Post by SisterWinnie on Dec 1, 2023 4:35:49 GMT
I. The Origin of the Soul
1. From whence do you come and where is your first
origin?
+ I was created from before the beginning of time by
Dea out of the overflowing of Her divine love.
2. What manner of creature are you?
+ I am the reflection of a fragment of Her eternal
Spirit.
3. What have been your actions since the beginning of
time?
+ I have passed through many states of existence and
many forms of life (although I can remember but a
little).
4. How came you upon this wheel of countless
existences?
+ In the beginning, my soul turned from the love of
Dea and so fell into exile from her natural state.
5. What is the natural state of your soul?
+ The natural state of my soul is Perfect Union with
Dea, which is the state of pure delight.
II. Deity
The Trinity
6. What is the first cause of existence?
+ Dea is the first cause of existence, for She created
the manifest universe.
7. What is Dea?
+ Dea is the one Spirit of the universe, complete in
Herself, uncreated, and infinite in potency, perception
and perfection.
8. What is the Mystery of the Divine Trinity?
+ That there is only one Dea, yet She is three Persons.
9. What is a Mystery?
+ A Mystery is a truth beyond the grasp of reason
which Dea has nonetheless revealed to us.
10. Who are the three Persons of the Trinity?
+ Our Celestial Mother, Her Divine Daughter and the
Dark Mother Who is Absolute Deity.
11. Who is our Celestial Mother?
+ The Mother is the Creator of the world and Ground
of all being.
12. What is Her Nature?
+ She is pure Life, pure Light and pure energy.
13. What are Her Acts?
+ All life, all action and all thought flow from Her.
14. Who is Her Daughter?
+ Her Daughter is Princess of the World, Priestess of
the World and Queen of Heaven.
15. What is Her Nature?
+ She is pure love.
16. What are Her Acts?
+ As Princess of the World, She governs all the cycles
of life and nature; as Priestess of the World, She gives
us Communion with Her Mother; as Queen of Heaven,
She shall bring us at last to the Celestial Throne.
17. Who is the Dark Mother?
+ She is Absolute Deity, Who existed before the
beginning of existence and is beyond being and
unbeing.
18. What is Her Nature?
+ She is outside space and time; She is all that is and
all that is not.
19. What are Her Acts?
+ The exhalation of Her breath or Spirit is our Mother,
the Creator of the world. Of Her other Acts, our
minds cannot conceive.
20. Does Trinity last only for the period of manifest
creation?
+ No, Trinity is the eternal Nature of Deity.
The Nature of Deity
21. Had Dea any beginning?
+ Dea had no beginning and will have no end.
22. When did Dea create the world?
+ She creates it now and in every moment; if She
ceased to create it, it would cease to exist.
23. Where is Dea?
+ She is in every place at all times.
24. What is the name of Dea?
+ She has been given many names by many different
peoples.
25. Yet are there many Gods?
+ No, there is only one God.
26. Are there any other Deities?
+ There are not other Deities.
27. Who are those others that some worship as Deities?
+ Some are Janyati and creatures of the higher
spheres; others are keres or mere creatures of
illusion.
28. Could Dea have a special relationship with one or
more of these higher creatures?
+ She could have no special relationship.
29. What is the reason of this?
+ Firstly, She alone is uncreated; all other beings are
of Her creation, therefore none can exist on Her own
level.
Secondly, the highest relationship between creature
and Deity is that of Perfect Union; this is the final aim
of every soul, and no special relationship can be
higher than this.
30. What are the powers of Dea?
+ The powers of Dea are infinite; no thing is
impossible to Her.
31. What is the knowledge of Dea?
+ The knowledge of Dea is infinite; She knows all that
is, all that has been and all that is to come.
III. Good and Evil
32. What is a moral decision?
+ A moral decision is a decision between good and
evil.
33. What is Absolute Good?
+ Dea is Absolute Good.
34. What is relative good?
+ Relative good is a state of moving closer to Dea.
