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ECCLESIAE GNOSTICAE CATHOLICAE CANON
MISSAE.
Edited from the Ancient Documents in
Assyrian
and Greek by The Master Therion
[Aleister
Crowley]
Published in the
International
New York, New York, U.S.A.
March 1918
(pages 70-74)
I.
Of the Furnishings of the Temple.
In the East—that is in the direction of
Boleskine—is a shrine or High Altar. Its dimensions
should be 7 feet in length, 3 feet in breadth, 44 inches in
height. It should be covered with a crimson altar-cloth, on
which may be embroidered fleur-de-lis in gold, or a sunblaze,
or other suitable emblem.
On each side of it should be a pillar
or Obelisk, with countercharges in black and white.
Below it should be the dais of three
steps, in black and white squares.
Above it is the super-altar, at whose
top is the
Stélé of Revealing in reproduction, with four candles on
each side of it. Below the Stélé is a place for the
Book of the Law, with six candles on each side of it.
Below this again is The Holy Graal, with roses on each side
of it. There is room in front of the Cup for the Paten. On
each side beyond the roses are two great candles.
All this is enclosed within a great
Veil.
Forming the apex of an equilateral
triangle whose base is a line drawn between the pillars, is
a small black square altar, of superimposed cubes.
Taking this altar as the middle of the
base of a similar and equal triangle, at the apex of this
second triangle is a small circular front.
Repeating, the apex of a third triangle
is an upright coffin, or Tomb.
II.
Of the Officers of the Mass.
The Priest. Bears the Sacred Lance, and
is clothed at first in a plain white robe.
The Priestess. Should be actually Virgo
Intacto, or specially dedicated to the service of the Great
Order. She is clothed in white, blue, and gold. She bears
the Sword from a red girdle, and the Paten and Hosts, or
Cakes of Light.
The Deacon. He is clothed in white and
yellow. He bears the Book of the Law.
Two Children. They are clothed in white
and black. One bears a pitcher of water and a cellar of
salt, the other a censer of fire and a casket of perfume.
III.
Of the Ceremony of the Introit.
The Deacon, opening the door of the
Temple, admits the congregation and takes his stand between
the small altar and the front. (There should be a
door-keeper to attend to the admission.)
The Deacon advances and bows before the
open shrine where the Graal is exalted. He kisses the Book
of the Law three times, opens it, and places it upon the
superaltar. He turns West.
The DEACON: Do what thou wilt shall
be the whole of the Law. I proclaim the Law of Light,
Life, Love, and Liberty in the name of IAO.
The CONGREGATION: Love is the law,
love under will.
The Deacon goes to his place between
the altar of incense and the font, faces east, and gives the
step and sign of a Man and a Brother. All imitate him.
The DEACON and all the PEOPLE: I
believe in one secret and ineffable Lord; and in one
Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are
created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father
of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name Chaos, the sole
vice-regent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air,
the nourisher of all that breathes.
And I believe in one Earth,
the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men
are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of
Mystery, in Her name Babalon.
And I believe in the Serpent
and the Lion, Mystery of Mystery, in His name Baphomet.
And I believe in one Gnostic
and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love, and Liberty,
the Word of whose Law is Thelema.
And I believe in the communion
of Saints.
And, forasmuch as meat and
drink are transmuted in us daily into spiritual
substance, I believe in the Miracle of the Mass.
And I confess one Baptism of
Wisdom, whereby we accomplish the Miracle of
Incarnation. And I confess my life one, individual, and
eternal, that was, and is, and is to come.
Aumn. Aumn. Aumn.
Music is now played. The child enters
with the ewer and the salt. The Virgin enters with the Sword
and the Paten. The child enters with the censer and the
perfume. They face the Deacon, deploying into line, from the
space between the two altars.
The PRIESTESS: Greeting of Earth
and Heaven!
All give the Hailing Sign of a
Magician, the Deacon leading.
The Priestess, the negative child on
her left, the positive on her right, ascends the steps of
the High Altar, they awaiting her below. She places the
Paten before the Graal. Having adored it, she descends, and
with the children following her, the positive next her, she
moves in a serpentine manner involving 3½ circles of the
temple. (Deosil about altar, widdershins about font, deosil
about altar and font, widdershins about altar and to the
Tomb in the West.) She draws her Sword and pulls down the
Veil therewith.
