THE GOD CHARGE

Hark unto me: for I am He who has existed throughout all time. I was there from the beginning; and it was my potency that charged the fertility of the Great Mother and created life from her empty womb.

Myself it is in the Winds that sweep the worlds; myself it is in the Flames that give warmth and light to all beings. I am He who provides; the Green Man of field and forest fruitfulness; the lust of the bull that engenders life upon the cow; the strength of the boar that engenders life upon the sacred sow of Cerridwen; the speed of the stag running free in the forest, that no hunter can bring down save he who speaks the sacred words to call unto the spirit of the fleeing stag.

I am Lord of the Dance; He who swirls through the starry universe with the world at his heels. I am He who dances on mountain and plain and hearth, and He who captures all things in his dance.

And I am also Herne the Hunter; He with visage as dark as void and armor bright with flame. My name is Lord of the Hunt; my prey all those souls who must needs die and descend into the dark, chthonic depths of my bowel.

For I bring life but death also; I am He at the gateway of the worlds, and to me shalt thou come in the end, thou who art my child and my prey.

THE CHARGE OF THE GOD

another version

Listen now to the words of the god. He who of old was Called Herne, Pan, Tammuz, Adonis, Cernnunos, Baldur, Dionysus, and many other names. He who is the Horned-One. He who is the Mother-Son and Mother-Lover. He who dies and is reborn.

"I who am the Companion of the Lady and Child of the Lady; I who an he who lives and dies and lives again, do call on you to know me as I am, for in doing so you shall know yourself.

I am King Stag, Horned-One, Lord of the Hunt. I am passion, and pleasure and pursuit. I am wild, but not violent, free, but not uncontrolled.

Know me as I am and hear Ye the charge I place before you. That you love whom thou wilt, so long as you do not betray those to whom you are already sworn, nor neglect those to whom you already owe fealty, loyalty and love.

That you think, say, and do as you will, so long as you harm no other, nor bring harm unto yourself. And I who am one with She that is all, do charge you to be one with those whom you love, for all your acts of love and joy and pleasure are ritual unto us.

And I who am He that lives, dies, and lives again, do charge you to know My ages and to honor them through the passing of the seasons and the turning to the year.

Know me in the winter as I am born and begin to grow and celebrate me as Yule and at Imbolic. Know me in the spring as the world comes to life and I am grown and wed to she with whom I am one in everything and celebrate me as Eosar and at Beltane. Know me in the summer as nature is fulfilled, and I am fulfilled through death from which comes life and celebrate me at Litha and at Lughnasadh.

Know me in the autumn as you gather the corn and the grain, and look toward the winter when I shall be born again and celebrate me at Mabon and at Samhain.

Know me as I am, He who lives and dies and lives again and celebrate Me in the turning of the wheel. And know you My mystery; for I am son of the Mother and companion of the Mother. I am My own Father, born of My own death, as you must also die, that you may be reborn. For I am one with she that is all, and

You are one with us!

LADY KEELIA EVENSTAR

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