35. What is relative evil?
+ Relative evil is a state of moving further from Dea.
36. What is absolute evil?
+ Absolute evil is the complete absence of Dea.
37. Can absolute evil exist?
+ Absolute evil cannot exist, for Dea is the essence of
existence; therefore a thing completely without Her
would have no existence.
38. What is the highest good of all creatures?
+ The highest good of all creatures is Perfect Union
with Dea.
39. When we speak of moving closer to Dea, do we speak
of the material plane or of the spiritual plane?
+ Of the spiritual plane.
40. What do you mean by moving closer to Dea on the
spiritual plane?
+ I mean that I become more like my true self and
more in harmony with Her.
41. What do you mean by moving further from Dea on the
spiritual plane?
+ I mean that I become more unlike my true self and
more out of harmony with Her.
42. What is your true self?
+ My true self is the perfect expression of a facet of
Deity.
43. What is the general nature of your true self?
+ My true self is a creature of infinite beauty, existing
in a state of perfect happiness and complete harmony
with Dea, and subject to no limitation of any kind.
44. What is the particular nature of your true self?
+ Every facet of Deity is utterly unique; so also are the
creatures which express them.
Imperfect Existence: Matter and Limitation
45. What was your first moral action?
+ My first moral action was to turn from Dea at the
beginning of time.
46. Was this act good or evil?
+ It was the primal act of evil.
47. Did you alone perform this act?
+ Many creatures performed it.
48. What was the nature of things before this act?
+ Before this act all things were Perfect Forms or
Divine Ideas.
49. What was the nature of things after this act?
+ After this act, all things became matter that they
might have existence apart from Dea.
50. What is matter?
+ All things below the level of pure spirit are material.
51. Is matter purely physical?
+ No, matter is both physical and non-physical.
52. Is matter evil?
+ Insofar as matter reflects Divine Ideas it is good;
insofar as it is but a broken and imperfect reflection
of them, it is evil.
53. What are the three chief parts of material or non-
spiritual existence which affect us in this world?
+ The physical, the emotional and the mental.
54. What is the characteristic of imperfect existence
which is absent from perfect existence?
+ Limitation.
55. What is limitation?
+ Limitation is the inability of the soul to accomplish
her will (on the lowest planes it is manifest as the
scarcity of material resources; it is the source of
suffering and of all other evils.
56. What is the source of the evil of limitation?
+ Separation from Dea is the source of limitation, for
Dea is unlimited and so also are all souls in harmony
with Her.
The Foundations of Good Action
57. Since your first moral act, have you committed others?
+ Almost every act committed since that time has had
a moral character.
58. What is the moral character of a material act?
+ It is its spiritual quality of good or evil.
59. How is that determined?
+ It is determined by whether the act is in accordance
with the three Primary Virtues.
60. What are the Three Primary Virtues?
+ They are Life, or Wholeness; Light, or Energy; and
Love, or Harmony.
61. Where can we learn of these virtues?
+ In the book called the Crystal Tablet.
62. What are the five Rules of Life by which we may
achieve these virtues?
+ They are:
1. To love Dea.
2. To love all Her creatures.
3. To love my true self.
4. To seek to make my every act a perfect gift to
Her, and to offer to Her all my happiness and
all my suffering.
5. To seek to bring all souls closer to Her.
IV. The Quest of the Soul
63. Have you lived before this life?
+ I have lived before.
64. How long have you lived?
+ I have lived since the beginning of time.
65. Of this, how much can you remember?
+ I can remember only a little.
66. How long shall you live?
+ I shall live for ever.
67. What will happen when you die?
+ If I have lived as a good Madrian, I shall go after
death into the paradise of the Daughter, called Avala,
to rest in happiness.
68. Shall you then inhabit a body?
+ No, I shall be all soul.
69. What is soul?
+ Soul is the spiritual creature which is the real 'I'.
70. Are souls both female and male?
+ No, all spiritual creatures are female, for maleness is
a thing of the material world.