The PRIESTESS: By the power of
*[1]
Iron, I say unto thee, Arise! In the name of our Lord
the *[1]
Sun, and of our Lord *[1]
. . . that thou mayest administer the virtues to the
Brethren.
She sheathes the Sword.
The Priest, issuing from the Tomb,
holding the Lance erect with both hands, right over left,
against his breast, takes the first three regular steps.
He then gives the Lance to the
Priestess and gives the three penal signs.
He then kneels and worships the Lance
with both hands.
Penitential music.
The PRIEST: I am a man among men.
He takes again the Lance and lowers it.
He rises.
The PRIEST: How should I be worthy
to administer the virtues to the Brethren?
The Priestess takes from the child the
water and the salt, and mixes them in the font.
The PRIESTESS: Let the salt of
Earth admonish the Water to bear the virtue of the Great
Sea. (Genuflects.) Mother, be thou adored.
She turns to the West. *[1]
on Priest with open hand doth she make over his forehead,
breast, and body.
Be the Priest pure of body and soul.
The Priestess takes the censer from the
child, and places it on the small altar. She puts incense
therein.
Let the Fire and the Air make sweet the
world! (Genuflects.) Father, be thou adored.
She returns West and makes
*[1]
with the censer before the Priest, thrice as before.
Be the Priest fervent of body and soul!
(The children resume their weapons as
they are used.)
The Deacon now takes the consecrated
Robe from the High Altar and brings it to her. She clothes
the Priest in his Robe of scarlet and gold.
Be the flame of the Sun thine ambience,
O thou Priest of the Sun!
The Deacon brings the crown from the
High Altar. (The crown may be of gold or platinum, or of
electrum magicum; but with no other metals, save the small
proportions necessary to a proper alloy. It may be adorned
with divers jewels, at will. But it must have the Uraeus
serpent twined about it, and the cap of maintenance must
match the scarlet of the Robe. Its texture should be
velvet.)
Be the Serpent thy crown, O thou Priest
of the Lord!
Kneeling, she takes the Lance between
her open hands, and runs them up and down upon the shaft
eleven times, very gently.
Be the Lord present among us!
All give the Hailing Sign.
The PEOPLE: So mote it be.
IV.
Of the Ceremony of the
Opening of the Veil.
The PRIEST: Thee, therefore, whom
we adore we also invoke. By the power of the lifted
Lance!
He raises the Lance. All repeat Hailing
Sign.
A phrase of triumphant music.
The Priest takes the Priestess by her
right hand with left, keeping the Lance raised.
I, Priest and King, take thee,
Virgin pure without spot; I upraise thee; I lead thee to
the East; I set thee upon the summit of the Earth.
He thrones the Priestess upon the
altar.
The Deacon and the children follow,
they in rank, behind him.
The Priestess takes the
Book of the Law, resumes her seat, and holds it open on
her breast with her two hands, making a descending triangle
with thumbs and forefingers.
The Priest gives the Lance to the
Deacon to hold, and takes the flower from the child, and
sprinkles the Priestess, making five crosses, forehead,
shoulders, and thighs. The thumb of the Priest is always
between his index and medius, whenever he is not holding the
Lance.
The Priest takes the censer from the
child, and makes five crosses, as before.
The children replace their weapons on
their respective altars.
The Priest kisses the Book of the Law
three times. He keeps for a space in adoration, with joined
hands, knuckles closed, thumb in position aforesaid. He
rises, and draws the veil over the whole altar. All rise and
stand to order.
The Priest takes the lance from the
Deacon, and holds it as before, as Osiris or Ptah. He
circumambulates the Temple three times, followed by the
Deacon and the children as before. (These, when not using
their hands, keep their arms crossed upon their breasts.) At
the last circumambulation they leave him, and go to the
place between the front and the small altar, where they
kneel in adoration, their hands joined palm to palm, and
raised above their heads. All imitate this motion.
The Priest returns to the East, and
mounts the first step of the altar.
The PRIEST: O circle of Stars
whereof our Father is but the younger brother, marvel
beyond imagination, soul of infinite space, before whom
Time is ashamed, the mind bewildered, and the
understanding dark, not unto Thee may we attain, unless
Thine image be Love. Therefore, by seed and root and
stem and bud and leaf and flower and fruit do we invoke
Thee. Then the priest answered and said unto the Queen
of Space, kissing her lovely brows, and the dew of her
light bathing his whole body in a sweet-smelling perfume
of sweat: O Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let it be
ever thus; that men speak not of thee as One but as
None; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou
art continuous.
