V. OF THE OFFICE OF THE COLLECTS WHICH ARE ELEVEN IN NUMBER
The
Sun
The DEACON: "Lord visible and sensible
of whom this earth is but a frozen spark turning about thee with annual and
diurnal motion, source of light, source of life, let thy perpetual radiance
hearten us to continual labour and enjoyment; so that as we are constant partakers
of thy bounty we may in our particular orbit give out light and life, sustenance
and joy to them that revolve about us without diminution of substance or effulgence
for ever."
The People: "So mote it be."
The
Lord
The DEACON: "Lord secret and most
holy, source of life, source of love, source of liberty, be thou ever constant
and mighty within us, force of energy, fire of motion; with diligence let us
ever labour with thee, that we may remain in thine abundant joy."
The People: "So mote it be."
The
Moon
The DEACON: "Lady of night, that
turning ever about us art now visible and now invisible in thy season, be thou
favourable to hunters, and lovers, and to all men that toil upon the earth,
and to all mariners upon the sea."
The People: "So mote it be."
The
Lady
The DEACON: "Giver and receiver
of joy, gate of life and love, be thou ever ready, thou and thine handmaiden,
in thine office of gladness."
The People: "So mote it be."
The
Saints
The DEACON: "LORD of Life and Joy,
that art the might of man, that art the essence of every true god that is upon
the surface of the Earth, continuing knowledge from generation unto generation,
thou adored of us upon heaths and in woods, on mountains and in caves, openly
in the marketplaces and secretly in the chambers of our houses, in temples of
gold and ivory and marble as in these other temples of our bodies, we worthily
commemorate them worthy that did of old adore thee and manifest they glory unto
men,
(At each name the DEACON signs + with thumb between index and medius. At ordinary mass it is only necessary to commemorate those whose names are in bold face, with wording as is shown.)
Lao-tzu
and Siddhartha and Krishna and Tahuti, Mosheh, Dionysus,
Mohammed and To Mega Therion, with these also, Hermes, Pan,
Priapus, Osiris and Melchizedek, Khem and Amoun and Mentu, Heracles,
Orpheus and Odysseus; with Vergilius, Catullus,
Martialis, Rabelais, Swinburne, and many an holy bard; Apollonius
Tyanæus, Simon Magus, Manes, Pythagoras, Basilides,
Valentinus, Bardesanes and Hippolytus, that transmitted
the Light of the Gnosis to us their successors and their heirs; with
Merlin, Arthur, Kamuret, Parzival, and many another, prophet, priest and king,
that bore the Lance and Cup, the Sword and Disk, against the Heathen; and
these also, Carolus Magnus and his paladins, with William of Schyren,
Frederick of Hohenstaufen, Roger Bacon, Jacobus Burgundus Molensis the
Martyr, Christian Rosencreutz, Ulrich von Hutten, Paracelsus, Michael
Maier, Roderic Borgia Pope Alexander the Sixth, Jacob Bœhme,
Francis Bacon Lord Verulam, Andrea, Robertus de Fluctibus, Johannes Dee, Sir
Edward Kelly, Thomas Vaughan, Elias Ashmole, Molinos, Adam Weishaupt,
Wolfgang von Goethe, Ludovicus Rex Bavariae, Richard Wagner, Alphonse
Louis Constant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hargrave Jennings, Carl Kellner,
Forlong dux, Sir Richard Payne Knight, Paul Gaugin, Sir Richard Francis Burton,
Doctor Gérard Encausse, Doctor Theodor Reuss, and Sir Aleister
Crowley—Oh Sons of the Lion and the Snake! With all thy saints we worthily
commemorate them worthy that were and are and are to come.
May their essence be here present, potent, puissant and paternal to perfect
this feast!"
The People: "So mote it be."
The
Earth
The DEACON: "Mother of fertility
on whose breast lieth water, whose cheek is caressed by air, and in whose heart
is the suns fire, womb of all life, recurring grace of seasons, answer favorably
the prayer of labour, and to pastors and husbandmen be thou propitious."
The People: "So mote it be."
The
Principles
The DEACON: "Mysterious Energy,
triform, mysterious Matter, in fourfold and sevenfold division, the interplay
of which things weave the dance of the Veil of Life upon the Face of the Spirit,
let there be Harmony and Beauty in your mystic loves, that in us may be health
and wealth and strength and divine pleasure according to the Law of Liberty;
let each pursue his Will as a strong man that rejoiceth in his way, as the course
of a Star that blazeth for ever among the joyous company of Heaven."
The People: "So mote it be."
Birth
The DEACON: "Be the hour auspicious,
and the gate of life open in peace and in well-being, so that she that beareth
children may rejoice, and the babe catch life with both hands."
The People: "So mote it be."
Marriage
The DEACON: "Upon all that this
day unite with love under will let fall success; may strength and skill unite
to bring forth ecstasy, and beauty answer beauty."
The People: "So mote it be."
Death
All stand, Head erect, Eyes open.
The DEACON: "Term of all that liveth, whose name is inscrutable, be favourable unto us in thine hour."
The People: "So mote it be."
The
End
The DEACON: "Unto them from whose
eyes the veil of life hath fallen may there be granted the accomplishment of
their true Wills; whether they will absorption in the Infinite, or to be united
with their chosen and preferred, or to be in contemplation, or to be at peace,
or to achieve the labour and heroism of incarnation on this planet or another,
or in any Star, or aught else, unto them may there be granted the accomplishment
of their wills; yea, the accomplishment of their wills. AUMGN. AUMGN. AUMGN."
The People: "So mote it be."
All sit.
The DEACON and the CHILDREN attend the PRIEST and PRIESTESS, ready to hold any appropriate weapon as may be necessary.