort of the Blessed Motherboard
|
||
Surging with Energy you take your place as Lord
|
||
Pulsing with Power, with each surge of volts you swell
|
||
Pumping life into the Goddess, you serve her purpose well
|
||
|
||
The HP tosses the very long, very thick cable into the fire
|
||
|
||
<the P leads the coven in the Horned One chant>
|
||
|
||
Pump, Pump, Pump it up....keep the power flowing
|
||
Pump, Pump, Pump it up....hard fast and never slowing
|
||
Pump, Pump, Pump it up....We know you please the Goddess
|
||
Pump, Pump, Pump it up....Be strong and never modest
|
||
|
||
The HP raises the Blessed Motherboard with Large Co-processors high
|
||
in the air
|
||
and the P and HP each take and end in their hands. Raising the
|
||
Motherboard
|
||
high in the air they intone -
|
||
|
||
Blessed Mother, Sacred Goddess come to bless your users
|
||
Keep us safe from disk crash and lurking abusers
|
||
Let thy healing hands caress our crippled hardware
|
||
Let our nodes stay stable, that through distance we may share
|
||
In your holy worship together we may gather nightly
|
||
Writing inuendo, our modems steaming slightly
|
||
Bless us Holy Goddess, and show us by your sign
|
||
That we have earned your favor, your blessing so divine.
|
||
|
||
to be continued...
|
||
|
||
---
|
||
* Origin: The Tigress's Den BBS <303> 484-3617 (93:9030/14)
|
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||
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|
||
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||
|
||
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|
||
(140) Mon 20 Jul 92 19:04
|
||
By: The Tigress
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: Ritual of the Blessed Motherboard <part 4>
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
@PID: RA 1.11
|
||
@MSGID: 93:9030/14 5009abba
|
||
@REPLY: 69:2101/27 4fc3977e
|
||
The HP and P lead all in the following chant -
|
||
|
||
A Prayer to the Goddess for self conscecration
|
||
Dominus regit Goddess
|
||
|
||
The Blessed Goddess is my mistress;
|
||
I shall not be in want
|
||
She maketh me lie down on soft bedding
|
||
and leadth me to think of rumpling it
|
||
She revives my soul <when I thought I was exhausted>
|
||
and guides me along the most sensual pathways for pleasures sake
|
||
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of dangerous desire
|
||
I shall fear not impotence
|
||
for she is insatiable
|
||
my rod and staff they comfort her
|
||
We spread a table of ecstacy in the presence of those
|
||
who are sorely troubled by arrousal
|
||
She annoints my head with honeyed oil
|
||
and I make her cup run over
|
||
Surely the pleasure and bliss shall follow me all the days of my
|
||
life
|
||
and I will dwell in the caves of ecstacy within mind forever.
|
||
|
||
Thus said, the HP and P intone the following -
|
||
|
||
OH Blessed Motherboard please accept this offering in your name,
|
||
and in the
|
||
name of the Horned One who plugs in the Wall and gives you
|
||
pleasure...
|
||
that we may be blessed in our offerings to you both in circle and
|
||
in life.
|
||
|
||
Thus said, the HP and P toss the Motherboard into the fire.
|
||
|
||
|
||
The HP and P lead the coven in the following chant -
|
||
|
||
Blessed be the Motherboard from whom all messages flow
|
||
Blessed be the Horned One who fills Her with His offering
|
||
Blessed be the sysops who transfer the packets
|
||
Blessed be the writers and those who inspire what they bring
|
||
Blessed be the hard drives that keep messages from harm
|
||
Blessed be the modems which send packages large and small
|
||
Blessed be the shareware we use to commune
|
||
Blessed be the network which links us up with all
|
||
Blessed be our minds, that we might write our prayers
|
||
Blessed be our fingers that tap amongst the keys
|
||
Blessed be our monitors that shine with holy light
|
||
Blessed be our senses that stimulate with ease
|
||
|
||
Blessed be the circle, a circut without end
|
||
Through which we hail and merry meat with those that we call friend.
|
||
|
||
At this point the HP and P gaze into the fire for the portent of
|
||
the Goddess's
|
||
sign of approval <the flames of blue light from the motherboard
|
||
offering>
|
||
|
||
At seeing this both HP and P raise their arms in joyful
|
||
supplication and shout
|
||
<To be echoed by the Coven members in attendance after each line>
|
||
|
||
The Maiden's found appeasement and She is satisfied
|
||
The Crone is in abeyance, her compu-billings fried
|
||
The Horned One's filled with power, in joining He is pleased
|
||
The Goddess sends Her blessings, cleansing virus and disease.
|
||
We thank the 4 directions for standing by our side
|
||
We thank the elementals and their power all allied
|
||
To Celebrate our status annointed compupagans of sin
|
||
Let Joyful Inhibition be released and the saturnalia begin!!!!
|
||
|
||
<the HP and P release the circle and the partying shall now commence>
|
||
|
||
Sensual foods and drinks are served and shared, <the rest you can
|
||
imagine>
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||
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||
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(210) Sat 25 Jul 92 7:25
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||
By: Phaedra
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: Invocations
|
||
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|
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@MSGID: 1:106/88.0 2a70f3bc
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@REALNAME: Virginia Stewart
|
||
Bright Blessings to all...
|
||
Here are invocations to the Goddess and God that I have used
|
||
quite successfully in ritual. They are from the Orphic Hymns,
|
||
for those who like historical accuracy, but have been updated just
|
||
a tad, for those who like ritual with modern applications.
|
||
Hope you enjoy them.
|
||
|
||
Invocation to the Goddess
|
||
|
||
Divine are Your honors, Oh Mother of the Gods and Nurturer of All.
|
||
Yoke your swift chariot drawn by bull-slaying lions and,
|
||
O Mighty Goddess who brings things to pass, join our prayers.
|
||
Many named and reverend, You are the Queen of the Sky.
|
||
In the cosmos, Your throne is above all others, for You are
|
||
|
||
Queen of the Earth, and You give gentle nourishment to mortals.
|
||
Goddesses, Gods, and mortals were born of You,
|
||
And You hold sway over the rivers and all of the sea.
|
||
Hestia, Gaia, Demeter, Inanna, Isis, Astarte, Ishtar, Persephone,
|
||
Diana,
|
||
Giver of prosperity who bestows upon mortals all manner of gifts,
|
||
Come to this Rite, Queen whom the drum delights.
|
||
Honored and loving Nurturer of Life,
|
||
Joyfully and graciously visit our deeds of piety.
|
||
Blessed Be.
|
||
|
||
Invocation to the God
|
||
|
||
Hear Our Prayer, O best and Many-Named God.
|
||
Fine-haired, solitary, and full of lovely song;
|
||
Many shaped and noble nurturer of all,
|
||
Maiden and yout in one, unwithering bloom, O Adonis
|
||
You vanish and grow again in the fair seasons' turn.
|
||
Kurnunnos, Pan, Myrddhn, two horned Spirit of growth and blooming;
|
||
Much loved and wept for are you,
|
||
O Fair and Youthful Hunter of the luxuriant mane.
|
||
Desire is in Your mind and You come to the Goddess
|
||
in reverence and respect,
|
||
in sensuous joy is your desire fulfilled
|
||
You are the seed planted in the depths of the Underworld
|
||
That springs forth, the Green God, that we may sustain our lives.
|
||
You sacrifice Yourself in gentleness when you are grown.
|
||
Come Kind-Hearted One, Come Blesseed God,
|
||
and bring much joy to all.
|
||
Blessed Be.
|
||
|
||
Hope you find these beneficial...
|
||
Briget Bless...Phaedra.
|
||
|
||
... OFFLINE 1.39 * Are Eris and Aphrodite the same Goddess?
|
||
|
||
--- Maximus 2.00
|
||
* Origin: Two Wheelers - The Bicylists' Communications Link
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(1:106/88)
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(211) Mon 27 Jul 92 18:55
|
||
By: Silver Stag
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: Merry Meet
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
This is to say Hail and Well Met! I've really been enjoying what
|
||
I've been
|
||
seeing here, and I'd like to offer a small opening contribution: a
|
||
simple
|
||
Quarters invocation for those times when something more elaborate
|
||
won't
|
||
fit (number of people, surroundings, etc.). The lines can either
|
||
be said
|
||
in unison or alternated:
|
||
|
||
|
||
Eastern Wind and Southern Fire,
|
||
Fill our hearts with pure desire.
|
||
Western Water, Northern Earth,
|
||
Guide us to our souls' rebirth.
|
||
|
||
World below to World above,
|
||
Bound together, joined in Love.
|
||
At the Center, may we be
|
||
With Lord and Lady, strong and free!
|
||
|
||
Enjoy. And Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
--SS
|
||
|
||
... So many Mysteries, so little time...
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
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(93:9230/80.0)
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||
(212) Mon 27 Jul 92 14:52
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: Bardic Cycle (intro)
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Follows is the Bardic Cycle that Paul S. was asking about...this is a
|
||
-repeat- posting of a ritual cycle I wrote for a local Wiccan
|
||
coven. It
|
||
is free for use for whatever group wants to use it, and is the
|
||
first of
|
||
a series for different Trads, based around the Bardic Mystery.
|
||
|
||
Much of the Mystery involved here is -not- explained. It is meant
|
||
to hit
|
||
at the unconcious level....so don't get cute and start explaining
|
||
to your
|
||
coveners "what he must have meant by that!" <grin!>
|
||
|
||
"Silver Priestess," you wanna save this.
|
||
|
||
Bardic Cycle follows:
|
||
|
||
... I have looked into the heart of Silence ...
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
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(213) Mon 27 Jul 92 14:55
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 1 Bardic Cycle
|
||
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|
||
THE BARDIC YEAR
|
||
Ritual for Wiccan groups
|
||
- by the White Bard 1991-92 CE
|
||
---------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
The following are suggested rituals within the four major calendar
|
||
celebrations. They are written from a Wiccan standpoint, using
|
||
Celtic traditions, and take the form of Mystery Plays that
|
||
(sometimes) are -not- fully explained (!). Try not to explain them
|
||
to the participants, but rather allow them to act upon the
|
||
participants
|
||
in a subliminal, emotional fashion. That is, after all, what they
|
||
are
|
||
designed to do.
|
||
|
||
Note: "%" marks "stage directions"
|
||
|
||
N:earth
|
||
W:water E:air
|
||
S:fire
|
||
|
||
The BARD should stand to the WEST, unless otherwise specified in the
|
||
ritual.
|
||
---------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
YULE RITUAL: 21 December
|
||
-by the White Bard
|
||
|
||
Materials: a very small, just sprouted potted plant.
|
||
a candle for each covener present.
|
||
a MOTHER. She should wear a blue garment, if possible.
|
||
a MAIDEN, dressed in white.
|
||
a Crown of Light, made from three, six, or nine
|
||
candles.
|
||
a BARD/GREEN MAN.
|
||
|
||
% The ceremony for the Lesser Sabbats should be written by newer
|
||
% members of the coven, as part of their learning. At an appropriate
|
||
% place in the ceremony, the following should be inserted:
|
||
|
||
% Here begins the Yule Mystery. ALL light shall be
|
||
% extinguished, all fires put out, save that in the South.
|
||
% The Bard/Green Man shall lie on his back in the East, as
|
||
% if dead.
|
||
% The HPS shall say:
|
||
|
||
HPS: Darkness covers all. The Old King is dead, and there is no
|
||
warmth for the Mother. The days are short, and the nights
|
||
are long.
|
||
|
||
COVEN: Give us Light!
|
||
|
||
HPS: The Maiden wanders the Earth, Maiden no more, but soon to be
|
||
Mother. The Earth is cold, and there is no place for her to
|
||
give birth.
|
||
|
||
COVEN: Give us Light!
|
||
|
||
HP: Mother, give us the Child of Promise! The Lord Of Life strains
|
||
to be born!
|
||
|
||
COVEN: Give us Light!
|
||
|
||
MOTHER: I seek a place to rest, and give birth.
|
||
|
||
% The Mother should wander about the inside of the circle, as if
|
||
% looking for something, and not finding it. She should act very
|
||
% tired, and project a sense of urgency.
|
||
% She then goes to the East, and assumes the Goddess pose,
|
||
standing,
|
||
% arms and legs spread in the form of a five-pointed star.
|
||
% There shall be a pause, and the Bard/Green Man shall then quietly
|
||
% rise up, and stand behind the Mother. If it seems appropriate,
|
||
the
|
||
% more primitive symbolism of him crawling out from between the
|
||
legs
|
||
% of the Mother may be used. He should be carrying a lit candle, or
|
||
% some other source of light.
|
||
|
||
BARD/GREEN MAN: Cunning and art I do not lack,
|
||
But -always- Her Cauldron brings me back!
|
||
|
||
|
||
... MEDIA CHECK: TV OFF? RADIO OFF? NEWSPAPER IN THE BIRD CAGE?
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
(214) Mon 27 Jul 92 14:57
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 2 Bardic Cycle
|
||
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|
||
% The Bard/Green Man shall take his lit candle, and proceed to
|
||
re-light
|
||
% the corner candles, moving deasil, and any other fires within
|
||
the circle.
|
||
% The just-sprouted potted plant is picked up by the Mother and
|
||
held in
|
||
% front of her during this candle-lighting.
|
||
% The Bard/Green Man shall then take the plant from the hands of
|
||
the Mother,
|
||
% bring it to the center of the circle, and raise it above his
|
||
head, saying:
|
||
|
||
BARD/GREEN MAN: Here is the Promise, that is always fulfilled.
|
||
|
||
% The plant is then passed around the circle, and given to the
|
||
Mother, who
|
||
% should take it home and water and nurture it thru the year, if
|
||
possible.
|
||
% The Maiden shall then take the place of the Mother, and the
|
||
Mother shall
|
||
% return to her place within the circle.
|
||
% Here ends the Yule Mystery.
|
||
|
||
---------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
CANDLEMAS (IMBOLC) RITUAL: 2 February
|
||
-by the White Bard
|
||
|
||
Materials: a candle for each covener present.
|
||
a MAIDEN, dressed in white.
|
||
a Crown of Light, made from three, six, or nine
|
||
candles.
|
||
a BARD/GREEN MAN.
|
||
a DARK LORD, dressed in dark clothing, and holding a
|
||
dark cloak.
|
||
|
||
% The place of ritual should be set up, away from the
|
||
gathered participants.
|
||
% It is more than a good idea to manage bathrooms and such like
|
||
% before the circle is closed. This Mystery is not something any
|
||
% of the participants should miss out on!
|
||
|
||
HPS: Go we now to the sacred place
|
||
And stand within the sacred space
|
||
Turn your minds to sacred things
|
||
And dance with me unto the ring!
|
||
|
||
% HP and HPS lead the coven to the place of ritual by a
|
||
% spiral dance, ending in a circle around the altar. The
|
||
% cauldron should be at the south. The Bard/Green Man
|
||
% dances at the end of the line. A good song to sing here
|
||
% is "Lord Of The Dance."
|
||
|
||
HPS: Come we forth, with the Spiral Dance
|
||
Within the Lady's radiance
|
||
To celebrate the Sun's rebirth
|
||
To renew life, to warm the Earth
|
||
|
||
Earth and Water, Fire and Air
|
||
I invoke the Goddess there!
|
||
This night we are Between the Worlds
|
||
To celebrate the year unfurled!
|
||
|
||
HP: Earth and Water, Fire and Sky
|
||
I invoke the God on high
|
||
This night we are Between the Worlds
|
||
To celebrate the year unfurled!
|
||
|
||
% The corners shall be called thusly, that all may hear, but
|
||
% shall not be called until the HPS reaches that corner on her
|
||
% circumnabulation.
|
||
|
||
EAST: O Guardians of the Eastern Tower,
|
||
Airy ones of healing power
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Do cats have dimples?
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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||
|
||
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|
||
(215) Mon 27 Jul 92 14:58
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 3 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
SOUTH: Oh fiery ones of Southern Power
|
||
Thus I invite you to this tower
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
WEST: Western ones of water's flow
|
||
Help to guard us here below
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
NORTH: Earthen ones of Northern fame
|
||
Bless and guard our Power's fane
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
% The HPS shall move to each corner, and say, following each
|
||
% corner's crying as she moves to the next:
|
||
|
||
HPS: So I cast and consecrate
|
||
This Circle of the small and great:
|
||
By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree,
|
||
By Rock and Earth, by Land and Sea,
|
||
By Fire and Water, Earth and Air,
|
||
By the Lord, and Lady Fair!
|
||
By Love and Joy and Work and Play,
|
||
All things harmful cast away!
|
||
By lightening's flash, and rain's soft fall,
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
(Cast the Circle: Blessed be!)
|
||
|
||
% On her return to the first corner she shall change the last
|
||
% line above, and say:
|
||
|
||
The Circle's cast; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
% The callers of the corners shall return their tools to the
|
||
altar, and then shall join the circle at their corners.
