{"id":547,"date":"2003-01-18T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-18T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=547"},"modified":"2003-01-18T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-18T19:16:00","slug":"the-rite-of-luna-and-other-religious-endeavors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/18\/the-rite-of-luna-and-other-religious-endeavors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rite of Luna and other religious endeavors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been very active with my religion over the past year. I think it&#8217;s one of the things that&#8217;s kept me over the last year from going absolutely insane at my worst times.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, our West San Fernando Valley chapter will be sponsoring &#8220;<a HREF=\"http:\/\/thelema.oto-usa.org\/eleusis\/luna.html\">The Rite of Luna<\/a>&#8221; one of <a HREF=\"http:\/\/thelema.oto-usa.org\/eleusis\/preface.html\">A.C.&#8217;s &#8220;Rites of Eleusis&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lvx-oto.org\/fliers\/luna.html\">rite is at 8pm this evening<\/a> at Raven&#8217;s Flight Bookstore near the Studio City \/ North Hollywood border.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be one of the guys running a video camera tonight. The rite I&#8217;ll be sponsoring isn&#8217;t until later in the year.<\/p>\n<p>I have also in the past 6 months become an <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hermetic.com\/sabazius\/deacon.htm\">ordained Deacon<\/a> in the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hermetic.com\/sabazius\/rituals.html\">EGC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have been performing masses regularly and will be appearing for the first time at the WSFV&#8217;s mass this month.<\/p>\n<p>This week I also began my official study towards the priesthood. I&#8217;m working with our chief priestess from the East SFV chapter. I have also spoken to a Bishop in the area who has agreed to monitor me and take me on as a student in the priesthood.<\/p>\n<p>My current goal is the March\/April time frame.<\/p>\n<p>This is made more complicated by the fact that I am sponsoring a 4 class lecture series on performing basic rituals.<br \/>\nOur two SFV chapters will be tag-teaming a series of classes that they call 101 in February. (See calendars for the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lvx-oto.org\/events.shtml\">WSFV chapter (LVX)<\/a> and the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bluehorizon-oto.org\/events.html\">ESFV chapter (Blue Horizon)<\/a> for more details)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to me that I&#8217;ve offered to sponsor (and teach) material that I was very hesitant to do on my own for the longest time. Perhaps at some point I&#8217;ll be introspective on that topic.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s some free floating news from around the apt.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-547\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/18\/the-rite-of-luna-and-other-religious-endeavors\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-547\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/18\/the-rite-of-luna-and-other-religious-endeavors\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-547\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/18\/the-rite-of-luna-and-other-religious-endeavors\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/18\/the-rite-of-luna-and-other-religious-endeavors\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been very active with my religion over the past year. 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Tonight, our West San Fernando Valley chapter will be sponsoring &#8220;The Rite of Luna&#8221; one of A.C.&#8217;s &#8220;Rites of Eleusis&#8221; The rite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-547\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/18\/the-rite-of-luna-and-other-religious-endeavors\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-547\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/18\/the-rite-of-luna-and-other-religious-endeavors\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-547\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/18\/the-rite-of-luna-and-other-religious-endeavors\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/18\/the-rite-of-luna-and-other-religious-endeavors\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1X6ba-8P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}