Gathering Before Aphrodite,
Divine Ruler of The Golden Age
(by Lady Svetlana)
Priestess:
"Gather celebrants to implement the halcyon spirit of Aphrodite who has bequeathed the paradisal heritage of flowering fruit trees to those who shall create upon
this planet a rainbow sanctuary where all species commingle with one another in expression of empathic rapport for entwinement of all life forms in a net of ley-lined
overflow of cosmic energia forevermore….
The psychosome should reflect the cosmothon, the rapture of the mysterium tremendum must take upon itself the glorious beatitude of Faerie orchard and grove
surround where fruit flavoured delicacies yield to one’s careful touch; this voluminous output of pulchritudinous bright green trees reflects the bounteous Breasts
of Divine Aphrodite, Who has ordained that the Firefly Nocturna Reality shall recapitulate bloom and overflow in orgiastic love-making at once passionate and
compassionate and shall enhance sensual delights as mandates for psychic sensitivity and playful, creative evolution.."
The Queendom of the Trees
(by Lady Svetlana)
Priestess:
"And now in the Coll – Quirt, Apple – Nut Tree month, we pledge allegiance to the flowering fruit tree, gift of Venere, the horticultural fundament of a humanity
instrumental in creating an eco-viable, eco-psychic, societal whole, while responding with reverence to the Great Wilderness. Henry David Thoreau developed this
concept after a long period of trying to intuit the reality of wild nature in terms of a morally valid (‘a priori’) metaphysic. Feraferia stresses further that wilderness is
noumena and phenomena simultaneously. She is phenomena and noumena at the same time.
She is both a manifestation of the Form Divine in our three dimensional world and is a Being unto Herself to Star paths beyond.
The wilder reality, at once fragile and fearsome may co-exist or better interweave with a cerebro-manipulative species such as ours only if the latter evolves nature
responsive, magical systems of correspondences under the Aegis of the empathic and nurturing Goddess – Kore Soteira the Maiden Saviouress Who embodies a
delicate, yet persistent pulsing Living Reality on this temporarily blighted planet – here and now, before and afterwards, and onwards, mirror backwards toward
eternity.
Once again I reaffirm that psychosomia should reiterate cosmothonia. The chthonic element is indispensable if cosmic awareness is not to be lost in the ethers like a
loosened kite from the grip of feelingful hands. The android outlook in the Piscean Era, at best, inspired a vision of the City of God or the City of Revelations as the
heavenly abode where Light is omnipresent and the nuances of Being are obliterated by constant and excessive brilliance. – Truly a modern electrically lit up urban
centre rather than an Elysiac Garden where Aphrodite Morpho reigns supreme. Even the fantastic movie, ‘Close Encounters’ indicated modern heaven to be a non-stop
laser light show – too much of a good thing.
On the other hand, the ancient Greek vision of Elysium outlines an Edenic Bower where all creatures dance wildly, dance rapturously, yet with formal structure of an
ingeniously choreographed ballet. And the colour is Green – the visional essence of plant life – source of the pulse of an animate and animated world.
Most strict patriarchal monotheists forsook this Garden of Delights and turned it into an abode of sin or illusion. They condemned and denigrated the Tree of Knowledge
in opposition to the Tree of Life; the Cosmic Tree, whose Roots are steeped in the mesh of being deep within the Womb of Gaia…. The Microcosm, exfoliating the throb
of Living Tissue of Hera – the Mesocosm, and reaching for the Heavens of Saturna and Rhea, the Macrocosm – another Holy Feminine Trinity.
Thus, the genecoid realm and outlook in terms of plenitude and abundance, having female characteristics, indicates to us that the core of existence is the Flowering
Fruit Tree, the most benign and rapturously-bedecked harmonic adaption we can make to echo the Elysian Fields beyond. Fruit, fruit, fruit, not manna or bread –
produce of grain – are the serpent – entwined Staff of Life – the Caduceus of fleet-footed Hermes, the Jokester, the Healer - Guide of the Dead – Who leads us to
Persephonian transformations where we may re-enter the abode of Aphrodite – most beautiful, most sublime, most sensual!!! EVOE APHRA!"
Music: ‘Triumph of Aphrodite’ by Carl Orff, for a few moments play loud.
Priestess:
"Let us embrace around the little tree or pole in the centre and send love rays to plants and animals throughout the world, especially Chaparral, Flowering Fruit
Groves, and Orchards of Aphrodite and the Prairies, Plains and Meadows of Adonis. As the rays circumambulate the planet, bless all growing things in these
eco-systems. EVOE!"
Soften music.
Vocal Hymn to Aphrodite and Adonis
(by Lady Svetlana))
Hymn sung by dramatic Soprano.
Soprano: (Goes to sacred platform)
"In the heat of the afternoon…
At the height of Summer…
She lies by the shimmering pool and awaits Her Sacred Lover…
Oh Aphrodite, Goddess of Beauty,
Oh, Venus Divine, most concupiscent One.
Your Hips beckon seductively.
Your Breasts quiver voluptuously.
Oh! What bliss awaits Him in the shadows of Your broad leaves…
…Beautiful Adonis, of meadows – green and yellow.
Come with urge and passion along the river bend.
Ares, Hu, Cernunnos, Your horses gallop madly.
Come, red-headed Mars
To embrace Your Heavenly Queen."
Charge and Charm of Lammas
(by Fred McLaren Adams)
Priestess: (still on platform)
"This is the Charge and Charm of Lammas
The Festival of Fruiting and Beginning of Harvest
It is also the meandering of the Honeymoon
As fruits in scented groves ripen,
The Breasts of the Goddess swell opulently."
(Chant)
"In the green shade of His Hands
Her Honeymoon Breasts fruit out mazes of leaf,
Mazes of leaf."
With celebrants, Priest and Priestess repair to dining area or, better, to bower in garden.
Mysteries of the Sacred Honeymoon
(by Lady Svetlana)
Two chairs stand in fruiting arch for Adelpha (Sister) of Aphra and Adelphos (Brother) of Adonis. A bowl of fruit stands before them. Celebrants by two sway
two palm fronds or other broadleaf branches as if to cool them.
Priestess:
"EVOE APHRODITE – EVOE ADONIS
The ONE to ONE Honeymoon shall expand
to include all syzygies in an orgia of multiple interpenetrations and intertwinings
in the glorious Flesh of Aphrodite."
Adelpha and Adelphos arise. Two glasses have been placed on small tray. One contains red liqueur, (maybe Crême de Noyeaux) and one green liqueur
(maybe Crême de Menthe).
Music stops.
Adelphos of Adonis:
"Partake of the red bittercore –
the seed of fertilisation
and always lust in the Name of Adonis."
Adelpha of Aphrodite:
"Partake of this green minted chaparral,
the voluptuous thicket of Her Sacred Passion –
the enticing Ova of Aphrodite."
Each celebrant tastes both liqueurs.
Adelpha of Aphrodite:
"And now celebrants glimpse the radiance of prolonged tantra and chrysokyma -
The eternal embrace of Aphrodite and Adonis
For the ever-continuing revelation and resurgence of the universe."
Sparkles are lighted as Megeia announces:
Megeia:
"In this season of fire and the sense of sight
Observe the glorious Brilliance of Aphrodite and Adonis converted to joy and joviality
This is the season of sight They share into other’s eyes."
Hymlet to Aphra
(by Lady Svetlana and Fred McLaren Adams)
Adelphos: (chants)
"Goddess of Love and Sensuality
We seek Thee out in canyon woodlands,
In chaparral and flowering fruit groves.
Oh! Aphrodite – most kind and beauteous.
Come forth, come forth, come forth!!!"
Hymn to Ares
(by Lady Svetlana and Fred McLaren Adams)
Adelpha: (chants)
"Ares, Hu, Cernunnos
Of meadows and the plains
Hurrah for Thee –
Great God of Lust and Thrust –
Great God of Lust and Thrust…"
Aphrodite and Adonis exchange a passionate kiss and embrace. Then each kisses celebrants.
Adelpha:
"We exchange passionate kisses with you
to inspire your remembrance of ecstasy of fiery Eros."
Return to Temple. Then each one takes a candle to gaze intently upon the icon of Aphra or Adonis.
Adelpha:
"This vision shall inspire you to fully learn of aromatic agape."
Hymn to Adonis
(by Lady Svetlana)
Priestess of Aphra (Adelpha):
Recites Hymn to Adonis facing bust of His.
"Ares, Mars, Adonis, Hu, Cernunnos, infuse our bodies with delicious excitation of the mating urge. Appear with impact and boldness in green pastures,
where great hoofed beings roam wild and free. Come! Mighty Horned God of plains and prairies. Activate our courage and hardiness. Protect our planet from
pillagers and despoilers, and protect us from their unholy self-righteousness and malicious manipulations… Help us strive without strife to establish the Queendom
of the Gods on Holy Earth! Adonis! Tender yet passionate Lover, soothe our flayed spirits with Your Lubricating Seminal Fluis. Appear with a ‘beaugeste’ as the
dashing Cavalier, Who grants us an exuberant and exhilarated life motivated by the finest aspirations.
Confer upon us, Oh Ares, the blessings of drive so that we may achieve our goals in service to the Goddess–given–Gods. Come forth as Priapus of infinite Virility and
Potency without limit in every way.
When Your triumphant Trumpet and hailing Horn resound raucously through field and meadow, let our untamed souls and unfettered natures roam playfully with gay
abandon, as cool breezes of late afternoon invigorate our slackening muscles. It is at this time that the romantic spirit enters to entice You to troubadour courtship
and refinement… Come, Divine Seducer! Divine Lover; come, Holy Artificer! Come with Lust, Sentiment, and Thrust!"
Hymn to Aphrodite / Aphra
(by Lady Svetlana)
Priest of Adonis (Adelphos):
Recites Hymn to Aphra facing Her statue.
"Aphrodite, Venus, Astarte, Tinita, empassion our bodies – temporal, astral, and eternal with Your intense transpheric voluptuousness. Infuse our somatic
presence with Your glamorous radiance of blessed sensuality. Oh! Beauteous One of flowering groves, orchards, and deciduous forests, the exuberant overflow
of rainbow tapestries, woven by Your Damsels of Divine Display…. Come…. Sacred Butterfly come to pollinate our beings with compassion and erotic love. Come
opulently! Come lushly! Come with unlimited mercy! You, Whose tingling caress unites proton and electron, male and female, species with species, planet with
planet, galaxy with galaxy. Great Cosmic Courtesan of infinite sumptuousness and comfort without end. Let us partake of Your Bodily Splendour.
Grant us the vision of Your Raspberry Flesh and Pineapple Essence. Appear in Your evergreen Realms of chaparral and canyon woodland where we shall forever
languor on Your Opulent Bosom perfumed with night-blooming jasmine and sweet-smelling gardenias beneath the broad-leaved magnolia trees of giant white flowers.
Aphrodita – most ancient Goddess of Bliss, Whose flamenco guitar, clacking castanets and jangling tambourines are heard in the soothing heat of late afternoon
near glittering pools of waterlilies and shade of luscious orchards and groves. Come – Beloved One! Come forth! Come!
EVOE APHRA – Belissima – EVOE La Belle Piesse!"
Remain inside. Music: ‘Bolero’ by Maurice Ravèl; a grand rite for lovers.
Aphrodite Speaks
(by Lady Svetlana)
Priestess:
"I am Aphrodite Anadyomene, A – NA – DI – Ó –ME – NE, foam born in mists of evening from oceanic uterine shoals of Amphitrite most profound. I am the most
beautiful, most generous, the most sublime. Those who love in My Name partake of My Divine Sensuality – the wondrous Flower of Erotic Fusion and Expansion in
extreme. The aromatic wonders of My Perfumeries are all pervasive. I am omnisentient, clairsentient. No one can resist My Gaze of overwhelming desire and allure
yet remain vital. I abhor chastity. She who falters in her yearnings, who denies the loved one, throws herself into parched and arid soil or the freeze of arctic Winter.
My delectable venereal Charms bewitch souls both ethereal and earthy – hearty and hale, yet sensitive and delicate… With My Lure of longing I subdue all wild
beasts and pair by pair the lion with eyes of flame, the heavy-footed bear, the grey-grim-eyed wolf retreat down the darkness of the glens to clutch each other in
passions cometary flight.
And so I stand spinning cosmic fibres into mortal thread and thus transform transcendent strands of Being into Creation for I want to see all worlds proliferate with
myriads of life-forms who shall cohabit and copulate in praise of Me, their Mistress, their Enchantress, their Golden Queen.
I, as Aphrodite Morpho, as Aphrodite Kallipygos, stand in My immortal Raiment on the summit of Acrocorinthus or Acrocaliphysos with My Lover, Adonis, and await
the long and gorgeously bedecked procession of peoples streaming down distant mountains in florid fever of a Summer afternoon. With flutes and lyres, with tambourines
and systrums, with rattles and drums, the winding coil of humanity dances in rhythm, slow, but gradually crescendoing to a peak of explosive fervour as they approach
My Temenos, a Nipple on My Mountain Breast.
They dance and mingle flesh in My magic maze ways, they seek the Secret Portal in the twilight hill blazing with night-perfuming blooms and Faerie flambeaux and
they sing 'I have eaten from the timbrel; I have drunk from the cymbal; I have descended into the Wedding Chamber.' For I am also Aphrodite Epitymbidia and am
thus aligned with Persephoneia. I am the Divine Glory of all kinds of Love.
EVOE APHRODITE! EVOE ARES!
UAAH!"
A Call to Gather by Venere
(by Lady Svetlana)
In Hearthroom or in henge, next to Aphra icon; candle near icon.
Priestess:
"And now come to the Sacred Workings of Eros and Hemeros within the Sacred Precincts, the orgia born of My Infinite Bounty and Plenitude where mortals may
commingle with the Immortals for a brief interlude of love in the afternoon, in the Gardens of Spain in the time of the blazing lion, for I am Aphroditessa and
Kypris.
Then burn amber tears of frankincense and scarlet blood drops of myrrh of My Lord Adonis. Harken to the clicking castanets and guttural falsetto of the Gypsies as
they stamp their code in a tango of intense and enraptured concentration upon My Beautiful Form Divine…. Do not hesitate; remove your garment for the love feast
and adorn your bodies with glistening jewels and gentle garlands, anoint each other with exotic scented oils brought from distant places by wandering
troubadours.
For lo and behold, you shall see Me blazing for an instant of glory never to be forgotten as waves of passion slash with impact of climatic rapture… And when your
forms serpentintwine together – en masse – on the pearly strands by close nectar-filled lakes while choruses of ejaculatory groans and consummative sighs fill the
skies above then the whole earth shall sway to My Sublime Symphonia – a Galactic Missa Erotica. And when ecstatic consummations saturating flesh and fibre are
transformed to sweet lucidity and rippling afterglow, I shall hover in your midst till My all-pervasive ambrosial aroma permeates all crevices and pores of your landscape
and soulscape everywhere – for all time – forevermore….
Them bring offerings of luscious fruits to My Inner Sanctum of coral pink. In nearby streams take voluptuous melons, teasing pineapples, succulent peaches and
enticing guavas and papayas to crush them playfully on one another’s bodies in sumptuous display as you feasten on these Pacific foods of the Great Flowering
Trees that I have provided to entice you to transform this planet into Paradise. Eat of My Juicy Oozing Flesh and rejoice.
In the time when My Evening Star rises, rest lasciviously on grandiose cushions of rich brocade and listen to the longing of the nightingale and the whispering of
the cricket as the night captures you gently in Her seductive arms of supernal sleep. Rest and dream of Isis so fragrant while fireflies syncopate their lights in response
to the pulsing of the stars.
So, I depart, but the memory of Aphrodite – Most Beloved – Most Adored - shall linger in your tissues till My next gracious Epiphany. Farewell, enjoy My feast –
the bounteous overflow of My Evergreen Generosity! Enjoy…. Enjoy….."
Music: ‘El Amor Brujo’, (‘Love the Magician’) by Manuel De Falla.
Summons by Aphrodite to Lovers
(by Lady Svetlana)
Priestess or Aphra:
"I, Aphrodite summon all lovers, pour eternité, to gather in two concentric circles –- the symbol of roundure and wholeness in the universe. Ladies, the Mystai
of enlovedness and joyfulness, the ‘crème de la crème’ of romanticism, stand inside - in a circle in front of their gentlemen, the Mystai of devotion and passion, who
place hands around their waists; you shall chant praises in honour of Me, Venere.
'Enchantez la Diesse – aussie enchantez les Dames Amantes ou Domnas. Dancez avec moi – Dancez à l’Aphrodité!'
EVOE APHRODITE - EVOE VENERE
EVOE PANEROTICA."
Priest and Priestess take positions to perform a Minuet by Mozart; ‘Pavanne for a Dead Princesse’ by Maurice Ravèl; or some Gavotte.
Priest:
"Mon Amour, you, like the Goddess of Love, shall transform me from a man of crudity into a courtier. Also you shall be the maid of honour who elevates my soul
from the level of lowliness to that of the lofty plane of ecstasy. I am at your service as troubadour for your delight. All Hail to the Golden Queen – Salut la Diesse!
Salut! Ah! Su Altezza Pregiata – a la Regina – Vina!"
The Grande Dame Responds
(by Lady Svetlana)
Priestess/ Aphra:
"In the Name of the Divine Adonis, Who is loved both by Persephone and Aphrodite, I accept your adoration and promise to be your mentor for a higher Love of the
Goddess and of me. Adonis is a God of transformation from Love in Life to Love unto Death and Beyond – the link between ‘L’Amour Ici’ et ‘L’Amour Voila’ – Love on
Earth and Love in Elysium.
If you follow my commands I shall be able to bestow upon you a Love Eternal before Pherephatta, through the twisting tunnel of Aidoneus to the Isles of the Blest
ruled by the Golden One of Emerald Splendour."
Priest:
"Ah! Su Altezza Pregiata – a la Regina. I bow to You my beloved, Heavenly One; let the learning begin in brief."
Priestess/ Aphra:
"First:
A Gentleman always keeps himself and his abode clean, neat, and beautiful.
The Lady helps him.
Second:
He helps his Lady with the upkeep of her place of residence as she helps him with his.
Third:
He provides gifts of perfumeries, flowers, tasty morsels, and other gifts of artistry
And she reciprocates.
Fourth:
As she him, he guides his Lady to sacred places of nature and culture
- music, dance, song, plays, poetry, etc. Together they become caretakers of sacred places.
Fifth:
We must share rituals together in honour of Kore.
Sixth:
We should honour Planeta Gaia and all creatures thereof
and put different kinds of energies in trying to save ‘La Bella Terra’.
Seventh:
Both of us must dedicate ourselves to the Goddess-Given-Gods.
Eighth:
It is of extreme importance that he be a lover fantastic – romantically and erotically.
Together our gazes, our hearts, our touches shall lead to the ‘asag’ experience
that makes all parts of both Lovers tingle orgastically
and brings the soul to sing the cosmic ‘lieder’ thus stimulating perceptive bliss
and lightening of the entire surround.
Blessed be Psyche and Eros!"
After a short pause the beloved Domna continues:
Priestess/ Aphra:
"One:
I, myself, shall not be savage but delicate in spirit and manner.
Two:
I shall be a radiant channel of lunar emanations.
Three:
I shall adore the Goddess and love my paramour through Her Intensity.
Four:
I shall be a gentle mistress in the boudoir and in the great outdoors.
Five:
I shall be a good Priestess in the service of the Maiden Goddess.
IO … EVOE!!!"
‘The Troubadour Song’
from ‘Symphony of the Harmony of Heavenly Revelations’
by Hildegard von Bingen
(modified by Lady Svetlana)
Priestess:
"The dove peered in through the latticed window,
where before her gaze
rained down the brightness of her love.
He, the sublime tower made of ‘Monterey’s’ cypress’ ,
is decked with jacinth and sardonyx,
a city that no architects’ skill can match.
He, the swift hart ran up to the fountains of purest water
which bubbled from the mightiest stone,
whose moisture made the sweet perfumeries flow…
You perfumers who live in the gentlest greenness of the ‘Queen’s Gardens,
You mount unto the heights
when you have consummated the Holy Sacrifice among the fruits…
Hail to the Fruits of the Earth
EVOE!"
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