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ab:great.txt 16jan90
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The Great Rite
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(Alternative Verse Version of Priest's Declamation)
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Assist me to build
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As the Mighty Ones willed
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An altar of praise
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From beginning of days.
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Thus doth it lie
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'Twixt the points of the sky
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For thus was it placed
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When the Goddess embraced
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The Horn'd One, her Lord,
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Who taught her the Word
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That quickened the womb
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And conquered the tomb.
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Be thus as of yore,
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The shrine we adore, [kiss]
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The feast without fail,
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The life-giving Grail. [kiss]
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Before it uprear
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The Miraculous Spear [touches own phallus]
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And invoke in this sign
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The Goddess divine ! [kiss]
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Thou who at noon of night doth reign
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Queen of the starry realms above,
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Not unto thee may we attain
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Unless thine image be of love. [kiss]
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By moon-ray's silver shaft of power,
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By green leaf breaking from the bud,
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By seed that springeth into flower,
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By life that courseth in the blood, [kiss]
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By rushing wind and leaping fire,
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By flowing water and green earth,
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Pour us the wine of our desire
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From out thy Cauldron of Rebirth. [kiss]
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Here may we see in vision clear
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Thy secret strange unveiled at length,
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Thy wondrous Twin Pillars rear
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Erect in beauty and in strength. [kisses on the breasts]
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Altar of mysteries manifold,
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The Sacred Circle's central point
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Thus do I sign thee as of old;
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With kisses of my lips anoint. [kisses of the Third Degree Sigil]
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Open for me the secret way,
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The pathway of intelligence
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beyond the gates of night and day,
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Beyond the bounds of time and sense.
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Behold the Mystery aright;
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The five true points of fellowship,
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Here where the Lance and Grail unite,
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And feet and knees and breast and lip.
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-This replaces the Priest's declamation in the standard Great Rite.
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-It was published in Janet and Stewart Farrar's "The Witches' Way".
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-They say it was written by Doreen Valiente, and included in GBG's
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Text C.
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