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
% Here begins the Candlemas (Imbolc) Mystery:
|
||
% The Maiden shall step forth, and say:
|
||
|
||
MAIDEN: This is the time of Brigid, the Patron of Poets and Fire,
|
||
and of Healing.
|
||
|
||
HPS: This is the time of new beginnings, when the Mother has become
|
||
Maiden.
|
||
|
||
HP: The days have turned, and grow longer, and the Sun-child is
|
||
growing
|
||
to His strength.
|
||
|
||
BARD/GREEN MAN: I have been a wave upon the sea,
|
||
And a spark in the firelight.
|
||
|
||
I have been a fish in the ocean.
|
||
I have been a Thought within a Word,
|
||
And a Word within a Deed.
|
||
I was cast away, and found again.
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk hand in hand.
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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||
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|
||
(216) Mon 27 Jul 92 22:52
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 4 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
I have been made of flowers
|
||
And of cold steel and brass.
|
||
Fire and ice are alike unto me.
|
||
|
||
I have been the narrow blade of a sword
|
||
That kills without cutting.
|
||
And the Void is my homeland.
|
||
|
||
I have been in Caer Sidi
|
||
In the Spiral Castle of Glass.
|
||
And the letters on the Standing Stones
|
||
Are no secret from me.
|
||
|
||
I have been in Annwyn
|
||
And Tir na n'Og,
|
||
I have danced the Spiral Dance,
|
||
And drunk from the Hierlas at daybreak.
|
||
|
||
I have ridden beneath two ravens
|
||
And served in the kitchen,
|
||
And all places are alike unto me.
|
||
|
||
I have been a child
|
||
And now I come into my strength!
|
||
|
||
I invoke the Land, the dear Land,
|
||
the Earth our Mother!
|
||
|
||
MAIDEN: The cycles of the Moon have taken their course, and I am
|
||
in my Maidenhood. The stars are kindled, and I dance in
|
||
their light.
|
||
|
||
DARK LORD: Thy home is with me thru the long months of Winter, and
|
||
the
|
||
Earth shall lie fallow and bare.
|
||
|
||
% The HPS shall then light the candles of the Crown of Light,
|
||
% and shall approach the Maiden, who is now standing in the East,
|
||
and
|
||
% place it upon her head.
|
||
% She shall now, in company with the Bard/Green Man,
|
||
circumnabulate the
|
||
% circle, and the coveners shall light their candles from her
|
||
crown.
|
||
% The Bard/Green Man shall return to his normal place within the
|
||
circle
|
||
% and the Maiden shall place the Crown of Light on the altar.
|
||
% The Maiden shall then approach the Dark Lord, and kneel before
|
||
him,
|
||
% and he shall say:
|
||
|
||
DARK LORD: As it always is, always was, and always shall be. Come
|
||
to my
|
||
Kingdom.
|
||
|
||
% Here he shall place the dark cloak around her, and they shall
|
||
retire
|
||
% to the West.
|
||
% Here ends the Candlemas Mystery.
|
||
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
% A normal cone-of-power may be raised, for growth and healing:
|
||
|
||
HPS: In a ring we all shall stand
|
||
Pass the Power, hand to hand.
|
||
|
||
HP: As the Sun is given birth
|
||
Build the Power; root to Earth
|
||
|
||
HPS: Pass the Power, hand to hand
|
||
Bless the Lady, bless the Land
|
||
|
||
HP: Bless the Lord, and bless the Skies
|
||
Bless the Power that never dies!
|
||
|
||
% The above four verses should be repeated three times, (or
|
||
% as many times as needed) and then the HPS should say:
|
||
|
||
HPS: By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree:
|
||
Let the Power flow out and free!
|
||
|
||
% All should release, at this point.
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Persons reading between the lines do so at their own risk ...
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
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|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(217) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:01
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 5 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
------------------------------------------------------
|
||
% Such coven business as must be transacted may be done here.
|
||
% This is a good time to bless candles for use during the coming
|
||
year.
|
||
% This is also a good time for initiations.
|
||
------------------------------------------------------
|
||
% The Circle is opened.
|
||
|
||
HPS: Thus I release the East and West
|
||
Thanks to them from Host to Guest
|
||
Thus I release the South and North
|
||
With "Blessed Be' I send them forth!
|
||
The Circle's open, dance we so
|
||
Out and homeward we shall go.
|
||
Earth and Water, Air and Fire
|
||
Celebrated our desire.
|
||
The Sun's returned to banish dark
|
||
The Earth awakes to sunlight's spark.
|
||
By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree,
|
||
Our circle's done; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
COVEN: Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
% All spiral dance out from the Circle.
|
||
|
||
---------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
EOSTAR RITUAL: (Spring Equinox)
|
||
-by the White Bard
|
||
|
||
Materials: a MAIDEN, who shall be dressed in white, covered by a
|
||
black (or other dark material) cloak, preferably with
|
||
a hood drawn over her head. No white of her garment
|
||
should show.
|
||
a BARD/GREEN MAN, who shall either recite or sing his
|
||
Song Of Calling, preferably accompanied by an approp-
|
||
riate musical instrument (drum, flute, harp, guitar)
|
||
|
||
% The ceremony for the Lesser Sabbats should be written by newer
|
||
% members of the coven, as part of their learning. At an appropriate
|
||
% place in the ceremony, the following should be inserted:
|
||
|
||
% Here begins the Eostar Mystery:
|
||
% Bard and Maiden shall stand together in the North, with the HP
|
||
between them.
|
||
|
||
MAIDEN: I have been in the Kingdom of the Dark Lord,
|
||
Where no Sun shines.
|
||
But now I shall return to the green of Earth,
|
||
And all things shall rejoice with me.
|
||
|
||
BARD/GREEN MAN: Follow me forth from the Dark Lord's Hall
|
||
And show that Love will conquer all!
|
||
|
||
% Bard moves to the East, and shall sing his Song of Calling:
|
||
% Song of Calling may be whatever the Bard feels appropriate.
|
||
% The below listed song is a suggestion only, and is used with
|
||
% the author's permission:
|
||
|
||
THE BARD'S SONG
|
||
(c) copyright 1990 W. J. Bethancourt III
|
||
(Tune: "Dublin City")
|
||
|
||
BARD: As I walked out one quiet evening
|
||
At the hour of twelve at night
|
||
Who should I meet but a fair young maiden
|
||
Combin' her hair by candle light;
|
||
Lassie, I have come a-courtin'
|
||
Your kind favours for to win
|
||
And if you'd heed my petition
|
||
I would be your Paladin...
|
||
|
||
(CHORUS) Gather roses in the Springtime
|
||
Gather roses while ye may,
|
||
Time is passing; roses wither;
|
||
Winter comes; we're here -today-.
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Where is Filbert Desinex now that we need him so?
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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||
@PATH: 9230/80 9200/0 23
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(218) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:03
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 6 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
% Bard moves to the South, Maiden moves to the East.
|
||
|
||
BARD: Have you seen the dew a-formin'
|
||
On the grass at early morn?
|
||
Have you seen the forest quiet,
|
||
Or a stag that's barely born?
|
||
Have you seen the dawn a-breakin'
|
||
O'er the Western Ocean's tide?
|
||
Have you felt my heart a-beatin'
|
||
When it's held close to your side?
|
||
|
||
(CHORUS) Gather roses in the Springtime
|
||
Gather roses while ye may,
|
||
Time is passing; roses wither;
|
||
Winter comes; we're here -today-.
|
||
|
||
% Bard moves to the West, Maiden moves to the South.
|
||
|
||
BARD: I can give no gold or silver,
|
||
I can give no fields of land,
|
||
I can give no servants brisk
|
||
To wait on you both foot and hand;
|
||
I can give you wide roads callin'
|
||
Wind and Rain, and Moon and Sun,
|
||
Songs to sing, and love and laughter,
|
||
Dresses made of plain home-spun.
|
||
|
||
(CHORUS) Gather roses in the Springtime
|
||
Gather roses while ye may,
|
||
Time is passing; roses wither;
|
||
Winter comes; we're here -today-.
|
||
|
||
% Bard moves to the North, Maiden moves to the West.
|
||
|
||
BARD: Come dance with me upon the greensward
|
||
In the moonlight, in the Spring.
|
||
Dance with me within the forest
|
||
Dance with me within the ring!
|
||
Earth below us, stars above us,
|
||
Fire and water by our side,
|
||
Dance with me within the moonlight,
|
||
Dance with me, and be my Bride!
|
||
|
||
(CHORUS) Gather roses in the Springtime
|
||
Gather roses while ye may,
|
||
Time is passing; roses wither;
|
||
Winter comes; we're here -today-.
|
||
|
||
% Bard moves to the Center, Maiden moves to the North.
|
||
% The HP shall try to hold her back, by holding her dark cloak,
|
||
% but she shall unclasp it, and move to the center, leaving the
|
||
% HP holding the cloak, revealing herself dressed in white, and
|
||
% shall stand beside the Bard.
|
||
|
||
MAIDEN: I have been in the Kingdom of the Dark Lord,
|
||
Where no Sun shines.
|
||
But now I return to the green of Earth,
|
||
And all things shall rejoice with me.
|
||
|
||
% The HPS shall crown the Maiden with a wreath of flowers.
|
||
% Here ends the Eostar Mystery.
|
||
---------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
THE DAY OF THE FOOL: April 1
|
||
-by the White Bard
|
||
|
||
% This day is not in the traditional cycle, but should not be
|
||
% omitted by those of the Bardic Path. There is no "set" ritual,
|
||
% but this is the time for satire and general foolery by all.
|
||
% A good thing to do here is to have a simple gathering, perhaps
|
||
% a pot-luck, choose a King and/or Queen of Fools, and have a
|
||
% good party. See the German Fasching or Mardi Gras for hints.
|
||
|
||
|
||
... "Well, I'll have a slice without so much rat in it."
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(219) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:05
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 7 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
---------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
BELTANE RITUAL: May Day
|
||
-by the White Bard
|
||
|
||
Materials: One cauldron, filled with water
|
||
a wreath of flowers for the MAIDEN
|
||
the Maiden should wear white, if possible
|
||
two wooden swords (optional)
|
||
a fire, as close to the ground as possible
|
||
A BARD/GREEN MAN (note: if you have no Bard, then a
|
||
male to act as Green Man should be chosen either
|
||
by lottery, or by the Maiden. The Maiden is, of
|
||
course, free to request a specific person to
|
||
act as Green Man even if there is a Bard available
|
||
to the coven.)
|
||
candles for all, if possible
|
||
|
||
*****************************************
|
||
|
||
% The place of ritual should be set up, away from the gathered
|
||
% participants.
|
||
% It is more than a good idea to manage bathrooms and such like
|
||
% before the circle is closed. This Mystery is not something any
|
||
% of the participants should miss out on!
|
||
|
||
HPS: Go we now to the sacred place
|
||
And stand within the sacred space
|
||
Turn your minds to sacred things
|
||
And dance with me unto the ring!
|
||
|
||
% HP and HPS lead the coven to the place of ritual by a
|
||
% spiral dance, ending in a circle around the altar. The
|
||
% cauldron should be at the south. The Bard/Green Man
|
||
% dances at the end of the line.
|
||
|
||
HPS: Come we forth, with the Spiral Dance
|
||
Within the Lady's radiance
|
||
To celebrate the Year renewed
|
||
And praise the Powers, with gratitude.
|
||
|
||
Earth and Water, Fire and Air
|
||
I invoke the Goddess there!
|
||
This night we are Between the Worlds
|
||
To celebrate the year unfurled!
|
||
|
||
HP: Earth and Water, Fire and Sky
|
||
I invoke the God on high
|
||
This night we are Between the Worlds
|
||
To celebrate the year unfurled!
|
||
|
||
% The corners shall be called thusly, that all may hear, but
|
||
% shall not be called until the HPS reaches that corner on her
|
||
% circumnabulation.
|
||
|
||
EAST: O Guardians of the Eastern Tower,
|
||
Airy ones of healing power
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
SOUTH: Oh fiery ones of Southern Power
|
||
Thus I invite you to this tower
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
|
||
... This tagline is SHAREWARE! To register, send me $10
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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||
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|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(220) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:06
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 8 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
WEST: Western ones of water's flow
|
||
Help to guard us here below
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
NORTH: Earthen ones of Northern fame
|
||
Bless and guard our Power's fane
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
% The HPS shall move to each corner, and say, following each
|
||
% corner's crying as she moves to the next:
|
||
|
||
HPS: So I cast and consecrate
|
||
This Circle of the small and great:
|
||
By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree,
|
||
By Rock and Earth, by Land and Sea,
|
||
By Fire and Water, Earth and Air,
|
||
By the Lord, and Lady Fair!
|
||
By Love and Joy and Work and Play,
|
||
All things harmful cast away!
|
||
By lightening's flash, and rain's soft fall,
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
(Cast the Circle: Blessed be!)
|
||
|
||
% On her return to the first corner she shall change the last
|
||
% line above, and say:
|
||
|
||
The Circle's cast; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
% The callers of the corners shall return their tools to the
|
||
altar, and then shall join the circle at their corners.
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
% Here begins the Beltane Mystery
|
||
|
||
BARD or GREEN MAN: Thus I invoke the Lady White
|
||
To come to us this sacred night.
|
||
By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree,
|
||
I show you a Mystery!
|
||
|
||
% The Maiden shall stand beside the HP, who shall hold a
|
||
% wooden sword. The Bard/Green Man shall approach them, also
|
||
% carrying a wooden sword, and shall, in mime, challenge the
|
||
% HP. They shall strike their swords together in three sets
|
||
% of three blows, then Bard/Green Man shall strike the HP, with
|
||
% the last blow of his sword, who shall fall as if dead.
|
||
% (Note: This can be played as a Morris Dance, if so wished.)
|
||
% If no Maiden and Bard/Green Man are used, then the above combat
|
||
% may be eliminated, and the HP and HPS shall enact the Mystery.
|
||
% The HPS' part shall then be spoken by the participants.
|
||
|
||
% The Maiden moves to the East. The Bard/Green Man moves to the
|
||
% North.
|
||
|
||
HPS: Cunning and art she did not lack
|
||
But aye his whistle would fetch her back!
|
||
|
||
MAIDEN: Oh, I shall go into a hare
|
||
with sorrow, sighing and mickle care
|
||
And I shall go in the Lady's Name
|
||
Aye, until I be fetched hame!
|
||
|
||
|
||
... CULT WATCH ECHO: Where all we think about is sects ...
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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@PATH: 9230/80 9200/0 23
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(221) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:07
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 9 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
BARD/GREEN MAN: Hare, take heed of a swift greyhound
|
||
Will harry thee all these fields around
|
||
For here come I in the Lady's Name
|
||
All but for to fetch thee hame!
|
||
|
||
% The Maiden moves to the South. The Bard/Green Man moves to the
|
||
% East.
|
||
|
||
HPS: Cunning and art she did not lack
|
||
But aye his whistle would fetch her back!
|
||
|
||
MAIDEN: Yet I shall go into a bee
|
||
With mickle fear and dread of thee
|
||
And flit to hive in the Lady's Name
|
||
Ere that I be fetch-ed hame!
|
||
|
||
BARD/GREEN MAN: Bee, take heed of a red, red cock
|
||
Will harry thee close thru door and lock
|
||
For here come I in the Lady's Name
|
||
All but for to fetch thee hame!
|
||
|
||
% The Maiden moves to the West. The Bard/Green Man moves to the
|
||
% South.
|
||
|
||
HPS: Cunning and art she did not lack
|
||
But aye his whistle would fetch her back!
|
||
|
||
MAIDEN: Yet I shall go into a trout.
|
||
With sorrow and sighing and mickle doubt
|
||
And show thee many a merry game
|
||
Ere that I be fetch-ed hame!
|
||
|
||
BARD/GREEN MAN: Trout, take heed of an otter lank
|
||
Will harry thee close from bank to bank
|
||
For here come I in the Lady's Name
|
||
All but for to fetch thee hame!
|
||
|
||
% The Maiden moves to the North. The Bard/Green Man moves to the
|
||
% West.
|
||
|
||
HPS: Cunning and art she did not lack
|
||
But aye his whistle would fetch her back!
|
||
|
||
MAIDEN: Yet I shall go into a mouse
|
||
And haste me unto the Miller's House
|
||
There in his corn to have good game
|
||
Ere that I be fetch-ed hame!
|
||
|
||
BARD/GREEN MAN: Mouse, take heed of a white tom-cat
|
||
That never was baulked of mouse nor rat
|
||
For here come I in the Lady's Name
|
||
And -thus- it is I fetch thee hame!
|
||
|
||
% Bard/Green Man walks to Maiden and takes her hand. They
|
||
% both move to the Cauldron, and face HPS.
|
||
|
||
HPS: Cunning and art she did not lack
|
||
But aye his Song has fetched her back!
|
||
|
||
Old Winter's dead, the Lady reigns
|
||
And Summer has returned again!
|
||
|
||
% Bard/Green Man and Maiden both wet their hands with water
|
||
% from the Cauldron, and sprinkle it on the HP, who comes to
|
||
% life again.
|
||
|
||
HP: Cunning and art I do not lack
|
||
But aye Her Cauldron will bring me back!
|
||
|
||
% Bard/Green Man and Maiden both move to, and jump, the fire.
|
||
% Here ends the Beltane Mystery.
|
||
% Note: This Mystery is the more historically correct "Great Rite."
|
||
|
||
------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
... C:\DOS ... C:\DOS\RUN ... RUN\DOS\RUN ...
