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XII Creating Circles & Ceremonies But this material was so important, and the contributions so wonderful, that I felt it worthwhile to go to this much trouble just to make it available. Unfortunately, as we found ourselves having to move several times, the effort of copying and binding each edition soon became too overwhelming to keep up, and I had to let it lapse after running off maybe a couple hundred copies. Regardless, materials were collected for two more volumes. Book II was to comprise a collection of actual rituals for Esbats, Rites of Passage, Nest meetings, magickal workings, blessings, etc., and Book III was to cover the Wheel of the Year. However, conflicts within the Church at that time precluded further publication, and the entire project was shelved. But each copy of HOME Cooking has been a treasure to those who managed to get them, and I still get requests from those who haven’t. So at the International New Age Trade Show (INATS) in June of 2005, I showed my dog-eared copy of HOME Cooking Book I to my Publishers at New Page Books. With the phenomenal success of my first book, Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard (2004), and a second Companion volume on the way, they immediately snapped up the proposal for publishing the entire three-volume set of HOME Cooking materials as a single book, to be re-titled: Creating Circles & Ceremonies: Rituals for All Seasons & Reasons. So as soon as Companion for the Apprentice Wizard was off to the printer, I fired off an e-mail to all the folks who had contributed to the original HOME Cooking, explaining the new project, and asking their permission to include their materials. That was about 100 people. However, some of those who received my post thought it would be helpful to forward it on to various lists of Pagan writers, and soon we were deluged with wonderful submissions from some of the most creative minds of the magickal community! All of us felt honored to have some our own inspired poetry, spells, invocations, chants, workings, and rituals, etc., become a permanent part of the liturgy of the fastest-growing religious movement in the English-speaking world. This is like getting your songs into the hymnal of your church! And after all, that’s why we create such works in the first place…so that others will use them to enhance our collective magick in healing and awakening Gaia. Hence this present compilation, while including most of the original HOME Cooking materials, has expanded to include significant contributions from throughout the worldwide Neo-Pagan community—and beyond, as you will find here ritual resources from other ceremonial traditions as well. Some of these pieces entered our rituals and collections anonymously; we decided to include some that have been important parts of our liturgy, even if we couldn’t determine where they came from. Every effort has been made to locate and contact authors and copyright holders, but for any omissions that can be properly attributed, we would appreciate being informed for corrections and credits in future printings. In this new manifestation, we go beyond the original premise of focusing just on decades of accumulated rituals developed in the Church of All Worlds, to produce a general “kit” with mix-’n’-match components for creating rituals and ceremonies for every conceivable purpose. We intend this book to be both a tribute to our amazing magickal community, and a quintessential resource for any ritualist, of any magickal Tradition or Path, be they Pagans, New Agers, Unitarians, Solitaries, Wiccans, Gaians, and other spiritual folk. We hope you will find it a treasure trove to enrich your ceremonies, and your life! And if you want to learn more about CAW and Annwfn, go to: www.CAW.org.
Book I: T he Magick Circle 1. Welcome to the Circle of Magick! Introduction to Magick & Ritual .... 14 Why Study Magick?........................ 14 Creating Rituals .............................. 15 HOME Cooking: The Magick Circle ... 15 Circle Symbolism ............................ 17 The Magick Circle Mandala............ 18 Questions to Ask in Planning Ritual.. 19 Theatrical Considerations ............... 19 Ethics of Magick & Ritual .............. 20 Circle Lore & Etiquette .................. 21 Basic Ritual Structure ..................... 22 A Universal Inter-Faith Ceremony .... 24 L’Adoration de la Terre .................. 25 2. Creating a Sacred Space The Circle, our Magick Temple ...... 27 Ritual Altars .................................... 29 Preparations .................................... 34 Cleansing the Altar .......................... 35 The Ritual bath ............................... 35 Smudging, Asperging, Grounding... 36 Casting the Circle............................ 37 Groundings ..................................... 38 Circle Castings ................................ 39 3. Calling the Quarters The Four Directions ........................ 42 The Elements .................................. 42 Table of Circle Correspondences .... 43 Invoking the Quarters ..................... 44 Invocation & the Power of Sound (1) ... 44 Summoning the Quarters—generic . 45 Calling the Quarters—specific ........ 46 Quarter Callings .............................. 47 Table of Contents 4. Inviting in the Deities Invocations & Evocations ............... 52 Invocation & the Power of Sound (2) ... 54 The Mystery of the Gods ................ 55 Assuming the Positions ................... 56 Goddess Invocations ....................... 57 God Invocations ............................. 64 Goddess & God combined .............. 70 5. Working the Magic The Heart of the Ritual ................... 72 Energy & Magick............................ 75 Music & Ritual................................ 76 Magick-Working Chants ................. 78 6. Communion Holy Communion ............................ 82 Sacraments & Snackraments ......... 84 Ceremonial Bread ........................... 87 Consecrations & Blessings ............. 89 7. Ending the Ritual All Good Things ............................. 91 Merry Meet Again! ......................... 93 Dismissals ....................................... 94
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