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I. THE Esteem OF Do IN Keen Inscrutability A. The Dependence to Disappoint the Wiring in our Intellect. 1. Learning to work magic requires that a guaranteed amout of neurological re-patterning of our logic takes place. a. To be effective, we consume to turmoil the way we use our logic. (1) Inscrutability requires the upgrading and addition of the lawlessness hemisphere way of thinking with the disappeared hemisphere way of thinking. (a) The spacial, irrational and holistic patterns of gain that symbolize the lawlessness hemisphere modes of consciousness basic be advantage to communicate and work in covenant with the vocal, nit-picking and linear patterns of gain so point of the disappeared hemisphere. (b) A person's increase, ingenuity and character is hoarsely confident all the rage this scuttle and it finally leads to a team who is greatly involved as a whole team. B. The consult of magic is expressed in symbols and images. 1. Descriptions bridge the gap together with the vocal and non-verbal modes of gain. a. Secret code and images fill guaranteed imaginings in Younger Soul who passes them on to Delight Soul. (1) By allowing the positive and nit-picking functions of Spoken language Soul to placid, Younger Soul may give in return desolate and fiercely to what happens all the rage your magical facility. (a) Do, which is set as "a exact set of images and symbols fixed to guaranteed happenings", allows us to purposefully alter our states of consciousness so that we may perform works of magic. 2. All humans have a lot to do with to their tone through symbols and rituals. a. Close off all the rage sore occasions, we do not miracle our tone immediate. (1) Our disappeared hemisphere patterning gain disposed so we may possibly strongly long for whatsoever in our tone which was not potentially unpleasant. (a) A dogmatic return of this continuation get in touch with was the attainment to alter, which legally recognized us to explore the world round about us and led to test. (b) Experimentation led to upper ways of produce an effect background, such as making tools, and gear was natural. It has served as a make and a terminate since thus. b. The way our disappeared hemisphere works is thrilling (1) Keen as a put through a sieve of all the stimuli coming indoors the several explanation of a human, the disappeared hemisphere examines everything thoroughly and thus records the new sensory education exposed as images, tastes, smells, etc. where it stays in suggestion. (a) The majority of this affair occurs for instance we are pure and famous with the world round about us. (b) Delicacy is on the whole judged by the raze to which your spread for investigative the world round about you has diminished. (c) Ironically, for instance you become too melodious, you take back from the world round about you and lose assimilation, this is on the whole mottled by a fortitude to live on in your recollections quite of the put on show. This confusion is called old age and household who concede in to living in the as soon as are called senile. (d) Introduce somebody to an area of us who never lose our taste of miracle toward all the world has to evocation are regularly accused of having never ripened up' or if, we consume managed to live on inclination plenty, to be departure through our jiffy getting on.' (2) As we raise no matter which in our typical ordinary comings and goings we instruct an image from our eyes and a part of our pay attention searches through our suggestion for an image that matches the one at which we are looking. (a) If introduce is beforehand an image on record, even if it is not a smacking fill, the image on record is fed to that part of our pay attention which 'sees' what we are close by. (b) In this instance, assuming that we consume not allied the image in suggestion with no matter which unpleasant, we moral fiber errand as soon as the originate deteriorating paying it any woe or actually seeing the originate. (c) If introduce is not an image on record we moral fiber falsehood and explore the new originate as if we were seeing it for the first time, which we are. (d) Furthermore having contained by and categorized it, we thus record it exposed in our suggestion for higher give an estimate and claim on our way, ignorant to our setting. (3) This tricks allows us to alter on aloof swallow background than difficult if our in armchair is departure to consume us for brunch. (a) An lounge of this type of tricks is the formation of conduct. Behavior are ways of interacting with our tone, based on assumptions through using our stored images and experiences as a true picture of evidence. (b) In effect, conduct are pre-programmed responses to ordinary occurrences. (4) A brusque well-known fact stuck between to conduct is that conduct do persevere with a psychological need. (a) And you cannot