Ceremony for the Opening of the Glyph:

Gathered at the Mercury point, champagne is brought, along with enough glasses to go 'round. A small amount of tobacco is also in the kit.

1: Wards Adamant, sub rosa nigra

2: Voice #1: "We are met this day to bid the Sun welcome! Such is our pleasure and our duty as Magicians of the Glyph! (TOAST) "Ours is a task enjoined of our Will, and gladly do we labor for it's completion." (TOAST) "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."

3: Invocation: "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." (TOAST: L'ChAIM! or equivalent: "to life!")

4: Battery: 6 (becoming faster at each beat)

5: Cense with tobbaco and the usual solar mix. If cinnamon is used, only a hint of it is recommended, as this substance is a great part of the Solstice suffumigations.

6: Invocation #2 "Shining Prince of the New 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, rature of life renewed!" (TOAST) "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 benificence of thy rays, open here the luminous gates of thy sphere!" (TOAST)

7: Voice #1: "In the past we have given the time of our lives and the 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 it's full benificent 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 in this day." (EMPTY REMAINDER OF GLASSES ON GROUND)

8: Reveal the Lesser Glyph

9: Voice: #2: "This, the 2nd year of the Greater Glyph's awakening has come! In the times of darkness and of uncertainty, this Lesser Glyph has stood as a symbol of the larger reality of our effort. As the Sun's life enkindles creation on this day we bid welcome to this Day! Welcome to the Tide of Seeding, Tempus Sementis. May our fortunes double and our lives be enriched." (POUR A ROUND FOR ALL)

All: "Let it be." (TOAST)

10: The Lesser Glyph is turned upwards and the Key placed upon it, oriented upon the glyph. (TOAST: L'ChAIM! or equivalent: "to life!")

11: Voice #1: "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 countenace, O' God of Light, that we may behold the golden splendour 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 it's reverberation in Zabul be heard, bestowing upon us the most sacred gifts of magickal dedication, the high ecstascies of Beauty and the true bounty of Harmony. "

All: "Welcome! Welcome Home!" (TOAST)

12: Battery: 3-5-3

At this point, a "generic" circumambulation took place, beginning at Mercury and ending at Jupiter, before moving in to the center.


The above script, written by Frater A, was implemented on the 21st of March at about 2:14 by Magnus Po and Frater A.

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