Winterstar 2023 – Pan Sabbat Ritual
Adapted from the Book of the Horned One
by Aion131 (Denny Sargent)
The Sabbat has existed from time immemorial, since the skin & antler- clad shaman-gods circled the fires of Cro-Magnon campfires, drawing the spells and spirits to him/herself until the tribal followers left their bodies and traveled to the spirit realm where they communed with the great group-mind of the beasts: The Horned One we call Pan. Collective racial and genetic memories retain the imprints and the keys to unlocking the astral Sabbat. Stories and rites, tales and images come down to us from the persecution of the Old Religion in the Burning Times, from wit- nesses to the Shamanic trances and the communion with the Horned One in so many different far-flung cultures, and from the silent yet telling wall-paintings, runes, drawings and symbols that have survived.
Neolithic cave painters showed the Sabbat as did the ancient Greeks and Romans and always a Horned God of wildness and joy was involved.
Early European painters like Francisco Goya and more contemporary artists like Austin Osman Spare and Rosaleen Norton, have visually captured the Sabbat in remarkably similar motifs you will experience if you choose to go there. Each will find his or her own path to the Sabbat, where the psychosexual secrets of the Horned One Pan will be learned and communicated.
Needed at the site of the Winterstar rite:
An altar A Candle
A small burning bowl with a chunk camphor or shreds ofwood for a small fire
A bowl with natural water from a pond or creek
Some flowers/leaves
An image of Pan
A small bowl or plate with special sacred ‘Pan oil’ in it
Available for participants: Rattles, small drums, pipes, rhythm sticks and so on
The Rite Of The Sabbat of PAN
The Preface- (fromLiber Lapis Lazuli by A. Crowley)
Visualization…
1. Into my loneliness comes—
2. The sound of a flute in dim groves that haunt the uttermost hills.
3. Even from the brave river they reach to the edge of the wilderness.
4. And I behold Pan.
5. The snows are eternal above, above—
6. And their perfume smokes upward into the nostrils of the stars.
7. But what have I to do with these?
8. To me only the distant flute, the abiding vision of Pan.
9. On all sides Pan to the eye, to the ear;
10. The perfume of Pan pervading, the taste of him utterly filling my mouth, so that the tongue breaks forth into a weird and monstrous speech.
11. The embrace of him intense on every centre of pain and pleasure.
12. The sixth interior sense aflame with the inmost self of Him ,
13. Myself flung down the precipice of being
14. Even to the abyss, annihilation.
15. An end to loneliness, as to all.
16. Pan! Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan!
THE CALL OF PAN
In the darkness, all stand away from the sacred space.
The Priest of the Horned One will be the Focus with pipes in hand, calls loudly to the four directions in the wilderness,
Participants repeat what the Horned One says- yelling:
IO AN! WE CALL THEE (blows on pipes) (4x to each direction and once in the center)
Then he clearly vibrates the following, the rest of the celebrants repeat line-by-line in response:
Eko, Eko Azarak,
Eko, Eko Zomelak
Bagabi Lacha
Bachabe Lamac
Cahi Achababe Karellyos
Lamac, Lamac Bachalyas
Cabahagy Sabalyos Baryolos
Lagoz Atha Cabyolas
Samahac Atha Famolas
Hurrahya!
IO An-IO Pan!!!
(Candles are lit!)
The Procession Circle
PARTICIPANTS Form a circle and revert to Animalself as they like, visualizing themselves as whatever wild beast they wish to assume as all sway and drumming begins and growling begins-
With drumming, clapping and the playing of pipes, participants make animal sounds: howling, hooting, barking, hissing, roaring as they like—calling forth their many animal selves! The Horned One leads them in circle.
The drumming and non-verbal howls and roars rise to a climax… and then all join in one howling IO PAN, IO PAN PAN PAN! IO PAN!
The Blessing
All raise their hands up and receive the blessing from the infinite Heav- ens-Nature. Say:
NU-NUIT!
All lower their hands and touch the Earth, receiving the blessing from the Great Earth-Nature. Say:
GAIA-GAII!
From base to crown and crown to base, all center themselves as the great axis, the great tree of life, and Say:
IO-AN! IO PAN! T
HOOVED ONE, HORNED ONE, ALL ONE- MAN
ALL NONE, BLACK SUN, TERRIBLE ONT- PAN!
PAN OI PAN OI
IOI PAN TO ME TO ME!
I AM THEE!
(AllL ANIMAL HOWLING, HISSING, GROWLING ETC)
With appropriate words of power, the Horned One Picks up the stang, and using it draws the Pangil about the altar. He/she then stands before the altar with arms and stang raised.
The priest kindles the fire, Lights the incense and so on, chanting IO PAN
Once all is done, the Priest/ess takes and raises the stang:
ALL CLOSE THEIR EYES AND SEE THEMSELVES AS PAN!!!
Triest invokes- all repeat:
I am the Eldest Wellspring
And the Youngest Seed
I am Zygote Ecstasy
And Pleasure-Pain of Searing Light
My Branches Encompass the Stars
My Roots the Tunnels of Hades
A Serpent Seed am I
Encircling, Piercing, and Rejoicing In the Orphic Egg
And in She Who is All Night
And Goddess of Darkness
In Me find Shelter from Emptiness and Enuii Through Me Find Dissolution of Law
And of Restriction
Before Me find the Dawn
Behind Me the Dusk
I am Colder than Ice, Hotter than Magma
I am Invisible to the Fool
The Hidden Object of Worship
What is Lost to Me?
