Rituals

This ritual has no elegant name in any scholarly tradition I have found. The cultures that preserved it called it, in their various languages, variations of the same desperate phrase: the last lock, the final word, the door that cannot be opened twice. I have given it the name it carries here because it is…

The Rite of the Borrowed Eye is among the more disturbing rituals I have encountered in the course of this work, which is a distinction that requires some effort to earn in a catalog that also contains the invocation protocols of the Enchiridion. What distinguishes the Rite is not its power, which is considerable, or…