Spiritual Father: Welcome to the Rite of the Dark Moon, we are glad to have you!
Spiritual Mother: Yes welcome!
Spiritual Father: Tonight we explore the strengthening of the spiritual Self through better understanding of the relationship between the physical and the spiritual. I would like each of you to take a moment to center yourself. Take a few deep cleansing breaths. Allow yourself to feel the oxygen being carried to your lungs. Really pay attention to the process.
Spiritual Mother: With practice, you can actually feel the air travel throughout your body. Your body is not a dead instrument. You have the capability to communicate with your physical state, to direct some of its functions, and to recognize its needs as they come about.
Spiritual Father: We shall begin.
Spiritual Mother: Layla (Lilith), Dark Mother, tonight is the Dark Moon. Many things are revealed in the Darkness and as we are Seekers this is our time. Tonight we seek to awaken to our physical selves, to indulge in physical things, to be more aware of our body’s needs, wants and desires. Join with us Mother; guide us to that which we seek! Hail!
(All Members follow with Hail!)
Spiritual Mother: Ancestors be with us tonight; makers of this flesh it is you who gave us our bodies. Your sacred act bore us into this world and through it you have created the vehicles with which our spirits reside. Join us, share with us your wisdom's, and guide us in this Ritual! Hail!
(All Members follow with Hail!)
Spiritual Father: I draw this blade, and with it, I cut away any and all neglect I have had in regards to my physical vehicle. I pass this blade to our Spiritual Mother…
Spiritual Mother: I draw this blade, and with it, I cut away any and all neglect I have had in regards to my physical vehicle. I pass this blade to ______ (Next Member)…
(All Members pass the blade, repeating the oath not to neglect their physical vehicles until the blade is returned to our Spiritual Father)…
Spiritual Father: I drink of this chalice, and so doing, I take into myself the power to change the way that I treat my physical vehicle. (Drinks of the chalice) I pass the chalice to our Spiritual Mother…
Spiritual Mother: I drink of this chalice, and so doing, I take into myself the power to change the way that I treat my physical vehicle. (Drinks of the chalice) I pass the chalice to ______ (Next Member)…
(All Members pass the chalice, taking in the power to change the way they treat their physical vehicle, until the chalice is returned to our Spiritual Father)…
Spiritual Father: We are each of us Divine, in body and spirit. I hope that you leave the Ritual tonight with renewed purpose towards your awareness of your physical vehicle.
Spiritual Mother: Hail!
(All Members answer with Hail!)
© Rev. Samilyn and Rev. JP DDG