The PRIESTESS: But to love me is
better than all things; if under the night-stars in the
desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me,
invoking me with a pure heart, and the serpent flame
therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom.
For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but
whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that
hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of women and
spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exceed the
nations of earth in splendor and pride; but always in
the love of me, and so shall ye come to my joy. I charge
you earnestly to come before me in a single robe, and
covered with a rich head-dress. I love you! I yearn to
you! Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am all
pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost
sense, desire you. Put on the wings, and arouse the
coiled splendor within you; come unto me! To me! To me!
Sing the rapturous love-song unto me! Burn to me
perfumes! Drink to me, for I love you! I love you. I am
the blue-lidded daughter of sunset; I am the naked
brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. To me! To me!
The Priest mounts the second step.
The PRIEST: O secret of secrets,
that art hidden in the being of all that lives, not Thee
do we adore, for that which adoreth is also Thou. Thou
art That, and That am I. I am the flame that burns in
every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am
Life, and the giver of Life; yet therefore is the
knowledge of me the knowledge of death. I am alone;
there is no God where I am.
The Deacon and all the People rise to
their feet, with the Hailing sign.
The DEACON: But ye, O my people,
rise up and awake. Let the rituals be rightly performed
with joy and beauty. There are rituals of the elements
and feasts of the times. A feast for the first night of
the Prophet and his Bride. A feast for the three days of
the writing of the Book of the Law. A feast for Tahuti
and the children of the Prophet—secret, O Prophet! A
feast for the Supreme Ritual, and a feast for the
Equinox of the Gods. A feast for fire and a feast for
water; a feast for life and a greater feast for death. A
feast every day in your hearts in the joy of my rapture.
A feast every night unto Nu, and the pleasure of
uttermost delight.
The Priest mounts the third step.
The PRIEST: Thou that art One, our
Lord in the Universe the Sun, our Lord in ourselves
whose name is Mystery of Mystery, uttermost being whose
radiance enlightening the worlds is also the breath that
maketh every God even and Death to tremble before
Thee.—By the Sign of Light *[1]
appear Thou glorious upon the throne of the Sun. Make
open the path of creation and of intelligence between us
and our minds. Enlighten our understanding. Encourage
our hearts. Let thy light crystallize itself in our
blood, fulfilling us of Resurrection.
A ka dua
Tuf ur biu
Bi a’a chefu
Dudu nur af an nuteru.
The PRIESTESS: There is no law
beyond Do what thou wilt.
The Priest parts the veil with his
lance. During the previous speeches the Priestess has, if
necessary, as in savage countries, resumed her robe.
The PRIEST: IO IO IO IAO SABAO
KURIE ABRASAX KURIE MEITHRAS KURIE PHALLE. IO PAN IO PAN
PAN IO ISCHURON IO ATHANATON IO ABROTON IO IAO. CHAIRE
PHALLE CHAIRE PAMPHAGE CHAIRE PANGENETOR. HAGIOS HAGIOS
HAGIOS IAO.
The Priestess is seated with the Paten
in her right hand and the cup in her left. All stand to
order, with the Dieu Garde, that is, feet square, hands,
with linked thumbs, held loosely. This is the universal
position when standing, unless other direction is given.
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 labor 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 evolve 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 labor
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 favorable 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 market-places 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 thy glory unto men, Laotz
and Siddhartha and Krishna and Tahuti, Mosheh, Dionysus,
Mohammed and Therion, with these also Hermes, Pan,
Priapus, Osiris and Melchitzdek, 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,
Basilides, Valentinus, Bardesanes and Hippolytus, that
transmitted the Light of the Gnosis to us their
successors and their heirs; with Merlin, Arthur,
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, Jacob Boehme, Francis Bacon
Lord Verulam, Andrea, Robertus de Fluctibus, Johannes
Dee, Sir Edward Kelly, Thomas Vaughan, Elias Ashmole,
Molinos, Wolfgang von Goethe, Ludovicus Rex Bavariæ, R.
. . . . . W. . . . . ., Ludwig von Fischer, F. . . . . .
