Blog
New writing and reflections on Pennsylvania German Powwow and the work of carrying the tradition forward.
Making the Prologue Sheet
From the Rose + Croix d'Orient altar instructions that accompany Ambelain's Sacramentaire: how to write out the Prologue of St. John's Gospel on parchment, and where it sits on the altar.
Blessing of a Book or Spiritual Formulary
From Robert Ambelain's Sacramentaire du Rose + Croix, in a corrected English translation: a blessing for a book of prayers, charms, or spiritual teaching, asking that it be protected and that it be sought out and studied.
Blessing of the Water of Exorcism
The third of Robert Ambelain's sacralisations from the Sacramentaire du Rose + Croix, in a corrected English translation: the Water of Exorcism, made with the blessed salt and taper.
Blessing of the Taper of Exorcism
The second of Robert Ambelain's sacralisations from the Sacramentaire du Rose + Croix, in a corrected English translation: the blessing of the Taper of Exorcism.
Kinds of Meditation, and the Wakeful Mind
Meditation is not one thing. A simple map of four Christian ways of sitting with God, what each one offers the powwower, and the wakefulness they share.
Blessing of the Salt of Exorcism
The first of Robert Ambelain's sacralisations from the Sacramentaire du Rose + Croix, in a corrected English translation: the blessing of the Salt of Exorcism.
Why the Doctor Sits
If God does the work in Powwow, why should the powwower meditate at all? Because the one thing a doctor can bring to a trying is a self that stays out of the way.