Chthonic Mandala Ritual – Autumnal Equinox

Composed for use by Thelesis Camp OTO

September 2002 ev by Frater Nefer-Khabs

Sunday 9/22, 2PM, Lemon Hill in Fairmount Park (behind Art Museum) Phil., PA

Preparation

Each celebrant should come with a strip of cloth (1 or 2” by 1’ or so) with a wish for the coming quarter written thereon

Clean ritual space of debris

Purify circle with salted water, deosil

Sanctif circle with incense, deosil

Each celebrant should be clothed in the proper color, equipped with proper weapon,

Each celebrant will stand in respective quarter, according to God-form they’re assuming.

In the E.: Hermes, Leo, Airy aspect of Earth = most productive; yellow greenish; frankincense; weapon is cadeucus

In the S.: Hades, Aries, Fiery aspect of Earth = most volatile, eruptile; scarlet; dragon’s blood; weapon is flail (rod with several strips of robe, chain, etc., attached at one end): an open bottle of wine has been set in his Quarter

In the W.: Kore, Sagittarius, Watery aspect of Earth = most receptive to influence; blue; Lign-aloes; weapon is chalice

In the N.: Hecate, Capricorn, Earthy aspect of Earth = stable; indigo; musk, civet; weapon is sickle

In the Center: Demeter dressed in white and black holding ears of fresh and dried corn

Ritual

* Celebrants process into ritual space from the E., led by Demeter followed by Hermes, Hecate, Kore, Hades, circle deosil 3 times, then Demeter moves from E. to center and each continues till they come to place and stop

*Demeter rings bell 1-3-3-3-1 and says “Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law”

*All harmonize by chanting “OM” till they feel attuned

*Star Ruby

*opening by Watchtower

*Each celebrant recites their passage, adapted from “Liber Res” in turn, ending by vibrating their God name,

Hernes:

Hail unto thee who art Hemera at the sunrise
even unto thee who art Hemera in thy strength

Who travellest over the Earth at the uprising of the Sun

Hermes standeth in his splendor at the reins and Dionysus abidest in his helm

Hail unto thee from the abodes of night

HEMERA!

Hades:

Hail unto thee who art Helios in thy triumphing
even unto thee who art Helios in thy beauty

Who travellest over the Earth at the midpoint of the Sun

Hermes standeth in his splendor at the reins and Dionysus abidest in his helm

Hail unto thee from the abodes of morning

HELIOS!

Kore:

Hail unto thee who art Nyx at the sunset
even unto thee who art Nyx in thy joy

Who travellest over the Earth at the downgoing of the Sun

Hermes standeth in his splendor at the reins and Dionysus abidest in his helm

Hail unto thee from the abodes of day

NYX!

Hecate:

Hail unto thee who art Tartarus in thy hiding
even unto thee who art Tartarus in thy silence

Who travellest over the Earth at the uprising of the Sun

Hermes standeth in his splendor at the reins and Dionysus abidest in his helm

Hail unto thee from the abodes of evening

TARTARUS!

*Then, all present recite the Adoration together

*Each lights their incense

*They invoke their respective God-form by the manner of invocation they choose (i.e. Star Hexagram, Reguli, meditation, etc.) simultaneously;

Kore -- caressing herself lasciviously -- declaims:

“I am Kore whose Rule Is Love, Love Under Will

All happenstance and history comes through my orgies

Power leaps upon possibility as the Ram mounts the Ewe

My ecstasy of dissolution is All.”

She stands hugging herself, and begins pore-breathing the Element of Water. This entails thinking and imagining sensation of cold, wet and contracting; taking several deep breaths into your stomach, then taking several deep breath of the sensation of Water; then continue breathing but imagine this sensation entering through all the pores of your body. As you breath out, the sensation remains inside, accumulating.

Hermes begins pore-breathing the Element of Air at this time.

Hecate circles widdershins 3 times and then stops in front of Hades and declaims

“I am Hecate and my beauty is hidden by mankind’s blindness

I am the eater of stars and I incubate their fire in the dark and the dead

All lie hidden and silent with Me in My Womb of sleepy Earth

Being prepared to go forth by day again, then again unto infinity.”

She returns directly to her Quarter and begins pore-breathing the Element of Earth: cold, dry, heavy.

Hades Walks deosil and stops in front of Kore declaiming:

“I am Hades

You know Who I Am, you’ve stared at the Sun

For I Am the One, Who loves changing from Nothing to One

Then to every thing, to the One Thing, to None.”

Hades takes Kore by the hand and they circle 3 times widdershins, returning to the South. They sit down together and link arms. He begins pore-breathing the Element of Fire: hot, dry and expanding.

Hecate walks deosil to Hermes, takes him by the hand and they circle 3 times deosil, then walk from the E. to the center to confront Demeter.

Demeter – who has been pore-breathing all the Elements in turn, feeding each accumulated energy to a cave she envisions in the Earth declaims:

“I am the Great Mother who rides standing on a panther

I am many-breasted and eagerly spout abundance upon my offspring, all the living

If I fill your mouth with ambrosia, then roast you like an acorn in the hearth, you awaken to immortality.

Yet I too can be brought to sadness, a Mater dolorosa.

My pride and joy, stolen from my side, despoiled for lust’s sake.

Then all feel my sorrow as I withhold my favor from the earth.”

Hermes declaims:

I am Hermes, the thrice great

I am the breath of the Bornless One exhaled in the word that spells Creation

I am the Fool stumbling through the dark over small details of living

The lamp that lights the way is my motto: “As above, so below.”

Hecate, then Hermes move to stand between Demeter and Kore, Hecate closest to Demeter.

Demeter calls up all the energies from the storage cave, takes Hecates left hand and passes it all to her, then crumples to the ground.

Hecate takes that energy, coats it in a globe of the Elemental Earth energy she has stored, she takes Hermes’ left hand in her right and passes it all to him, gives sign of Puella and crumples to the ground.

Hermes takes that energy, coats it in a pyramid of the Elemental Air energy he has stored, he takes Hades’ left hand in his right, raises him to standing position and passes it all to him, gives sign of Puer and crumples to the ground

Hades takes that energy, coats in a cube (visualized as two pyramids sitting base to base) of the Elemental Fire energy he has stored, he takes Kore’s left hand in his right, raises her to standing and passes it all to her.

Kore – rubbing her belly as if pregnant and content – declaims:

“I Kore whose Rule Is Love, Love Under Will

All happenstance and history comes through my orgies

Power leaps upon possibility as the Ram mounts the Ewe

My ecstasy of dissolution is All.”

She sits back down and visualizes dissolving each container in turn, mixing all energy in her womb.

All rise and each celebrant and participant comes before her, picks up the chalice, pours some wine, ties the wish-cloth around the up and hands it to Kore. She blesses it discharging energy into the cup while they project their desire upon it, then consume it. They remove the cloth to deposit it at a sacred spot of their choosing with an offering at another time.

*Kore and Demeter recite together:

I am the Mater-real presence of the Divine manifest.

My mysteries are taught in the journey from Athens to Eleusis.

My great Temple stands at Ephesus.

Life is a merry dance from womb to the tomb

And death is a merry dance from tomb to womb.

Among the living I lead the hunt, hunting the hunters to feed my children and feed them to others in turn

My best beloved is Dionysus who leads my Bacchae on the hunt for still sweeter meats --

liberating the soul so it may shed her raiment and offer herself to be taken and penetrated by the Spirit.

Amen.

*Closing by Watchtower

*LBRP

*Demeter rings bell 3-5-3

End