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The Charge Of The Goddess
Magus: "Listen to the words
of the Great mother, who of old was also called among men
Artemis, Astarte, Dione, Melusine, Aphrodite, Cerridwen, Diana,
Arianrhod, Bride, and by many other names."
High Priestess: "At mine Altars
the youth of Lacedaemon in Sparta made due sacrifice. Whenever
ye have need of anything, once in the month, and better it
be when the moon is full, ye shall assemble in some secret
place and adore the spirit of Me who am Queen of all Witcheries
and magics. There ye shall assemble, ye who are fain to learn
all sorcery, yet have not won its deepest secrets. To these
will I teach things that are yet unknown. And ye shall be
free from slavery, and as a sign that ye be really free, ye
shall be naked in your rites, both men and women, and ye shall
dance, sing, feast, make music, and love, all in my praise.
There is a Secret Door that I have made to establish the way
to taste even on earth the elixir of immortality. Say, 'Let
ecstasy be mine, and joy on earth even to me, To Me,' For
I am a gracious Goddess. I give unimaginable joys on earth,
certainty, not faith, while in life! And upon death, peace
unutterable, rest, and ecstasy, nor do I demand aught in sacrifice."
Magus: "Hear ye the words
of the Star Goddess."
High Priestess: "I love you:
I yearn for you: pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous. I who
am all pleasure, and purple and drunkenness of the innermost
senses, desire you. Put on the wings, arouse the coiled splendor
within you. Come unto me, for I am the flame that burns in
the heart of every man, and the core of every Star. Let it
be your inmost divine self who art lost in the constant rapture
of infinite joy. Let the rituals be rightly performed with
joy and beauty. Remember that all acts of love and pleasure
are my rituals. So let there be beauty and strength, leaping
laughter, force and fire by within you. And if thou sayest,
'I have journeyed unto thee, and it availed me not,' rather
shalt thou say, 'I called upon thee, and I waited patiently,
and Lo, thou wast with me from the beginning,' for they that
ever desired me shall ever attain me, even to the end of all
desire.
This much of the rites must
ever be performed to prepare for any initiation, whether of
one degree or of all three.
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