Crone Ritual
based on The Great Invocation, the Rite of Jupiter and the Bornless Ritual by A. Crowley
(Cast Circle)
Blessed art thou, sister, for thy life is spread out before thee and behind thee. The serpent is uncoiled within thee, and thou hast achieved thy Power. Thou art veiled as our Lady and hidden from the profane. Be thou the vessel of the Goddess!
Maia, Maia, Hecate, Omphale!
Hecate, Queen of Wisdom and Death
Lady of Silence who abides in the dark sea of Night,
The Goddess shrouded by the veil
O Thou Hidden One, Goddess of Power, who commands the Gates of the Underworld to open and to close Her will.
I invoke Thee by Willow and Ash, Thy sacred trees.
I invoke Thee by the Cauldron that seethes with blood.
I invoke Thee by the hounds of the Abyss.
O Thou who dost generate all things and bringest forth from thy womb the sun and grain and wind and rain! SOI!
Maia, Maia, Hecate! Io Io Evoe!
I invoke the Priestess of the Silver Star!
Asi the Curved One!
By the Ritual of Silence, I make open the gates of bliss!
Thou descendest from the Palace of Twilight!
Thou who stirs the cauldron of Rebirth.
Thou who bearest the scepter of adamant.
In Thy right hand Thou wieldest the sword pierced by the rose,
And the Serpent Staff is Thine to command!
I invoke Thee, Thou whose head is a Jackel!
Thou whose nemmes is the veil of eternity!
I invoke Thee, Thou whose touch is sleep and prophesy!
Whose skin burnest with the cold of a thousand moons!
I invoke Thee, Thou who devours the souls of evil and grants truth to Thy handmaidens. OH TAIS!
Behold Thou art yesterday, today, and the sister of tomorrow!
Thou art the deathless One, Mother of the Gods!
Thine is the unseen form whereof the Gods themselves are made!
Thine is the life imparted to the dwellere of the watchtowers of the Universe!
I adore Thee!
I beseech Thee!
Thy witches are gathered at the crossroads!
Maia, Maia, Hecate! Io Io Evoe!
Thy Priestess awaits Thine advent.
Thee I invoke!
By Thine herbs of hellebore and hemlock!
Thee I invoke!
By all the powers of the Mysteries!
ISCAROS!
Thy light is eaten up in blindness for Thou hast devoured it!
Lady of Rebirth who sent Thy children forth from the dusk,
Thy house is the house of death and birth!
Thou dwellest in the deepest caverns of hopelessness and giveth hope, divine Guardian of sky and sea and all Gods and Powers, who keepest watch over the Universe!
Who leads the coffin to the house of rest, who standest behind the throne of Peresephone and whispers wisdom into the ears of sorrow, Lady of the Shrine that standest in the center of the Earth! EUCHRISTOS!
Behold Thou art in Her! She is in Thee!
IAO! IO IO HECATE! IO IO EVOE!
Thou art the radiance of limitless dark, the firmanment on which walk the Gods!
Thou art the traveler in the subterranean sea!
Thou treadest on the bodies of the slain and raise them up unconquered!
Thou casts the dust of ashes into the eyes of the righteous so that they are granted visions!
Thine eyes pierce madness to see truth and shear away ignorance!
Ever silent, every secret, Thou art the stillness, and the splendor of the victory of death!
Thou sayest, "Come unto me in the abode of silence, and I shall give thee rest and wisdom and peace to thy spirit that cryest in the wilderness of loneliness"
Behold Thou art the companion, the friend of all who have called upon Thee in the hour of despair!
Thou art Hecate incarnate in the flesh, Mother of the Gods, Daughter of Eris! IO IO HECATE! IO IO EVOE!
Hecate who commands is in thy mouth
Thy tongue is the sanctuary of wisdom
Hecate of prophesy is in thy heart
And the Goddess sittest upon thy lips!
Thy word is accomplished every day!
And the desires of thy heart is realised in death and birth!
Therefore do Thou come forth unto the Priestesses of Night from Thine abode in the Silence. Unutterable wisdom! All Power! Light that dwells in the darkness! Hecate, Maia, Hera, Cerredwin, by whatever name I call Thee, Thou art still nameless to eternity! Come forth and abide within the body of Thy Priestess. Thou, secret of secrets that did restore the life of Ra. Thou art the Same, all present in the stars and in the sable velvet of the grave! Thou that binds together the light and darkness! Ever unchanging from uttermost east to uttermost west! The sea of energy is Thy mother and Thou art fatherless forever and ever! The wind is Thy messenger that Thou sendest forth from Tartarus from the Elesian fields Thou nourish the Gods and man with the coming of spring and harvest in Thy blessing of bounty upon Thy children! Come forth and all spirits shall be subject unto Thee so that every spirit of the firmament and of the aether upon the Earth and under the Earth on dry land and in the Waters of whirling Air and of rush Fire and every spell and scourge of every God may be obedient unto Thee!
IO HECATE EVOE!
We greet Thee! We give reverence unto Thee! Thou hast gathered together the children of the Earth in the Hall of Darkness! A speech in the Silence! The words against the Sons of Night! The voice of Hecate in the Universe in the Presence of the Eternal! The formula of Knowledge! The wisdom of Breath! The root of Form! The shaking of the Invisible! The rolling asunder of the Stygian Night! The becoming of visible Matter! The piercing of the scales of the Crocodile! The breaking forth of the Light! Speak now to we who have called Thee, that Thy wisdom shall live again in the hearts of the children of eternity!
(The Goddess Speaks) allow the one who is invoked to impart her wisdom and speak til she is done.
There is an end of speech: Let the silent darkness be broken: Let it return unto the silence of light. Honor to you and love as you have descended. Now rise above! Thy feet the feet of a mortal Priestess. Blessed art thou, our mortal Sister, Vesel of Light and Divine Forever! Breathe the light that shines in darkness! We are One! So Mote it Be!
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