New Rituals

It isn't enough to talk about a new druidry, or a new druidic witchcraft, or even a new witchcraft. It must be constructed. In prayers and songs and thought and effort it must be constructed. Out of old Thelemic rituals I have made for myself, rites of initiation and consecration, and I know what I am using them for, but you can use them or adapt them to for whatever you wish. Or be inspired by them. Or ignore them. They are a sort of gift. Here is a beginning one, a rite for dedication when you are setting out upon a new Path or coming back to one that has been overgrown and abandoned.

THE RITE OF THE CATECHUMEN

Leave everything you were outside this door

Everything you are bring with you

In the name of the Lord of Initiation, Amen.

I fly and I alight as a hawk: bright are my mighty-sweeping wings.

I swoop down upon the black earth; and it gladdens into green at my coming.

Children of Earth! rejoice! rejoice exceedingly; for your salvation is at hand.

The end of sorrow is come; I will ravish you away into my unutterable joy.

I will kiss you, and bring you to the bridal chamber: I will spread a feast before you in the house of happiness.

I am not come to rebuke you, or to enslave you.

THIS IS THE SECRET of the Holy Graal, that is the sacred vessel of our Lady the Scarlet Woman, Babalon the Mother of Abominations, the bride of Chaos, that rides upon our Lord the Beast.
Drain out the blood that is your life into the golden cup of her fornication.

Mingle your life with the universal life. Keep not back one drop.

All your life shall go from thee; and thou shalt be cast out upon the midden, and the birds of the air shall feast upon your flesh, and your bones shall whiten in the sun.

Ye who take but one step on this path must continue to the end, for this path is beyond life or death.