Samhain: Two New God Rituals - Bastet and Seshat

Thank you for your hard work, High Priest.

May we be blessed with the love of our two beautiful Goddesses during this ritual schedule and heal humanity's bonds with our Gods!

Hail Zeus!
Hail Bastet!
Hail Seshat!

Awesome🎃🔥✨️ Thank you!

Thank you. I love Bast and look forward to reconnecting.

A beautiful gift and a wonderful surprise.

Have a great holiday.

Thank you for your hard work, High Priest.

May we be blessed with the love of our two beautiful Goddesses during this ritual schedule and heal humanity's bonds with our Gods!

Hail Satanas!
Hail Bastet!
Hail Seshat!

Very well said, Brother. Happy Samhain!

Ancient Egypt always held a special place in my heart.

Happy Samhain to all Zevists.

As always, thank you for the rituals and your hard work, High Priest Zevios Metathronos!

Hail Bastet!
Hail Seshat!

I swear, it's like I see these coming sometimes, and I love that. I'm absolutely excited to begin.
Have a lovely Hallowmas, everyone, and may the Godesses bless you all as we venerate and bless them!

Thank You, Brother. I've been waiting to learn more about Bastet, and I knew very little of both Goddesses.
Questions about the rituals and pronounciation:

1. What's the Sistrum?
2. What's Sesheshet?
3. How's 'Sesheshet pronounced? (like, with or without the 'sh' sound as in 'wash'.. or are 's' and 'h' separated, so like.. "Ses-hass-hat"? I wouldn't want to offend the Gods with wrong pronounciation..)
4. Same question on Lady Seshat's name.. is it "Ses-hut" (with an open 'a', not the English 'a' as in 'hat')?

Can't think of more questions right now.. but I'm looking forward to more information from the coming articles.

HAIL SATANAS! AND HAPPY SAMHAIN!

Really looking forward for these new beautiful rituals.

Happy Samhain great HPZM!

Hell yeah! Hail Ladies Bastet and Seshat. Happy Samhain everyone, in advance. Looking forward to the next schedule as well!

Already will be doing Anubis' ritual along with Father Satan's ritual and the donor ritual but I'm more than happy to add these for more blessing towards our Gods.

Happy Samhain, everyone.

Just seeing these two Rituals make me feel happy grateful and excited, can't wait to do them.

Thank you HPZM, you make me every time amazed by those Rituals you bring as a holy gift for Us, Happy Halloween for you.

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Greetings to everyone and I wish everyone the most spooky and beautiful Halloween for 2024. As many are longing for a schedule, the Rituals below for the wonderful Goddesses Seshat and Bastet are perfect for us to do, in order to bless them and in return receive their blessings, love and support.

We are continuing steadfast on the full restoration of the Gods and the culture, whilst blessing ourselves and moving forward into their glorious purpose and light for the Joy of Satanas and ourselves. The Gods know our community is the most serious and most focused in their veneration and their most trusted fellowship. As they observe us doing what we are supposed to be doing, we are gaining their love and favor like nobody else ever could in this world.

Tasked with holy and supernal tasks, they are always behind us, in support and with their eternal love.

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Thanks for these rituals
Excited to do them I enjoy Fall
Season and I got a great interest
In Bast and the gods
Everyone have a great Helloween
HAIL SATANAS !!
HAIL BAST!!!
HAIL SESHAT!!!!!

Seshat is the Patroness of all knowledge and a very respected Goddess of supernal power. In Ancient Egypt, many of Her functions related to the dedication of buildings. As a Patroness of divine geometry and mathematics, this was in no way a minor role. Every aspect of Egypt's religious system was dependent on the visions laid forth by Her.

She advised Astrologers, astronomers, architects and others on the optimal conditions to build lasting structures and eternal monuments, emblems of civilization as a whole. Her instructions led people to find the most energetic areas for further growth of any project, including temples and settlements necessary for the expansion of Egyptian civilization. Egypt's uniquely enduring and everlasting imprint as a visible civilization of tens of thousands of years can be attributed to the precepts of Her Orders.

The rite involved the careful orientation of the temple by astronomical observation and measurement. Apparently, this was usually accomplished by sighting the stars of a northern circumpolar constellation through a notched wooden instrument called a merkhet and thus acquiring a true north-south orientation which was commonly used for the temple's short axis. According to the texts, the king [Pharaoh] was assisted in this ritual by Seshat (or Sefkhet-Abwy), the scribal goddess of writing and measurement.

The Complete Temples of Egypt, Richard H. Wilkinson

Seshat’s name in Hieroglyphs means 'female scholar' or 'female scribe'. Within this is not just a code to Her sex as a Goddess, but also a reference to the types of occult processes in Seshat's concerns, which are negative and magnetic in terms of polarity, of the female characteristic.