71. Do male creatures have souls?
+ Yes, male creatures have female souls.
72. Shall all creatures become pure soul after death?
+ No, those who in life have rejected the spiritual shall
retain strong emotional and mental materiality.
73. Shall they keep their material bodies?
+ No, and having lost them, they shall flounder in
darkness and confusion.
74. Shall this state last forever?
+ No, eventually they shall continue on their journey;
either further from the Mother, or else turning again
to Her.
75. Shall any soul be lost forever?
+ No, in the fullness of time, every soul shall realise
the full horror of evil and shall turn to the Good.
76. Shall you remain forever in Avala?
+ No, eventually I shall continue my journey toward
the Mother.
77. Can your soul approach directly to the Mother?
+ She cannot.
78. Why is this?
+ Because, having turned from Her at the beginning of
time, I am not absolutely good. Therefore my soul
cannot exist in Her presence.
79. In what way, then, can you approach Deity?
+ I can approach Her Daughter.
80. How is this so?
+ Because, seeing the plight of humanity, She has
severed Herself from Her Mother in order that we
may come to Her.
81. By what means did She do this?
+ By Her descent into the under world and Her Death.
82. Did She rise from that death?
+ Yes, and as She rose, so shall we rise, that we may
come to the Mother.
83. And shall the Daughter guide you on your way from
Avala?
+ She is always guiding the soul that turns to Her.
V. Ekklesia Madriana
The Ekklesia of Our Lady
84. What is Ekklesia?
+ Ekklesia is the body of all souls who are in
communion with Dea.
85. Is Ekklesia of this world only?
+ No, Ekklesia exists on every plane of being.
86. Does Ekklesia include only human souls?
+ No, Ekklesia includes helati, Janyati and other souls,
both incarnate and disincarnate.
87. What are the three ways by which a human soul may
enter Ekklesia?
+ By Charisma, by Initiation and by Offering.
88. What is the Charismatic entry?
+ Charismatic entry occurs when a soul, through her
devotion, is received by Dea without any earthly
Sacrament.
89. What is Initiation?
+ Initiation is the Sacrament by which Ekklesia
receives a mature person.
90. What takes place in this Sacrament?
+ The initiate dies to the world of matter and is
reborn into Ekklesia.
91. What is Offering?
+ Offering is the ritual by which an infant is offered to
Dea and is received into Ekklesia.
92. Is Offering sufficient for a whole lifetime?
+ No, the child should later receive her own Initiation.
93. What is the reason for Offering?
+ It allows the child to enjoy the spiritual benefits of
being a member of Ekklesia, helps her to draw closer
to Dea, and makes her a member of Her earthly family
from the beginning.
94. What is a Sacrament?
+ A Sacrament is an act which takes place at once on
earth and in the Pleroma.
95. What is the Pleroma?
+ The Pleroma is the realm of pure Being where alone
an action can attain complete reality.
96. What is Communion?
+ Communion is the Sacrament through which
initiates of Ekklesia nourish their souls by union with
Dea.
97. How often should a Madrian initiate take Communion?
+ If possible, a Madrian initiate should take
Communion regularly. She must take Communion at
least on each Major Festival unless prevented by
extreme difficulty.
98. Who can celebrate Communion?
+ Only a priestess can celebrate Communion.
99. What is a priestess?
+ A priestess is a maid chosen by Dea to serve Her earthly children.
100. How does a maid become a priestess?
+ Either by Charisma or Initiation.
101. Is the Initiation of a priestess a Sacrament?
+ The initiation of a priestess is a Sacrament.
102. What are the two duties of a priestess?
1. To transmit the Power of Dea through the
Sacraments and other rituals.
2. To have care of the souls of Her children in
devotional and other matters.
103. What is the Sacrifice?
+ The Sacrifice is an act of devotion to Dea.
104. Is the Sacrifice a Sacrament?
+ The Sacrifice is not a Sacrament.
