THE RITUAL OF TWO STARS TRAVELING THROUGHOUT INFINITE SPACE

Being a Ceremonial wedding of two wills in Marriage

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

Items on the Altar

In the quarter of Nuit shall stand the altar, having upon it a Cup of Wine, the Magick Wand, the Magick Bell, the wedding rings, and The Book of the Law.

Some basic preliminaries They shall duly purify their bodies by a ceremonial bath and consecration unto Nuit before the Ceremony to show defiance to the old aeon attitude toward sex before marriage. The Priest shall wear a Green Robe to show he is a man of earth and a beast and the Priestess shall wear a red robe to show her lust for life and a scarlet woman. The Priest shall wear a symbol of the Sun and the Priestess shall wear a symbol of the Moon on their chest. After completing the Bath of Defiance the Priest and Priestess robe and get into position Priest in the East of the Temple and the Priestess in the West of the Temple, facing each other.

(Someone rings the bell 3-5-3 to announce silence among the people and to begin the ceremony)


The Proclamation of the Book of the Law as the true Guide


Priest (In the East facing Priestess in the West.)
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Priestess (In the West facing Priest in the East.)
Love is the law, love under will
Priest What is thy will, thou woman dressed in red?
Priestess It is my Will to love, to wed, a scarlet woman am I bred.
And what is thy will, thou man dressed in green?
Priest My will is to love and wed this woman a life most keen..
Priestess And by what Magick Spell shall we awaken this force?
Priest By the Spell of Love under will shall be begin our course.
Priestess Art thou prepared to do thy Will?
Priest This I promise I shall fulfill
Priestess We seal our Love with a sacred kiss,
that are lives shall be lived with sacred bliss,
for we are strong and we are good
and both our wills are understood.

(Some type of classical music is played here very softly but loud enough to be heard)


The Priest and Priestess go to the Altar and the Priest kisses his Priestess on her lips. Then shall they unite hands above The Book of the Law on the Holy Altar, and say:
Pr & Pri Like two stars upon our course we ride,
and the Book of the Law is our only Guide.
together we go forth with solemn grace
together we ride the winds of infinite space
As we will, so shall it be,
although we unite we remain ever free

(The bell is struck once)


The Invocation of the Sun and Moon
Priest (Makes Hexagram of Sol and invokes:)
Thee I invoke the Sun that awakens beast!
That I may arise a Sun and Priest!
Priestess (Makes Hexagram of Luna and invokes:)
Thee I invoke the Moon that awakens me
To a Scarlet Woman ever free
For Ra-Hoor-Khuit will my child be bred
I am the Priestess wife dressed in sacred red

(The wife Priestess draws sword, holds it up for all to see and puts it back into sheath)
The people and Priest and Priestess: Abrahadabra!
(The knocks 3-5-3 to emphasize the next operation for the magical links are meant to manifest as a reality in physical existence.)

The Consecration of the Magical Links


(The magical wedding rings are on a silver plate on the altar, a beloved member who has been chosen to wed them gets the plate and rings off the altar and quietly lets them pick them up)

Each wedding ring is consecrated by the Bride and Groom. Each put the ring on each other.

They become man and wife and sun and moon!


(A beloved member of the Order who the couple has chosen as one to wed them steps forth and proclaims very loudly tracing the invoking Hexagram of the beast over the two):
Heart to heart and hand in hand,
you are wedded in this land,
By the mystic power of Thelemic life
I pronounce you man and wife
as man and wife and sun and moon,
let all the people sing the tune!
(All the people sing the sacred mantra eleven times )

The sacred bell is struck only once and the toast begins.

The sacred Toast unto Nuit


Pr & Pri Upon our fingers are the rings to mystically bind,
And now we share the sacred wine,
(both Priest and Priestess drink wine and toast Nuit---all the people raise wine glasses and say "always Unto Nuit")

Love is the law, love under will


Thelemic Marriage

Written by David Bersson

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law

Many years ago, when I was much more naive than I am today, I rejected the idea of marriage and turned my nose completely at monogamy. Years of considering perspectives from a multitude of planes with my meditations have altered my perspective with this in many respects. Such perspectives are naturally going to arise more than likely from the taint of the demon queen of Malkuth who appears in the early stages of the path. However, when such an early ordeal is occurring you do not realize that your energy will eventually rise. This arising in energy will attract a much more spiritual type of woman who will not be so prone to vampirizing you. We must, of course, not permit Lilith to hinder us from a incarnation of the Goddess as a Priestess. Eventually, the scars that the nails of Lilith have created on your soul will heal and you can arise to a greater perception of the divine potential of a woman. This clearly means a much more sublime relationship where the woman can now act as a Priestess to assist you with magick.

In a Thelemic society you will always have the type of Thelemite that did as I did, reject marriage and monogamy as a very real hindrance to private Initiation.

It is with no doubt that someone from the profane world would look at someone like myself, when I state that I will not allow any woman to interfere with my magick work to rudely come to the conclusion that I've wasted my entire life, for in the eyes of the one dimensional profane, magick either doesn't exist at all or is the pathway to some hell.