Her functions were not merely in the endowment of structures or settlements. Seshat was always engaged in writing the Book of Life and Death delineating the lifespan of beings. Similarly, Seshat was known to dwell by the Tree of Life itself alongside Her husband and Her inscriptions on the fallen leaves below the Tree were said to indicate a being’s finite lifespan, evocative of one of the lines of the Iliad:

Very like leaves upon this earth are the generations of men -- old leaves, cast on the ground by wind, young leaves the greening forest bears when spring comes in.

Iliad

In contrast, having one’s name etched on the trunk of the Tree by Thoth or Seshat indicated potential immortality and engagement in the process of Magnum Opus.

Seshat, like Thoth, occupied a distinct position as a psychopomp or guide to the dead. Allusions exist to Her importance in this being to guide people to say the correct words in death and to continue to incarnate to higher realms of existence by using their intelligence, courage and wiles.

The Greeks knew Seshat by the concept of the Fates or Moirai, named as Klotho (Spineress), Lakesis (Apportioness of Lots) and Atropos (She Who Cannot Be Turned). Atropos in the image above holds a scroll analogous to the tablet or scroll of Seshat. Via their spindle, the Moirai would spin a thread demonstrating the lifespan of any being visually. This concept of Fate indicates Seshat’s primacy in ordering the forces of destiny and Karma. Nemesis, who is equivocated with Ma’at, was the sister of the Moirai and dealt with enforcing natural laws surrounding the beginning and end of beings.

In this kind of imagery, Klotho carries a spindle and distaff, Lakesis carries a staff or spindle pointing to the horoscope to a globe representing the set ‘lot’ of a being and Atropos carried a tablet and a stylus used to inscribe the names of Life and Death. They were said to rule over the substance of moira which the Gods were not involved with as They held the free will of beings to be sacred: only Zeus Moiragetes as the Head of Gods could control moira. Yet Their decrees were still conditional, as one could avert the Fates and Their moira, provided they possessed the ultimate wisdom. One code here is that the use of proper intelligence as represented by Thoth (Hermes) and Seshat can alter the mandated pathway and limitations of a being altogether. The Fates play a major role in the ascension of the soul and Magnum Opus in ‘allowing’ the seemingly impossible to be made possible.

In Greek mythology, Seshat was also represented by the Titaness named Mnemosyne. Here Her roles were consigned to being a divine figure presiding over the functions of memory and being a patroness of the arts, bearing the Nine Muses ruling over the creative arts by Zeus. She was involved in transcribing the deeds of rulers and invoked whenever poems, stories or plays were about to begin.

Her role in the Greek pantheon may seem indirect, yet in speech Mnemosyne was the most invoked Goddess in conversation of the entire pantheon. Greek culture strongly relied on oral retelling and sophisticated methods of mental acquisition through dialogue. It was hoped via the intercession of Mnemosyne that the parties involved would remember all important elements and draw on their talents of all lives past and present.

SYMBOLS OF SESHAT

Seshat is associated most with the seven-pointed horns emerging from Her headdress. Seven as a number is important to Her symbolism, being a union of the spiritual and physical and the birth of the mind. For this reason, one of Her names was 'Seven-Horned'.

These seven horns represent the empowerment of the seven Chakras and the balance in taming the whims of the seven stars (planets) associated with those Chakras in attaining ultimate wisdom. In dwelling next to the Tree of Life, Thoth and Seshat both wrote the names of immortals on the trunk of the sacred Tree, an analogy for the ascension and eternal life.

In this sense, with the ever-present symbolism of using Her stylus and pen, Seshat represents what is 'inscribed' and 'recorded' in one's Karma and the House of Life, analogous to Her representation as Moirai or the Fates.

Most of all, She represents that the proper use of wisdom from the seeds of knowledge can overcome all aspects of personal Karma in relation to these hitherto unknown forces and lead one to immorality if wielded correctly. Visually, the horns of Seshat are analogous to the the rays of light from a light source, the sturdiness of a tree, the life-cycle of a flower and other visual symbols related to being enlightened, growing and patient.

Seshat serves as a symbol of enlightenment. She is a master scientist and mathematician. The imagery of Her starry headdress serves as a symbol for the progression of civilization through technological achievement as well as the soul and indicates Her link to Isis (Astarte). Her collaboration with Thoth shows that the male and female union when guided properly can produce genius, an allegory for the hermaphroditic nature of Mercury as a planet. Some male-female teams throughout history have led to significant advancements, such as Pierre and Marie Curie.

