THE EQUINOX
mighty within us, force of energy, fire of motion; with dili-
gence let us ever labour with thee, that we may remain in
thine abundant joy.
THE PEopLe. So mote it be.
(THE MOON)
Tue Deacon. Lady of night, that turning ever about us
art now visible and now invisible in thy season, be thou
favourable to hunters, and lovers, and to all men that toil
upon the earth, and to all mariners upon the sea.
THE PEopte. So mote it be.
(THE LADY)
Tue Deacon. Giver and receiver of joy, gate of life and
love, be thou ever ready, thou and thine handmaiden, in
thine office of gladness.
THE PEopLe. So mote it be.
(THE SAINTS)
Tue Deacon. Lord of Life and Joy, that art the might of
man, that art the essence of every true god that is upon the
surface of the Earth, continuing knowledge from generation
unto generation, thou adored of us upon heaths and in
woods, on mountains and in caves, openly in the market-
places and secretly in the chambers of our houses, in temples
of gold and ivory and marble as in these other temples of our
bodies, we worthily commemorate them worthy that did of
old adore thee and manifest thy glory unto men, Laotze and
Siddartha and Krishna and Tahuti, Mosheh, Dionysus,
Mohammed and To Mega Therion, with these also Hermes,
Pan, Priapus, Osiris and Melchizedek, Khem and Amoun
and Mentu, Heracles, Orpheus and Odysseus; with Ver-
gilius, Catullus, Martialis, Rabelais, Swinburne, and many
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