What is Forgotten?
All But I Forget the Origin and the Ending
I may Not
For I am the Union Between Them Both
There Is Nothing It Plays
That Is All
For I am ALL! .
Humans Journeys from Here to There Going Nowhere
They Collect and Hoard
Only to Lose All
They see only what they think they see
I show them the Wildness
and the Way of Ecstasy!
I am the Joy that Releases
I am the Star Between the Horns of Death
That which lights the Quicksilver Path
Between the Towers of Onyx and Alabaster
I Invoke
The Mountain, The Forest And All Wild Places
I Call Forth
Plague, Fire, Storms and Floods
Creation, and Destruction of Nature
Yet I am also Play and Happiness,
The piping of music and erotic pleasures!
I am God and Daemon
I am Binary- Being Singular
I am Dead and Tread Upon Dualism
I am All, One and None
All the world Stand Before Me
For I am the Universe at Play!
I Vibrate the Solitary Ecstasy
Behind Me Lies Death and Dissolution
Let It Be forgotten— with Laughter!
All That Is, Was and Will Be…
Is Joy!
I am Green, I am Gold
I am White Within the Blackness
I am Green to the Growing, Gold to the Holy
Bright light at Midnight to the Aware
I am Red, I am Black, I am beyond Purple
I am Red to the Warlike, Black to the Dead
Purple to the Silent Ones
Beyond the Threshold
I am Colorless, Flavorless and Beyond All Senses
My Word
Is the Howl of the Beast!
(All Howl and clap and stomp etc !!!!!!)
The Annointing
Afterwards and one by one, the celebrants approach the altar, strip off what they wish and anoint themselves with the sacred oil/unguent, shouting EN TO PAN
If the oil is mild, bless third eye, heart and genitals
then howling or growling as they like ‘asking’ for what they want from Pan.
The Dancing
Priest urges the whole group to walk and drums and/or plays pipes & then dance clockwise,- the celebrants do a raucous flight/ dance. Some may choose to simply play drums, pipes and so on, others may choose to do wild gyrations or assume the forms of animals. There is no song, but shouts of IO PAN and HA are spontaneously shouted. When the dance reaches its peak all intole a long HAAAAAAAAAAA! Then all visualize becoming one with Pan!:
Line by line, the invocation is chanted:
Heiros Gamos- Merging with Deity
Pan O Pan! Stars crown your head !
Awaken great beast, come forth from your lair
bring me the blessing, bring me the joy
Leap to my shrine, shake shaggy hair
bring me the play that I may say
this is my world and this is my way.
Of shooting star Sirius bright
I invoke and call thee this momentous night!
Great god Pan arise now from within
And come down from the stars where you have ever been
and dance upon the trees, on the snow, in the sky
Fill us all, O joyous heart, that we may dance and play
Yearning for just one fondle, for just one kiss
Beast of black night and fiery midday
O bliss bliss! O stellar kiss!
O Great god who leaps from all as all things wild
I am thy Mate, and I am thy child
I live in your heart, all I am is wild,
Eternal and free,
All Pan, all Wilderness, indwell in me!
O blessed god of sea and sky and mountain and bud
Conjoin us now in your great flood
A wave of bliss and ecstasy
of lust and happiness, can anything be
A greater flame in loins, head and heart?
Primal, eternal, sharp as a dart
In ecstasy of earth and sky, conjoined within
With horns and hoofs and terrifying grin
What more can anything else truly be?
Io Pan, Io Pan ! It has begun!
Under burning stars we merge one,
for in you I am Free
Great tree of life, of Land and Sea
Eternally grateful, filled with thy mirth
From laughter and love eternal rebirth
Lord of the World, To me, to me!
Io Pan! Io Pan! Io Pan!
Embracing all Life, may I ever be thee!
The Horned One raises his/her arms with the stang raised high and all accept the an explosion of incandescent energy ripple enjoying the cosmic Pan orgasm in and HOWL!!!.
The Stang thus becomes the Icon of the Horned God for the rest of the Sabbat. At this point the celebrants Dance and drink and howl in and dance and drum, play pipes and rattles the cosmic Pan energy gettin wilder and wilder until the priest raises hands and ALL ending with an orgasmic howl…..HA HA HA…..!
OI PAN!!
When done, all touch the Earth and then ayell EN TO PAN! 3x
The Intoxication
(A sharing of wine or other things and food (if any is around) as the celebrants wish)
The Offerings
Now the Pan Sabbat is done, all make offerings of wine onto the idol of Pan while silently making wishes- with a final Io Pan. -also incense, fruit/food or flowers can be offered as well- especially on the image of Pan.
THE CLOSING
ALL:
— reaching up. Say:
To NU NUIT!)
Touching the ground. Say:
To GAIA GAII!
Finally, to the Horned One who is the center of them both—
EN TO PAN! IO PAN! IO AN!
All come together in one big hug – then spiral out clockwise as the priest plays the Pan Pipes letting the energy spiral out and down, feeding nature, with the The chant:
Heal The Earth, Rebirth!
At the outer edge, all turn outward and offer the energy to the joy of all beings:
MAY ALL BE JOYOUS MAY ALL BE HAPPY MAY ALL BE WILD!
MAY ALL PLAY!!!
IO PAN, PAN, PAN!!!!!
All howl-
it is done
(Banish as you will if you will or let the wildness expand as is)