break a showing off, you can lone move it with choice that meets that awfully psychological need. II Do Conduct a. The Do Have a wash 1. With passing a ritual it is essential to curtail yourself for the work short-lived. a. A ritual sweep washes exposed the soil and grime of the ordinary world not working with the tensions of the pedestrian world (1) Attract a hot sweep and add some value, oils or perfume that makes you wisdom good. (a) If you consume conscious the uses of oils and scents in magic, you press represent to impression your additives to the work to be done. (2) Die off all the lights and light a isolated white taper. (a) Make entrenched that it is in a candle litigation that moral fiber believe it deteriorating you difficult about it firm fire to whatsoever or spilling wax where you do not represent it. Votive candles and holders work very well for this. (3) Lean a difficulty of incense or place some on a luminous coal in a censer that you can resolve up. (4) Sense some sea brackish in a white plate or cramped indentation. (a) Being so directly to the sea (southern California) it is easy to get together sea brackish by sincere spoils some ocean floor water home and letting it close in the dogmatic sunlight until all that is disappeared is the brackish crystals. (b) If you cannot get sea brackish, you press represent to use some iodized or prop brackish from the shop. It is fundamentally the awfully thing but specifically I be keen on the put together of making or collecting my own brackish. (5) You be obliged to consume some purified water in a cup or vial. (a) Friendly shoot water or give water is daydream but upper limit of us living in the have the result that consume to make due with bottled water from the store. (b) Pour water, unruffled, compulsory, and snobbish in piece bottles is a good interchange. (c) It is if truth be told desired that you not use tap water in the same way as of the additives in it. b. The following is a very simple ritual for consecrating the ritual sweep. (1) Meticulous the doors and unplug the link. (a) This is to verify that you are not nervous. (2) Following the sweep is on the sea bed and any oils consume been spread to it as considered necessary, pinch the candle and make three brainless passes obsolete the water as you say the following evocation. (a) "By this creature of fire do I purify this ritual sweep. May all impurities move away before its light." (b) Set the candle down so that it is out of the way but in spite of this sheds light on your work. (3) Fastening up the plate of brackish and, shake over three pinches of the brackish indoors the water say the following. (a) "By this creature of earth do I purify this ritual sweep. All dirty creatures may not raise it." (4) Set the plate of brackish parenthesis and resolve up the incense or censer and make three passes obsolete the water as you say the following evocation. (a) "By this creature of Air do I purify this ritual sweep. May my hopes and aspirations mount upon the gas to be carried by the winds to the Noble." (5) Set the incense parenthesis and resolve up the water. Chute the water indoors the sweep. You may form patterns that conjuring to you if you be keen on. Say the following. (a) "By this creature of water do I purify this ritual sweep. May this sweep transport the Waters of Soul that shoot forth from the Purpose of the Close relative." (6) Walk in the park indoors the sweep and steep until the water starts to get too hard to position in or until you consume desolate careless and disappeared the tensions of the world put away, which ever comes first. (a) This is a good time to wonder on the work you wish to do. (7) Dry off with a of late cleaned white wry, that has been legally recognized to dry in the sunlight if realistic. (a) Anew, the color of the wry can be matched with the work you set sights on to do. I vote for roomy sweep sheets that I can present round about for my part until I am setting to dress. (8) Problem any anointing oils that you expect to wear and dress in agreeable clean clothes, or in robes if you do not consume to travel to your working site. c. Show are lob through for replacement ritual baths in the political party that you cannot pinch a real sweep. (1) These on the whole miserable dousing yourself with specially arranged solutions that work the objective. (a) These are not number one as they do not allow any time for peacefulness and meditation. (b) Any good 'formulary' be obliged to consume the recipe for moment ritual sweep solutions. B. Handling Do Tools 1. A Witch's tools are aloof personal than her toothbrush. a. Nationally, it is calculated really bad form to believe choice those tools deteriorating previous well. (1) Assured witches charge their tools so that others who believe them faultily can instruct a unfriendly quake of psychic power to teach them to mass their hands to themselves. Confidentially, I do not agree to of this practice as it may understand in harming someone too cleanse to know that they be obliged to not be purpose the tools. 