Ritual by Linda Reynolds and Alexandra Sarris

In this episode, we step through the gates of perception into the painted Arizona desert, where the boundaries between the known and the unknown dissolve, where the gods of ancient Egypt are reborn not in the sands of the Nile but in the American Southwest, and where the most advanced magicians of the Temple of Set encounter a being that defies all their categories—a green-robed androgynous child, horned and innocent, who is both the Deceiver and the god who is unknown. We explore the Ritual of Xem—a working that brought into "positive Being" a new Word, a new god-form, and a new current in the history of the Left-Hand Path.From the rejection of the Egyptian desert in favor of the Arizona landscape to the androgynous form of the youthful deity, from the constructive deception of the rainbow-robed trickster to Barrett's associations with Druidic Ovates and the Venusian principle, from the ninefold company of gods to the crisis of the unknown itself—we trace the monumental, deeply contested, and astonishingly influential legacy of this ritual working and ask: In a world that still seeks certainty, still demands that the gods fit our categories, and still struggles to distinguish between deception and revelation, do we have the courage to penetrate the disguise, or will we be fooled by the shimmering rainbow robes?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: RitualClassification: V4 - A17.22 - 3 Authors: Linda Reynolds III°, Alexandra Sarris III° Date: July 29, XIII HTML Revision: September 27, 1998 CE Subject: Xem Reading List: — 📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-The Book of the Coming Forth by Night (Temple of Set, internal publication) -Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set, Volume I -Ronald K. Barrett, "The Word Xem" (Temple of Set internal communications) -John Dee, Enochian material (various sources) -Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice -Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Rituals -E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead (for context on the Neters and the paut Neter) -R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temple of Man (for Egyptian symbolism) -Don Webb, Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left Hand Path -Stephen Flowers (Edred Thorsson), The Galdrabók: An Icelandic Grimoire (for broader magical context) -Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival (for Enochian and Thelemic context) -P.D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous (for Gurdjieffian concepts referenced in other Xem materials) -H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu" (for the concept of the unknown god as a trope in modern esotericism) -Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (for the child-god archetype) -Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane (for understanding visionary experience)🏷️ HASHTAGS#Xem #Ritual #TempleOfSet #Set #Xeper #LeftHandPath #Deceiver #ConstructiveDeception #UnknownGod #Nine #PautNeter #Ennead #EgyptianMythology #Neters #RonaldBarrett #MichaelAquino #Enochian #ArizonaDesert #GreenRobes #Androgyny #Druids #Ovates #Venus #VenusianPrinciple #Horns #Crescent #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultPodcast #MagicalWorking #GodCreation #VisionaryExperience #PriestessReynolds #PriestessSarris #CouncilOfNine #ThelemicCurrent #SatanicRituals #SetianCurrent #Magick #CeremonialMagic #SpiritualEvolution #SelfCreation #Becoming #GodlikeState #Esoteric #Occult #AncientWisdom #ModernMagic #AmericanSouthwest #DesertVision #DivineAndrogyny #RainbowRobes #MagicalDisguise #WorthyAspirant #Initiation #MysteryTradition #Daemons #CyclicalTime #RebirthOfGods