O.T.O. Samhain Ritual
                           Open the Temple in fire. 
      
     Banishing ritual. 
      
     Hierophant:  Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
      
     Hierophant: Ve Gabolah. 
      
     Ring bell 5-5-5-5-5 
      
     Priest strikes staff  upon ground 3-3-3  5-5-5-5-5 3-3-3 
                     
                              Return bell and staff to altar. 
      
     Hierophant: Let all adore the King of Fire. 
                          
                              All do the god form of 
                              PUER, the fire of 
                              NOX, facing Altar. 
      
                                   AUM 
      
     Hierophant picks  up dagger and  points Toward  the East,  standing in  the
     West. 
                         (Fire with) 
                         TETRAGRAMMATON  TZABOATH (all repeat) 
                         ALGA (all repeat) 
      
                         BITOM (all repeat) 
      
      
     Hierophant: In the sacred names and letters: 
      
                                 OIP *  TEAA * PDOCEE * 
                        In thy name:      IHVH  TZABAVTH 
      
      
     Hierophant: I declare the sacred fire one and eternal 
                 In all worlds seen and unseen. 
      
                              (priest lights censer) 
      
     Hierophant: Glory be the light, eternal fortress 
                 On the frontiers of darkness.  Blessed Be. 
                            (all repeat) 
      
                         Priest drops more incense 
                         in censer. 
      
     Hierophant: Hail those from the caverns of the dark. (sign of              
                                                   enterer) 

                              Bell: 3-3-3 5-5-5-5-5 3-3-3 
                              (sign of silence) 
      
      
      



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     Hierophant: O great and dreaded Lord of Shadows 
                 He who is God of all Life & the giver 
                 of life, It is Thee we invoke. 
                              (all repeat last line) 
      
     Hierophant: Behold, the West is Ameti 
                 Land of the Dead 
                 To which many have gone for 
                 rest and renewal. 
      
     OPEN WIDE THE GATES THROUGH WHICH ALL MUST PASS 
      
     LET THE SHELLS OF KINDERED SOULS RETURN THIS NIGHT 
     GUIDED BY THE SACRED FIRE SEEN IN ALL WORLDS 
      
     DESCEND UPON US, ALL ARE TRULY WELCOME TO OUR FESTIVAL. 
     MAY YOU REMAIN AMONG US TILL THE FIRST LIGHT OF DAWN... 
     IN PEACE AND HARMONY 
      
     APPROACH THE WALLS OF OUR CASTLE  
                         (all repeat) 
      
                   3-3-3 5-5-5-5-5 3-3-3 
                            (put more incense in censer) 
      
     Hierophant: Hail those from the caverns of the dark. 
                              (all repeat) 
      
     pick up contract at sacrifice; 
      
     KINDERED SOULS HERE THIS NIGHT, TO THEE WE GIVE OUR SACRIFICE 
      
     UPON THIS PAPER WE EACH HAVE WRITTEN A CONTRACT BINDING OF SOULS TO SOULS 
      
     SO INTO THE FLAMES & LET IT BE CONSUMED 
      
     IT IS BETWEEN YOU AND I, NO ONE ELSE. 
      
                         as written, to bind the contract 
                         drink of the blood. 
      
     ....done 
      
             So mote it be (all repeat). 
      
     Others  who desire  a sacrifice  may now  do such;  come forward  one after
     another. 
      
               all participating in the sacrifice 
               drop in 'contract' repeating as before 
               with wine then saying 'so mote it be'... 
               all should repeat after each sacrifice 'so mote it be'. 
      
     After last sacrifice; all raise hands upward, vibrating  
                                        AUM 
      
     Hierophant: Our sacrificing done, I proclaim this evening rite over 
      
     LOVE IS THE LAW, LOVE UNDER WILL. 
                         (all repeat)



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