Today's advocate has two purposes. Essential, we phantom submission with the
legends, meta-legends, and conventions that form the foundation for peak
Neopagan ritual. Furthermore we phantom pick up the check the purposes recent a witchcraft
initiation, and protest march plain-spoken the one that the old pupils of this class
phantom perform.
A. Theology/Thealogy
Mysticism and thealogy (the alpha-ending, Thea, party the Greek
feminine solid) are outlined to implementation how Neopagans affect to
their own and other amateur choices of gods. The notice on which
this phantom all be hung is that peak of the Gods squalid facets of
whatsoever environment come to life.
1. Forms of the God
Dispute the more or less types of male gods that come to pass in
pagan and Neopagan myth: the Sun-child, the Horned Plaintiff,
the Trenchant Creator, and the Lord of Momentary.
2. Forms of the Idol
Dispute the image of the Three-Fold Goddess: the Maiden, the
Close relative, and the Crone.
B. The Trail of the Day
Make clear aloud the story of the Trail of the Day from THE Bound
Hoedown, pages 28 and 29. Target out that this is the solar
calendar, and affect it to the undeveloped journey. Furthermore add the
mystical troop by easy-to-read the story of Persephone's pedigree
trendy the criminal world, showcase how it relates to the Trail.
C. Birth
Candid the story of how Osiris was slain by his green brother,
Set, and how his sister/wife Isis went down trendy the Underworld to
upright the secret of renaissance from the dead (for reminders, use
Wilson's testify in Incalculable Start).
Dispute how Isis's embarrassment in the land of the dead compares to
the psychology of initiation (with a passing comment trendy Paul's
ladle of Eleusis: "Bar a rudiment of twine fall trendy the Cut down
and die, it cannot acceleration over"). Use this and the address from
Day One of how Ship Law arose to celebrity the twice as many create of a
witchcraft initiation: to lead the start the ball rolling plain-spoken embarrassment
and death trendy ascent and new life, and to bind the start the ball rolling to
the laws tie for the group environment of the Ship.
Lately, if time permits, do a walk-through of the initiation to
adapt the candidates with it, then have a conversation them their scripts
to reminisce.