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(222) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:09
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 10 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
% If there is a May Pole, it should be erected by the men -only- at
|
||
% this point, and all dance around it, alternating male and female
|
||
% to raise the cone of power as outlined below.
|
||
% A normal cone-of-power may be raised, for growth and healing:
|
||
|
||
HPS: In a ring we all shall stand
|
||
Pass the Power, hand to hand.
|
||
|
||
HP: As the year is given birth
|
||
Build the Power; root to Earth
|
||
|
||
HPS: Pass the Power, hand to hand
|
||
Bless the Lady, bless the Land
|
||
|
||
HP: Bless the Lord, and bless the Skies
|
||
Bless the Power that never dies!
|
||
|
||
% The above four verses should be repeated three times, (or
|
||
% as many as needed to fully wrap the pole) and then the HPS
|
||
% should say:
|
||
|
||
HPS: By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree:
|
||
Let the Power flow out and free!
|
||
|
||
% All should release, at this point.
|
||
|
||
------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
% Such coven business as must be transacted may be done here.
|
||
|
||
------------------------------------------------------
|
||
% The Circle is opened.
|
||
|
||
HPS: Thus I release the East and West
|
||
Thanks to them from Host to Guest
|
||
Thus I release the South and North
|
||
With "Blessed Be' I send them forth!
|
||
The Circle's open, dance we so
|
||
Out and homeward we shall go.
|
||
Earth and Water, Air and Fire
|
||
Celebrated our desire.
|
||
Winter's cold is gone away
|
||
Now it is the Day of May.
|
||
By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree,
|
||
Our circle's done; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
COVEN: Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
% All spiral dance out from the Circle, jumping the fire as
|
||
% they go. HP and HPS lead, with Bard/Green Man and Maiden
|
||
% taking care of bringing the Bel Fire into camp. Allow the Bel
|
||
% fire to burn out on its own, if possible, otherwise put it
|
||
% out with the water from the Caldron. Disposal of the water
|
||
% otherwise should be to pour it at the roots of a tree.
|
||
% All participants may take fire from the Bel Fire to take home
|
||
% with them, cook over, or whatever, before it is extinguished.
|
||
|
||
-------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
MIDSUMMER RITUAL: (Summer Solstice)
|
||
-by the White Bard
|
||
|
||
Materials: a GREEN MAN, dressed in green, bearing a leafy branch.
|
||
Small cakes, and a drink of some sort, preferably apple
|
||
based. For covens that use alcohol, mead would be ok, too.
|
||
|
||
% The ceremony for the Lesser Sabbats should be written by newer
|
||
% members of the coven, as part of their learning. At an appropriate
|
||
% place in the ceremony, the following should be inserted:
|
||
|
||
HPS: This is the time of the Green Man; the Jack-of-the-Green; the
|
||
Spirit of the Wood. Call him what you will, Robin Hood, Herne,
|
||
or even Pan, this is His time! Rejoice in Summer!
|
||
|
||
|
||
... He who dies with the most TAGLINES wins!
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(223) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:10
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 11 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
% The Green Man should rush into the circle, laughing and leaping.
|
||
% It would be appropriate for him to carry a leafy branch, with
|
||
% which to strike (lightly) the young women of the coven.
|
||
% He shall then approach the cakes and drink, and pick one of each
|
||
% up, hold them up to the coven, and say:
|
||
|
||
GREEN MAN: Behold the fruits of the Mother!
|
||
|
||
HP/HPS: Blessed be the food that nourishes us!
|
||
|
||
% All should sit, and eat, and have a nice, quiet party of some
|
||
sort!
|
||
|
||
-------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
LAMMAS RITUAL: 1 August
|
||
-by the White Bard
|
||
|
||
Materials: one person should be chosen by the HP to play LUGH,
|
||
who shall walk with an obvious limp. He may use a
|
||
crutch, or a cane if he so chooses.
|
||
|
||
*****************************************
|
||
|
||
% The place of ritual should be set up, away from the
|
||
gathered participants.
|
||
% It is more than a good idea to manage bathrooms and such like
|
||
% before the circle is closed. This Mystery is not something any
|
||
% of the participants should miss out on!
|
||
|
||
HPS: Go we now to the sacred place
|
||
And stand within the sacred space
|
||
Turn your minds to sacred things
|
||
And dance with me unto the ring!
|
||
|
||
% HP and HPS lead the coven to the place of ritual by a
|
||
% spiral dance, ending in a circle around the altar.
|
||
|
||
HPS: Come we forth, with the Spiral Dance
|
||
Within the Lady's radiance
|
||
To celebrate the Season's turn
|
||
To Autumn, when the leaves will burn
|
||
|
||
Earth and Water, Fire and Air
|
||
I invoke the Goddess there!
|
||
This night we are Between the Worlds
|
||
To celebrate the year unfurled!
|
||
|
||
HP: Earth and Water, Fire and Sky
|
||
I invoke the God on high
|
||
This night we are Between the Worlds
|
||
To celebrate the year unfurled!
|
||
|
||
% The corners shall be called thusly, that all may hear, but
|
||
% shall not be called until the HPS reaches that corner on her
|
||
% circumnabulation.
|
||
|
||
EAST: O Guardians of the Eastern Tower,
|
||
Airy ones of healing power
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
SOUTH: Oh fiery ones of Southern Power
|
||
Thus I invite you to this tower
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
|
||
... And God said: "Let Maxwell be right." And then there was light
|
||
...
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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||
@PATH: 9230/80 9200/0 23
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(224) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:16
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 12 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
WEST: Western ones of water's flow
|
||
Help to guard us here below
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
NORTH: Earthen ones of Northern fame
|
||
Bless and guard our Power's fane
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
% The HPS shall move to each corner, and say, following each
|
||
% corner's crying as she moves to the next:
|
||
|
||
HPS: So I cast and consecrate
|
||
This Circle of the small and great:
|
||
By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree,
|
||
By Rock and Earth, by Land and Sea,
|
||
By Fire and Water, Earth and Air,
|
||
By the Lord, and Lady Fair!
|
||
By Love and Joy and Work and Play,
|
||
All things harmful cast away!
|
||
By lightening's flash, and rain's soft fall,
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
(Cast the Circle: Blessed be!)
|
||
|
||
% On her return to the first corner she shall change the last
|
||
% line above, and say:
|
||
|
||
The Circle's cast; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
% The callers of the corners shall return their tools to the
|
||
altar, and then shall join the circle at their corners.
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
% Here begins the Lammas Mystery
|
||
|
||
HPS: Thus I invoke the Lady White
|
||
To come to us this sacred night.
|
||
By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree,
|
||
I show you a Mystery!
|
||
|
||
% A small meal of bread and some form of beverage should be
|
||
% laid out, and all should partake. As all are eating, Lugh
|
||
% shall approach the circle, and say:
|
||
|
||
LUGH: Merry meet to all! May I enter the circle?
|
||
|
||
HPS: And what talent do you have, that we do not?
|
||
|
||
LUGH: I am a Smith, to make tools and weapons.
|
||
|
||
HPS: We have Govannon, to make our tools and weapons. Go away.
|
||
|
||
LUGH: I am a Shaman, to offer the Sight Within.
|
||
|
||
HPS: Any of us can do that. Go away.
|
||
|
||
LUGH: I am a Farmer, to grow your food.
|
||
|
||
HPS: We have the Young God and the Maiden, to set our food to
|
||
grow. We have no need of you. Go away.
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Easy as 3.1415926535897932384626233832795028841971694 ..........
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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||
@PATH: 9230/80 9200/0 23
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(225) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:16
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 13 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
LUGH: I am a Warrior, to defend you.
|
||
|
||
HPS: We have those of the Warrior Path, and their valor is
|
||
unquestioned. Go away.
|
||
|
||
LUGH: I am a Bard, to sing you songs and make you merry.
|
||
|
||
HPS: We have a Bard. Go away.
|
||
|
||
LUGH: I have Wisdom to impart.
|
||
|
||
HPS: We have the Old God and the Crone. Go away.
|
||
|
||
LUGH: I am a Fisherman, to harvest the waters.
|
||
|
||
HPS: Any of us can catch fish. Go away.
|
||
|
||
LUGH: I am a Satirist and maker of jokes, to give laughter.
|
||
|
||
HPS: The Fool gives us humor. Go away.
|
||
|
||
LUGH: But do you have one who is ALL of these? For I am Lugh,
|
||
the Ruler, the Singer, the Long-Sighted, the Craftsman,
|
||
and all Talents are as ONE with me.
|
||
|
||
HPS: This we do not have, indeed, and you are Lugh Samildanach.
|
||
Enter and be welcome!
|
||
|
||
% The HPS shall open the circle and Lugh shall enter and be seated
|
||
% with the company. Lugh shall -limp- when he walks, and shall
|
||
% walk, and sit, in obvious pain.
|
||
% He should look around him, as if expecting something.
|
||
% If none within the circle asks why he is limping, or otherwise
|
||
% expresses concern, the Maiden shall say:
|
||
|
||
MAIDEN: Sir, why do you limp? Are you injured?
|
||
|
||
LUGH: You have asked The Question, and I thank you. Seek you the
|
||
Cauldron of Healing, the Cauldron of Cerridwen, for my time
|
||
grows short, but from it I shall be re-born.
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
% Here ends the Lammas Mystery
|
||
% A normal cone-of-power may be raised, for growth and healing:
|
||
|
||
HPS: In a ring we all shall stand
|
||
Pass the Power, hand to hand.
|
||
|
||
HP: As the year is given birth
|
||
Build the Power; root to Earth
|
||
|
||
HPS: Pass the Power, hand to hand
|
||
Bless the Lady, bless the Land
|
||
|
||
HP: Bless the Lord, and bless the Skies
|
||
Bless the Power that never dies!
|
||
|
||
% The above four verses should be repeated three times, (or
|
||
% as many as needed) and then the HPS should say:
|
||
|
||
HPS: By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree:
|
||
Let the Power flow out and free!
|
||
|
||
% All should release, at this point.
|
||
|
||
------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
% Such coven business as must be transacted may be done here.
|
||
|
||
------------------------------------------------------
|
||
% The Circle is opened.
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Alcoholics don't take lovers....they take hostages.
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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||
@PATH: 9230/80 9200/0 23
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(226) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:21
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 14 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
HPS: Thus I release the East and West
|
||
Thanks to them from Host to Guest
|
||
Thus I release the South and North
|
||
With "Blessed Be' I send them forth!
|
||
The Circle's open, dance we so
|
||
Out and homeward we shall go.
|
||
Earth and Water, Air and Fire
|
||
Celebrated our desire.
|
||
As Autumn leaves fall as the rain
|
||
The seasons' turning, once again.
|
||
By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree,
|
||
Our circle's done; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
COVEN: Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
% All spiral dance out from the Circle. Lugh shall follow
|
||
% at the end of the line.
|
||
|
||
-------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
RITUAL: (Fall Equinox)
|
||
-by the White Bard
|
||
|
||
Materials: An OLD KING
|
||
|
||
% The ceremony for the Lesser Sabbats should be written by newer
|
||
% members of the coven, as part of their learning. At an appropriate
|
||
% place in the ceremony, the following should be inserted:
|
||
|
||
% The Old King shall move in a feeble manner to the West, and say:
|
||
|
||
OLD KING: I am aged, and I approach my Time. Help me, lest I die!
|
||
|
||
CRONE: There is no help for you, for all must travel that road.
|
||
|
||
% The Old King shall then turn to the assembled coven, and say:
|
||
|
||
OLD KING: Seek ye the Cauldron! Seek ye the Grail! It shall heal me
|
||
And bring me forth again.
|
||
|
||
% Here a song may be sung, and "John Barleycorn" would be most
|
||
% appropriate:
|
||
|
||
JOHN BARLEYCORN
|
||
-Traditional
|
||
|
||
There were three men come out of the West
|
||
Their fortunes for to try,
|
||
And these three men made a solemn vow:
|
||
John Barleycorn should die!
|
||
John Barleycorn should die!
|
||
(nb: 4th line of each verse is sung twice)
|
||
|
||
They plowed, they sowed, they harrowed him in,
|
||
Threw clods upon his head,
|
||
And these three men made a solemn vow:
|
||
John Barleycorn was dead!
|
||
|
||
CHORUS: Fa la la la, it's a lovely day!
|
||
Sing fa la la lay oh!
|
||
Fa la la la, it's a lovely day!
|
||
Sing fa la la lay oh!
|
||
|
||
They let him lie for a very long time
|
||
'Til the rain from Heaven did fall,
|
||
Then Little Sir John sprung up his head,
|
||
And so amazed them all!
|
||
|
||
They let him stand 'til Midsummer tide,
|
||
'Til he grew both pale and wan,
|
||
Then Little Sir John he grew a long beard,
|
||
And so became a man!
|
||
|
||
|
||
... He's not Politically Correct - He's Mentally Challenged
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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||
@PATH: 9230/80 9200/0 23
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(227) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:21
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 15 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
They hired men with the sythes so sharp
|
||
To cut him off at the knee
|
||
They rolled him and tied him about the waist,
|
||
And used him barbarously!
|
||
|
||
They hired men with the sharp pitchforks
|
||
To pierce him to the heart,
|
||
And the loader he served him worse than that,
|
||
For he tied him in a cart!
|
||
|
||
They wheeled him around and around the field,
|
||
'Til they came to a barn,
|
||
And there they made a solemn mow
|
||
Of poor John Barleycorn,
|
||
|
||
They hired men with the crab-tree sticks
|
||
To strip him skin from bone
|
||
And the Miller he served him worse than that:
|
||
For he ground him between two stones!
|
||
|
||
They have wheeled him here and wheeled him there
|
||
And wheeled him to a barn,
|
||
And they have served him worse than that
|
||
They have bunged him in a vat!
|
||
|
||
They have worked their will on John Barleycorn
|
||
But he lived to tell the tale;
|
||
For they pour him out of an old brown jug,
|
||
And they call him home-brewed ale!
|
||
|
||
Here's Little Sir John in a nut-brown bowl,
|
||
And brandy in a glass!
|
||
And Little Sir John in the nut-brown bowl
|
||
Proved the stronger man at last!
|
||
|
||
For the huntsman he can't hunt the fox
|
||
Nor loudly blow his horn,
|
||
And the tinker can't mend kettles nor pots
|
||
Without John Barleycorn!
|
||
|
||
-------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
SAMHAIN RITUAL: 31 October
|
||
-by the White Bard
|
||
|
||
Materials: one cauldron, filled with water
|
||
CRONE: This should be an older female.
|
||
OLD KING: This should be a person chosen by
|
||
lottery, or by whoever is acting as
|
||
Crone. It can be enacted by the HP
|
||
if needed.
|
||
BARD/GREEN MAN: If the coven has no Bard available,
|
||
then a Green Man should be chosen
|
||
by lottery, or by whoever is acting
|
||
as Maiden. It can be enacted by the
|
||
HP, if needed.
|
||
|
||
------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
% The place of ritual should be set up, away from the gathered
|
||
% participants. This is not something that people should miss,
|
||
% so make sure that potty break is taken care of before the
|
||
% circle is cast.
|
||
|
||
HPS: Go we now to the sacred place
|
||
And stand within the sacred space
|
||
Turn your minds to sacred things
|
||
And dance with me unto the ring!
|
||
|
||
% HP and HPS lead the coven to the place of ritual by a
|
||
% spiral dance, ending in a circle around the altar. The
|
||
% cauldron should be at the south. The Old King dances at
|
||
% the end of the line.
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Lord, Lady, Holy Fool: All things come in Threes ...
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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@PATH: 9230/80 9200/0 23
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|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(228) Mon 27 Jul 92 23:06
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 16 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
<NOTE: Insert messages 16A and 16B here....error on my part>
|
||
|
||
% On her return to the first corner she shall change the last
|
||
% line above, and say:
|
||
|
||
The Circle's cast; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
% The callers of the corners shall return their tools to the
|
||
altar, and then shall join the circle at their corners.
