We confess to participating in practices currently believed beneficial for the advancement of our perceptual transformation. Whether daily, seasonal, or occasionally, there are believed advantages contained within the activities undertaken, either recognized or remaining arbitrary through assignment, the integrity of follow through serves instrumental in the evolutionary process purposefully embarked. While the activity’s promotion is debatable it is within the perceiver’s alterations which establish residual effects. With honor and respect, we embrace life’s changes as our own advancements to be celebrated.
While many transformative periods constitute ceremony, all physical life is such an event, with benefits its sentence must be followed through for reception. While the requirements of rituals are always personal, often traditions are personally believed to be so, in order to set forth the intention, however it is always the intention which initiates the development.
This Statute Indicates:
1. Rituals are meant to enhance relationships with others or “God”; therefore, it is beneficial to publicly celebrate transitional times in people’s lives. Witnesses bless the endeavor with their expectations of success.
2. Rituals should be unique, sanctified activities joining with the Spiritual Universe. They are always training the perceiver in evoking spiritual experiences and understanding.
3. Celebrations of life’s changes and transitions are rituals, including public ceremonies or the gaining of rites. This also includes daily spiritual study, meditation, and prayer routines, or even weekly meetings, seasonal gatherings, or annual traditions, as well as the repetitive use of specific or expressive clothing, jewelry, emblems, or devices.
4. Rituals should be spiritually guided, not blind nor excessively repetitive; questioning them when not personally inspired is natural and should lead to understanding. It is the denial of guidance that fights or evades their idea.
5. In preparation, the community should only collaborate as constructive support and beneficial advisement of the ritual events, which should remain designed by the organizers, who are the persons directly receiving the guidance from spirit to embark on. (i.e., weddings, coming of age, baptisms)
6. Guidance for events is gradually revealed to all parties involved and never requires forced participation. Nor should there ever be a need for sacrifices by (or of) anyone (or anything). Personal sacrifices will be made by those guided in altering events, but Spirit will never request a life be taken.
7. Authentically embracing your guided rituals and performing them as precisely as possible ensures a happy and successful experience.