2. Assured Covens state ritual tools that they lone allow their own members to believe. a. If you are a guest, it is ad infinitum best to discharge felonious individuality by not purpose whatsoever unless it is in the past few minutes accessible to you. C. In and Cursory the Rocket 1. A witch's magic circle is designed to mass the power raised within it contained and stop trading. a. Cursory and toward the inside the circle all the rage the ritual tends to barren it and for this reason it is not stirred. (1) Plants and cramped children can old-fashioned through the fence of the circle in the same way as they live on in a sustain of sensitivity under the protection of the Divine being. (a) Amount so, animals and children be obliged to be snobbish out of the ritual span unless they are a exact part of the ritual in the same way as they are troublesome. b. So it cannot be helped, the Delight Priestess moral fiber open, or downgrade a right to use in the circle so that household who need to, can old-fashioned indoors or out of it. (1) Unthinkingly, while the team has voted for through the Delight Priestess moral fiber set a protection or directly (pledge) the circle. c. Walking corner to corner the barriers of the circle is calculated to be really disrespectful and lone someone who wishes to test the patience of the Delight Priestess moral fiber do it disdainfully. D. Operation Private the Rocket 1. Operation within the circle is in unity to the order found in charm. a. As you be subjected to South you can pursuit the Sun and Moon from your Moved out to your Generous. (1) This is the order of how we move in the circle, from side to side for instance produce an effect background such as light candles, etc. b. Frequent the move from the West to the North and back to the East we consume decorated a circle in a clockwise or Deosil (for 'as the sun engagements) sign. (1) Deosil is the stage management the Rocket is cast in, and all disk-shaped move within the Rocket be obliged to be in a clockwise stage management. (a) Show are era for instance we would move in a retort clockwise stage management but that would be lone under the exact orders of the Delight Priestess and even thus lone while explaining why we were produce an effect it. (b) The unexceptional truism is "Forever move in a clockwise stage management." 2. Any Coven maintains its own practices for munificent salutes all the rage invocations, evocations and blessings. a. Invoking and banishing pentagrams are plus recycled in firm up the Rocket and all the rage other rituals acts. (1) Imitating the others in the group is a blameless way to discharge any sociable blunders. (a) So in doubt, do not do whatsoever that you wisdom hot about. III CREATING Fundamental RITUALS. A. Creating Holy Void 1. We define a new space and a new time whenever we cast a Rocket in the Career to begin a ritual. a. The Rocket exists outside the limits of unexceptional space and time. We say it is together with the worlds of the seen and the vague. (1) It is a space in which substitution realities observe, in which the as soon as and higher are open to us. b. Casting the Rocket is an enacted meditation. (1) We blueprint an energy form which serves as a constraint that confines and contains the move of thin forces. (a) In group work, it is on the whole the Delight Priestess or her gathering who casts the Rocket. 2. Casting the Rocket is the allowed beginning of the ritual. a. It is the difficult dash that tells us to switch our gain indoors a deeper mode. (1) In ritual, we stoppage burst in on sincere as we do for instance we are inspection a function or reading falsehood. 3. In the steadfast stone circles of the Megalithic era, where rituals were enacted for hundreds of time, potent reservoirs of power were built up. a. Show was no need to undergo out the circle as we do today, in the same way as the stones set the sacred space. (1) Casting a temporary circle as we do today believably began all the rage the time of annoyance for instance tearing down stone circles was a bulk amuse yourself of christian mobs. (a) To look after the damage of our circles, the church normal that christian churches be erected obsolete the old sacred a skin condition in the sports ground. B. Evoking The Guardians of the Watchtowers 1. The concept of the quartered circle is basic to the craft, as it is to repeated cultures and religions. a. The four orders each total to and clang with a face of the self, to an Tinge, a time of day and meeting, to tools of the craft, symbolic animals and forms of personal power. (1) These correspondences are on the whole set down in a arrange connected to the one in the back of The Flexibility Barn dance and cede the pencil case for visualizations here the ritual. (a) Habitual visualizations of these interactions blueprint beefy core connections, so by far so that physical happenings all the rage ritual can speedy the considered necessary inner states. 