6.
The Rituals

DEDICATION CEREMONIES

(Chapel service precedes, with affirmations and benediction omitted. C signifies celebrant, Q questioner, U in unison, I individual respondent.)

C: Now let us bring our consciousness to the spiritual task at hand.

Q: How do we bring our consciousness to a spiritual task?

C: By realizing our oneness in the higher desire we are sharing at this moment.

Q: Are we not always at one in our spiritual reality?

C: True enough! Our basic at-oneness is our eternal and universal being. However, our individual or effective identity, both in spirit and in lower or everyday manifestation, has its actuality in the immediate interest and purpose to which we give ourselves.

Q: Cannot the interest and purpose to which we give ourselves be self-seeking, and so be wholly unworthy?

C: When our self-seeking is individual in the sense of something separative, or something sought apart from our fellows, it becomes destructive and indeed most unworthy. But when it is held in common, with all who may care to have a part in its objectives and rewards, it is then an example of that cosmic division of labor through which each of us is able to develop his true personality.

Q: Is it in true personality, seen as a proper distinction from each other, that we should bring our consciousness to the spiritual task?

C: Yes, since it is in the fellowship of this contribution of distinctive realization from each of us that we are able to bring our higher and common desire to fulfillment.

Q: The achievement of a spiritual task is the fulfillment of a higher and common desire?

C: Necessarily! Only then do we achieve our conscious atonement. But the consummation of the spiritual task is also a practical matter because it facilitates an individual dedication, and sustains a genuinely personal service as a special and vicarious fulfillment of some less developed facet of aspiration for each of the others in our invisible fellowship.

Q: And to what spiritual task are we asked now to bring our consciousness?

(Questions and responses continue uninterruptedly through the ceremonial part proper for the occasion.)

Part One: The Dedication of a Life

C: Our task is the dedication of this child (these children, this seeker, these seekers) to the vision of the Solar Mysteries.

Q: Why should this child (these children, this seeker, these seekers) be dedicated to the vision of the Solar Mysteries?

C: To the end that his (her, their) consciousness may have its channelship in his (her, their) very highest potentiality.

Q: How will he (she, they) know that this channelship is real?

C: By (1) his (her, their) conscious and constant fellowship with the great souls of all the ages, whether in intimate actuality or in wholly symbolical fashion, by (2) his (her, their) continual sense of participation in the great works of the race, whether modestly or in some truly responsible degree, and by (3) his (her, their) unswerving faithfulness to the chosen ritualizations of his (her, their) inner desire through the Sabian or other presentation of the Solar Mysteries.

Q: What is required of him (her, them) as his (her, their) part in this moment of his (her, their) dedication?

C: A lifting of his (her, their) consciousness to an apex of aspiration, so that this level of self-realization may be established for his (her, their) reassurance forever in this moment of orientation through his (her, their) spiritually-minded fellows here assembled, and so that in consequence it never thereafter will be necessary in times of stress or discouragement for this self-realization to drop to any lower level of manifestation.

Q: If the one (ones) to be dedicated be a child (children) in years or in understanding of these things pertaining to the Solar Mysteries, how will he (she, they) be able to lift his (her, their) consciousness effectively?

C: Any or all of those present for the performance of the spiritual task will lift the consciousness of such a one (ones) for him (her, them) in the actuality of spiritual fellowship as it is brought to at-oneness in this moment of shared self-heightening. And if the reaffirmation of these principles has had a proper attention from all here present, and if the one (ones) to be dedicated is (are) now ready, let us proceed to the Ceremony of Water or the alchemical adoration of the element of pure experience.

Q: Is this Ceremony of Water like the baptism of the Christian church? Are we participating in a sacrament that we can believe will have the power or authority to cleanse from sin? Are we undertaking to endorse sponsors for the spiritual upbringing or instruction of the child too young or the seeker too inexperienced to affirm for himself?

C: Yes, we are doing both, but with an occult or strictly psychological rather than ecclesiastical orientation. The ceremony is in no way designed to meet the requirements of any church for the baptism of its adherents, and under the Solar Mysteries the aspirant as his own ultimate sponsor must himself confirm his dedication at every opportunity.

Q: Isn't there an occult or psychological cleansing from sin in this Ceremony of Water?

C: That is true, certainly, but it is a self-cleansing that follows from the conscious repudiation of sin as possessing any sort of necessity or compulsion in the seeker's life.

