The Solstice Service begins with the Our Father.

OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN,

HALLOWED BE THY NAME.

THY KINGDOM COME,

THY WILL BE DONE,

ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD,

AND FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES,

AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US.

AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION,

BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM,

AND THE POWER,

AND THE GLORY,

FOREVER......AMEN.

Three minute meditation, followed by the Daily Prayer of the Brothers.

I STRIVE, O FATHER, CREATOR OF ALL, TO BE A NAMELESS WANDERER, TO BE PERFECT AND ALL-SUFFICIENT, SO POISED, SO BALANCED, THAT NONE BUT SELF CAN COMPREHEND.

ALL OF THIS WAS UNKNOWN, UNKNOWABLE. THE GREATNESS, THE SPLENDOR, THE MAGNIFICENCE OF ALL, WITH THE MAJESTY OF THY POWER, I MORE THAN MIND OF MAN CAN CONCEIVE.

FOR IN THE BEGINNING, O FATHER, ALL-KNOWING, THOU DIDST SPEAK THE WORD AND THE WORD WAS WITH THEE, AND THE WORD WAS THEE. AND THE GREATNESS AND THE SPLENDOR OF THY POWER DID MANIFEST, NOT THROUGH MIND, BUT THROUGH THY SELF. FOR THEN THE WORD TOOK FLESH, AND THE GREAT BEING OF THE CHRISTOS WAS BORN IN ALL MAGNIFICENCE AND POWER.

FOR THIS IS THE MYSTERY THAT MAN HAS NOT UNDERSTOOD, FOR THY WORD THOU SPOKEST ONCE AGAIN, GOD IN GREAT HUMILITY, SEALED IN THE FLESHLY BODY OF THE LITTLE CHILD--THUS WAS THE MASTER JESUS BORN.

MY EVERY PRAYER SHALL BE, AND IS, THAT IN THIS HOLY FAMILY I BE RECEIVED, TO BE THE SERVANT OF ALL, TO RECEIVE THE GREAT CALL. GLORY, GLORY, GLORY, LORD GOD OF ALL......AMEN.

Step 1: Presiding Priest

AS WE HAVE ARRIVED AT THAT POINT OF TRAVEL IN THIS SOLAR SYSTEM, ON THIS ORB, IN ITS JOURNEY WHEN IT CROSSES THE GREAT SOLAR EQUATOR, MORE OF THE LIFE GIVING FORCE OF THE SUN IS PREPARING THE SOIL OF THE EARTH TO BARE THE FRUIT AND THE BODY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST FOR OUR NEXT YEAR'S HARVEST. FOR THIS WE GIVE THANKS, OUR FATHER.

Step 2: All three priests say together

ON THIS NIGHT OF NIGHTS BEFORE THE LONG HARD WINTER.

Step 3: The female priests put out all the lights on the altar except the law Triangle.

Step 4: Presiding Priests continues

WHEN THE FORCES OF THE MOON AND THE POWER OF THE SUN ARE UNITING IN THEIR STRONGEST ANGLE WITH THE MAGNETISM OF THE EARTH, THEY ARE AMALGAMATING TOGETHER.

WE ASSEMBLE WITH THE HIERARCHY OF THE BROTHERS AND THE HEAVENLY BEINGS. AT THIS TIME, LET US COMMUNE AND GIVE GLORY TO GOD AND THE MOTHER OF CREATION.

Step 5: Presiding Priest

WE ALL, HAVING BEEN ACCEPTED INTO THE OUTER CHAMBER OF THE HOLY ORDER OF MANS AND THE SACRED BROTHERHOOD, REVERENTLY TURN OUR ATTENTION TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND SEEK HIM TO BE WITH US.

Step 6: Presiding Priest

WE WHO BELONG TO THE PRIESTLY ORDER OF THE GOLDEN CROSS, HOLD THE EARTH IN REVERENCE, TRAVELING THE STARLIT AISLES OF THIS SOLAR SYSTEM OF THE FATHER.

WE CLAIM THE GREAT AND GOOD OF EVERY RACE AND PLACE, A GRAIN OF GOLD IN EVERY RELIGION AND MYSTIC ORDER. WE SEEK TO FIND THE GERM OF GOOD IN EVERY SOUL AND FLOOD IT WITH THE LIGHT AND LOVE OF THE CHRISTOS.

Step 7 Presiding Priest

AT THIS TIME WE SEEK THE CHRIST, THE FORCE OF THE CHRISTOS, TO LIGHT THE INNER TEMPLE.