N. . . . . ., Hargrave Jennings, Carl Kellner, Forlong
dux, Sir Richard Payne Knight, Sir Richard Francis
Burton, Doctor Gerard Encausse, Doctor T. . . . . . R. .
. . . ., and Sir A. . . . . . C. . . . . . —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!
(At each name the Deacon signs *[1]
with thumb between index and medius.)
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 sun’s fire, womb of all
life, recurring grace of seasons, answer favorably the
prayer of labor, 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.)
The DEACON: Term of all that liveth,
whose name is inscrutable, be favorable 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 labor 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. Aumn. Aumn. Aumn.
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.
VI.
Of the Consecration of the Elements.
The Priest makes the five crosses. *[1]3
*[1]1
*[1]2
on paten and cup. *[1]4
on paten alone; *[1]5
on cup alone.
The PRIEST: Life of man upon earth,
fruit of labor, sustenance of endeavor, thus be thou
nourishment of the Spirit!
He touches the Host with the Lance.
By the virtue of the Rod
Be this bread the Body of God!
He takes the Host.
TOUTO ESTI TO SOMA MOU.
He kneels, adores, rises, turns, shows
Host to the People, turns, replaces Host, and adores. Music.
He takes the Cup.
Vehicle of the joy of Man upon
earth, solace of labor, inspiration of endeavor, thus be
thou ecstasy of the Spirit!
He touches the Cup with the Lance.
By the virtue of the Rod
Be this wine the Blood of God!
He takes the Cup.
TOUTO ESTI TO POTERION TOU HAIMATOS
MOU.
He kneels, adores, rises, turns, shows
the Cup to the People, turns, replaces the Cup, and adores.
Music.
For this is the Covenant of
Resurrection.
He makes the five crosses on the
Priestess.
Accept, O Lord, this sacrifice of
life and joy, true warrants of the Covenant of
Resurrection.
The Priest offers the Lance to the
Priestess, who kisses it; he then touches her between the
breasts and upon the body. He then flings out his arms
upward, as comprehending the whole shrine.
Let this offering be borne upon the
waves of Aethyr to our Lord and Father the Sun that
travelleth over the Heavens in his name ON.
He strikes his breast. All repeat this
action.
Hear ye all, saints of the true
church of old time now essentially present, that of ye
we claim heirship, with ye we claim communion, from ye
we claim benediction in the name of IAO.
He makes three crosses on Paten and Cup
together.
He uncovers the Cup, genuflects, takes
the Cup in his left hand and the Host in his right.
With the Host he makes the five crosses
on the Cup.
*[1]1
*[1]3
*[1]2
*[1]5
*[1]4
He elevates the Host and the Cup.
The Bell strikes.
HAGIOS HAGIOS HAGIOS IAO.
He replaces the Host and the Cup, and
adores.
VII.
Of the Office of the Anthem.
The PRIEST:
Thou who art I, beyond all I
am,
Who hast no nature and no
name,
Who art, when all but thou are
gone,
Thou, centre and secret of the
Sun,
Thou, hidden spring of all
things known
And unknown, Thou aloof,
alone,
Thou, the true fire within the
seed
Brooding and breeding, source
and seed
Of life, love, liberty, and
light,
Thou beyond speech and beyond
sight,
Thee I invoke, my faint fresh
fire
Kindling as mine intents
aspire.
Thee I invoke, abiding one,
Thee, centre and secret of the
Sun,
And that most holy mystery
Of which the vehicle am I.
Appear, most awful and most
mild,
As it is lawful, to thy child!
The CHORUS:
For of the Father and the Son
The Holy Spirit is the norm;
Male-female, quintessential,
one,
Man-being veiled in
woman-form.
Glory and worship in the
highest,
Thou Dove, mankind that
deifiest,
Being that race, most royally
run
To spring sunshine through
winter storm.
Glory and worship be to Thee,
Sap of the world-ash,
wonder-tree!
First Semichorus, MEN: Glory to
thee from gilded tomb!
Second Semichorus, WOMEN: Glory to
thee from waiting womb!
MEN: Glory to Thee from earth
unploughed!
WOMEN: Glory to Thee from virgin
vowed!
MEN: Glory to Thee, true Unity of
the eternal Trinity!