Q: Then the seeker on the path is free from sin?

C: He remains himself in every natural respect, and so he will continue to experience his lesser impulses. But now he will know that they are unimportant, and as he realizes their growing inconsequence in his everyday experience he will find them less and less a factor in his being.

Q: And so there is no escape from one's own nature, no matter how ill-developed or unlovely?

C: There is rather an exaltation of one's own nature, with all its ill-development and unloveliness, since it is within one's self that everyone at last and in truth must find himself. Therefore it is wise to turn within for strength in any significant moment of life, and with that in mind let us be silent and turn within and give ourselves every opportunity to reflect on these things.


Silence for reflection


C: And now let us stand and take our places in the presence of this water! In our alchemical adoration of this most liquid of the elements, we enlist its powers for the consummation of our ceremony.

U: We acknowledge the waters of life as our living sustainment. We acknowledge the purity of source in every human experience. We acknowledge the sustaining fellowship of the immortals in all our aspiration. We acknowledge our cleansing of soul through the heightened consciousness of this moment. And out of the eternal ocean of potentiality we dedicate this child (these children, this seeker, these seekers) to the highest manifestation of his (her, their) immortal being.

I: I, (in turn each one so dedicated naming himself in full), accept and welcome this dedication of myself to my higher potentiality, and I recognize that after such dedication there is no turning back. I give eternal thanks to all who here have participated in thus dedicating my life.

OR: I, for (naming in full a child or individual unable to speak up for himself), accept and welcome this dedication of himself (herself) to his (her) higher potentiality, and for myself I, (naming himself in full), accept the responsibility for helping him (her) understand that after such dedication there is no turning back. I shall encourage him (her) to give eternal thanks to all who have had part in thus dedicating his (her) life.

I: I, (in turn each person not accepting dedication but participating in the ceremony naming himself in full), rededicate myself in this moment of assisting in your dedication, (naming in full each of those so dedicated), and I pledge the fullest of invisible fellowship with you.

C: Now let us be seated.

Dismissal at Dedication

Celebrant

May God hold sacred

What we have here pledged;

May man hold hallowed

What has now been set apart on high;

May all enlightenment on lower planes

Sustain this dedication;

And may the dedicated vision

Serve the hopes of all humanity!

Part Two: The Dedication of a Departure

C: Our task is the dedication of a life brought to its conclusion in earthly and bodily terms, to the end that its living may be continued as an immortal contribution under the Solar Mysteries.

Q: But has not the contribution already been made?

C: Reality is not subject to the clock and never need come to a stop in time. It exists in its own continuance, or as it remains a living factor in human experience.

Q: But when one of our company passes at length to the grave?

C: The grave is an end to the body, but not to immortal embodiment.

Q: Isn't the afterlife in another and entirely different sort of world?

C: There is but one world under God, and there are few indeed who are able to experience God's world in its oneness. It is because of those who fail in this that we have our conceptions of heaven and hell, and of an actuality of separation.

Q: Then there is a practical significance of the biblical statement that the kingdom of heaven is within us?

C: Everything is within us in an ultimate sense. However, it is as we experience things outwardly, or in the everyday reality we share and identify as a lower world of manifestation, that we possess them for ourselves or in the separateness of bodily identity.

Q: Then why should we dedicate a life when it no longer is any part of the world of manifestation where we know it, or where we know ourselves and it knows itself?

C: Our dedication facilitates an experience of personal immortality, or a transcendence of the limitations of birth and death.

Q: An experience of personal immortality for our deceased companion, or for ourselves?

C: Both. The one who has come to the grave has lived in the events of his lifetime, and has developed his everyday personality through his acts and reactions in connection with them. As we hold these warm in memory, and give them a dramatic continuity such as can linger in the minds of men, we are continuing the reality in which he has had his being. In that fashion he is immortal in a true personal sense, and continues on among us.

Q: In a conscious awareness on his part?

C: With no difference in his self-awareness except that, lacking a body, he is limited to sharing the experience brought to focus in the bodies of those with whom he is linked in significant living.

Q: How many of us can count on doing things significant enough to sustain us in a bodiless state when we in turn have passed on, or can count on being worthy enough to be memorialized in this way?

C: In our invisible fellowship our very least participation is a contribution to its ongoing, and in some ways the greatest contribution is the faithfulness of a consciousness and a devotion that may have had very little outer form.