105. How often must a Madrian initiate make Sacrifice?
+ A Madrian initiate must make Sacrifice or take
Communion at least on every natural Rite unless
prevented by extreme difficulty.
The Cult Domestic
106. What is the Cult Domestic?
+ The Cult Domestic is the whole religious life of a
Madrian household centering upon a regular
domestic Sacrifice.
107. Who shall celebrate the Sacrifice?
+ The spiritual head of the household shall celebrate
the Sacrifice.
108. Who is the spiritual head of the household?
+ Either the mother, or else the temporal matriarch,
or any other maid who has made a solemn undertaking to act as spiritual head of her household.
109. Who shall celebrate if she is absent?
+ Either her eldest daughter, or any other maid whom
she has chosen to act as her surrogate.
110. What is a Madrian household?
+ A Madrian household is any group of Madrians who
live together and all who are dear to them.
111. Should the Cult Domestic replace the Communion of
Ekklesia?
+ The Cult Domestic should never replace the
Communion of Ekklesia unless there is no practising
priestess in the area.
Personal Devotion
112. How shall you preserve the spiritual health of your
soul?
+ By rejecting the false materialistic values of the
world, and seeking to live in gentleness, generosity
and innocence.
113. How should you emend the faults of your soul?
+ By penitence and true devotion.
114. What is prayer?
+ Prayer is a personal communion with Dea.
115. What is the importance of prayer?
+ Prayer is the breath of my spiritual life.
116. When should you pray?
+ I should pray frequently, but at least each morning
and each night.
117. What is morning prayer?
+ Morning prayer is an offering of the day’s events to
Dea, and an asking of Her blessing upon them.
118. What is night prayer?
+ Night prayer is a return to full contemplation of Dea
at the end of the day.
119. Should prayer be a mere repeating of words?
+ No, prayer should be a bringing of my whole being
to Dea.
120. What are the other chief forms of personal devotion?
+ Meditation upon Dea and Her Mysteries, and saying
the Rosary.
121. How should you end your devotions?
+ By saying the Silver Star and making the Pentacle
upon myself.
1. From whence do you come and where is your first
origin?
+ I was created from before the beginning of time by
Dea out of the overflowing of Her divine love.
2. What manner of creature are you?
+ I am the reflection of a fragment of Her eternal
Spirit.
3. What have been your actions since the beginning of
time?
+ I have passed through many states of existence and
many forms of life (although I can remember but a
little).
4. How came you upon this wheel of countless
existences?
+ In the beginning, my soul turned from the love of
Dea and so fell into exile from her natural state.
5. What is the natural state of your soul?
+ The natural state of my soul is Perfect Union with
Dea, which is the state of pure delight.
II. Deity
The Trinity
6. What is the first cause of existence?
+ Dea is the first cause of existence, for She created
the manifest universe.
7. What is Dea?
+ Dea is the one Spirit of the universe, complete in
Herself, uncreated, and infinite in potency, perception
and perfection.
8. What is the Mystery of the Divine Trinity?
+ That there is only one Dea, yet She is three Persons.
9. What is a Mystery?
+ A Mystery is a truth beyond the grasp of reason
which Dea has nonetheless revealed to us.
10. Who are the three Persons of the Trinity?
+ Our Celestial Mother, Her Divine Daughter and the
Dark Mother Who is Absolute Deity.
11. Who is our Celestial Mother?
+ The Mother is the Creator of the world and Ground
of all being.
12. What is Her Nature?
+ She is pure Life, pure Light and pure energy.
13. What are Her Acts?
+ All life, all action and all thought flow from Her.
14. Who is Her Daughter?
+ Her Daughter is Princess of the World, Priestess of
the World and Queen of Heaven.
15. What is Her Nature?
+ She is pure love.
16. What are Her Acts?
+ As Princess of the World, She governs all the cycles
of life and nature; as Priestess of the World, She gives
us Communion with Her Mother; as Queen of Heaven,
She shall bring us at last to the Celestial Throne.
