Service Celebrating the Feast for the Supreme Ritual

Service Celebrating the Feast for
the Supreme Ritual

T Polyphilus Ep. Gn.
Based on the Great Invocation of the Equinox of the Gods 1904 ev.
First performed 2005 e.v. at Scarlet Woman Lodge

The following ceremony is intended for the purpose of congregational celebration of the feast decreed in Liber Legis II:40. It is to be held on March 20, preferably at midday. The officers are designated as the MINISTER, BEAST and SEER, and since the ritual is not a cardinal sacrament of the Church, no clergy status is required in order to preside at it. The officers should wear simple white robes. The MINISTER adds a black cincture and a white and gold turban. The SEER adds a black mantle, with a silver crescent thereon. The BEAST adds a black mantle, with a gold sunblaze. All three officers are barefoot.
There must be a simple double-cube altar, centrally placed. On the central altar are a bell and an upright Stele of Revealing. The covering of the altar should be bright green. There is a dais in the West on which the BEAST and SEER can stand.

The BEAST and SEER stand in the West, BEAST to the south, with an unconsecrated sword; SEER to the north, with a string of 44 pearls.
The MINISTER admits the congregation to the temple, locks the door behind them, and stands in the East.

MINISTER: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. I proclaim the Law of Light, Life, Love, and Liberty, in the name of RA-HOOR-KHUIT.

PEOPLE: Love is the law, love under will.

The MINISTER goes to the west of the altar, faces East, and gives the step and sign of a Man and a Brother. All imitate him.

MINISTER: A ka dua tuf ur biu bi a’a chefu dudu nur af an nuteru.

ALL repeat: A ka dua tuf ur biu bi a’a chefu dudu nur af an nuteru.

The People sit.

MINSTER: We are met to commemorate the Feast of the Supreme Ritual, being the Invocation of Horus, which brought about the opening of the New Aeon.

The MINSTER sounds eleven upon the bell: 1-333-333-333-1.

SEER: Above the gemmed azure shines
The naked splendour of Nuit;
She bends in ecstasy to kiss
The secret ardours of Hadit.
The winged globe, the starry blue,
Are mine, O Ankh-af-na-khonsu!

BEAST: I am the Lord of Thebes, and I
The inspired forth-speaker of Mentu;
For me unveils the veiled sky,
The self-slain Ankh-af-na-khonsu,
Whose words are truth. I invoke, I greet
Thy presence, O Ra-Hoor-Khuit!

Unity uttermost showed!
I adore the might of Thy breath,
Supreme and terrible God,
Who makest the gods and death
To tremble before Thee: --
I, I adore thee!

Appear on the throne of Ra!
Open the ways of the Khu!
Lighten the ways of the Ka!
The ways of the Khabs run through
To stir me or still me!
Aum! let it fill me!

The light is mine; its rays consume
Me: I have made a secret door
Into the House of Ra and Tum,
Of Khephra and of Ahathoor.
I am thy Theban, O Mentu,
The prophet Ankh-af-na-khonsu!

By Bes-na-Maut my breast I beat;
By wise Ta-Nech I weave my spell.
Show thy star-splendour, O Nuit!
Bid me within thine House to dwell,
O winged snake of light, Hadit!
Abide with me, Ra-Hoor-Khuit!

The MINISTER sounds eleven upon the bell: 22-22-333-22-22.
The People rise.

MINISTER: Unprepared and uninvoking Thee, we, this congregation of the Gnostic and Catholic Church, are here in Thy Presence--for Thou art Everywhere, O Lord Horus!
How shall we humble ourselves enough before Thee? Thou art the mighty and unconquered Lord of the Universe: we are sparks of Thine unutterable Radiance.
How should we approach Thee? but Thou art Everywhere.
But Thou hast graciously deigned to call us unto Thee, to this Exorcism of Art, that we may be Thy Servants, Thine Adepts, O Bright One, O Sun of Glory! Thou hast called us --should we not then hasten to Thy Presence?
With unwashen hands therefore we come unto Thee, and we lament our wandering from Thee --but Thou knowest!
Yea, we have done evil!
If one blasphemed Thee, why should we therefore forsake Thee? But Thou art the Avenger; all is with Thee.
We bow our necks before Thee (done); and we are in Thy hands. Strike if Thou wilt: spare if Thou wilt: but accept us as we are.
Our trust is in Thee: shall we be confounded? This Ritual of Art; this Forty and Fourfold Invocation; this Sacrifice of Blood--these we do not comprehend.
It is enough if we obey Thy decree; did Thy fiat go forth for our eternal misery, were it not our joy to execute Thy Sentence on ourselves?
For why? For that All is in Thee and of Thee; it is enough if we burn up in the intolerable glory of Thy presence.
Enough! We turn toward Thy Promise.
Doubtful are the Words: Dark are the Ways: but in Thy Words and Ways is Light. Thus then now as ever, we enter the Path of Darkness, if haply so we may attain the Light.
Hail!

ALL: Strike, strike the master chord!
Draw, draw the Flaming Sword!
Crowned Child and Conquering Lord,
Horus, avenger!

MINISTER: O Thou of the Head of the Hawk!

ALL (making the sign of the trident on all such responses): Thee, Thee we invoke!

MINISTER: Thou only-begotten child of Osiris Thy Father, and Isis Thy Mother. He that was slain; She that bore Thee in Her womb flying from the Terror of the Water.