Q: Can we dedicate anything as intangible as that?

C: In our moment of grief, when the time comes to dismiss the body of a dear one among us to the physical grave, we can etch his love and warmth into our common consciousness and thus retain them as the very essence of immortal fellowship.

Q: And etching them in that manner has meaning to him, consciously?

C: All the meaning in the world. Through our etching of his essential reality in our common being in this way he is afforded the continuance of the living he has known with us, and this makes it possible for him to become one of the invisible workers responsible for so much of our spiritual strength as a group under the Solar Mysteries.

Q: Does that mean that the experience of personal immortality, for those of us left incarnate in our own flesh, is through our own and similar awareness of this strength in the group?

C: All that and much more, since the contact with the deceased can be quite personal and in some respects as tangible as anything else in life.

Q: Is this the explanation of spiritual visitations, and of the many forms of contact with exalted and unembodied personalities?

C: No general explanations are possible when it comes to things of spiritual dimension, but there is no mystery about superphysical experiences except as they are made mysterious by human minds.

Q: Then death is not really a mystery?

C: As has been said so beautifully by Wordsworth, our birth into the flesh is but a sleep and a forgetting. And when death comes among those who like us are engaged in a spiritual service to mankind we can rededicate such a heightened living in a dimension greater than the time-and-space focus of trial and stress, and thereupon we can find that the sleep has but prepared us for the conscious regrasping of the trailing glory our souls have brought from afar for its sharing, and that the forgetting at last has been made impossible in the love we sustain through our invisible fellowship. And with these things in mind, and if the reaffirmation of the principles has had a proper attention from all here present and if the one who will speak for the deceased is ready, let us proceed to the Ceremony of Earth or the alchemical adoration of the element of ultimate consequences.

Q: Is this Ceremony of Earth designed to provide the same assurance of immortality as is offered in the church and fraternal funeral services?

C: The funeral services of the churches and fraternal orders are the most proper of assurances in the light of their teachings and practices, and of necessity the same may be expected of us in our presentation of the Solar Mysteries.

Q: Do we differ from them very greatly then, when we dedicate the life of someone deceased among us to a conscious continuance and so ultimately to a greater self-fulfillment?

C: We are not seeking to make death tolerable by balancing an assurance of afterworld compensation, or of rewards remote in our experience, against a present finality in the event. Rather we dramatize an expanded or exalted living such as transcends any and all accident of external consequences.

Q: Just how does our ceremony dramatize this?

C: The ceremony permits us to dedicate to a continual living what the deceased has been contributing to our common consciousness, and in this memorial moment of heightened fellowship at the time of outer transition on his (her) part we recreate the drama of our immortal sustainment in each other.

Q: Then we must continue to hold him (her) in mind consciously?

C: There is no need for any fixity of obligation such as soon can become a burden. In this our dedication we contribute to his (her) continuing incarnation in our common ongoing, and in it also we re-establish the immortality of our fellowship and thus make possible his (her) eventual return among us in some new fullness of the vision he (she) has held. And since it is within us that he (she) must have his (her) contact now, let us be silent and give him (her) every opportunity to make his (her) presence known to us while we reflect on these things.


Silence for reflection


C: And now let us stand in full appreciation for the substance of the outer world here hallowed in memory of the departed! In our alchemical adoration of this most plastic of the elements, we enlist its powers for the consummation of our ceremony.

U: We acknowledge the integrity of nature in its embodiment of all our works. We acknowledge the certainty of consequences in all our conscious experience. We acknowledge the magic of the seed we may plant precisely as we wish in the days of our incarnation. We acknowledge the nourishing of our soul through the deepening of our consciousness and its ramification through the earth. And out of the history of man etched across the face of our globe we commemorate the physical life of (naming the deceased in full) and dedicate his (her) memory for the immortal ongoing we may share with him (her) in every deeper and broader dimension of reality.

I: I, for (the one assigned to speak for the deceased naming the deceased in full), accept the dedication of his (her) memory in the highest immortalization of his (her) vision.

I: I, (in turn each other participant in the ceremony naming himself in full), rededicate myself in this moment of commemoration of the life and work of (naming the deceased in full) and pledge myself to do my part in keeping him (her) present among us in the pursuit of our common vision.

C: Now let us be seated.

