I call to the darkness to bring forth the night
I call to the darkness to forbid the light
I call to the darkness to fill this place
I call unborn god into our space.
In this time - Cerridwen bleeds!
Invoke the Maiden, attend her needs -
Release the knots, make dark the way,
Crone's long night admits no day.
Because he chooses to be born
Because he must now begin again
Because the currents shape his form
Because of this we recognize him.
Hail! the god now here with us.
Hail! the move from endless to begun
Hail! the trap to fall in time
Hail! the father who will die.
Shining | In darkness and pain,
Shining | At his birth he will cry,
Shining | But the whole world rejoice.
Shining | At his death the world weeps,
Shining | Though it be great liberation.
Shining | But not this time!
Shining | Meet incarnation with joy.
Shining | The end of your travels,
Shining | The start of your suffering.
Shining | Meet your being with weeping.
Shining | End eternity,
Shining | And race death.
Shining. | Shining.
Light in mind.
Light in heart.
Light in soul.
Light in body.
This light sweeps around us,
And rejuvenates our sight.
God reborn takes turn to Wheel,
From life to death to dark to night.
Blessings be upon us,
For observing the Wheel.
And for observing our Will,
So mote it be!
8 December 1994
"I've been talking about it since 1971, and what's interesting to me is, at the beginning, it was material for hospitalization; now it is a minority viewpoint and everything is on schedule. My career is on schedule, the evolution of cybernetic technology is on schedule, the evolution of a global information network is on schedule. Given this asymptotic curve, I think we'll arrive under budget and on time, December 21, 2012."
- Terrence McKenna