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Sacred Circle & Ceremony for the Dying & the Dead

It is very common for initiates to go out into the wilderness to create a sacred circle and to perform a ceremony for people who have died – gathering stones in a sacred manner, and purifying and consecrating them, they will set them in place, creating a sacred circle beginning in the West, the direction of old age and death, the place of transition.

*Alternatively, a circle may be traced upon the earth, either scratched into the earth with a staff or by using some organic powdery substance, like flour.

When the sacred circle has been formed, and the sacred rug or blanket is set in the center, with offerings and sacred tools on it, then the initiate will begin their invocations, calling upon Ha-Shem, the Shekinah and the Powers.

Invoking the Powers of Sacred Circle in a ceremony for the blessed dead, the focus of the ceremony is to the West – and this is especially true in the first forty-nine days following the death of a person; at the first year’s anniversary of a person’s death, however, or when works are performed for those long since dead, the focus of the sacred ceremony is to the North, the direction corresponding with the afterlife and elder races.

*There may also be a focus towards the East when a soul has come to the time of their next incarnation, with offerings and prayers for a fortunate rebirth and abundance in a new life.

In ceremony the initiate will invoke the spirit of the dead into the sacred circle, and they will make offerings on behalf of the dead and pray for the blessings of Ha-Shem and the Powers upon the soul of the departed – as part of the sacred ceremony they may also perform a guidance for the spirit of the dead into an appropriate heaven or into the Divine Light, guidance for full reintegration with the Light Continuum, or they may perform a transference of consciousness with the spirit of the dead.

*Another ceremony in circle for the dead is to walk the sacred circle moonwise for the purification and liberation of the spirit of the dead, akin to the use of the reversed form of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram for the purification of the elements of consciousness of the dead.

The fruition of the sacred ceremony is a wedding feast, the culmination of which are prayers for the peace of the spirit of the dead and praise and thanksgiving to the Holy One, our Mother, our Father, the True Light.

Naturally, when an initiate creates a sacred circle and performs ceremony for the dead as they take up the work they will let the Holy Spirit and Powers guide them, enacting the sacred ceremony as inspired, and doing whatever is asked of them by the Divine Powers on behalf of the dead – needless to say many different ceremonies can and are performed in sacred circle for the dead, all manner of spiritual works on their behalf.

May the dead know themselves in the Sacred Circle of Life and be reborn of the Spirit, drawn up in the Great Ascension through the good grace of Hayyah Yeshua; amen.

Blessings & shalom!
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Tau Malachi
Sophia Fellowship
Ecclesia Pistis Sophia