Step 8: Presiding Priest

THIS IS THE DIRECTION---------(a blue light is turned on the Mother of the Order, who is dressed in a white ceremonial robe)

Step 9: Presiding Priest

FOR THE MOTHER OF CREATION IS NOW IN THY MIDST. (All stand except the Mother.)

Step 10: All say

WE HAIL THEE AND GIVE UNTO THEE THE BLESSINGS OF THE FATHER.

Step 11: Presiding Priest

LOOK NOT ON EARTHLY FORM, BUT CONSIDER THE MYSTERY OF THE SPIRIT IN THIS MIRACULOUS CREATIVE FORCE AND BEING.

Step 12: Presiding Priest (Water)

Serves Communion with the Waters of Life saying: NOW LET US PARTAKE OF THE WATERS OF LIFE THAT WE SHALL WASHED WITHIN AND ATTUNED TO THE MOTHER/FATHER GOD.

Step 13: The Blessing

Step 14: Priest

LET US NOW CONSIDER THE MYSTERIES OF THE SPIRIT, IN THE MYSTERIOUS FIRE THAT BURNS THE FLESH WHICH IS NOT CREATED BY MAN, BUT IS OF THE DIVINE ORIGIN.

IT IS NOW ENCOMPASSING OUR BEING FROM THE SON OF GOD.

THIS SACRIFICE IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PASSING FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT, INTO THE STATE OF CHRIST--BEING THE ILLUMINATION.

LET US PICTURE FOR A MOMENT, AS WE ARE TRAVELING THE ANCIENT PATH OF THE TABERNACLE, LEADING FROM EAST TO WEST......

COMMENCING AT THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERINGS, FOR TODAY THE ASPIRANT FINDS HIMSELF FACING THE WEST, FOR HE HAS ALREADY GIVEN GREAT ACCEPTANCE TO THE MASTER IN THE EAST.

NOW HE IS LOOKING WITHIN HIMSELF.

AT THIS TIME, THE CELEBRATION OF THE SON OF GOD APPROACHES THE POINT OF POWER. THEREFORE, HE CAN ONLY MAKE HIMSELF A SACRIFICE IN THE TEMPLE, AND, IF THE FIRE BURNS WITHIN, YOU MIGHT CALL THIS BURNING CONSCIENCE, BUT IT MUST ORIGINATE ITSELF WITHIN THE SELF, OR THE HOLY ONE WHICH TELLS US RIGHT FROM WRONG AND HOLDS US ACCOUNTABLE FOR ALL ERRORS AND MOVES MORE CONCISELY THAN THE LAWS OF MAN.

Step 15: Priest

TONIGHT, NOW THAT WE HAVE BEEN WASHED AND HAVE THE SPIRIT WITH US, LET US SEARCH OURSELVES IN RETROSPECTION AS WE STAND BEFORE THIS ONE AND JUDGE OURSELVES TO THE DEEDS OF THE LAST THREE MONTHS OF THE BODY.

WE STAND IN MORTIFICATION AND GREAT HUMILITY WHEN WE LOOK ONLY TO THE LIGHT THAT WE MAY SEE THE TRUE WAY, WEIGHING OUR OBLIGATIONS AND VIRTUES AT THE BRAZEN ALTAR. THUS WE ARE CALLED TO THE FIRST POINT OF ATTAINMENT OR THE PATH OF JUSTIFICATION.

THE RICH YOUNG MAN ASSERTED HE KEPT THE LAW, BUT HE WAS NOT READY TO FOLLOW THE CHRIST AND GIVE UP, LET GO OF, THE CONTENT OF WORLD. TOO MANY ARE CONTENT TO ESCAPE CONDEMNATION; THEY ARE LUKEWARM. THEY FAIL TO SEEK COMMENDATION SUCH AS DILIGENT MERIT OF SERVICE.

NOW, THE WELL-TRIED IN CHRIST SHOULD COME FORTH AND PARTAKE OF THE WATERS, CLEANSING THEMSELVES AT THE ALTAR TO PREPARE FOR THE LOVE FEAST FOR THOSE WHO ARE ASPIRANTS......

TO SANCTIFY THEMSELVES IN PRAYER, AND LET THE FEELING OF THE FIRE OF THE SACRED STREAMS OF THE MOLTEN SEA TO BE EXPERIENCED.

AS IT FLOWS THROUGH US, OUR BEINGS THUS TEMPERED, SO THE MATERIAL IS ALSO TEMPERED, AND THE HAMMER THAT SHALL BUILD THE TEMPLE WITHOUT SHALL CONTINUE ITS WORK.