WOMEN: Glory to Thee, thou sire and
dam And self of I am that I am!
MEN: Glory to Thee, beyond all
term, thy spring of sperm, thy seed and germ!
WOMEN: Glory to Thee, eternal Sun,
Thou One in Three, Thou Three in One!
CHORUS: Glory and worship unto
Thee, Sap of the world-ash, wonder-tree!
(These words are to form the substance
of the anthem; but the whole or any part thereof shall be
set to music, which may be as elaborate as art can devise.
But even should other anthems be authorized by the Father of
the Church, this shall hold its place as the first of its
kind, the father of all others.)
VIII.
Of the Mystic Marriage and
Consummation of the Elements.
The Priest takes the Paten between the
index and medius of the right hand. The Priestess clasps the
Cup in her right hand.
The PRIEST: Lord most secret, bless
this spiritual food unto our bodies, bestowing upon us
health and wealth and strength and joy and peace, and
that fulfillment of will and of love under will that is
perpetual happiness.
He makes *[1]
with Paten and kisses it.
He uncovers the Cup, genuflects, rises.
Music.
He takes the Host, and breaks it over
the Cup.
He replaces the right-hand portion in
the Paten.
He breaks off a particle of the
left-hand portion.
TOUTO ECTI TO CPERMA MOU. HO PATHR
ECTIN NO HUOIC DIA TO PNEUMA HAGION. AUMN. AUMN. AUMN.
He replaces the left-hand part of the
Host.
The Priestess extends the Lance-point
with her left hand to receive the particle.
The Priest clasps the Cup in his left
hand.
Together they depress the Lance-point
in the Cup.
The PRIEST and the PRIESTESS:
HRILIU.
The Priest takes the Lance.
The Priestess covers the Cup.
The Priest genuflects, rises, bows,
joins hands. He strikes his breast.
The PRIEST: O Lion and O Serpent
that destroy the destroyer, be mighty among us. O Lion
and O Serpent that destroy the destroyer, be mighty
among us. O Lion and O Serpent that destroy the
destroyer, be mighty among us.
The Priest joins hands upon the breast
of the Priestess, and takes back his Lance.
He turns to the People, lowers and
raises the Lance, and makes *[1]
upon them.
Do what thou wilt shall be the
whole of the Law.
The PEOPLE: Love is the law, love
under will.
He lowers the Lance, and turns to East.
The Priestess takes the Lance in her
right hand. With her left hand she offers the Paten.
The Priest kneels.
The PRIEST: In my mouth be the
essence of the life of the Sun!
He takes the Host with the right hand,
makes *[1]
with it on the Paten, and consumes it.
Silence.
The Priestess takes, uncovers, and
offers the Cup, as before.
The PRIEST: In my mouth be the
essence of the joy of the earth!
He takes the Cup, makes *[1]
on the Priestess, drains it and returns it.
Silence.
He rises, takes the Lance, and turns to
the People.
The PRIEST: There is no part of me
that is not of the Gods.
(Those of the People who intend to
communicate, and none other should be present, having
signified their intention, a whole Cake of Light, and a
whole goblet of wine, have been prepared for each one. The
Deacon marshals them; they advance one by one to the altar.
The children take the Elements and offer them. The People
communicate as did the Priest, uttering the same words in an
attitude of Resurrection: There is no part of me that is not
of the Gods. The exceptions to this part of the ceremony are
when it is of the nature of a celebration, in which case
none but the Priest communicate; or part of the ceremony of
marriage, when none other, save the two to be married,
partake; part of the ceremony of baptism, when only the
child baptised partakes; and of Confirmation at puberty,
when only the persons confirmed partake. The Sacrament may
be reserved by the Priest, for administration to the sick in
their homes.)
The Priest closes all within the veil.
With the Lance he makes *[1]
on the people thrice, thus.
The PRIEST: *[1]
The LORD bless you.
*[1]
The LORD enlighten your minds and comfort your hearts
and sustain your bodies.
*[1]
The LORD bring you to the accomplishment of your true
Will, the Great Work, the Summum Bonum, True Wisdom and
Perfect Happiness.
He goes out, the Deacon and children
following, into the Tomb of the West.
Music. (Voluntary.)
Note: The Priestess and other officers
never partake of the Sacrament, they being, as it were, part
of the Priest himself.
1—This sign
means making a Cross. |