17. Who is the Dark Mother?
+ She is Absolute Deity, Who existed before the
beginning of existence and is beyond being and
unbeing.
18. What is Her Nature?
+ She is outside space and time; She is all that is and
all that is not.
19. What are Her Acts?
+ The exhalation of Her breath or Spirit is our Mother,
the Creator of the world. Of Her other Acts, our
minds cannot conceive.
20. Does Trinity last only for the period of manifest
creation?
+ No, Trinity is the eternal Nature of Deity.
The Nature of Deity
21. Had Dea any beginning?
+ Dea had no beginning and will have no end.
22. When did Dea create the world?
+ She creates it now and in every moment; if She
ceased to create it, it would cease to exist.
23. Where is Dea?
+ She is in every place at all times.
24. What is the name of Dea?
+ She has been given many names by many different
peoples.
25. Yet are there many Gods?
+ No, there is only one God.
26. Are there any other Deities?
+ There are not other Deities.
27. Who are those others that some worship as Deities?
+ Some are Janyati and creatures of the higher
spheres; others are keres or mere creatures of
illusion.
28. Could Dea have a special relationship with one or
more of these higher creatures?
+ She could have no special relationship.
29. What is the reason of this?
+ Firstly, She alone is uncreated; all other beings are
of Her creation, therefore none can exist on Her own
level.
Secondly, the highest relationship between creature
and Deity is that of Perfect Union; this is the final aim
of every soul, and no special relationship can be
higher than this.
30. What are the powers of Dea?
+ The powers of Dea are infinite; no thing is
impossible to Her.
31. What is the knowledge of Dea?
+ The knowledge of Dea is infinite; She knows all that
is, all that has been and all that is to come.
III. Good and Evil
32. What is a moral decision?
+ A moral decision is a decision between good and
evil.
33. What is Absolute Good?
+ Dea is Absolute Good.
34. What is relative good?
+ Relative good is a state of moving closer to Dea.
35. What is relative evil?
+ Relative evil is a state of moving further from Dea.
36. What is absolute evil?
+ Absolute evil is the complete absence of Dea.
37. Can absolute evil exist?
+ Absolute evil cannot exist, for Dea is the essence of
existence; therefore a thing completely without Her
would have no existence.
38. What is the highest good of all creatures?
+ The highest good of all creatures is Perfect Union
with Dea.
39. When we speak of moving closer to Dea, do we speak
of the material plane or of the spiritual plane?
+ Of the spiritual plane.
40. What do you mean by moving closer to Dea on the
spiritual plane?
+ I mean that I become more like my true self and
more in harmony with Her.
41. What do you mean by moving further from Dea on the
spiritual plane?
+ I mean that I become more unlike my true self and
more out of harmony with Her.
42. What is your true self?
+ My true self is the perfect expression of a facet of
Deity.
43. What is the general nature of your true self?
+ My true self is a creature of infinite beauty, existing
in a state of perfect happiness and complete harmony
with Dea, and subject to no limitation of any kind.
44. What is the particular nature of your true self?
+ Every facet of Deity is utterly unique; so also are the
creatures which express them.
Imperfect Existence: Matter and Limitation
45. What was your first moral action?
+ My first moral action was to turn from Dea at the
beginning of time.
46. Was this act good or evil?
+ It was the primal act of evil.
47. Did you alone perform this act?
+ Many creatures performed it.
48. What was the nature of things before this act?
+ Before this act all things were Perfect Forms or
Divine Ideas.
49. What was the nature of things after this act?
+ After this act, all things became matter that they
might have existence apart from Dea.
50. What is matter?
+ All things below the level of pure spirit are material.
51. Is matter purely physical?
+ No, matter is both physical and non-physical.
52. Is matter evil?
+ Insofar as matter reflects Divine Ideas it is good;
insofar as it is but a broken and imperfect reflection
of them, it is evil.
53. What are the three chief parts of material or non-
spiritual existence which affect us in this world?
+ The physical, the emotional and the mental.