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
% Here begins the Samhain Mystery:
|
||
|
||
OLD KING: Thus I invoke the Lady White
|
||
To come to us this sacred night.
|
||
By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree,
|
||
I shall show you a Mystery!
|
||
|
||
% Bard/Green Man and Maiden join hands, facing each other.
|
||
% The Maiden speaks to the Bard/Green Man:
|
||
|
||
MAIDEN: Lord of Life, hail Land-Master!
|
||
God of grain that grows and dies
|
||
Rising reborn, full of richness;
|
||
Fallow fields shall yet be fertile --
|
||
Spring sap runs as stirs your manhood
|
||
Bless barren earth, bear fruit again!
|
||
|
||
% The Bard/Green Man speaks to Maiden:
|
||
|
||
BARD/GREEN MAN: Snow-shoes striding, hail swift Huntress!
|
||
Wild one, free and willful Goddess
|
||
Bow and blade you bear beside you,
|
||
Finding food to fend off hunger --
|
||
Winter will not leave us wanting;
|
||
Give good hunting, grant us skill.
|
||
|
||
% The Old King moves to the West. The Crone moves to the
|
||
% North.
|
||
|
||
HP: Cunning and art he did not lack
|
||
But aye her whistle would fetch him back!
|
||
|
||
OLD KING: Yet I shall go into a trout.
|
||
With sorrow and sighing and mickle doubt
|
||
And show thee many a merry game
|
||
Ere that I be fetch-ed hame!
|
||
|
||
CRONE: Trout, take heed of an otter lank
|
||
Will harry thee close from bank to bank
|
||
For here come I in the Lady's Name
|
||
All but for to fetch thee hame!
|
||
|
||
% The Old King moves to the South. The Crone moves to the West.
|
||
|
||
HP: Cunning and art he did not lack
|
||
But aye her whistle would fetch him back!
|
||
|
||
OLD KING: Yet I shall go into a bee
|
||
With mickle fear and dread of thee
|
||
And flit to hive in the Lady's Name
|
||
Ere that I be fetch-ed hame!
|
||
|
||
CRONE: Bee, take heed of a red, red cock
|
||
Will harry thee close thru door and lock
|
||
For here come I in the Lady's Name
|
||
All but for to fetch thee hame!
|
||
|
||
% The Old King moves to the East. The Crone moves to the South.
|
||
|
||
HP: Cunning and art he did not lack
|
||
But aye her whistle would fetch him back!
|
||
|
||
OLD KING: Oh, I shall go into a hare
|
||
with sorrow, sighing and mickle care
|
||
And I shall go in the Lady's Name
|
||
Aye, until I be fetch-ed hame!
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Jesus Saves ... Moses Invests ... Cthulhu forecloses ...
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
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|
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|
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|
||
(229) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:24
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 17 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
CRONE: Hare, take heed of a swift greyhound
|
||
Will harry thee all these fields around
|
||
For here come I in the Lady's Name
|
||
All but for to fetch thee hame!
|
||
|
||
% The Old King moves to the North. The Crone moves to the East.
|
||
|
||
HP: Cunning and art he did not lack
|
||
But aye her whistle would fetch him back!
|
||
|
||
OLD KING: Yet I shall go into a mouse
|
||
And haste me unto the Miller's House
|
||
There in his corn to have good game
|
||
Ere that I be fetch-ed hame!
|
||
|
||
CRONE: Mouse, take heed of a white she-cat
|
||
That never was baulked of mouse nor rat
|
||
For here come I in the Lady's Name
|
||
And -thus- it is I fetch thee hame!
|
||
|
||
% Crone walks to Old King and takes his hand. He falls as if
|
||
% dead.
|
||
|
||
HPS: Cunning and art he did not lack
|
||
But aye Her Song has fetched Him back!
|
||
|
||
Summer's gone, the Lady reigns
|
||
And Winter has returned again!
|
||
|
||
% Maiden wets her hands with water from the Cauldron, and
|
||
% sprinkles it on the Old King, who comes to life again.
|
||
|
||
OK: Cunning and art I do not lack
|
||
But aye Her Cauldron will bring me back!
|
||
|
||
% The Crone and Old King shall join hands, facing each other,
|
||
% and say:
|
||
|
||
CRONE: One-eye, Wanderer, God of wisdom,
|
||
Hunt-lord, hail, who leads the hosting!
|
||
Nine nights hanging, knowledge gaining,
|
||
Cloaked at crossroads, council hidden.
|
||
Now the night, your time, is near us --
|
||
Right roads send us on, Rune-winner.
|
||
|
||
OLD KING: Every age your eyes have witnessed;
|
||
Cauldron-Keeper, hail wise Crone!
|
||
Rede in riddles is your ration --
|
||
Wyrd-weaver at the World-tree's root.
|
||
Eldest ancient, all-knowing one,
|
||
Speak unto us, send us vision!
|
||
|
||
% Here the HPS should say:
|
||
|
||
HPS: We remember our dead; our loved ones gone to the Summerland
|
||
before
|
||
us. Give them peace and joy.
|
||
|
||
ALL: Blessed be!
|
||
|
||
% If there is time enough, the HPS and/or a selected member(s) of
|
||
the
|
||
% coven should read aloud the "Roll of Martyrs." Note: This listing
|
||
% is copyrighted, and used by the author's permission.
|
||
% The reader shall say:
|
||
|
||
READER: Never again the Burning Times! Let us remember our dead,
|
||
good and bad, innocent and guilty:
|
||
|
||
% Follows is the Roll of Martyrs. This may be read aloud, or may be
|
||
% placed in written form upon the altar as the above words are
|
||
said.
|
||
|
||
Adamson, Francis: executed at Durham, England, in 1652
|
||
Albano, Peter of: died in prison circa 1310
|
||
Allen, Joan: hanged at the Old Bailey, London, England, in 1650
|
||
Allen, Jonet: burned in Scotland in 1661
|
||
|
||
|
||
... PC Dictionary: "Hell" - Home for the Morally Challenged
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
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|
||
|
||
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|
||
(230) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:25
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 18 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Amalaric, Madeline: burned in France in mid-1500's
|
||
Ancker, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Andrius, Barthelemy: burned at Carcassonne, France in 1330
|
||
Andrius, Jean: burned at Carcassonne, France in 1330
|
||
Andrius, Phillippe: burned at Carcassonne, France in 1330
|
||
Arnold, (first name unknown): hanged at Barking, England, in 1574
|
||
d'Arc, Joan: burned at Rouen, France, on 30 May, 1431 (note: the
|
||
witchcraft
|
||
charge in this case was -implied- and not specific)
|
||
Ashby, Anne: hanged at Maidstone, England, in July, 1652
|
||
Askew, Anne: burned for witchcraft 1546
|
||
Audibert, Etienne: condemned for witchcraft in France, on 20 March
|
||
1619
|
||
Aupetit, Pierre: burned at Bordeaux, France, in 1598
|
||
|
||
Babel, Zuickel: beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Babel, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Baker, Anne: executed in Leicester, England, in 1619
|
||
Balcoin, Marie: burned in the reign of Henry IV of France
|
||
Balfour, Alison: burned at Edinburgh, Scotland, on 16 December, 1594
|
||
Bannach, (husband) (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg,
|
||
Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Bannach, (wife) (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg,
|
||
Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Barber, Mary: executed in Northhampton, England, on 22 July, 1612
|
||
Barker, Janet: burned in Scotland in 1643
|
||
Baroni, Catterina: beheaded and burned at Castelnovo, Italy, on 14
|
||
April, 1647
|
||
Barthe, Angela de la: burned at Toulouse, France, in 1275
|
||
Barton, William: executed in Scotland (year unknown)
|
||
Basser, Fredrick: beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Batsch, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Bayerin, Anna: executed at Salzburg, Austria, in 1751
|
||
Beaumont, Sieur de: accused of witchcraft on 21 October, 1596
|
||
Bebelin, Gabriel: beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Beck, Viertel: beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Beck, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Belon, Jean: executed in France, in 1597
|
||
Berger, Christopher: beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Berrye, Agnes: hanged at Enfield, England, in 1616
|
||
Bentz, (mother) (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg,
|
||
Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Bentz, (daughter) (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg,
|
||
Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Beuchel, Anna: burned at Waldsee, Germany, in 1581
|
||
Beutler, (first name unknown) beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Bill, Arthur: executed in Northhampton, England, on 22 July, 1612
|
||
Birenseng, Agata: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 25 June, 1594
|
||
Bishop, Briget: hanged at Salem, New England on 10 June, 1692
|
||
Bodenham, Anne: hanged at Salisbury, England, in 1653
|
||
Bonnet, Jean: burned alive at Boissy-en-Ferez, France, in 1583
|
||
Boram, (mother) (first name unknown): hung at Bury St Edmunds,
|
||
England, in
|
||
1655
|
||
Boram, (daughter) (first name unknown): hung at Bury St Edmunds,
|
||
England, in
|
||
1655
|
||
Bolingbroke, Roger: hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn,
|
||
England, on 18
|
||
November, 1441
|
||
Boulay, Anne: burned at Nancy, France, in 1620
|
||
Boulle, Thomas: burned alive at Rouen, France, on 21 August, 1647
|
||
Bowman, Janet: burned in Scotland in 1572
|
||
Bragadini, Mark Antony: beheaded in Italy in the 1500's
|
||
Brickmann, (first name unknown) beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Brose, Elizabeth: tortured to death in the castle of Gommern,
|
||
Germany, on
|
||
4 November, 1660
|
||
Brown, Janet: burned in Scotland in 1643
|
||
Browne, Agnes: executed in Northhampton, England, on 22 July, 1612
|
||
Browne, Joan: executed in Northhampton, England, on 22 July, 1612
|
||
Browne, Mary: hanged at Maidstone, England, in July, 1652
|
||
Brooks, Jane: hanged in England on 26 March, 1658
|
||
Brugh, John: burned in Scotland in 1643
|
||
Buckh, Appollonia: burned at Waldsee, Germany, in 1581
|
||
Bugler, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Bulcock, John: executed in Lancaster, England, in 1612
|
||
Bulcock, Jane: executed in Lancaster, England, in 1612
|
||
Bull, Edmund: hanged at Taunton, England, in 1631
|
||
Bulmer, Matthew: hanged at Newcastle, England, in 1649
|
||
Burroughs, George: executed at Salem, New England, on 19 August,
|
||
1692
|
||
Bursten-Binderin, (first name unknown) beheaded at Wurzburg,
|
||
Germany, 1628-
|
||
1629
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Some folks seem to be "Tolerance Impaired"
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
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|
||
(231) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:27
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 19 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Calles, Helen: executed at Braynford, England, on 1 December, 1595
|
||
Camelli, Domenica: beheaded and burned at Castelnovo, Italy, on 14
|
||
April, 1647
|
||
Canzler, (first name unknown) beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Carrier, Martha: executed at Salem, New England, on 19 August, 1692
|
||
Caveden, Lucia: beheaded and burned at Castelnovo, Italy, on 14
|
||
April, 1647
|
||
Cemola, Zinevra: beheaded and burned at Castelnovo, Italy, on 14
|
||
April, 1647
|
||
Corey, Martha: executed at Salem, New England, on 22 September, 1692
|
||
Corey, Giles: prssed to death at Salem, New England, on 19
|
||
September, 1692
|
||
Corset, Janet: killed by a mob at Pittenweem, Scotland, in 1704
|
||
Challiot, (first name unknown): murdered at St. Georges, France,
|
||
in February,
|
||
1922
|
||
Chalmers, Bessie: tried for witchcraft in Inverkiething, Scotland
|
||
1621
|
||
Chambers, (first name unknown): died in prison, in England, in 1693
|
||
Chamoulliard, (first name unknown): burned in France, in 1597
|
||
de Chantraine, Anne: burned as a witch in Waret-la-Chaussee,
|
||
France, on
|
||
October 17, 1622
|
||
Chatto, Marioun: tried for witchcraft in Inverkiething, Scotland
|
||
1621
|
||
Ciceron, Andre: burned alive at Carcassone, France, in 1335
|
||
Cockie, Isabel: burnt as a witch, at a cost of 105 s. 4 p., in
|
||
England 1596
|
||
Cox, Julian: executed at Taunton, England, in 1663
|
||
Couper, Marable: burned in the north of Scotland in 1622
|
||
Craw, William: burned in Scotland in 1680
|
||
Crots, (son) (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Cullender, Rose: executed at Bury St Edmunds, England, on 17 March
|
||
1664
|
||
Cumlaquoy, Marian: burned at Orkney, Scotland in 1643
|
||
Cunningham, John: burned at Edinburgh, in January, 1591
|
||
Cunny, Joan: hanged in Chelmsford, England, in 1589
|
||
|
||
Deiner, Hans: burned at Waldsee, Germany (year unknown)
|
||
Delort, Catherine: burned at Toulouse, France, in 1335
|
||
Demdike, Elizabeth: convicted, but died in prison, in Lancaster,
|
||
England,
|
||
in 1612
|
||
DeMolay, Jacques: Grand Master of the Templars, burned in France on
|
||
22 March 1312
|
||
Desbordes, (first name unknown): burned in France, in 1628
|
||
Deshayes, Catherine: burned on 22 February, 1680
|
||
Device, Elizabeth: executed in Lancaster, England, in 1612
|
||
Device, James: executed in Lancaster, England, in 1612
|
||
Device, Alizon: executed in Lancaster, England, in 1612
|
||
Doree, Catherine: executed at Courveres, France, in 1577
|
||
Dorlady, Mansfredo: burned at Vesoul, France as being the Devil's
|
||
banker, on
|
||
18 January, 1610
|
||
Dorlady, Fernando: burned at Vesoul, France as being the Devil's
|
||
banker, on
|
||
18 January, 1610
|
||
Dormar, Anna: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 9 October, 1586
|
||
Douglas, Janet: burned at Castle, Hill, Scotland, on 17 July, 1557
|
||
Drummond, Alexander: executed in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1670
|
||
"Dummy" (name unknown; he was deaf-and-dumb): killed by a mob at
|
||
Sible
|
||
Hedingham, England, on 3 August, 1865
|
||
Duncan, Gellie: hanged in Scotland in 1591
|
||
Dunhome, Margaret: burned in Scotland (year unknown)
|
||
Dunlop, Bessie: burned at Castle Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1576
|
||
Duny, Amy: executed at Bury St Edmunds, England, on 17 March, 1664
|
||
Dyneis, Jonka: burned in the north of Scotland in 1622
|
||
|
||
Easty, Mary: executed at Salem, New England, on 22 September, 1692
|
||
Echtinger, Barbara: imprisoned for life at Waldsee, Germany, on 24
|
||
August,
|
||
1545
|
||
Edelfrau, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Edwards, Susanna: hanged at Bideford, England in 1682
|
||
Einseler, Catharina: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 6 July, 1581
|
||
Erb, Anna: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 9 March, 1586
|
||
Eyering, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
|
||
Fian, John: hanged at Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1591
|
||
Fief, Mary le: of Samur, France, accused of witchcraft, on 13
|
||
October 1573
|
||
Fleischbaum, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Flieger, Catharina: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 6 July, 1581
|
||
Flower, Joan: died before trial, at Lincoln, England, 1619
|
||
Flower, Margaret: executed at Lincoln, England, in March, 1619
|
||
Flower, Phillippa: executed at Lincoln, England, in March, 1619
|
||
Foster, Anne: hanged at Northhampton, England, in 1674
|
||
Fray, Ursula: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 12 June, 1587
|
||
Fray, Margaret: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 25 June, 1594
|
||
Fynnie, Agnes: burned in Scotland in 1643
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Dogs come when called; Cats have answering machines.
