Lammas: the First Sermon and the Final Part of the Ritual
Here is the second part of the Lammas ritual, which includes the First Sermon:
The First Sermon
(Read over by the light of the candle as part of the ritual.)
Midsummer was the first time in our year when death was considered and we saw why it should be so considered, though we had met its possibility at May Day. It is one of the great mysteries and equals its opposite mystery, birth. And then there are the great questions: Where do we come from? Where do we go? Who, indeed, are we?
Though we may say we know, or believe, we truly do not know but in this life gaze and peer forward as we do tonight, measuring the dark forces ahead and the declining days. We shall meet all these forces again at the Hallows; and fear is one of them, fear of the cliffs of darkness and eternal night. Only a fool has no fear.
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