Dismissal at Dedication

Celebrant

May God hold sacred

What we have here pledged;

May man hold hallowed

What has now been set apart on high;

May all enlightenment on lower planes

Sustain this dedication;

And may the dedicated vision

Serve the hopes of all humanity!

Part Three: The Dedication of a Partnership

C: Our task is the dedication of these souls in the special intimacy they are prepared to share, to the end that it may be worthy of the Solar Mysteries.

Q: Why should their special intimacy be worthy of the Solar Mysteries?

C: Because through it and together they each may develop the personality of depth and scope they would be unable to develop alone.

Q: In what way will their special intimacy make this possible?

C: Because each in his partner has a constant added facet for his own being, and so is multiplied in the effectiveness of his self-refinement.

Q: Would this not result from any normal close association with others?

C: Normal close association does not have the irrevocability required by the Solar Mysteries. What is added to self on immortal levels must be without any possibility of a cancellation or a turning back. Relationships that are Solar in nature must be both eternal in ongoing and universal in their mutual self-fulfillment.

Q: Can irrevocability of such a sort have any actual merit in a world of chance and change?

C: When we project ourselves out of the superficial realms of chance and change, on up and into an immortal reality, we must create the eternality and universality we ask for our larger freedom by establishing it in the widening limitations needed for sustainment through every lesser relationship.

Q: Is that the familiar paradox that in any partnership the surrender of petty privileges is the price of the more rewarding ones?

C: Irrevocable surrenders are the basis of all true dependability, and they must be of all-sweeping scope if a special intimacy is to be dedicated to the Solar Mysteries.

Q: Such a partnership then must be supreme above and beyond all others?

C: An aspirant is expected to be faithful to every partnership he forms, whether business or political or marital, and as a seeker under the Solar Mysteries he must complete the cycle of each of these to the uttermost of his capacity. However and at the same time it is his right as a matter of free choice to make anyone of these central in his spiritual aspiration. As he does so he may ask that the particular partnership have a special dedication, and in that ritualized recognition be set more significantly at the forefront of his inner orientation.

Q: But when it comes to a choice in human partnerships, is not marriage the most important?

C: Not necessarily. Many great souls throughout history have adopted celibacy for their course. And much more importantly, we must never lose sight of the fact that general rules for spiritual values are quite impossible.

Q: The course of the celibates in some cases is then the better one? Is nonindulgence of the senses perhaps the best of all ways of spiritual enlightenment?

C: The disciplines of sense restraint have been taught since time immemorial in numberless occult and religious systems, and they have their value in strengthening the seeker's will. Nonetheless their practical result is all too often the seeker's progressive withdrawal from the everyday experience of his fellows, and thereupon and in consequence a spiritual self-destruction.

Q: The implication then is that under the Solar Mysteries we should strive for a greater rather than a lesser participation in human experience?

C: That is right. We seek to follow the divine example, and we believe that God ever participates in even the least activity of His creation.

Q: Then our partnerships should be for the purpose of increasing our participation in human experience?

C: Correct! And since the mating insight is at the very core of the integrity of the race, at least on the levels of visible manifestation, a necessary refinement of this built-in priority of the racial consciousness makes marriage a natural first choice for a basic partnership and therefore provides the form most commonly seeking its dedication under the Solar Mysteries.

Q: What if another form of partnership has been dedicated, and a participant comes to consider marriage and look for its dedication?

C: Anyone once dedicated to partnership is forever so dedicated, and all possible ramification of his relations with his fellows will be found to fit happily and richly into this one and only primary ordering of his intimacies.

Q: What happens when a partner deceases?

C: All relationships given their seal under the Solar Mysteries lie far above the vicissitudes of time-and-space complexity. In consequence no imagination can conjure up contingencies for which the Solar priorities are not a rewarding solution. If the kingdom of heaven is held firmly, everything else falls into place very promptly. And if the reaffirmation of these principles has had a proper attention from all here present, and if the souls asking for dedication of their special intimacy are ready, let us proceed to the Ceremony of Fire or the alchemical adoration of the element of pure existence.

Q: Does this Ceremony of Fire correspond to the performance of a marriage ceremony by a priest or minister or magistrate?

C: There is some parallel, but the dedication is not necessarily of the marital relationship and it is in no way designed to serve as the religious or civil ceremony required by law or social custom.

Q: Is there an essential difference between this Ceremony of Fire and the ceremony by which a clergyman or civil officer unites a man and a woman so that they can be said to be of one flesh?

