Meet at the point of the sun, day of the Summer's Solstice, not long after the sun has entered the sign of Cancer. If a particular velocia or tide is selected, it should be that of fire. An incense blend is made which predominates in cinnamon and other fiery components and should be markedly different from that which is used in the Opening Rite of the spring.
1: Wards Adamant, sub rosa nigra. Kindle incense.
2: Voice#1: Gives impromptu speech to those assembled and all to face the direction of the sun, explaining the events to unfold an their part therein.
3: Voice#2: gives the A.S. Sun Salutation.
4: Voice#3: "We are met this day to bid the Sun strength on it's journey! Such is our pleasure and our duty as Magicians of the Glyph! Ours is a task brought forth from our hearts that the heart of our world would share it it's radiance, and gladly do we do this."
5: Voice#4: "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."
6: 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."
7: (Battery: 6--becoming faster at each beat)
8: Cense with solar mix.
9: 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! 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!"
10: 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." Cense with Solar mix.
11: The Key is now brought out and revealed, held high.
12: Voice: #2: "This, the height of the Glyph's strength is come! This, the key of that reslpedent glory that is pride of our endeavor calls to it's children struck from the selfsame material long ago. It calls them from the scattered temples of (saturn)--"(battery=3)"--from (venus)--"(battery=7) "--from (mercury)--"(battery=8)"--from (luna)--" (battery=9)"--from (mars)"(battery=5)"--and from (jupiter)"(battery=4). "We call it all to dance!"(battery=1)
13: All: "Dance!"
(Battery=1)
All: "Dance"
(etc., until six pairs of battery-shouts are reached. Voice #5 holds up hand to stop chant.)
14: Voice#5: "Welcome the tide of Growth, of nurture-- Tempus Messis. May our fortunes double and our lives be enriched!"
All: "Let it be."
15:(The Key is replaced in it's box.)
16: Voice #1: "Hail, hail the bringer of balance, harmony and warmth! Oh, thou most singular all-father, extend thy light that we may see but dim thy glory that we be not blinded. Reveal yourself, 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: Huzzahs and noise-making.
(Finish with the battery: 3-5-3)
A "generic" circumambulation of the glyph would here take place where Saturn is visited first and the rest in the order: Venus-Mercury-Saturn-Moon-Mars-Jupiter-Moon-Sun as in the Spring Rite. All should repair to the sort of party that gets talked about for years--kegs of beer, live music, a small security detail . . .
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