OVERTURNING (YULE)

	At the end of the Glyph's journey through the year, we put it to bed, as it 
were, with a brief rite in which the tile of the Lesser Glyph is brought out and 
ceremoniously flipped over before being nestled back into its box for the coming 
winter months.  

Calendar time: The Winter Solstice, or shortly thereafter

Recommended velocia or planetary time: Saturday, velocia of Earth

Color charges, tools, special notes:  Black or indigo predominate.  The Lesser Glyph tile, in its box, 
is present, as is a censer and appropriate incense for Saturn.

Place from which to start: The point of Saturn

Method of circumambulation: No circumambulation.


  					i.

Voice #1: 	"We are met this night to bid the Sun farewell, for such is our pleasure and our 
	duty as Magicians of the Glyph.  Ours is a task enjoined of our Will, and gladly do we labor
	 for its completion.  We praise the names of those who have gone before us and who inspire 
	our efforts in our own time--we praise the names of those who are yet to come."    


			           ii.

Invocation: 	"Here, at the Gates of Saturn, and in His sacred names 	Chronos, Shabbathai, 
	Saeturnus, we would pass through the veil of the Shining Light to accomplish the works of 
	Tipareth.  With highest mind and with all our being we would raise our inward gaze to the 
	divine vitality in the Sphere of the Sun, ever more clearly to know and to apprehend that 
	effulgent glory."
 
(Battery: 3 very slowly, each one finishing completely before the next is rung.


					iii.

Voice #1: 	"We have given of the time of our lives and labor of our hands, our hearts and our
	minds that this Great and Sacred Construct of Tipareth, of Balance and of Harmony may
	live and dwell in its full beneficent force here in this place.  We have walked the lines of Nature's 
	palm, made oblations and given gifts unto the Temples of the Elder Gods, and this we will do 
	again, for we are the Magicians of the Glyph this day."

(Cense)


					iv.

(proceed to point of the Sun)

Invocation #2 	"Shining Prince of Day!--through thine all-giving and most potent gaze we are
	wrought of star-fire, and kin to the glories beyond the spheres.  Thine is the measure of Time 
	and thine to bestow are the gifts that outpass Time: delight of life, rapture of life renewed!  
	Thou art the Love which illuminates our love and the beauty which shines forth in the beauty 
	of every being.  Thou art present in all: yet now above all and apart from all we invoke thy 
	glorious power.  O thou who art ruler of the orb of Shemesh, thou triumphant hero who 
	dwellest in the delightsome palace of Ratzon; thou whose own heaven is many-hued Zabul, 
	the wide region which is the resplendent dwelling of thy glory: now in thy great excellence, 
	that we may partake in the wonder-working  beneficence of thy rays, open here the luminous 
	gates of thy sphere!"
 
(Reveal the Lesser Glyph)

Voice: #2: 	"Through this, the Xth year of the Greater Glyph's awakening, this Lesser Glyph has 
stood as a symbol of the larger reality of our effort.  As the Sun's life has dwindled (as all lives
inevitably must), we bid farewell for a time.  Farewell to the tides of seeding, growing and of 
harvest!"

All: 	"Farewell!"

(The Lesser Glyph is inverted.)

Voice #2: 	"Welcome the Tempus Eversionis--the time of slumber, dreams and 
	unknown potencies!"

All:	"Welcome"
	  		

		v.

Voice #1: (softly, slowly)  "Hail, life enkindling Sun, child of creation's Lord.  Oh, thou lone, 
all-seeing eye of the vault celestial, extend thy light that we may see but dim thy glory that 
we be not blinded.  Unmask thy countenance, O' God of light, that we may behold the golden
 splendor that lies at the heart of your being and ours!  To thee we give our gratitude! Ever may 
the effulgent flame of Tipareth illumine the sanctuaries of the Glyph.  Ever may its reverberation 
in Zabul be heard, bestowing upon us the most sacred gifts of magickal dedication, the high 
ecstasies of Beauty and the true bounty 	of Harmony.  Fare thee well in thy Slumber."

All:	"Fare thee well."

Battery: 3-5-3


(From the Book of the Glyph.)

 

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