Temple of the Black Light (TOTBL) is an international temple ...

Hekate! Hekate! Hekate!Be now with us, O you mighty Trimorphos, and with the flames of your lusts and the power of yourinfernal magic ignite the poisoned arrows of our True Will that we, in your name, have aimed at theheart of our darkest desires!"One of the participants that has been chosen beforehand retrieves the black dog that before the startof the ritual has been tied up to a tree close to the place of the ritual. The priestess of Hekate electsone of the participants for the honour of giving the animal's life force as a sacrifice to the goddess.The chosen one is granted the sacrificial dagger by the priestess and awaits her signal before thekilling of the black animal hallowed to Hekate.The priestess lifts her torch up to the sky and says the following prayer before the sacrifice is givento the goddess:"O you who are the mistress of the blackest magic and of all forms of forbidden necromancy, we,who illuminated by our own inner light have without fear or hesitation entered the darkness of theunknown, invoke and beseech you!We call upon and rouse you, O mighty Hekate!Be now with us, your eternally faithful worshippers, and accept the offering that we are about togive to you!Open the gates to your dark realm and accept the warm blood that we are about to spill in yourname and in return strengthen the black magic of our will!The priestess of Hekate retrieves a bowl in which the blood of the animal is to be collected andsignals to the chosen one to slit the animal's throat. The blood is collected in the bowl, which thepriestess lifts above her head as all participants chant the name of Hekate nine times.The priestess steps forward to the fire pit and pours the blood, in a anti-clockwise fashion, over theeleven crystals surrounding the fire, while all participants vibrate three times:"An-Tan-Ia!"She then puts aside the bowl, retrieves her torch and return to her original position. She points thetorch towards the fire pit, which now has become as an open gate to the acausal streams within theearth (i.e. the chthonic fire).The priestess recites with a powerful voice the following calling of the twenty names:"Crataeis, O you whose beauty and might is without both limit and end, grant us now the Sceptre of117