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

Lycania, bloodthirsty She-Wolf, unleash the chained beasts within the darkness of our souls andmake us as one with your own essence!Brimô, O wrathful and forceful goddess, rejoice over the blood that we have spilled in your nameand make us as one with your own essence!Trimorphos, goddess of earth, heaven and the underworld, elevate us to the highest seat of powerand make us as one with your own essence!Hekate, you who in the darkest hours of the night walk amongst the graves of mankind, bless uswith the touch of your bloody leaps and make us as one with your own essence!Chthonian, mistress of the underworld and controller of all dragon veins within the dark earth, grantus now the powers of the chthonic acausal currents and make us as one with your own essence!"All participants point their torches towards the central fire and chant nine times the followingtwenty names:"Crataeis, Enodia, Antania, Propylaia, Propylos, Phosphoros, Lucifera, Soteira, Prytania, Trioditis,Nocticula, Klêidouchos, Trikephalus, Aphrattos, Pandeina, Lycania, Brimô, Trimorphos, Hekate,Chthonian."During the chanting of the twenty names all participants visualize a black pillar or vortex of energyrising up through the fire pit and penetrating the black sky above. This black 'Hekterion Pillar' is themanifestation of the chthonic power of Hekate, and is a force that links the underworld, the worldand the heaven.Even when the names are no longer chanted, the visualization of the black pillar of chthonic poweris maintained as the ritual proceeds. At this point the power that has been called forth, establishedand manifested must be directed to create the magical changes that are willed by the priestess andthe rest of the participants of the ritual. This is done according to tradition and through the use ofvisualization, talismans, sigils, sympathetic magic, sonic magic, sexual magic or other methods forthe focusing, directing and letting go of the manifested currents.It is also at this point that fetishes consecrated to Hekate can be charged with power and later placedin her temple in order to strengthen all future rituals done with her aid.When all follow up rituals are over, the twenty names of the goddess are once again praised by alland the ritual is closed by the priestess who claps her hands three times and exclaims:"It is done!"119