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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