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This ceremony is carried out at the request of a group of people.
Everyone standing.
The Assistant invites the participants to be seated.
The Officiant and the Assistant remain standing.
Officiant: My mind is restless.
Participants: My mind is restless.
Officiant: My heart is troubled.
Participants: My heart is troubled.
Officiant: My body is tense.
Participants: My body is tense.
Officiant: I relax my body, my heart, and my mind.
Participants: I relax my body, my heart, and my mind.
The Officiant and the Assistant take their seats and allow a few minutes to pass.
The Assistant then stands and reads a Principle or a passage from The Inner Look that is suitable to the circumstances. The Assistant invites the participants to meditate on the passage and then sits down.
A few minutes later, the Officiant stands and, pausing after each sentence, slowly reads the following.
Officiant: Completely relax your body and quiet your mind...
Then imagine a transparent and luminous sphere that descends toward you until it comes to rest in your heart...
Notice that the sphere begins to transform into an expanding sensation within your chest...
The sensation of the sphere expands from your heart toward the outside of your body, at the same time that you deepen your breathing...
You will feel new sensations in your hands and the rest of your body…
You will perceive increasing undulations. Positive emotions and memories will arise. …
Allow the passage of the Force to take place freely. This Force gives energy to your body and your mind…
Let the Force manifest within you...
Try to see its light within your eyes, and do not stop it from acting by itself…
Feel the Force and its inner light. Let it manifest freely…
After a time, the Assistant stands next to the Officiant.
Assistant: With this Force that we have received, let us concentrate our minds on the fulfillment of what we truly need...
The Assistant invites everyone to stand and carry out the Asking. After letting some time pass, the Officiant closes with:
Officiant: Peace, Force, and Joy!
Participants: For you also, Peace, Force, and Joy!
This ceremony is carried out at the request of one or more persons.
Everyone standing.
The Assistant invites the participants to be seated.
The Officiant and the Assistant remain standing.
Officiant: My mind is restless.
Participants: My mind is restless.
Officiant: My heart is troubled.
Participants: My heart is troubled.
Officiant: My body is tense.
Participants: My body is tense.
Officiant: I relax my body, my heart, and my mind.
Participants: I relax my body, my heart, and my mind.
The Officiant and the Assistant take their seats and allow some time to pass.
The Officiant stands.
Officiant: If you wish to receive the Force, you should understand that at the moment of the laying on of hands you will begin to experience new sensations. You will perceive increasing undulations. Positive emotions and memories will arise. When this occurs, allow the passage of the Force to take place freely…
Let the Force manifest within you, and do not stop it from acting by itself…
Feel the Force and its inner light. Let the Force manifest freely…
After some time allowed for reflection, the Officiant and the Assistant stand.
Assistant: Those who wish to receive the Force may stand.
When there is a large number of participants, the Assistant invites them to remain standing by their seats; for smaller numbers, the participants are invited to form a circle around the Officiant. After a few moments, the Officiant begins the Laying on of Hands. If necessary, the Assistant may help with the circulation of the participants, occasionally accompanying some of them back to their seats. Following the Laying on of Hands, participants are given some time to assimilate the experience.
Assistant: With this Force that we have received, let us concentrate our minds on the fulfillment of what we truly need…
The Assistant invites participants to stand and carry out this Asking.
After letting some time pass the Officiant closes with:
Officiant: Peace, Force, and Joy!
Participants: For you also, Peace, Force, and Joy!
This ceremony is carried out at the request of a group of people.
The Participants are seated.
The Officiant and Assistant are standing.
Assistant: We are gathered here to direct our thoughts to those dear to us. Some of them are having difficulties in their emotional lives, some in their relationships with others, and some with their health. To them, we direct our thoughts and our best wishes.
Officiant: We have faith that our call for their well-being will reach them. Let us think of those dear to us; let us feel the presence of those dear to us, let us experience contact with those dear to us.
Assistant: Let us take some time to meditate on the difficulties that they are facing…
A few minutes go by allowing the participants to meditate.
Officiant: Now we would like these people to feel our best hopes for them. A wave of relief and well-being will reach them…
Assistant: Let us take a short time to locate in our mind the situation of well-being that we wish for our loved ones...
A few minutes are given so that the participants can concentrate their minds on this.
Officiant: We close this ceremony by giving the opportunity, to those who so wish, to feel the presence of those loved ones who, although not present here in our time or in our space, are connected to us in this experience of love, peace, and warm joy…
A short time is given for this.
Officiant: This has been good for others, comforting for ourselves, and an inspiration for our lives… Greetings to everyone who is immersed in this current of well-being, which has been strengthened by the best wishes of all those present…
This ceremony may be carried out for an individual child or for a group of children.
Everyone standing.
The Officiant and the Assistant stand facing the children, who are surrounded by the other participants.