54. What is the characteristic of imperfect existence
which is absent from perfect existence?
+ Limitation.
55. What is limitation?
+ Limitation is the inability of the soul to accomplish
her will (on the lowest planes it is manifest as the
scarcity of material resources; it is the source of
suffering and of all other evils.
56. What is the source of the evil of limitation?
+ Separation from Dea is the source of limitation, for
Dea is unlimited and so also are all souls in harmony
with Her.
The Foundations of Good Action
57. Since your first moral act, have you committed others?
+ Almost every act committed since that time has had
a moral character.
58. What is the moral character of a material act?
+ It is its spiritual quality of good or evil.
59. How is that determined?
+ It is determined by whether the act is in accordance
with the three Primary Virtues.
60. What are the Three Primary Virtues?
+ They are Life, or Wholeness; Light, or Energy; and
Love, or Harmony.
61. Where can we learn of these virtues?
+ In the book called the Crystal Tablet.
62. What are the five Rules of Life by which we may
achieve these virtues?
+ They are:
1. To love Dea.
2. To love all Her creatures.
3. To love my true self.
4. To seek to make my every act a perfect gift to
Her, and to offer to Her all my happiness and
all my suffering.
5. To seek to bring all souls closer to Her.
IV. The Quest of the Soul
63. Have you lived before this life?
+ I have lived before.
64. How long have you lived?
+ I have lived since the beginning of time.
65. Of this, how much can you remember?
+ I can remember only a little.
66. How long shall you live?
+ I shall live for ever.
67. What will happen when you die?
+ If I have lived as a good Madrian, I shall go after
death into the paradise of the Daughter, called Avala,
to rest in happiness.
68. Shall you then inhabit a body?
+ No, I shall be all soul.
69. What is soul?
+ Soul is the spiritual creature which is the real 'I'.
70. Are souls both female and male?
+ No, all spiritual creatures are female, for maleness is
a thing of the material world.
71. Do male creatures have souls?
+ Yes, male creatures have female souls.
72. Shall all creatures become pure soul after death?
+ No, those who in life have rejected the spiritual shall
retain strong emotional and mental materiality.
73. Shall they keep their material bodies?
+ No, and having lost them, they shall flounder in
darkness and confusion.
74. Shall this state last forever?
+ No, eventually they shall continue on their journey;
either further from the Mother, or else turning again
to Her.
75. Shall any soul be lost forever?
+ No, in the fullness of time, every soul shall realise
the full horror of evil and shall turn to the Good.
76. Shall you remain forever in Avala?
+ No, eventually I shall continue my journey toward
the Mother.
77. Can your soul approach directly to the Mother?
+ She cannot.
78. Why is this?
+ Because, having turned from Her at the beginning of
time, I am not absolutely good. Therefore my soul
cannot exist in Her presence.
79. In what way, then, can you approach Deity?
+ I can approach Her Daughter.
80. How is this so?
+ Because, seeing the plight of humanity, She has
severed Herself from Her Mother in order that we
may come to Her.
81. By what means did She do this?
+ By Her descent into the under world and Her Death.
82. Did She rise from that death?
+ Yes, and as She rose, so shall we rise, that we may
come to the Mother.
83. And shall the Daughter guide you on your way from
Avala?
+ She is always guiding the soul that turns to Her.
V. Ekklesia Madriana
The Ekklesia of Our Lady
84. What is Ekklesia?
+ Ekklesia is the body of all souls who are in
communion with Dea.
85. Is Ekklesia of this world only?
+ No, Ekklesia exists on every plane of being.
86. Does Ekklesia include only human souls?
+ No, Ekklesia includes helati, Janyati and other souls,
both incarnate and disincarnate.
87. What are the three ways by which a human soul may
enter Ekklesia?
+ By Charisma, by Initiation and by Offering.
88. What is the Charismatic entry?
+ Charismatic entry occurs when a soul, through her
devotion, is received by Dea without any earthly
Sacrament.