In the deep waters of my youth, I had this aspiration to seek out and experience. I did so by various relationships. I did not tie myself down by marriage. In the back of my mind, I was worried that such a move would mean I would not achieve the Initiations I deeply aspired toward. Such a state of affairs was considered intolerable as my near mad desire to attain stood sternly at the top of this mountain assuring itself that, after all, I would eventually attain if only I concentrated on priorities and did not allow women to interfere with my goals.

Indeed, my case may very be a parallel with others who have found the same problem. Woman take a lot of time. Many of them are emotional, play stupid games and have no earthy idea when a man needs his space, especially with regards to magical workings. Woman demand time and time is precious when you are attempting such a sublime and Holy Goal as Initiation. The situation has changed today. I now realize that not all Thelemites will take the same path as myself and some of them will marry, have children and those children will be brought up as Thelemites. They in a sense might be called, "men of earth" in the Book of the Law. Such a Thelemite might very well be the generic norm more so than myself who will be categorized, as a hermit or a hierophant, depending on where my work becomes useful to these "men of earth". It took me years to realize that not all Thelemites will have the same spiritual aspirations and Pathway toward that idiosyncratic phrase, "True Will".

It should be brought to the attention of all those who accept the Law of Θελημα that marriage is in fact, a very efficient way of bringing a Thelemic Society to the multitudes. I wrote one of the first Thelemic Marriage Ceremonies. As time passes, I would like to see real work done on the documents for a man of earth to assist the relationships that will be conjured from such unions.

Aleister Crowley always wrote from the point of view of how any marriage or any family situation would slow or hinder or stop initiation from occurring. My superior, Marcelo Motta, warned everyone about its consequences and to observe caution. Yet not once do these Teachers confront the problem in a manner which perceives the will of the Thelemite who simply has different motivations and aspirations. It is time we eradicated this blind spot of other types of Thelemites whose will might possibly take directions that conceive different courses on their Journey Unto Infinite possibility.

Herein is a blind spot that has been overlooked until now. We must create a lens to perceive this blind spot so it can be seen cleanly and with an open mind. Once again, as more Thelemites appear on the earth we must eradicate any bias along these lines and keep an open mind. The word "wife" does appear int he Book of the Law. It is, without a doubt, the biological will of ALL woman to conceive a child. We cannot deny this biological will may be in some cases at odds with the spiritual or magical will. If it is a Thelemite's will to have one child or twelve it is the will of the parent(s) to assume that responsibility and plan the education of the children.

You take your chances on your romances as the old saw goes. I must point out a not so amusing scenario is to bring a child up as a Thelemite, that child growing up, rejecting the parents path and turning to a cursed religion as an act of rebellion.

It is forbidden to convert in accordance to our command in the Book of the Law. Therefore the most efficient way of bringing the Law of Θελημα to the world is to have large families where they are all brought up with the Law of Θελημα. Consider the theoretical situation where every Thelemic couple presently in existence had twelve children. In theory, if even half these children carried on this tradition our movement would expand tremendously in even a twenty-five year period. The richer the "man of earth" is the more children they should have and mass adoption is not out of the question. In a forty year period, hundreds of thousands of Thelemites would exist on earth where we presently only have random numbers from those who happen upon our system. Observe that this is precisely how all other religious systems began to dominate the earth. They arose from parents to children until the world was littered with Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and other worthless religions. This is quite a suggestion for a proven method of growth the sum being a state of affairs most subtle indeed where Thelemites begin to appear in greater numbers.

Remember that such a state of affairs might very well hinder your progress in Initiation unless you have already achieved that Initiation which your Path and Tendency have shown that it is your True Will to take this path.

Such a decision as a Thelemic Marriage should not be for people who think they "aspire to be Thelemites" rather than KNOW spiritually and magically that they already are, nor those who think marriage will hinder them from aspiring and attaining to Initiations. The man and wife who are Priest and Priestess can gain power, energy, insight, initiation, joy, satisfaction, and much more as those who have chosen a unique and challenging path such as this.

Serious students should read and observe carefully an early, (and sometimes naive), paper written by Aleister Crowley to Edward Saayman on April 6, 1924 e.v. to see the terrible scars that Aleister Crowley had from failed relationships. This Saayman fellow was the worst possible person to attempt to "save" from a profane wife. This profane wife, who could care less about Θελημα nor being Priestess not only did not accept the Law of Θελημα but created a situation where Saayman left the work forever. This is an extremely important letter showing how little developed Thelemic Relationships were this early in the Aeon. It cannot, under any circumstances, be considered an initiated interpretation of marriage. Rather, this shows the deep insight that A.C. developed on the stages of insanity one goes through when one marries a profane woman. Some of it will be very useful information. Yet much of the particular situation was irritation on A.C.'s part that Saayman had married a woman who he instinctively knew would destroy a disciple.

In the coming years, one can only look forward to an initiated interpretation of Thelemic Relationships from someone who has gained real Initiation from assuming the position as Priest or Priestess in a Thelemic family situation.

Until then, I highly recommend Thelemic marriage as a working solution to the spreading of Θελημα through the earth. I further highly recommend that such marriage along Thelemic lines be carefully observed and recorded in instructive essay by both parties.

In this manner, this Path, being a very real one, will be expounded into a deeper understanding for those who wish to attain initiation as Priest and Priestess, man and wife.

Love is the law, love under will