Assistant: The purpose of this ceremony is to give our children participation in our community.
Since ancient times, children have been the focus of ceremonies such as those of naming and baptism. These ceremonies have recognized a change of status, a change in a human being’s stage of life.
There are today and have long been civil formalities that record the date and place of birth and other such information. The spiritual transcendence that accompanies a ceremony of this kind however has nothing to do with the cold formalities of official documents. Rather, it flows from the joy of parents, family, and friends when children are publicly introduced to the community.
This is a ceremony through which the status of children changes as they become participants in a community that makes a commitment to be responsible for them should unfortunate events leave them unprotected.
This ceremony requests protection for this child/these children, and the community welcomes (him, her or them) as new son(s) and daughter(s).
Following a brief pause, the Officiant addresses those present in a warm tone.
Officiant: We ask for protection for this child (these children).
Assistant: We welcome (him, her or them) with joy, and commit ourselves to give (him, her or them) protection.
Officiant: We extend our best wishes to everyone... Peace and joy for all!
The Officiant gently lays a hand on the head and gives a kiss on the forehead of each child,.
This ceremony is carried out for one or more couples
Everyone standing.
The Officiant and the Assistant face the couple(s).
Assistant: Since ancient times marriage has been a ceremony that marks a change of situation for people. When we end or begin a new stage in life it is often accompanied by a corresponding ritual. Our personal and social lives are marked by rituals that, to a greater or lesser degree, we accept as customary. We greet one another in the morning differently than we do at night; we shake hands when we meet people; we celebrate birthdays, graduations, and new jobs. Our sporting events are accompanied by rituals, and our religious, political, and civic ceremonies place us in the appropriate attitude for each occasion.
Marriage is an important change in a person’s situation, and one for which all nations require certain legal formalities. That is, the marital relationship places the spouses in a new situation with respect to the community and the State. But when a couple establishes the bond of marriage, they do so with a new way of life in mind. They do so with profound feelings and not merely as a formality.
Consequently, in this ceremony which marks a change of situation, the partners have the intention to establish a new and hopefully lasting union with one another. They desire to give and receive the best from each other. And perhaps they also intend to carry this relationship further, by adopting or by bringing children into the world.
Seeing marriage in this way, we may acknowledge the importance of the legal formalities of this union, but in the spiritual and emotional sense, we say that only the couple endows this ceremony with meaning. In other words, this ceremony brings two human beings to the situation of undertaking a new life, and through this ceremony the partners establish this profound union in accordance with their own feelings.
We do not marry them; they marry one another before our community.
Officiant: In order for this ceremony to be true and your own, we ask (addressing one partner): What is this marriage for you?
Participant: (when addressed by the Officiant the person answers aloud).
Officiant (addressing the other partner): What is this marriage for you?
Participant: (when addressed by the Officiant the person answers aloud).
Officiant: Then this marriage will be in agreement with your expressed desires and your most profound intentions.
The Officiant greets the couple(s) affectionately.
This is a ceremony of great affection. It requires the person performing it to give the best of him or herself.
The ceremony maybe repeated at the request of the person receiving it or by those caring for him or her.
The Officiant is alone with the person who is dying.
Regardless of the apparent state of lucidity or unconsciousness of the dying person, the Officiant comes close and speaks slowly in a voice that is soft and clear.
Officiant: The memories of your life are the judgment of your actions. You can, in a short time, recall much of what is best in you. Remember then, but without fear, and purify your memory. Gently remember, and calm your mind...
The Officiant remains silent for a few minutes, then resumes reading in a voice of the same tone and intensity.
Reject startling fears and disheartenment...
Reject the desire to flee toward low and dark regions...
Reject the attachment to memories...
Remain in internal liberty, indifferent toward the dream of the landscape...
Resolve to begin the ascent…
The pure Light dawns in the summits of the great mountain chains, and the waters-of-a-thousand-colors flow amid unrecognizable melodies toward crystalline plateaus and prairies...
Do not fear the pressure of the Light that pushes against you with increasing strength the closer you draw to its center. Absorb it as though it were a liquid or a wind, for certainly in it is life...
When you find the hidden city in the great mountain chain, you must know the entrance and you will know it in the moment your life is transformed. Its enormous walls are written in figures, are written in colors, are “sensed.” In this city are kept the done and the yet-to-be-done…
The Officiant makes a brief pause in silence, and then resumes reading in a voice of the same tone and intensity.
Now you are reconciled...
You are purified…
Prepare to enter the most beautiful City of Light, a city never seen by the eye, whose song has never been heard by human ears...
Come, prepare to enter the most beautiful Light…
Officiant: Life has ceased in this body. We must now make an effort to separate in our minds the image of this body from the image of the person we remember...