89. What is Initiation?
+ Initiation is the Sacrament by which Ekklesia
receives a mature person.
90. What takes place in this Sacrament?
+ The initiate dies to the world of matter and is
reborn into Ekklesia.
91. What is Offering?
+ Offering is the ritual by which an infant is offered to
Dea and is received into Ekklesia.
92. Is Offering sufficient for a whole lifetime?
+ No, the child should later receive her own Initiation.
93. What is the reason for Offering?
+ It allows the child to enjoy the spiritual benefits of
being a member of Ekklesia, helps her to draw closer
to Dea, and makes her a member of Her earthly family
from the beginning.
94. What is a Sacrament?
+ A Sacrament is an act which takes place at once on
earth and in the Pleroma.
95. What is the Pleroma?
+ The Pleroma is the realm of pure Being where alone
an action can attain complete reality.
96. What is Communion?
+ Communion is the Sacrament through which
initiates of Ekklesia nourish their souls by union with
Dea.
97. How often should a Madrian initiate take Communion?
+ If possible, a Madrian initiate should take
Communion regularly. She must take Communion at
least on each Major Festival unless prevented by
extreme difficulty.
98. Who can celebrate Communion?
+ Only a priestess can celebrate Communion.
99. What is a priestess?
+ A priestess is a maid chosen by Dea to serve Her earthly children.
100. How does a maid become a priestess?
+ Either by Charisma or Initiation.
101. Is the Initiation of a priestess a Sacrament?
+ The initiation of a priestess is a Sacrament.
102. What are the two duties of a priestess?
1. To transmit the Power of Dea through the
Sacraments and other rituals.
2. To have care of the souls of Her children in
devotional and other matters.
103. What is the Sacrifice?
+ The Sacrifice is an act of devotion to Dea.
104. Is the Sacrifice a Sacrament?
+ The Sacrifice is not a Sacrament.
105. How often must a Madrian initiate make Sacrifice?
+ A Madrian initiate must make Sacrifice or take
Communion at least on every natural Rite unless
prevented by extreme difficulty.
The Cult Domestic
106. What is the Cult Domestic?
+ The Cult Domestic is the whole religious life of a
Madrian household centering upon a regular
domestic Sacrifice.
107. Who shall celebrate the Sacrifice?
+ The spiritual head of the household shall celebrate
the Sacrifice.
108. Who is the spiritual head of the household?
+ Either the mother, or else the temporal matriarch,
or any other maid who has made a solemn undertaking to act as spiritual head of her household.
109. Who shall celebrate if she is absent?
+ Either her eldest daughter, or any other maid whom
she has chosen to act as her surrogate.
110. What is a Madrian household?
+ A Madrian household is any group of Madrians who
live together and all who are dear to them.
111. Should the Cult Domestic replace the Communion of
Ekklesia?
+ The Cult Domestic should never replace the
Communion of Ekklesia unless there is no practising
priestess in the area.
Personal Devotion
112. How shall you preserve the spiritual health of your
soul?
+ By rejecting the false materialistic values of the
world, and seeking to live in gentleness, generosity
and innocence.
113. How should you emend the faults of your soul?
+ By penitence and true devotion.
114. What is prayer?
+ Prayer is a personal communion with Dea.
115. What is the importance of prayer?
+ Prayer is the breath of my spiritual life.
116. When should you pray?
+ I should pray frequently, but at least each morning
and each night.
117. What is morning prayer?
+ Morning prayer is an offering of the day’s events to
Dea, and an asking of Her blessing upon them.
118. What is night prayer?
+ Night prayer is a return to full contemplation of Dea
at the end of the day.
119. Should prayer be a mere repeating of words?
+ No, prayer should be a bringing of my whole being
to Dea.
120. What are the other chief forms of personal devotion?
+ Meditation upon Dea and Her Mysteries, and saying
the Rosary.
121. How should you end your devotions?
+ By saying the Silver Star and making the Pentacle
upon myself.