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ab:prepare.txt 16jan90
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Properly Prepared
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Naked, but sandals (not shoes) may be worn. For initiation, tie hands
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behind back, pull up to small of back and tie ends in front of throat,
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leaving a cable-tow to lead by, hanging down in front. (Arms thus form
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a triangle at back.) When initiate is kneeling at altar, the cable-tow
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is tied to a ring in the altar. A short cord is tied like a garter
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round the initiate's left leg above the knee, with ends tucked in.
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Another is tied round right ankle and ends tucked in so as to be out of
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the way while moving about. These cords are used to tie feet together
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while initiate is kneeling at the altar and must be long enough to do
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this firmly. Knees must also be firmly tied. This must be carefully
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done. If the aspirant complains of pain the bonds must be loosened
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slightly; always remember the object being to retard the blood flow
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enough to induce a trance state. This involves slight discomfort; but
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great discomfort prevents the trance state, so it is best to spend some
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little time loosening and tightening the bonds until they are just
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right. The aspirant alone can tell you when this is so. This, of
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course, does not apply to the initiation, as then no trance is desired;
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but for the purpose of ritual it is good that the initiates be bound
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firmly enough to feel they are absolutely helpless but without
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discomfort.
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The Measure (in the First Degree) is taken thus:
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Height, round neck, across the heart and across the genitals. The
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old custom is, if anyone were guilty of betraying the secrets, their
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measure was buried at midnight in a boggy place, with curses that "as
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the measure rots, so they will rot."
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-published in Janet and Stewart Farrar's "The Witches' Way"; from GBG's
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BOS (Text B or C; it's the same in each).
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