C: The institution of marriage in society provides primarily for a legitimacy of offspring and an adjudication of property rights, and it tends very effectively to idealize romance and to discourage profligacy. Under the Solar Mysteries the dedication of the special intimacy is a practical means for expanding personal potentials in an eternally organic function, or a lifting rather than a licensing of the instincts and appetites and a consequent furthering of the social good through vision rather than law.

Q: The Ceremony of Fire accomplishes this?

C: It dedicates the creative fire at source, or deep within the being.

Q: But the special intimacy is a merging of outer interest and effort?

C: The intimacy becomes the visible sign of the inner dedication, which of itself will be known ultimately in its transcendental fulfillment. As a result of the outer dedication the divine fire is brought continually to the highest point of personal quickening of which the partners are capable at each stage of their unfoldment. And since this is sacred with them, that is, never an outward manifestation, let us be silent and reflect on these things to the end that our realization may facilitate the great alchemy these souls will come to know increasingly in their spiritual binding to each other.


Silence for reflection


C: And now let us stand in the presence of this holy flame as these souls clasp hands and seal their eternal commitment to each other. In our alchemical adoration of this most refining of the elements, we enlist its powers for the consummation of our ceremony.

U: We acknowledge the radiant energy built into the core of all conscious individuality. We acknowledge the creative drive through which the quickened heart may bring an incandescent interest to all experience. We acknowledge our illimitable capacity for an upflaming loyalty to obligations and convictions. We acknowledge our continual rebirth through the struggle of our aspiration to express itself. And out of the endless fructification of all reality we dedicate (naming those so dedicated in full) to the common destiny they have chosen for themselves under the Solar Mysteries.

I: I, (in turn each of those dedicated naming himself or herself in full), accept this dedication of myself and (naming the partner or partners in full) to our new and common destiny, and I recognize that after such dedication there is no turning back. I give my eternal thanks to all here who have participated in this dedication of the special intimacy we seek to make worthy of the Solar Mysteries.

I: I, (in turn each other person participating in the ceremony naming himself in full), rededicate myself in this moment of participation with you (naming those dedicated in full), in the dedication of your special intimacy, and I pledge the fullest of invisible fellowship with you in your common effort.

C: Now let us be seated.

Dismissal at Dedication


Celebrant

May God hold sacred

What we have here pledged;

May man hold hallowed

What has now been set apart on high;

May all enlightenment on lower planes

Sustain this dedication;

And may the dedicated vision

Serve the hopes of all humanity!

Part Four: The Dedication of a Project

C: Our task is the dedication of this (naming project) to the end that it may serve the Solar Mysteries through (making a clear statement of the ideal to be furthered).

Q: In what way will the (naming project) serve the Solar Mysteries?

C: In the fact that its purposes will be oriented to an ongoing superior to any limitation of time, and to a breadth of application beyond any limitation of space.

Q: How does the dedication help accomplish this?

C: By a repudiation of any necessary or ultimate limitation either in the continuing effort of the individual (persons) who seeks (seek) this dedication or in the vision that leads him (her, them) to this expenditure of himself (herself, themselves) and of his (her, their) means.

Q: Should not he (she, they) be dedicated, rather than the vision to be embodied in this (naming project)?

C: It is in common effort that spiritual aspiration gains its substance in experience, and the facilities of the objective world that may be dedicated to higher ends are of special value to the individual (persons) in an ordering and strengthening of his (her, their) efforts.

Q: Then it is wise for any activity of spiritual seeking such as a church or an occult group to have its dedicated temples, schools, libraries and everything of the sort?

C: Buildings and physical equipment, meetings and forms of organization, rituals and procedures, and the like are nothing of themselves. But when any of these are dedicated for an end through which spiritual aspirations are brought to creative unity, the participating individual is (individuals are) lifted above the time-and-space definition and his (her, them) immortal personality is (personalities are) able to dramatize itself (themselves) for the sake of others in the facilities through which the dedicated project serves the larger vision.

Q: A temple can be empty or effort without soul?

C: The creations and works of men are in any spiritual reality the continuing beauty of the love and talent and genius built into their substance. But when these actually quite artificial entities demand the sacrifice of human beings and human resources for no more than perpetuating their outer shell, they become a mockery of the vision from which they have sprung.

Q: If our own lives are dedicated, rather than our projects, are we not better able to help maintain the spiritual vigor of our creations and our works?