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
|
||
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|
||
(232) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:28
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 20 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Gabley, (first name unknown): executed at King's Lynn, England, in
|
||
1582
|
||
Galigai, Leonora: beheaded at the Place de Grieve, France, on 8
|
||
July, 1617
|
||
Garnier, Gilles: burned as a werewolf in Dole, France 1574
|
||
Gaufridi, Louis: burned at Marseilles, France, at 5:00 pm on 30
|
||
April, 1611
|
||
Geissler, Clara: strangled at Gelnhausen, Germany circa 1630
|
||
Georgel, Anna Marie de: burned at Toulouse, France, in 1335
|
||
Geraud, Hughes: burned in France in 1317
|
||
Gering, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Glaser, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Glover, Goody: hanged at Salem, New England, in 1688
|
||
Gobel, Barbara: burned at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1639
|
||
Goeldi, Anna: hanged at Glaris, Switzerland, on 17 June, 1782
|
||
Goldschmidt, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Good, Sarah: executed at Salem, New England, on 19 July, 1692
|
||
Grandier, Urbain, burned at Loudon, France, on 18 August, 1634
|
||
Goodridge, Alse: executed at Darbie, England, in 1597
|
||
Gratiadei, Domenica: beheaded and burned at Castelnovo, Italy, on
|
||
14 April,
|
||
1647
|
||
Green, Ellen: executed in Leicester, England, in 1619
|
||
Greensmith, (first name unknown): hanged in Hartford, New England,
|
||
on 20
|
||
January, 1662
|
||
Greland, Jean: burned at Chamonix, France, in 1438, with 10 others
|
||
Grierson, Isobel: burned in Scotland in March, 1607
|
||
Gutbrod, (first name unknown:) beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
|
||
Haan, George: burned at Bamberg, Germany, circa 1626, with his
|
||
wife, daughter,
|
||
and son
|
||
Hacket, Margaret: executed at Tyburn, England, on 19 February, 1585
|
||
Hamilton, Margaret: burned in Scotland in 1680
|
||
Hafner, (son) (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Hammellmann, Melchoir: beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Hamyltoun, Christiane: tried for witchcraft in Inverkiething,
|
||
Scotland 1621
|
||
Hans, David: beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Hans, Kilian: beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Harfner, (first name unknown): hanged herself in the prison of
|
||
Bamberg,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Harlow, Bessie: tried for witchcraft in Inverkiething, Scotland 1621
|
||
Harrisson, Joanna, and her daughter: executed in Hertford,
|
||
England, in 1606
|
||
Harvilliers, Jeanne: executed in France, in 1578
|
||
Haus, (wife) (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Hennot, Catherine: burned alive in Germany in 1627
|
||
Henry III, King of France: assassinated on 1 August, 1589
|
||
Hewitt, Katherine: executed in Lancaster, England, in 1612
|
||
Hezensohn, Joachim: beheaded at Waldsee, Germany, in 1557
|
||
Hibbins, Anne: hanged in Boston, Massachusetts on 19 June, 1656
|
||
Hirsch, Nicodemus: beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Hoecker, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Hofschmidt, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Holtzmann, Stoffel: beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Hofseiler, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Hoppo, (first name unknown): executed in Germany in 1599
|
||
How, Elizabeth: executed at Salem, New England, on 19 July, 1692
|
||
Hoyd, Anna: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 24 November, 1586
|
||
Huebmeyer, Barbara: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 11 September,
|
||
1589
|
||
Huebmeyer, Appela: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 11 September, 1589
|
||
Hunt, Joan: hanged in Middlesex, England in 1615
|
||
Hunter, Alexander: burned at Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1629
|
||
Huxley, Catherine: hanged at Worcester, England in the summer of
|
||
1652
|
||
|
||
Isel, Ursula: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 7 November, 1586
|
||
Isolin, Madlen: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 6 July, 1581
|
||
|
||
Jacobs, George: executed at Salem, New England, on 19 August, 1692
|
||
Jenkenson, Helen: executed in Northhampton, England, on 22 July,
|
||
1612
|
||
Jennin, (first name unknown): burned at Cambrai, France, in 1460
|
||
Jollie, Alison: executed in Scotland, in October, 1596
|
||
Jones, Katherine: burned in the north of Scotland in 1622
|
||
Jones, Margaret: executed in Charlestown, North America, on 15
|
||
June, 1648
|
||
Jordemaine, Margery: burned at Smithfield, England, on 27 October,
|
||
1441
|
||
Junius, Johannes: of Bamberg, executed as a witch, on 6 August, 1628
|
||
Jung, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk hand in hand.
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
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|
||
(233) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:30
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 21 Bardic Cycle
|
||
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|
||
Kent, Margaret: tried for witchcraft in Inverkiething, Scotland 1621
|
||
Kerke, Anne: executed at Tyburn, England, in 1599
|
||
Kleiss, Anna: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 30 October, 1586
|
||
Kless, Catharina: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 12 June, 1587
|
||
Knertz, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Knor, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Knott, Elizabeth: hanged at St. Albans, England, in 1649
|
||
Kramerin, Schelmerey: beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Kuhnlin, Elsa: burned at Waldsee, Germany, in 1518
|
||
Kuler, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
|
||
Lachenmeyer, Waldburg: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 5 July, 1585
|
||
deLarue, (first name unknown): burned at Rouen, in 1540
|
||
Lauder, Margaret: burned in Scotland in 1643
|
||
Leclerc, (no first name given): condemned for witchcraft, in
|
||
France 1615
|
||
Lakeland, (first name unknown): burned at Ipswich, England, in 1645
|
||
Lamb, Dr.: stoned to death by a mob at St. Paul's Cross, London,
|
||
England,
|
||
in 1640
|
||
Lambrecht, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Leger, (no first name given): condemmned for witchcraft in France,
|
||
on 6 May,
|
||
1616
|
||
Liebler, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Lloyd, Temperance: hanged at Bideford, England in 1682
|
||
Louis, (first name unknown): executed at Suffolk, England, in 1646
|
||
Lowes, John: hanged at Bury, England, about 1645
|
||
Lutz, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
|
||
Macalzean, Euphemia: burned alive in Scotland for witchcraft, on
|
||
25 June, 1591
|
||
Marigny, Enguerrand de: hanged in France in 1315
|
||
Marguerite, (last name unknown): burned at Paris, France, in 1586
|
||
Mark, Bernhard: burned alive at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Martin, Marie: executed in France, in 1586
|
||
Martin, Susannah: executed at Salem, New England, on 19 July, 1692
|
||
Martyn, Anne: hanged at Maidstone, England, in July, 1652
|
||
Mayer, Christina: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 9 October, 1586
|
||
Mazelier, Hanchemand de: arrested at Neuchatel, Germany 1439
|
||
Meath, Petronilla de: burned as a witch, the first such burning in
|
||
Ireland,
|
||
on 3 November, 1324
|
||
Meyer, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Mirot, Dominic: burned at Paris, France, in 1586
|
||
Morin< (first name unknown): burned at Rouen, in 1540
|
||
Mossau, Renata von: beheaded and burned in Bavaria, Germany, on 21
|
||
June, 1749
|
||
Mullerin, Elsbet: burned at Waldsee, Germany, in 1531
|
||
Mundie, Beatrice: tried for witchcraft in Inverkiething, Scotland
|
||
1621
|
||
|
||
Napier, Barbara: hanged in Scotland in 1591
|
||
Nathan, Abraham: executed at Haeck, Germany, on 24 September, 1772
|
||
Newell, John: executed at Barnett, England, on 1 December, 1595
|
||
Newell, Joane: executed at Barnett, England, on 1 December, 1595
|
||
Newman, Elizabeth: executed at Whitechapel, England in 1653
|
||
Nottingham, John of: died in custody, Coventry, England, 1324
|
||
Nurse, Rebecca: executed at Salem, New England, on 19 July, 1692
|
||
Nutter, Alice: executed in Lancaster, England, in 1612
|
||
|
||
Oliver, Mary: burned at Norwich, England, in 1658
|
||
Orchard, (first name unknown): executed at Salisbury, England, in
|
||
1658
|
||
Osborne, (husband) (first name unknown): killed by a mob at Tring,
|
||
Herefordshire, England, in 1751
|
||
Osborne, (wife) Ruth: killed by a mob at Tring, Herefordshire,
|
||
England, in
|
||
1751
|
||
Osburne, Sarah: died in prison at Boston, Massachusetts, 10 May,
|
||
1692
|
||
Oswald, Catherine: burned in Scotland in 1670
|
||
|
||
Paeffin, Elsa: burned at Waldsee, Germany, in 1518
|
||
Pajot, Marguerite: executed at Tonnerre, France, in 1576
|
||
Paris, (first name unknown): hanged at St. Andrews, Scotland, in
|
||
1569
|
||
Parker, Alice: executed at Salem, New England, on 22 September, 1692
|
||
Parker, Mary: executed at Salem, New England, on 22 September, 1692
|
||
Palmer, John: hanged at St. Albans, England, in 1649
|
||
Pannel, Mary: executed in Yorkshire, England, in 1603
|
||
Pearson, Alison: burned in Scotland on 28 May, 1588
|
||
Peebles, Marion: burned in Scotland in 1643
|
||
Peterson, Joan: hanged at Tyburn, England, in April, 1652
|
||
Pichler, Emerenziana: burned at Defereggen, Germany, on 25
|
||
September, 1680
|
||
(her two sons, aged 12 and 14, were also burned two days
|
||
later)
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Silence is seldom mis-quoted ...
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
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|
||
(234) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:31
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 22 Bardic Cycle
|
||
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|
||
Poiret, (first name unknown): burned at Nancy, France, in 1620
|
||
Pomp, Anna: executed at Lindheim, Germany, in 1633
|
||
Porte, Vidal de la: condemned at Riom, France, in 1597
|
||
Powle, (first name unknown): executed at Durham, England, in 1652
|
||
Prentice, Joan: hanged in Chelmsford, England, in 1589
|
||
Preston, Jennet: executed in York, England, in 1612
|
||
Pringle, Margaret: burned in Scotland in 1680
|
||
Procter, John: executed at Salem, New England, on 19 August, 1692
|
||
Pudeator, Anne: executed at Salem, New England, on 22 September,
|
||
1692
|
||
|
||
Quattrino, Dominic: burned at Mesolcina, Italy, in 1583
|
||
|
||
Rattray, George: executed in Spott, Scotland, in 1705
|
||
Rattray, Lachlan: executed in Spott, Scotland, in 1705
|
||
Rauffains, Catharina: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 7 November,
|
||
1586
|
||
Reade, Mary: hanged at Maidstone, England, in July, 1652
|
||
Redfearne, Anne: executed in Lancaster, England, in 1612
|
||
Reed, Wilmot: executed at Salem, New England, on 22 September, 1692
|
||
Reich, Maria: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 5 July, 1585
|
||
Reid, John: hanged himself in prison, in Scotland, in 1697
|
||
Reoch, Elspeth: burned in the north of Scotland in 1622
|
||
Robey, Isobel: executed in Lancaster, England, in 1612
|
||
Rodier, Catala: burned alive at Carcassone, France, in 1335
|
||
Rodier, Paul: burned alive at Carcassone, France, in 1335
|
||
Rohrfelder, Margaret: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 24 August, 1585
|
||
Rosch, Maria: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 6 July, 1581
|
||
Rosseau, (no first name given), and his daughter, (no name given)
|
||
of France,
|
||
accused of witchcraft on 2 October 1593
|
||
Rue, Abel de la: of Coulommiers, France, accused of witchcraft on
|
||
20 July,
|
||
1592
|
||
Roulet, Jacques: burned alive for being a were-wolf, at Angiers,
|
||
France, in
|
||
1597
|
||
Rum, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Russel, Alice: killed by a mob at Great Paxton, England, 20 May,
|
||
1808
|
||
Rutchser, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Rutter, Elizabeth: hanged in Middlesex, England in 1616
|
||
|
||
Sailler, Ursula: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 24 August, 1585
|
||
Sampsoune, Agnes: tried, strangled, and burnt for a witch in
|
||
Scotland 1591
|
||
Samuels, (family): three members condemned for witchcraft in
|
||
Warboys,
|
||
England, on 4 April, 1593
|
||
Sawyer, Elizabeth, hanged at Tyburn, England, on 19 April, 1621
|
||
Scharber, Elsbeth: burned at Waldsee, Germany, in 1581
|
||
Schneider, Felicitas: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 9 March, 1586
|
||
Schnelling, Anna: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 11 September, 1589
|
||
Schutz, Babel: beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Schwaegel, Anna Maria: beheaded at Kempten, Germany, on 11 April,
|
||
1775
|
||
Schwartz, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Schenck, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Schellhar, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Schickelte, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Schneider, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Schleipner, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Schuler, (first name not known): burned at Lindheim, Germany on 23
|
||
February,
|
||
1663
|
||
Schultheiss, Ursula: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 9 March, 1586
|
||
Schwarz, Eva: burned at Waldsee, Germany, in 1581
|
||
Schwerdt, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Scott, Margaret: executed at Salem, New England, on 22 September,
|
||
1692
|
||
Scottie, Agnes: burned in the north of Scotland in 1622
|
||
Sechelle, (first name unknown): burned at Paris, France, in 1586
|
||
Smith, Mary: hanged at King's Lynn, England, in 1616
|
||
Stadlin, (first name unknown): executed in Germany in 1599
|
||
Steicher, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Steinacher, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Steward, William: hanged at St. Andrews, Scotland, in 1569
|
||
Stewart, Christian: strangled and burned in Scotland, in November,
|
||
1596
|
||
Stolzberger, (son) (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg,
|
||
Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Stolzberger, (wife) (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg,
|
||
Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Stolzberger, (granddaughter) (first name unknown): beheaded at
|
||
Wurzburg,
|
||
Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Stubb, Peter: executed as a werewolf near Cologne, Germany, in 1589
|
||
Stuber, Laurence: beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Sturmer, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Style, Elizabeth: died in prison, at Taunton, England, in 1664
|
||
Seiler, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Silberhans, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Steinbach, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Stier, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Stadelmann, Ursula: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 7 November, 1586
|
||
Sutton (mother) (first name unknown): executed in Bedford, England
|
||
in 1613
|
||
Sutton, Mary: executed in Bedford, England in 1613
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Did you ever see the movie "The Handmaid's Tale?" Maybe you
|
||
should!
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
|
||
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|
||
(235) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:32
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 23 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Thausser, Simon, and his wife (no name given): burned at Waldsee,
|
||
Germany,
|
||
in 1518
|
||
Thompson, Annaple: burned in Scotland in 1680
|
||
Tod, Beigis: burned at Lang Nydrie, Scotland, on 27 May, 1608
|
||
Treher, Anna: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 5 July, 1585
|
||
Trembles, Mary: hanged at Bideford, England in 1682
|
||
Trois-Echelles (pseud.): executed at Paris, France, in 1571 (or
|
||
1574)
|
||
Tungerslieber, (first name unknown) beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Turner, Ann: murdered in England, in 1875
|
||
|
||
Uhlmer, Barbara: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 24 August, 1585
|
||
Upney, Joan: hanged in Chelsford, England, in 1589
|
||
Utley, (first name unknown): hanged at Lancaster, England, in 1630
|
||
|
||
Valee, Melchoir de la: burned at Nancy, France, in 1631
|
||
Vallin, Pierre: executed in France, in 1438
|
||
Valkenburger, (daughter) (first name unknown): beheaded at
|
||
Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Vaecker, Paul: beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Vickar, Bessie: burned in Scotland in 1680
|
||
|
||
Wachin, Ursula: burned at Waldsee, Germany, in 1528
|
||
Wagner, Michael: beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Wagner, (first name unknown): burnt alive at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Wallace, Margaret: executed in Glascow, Scotland, in 1622
|
||
Wardwell, Samuel: executed at Salem, New England, on 22 September,
|
||
1692
|
||
Waterhouse, (first name unknown): hanged in Dorset, England in 1565
|
||
Wanderson, (wife 1) (first name unknown): executed in England, in
|
||
January,
|
||
1644.
|
||
Wanderson, (wife 2) (first name unknown): executed in England, in
|
||
January,
|
||
1644.
|
||
Weir, Thomas: burned between Edinburgh and Leith, Scotland, on 11
|
||
April, 1670
|
||
Weiss, Agatha: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 9 October, 1586
|
||
Weydenbusch, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
Whittle, Anne: executed in Lancaster, England, in 1612
|
||
Wildes, Sarah: executed at Salem, New England, on 19 July, 1692
|
||
Willard, John: executed at Salem, New England, on 19 August, 1692
|
||
Willimot, Joan: executed in Leicester, England, in 1619
|
||
Wilson, Anne: hanged at Maidstone, England, in July, 1652
|
||
Wirth, Klingen: beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany, 1628-1629
|
||
Wirth, Trauben: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 5 July, 1585
|
||
Wright, Mildred: hanged at Maidstone, England, in July, 1652
|
||
Wuncil, Brigida: burned at Waldsee, Germany, on 6 July, 1581
|
||
Wunth, (first name unknown): beheaded at Wurzburg, Germany,
|
||
1628-1629
|
||
|
||
Younge, Alse: hanged in Connecticut, North America, on 26 May, 1647
|
||
Yullock, Agnes: burned in the north of Scotland in 1622
|
||
|
||
THE UNKNOWNS
|
||
|
||
8000 "Stedingers" killed on 27 May, 1234
|
||
180 burned for witchcraft at Montwimer, France, on 29 May, 1239
|
||
36 Knights Templar died under torture in France, in October, 1307
|
||
54 Knights Templar burned in France, on 12 May, 1310
|
||
39 Knights Templar burned in France, on 18 March 1314
|
||
"Some" burned at Kilkenny, Ireland, 1323
|
||
200 + burned at Carcassonne, France, between 1320-1350
|
||
63 burned at Toulouse, France, in 1335
|
||
8 burned at Carcassonne, France, in 1352
|
||
31 burned at Carcassonne, France, in 1357
|
||
67 burned at Carcassonne, France, between 1387-1400
|
||
1 burned at Berlin, Germany, in 1399
|
||
"Several" witches burned alive at Simmenthal, Switzerland, circa
|
||
1400
|
||
"Several" burned at Carcassonne, France, in 1423
|
||
200 + executed in the Valais, France between 1428-1434
|
||
167 executed in l'Isere, France, between 1428-1447
|
||
16 executed in Toulouse, France, in 1432
|
||
8 executed in Toulouse, France, in 1433
|
||
150 executed in Briancon, France, in 1437
|
||
3 burnt in Savoy between 1446 and 1447
|
||
7 killed at Marmande, France, in 1453
|
||
1 burned at Locarno, Italy, in 1455
|
||
"Many" burned in Arras, France in 1459
|
||
|
||
|
||
... All flesh is grass ...
