☩ RITES OF EROS ☩
Eros Reawakening for the Artist
When you abandon your true nature and resign yourself to conventional, amorous entanglements, your pleasure and inspiration begin to wane until you find yourself in self-imposed chains. Neither prestige, nor affluence, nor the vain attentions of a desirable woman can silence the growing feeling of weariness; an inner voice whispers that you have forsaken something significant.
I invite you to refuse the pretence and reclaim all that you have repressed, neglected, or dishonoured – your unbound, sensual, masculine presence – free from the virtues of renunciation or the empty promise of decadence.
Enter into the male initiation Rites of Eros with HER – She who is the everlasting, erotic force of nature who pervades all life. And as Her virile hero, Her immortal artist, receive the ecstatic pleasure, supernatural power, and sublime beauty of sacred alchemy.
THE SERPENTINE WATERS
Primaeval Nymph
I carry within me an untamed feminine mystery, once dormant and long-forgotten in time. My life drew to me a succession of direct experiences which recalled only fragments of this memory until, during a sojourn in Hellas (Greece), when on visiting the sacred sanctuary of Delphi and drinking from the serpent-guarded Castalian Spring, I experienced an Elysium – a prolonged ecstatic state of communion with the sensuality in Nature.
She aroused in me a profound recognition and remembrance of sacred alchemy, the gateway for mortals to merge with the divine. This elation was followed by what can be described as years of silence from the beauty I had once witnessed. Unable to discern the source of the separation, I retreated from the world.
Then, during an all-night entheogenic ritual, the connection returned, together with sequences of spontaneous trembling in my spine, until they culminated in an embodiment of a serpentine elemental force. With an exquisite surge of power through my body, She revealed Herself as fierce, sapient, and sublime. When the episode subsided, I came to the realisation that, by drinking from the sacred waters, I had undergone a rite of passage to become a vessel for the chthonic presence of the spring, primaeval nymph. I had received the gift of self-realisation.
In the years that followed, my ability to embody Her strengthened. She recalled ancestral memories. She revealed the significance of the erotic-mystic male initiation rites and the universal narrative of the Nymph and Her beloved Shepherd of Ecstatic Resonance (proto-Orpheus), the mortal, Artist Lover who, through descent, incarnates Her dying-and-rising consort, Eniautos Daimōn. These revelations prompted me to seek confirmation in the myths and esoteric mysteries of archaic cultures. On discovering the many synchronicities with what I had personally experienced, I became resolute to fulfil my calling.
INITIATION
Ritual Enactment of Archetypal Myth
Liberation for the Virile Hero
My calling is to recognise the artist, unwed and in the prime of his manhood, who is fated for the oracular initiation of Eros.
If my words have awakened a quest within you, you will be inexplicably drawn to me.
For this hero’s journey into the mysteries, you will need the resolve to encounter the alluring, feminine force of nature.
During ritual, you will devote yourself to Her and your liberation,
And thus, in the prolonged pleasure of sacred sensual adoration,
undergo the transformation
to uncover the domain of your true nature and fulfil your role in erotic alchemy.
Beauty and power reside in the meeting of the pain of unfulfilment and the pleasure of consummation.
The Ritual Architecture:
TRIBUTE
You make a pilgrimage to enter reciprocity…
Nothing is owed for oracular initiation and the reawakening of Eros cannot be bought.
Your tribute is the sincere surrender of the shadow – the shame, the avoidance, the numbness;
all that binds your daimon (instinctual nature); all that deceives your fate.
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Locations
Delphi – Athens – Claros
The oracle sanctuaries
We journey to the ancient sanctuary of Delphi, to drink from the nymphic Castalian Spring, nestled on the slopes of Mount Parnassus. We then return to a temple retreat under the Acropolis, for a private ritual beginning at sundown, overlooking the Hill of the Nymphs in the historic centre of Athens. In the following days, we pilgrimage to the active subterranean spring in Claros, Anatolia, site of the male prophetic lineage near ancient Ephesus to complete The Anointment of the Oracle Priest.
Secret Location
The revealed sanctuary
We return together to a revealed sanctuary of the Mysteries where the female and male prophetic lineages converge, for The Making of a Sacred King, Death and Rebirth of the Year Daimōn, the sunset until sunrise, Sacred Union Rite.