C: That will always seem to be the more simple course, but it is only half the story. As we dedicate also the channels of our common effort we share a larger dedication as well, and then we have begun to be something more than ourselves alone. This is true even if we should achieve a status little short of an avatar at core.

Q: If our common effort centers in an organization of like-minded seekers, rather than in physical buildings and equipment, do we not give greater aid to our aspiration?

C: It makes no difference what the agency of facilitation may be, provided we may dedicate it to our common aspirations.

Q: If the dedication of facilities for our spiritual service is in this way so great a help to our increasing usefulness under the Solar Mysteries, should we not try to create some wonderful edifice or establish some great organization?

C: The source of any aspiration we serve is within us always, and so never in the outer and even splendid things through which it may be stimulated to an almost illimitable projection of itself. Whenever a dedicated place or organization proves to be beyond the capacity of the faithful who dedicate it to find it actually dramatizing their spiritual vision for them, or strengthening them in the course of their daily effort to live their vision and share it, such a place or organization at once loses its higher meaning. Thereupon it can only serve to depreciate everything of eternal worth.

Q: Is this the reason little of physical facility or organization is encouraged under the Solar Mysteries?

C: Under the Solar Mysteries we find our aspiration mirrored in the great invisible temple not made with hands. Hence in the practical world of everyday we utilize whatever facilities are most suitable for the immediate ends to which we can dedicate them, and these facilities we endow with every beauty and efficiency in our power without ever making them themselves a goal or losing ourselves in self-justification or superficial self-glorification in our attention to them. And if the reaffirmation of these principles has had a proper attention from all here present, and if the one (ones) among us who will offer the (naming project) for dedication are ready, let us proceed to the Ceremony of Air or the alchemical adoration of the element of ultimate realization.

Q: Is this Ceremony of Air the equivalent of the dedication ceremonies of the practical world around us?

C: The Ceremony of Air under the Solar Mysteries is in its largest expression the ministry of poetry, music and the arts, or the free capacity of man both to endow the world with a significance of his own choosing and to dramatize such a significance with a beauty his fellows will be able to appreciate.

Q: When we dedicate a (naming project) we are certifying an endowment of significance?

C: We are strengthening a practical ideal that in its exactions will be a continual reminder to man that he is a living and experimenting creature, rather than an automaton. We are confronting him with something to be done, and also and necessarily with a something he can do without thought of limitation to block him. This is so because dedication always certifies the possible.

Q: How will the dedication of this (naming project) certify these possible things to this seeker (these seekers)?

C: The (naming project) will become his (her, their) living embodiment in terms of a function now stabilized through the Solar Mysteries. The (naming project) is not dedicated to put him (her, them) in bondage to an obligation, but rather is to release him (her, them) in the terms of his (her, their) potentiality. And since his (her, their) release will be from within, let us be silent that we may sense some of the promise of this (naming project) and help dedicate it no less inwardly than outwardly.


Silence for reflection


C: And now let us stand in the presence of the eternal breath or immortal spirit that forever works silently and surely for the vivification of every eternal promise. In the alchemical adoration of this most pervading of the elements, we enlist its powers for the consummation of our ceremony.

U: We acknowledge the deep-seated restlessness of the human spirit in its endless aspiration. We acknowledge the necessity of constant change and growth as we develop our inner and ultimate orientations. We acknowledge the continual and conscious rehearsal of our experience as a basis for ultimate reality. We acknowledge our discipline of soul through the ceaseless interweaving of our ties with others. And out of the prodigal self-expenditure of all mankind through the ages we dedicate this (naming project) to the furthering of every possible accomplishment under the Solar Mysteries.

I: I, (the sponsor for the project, or each sponsor in turn, naming himself or herself in full), accept and welcome this dedication of (naming project) and of its function under the Solar Mysteries. I give eternal thanks to all who have participated in dedicating this vision.

I: I, (in turn each other person participating in the ceremony naming himself or herself in full), rededicate myself in this moment of participation in the dedication of this (naming project) and I pledge the fullest of invisible cooperation with the ends envisioned.

C: Now let us be seated.

Dismissal at Dedication

Celebrant

May God hold sacred

What we have here pledged;

May man hold hallowed

What has now been set apart on high;

May all enlightenment on lower planes

Sustain this dedication;

And may the dedicated vision

Serve the hopes of all humanity!




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