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Trip FIVE | |
This Mystree Rite is not required for initiation, but it is offered by | |
many POEE Priest to proselytes who desire a formal ceremony. | |
1. The Priest and four Brothers are arranged in a pentagon with the | |
Initiate in the center facing the Priest. If possible, the Brothers | |
on the immediate right and left of the Priest should be Deacons. The | |
Initiate must be totally naked, to demonstrate that he is truly a | |
human being and not something else in dusguise like a cabbage or | |
something. | |
2. All persons in the audience and the pnetagon, excepting the | |
Priest, assume a squatting position and return to a standing position. | |
This is repeated four more times. This dance is symbolic of the | |
humility of we Erisians. | |
3. The Priest begins: | |
I, (complete holy name, with mystical titles, and degrees, | |
designations, offices, etc.), Ordained Priest of the Paratheo- | |
anametamystikhood of Eris Esoteric, with the Authority invested in me | |
by the High Priest of It, Office of the Polyfather, the House of the | |
Rising Podge, POEE Head Temple; do herewith require of ye: | |
1. Are ye a human being and not a cabbage or something? (The | |
Initiate answers, "Yes.") | |
2. That's too bad. Do ye wish to better thyself? (The Initiate | |
answers, "Yes.") | |
3. How stupid. Are ye willing to become philosophically | |
illuminized? (He answers, "Yes.") | |
4. Very funny. Will ye dedicate yeself to the Holy Erisian | |
Movement? (The Initiate answers, "Probably.") |