Step 16: Blessing and partaking of the bread (untransmuted)

EAT THOU OF THE SHEW BREAD OF THE TWELVE LOAVES, NURTURED BY MANY MEN, GROUND AND PREPARED FOR THY STRENGTH ON THY WAY.

Step 17: Priest

THOSE OF US WHO HAVE PUT OUR FOOT UPON THE PATH MUST BETTER REALIZE THAT WE GIVE UP ALL WORLDLY POSSESSIONS AS WE LOOK AT THE INNER MAN. THERE MUST BE NOTHING IN THE WAY AS WE RECEIVE THE LIGHT OF CHRIST REFLECTED BY THE MOON AT THE TURN OF THE GREAT YEAR OF SOWING AND REAPING--THE TURNPOINT OF THE GREAT YEARLY CYCLE-- THE ACT OF SOWING AND REAPING.

I SAY INTO THEE, FOLLOW ME, AS THOU STANDEST IN THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS THAT SHALL LOOM BEFORE THEE AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE PATH. THIS IS THE OBSTACLE OF THE PHYSICAL BODY.

THOSE OF THE PRIESTHOOD HAVING MOUNTED THE FIRST THREE STEPS OF THE TEMPLE, AND ENTERED THE LAST ROOM OF THE TEMPLE ON THE PATH TO THE HOLY OF HOLIES.

LOOK NOT UPON THE PARAPHERNALIA OF THE TEMPLE, BUT TO THE GROWTH OF THE GREAT SELF, FOR THINE IS THE CONQUERING OF THE SEVEN BRANCH CANDLESTICK WHICH IS NOW ON THE SOUTH AND NORTH WALLS OF THE TEMPLE. THROUGH THIS THOU SHALT BECOME A SOLAR BEING.

NOW THAT WE HAVE REMOVED ALL ERROR, HAVING STOPPED AT THE ALTAR OF EXAMINATION JUST BEFORE THE VEIL, NOW DIVIDED, ENTER THOU, LOOK WELL WITHIN--BECAUSE THE VEIL IS PARTED.

ENTER THOU INTO THE EAST ROOM, FROM THE WEST, AND PASS THROUGH-OUT THE TEMPLE INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES, AND FIND THY PLACE AMONG THE UNIVERSAL BROTHERS IN THIS NIGHT.

LET US CONSIDER THIS NIGHT A HOLY NIGHT IN THE TEMPLE AND ENTER YE IN THIS HOLY TEMPLE.

SEARCH FOR THE LIGHT AND KEEP THE FIRE BURNING THAT HAS KEPT THE LIGHT BURNING AS ADMISSION TO THE TEMPLE, THAT WE ARE HERE WHERE CHRIST HAD TAUGHT. KNOW THAT SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORY COULD NOT HOLD ONE TINY CANDLE LIGHT TO THE GREAT LIGHT OF THE CHRIST, OF THE CHRISTOS IN US THIS NIGHT.

LET HIS LIGHT IN ME BE ALSO IN YOU, BE YOUR SHIELD AND BUCKLER. AND LET YOUR WORDS DROP FROM YOUR MOUTH WITH THE PRECISION OF THE TWO-EDGED SWORD.

LET THY WORK FREE MANY OF THY BROTHERS FROM IGNORANCE AND DISEASE. AND KNOW THAT THY BLADE SHALL LOOSE THE DEMONS AND MAKE THEM QUAKE IN THE DEEP.

Step 18: All repeat after the Priest

WE OF THE CHRIST REINSTATE OUR PATH

THE PATH WHICH TRAVELS THE STARLIT AISLES

THE SERVICE TO MAN WITH LOVE

AND RENEW WITH VIGOR OUR QUEST FOR TRUTH, AND ITS SACRAMENTS

TO DWELL TOGETHER IN PEACE

TO SEEK KNOWLEDGE IN FREEDOM

TO REACH THE LIGHT

TO KNOW THE SELF SUPREME

TO FOLLOW THE MASTER JESUS

TO BRING ALL MEN THROUGH HIM TO THE FATHER......AMEN

Step 19: Priest

GO NOW INTO MEDITATION AND WHEN THIS CONCLAVE IS ENDED AND THY SIGHT IS CLEAR, REVEAL TO THY BROTHER THE EXPERIENCE OF THIS NIGHT IN THE HOLY COMMUNION, THUS GIVING YOUR BROTHER THE COMMUNICATION OF THE SPIRIT.

I COMMAND YOU IN THE NAME OF THE BROTHERS IN WHITE......

AMEN (Sign of the Cross)