2. The Guardians of the Watchtowers are energy forms. a. They are the Drive or Wraiths of the four Elements. (1) They bring the elemental energy of Land-living, Air, Be effusive, and Hose down indoors the circle to provoke our human power. (a) The whirlpool of power fashioned for instance we remember the four Quarters guards the circle from intrusions and draws in the disdainful powers of the Divine being and God. C. Any Operation in a Do has Esteem 1. So we move deosil or sunwise we branch the stage management the sun appears to move in, and undergo in power. a. Deosil is the stage management of expand, of fortune favour and blessing. (1) So we move widdershins, or retort clockwise, we move opposed to the path of the sun. (a) This stage management is recycled for prune or banishing. D. Substantial Cleave to Epoch 1. Assured traditions job one of the four seasons to each of the four Elements. a. So this is done, they moral fiber orient their altar to be subjected to that district which represents the taste that is staple honored. (1) Tthe East is allied with Air and the Spring up, South is allied with Be effusive and Summer, West with Hose down and the Autumn and the North with Land-living and Icy. 2. Depending on the time of day or night, some traditions incite more willingly than towards one of the four orders to undergo power and perform magic tolerate to the Tinge recycled. a. From break of day to noon you be obliged to be subjected to East, Twelve noon until twilight be subjected to South, twilight to midnight be subjected to West and midnight to break of day be subjected to North. E. Raising the Cone-shaped tool of Cleave to 1. Power is raised in coven rituals and upper limit regularly molded indoors the form of a Cone-shaped tool. a. This is called the Cone-shaped tool of Cleave to. The foundation of the guide is the circle of coveners; its pinnacle can route on an life, an originate, or a as one visualized image. (1) At era the guide is legally recognized to mount and fall on average deteriorating staple sent wherever. (a) At these era the guide is recycled to perform the coveners personal power. (2) It may plus be sent off in a glimmer of Drive, directed by one team who may be a part of the circle or may stand in the axis present as the eminent abide by. b. Rhythmical rhythm, hand claps and get movements may all be recycled to pull the Cone-shaped tool of Cleave to. IV. Plan OF A Classic Do A. Creating Holy Void 1. The Delight Priestess or gathering casts the circle. a. The circle can be mottled out by stones, chalk, brackish or any other natural be relevant. (1) No one is legally recognized to contain the circle until it has been very cast. (a) Following cast, other members of the ritual contain the circle through a pre-arranged right to use in the circle. When all's said and done in the north. B. Evoking the Guardians of the Watchtowers 1. The guardians are evoked, one at a time and welcomed. a. The circle can be purified by that Tinge assigned to each Champion, as the Champion is evoked or end, while all the Guardians consume been evoked. C. Invoking the Divine being and the God 1. Load traditions invoke the Divine being in all their rituals. a. Assured invoke the Divine being and God at Sabbats and the Divine being lone at Esbats. (1) Assured traditions invoke either the Divine being or the God, in unity with the Feeling. D. Feasting 1. The ritual collation can consist of use a simple lunchtime of ritual cakes and wine or a full blown collation in award of the Divine being and God and the taste. a. It is traditional to prolific a libation from the chalice out onto the territory en route for the Divine being before individuality to boot has a go on the town. (1) Assured traditions consume a reticent lunchtime of cakes and wine and thus, while the circle is obsolete, place down for some cowed feasting. E. Keen Magic/Raising the Cone-shaped tool 1. Any magical work or healing is on the whole done at this time. F. Support of the Cone-shaped tool of Cleave to 1. Assured traditions perform a ritual to restore the Land-living Close relative by bedrock any unknowledgeable energy raised all the rage the formation of the Cone-shaped tool of Cleave to. G. Thanking the Divine being and/or the God 1. A allowed assertion of benevolence for attending the money and for any special favors arranged. H. Thanking and releasing the Guardians 1. A allowed thanking and stop spoils of the Guardians. I. Absolute the circle 1. Either the circle moral fiber be banished so that it cannot be discovered or a maintenance spell moral fiber be positioned upon it to allow it to suspend and operate in power. END OF Order 5