CHESMAYNE
Ritual
01 Prescribed action repeated
from time to time in a systematic way. The
term ritual is often used together with the term myth,
because the ritual that is enacted is often connected with a particular myth or
significant story.
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The dramatic enactment of myth is designed to
make a sufficiently deep impression on the individual to reach his/her
unconscious. Myth is extended symbolism. Symbolic actions are common to many varied
rituals and spiritual disciplines used to transform the psyche. Repetition of words and phrases is used in
most rituals because it adds intensity of feeling. Alcohol has been used to rouse the ferocious
animal instinct for battle. It has
always played an important part in ritual by dimming the conscious mind and
allowing the inspiration of unconscious intuition to break through. There also
appears to be a symbolic link between drink and the bottle of a baby. Ritual magic is the most perilous of all the avenues to the mind. Years of preparation have
to precede access and is usually undertaken by a scholar (never
alone). Such people must be sincere,
scholarly, have absolute equilibrium of character and superb physical and
mental health and then only between the ages of 25 to about 50. Such rituals are a mental, spiritual and
physical exercise with the objective of contact with the universal overmind. Such
rituals would include the esoteric rites of the Roman Catholic or Russian
Orthodox Mass or the Jewish Orthodox service (three of the most beautiful rites
developed by human beings). Hierophants
(see ‘Tarot’), priests and
rabbis spend many years training before being considered competent to perform
these rituals. Participants find these
rites uplifting and mystical
(true magic). A master ritualist
is usually a scholar of many languages (ie, Hebrew,
Latin, Aramaic and Greek)
and possesses the memory
of an elephant. The true masters are real magicians
and amongst these would be included Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus of