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A Call for Peace and Reconstruction of the Cosmos

by Briar

The purpose of this ritual segment is to establish one’s place within both the Cosmos entire and within the ritual space – and to bless both.

In general, one way to understand the purpose of ritual is to re-create the Cosmos as part of Divine purpose.  As participants in the Divine, we create as co-create as a matter of our nature, and in ritual we take a conscious and aware part in this process.  It may be said, that part of the deeper Mystery is that by performing ritual in this manner we strengthen the Art – the Order that forms the Cosmos – and while this principle applies to the entire ritual, it is particularly obvious in this segment.

The general structure of this process usually involves achnowleging the mythological cosmology structure by honoring it through the Sacred Numbers: The Four Directions, The Three Realms (Land, Sea and Sky), the Two Worlds (World and Otherworld), and the All/the Sacred Center. This may be done in a number of ways, many interesting and creative.  What follows is one such, which also includes the traditional Call for Peace.

This segment, as given here, may be used as part of a full Ritual, or as a meditation in its own right.

The following prayer is a loose adaptation from what is known as The Morrighan’s Prophecy, where the Morrighan gives the prophecy of peace after the Tuatha De Danaan victory at the Second Battle of Mag Tuared.

 

    Peace to the East, spring dawn awakens
    Peace to the South, summer day shining
    Peace to the West, fall evening twilight
    Peace to the North, winter’s night stillness

    Peace up to heaven
    Heaven down to earth
    Earth out to sea

    Peace to the World
    Peace to the Otherworld

    Peace be to all

      Strength be in each
      A cup very full
      Full to overflowing
      Overflowing with honey

      Branch drooping down
      Drooping with growth
      Growth in wisdom
      Wisdom of salmon

      Summer in winter
      Honor enough
      Woods grown with antler-tips
      Fire as needed.

    <proceed to lighting the Sacred Fire if this prayer is a part of a full Ritual>

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