Evening:
RITUAL: Linda Falario, Fred Fowler, Mishlen and me. about 25 participants
WILL: Bring down the star currents in their Nightside,
Voodoo, Tibetan Buddhist forms into the ritualists and
participants. Communication/communion with the Star
Beings.
LOVE: Participants lying in a large circle with
their heads pointed in to the four of us. Blowups from
the SHADOW TAROT around inner circle. Linda did the
NightSide calls to the 8 directions. I called Legba,
Fred called Ochosi, Mishlen did the Gate Gate chant and
sounded the bell, filled the skull bowl with stellar
nectar and took it around offering it to the people.
Linda worked with the bowl and walked the bowls contents
around pouring them upon the people.
SUCCESS: The Stellar Nectar flowed.
COMMENT: Strong thought of Dr.
John getting messages from the stars. Looked up and saw
vast, soft rays of starlight pouring down upon the
earth. I was immense, standing between the earth and the
sky. Subtle beings began to form in the space between
the stars lights. Linda described the bowl as
overflowing with the nectars. The nectars flowed over
and out of the bowl and over the area covering the
people. Mishlen's period began exactly when the ritual
began.
Saturday 9 (SUMMERHAWK 1997)
Afternoon
Mishlen spoke on Tibetan Buddhism. Great interest. It
turns out that many in the magickal community have ties
with and knowledge of the Tibetan religions. The Tibetan
current is something that has not been addressed in the
Festivals. It can add to the Ceremonial Magick;
especially with its emphasis on compassion and a
largeness of Self to include all sentient beings..
Evening
RITUAL: (from the Festivals Program) First Night of the Prophet and His Bride Initiation of a Thelemic Nation of Loa.
The Thelemic God-Forms (Prophet) and the Loa (Bride)
will be invited to commingle and inhabit all
participants at the ritual. Those whose Will it is to
participate, will be infused with the dual
Thelemic/Voodoo current upon entering the central ritual
space through a funnel of Initiators (Initiators will be
wearing a red arm cloth). Once in the central ritual
space, the participants experience and act the
initiation as the Prophet/Bride (Thelema/Voodoo) and the
participants Will ordains. Bokor Louis Martinie' is
conducting this Ritual.
WILL: Initiation of a Thelemic
Nation of Loa.
LOVE: Creation of Active and Receptive
Temples. The fire and ritual action took place in the
Active Temple (Grouple). The Receptive Temple was
composed of about 200 Luminaries that were placed to
mirror the physical shape of the Active Temple. It was
a place where the ritualists could go after the active
segment of the rite to Eat/Feast Upon the current
generated.
A group of Initiators stood at the entrance of the Active Temple. I drew a veve at the entrance to the Temple. Participants came forward and stood within the veve. As they stood, the Temple Flags from the New Orleans Voodoo Spiritual Temple were passed over the participants bodies and verses from Liber L were recited. At the same time as the above was taking place, I held their head and pressed a bit of earth from Congo Square and BrushWood onto the back of their neck while calling Papa Legba. Did gate/ghate. Called the Flambeau of the New Orleans Voodoo Tarot. With the babies and children who came through, I pressed the Ghate,Ghate mantra. After this I moved the participant into the circle around the fire.
Once all of those whose Will it was to participate were in the circle and moving clockwise around the fire, I lead the Initiators in a counterclockwise movement around the fire/participants.
When the immediate power raised by the Initiation had
peaked, I directed the Initiators into the Shadow Temple
to feast on what was raised.
SUCCESS: A birth; now to
watch for the forms the manifestations will take. A
FEAST(in the Shadow Temple)OF THE FIRST NIGHT
(Initiation of a Thelemic Nation of Loa) OF THE PROPHET
(Thelema) and his Bride (VooDoo).
COMMENT: - I want to
emphasize that this is "a" Thelemic Nation of loa. The
word "the "is to often used in a tedious fashion in
describing Workings such as this. - I was acting as a
Bokor, not a Priest. Therefore this Working was in large
measure an experiment. - Walking to the ritual site via
a pre ritual feast, a 6(?) year old girl ran up to me
and threw her arms around me saying, "I found you, I
found you." I had never seen her before. She took me
over to a woman who turned out to be her grandmother.
The grandmother said that the child's mother was living
in New Orleans. The name of the child was Silence. She
and then another child sat on my lap. Ibiji, Marassa.
The ritual had begun. - When I made it over to the area
of the ritual and the fire one of the fire keepers came
up excitedly and said they found a snake in the wood
they were about to burn. It was a baby (like the human
child before). I remember the snake as being orange and
black on top with a bright red stomach. From the
attitude of the firekeepers, finding a snake in the wood
to be burnt was not at all a common occurrence. I took
the snake to a high hill overlooking the ritual area and
released it. I reminded the snake I was saving its life
and that it was to speak to Ayida Wedo and to Damballah
Wedo to help with the ritual. Perfect fit with what I
said about sacrifice at the session earlier on Friday.
Interesting that before the StarWood rite I carried a
frog to safety and charged it with a task. - The veve I
drew was to Legba (old). His cane was on one arm of the
crossroads (to the right when facing the veve) and the
Hebrew letter "lamed" was written, not printed, on the
left arm of the crossroads. Lamed as a red snake.
So...Black Snake, White Snake, Red Snake?. - One man who
lost (the use of) his feet at the Initiation. Very snake
like. - RL & C experienced one leg expanding and one leg
contracting. - Sitting Guede posture taken by one man.
Firm in the posture, preventing movement. One leg
crossed one leg down. - C. who took the position of
Babalon and carried the flag of Erzulie, was drained by
the ritual. She went to lie down and heard a clicking in
her ears. An Islamic mosaic appeared replete with the
names of God., Then ants began crawling over the mosaic.
Roaches also came...The Insect loa. N. took the position
of the Baron/Guedes. This was a strong current during
the rite. Perhaps "the dead man" Ankh-f-n-Khonsu. - The
twin ShadowTemple seemed to me to be higher up than the
Active Temple. This was also brought up by another
ritualist. -Definite ships prow mermaid figure in the
fire. The figure was formed by a large piece of wood
burning. Middle Passage through fire rather than water?
Quiet drummer pointed the figure out to me...he was
also the last person in the Shadow Temple as I gathered
the flags at dawn.
-Drumming till dawn. I received the red suspenders of a third shift drummer.
Drive back to Bloomington.
The discharge generated by an excited or agitated mind is an excellent raw fuel. It has little in the nature of subtly, but much force.
Bottom room flooded due to extreme rain. Hail the size of golf balls reported in area I would have been crossing. I worked to help control the water in the Bottom Room. Did NOT go to New Orleans.