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
|
||
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|
||
(236) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:33
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 24 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
2 burned in Burgundy, France, in 1470
|
||
3 burned at Forno-Rivara, Italy, in 1472
|
||
2 burned at Levone, in Italy, in 1474
|
||
5 burned at Forno, Italy, in 1475
|
||
12 women and "several" men burned at Edinburgh, in 1479
|
||
4 burned at Metz, Germany, in 1482
|
||
48 burned at Constance, between 1482-1486
|
||
2 burned at Toulouse, France, in 1484
|
||
2 burned in Chaucy, France in 1485
|
||
1 died in prison, at Metz, Germany 1488
|
||
3 executed at Mairange, Germany, on 17 June, 1488
|
||
2 executed at Mairange, Germany, on 25 June, 1488
|
||
3 executed at Chastel, Germany, on 26 June, 1488
|
||
3 executed at Metz, Germany, on 1 July, 1488
|
||
1 executed at Salney, Germany, on 3 July, 1488
|
||
2 executed at Salney, Germany, on 12 July, 1488
|
||
3 executed at Salney, Germany, on 19 July, 1488
|
||
1 executed at Brieg, Germany, on 19 July, 1488
|
||
2 executed at Juxney, Germany, on 19 August, 1488
|
||
5 executed at Thionville, Germany, on 23 August, 1488
|
||
1 executed at Metz, Germany, on 2 September, 1488
|
||
1 executed at Vigey, Germany, on 15 September, 1488
|
||
1 executed at Juxney, Germany, on 22 September, 1488
|
||
1 executed in France circa 1500
|
||
30 burned in Calahorra, Spain, in 1507
|
||
1 burned in Saxony, Germany, in 1510
|
||
60 burned in Northern Italy, in 1510
|
||
500 + burned in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1515
|
||
2 burned in Besancon, France, in 1521
|
||
64 burned in Val Camonica, Italy between 1518-1521
|
||
100 burned in Como, Italy, in 1523
|
||
1000 + in Como, Italy, in 1524
|
||
900 executed by Nicholas Remy (years unknown, about 15 years total)
|
||
"A large number" executed at Saragossa, Spain, in 1536
|
||
7 burned at Nantes, France, in 1549
|
||
1 burned at Lyons, France, in 1549
|
||
3 burned alive at Derneburg, Germany, on 4 October, 1555
|
||
1 burned alive at Bievires, France, in 1556
|
||
5 burned at Verneuil, France, in 1561
|
||
17,000 + in Scotland from 1563 to 1603
|
||
4 burned at Potiers, France, in 1564
|
||
1 burned at St. Andrews, Scotland, in 1569
|
||
"Many" burned in France in 1571
|
||
1 burned at St. Andrews, Scotland, in 1572
|
||
70,000 killed in England after 1573
|
||
"Several" executed in Paris, France, in 1574
|
||
80 executed in one fire at Valery-en-Savoie, France, in 1574
|
||
3 executed in Dorset, England, in 1578
|
||
36 persons executed at Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1578
|
||
18 killed at St. Oses, England, in 1582
|
||
"Several" burned in Mesolcina, Italy, in 1583
|
||
368 persons killed for witchcraft between 18 January, 1587, and 18
|
||
November,
|
||
1593, in the diocese of Treves.
|
||
1 burned at Riom, France, in 1588
|
||
133 persons burned in one day at Quedlinburg, in Germany, in 1589
|
||
48 burned in Wurttemberg, Germany, in 1589
|
||
2 burned at Cologne, Germany in 1589
|
||
54 burned in Franconia in 1590
|
||
300 burned in Bern, Switzerland, between 1591-1600
|
||
1 burned in Ghent, Holland, in 1591
|
||
9 executed in Toulouse, France, in 1595
|
||
1 burned in Ghent, Holland, in 1598
|
||
24 burned in Aberdeen, Scotland, circa 1598
|
||
77 burned in Vaud, Switzerland, in 1599
|
||
10 -daily- were burned (average) in the Duchy of Brunswick between
|
||
1590-1600
|
||
20 executed (other than those listed by name above) in the reign
|
||
of King James
|
||
VI and I of England.
|
||
40,000 executed between 1600-1680 in Great Britain
|
||
205 burned at the Abbey of Fulda, Germany, between 1603-1605
|
||
"Several" witches executed in Derbyshire, England, in 1607
|
||
24 burned + 3 suicides in Hagenau, Alsace, in 1607
|
||
"A number of women" burned at Breehin, Scotland, in 1608
|
||
1 burned alive by a mob at St. Jean de Liuz, France, circa 1608
|
||
18 killed at Orleans, France, in 1616
|
||
|
||
|
||
... A religion is an heresy with an adequate army ...
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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||
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|
||
|
||
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|
||
(237) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:35
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 25 Bardic Cycle
|
||
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|
||
9 hanged at Leicester, England, in 1616
|
||
8 hanged at Londinieres, France, in 1618
|
||
"Several" witches condemned at Nerac, France, on 26 June, 1619
|
||
200 + executed at Labourt, France, in 1619
|
||
2 executed at Bedford, England, in 1624
|
||
56 executions at Mainz, Germany, between 1626-1629
|
||
77 executions at Burgstadt, Germany, between 1626-1629
|
||
40 executions at Berndit, Buttan, Ebenheit, Wenchdorf and
|
||
Heinbach, Germany,
|
||
between 1626-1629
|
||
8 executions in Prozelten and Amorbach, Germany between 1626-1629
|
||
168 executions in the district of Miltenberg, Germany, between
|
||
1626-1629
|
||
85 burned in Dieburg, Germany, in 1627
|
||
79 burned at Offenburg, Austria, from 1627-1629
|
||
274 executed in Eichstatt, Germany in 1629
|
||
124 executed by the Teutonic Order at Mergentheim, Germany in 1630
|
||
900 executions at Bamberg, Germany, between 1627 and 1631
|
||
22,000 (approx) executed in Bamberg, Germany between 1610 and 1840
|
||
1 hanged at Sandwich, in Kent, England, in 1630
|
||
3 executed at Lindheim, Germany in 1631
|
||
20 executed in Norfolk, England, on evidence of Matthew Hopkins,
|
||
before
|
||
26 July, 1645
|
||
29 condemned, on the evidence of Matthew Hopkins, at Chelmsford,
|
||
England,
|
||
on 29 July, 1645
|
||
150 killed in England in the last six months of 1645
|
||
2 executed at Norwich, England, in 1648
|
||
14 hanged at Newcastle, England, in 1649
|
||
220 + in England and Scotland, on evidence of a Scottish
|
||
Witch-finder, circa
|
||
1648-1650
|
||
2 killed by a mob at Auxonne, France, in 1650
|
||
30 burned in Lindheim, Germany, between 1640-1651
|
||
900 killed in Lorraine, France (years unknown)
|
||
30,000 (approx) burned by the Inquisition (not all may have been
|
||
witches)
|
||
3-4000 killed during Cromwell's tenure in England
|
||
102 burned in Zuckmantel, Germany, in 1654
|
||
18 burned at Castle Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1658
|
||
85 executed at Mohra, Sweden, on 25 August, 1670
|
||
71 beheaded or burned in Sweden between 1674-1677
|
||
90 burned at Salzburg, Austria, in 1678
|
||
11 burned at Prestonpans, Scotland, in 1678
|
||
36 executed in Paris, France, in 1680
|
||
"Several" burned at Rouen, France, in 1684-1685
|
||
3 executed (Suzanna, Isle and Catherine (last names unknown) at
|
||
Arendsee,
|
||
Germany, in 1687
|
||
36 burned at Nordlingen, Germany between 1690-1694
|
||
5 burned at Paisley, Scotland, on 10 June, 1697
|
||
9 persons burned at Burghausen, Germany, all under 16 years of
|
||
age, on 26
|
||
March, 1698
|
||
1 burned at Antrim, Ireland, in 1699
|
||
"Many" burned at Spott Loan, Scotland, in 1705
|
||
2 persons killed in the Trentino, Austria, between 1716 and 1717
|
||
1 executed in France, in 1718
|
||
2 persons, a mother and daughter, burned in Scotland, in 1722
|
||
13 burned at Szegedin, Hungary, in 1728
|
||
1 burned at Szegedin, Hungary, in 1730
|
||
13 burned alive at Szegedin, Hungary on 23 July, 1738
|
||
3 burned at Karpfen, Germany, in 1744
|
||
3 burned at Muhlbach, Germany, in 1746
|
||
1 executed at Szegedin, Hungary, in 1746
|
||
1 executed at Maros Vasarheli, (nation unknown), 1752
|
||
100 + executed at Haeck, Germany between 1772 and 1779
|
||
2 burned in Poland in 1793
|
||
"Several" burned in South America during the 1800's
|
||
1 shot by a policeman at Uttenheim, Germany, on suspicion of being
|
||
a were-
|
||
wolf, in November, 1925
|
||
1 murdered in Pennsylvania in 1929
|
||
|
||
for a total of 236,870 known but to the Goddess.
|
||
|
||
HPS: Let them have peace.
|
||
|
||
ALL: Blessed be!
|
||
|
||
% Here ends the Samhain Mystery.
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Fear....or Faith: CHOOSE!
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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||
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|
||
|
||
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|
||
(238) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:36
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 26 Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
% A normal cone-of-power may be raised, for growth and healing:
|
||
|
||
HPS: In a ring we all shall stand
|
||
Pass the Power, hand to hand.
|
||
|
||
HP: As the season turns again
|
||
Power flows from friend to friend
|
||
|
||
HPS: Pass the Power, hand to hand
|
||
Bless the Lady, bless the Land
|
||
|
||
HP: Bless the Lord, and bless the Skies
|
||
Bless the Power that never dies!
|
||
|
||
% The above four verses should be repeated three times, or as
|
||
% many times as needed, and the HPS shall then say:
|
||
|
||
HPS: By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree:
|
||
Let the Power flow out and free!
|
||
|
||
% All should release, at this point.
|
||
|
||
------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
% Any needed coven business may be transacted here.
|
||
|
||
------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
% The Circle is opened:
|
||
|
||
HPS: Thus I release the East and West
|
||
Thanks to them from Host to Guest
|
||
Thus I release the South and North
|
||
With "Blessed Be' I send them forth!
|
||
The Circle's open, dance we so
|
||
Out and homeward we shall go.
|
||
Earth and Water, Air and Fire
|
||
Celebrated our desire.
|
||
We think of those in Summerland
|
||
Who dance together, hand in hand.
|
||
By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree,
|
||
Our circle's done; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
COVEN: Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
% All spiral dance out from the Circle, led by HP and HPS.
|
||
|
||
|
||
******************************************************
|
||
|
||
These ceremonies are free of copyright, and are released for use by
|
||
any
|
||
who so wish to. Thanks go to "Mr. Wiz" for his research, and to the
|
||
person who originally wrote the dialog (freely adapted here) used
|
||
in the
|
||
Samhain Mystery.
|
||
|
||
*******************************************************
|
||
|
||
|
||
*end of Bardic Cycle (Wiccan)*
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty ...
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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||
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|
||
|
||
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|
||
(239) Mon 27 Jul 92 15:38
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: End Bardic BiCycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
* WHEW! *
|
||
|
||
That should be 26 messages for the whole dern cycle. Hope you all
|
||
like
|
||
it, and comments would be welcomed.
|
||
|
||
THE BARD
|
||
|
||
... Dyslexic Satanist sells soul to Santa - Film at 11.
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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||
@PATH: 9230/80 9200/0 23
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(240) Mon 27 Jul 92 23:10
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 16A -Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
HPS: Come we forth, with the Spiral Dance
|
||
Within the Lady's radiance
|
||
To mark the turning of the year
|
||
The door to Winter now is here.
|
||
|
||
Earth and Water, Fire and Air
|
||
I invoke the Goddess there!
|
||
This night we are Between the Worlds
|
||
To celebrate the year unfurled!
|
||
|
||
HP: Earth and Water, Fire and Sky
|
||
I invoke the God on high
|
||
This night we are Between the Worlds
|
||
To celebrate the year unfurled!
|
||
|
||
% The corners shall be called thusly, that all may hear, but
|
||
% shall not be called until the HPS reaches that corner on her
|
||
% circumnabulation.
|
||
|
||
EAST: O Guardians of the Eastern Tower,
|
||
Airy ones of healing power
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
|
||
... The best defense against logic is stupidity ...
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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|
||
@PATH: 9230/80 9200/0 23
|
||
|
||
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|
||
(241) Mon 27 Jul 92 23:11
|
||
By: the Bard
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: 16B -Bardic Cycle
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
SOUTH: Oh fiery ones of Southern Power
|
||
Thus I invite you to this tower
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
WEST: Western ones of water's flow
|
||
Help to guard us here below
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
NORTH: Earthen ones of Northern fame
|
||
Bless and guard our Power's fane
|
||
I do summon, stir and call you
|
||
|
||
See these rites and guard this circle!
|
||
Come to us and heed our call!
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
Come to us; and Blessed Be!
|
||
|
||
% The HPS shall move to each corner, and say, following each
|
||
% corner's crying as she moves to the next:
|
||
|
||
HPS: So I cast and consecrate
|
||
This Circle of the small and great:
|
||
By Fin and Feather, Leaf and Tree,
|
||
By Rock and Earth, by Land and Sea,
|
||
By Fire and Water, Earth and Air,
|
||
By the Lord, and Lady Fair!
|
||
By Love and Joy and Work and Play,
|
||
All things harmful cast away!
|
||
By lightening's flash, and rain's soft fall,
|
||
By the Power that made us all;
|
||
By the Power that blesses Thee:
|
||
(Cast the Circle: Blessed be!)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
... Is it true that it's twice as far to Los Angeles as it is by bus?
|
||
--- FMail 0.90
|
||
* Origin: DragonHart Cove BBS - Phx, AZ - Here be Dragons!
|
||
(93:9230/80.0)
|
||
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|
||
@PATH: 9230/80 9200/0 23
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(262) Tue 28 Jul 92 8:00
|
||
By: Paul Seymour
|
||
To: Bret Johnson
|
||
Re: Re: Hello (I'm New)
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
@EID:d51c 00082b22
|
||
@MSGID: 93:9500/0 69893089
|
||
In a message to Paul Seymour <07-27-92 18:39> Bret Johnson wrote:
|
||
> Dad err Son mmm Whomever Ha Ha Ha!
|
||
> I will do that if I had you address.
|
||
> B*B
|
||
> Bret
|
||
Since you have a 9600 Modem, I have put the files on hold for you.
|
||
If you will Poll, you will get them. The address is Paul G.
|
||
Seymour (OR Jack Seymour) 1875 Mineola st., Colorado Springs, CO
|
||
80915.
|
||
B*B -Paul-
|
||
|
||
--- QuickBBS 2.75 (Eval)
|
||
* Origin: AHNK if you love Isis! (93:9500/0)
|
||
SEEN-BY: 102/943 109/6 226/1110 308/60 321/117 2405/666 3644/10
|
||
9001/0
|
||
SEEN-BY: 9004/0 9008/0 9009/0 9011/0 9030/0 9040/0 9200/0 2 23 70
|
||
SEEN-BY: 9230/80 9250/1 9500/0 9510/0 1 9520/0 9550/0 9600/0 9604/0
|
||
SEEN-BY: 9605/0 9607/0 9608/0 9620/0
|
||
@PATH: 9500/0 9510/0 9600/0 9200/0 23
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(339) Thu 6 Aug 92 0:11
|
||
By: Puck
|
||
To: Rowan Moonstone
|
||
Re: Safe Travel Spell
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
I REALLY liked that one, Rowan - thanks for sharing that one with me!
|
||
|
||
One that I liked from THE CRONES' BOOK OF WORDS follows:
|
||
|
||
TO BE SAID DURING A THUNDERSTORM:
|
||
|
||
"LIGHTNING MY ANGER,
|
||
THUNDER MY MIGHT...
|
||
I TAKE THEM IN, I SEND THEM OUT
|
||
OVER WIND AND NIGHT
|
||
TO SERVE ME WELL
|
||
TO SAVE ME WELL
|
||
TO HARM NOTHING UNDER MY SIGHT!"
|
||
|
||
I use this as a mantra during thunderboomers - I'm not one of those
|
||
Witches who exactly gets a thrill out of them!!!! (Can we
|
||
say...scared s**tless???)
|
||
Bright Blessings!
|
||
Puck
|
||
|
||
|
||
--- SuperBBS 1.16-B (Eval)
|
||
* Origin: The Underground (206) 277-6933 * 24 hours * SuperBBS
|
||
v1.16 (93:9708/10)
|
||
SEEN-BY: 102/943 103/307 109/6 125/191 202/311 208/215 226/1110
|
||
308/60
|
||
SEEN-BY: 343/56 352/105 2405/666 9000/3 9001/0 9004/0 9008/0 9011/0
|
||
SEEN-BY: 9030/424 9040/0 9200/0 2 23 70 9230/80 9250/1 9510/0 9600/0
|
||
SEEN-BY: 9603/0 9604/0 9605/0 9607/0 9608/0 9620/0 9708/0 10 11
|
||
@PATH: 9708/10 343/56 102/943 9600/0 9200/0 23
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(343) Thu 6 Aug 92 1:06
|
||
By: Jasmine Voorhees
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: Beginners unite.