This body does not hear us. This body is not the person we remember...
May those of you who do not feel the presence here of another life, separate from the body, consider that although death has paralyzed this body, the actions he/she carried out will continue to act, and their influence will never end. This chain of actions that was set in motion in life cannot be stopped by death.
How profound it is to meditate on this truth, even though we may not completely comprehend the transformation of one action into another!
…...
And may those of you who feel the presence of another separate life, consider that death has only paralyzed this body, that the mind has once again triumphantly freed itself, opening its way toward the Light...
Whatever our views, let us not weep for this body. Rather, let us meditate on the root of our beliefs, and a gentle and silent joy will arrive to us…
Peace in the heart, light in the understanding!
Recognition is a ceremony of inclusion in our community, inclusion through common experiences, shared ideals, attitudes, and common procedures.
This ceremony is carried out at the request of a group of people. It is done following a Service.
Those who will participate should have the text beforehand.
The Officiant and Assistant are standing.
Assistant: This ceremony has been requested by people who wish to actively include themselves in our community. Through this Ceremony they express a personal and social commitment to better their own lives and to work on improving the lives of those around them.
The Assistant invites those who wish to give testimony to stand.
Officiant: The pain and suffering that human beings experience recedes when good knowledge advances, not knowledge at the service of selfishness and oppression.
Good knowledge leads to justice.
Good knowledge leads to reconciliation.
Good knowledge also leads us to decipher the sacred in the depths of our consciousness.
Assistant and those giving testimony read:
We consider the human being to be the highest value above money, the State, religion and social models and systems.
We promote liberty of thought.
We promote equal rights and equal opportunities for all human beings.
We recognize and applaud diversity in customs and cultures.
We oppose all discrimination.
We consecrate just resistance against all forms of violence: physical, economic, racial, religious, sexual, psychological, and moral.
Officiant: In the same way that no one has the right to discriminate against others for their religion or their non-religiousness, we affirm our right to proclaim our spirituality and our belief in immortality and the sacred.
Our spirituality is not the spirituality of superstition, it is not the spirituality of intolerance, it is not the spirituality of dogma, it is not the spirituality of religious violence. It is the spirituality awakened from its deep sleep to nurture the best aspirations of the human being.
Assistant and those giving testimony read:
We want to give coherence to our lives, making what we think, what we feel, and what we do coincide.
We want to surpass bad consciousness by acknowledging our failures.
We aspire to forgive, to reconcile, and to persuade.
We make a growing commitment to follow the rule that reminds us to treat others as we want to be treated.
Officiant: Let us begin a new life.
Let us search within ourselves for signs of the sacred, and let us carry our message to others.
Assistant and those giving testimony read:
Today we begin to renew our lives. Let us begin by seeking mental peace and the Force that gives us joy and conviction. Afterwards, we will go to those closest to us and share with them everything great and good that has happened to us.
Officiant: Peace, Force, and Joy for everyone.
Assistant and all those present:
For you also, Peace, Force, and Joy.
Assistant: The purpose
of this ceremony is to raise our profound thanks for all the positive situations we have experienced recently... events that have brought us joy, that have allowed us to experience freedom and kindness in our hearts, events that have allowed us to experience a register of internal unity...
Officiant: Giving thanks means concentrating those positive states of mind associated with an image, a representation.
In unfavorable situations, this positive state, bound in this way within you, allows the gratitude you have kept within you to return, amplified in benefit, especially if you have accumulated within you numerous positive states… These positive states are able to clear away the negative emotions imposed by certain circumstances.
For that reason… Do not let a great joy pass without giving thanks within you.
(Brief period for meditation)
Assistant: We will take a short time to mentally locate all the positive situations that we have experienced recently – situations that have allowed us to experience joy.
(Brief period for meditation)
Officiant: By evoking this register of joy, well-being and internal unity, we prepare ourselves to give thanks...
We take deep breath of air and gently bring our hand to our heart... Breathing deeply and fully, we will begin to register one by one the positive situations we have identified, giving thanks in our heart, with profound gratitude, for each one of them... If we wish, we can lift up our gratitude to Life, to our internal Guides, or to a supreme being we believe in...
(Brief period for meditation)
Assistant: We will conclude this ceremony by giving those who wish it the opportunity to give thanks also for those difficult and painful situations that we have experienced recently, or over the course
of our life... since all of these situations have had meaning for our lives, and have happened in order to help us to grow, to strengthen ourselves, and to evolve...
(Brief period for meditation)
Officiant: This has been good for us and inspiring for our lives… we experience joy and well-being in our hearts, we feel freedom and internal unity, we experience peace and a profound strength…
Assistant: We give thanks to all those present for sharing this space of gratitude…
Officiant: Peace, Force and J oy!!!
Everyone: For you also, Peace, Force and Joy!!!