Table of Contents
The Fire Ritual Heavens Gate
Heavens URL
The origins of Fire
Fire and civilisation
Fire and cooking
Ecology and Fire
Fire as a symbol
The Phoenix, the flaming bird
Whats in a (my) name
Light(ning) and fire
The Fire Myths: Prometheus
Rituals
Literature about fire rituals
The role of ritual
Ritual as an experience; beyond theories
The efficacy of ritual: links, means and ways
Correspondences
Mysticism and magic
The Fire-ritual: transformation
The traditions
Meaning
Dangers, ethics and karma
Fire correspondences
New Fire
Fire Personality
Fire-energy levels
Purpose - goal- processes
Ritual Matrix - liturgy
One to many, many into one
Structure
The liturgic scenario
Stages:
Preliminary preparation
Permission and invitation
Timing and place
The circle, ritual enclosure, sanctuary
The officials
Gates
The altar
The start
Ignition
Sacrifices
The communion stage
Circle work
Dance and performance
Hymns, recitations and songs
Some appropriate song-lines, of many:
Music
Charge of the circle
Scents
Pyrotechnics
Divination
Modern times
Fire-ritual as paradigm shift
The long and the short of it
Into the deep: psychology and what matters
Modern rituals
Ritual understood
Firedance
A new blend
My Firedance song:
The ritual elements of Firedance
Phases
The planetary tracks
Some additional remarks
Sweatlodges and sweat baths
Sweatlodge
Temazcal
Walking the Fire
Greek notions of fire
Alchemical notions of fire
VERBA SECRETORUM HERMETIS.
Jewish Notions of Fire
Magic and religion: just a matter of vantage point
Revealed or human construct
Magic, the true technology of power
The efficacy of magic; does it work?
Correspondences or links
Inner correspondences
Kurzweils notion of magic
Future, present and past
A model of magic
Bibliography