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Hi all! I'm new to all this. I have not been able to really
|
||
contact any Wiccans or pagans, so I am reading books for now and
|
||
trying to go by my intuition and what feels "right". So far, by
|
||
letting the Power flow through me, and giving my intellectual side
|
||
up, I have been able to do several interesting rituals. One I did
|
||
yesterday was completely unplanned. While I was packing a lunch to
|
||
take out to my favorite tree, something told me to take a knife and
|
||
jar of water with me. On the way there, I stopped at a grocery
|
||
store and picked up a melon. When I got to the tree, I sat and ate
|
||
my lunch. Just before I started eating the melon, I got the idea
|
||
that I should carve a pentagram on the side, and eat half of the
|
||
melon. The other half I should carve into pieces and leave at the
|
||
base of the tree. I then "charged" the water, traced a pentagram on
|
||
the tree (with some of the water), and poured part of it over the
|
||
melon. The rest I gave to a small tree near my lunch spot. I knew
|
||
it was a protection ritual; a strong one (I have been dealing with
|
||
some very weird stuff lately!). Since then I have felt pretty safe.
|
||
I need to learn how to control my power, though; a while
|
||
afterwards, I felt suddenly drained and very hungry.
|
||
|
||
Hm.. Perhaps it sounds a bit loony, but it sure seems to work for me.
|
||
===
|
||
* SLMR 2.1a * God often gives nuts to toothless people.
|
||
|
||
|
||
--- Squish v1.01
|
||
* Origin: Bob and Kathey's BBS - (801)262-3258 ! Robert Briggs
|
||
(1:311/11)
|
||
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|
||
@PATH: 311/11 9200/0 23
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
(345) Sun 9 Aug 92 8:09
|
||
By: Karl Lembke
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: Thirteen
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
@MSGID: 1:102/943.0 2a853542
|
||
Well. There seems to be some problem with the OLR
|
||
I'm using, or with the Mail Tagging routine on the
|
||
Mysteria board, because I had to go in to the
|
||
Book of Shadows message area and pack the
|
||
messages from inside it.
|
||
|
||
Until now, I'd just thought the board
|
||
had been empty.
|
||
|
||
Now that I'm on the verge of achieving stable
|
||
communications with this board (and a couple others),
|
||
here is a document in three parts on the meanings of
|
||
the number thirteen.
|
||
|
||
I'm student teaching at a Wicca class, and the teacher
|
||
assigned that as a research project to one of the students.
|
||
She then told me I was the designated backup and official
|
||
resource, in the event that the student got stuck.
|
||
|
||
To be on the safe side, I sat down and wrote a paper
|
||
of my own. The teacher liked it. She had me present
|
||
it to the class. The class, and the rest of the student
|
||
teachers, and the higher degree spectators all wanted
|
||
copies.
|
||
|
||
Also, I had put out a call for any ideas people had on
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the meanings and significances of the number, and several
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people wanted to see the final paper.
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So I'll upload it here, too, starting next message....
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2BContinued...
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To: All
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Re: Thirteen
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Part 1/3
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Karl Lembke
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How this document came to be: When we were discussing the
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Great Seal of the United States, and we were noting the number of
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times the number 13 popped up. When one of the students asked
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what the significance of the number was, the teacher gave it to
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that student as a research assignment. I was designated the
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official backup and resource, in case one was needed.
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I wrote up my version of the report, just to have on hand at
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need, and gave a copy to the teacher. She liked it and told me
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to prepare to give a presentation to the class in the near
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future.
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This was presented in class on August 6, 1992.
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Fortunately, I had made copies, because as it turned out,
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everyone wanted one.
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In class not too long ago, we were discussing the Great Seal
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of the United States, and noting the repeated occurrence of
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groups of thirteen. This was cited as evidence that Wiccan ideas
|
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had played a part in forming the country. This may or may not be
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the case, and the ideas may have come from Freemasonry rather
|
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than Wicca, but there does seem to have been a fascination with
|
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the number thirteen.
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Why is the number thirteen so sacred in Wicca? The number
|
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has quite a few correspondences and meanings.
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First, there are thirteen lunar months in a year, give or
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take. (A "year and a day" is thirteen canonical months of 28
|
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days, and one day, which works out to 365 days.)
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Second, by Qabalistic gematria, thirteen is the numerical
|
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value of the Hebrew words for love and unity. Love is the force
|
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which draws individuals together into one unified whole (e
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pluribus unum).
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Third, the thirteenth path in Qabala, the path connecting
|
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the spheres of Kether and Tiphareth, is represented by the Hebrew
|
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letter gimel(1), meaning "camel". The camel is an ugly and
|
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ungainly beast, and people make fun of it. (Camel: A horse
|
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built by a committee.) The beast is also ill-tempered, and spits.
|
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With incredible accuracy.
|
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|
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But the camel fulfills an essential function in the desert,
|
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and quite literally is essential for life among the Bedouins and
|
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other nomadic peoples of the desert.(2)
|
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Likewise, the United States is founded upon principles that
|
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are often awkward and cumbersome. People poke fun at various
|
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applications of these principles. ("I don't make up jokes, I
|
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just watch the government and report the facts." X Will Rogers.)
|
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Other applications of these principles are reviled; people
|
||
complain about "loopholes" and "technicalities".
|
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Yet the same "technicalities" that force people to allow,
|
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for instance, the American Nazi Party to hold a parade on
|
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Israel's Independence Day, protect the right of a group of
|
||
Witches to worship in a public park. The same "technicalities"
|
||
that accused criminals use to "get off" protect you and me from
|
||
the knock on the door at 3 A.M. on trumped up charges (or no
|
||
charges until and unless they find something in their search).
|
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You get the picture. Funny looking, sometimes to the point
|
||
of ugliness; awkward and cumbersome; vitally essential.
|
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|
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In Pythagorean analysis(3), one way of understanding the
|
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meaning of prime numbers (thirteen is the seventh prime, though
|
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mathematicians tend not to count one as a prime) is to regard
|
||
them as transcending by one the composite number immediately
|
||
preceding them. Thus, thirteen is one greater than twelve, and
|
||
therefore transcends the concepts inherent in the number twelve.
|
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Twelve is often held to represent the completeness of the
|
||
world. There are twelve signs of the zodiac, representing a
|
||
balanced structure of aspects. There are twelve solar months in
|
||
the year, one for each sign. Twelve is the product of four -
|
||
representing the establishment of a permanent structure, and
|
||
three - representing the synthesis new truth from two polar
|
||
opposites. Thus, twelve, the establishment of a structure which
|
||
reconciles opposites, represents the worldX the realm which is
|
||
rich enough and large enough to encompass everything under the
|
||
sun, even if they are opposed to each other. It also represents
|
||
the world as the realm where entities do not exist in pure
|
||
states, but must contend with and somehow adjust to the presence
|
||
of their opposites.
|
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Thirteen is the prime which transcends this concept. It
|
||
contains the resonances of twelve within it, yet there is the
|
||
unit which remains above and outside the concept.
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---
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X SLMR 1.0 X If this were an actual tagline, it would be funny.
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(347) Sun 9 Aug 92 8:09
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By: Karl Lembke
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To: All
|
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Re: Thirteen
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13
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Part 2/3
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by Karl Lembke
|
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|
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Thirteen is the traditional complement of a coven. This
|
||
worked out to six working couples and one leader. The
|
||
leader-plus-twelve unit is a very old tradition. We see it in
|
||
the story of Jesus and the Disciples, King Arthur and the Knights
|
||
of the Round Table, Robin Hood and his Merry Men, even Judge and
|
||
Jury in American and British law.
|
||
So thirteen is the number of leadership in the world. Yet,
|
||
it must be understood that this is not leadership by force.
|
||
Thirteen is the concept of striking out in a new direction and
|
||
leading by example.
|
||
In olden days, among Europeans, it was possible to count as
|
||
high as twelve without taking off one's shoes. Ten fingers, two
|
||
feet. Thirteen represented uncharted territory, that which was
|
||
outside the area made safe and secure. This is one reason why
|
||
thirteen has been regarded with some trepidation. It is a rare
|
||
individual who can not only strike out into this uncharted
|
||
territory, but inspire others to follow, thereby being "a light
|
||
unto the nations".
|
||
(Among many "primitive" tribes, one was a leader not by
|
||
strength of arms, but because people chose to follow. The reason
|
||
they chose to follow is that they had come, through experience,
|
||
to recognize the merit of the path their leader chose. Any
|
||
leader who attempted to exert power for the sake of power was
|
||
liable to wake up one day to find that "his" tribe had declined
|
||
to follow him any more; in fact had taken a different path and
|
||
left him. Sometimes, quite literally, voting with their feet.)
|
||
|
||
Numbers can also be analyzed by reducing them in various
|
||
ways.
|
||
The digits can be added, for example. In the case of
|
||
thirteen, we get 1 + 3 = 4.
|
||
As has been mentioned, four is a stabilizing number. It
|
||
represents the addition of structure, the codification, of the
|
||
relationship which materialized in the number three. Four is the
|
||
number of the elements and the directions.
|
||
|
||
Four is also the number of the sphere of Chesed in Qabala.
|
||
Chesed, or Mercy, is the middle sphere on the pillar of force.
|
||
It was formed from the energy overflowing from Binah, the sphere
|
||
of restriction, and it receives its energy most directly from
|
||
Chokmah, the sphere of pure force. Chesed is where the
|
||
restrictions and forms inherited from Binah are animated and made
|
||
flexible by the controlled use of force. This is where the
|
||
letter of the law is animated and ennobled by the spirit of the
|
||
law. (In the now defunct USSR, and in many other places, the
|
||
letter of the law is a straight jacket. It describes why one can
|
||
not do what one wants or needs to do. U.S. law and custom has
|
||
generally tried to find ways to work inside the law to allow
|
||
personal freedom. This is the Chesedic interpretation of law.)
|
||
Chesed also represents what is known as "power with". That
|
||
is, the sort of power that exists because it is shared. The
|
||
magical image of Chesed, "a wise and kindly king", is followed
|
||
not because his followers feel they have to, but because they
|
||
want to. Rather than "might makes right", Chesed rules by the
|
||
principles of "right makes might".
|
||
|
||
The digits of a number can also be multiplied together.
|
||
One times three is three. This is the number which
|
||
represents the synthesis of opposites to arrive at a new truth.
|
||
When opposites are combined, they do not cancel out. They react
|
||
in various ways, and in order to maintain each in the presence of
|
||
the other, it is necessary to discover the hidden truths held in
|
||
common by each. This is the sphere whose magical weapon is the
|
||
cauldron of Cerridwen, from which live things emerge dead, and
|
||
dead things emerge alive. The hidden unity of life and death is
|
||
a mystery, upon which meditation will bring riches.
|
||
Three is also the number of the Goddess and the Christian
|
||
Trinity.
|
||
|
||
The Qabalistic sphere of Binah represents pure form. It is
|
||
the kind of form we see in a crystal, where all the atoms are
|
||
arrayed in a strictly regular order. Interestingly enough, there
|
||
are no perfect crystals in nature. A perfect crystal would have
|
||
to be infinite in extent, since an edge would represent a break
|
||
in the crystal structure. But it is the breaks (the edges and
|
||
facets) which give a crystal its fire.
|
||
One of the conflicts which had to be resolved in forming the
|
||
United States was regarding the correct balance of restriction
|
||
and authority. The Founding Fathers feared central authority,
|
||
and wished to take steps to ensure that despotic rule would never
|
||
take over this new land. As a result, a structure was
|
||
established which fragmented power, in a controlled way. All
|
||
power was not to reside with one entity, but to be balanced, as
|
||
evenly as possible, among all the different entities that
|
||
comprised government.
|
||
___
|
||
X SLMR 1.0 X If reality wants to get in touch, it knows where I am.
|
||
|
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--- Maximus 2.00
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(348) Sun 9 Aug 92 8:09
|
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By: Karl Lembke
|
||
To: All
|
||
Re: Thirteen
|
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|
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|
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13
|
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Part 3/3
|
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|
||
by Karl Lembke
|
||
|
||
Thirteen can also be regarded as the sum of various numbers.
|
||
|
||
In Wicca, the five fold salute is actually comprised of eight
|
||
kisses, since there are two feet, two knees, and two breasts.(5)
|
||
Eight and five is thirteen. Eight is also important in Wicca,
|
||
since there are eight paths to the center, eight festivals in the
|
||
Wheel of the Year, and eight ways of raising power in circle.
|
||
There are five things one must have before one can practice the
|
||
magical Art. These are: Intention, preparation, invocation,
|
||
consecration and purification. There are five elements, each
|
||
given to one point of the pentagram. Five also represents the
|
||
four elements plus spirit, or the four directions plus the Holy
|
||
Center.
|
||
|
||
Interestingly enough, we have derived the numbers 4 and 3
|
||
from 13. The product of 4 and 3 is 12, which takes us back to
|
||
the number which 13 transcends. The sum of 3 and 4 is seven, the
|
||
number which represents the union of pure spirit and matter.
|
||
Seven is also a mystical number, since it also represents the
|
||
relationship and synthesis (3) of the laws of matter and energy
|
||
(4), and the universe (12 = 3 X 4). 13 is the seventh prime.
|
||
|
||
This essay really only touches the surface of the possible
|
||
ways of analyzing the number 13. There are many other areas to
|
||
explore in gematria, including examining the multiples of 13
|
||
(YHVH, in Hebrew numeration, works out to 26 = 2 X 13).
|
||
Pythagorean analysis can be extended by examining all the
|
||
pairs of numbers which add up to 13. We have examined two out of
|
||
the six here.
|
||
|
||
Temura is a method in the Qabalah by which the letters in a
|
||
word or phrase are replaced with others according to specific
|
||
rules. Obviously, changing the letters in a word will change the
|
||
numerical total of that word. It can be interesting to examine
|
||
words which yield a value of 13 after temura.
|
||
Other useful explorations in gematria include examining
|
||
pairs of words and phrases whose numerical values differ by 13.
|
||
This is one area where the possibilities are, quite literally,
|
||
endless.
|
||
Blessed be!
|
||
|
||
References:
|
||
|
||
(1) Crowley, Aleister: 777 And Other Qabalistic Writings
|
||
(2) Reed, Ellen Cannon: The Witch's Qabala
|
||
(3) Addey, John: Harmonics in Astrology
|
||
(4) Farrar, Jan and Stewart: A Witches' Bible
|
||
(5) Ibid.
|
||
___
|
||
X SLMR 1.0 X If you can't make it good, make it big.
|
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--- Maximus 2.00
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|
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(362) Wed 12 Aug 92 20:33
|
||
By: Abdallat Al-talib
|
||
To: Darklock
|
||
Re: Book Of Shadows?
|
||
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|
||
Caught your message of 27JUL92 which asked:
|
||
|
||
DA}Could anyone explain to me what a "Book of Shadows" is? I would
|
||
}guess at either a) The Satanic Bible or b) The Necromicon ...
|
||
but I
|
||
}am awaiting enlightenment.
|
||
|
||
I suppose that you have already been flooded with indignant replies
|
||
for
|
||
this question but I shall endavor to answer your question.
|
||
|
||
First of all, both of your guesses are completely wrong. The Satanic
|
||
Bible is some hokey stuff put out by Anton LaVey (carnie huckster,
|
||
Satanic High Priest and all around creep) that justifies his strong
|
||
arm
|
||
approach to life. It seems to be written to be both obscurely
|
||
historical
|
||
and offensive to most Christians and Pagans.
|
||
|
||
The Necromonicon is one of two things: a fictional book that is a
|
||
source
|
||
for the `Cthulhu Mythos' which the horror fiction world perpetuated
|
||
by
|
||
H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth & other. The other Necronomicon was
|
||
writtten in the 70's by a group of folks who claimed to be reaching
|
||
the
|
||
ancient Sumerian gods. Their scholarship is suspect, to say the
|
||
least,
|
||
and they admitted that whatever it was that they called up, they
|
||
had a
|
||
hard time getting rid of it! If you like having the spiritual
|
||
equivalent
|
||
of bengal tigers wandering around your magical space, use this book.
|
||
|
||
Book of Shadows is the melodramatic term for the history and
|
||
rituals of
|
||
a particular bunch of Craft workers. Since it deals with things
|
||
that are
|
||
best seen in the light of the Moon or by candles, shadows are big
|
||
part
|
||
of the experience. I've seen nicely bound and calligraphed books,
|
||
computer printouts, mimeographs, etc. called a Book of Shadows.
|
||
There is
|
||
also a contingent of modern pagans who have Discs of Shadows!
|
||
|
||
Any further questions, seeker?
|
||
|
||
* OLX 2.1 TD * Photons have mass? I didn't even know they were
|
||
Catholic!
|
||
--- SuperQWK 1.16-B (Eval)
|
||
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|
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|
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(370) Thu 13 Aug 92 8:36
|
||
By: Darren Hanson
|
||
To: Gael Delic
|
||
Re: IBM Book Of Shadows
|
||
St: Rcvd
|
||
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|
||
@EID:60a2 190d4480
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
@PID: EE 0.32 & FM 2.02
|
||
> DH > > Any chance it would head in this direction?
|
||
|
||
> DH > Or THIS one?
|
||
|
||
> I have already obtained part 1!, Thanks to the wonderful
|
||
> SysOps in this area. I am still awaiting parts 2,3 and as
|
||
> far as I know 4, If you would like I would be willing to
|
||
> mail it to you if given the proper address!
|
||
|
||
Surface Mail: D.J. Hanson
|
||
( 360K or ) 9561 Jonquil Ave
|
||
(1.2Mb 5.25") Westminster
|
||
CA 92683-6920
|
||
|
||
InterNet: dhanson@eis.calstate.edu
|
||
Anon InterNet: wi.2832@wizvax.methuen.ma.us
|
||
|
||
Files can be sent to any of the above systems. I don't (currently)
|
||
accept inbound phone calls so the addresses below are only good for
|
||
routed netmail.....
|
||
|
||
FIDO: 1:103/271.0
|
||
CandyNet: 42:1001/613.0
|
||
PODS: 93:9702/1.0
|
||
|
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|
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(371) Fri 14 Aug 92 8:48
|
||
By: Paul Seymour
|
||
To: Jennifer Quigley
|
||
Re: Ibm Book Of Shadows
|
||
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|
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@EID:d51c 000842e2
|
||
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|
||
In a message to Paul Seymour <08-13-92 23:17> Jennifer Quigley wrote:
|
||
|
||
JQ> Paul - I don't know whether it is possible for your files to be
|
||
JQ> downloaded to the BBS I'm writing from, but would very much
|
||
like to have JQ> a copy of your BoS. Could I send you diskettes,
|
||
or $$ for purchase of JQ> same, and ask you to copy your files for
|
||
me?
|
||
> Thank you.
|
||
> B*B
|
||
> Jennie
|
||
Jennie - If you will send me three of the 3.5" 1.4MB disks with a
|
||
retrurn label and return postage, I will Copy Volumes 1-3 and
|
||
return them immediately. It is more of a magickal reference
|
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library than a BOS, though. I am currently only into volume 4 by 88
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pages so it will probably be about a year for #4. Providing this
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as a service to the community is just a small gift to the Goddess
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by me, and I would appreciate it if you would pass free copies to
|
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any in your community who would wish them. I can be reached at:
|
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Paul G. Seymour
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1875 Mineola St.
