the rites
The ceremonial gates of expansion
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Each gate serves as an expansion of the last. Supporting personal expansion within the living experience. In reflection of the path of expansion taken by the Soul.
This is the path of rites taken within The Expansion Program, extending from the rites of The High House.
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Death
"& it was a star, shinning high along the eastern horizon. Calling me in whispers where the beating of my heart had once been. & I knew that those whispers called me to a place that I had longed for in the most impossible dreams. At long last the way appeared, and I dared step my feet upon it."
Death is not a finality, but rather a rite of passage from one state of being to another.
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While the Soul is immortal, no Soul returns from the roads of incarnation in the same state of Self that it left.
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We honor Death as an initiatory stage, through which one can undress themselves from what is at an end. To enter the purifications of Baptism.
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We are also psychopomps, carrying the rites that serve a Soul to release lives lived, guiding them from incarnation to the Procession of Souls.
Preparing them to stand at the altar before the Mother & Father of Lower to accept the Holy Sacrament. That they may choose to walk free of shadow between Upper & Lower.
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Baptism
"In her eyes I gazed as she took my hand and led me into the horrors I held in tiny boxes in the depths of myself. She watched as I opened each one, and they enveloped me in terrors that tore at the last vestiges I held of myself. & when I thought I would be undone into nothing at all. It was her who pressed my head against the fullness of her bosom, and I knew that what those terrors tore apart. Weren't me at all."
Baptism is an intimate choice made deep within the self.
A rite of purification that steps one into a lifestyle of service to the expansion of Self, and in that expansion of Self- The expansion of The Most High is realized.
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The Sacrament
"I came to the altar ragged and bone. Teeth gnarled from leathered gums. I came in the rags left behind from my baptism. I came hungry and half blind. Shaking with all that I had left behind. She pressed the chalice to my lips, just as they said she would. I had been prepared, and had been sure of my choice to drink. Yet with its promise pressed against my lips, I couldn't bare yet more loss, to be made truly naked. I burned, and cried with shame. The Mother only held a hand to my back and the chalice to my lips. As if I were the only Soul arriving at the altar. I let the sacrament flood over my lips & I remembered. I remember"
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The Holy Sacrament is the lifeblood of The Creator. The elixir that reveals the self to Self. The we may know the communion from which we are all born.
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Lifting the veil of shadows, that we may be known to ourself. Remembering that we walk free along the roads of the ways as children of creation. For creation is our inheritance.
marriage
"For so long I ran. For so long he hunted me. Thrashing through the vines and bramble I left behind. Until I found there was no where left to run and no more alcoves for me to hide. When he caught up to me, I found that I was running from myself all along. Running from the very thing I longed to come save me from the wilderness clawing at my back. All rage and flaming fire. I stepped into his embrace, and he lovingly peeled the face from my bones that I may come home to myself in equal parts to him."
Marriage. A rite of communion first realized within the Self. The communion of the dual elements within. Reflecting the dual nature of The First Parents.
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A rite of communion realized through the reunion of the Spirit & The Nature of Self at the bridge of the Soul. Reflecting the union of The Twins of Lower & Upper.
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A rite of communion between the unified Self with the unified Self of another. Reflecting the communion of the Mother & Father of Creation.
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rebirth
"& I took him into me. My beloved. My one. I let him fill me, and he surrendered to be taken in by me. We became as one before ourselves. A thing waxing and waning of my evening & his dawn. Such a magnificent thing."
Rebirth. Rising at the apex of creation. Rising with the wonder of what has yet to become.
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From union is born potential.
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From union, creation is born.
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Through creation, The Most High is revealed.
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We work through the original 7 planetary gates. Translating Spirit Substance into Great Stream to live in a co-creative conversation with the material field.
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The 7 planetary gates are governed by 7 archonic archetypes/lords. In the mythos of our lineage, these are the lords of the shadow regime.
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The allegory of the mythos calls for us to illuminate these archonic archetypes into the command of your authority as a child of the high house.
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When these forces are allowed to reign free, they block the free flow of the stream from Spirit into Materia.
They seek to negotiate terms that cause your dependence on the limited and conditional power they offer in return for your freedom as a sovereign Soul.
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When we remember our authority, these archonic archetypes become as custodians overseeing the extent of the stream that you desire to receive in the capacity you desire to receive it.
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