Incense: Firebrand
Night- and let us call her Kypris- gave birth to all.
Hearken, O blessed goddess, jet-black and star-lit,
Whose delight is in quiet and slumber-filled serenity.
Cheerful and delightsome, O mother of dreams, you love the nightlong revel,
And your gentleness rids of cares, and offers respite from toil.
Giver of sleep, beloved of all you are, as you drive your steeds and gleam in darkness.
Ever incomplete, now terrestrial and now again celestial,
You circle around in pusuit of sprightly phantoms,
You force light into the nether world, and again you flee into Hades.
Dreadful Necessity governs all things.
But now, O blessed one, yea beatific and desired by all,
I call on you to grant a kind ear to my voice of supplication,
And benevolent, come to disperse fears that glisten in the dark.
Incense: Frankincens
Primeval, beginning of all and end of all,
Lord of the universe, moving about the earth like a sphere, home of the blessed gods.
Your motion is roaring whirl, and you envelop all as their celestial and terrestrial guard.
In you breast lies nature's invincible drive;
Dark-blue, indomitable, shimmering, veriform,
All-seeing father of Kronos, blessed and most sublime divinity,
Hearken and bring a life of holiness to the newly initiated.
Incense: Crocus
And of the stars, the sun, and the moon you claim a share.
O tamer of all, fire-breather, life's spark for every creature,
Sublime Ether, best cosmic element, radiant luminous, starlit offspring,
I call upon you and beseech you to be temperate and clear.
Incense: Myrrh
Born of the egg, delighting in his golden wings he bellows like a bull,
This begetter of blessed gods and mortal men.
Erikepaios, seed unforgettable, attend to my rites,
Ineffable, hidden, brilliant scion, whose motion is whirring,
You scattered the dark mist that lay before your eyes, and, flapping your wings,
You whirled about and throughout this world, you brought pure light.
For this I call you Phanes and lord Priapos and bright-eyed Antauges.
But, O blessed one of many counsels and seeds,
Come gladly to the celbrants of this holy and elaborate rite.
Incense: Aromatic Herbs
and with devotional prayers I summon the holy demons.
Heavenly stars, dear children of dark Night,
On circles you march and whirl about , O brilliant and fiery begetters of all.
Fate; everyone's fate, you reveal and you determine the divine path for mortals,
As, wandering in midair you gaze upon the seven luminous orbits.
In heaven and on earth ever indestructible on your blazing trail,
You shine upon night's cloak of darkness.
Coruscating, gleaming, kindly and nocturnal, visit the learned contents of this rite,
Finishing a noble race for works of glory.