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Colorado Springs, CO. 80915
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(719) 380-7885
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Blessed Be -Paul-
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(373) Tue 11 Aug 92 8:11
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By: Karl Lembke
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To: Darren Hanson
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Re: Thirteen 1/4
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I'm told these files did not make it through on this echo.
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Therefore...
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For those who expressed interest in the paper I was
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writing on the number 13, the following three
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postings contain the entire document. I think
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they're all short enough to avoid being cut off
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at the ankles in the nets.
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___
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X SLMR 1.0 X I'm in shape. Round's a shape, isn't it?
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(374) Tue 11 Aug 92 8:11
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By: Karl Lembke
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To: Darren Hanson
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Re: Thirteen 2/4
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Karl Lembke
|
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How this document came to be: When we were discussing the
|
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Great Seal of the United States, and we were noting the number of
|
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times the number 13 popped up. When one of the students asked
|
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what the significance of the number was, the teacher gave it to
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that student as a research assignment. I was designated the
|
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official backup and resource, in case one was needed.
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I wrote up my version of the report, just to have on hand at
|
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need, and gave a copy to the teacher. She liked it and told me
|
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to prepare to give a presentation to the class in the near
|
||
future.
|
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This was presented in class on August 6, 1992.
|
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Fortunately, I had made copies, because as it turned out,
|
||
everyone wanted one.
|
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|
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In class not too long ago, we were discussing the Great Seal
|
||
of the United States, and noting the repeated occurrence of
|
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groups of thirteen. This was cited as evidence that Wiccan ideas
|
||
had played a part in forming the country. This may or may not be
|
||
the case, and the ideas may have come from Freemasonry rather
|
||
than Wicca, but there does seem to have been a fascination with
|
||
the number thirteen.
|
||
|
||
Why is the number thirteen so sacred in Wicca? The number
|
||
has quite a few correspondences and meanings.
|
||
|
||
First, there are thirteen lunar months in a year, give or
|
||
take. (A "year and a day" is thirteen canonical months of 28
|
||
days, and one day, which works out to 365 days.)
|
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|
||
Second, by Qabalistic gematria, thirteen is the numerical
|
||
value of the Hebrew words for love and unity. Love is the force
|
||
which draws individuals together into one unified whole (e
|
||
pluribus unum).
|
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|
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Third, the thirteenth path in Qabala, the path connecting
|
||
the spheres of Kether and Tiphareth, is represented by the Hebrew
|
||
letter gimel(1), meaning "camel". The camel is an ugly and
|
||
ungainly beast, and people make fun of it. (Camel: A horse
|
||
built by a committee.) The beast is also ill-tempered, and spits.
|
||
With incredible accuracy.
|
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|
||
But the camel fulfills an essential function in the desert,
|
||
and quite literally is essential for life among the Bedouins and
|
||
other nomadic peoples of the desert.(2)
|
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Likewise, the United States is founded upon principles that
|
||
are often awkward and cumbersome. People poke fun at various
|
||
applications of these principles. ("I don't make up jokes, I
|
||
just watch the government and report the facts." X Will Rogers.)
|
||
Other applications of these principles are reviled; people
|
||
complain about "loopholes" and "technicalities".
|
||
Yet the same "technicalities" that force people to allow,
|
||
for instance, the American Nazi Party to hold a parade on
|
||
Israel's Independence Day, protect the right of a group of
|
||
Witches to worship in a public park. The same "technicalities"
|
||
that accused criminals use to "get off" protect you and me from
|
||
the knock on the door at 3 A.M. on trumped up charges (or no
|
||
charges until and unless they find something in their search).
|
||
You get the picture. Funny looking, sometimes to the point
|
||
of ugliness; awkward and cumbersome; vitally essential.
|
||
|
||
In Pythagorean analysis(3), one way of understanding the
|
||
meaning of prime numbers (thirteen is the seventh prime, though
|
||
mathematicians tend not to count one as a prime) is to regard
|
||
them as transcending by one the composite number immediately
|
||
preceding them. Thus, thirteen is one greater than twelve, and
|
||
therefore transcends the concepts inherent in the number twelve.
|
||
Twelve is often held to represent the completeness of the
|
||
world. There are twelve signs of the zodiac, representing a
|
||
balanced structure of aspects. There are twelve solar months in
|
||
the year, one for each sign. Twelve is the product of four -
|
||
representing the establishment of a permanent structure, and
|
||
three - representing the synthesis new truth from two polar
|
||
opposites. Thus, twelve, the establishment of a structure which
|
||
reconciles opposites, represents the worldX the realm which is
|
||
rich enough and large enough to encompass everything under the
|
||
sun, even if they are opposed to each other. It also represents
|
||
the world as the realm where entities do not exist in pure
|
||
states, but must contend with and somehow adjust to the presence
|
||
of their opposites.
|
||
Thirteen is the prime which transcends this concept. It
|
||
contains the resonances of twelve within it, yet there is the
|
||
unit which remains above and outside the concept.
|
||
---
|
||
X SLMR 1.0 X If at first you don't succeed, change the rules
|
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--- Maximus 2.00
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(375) Tue 11 Aug 92 8:11
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By: Karl Lembke
|
||
To: Darren Hanson
|
||
Re: Thirteen 3/4
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|
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@MSGID: 1:102/943.0 2a87d89a
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13
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|
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|
||
by Karl Lembke
|
||
|
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Thirteen is the traditional complement of a coven. This
|
||
worked out to six working couples and one leader. The
|
||
leader-plus-twelve unit is a very old tradition. We see it in
|
||
the story of Jesus and the Disciples, King Arthur and the Knights
|
||
of the Round Table, Robin Hood and his Merry Men, even Judge and
|
||
Jury in American and British law.
|
||
So thirteen is the number of leadership in the world. Yet,
|
||
it must be understood that this is not leadership by force.
|
||
Thirteen is the concept of striking out in a new direction and
|
||
leading by example.
|
||
In olden days, among Europeans, it was possible to count as
|
||
high as twelve without taking off one's shoes. Ten fingers, two
|
||
feet. Thirteen represented uncharted territory, that which was
|
||
outside the area made safe and secure. This is one reason why
|
||
thirteen has been regarded with some trepidation. It is a rare
|
||
individual who can not only strike out into this uncharted
|
||
territory, but inspire others to follow, thereby being "a light
|
||
unto the nations".
|
||
(Among many "primitive" tribes, one was a leader not by
|
||
strength of arms, but because people chose to follow. The reason
|
||
they chose to follow is that they had come, through experience,
|
||
to recognize the merit of the path their leader chose. Any
|
||
leader who attempted to exert power for the sake of power was
|
||
liable to wake up one day to find that "his" tribe had declined
|
||
to follow him any more; in fact had taken a different path and
|
||
left him. Sometimes, quite literally, voting with their feet.)
|
||
|
||
Numbers can also be analyzed by reducing them in various
|
||
ways.
|
||
The digits can be added, for example. In the case of
|
||
thirteen, we get 1 + 3 = 4.
|
||
As has been mentioned, four is a stabilizing number. It
|
||
represents the addition of structure, the codification, of the
|
||
relationship which materialized in the number three. Four is the
|
||
number of the elements and the directions.
|
||
|
||
Four is also the number of the sphere of Chesed in Qabala.
|
||
Chesed, or Mercy, is the middle sphere on the pillar of force.
|
||
It was formed from the energy overflowing from Binah, the sphere
|
||
of restriction, and it receives its energy most directly from
|
||
Chokmah, the sphere of pure force. Chesed is where the
|
||
restrictions and forms inherited from Binah are animated and made
|
||
flexible by the controlled use of force. This is where the
|
||
letter of the law is animated and ennobled by the spirit of the
|
||
law. (In the now defunct USSR, and in many other places, the
|
||
letter of the law is a straight jacket. It describes why one can
|
||
not do what one wants or needs to do. U.S. law and custom has
|
||
generally tried to find ways to work inside the law to allow
|
||
personal freedom. This is the Chesedic interpretation of law.)
|
||
Chesed also represents what is known as "power with". That
|
||
is, the sort of power that exists because it is shared. The
|
||
magical image of Chesed, "a wise and kindly king", is followed
|
||
not because his followers feel they have to, but because they
|
||
want to. Rather than "might makes right", Chesed rules by the
|
||
principles of "right makes might".
|
||
|
||
The digits of a number can also be multiplied together.
|
||
One times three is three. This is the number which
|
||
represents the synthesis of opposites to arrive at a new truth.
|
||
When opposites are combined, they do not cancel out. They react
|
||
in various ways, and in order to maintain each in the presence of
|
||
the other, it is necessary to discover the hidden truths held in
|
||
common by each. This is the sphere whose magical weapon is the
|
||
cauldron of Cerridwen, from which live things emerge dead, and
|
||
dead things emerge alive. The hidden unity of life and death is
|
||
a mystery, upon which meditation will bring riches.
|
||
Three is also the number of the Goddess and the Christian
|
||
Trinity.
|
||
|
||
The Qabalistic sphere of Binah represents pure form. It is
|
||
the kind of form we see in a crystal, where all the atoms are
|
||
arrayed in a strictly regular order. Interestingly enough, there
|
||
are no perfect crystals in nature. A perfect crystal would have
|
||
to be infinite in extent, since an edge would represent a break
|
||
in the crystal structure. But it is the breaks (the edges and
|
||
facets) which give a crystal its fire.
|
||
One of the conflicts which had to be resolved in forming the
|
||
United States was regarding the correct balance of restriction
|
||
and authority. The Founding Fathers feared central authority,
|
||
and wished to take steps to ensure that despotic rule would never
|
||
take over this new land. As a result, a structure was
|
||
established which fragmented power, in a controlled way. All
|
||
power was not to reside with one entity, but to be balanced, as
|
||
evenly as possible, among all the different entities that
|
||
comprised government.
|
||
___
|
||
X SLMR 1.0 X If it isn't borken, don't fix it.
|
||
|
||
--- Maximus 2.00
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(376) Tue 11 Aug 92 8:11
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||
By: Karl Lembke
|
||
To: Darren Hanson
|
||
Re: Thirteen 4/4
|
||
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|
||
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|
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|
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|
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|
||
by Karl Lembke
|
||
|
||
Thirteen can also be regarded as the sum of various numbers.
|
||
|
||
In Wicca, the five fold salute is actually comprised of eight
|
||
kisses, since there are two feet, two knees, and two breasts.(5)
|
||
Eight and five is thirteen. Eight is also important in Wicca,
|
||
since there are eight paths to the center, eight festivals in the
|
||
Wheel of the Year, and eight ways of raising power in circle.
|
||
There are five things one must have before one can practice the
|
||
magical Art. These are: Intention, preparation, invocation,
|
||
consecration and purification. There are five elements, each
|
||
given to one point of the pentagram. Five also represents the
|
||
four elements plus spirit, or the four directions plus the Holy
|
||
Center.
|
||
|
||
Interestingly enough, we have derived the numbers 4 and 3
|
||
from 13. The product of 4 and 3 is 12, which takes us back to
|
||
the number which 13 transcends. The sum of 3 and 4 is seven, the
|
||
number which represents the union of pure spirit and matter.
|
||
Seven is also a mystical number, since it also represents the
|
||
relationship and synthesis (3) of the laws of matter and energy
|
||
(4), and the universe (12 = 3 X 4). 13 is the seventh prime.
|
||
|
||
This essay really only touches the surface of the possible
|
||
ways of analyzing the number 13. There are many other areas to
|
||
explore in gematria, including examining the multiples of 13
|
||
(YHVH, in Hebrew numeration, works out to 26 = 2 X 13).
|
||
Pythagorean analysis can be extended by examining all the
|
||
pairs of numbers which add up to 13. We have examined two out of
|
||
the six here.
|
||
|
||
Temura is a method in the Qabalah by which the letters in a
|
||
word or phrase are replaced with others according to specific
|
||
rules. Obviously, changing the letters in a word will change the
|
||
numerical total of that word. It can be interesting to examine
|
||
words which yield a value of 13 after temura.
|
||
Other useful explorations in gematria include examining
|
||
pairs of words and phrases whose numerical values differ by 13.
|
||
This is one area where the possibilities are, quite literally,
|
||
endless.
|
||
Blessed be!
|
||
|
||
References:
|
||
|
||
(1) Crowley, Aleister: 777 And Other Qabalistic Writings
|
||
(2) Reed, Ellen Cannon: The Witch's Qabala
|
||
(3) Addey, John: Harmonics in Astrology
|
||
(4) Farrar, Jan and Stewart: A Witches' Bible
|
||
(5) Ibid.
|
||
___
|
||
X SLMR 1.0 X If it's fixed, don't break it.
|
||
|
||
--- Maximus 2.00
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(427) Mon 17 Aug 92 22:02
|
||
By: Paul Seymour
|
||
To: Jonathon Blake
|
||
Re: Re: Book of Shadows?
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|
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@EID:d51c 0003c927
|
||
@MSGID: 93:9500/0 7396424f
|
||
In a message to Allyson T. <08-15-92 8:15> Jonathon Blake wrote:
|
||
> & how does one know that a ritual is trully
|
||
> wiccan, and didn't migrate in some form or shape from
|
||
> the necronomicon, or similair grimoire to somebody's
|
||
> BoS, without them realizing its origins?
|
||
>
|
||
Very simple, really. If the Ritual in question: 1) honors
|
||
neither Lord nor Lady, 2) is not in celebration of one of the five
|
||
core Mysteries, OR 3) is in violation of the Rede; IT IS NOT WICCAN.
|
||
B*B -Paul-
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(485) Tue 18 Aug 92 8:18
|
||
By: Jonathon Blake
|
||
To: J.S. Pereira
|
||
Re: Book of Shadows?
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||
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|
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||
quoting J.S. PEREIRA To: ALLYSON T.
|
||
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|
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|
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JP}>I'm under the impression that the term "Book of Shadows" is
|
||
used by Wiccans
|
||
JP}>and by no one else. (For all I know, other people do use it,
|
||
but I've never
|
||
JP}>heard of anyone else using it)
|
||
|
||
the concept is used by numerous groups ---
|
||
both pagan & non-pagan. however, of pagan types,
|
||
wiccans are the most likely to refer to something as
|
||
their book of shadows, whilst ceremonial magiicians
|
||
refer to their grimoire. but both terms have been used
|
||
interchangably, especially amongs neo-pagan groups.
|
||
|
||
the question more properly is, can both wiccan & non-
|
||
wiccan individuals benefit from sharing their rites &
|
||
rituals in a platform such as this?
|
||
<< note: i did not state discuss their rites, but
|
||
sharing them --- there is a difference >>
|
||
|
||
93
|
||
jonathon
|
||
|
||
|
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* SLMR 2.1a * ...just as every cop is a criminal and all sinners
|
||
saints
|
||
|
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