One symbol of Seshat that is known visually is the procedure of the 'stretching cord' used at temples where She would be accompanied by Horus or Thoth to establish certain angles and perspectives for corners of the temple in relation to the stars and the horizon for any prospective building project. The ending procession parallels the clockwise ending motion of the Standard Ritual: it would begin at the east (the horizon point, the gate of entrance for the temple) and end at the north (the point of darkness).

Seshat was commonly associated with Bastet and Ma'at, alongside Horus, Hathor, Isis and Nephthys. In tandem with Bastet, Seshat’s divine role consisted in laying the foundation for Bastet to use her own forces of power, protection and longevity for any fixed entity. Both Goddesses ruled over aspects of time: Seshat was considered the ‘Mistress of Keeping’ with her powers called forth during important dates such as the thirty-third year of the ruling Pharaoh’s reign. Both Bastet and Seshat were associated with the Powers of Thoth.

Her role in respect of Ma'at concerned recounting deeds of the individual when weighing the 'feather in the balance'. She often is represented wearing clothing made of leopard skin which was also worn by priests of Egypt and represented the stars, also representing her immense powers in maintaining the cosmic order.

OCCULT ASPECTS OF SESHAT

As Seshat did not have sprawling temple structures related to Her, many modern historians consider Her role to be minor or downgraded in lieu of Her husband, Thoth. This is a misconception about the occult nature of the roles of Thoth and Seshat. Even in Egyptian works, Seshat is referenced as being the Equal in Power and Justice to Thoth.

Conversely to Thoth, Seshat represents the type of knowledge that is passively gained from inscription in the memory. She also represents the point in mental processes at which this can be brought out via recall and refined into something durable and coherent, similarly to the foundation or cornerstone of a building. Another aspect of the mind that She represents is the point where knowledge is not directly pursued and simply accumulates with necessary rest, day by day, a required function for any kind of acquisition of knowledge.

This resting quality is part of why She is related to books and documents, being a Patroness of libraries, archives and other kinds of institutions concerned with what has been written down and symbolically becomes memory in reserve beyond the view of perception. One of her names is She Who is Foremost of the Library. All realms of literature are also under Her command.

She was also the Patroness of history in itself. In terms of altered states, Seshat rules over certain types of psychic powers such as remote viewing that humans are able to unlock at certain levels of development. Psychic abilities such as remote viewing make the past, present and even many futures accessible and inscribable. These qualities are largely represented in Mnemosyne who was also equated with being the arbiter of history and the literary arts.

Seshat is known as a friendly Deity to humanity who will often assist whenever Thoth (Hermes) cannot do so. Both Thoth and Seshat are exceptionally hard-working and high-level Deities. Her eternal and enduring bond with Thoth is highly known.

May the intercessions of Divine Seshat give us all the words that help our lives endure forever, the memories that will assist us in solving any puzzle the universe brings forth and the fortitude to have our names written on the Tree of Life. May Seshat bless your minds and souls to climb higher and achieve full potential!

SOURCES

The Complete Temples of Egypt, Richard H. Wilkinson

2 beautiful Rituals for Samhain! Thank you High Priest!

Happy Samhain!

Happy Samhain. Beautiful rituals.

I "randomly" woke up in the middle of the night, checked the forums and saw these posted so I translated them to Finnish instead of going back to bed:
https://joyofsatan.fi/kirjasto/bastet-power-ritual.html
https://joyofsatan.fi/kirjasto/seshat-power-ritual.html

Happy Halloween to our entire satanic family, and may the Gods guide us to magnificent achievement and glory.

Thank you for everything you do for us High Priest Zevios Metathronos, and to High Priestess Lydia, all of our guardians and to everyone who contributes big or small.

We are growing stronger by the day, and we will only climb higher as time moves forward.

HAIL BASTET! HAIL SESHAT!

Just as I finished drawing some kitties I come on the forums and see this. Wonderful sign, hehe!! 😊

Thank you!!

Already will be doing Anubis' ritual along with Father Satan's ritual and the donor ritual but I'm more than happy to add these for more blessing towards our Gods.

Happy Samhain, everyone.

Your hard work pays off in the end. It may be a little difficult now, but the pain is temporary. yet your rewards will be permanent as long you keep getting closer with the Gods. Your rewards will multiply in great amounts. The limits you can go are beyond endless when truly walking closer to the gods.. Keep it up, I am with you on the extra work.

I've been working on the Andras and Set rituals because of promises I've made myself. I've seen a world needing people to help play their role and i promised myself years ago i wouldnt bail on this world nor the people/innocent. I would find a way to play a part even if it was one small thing at a time. I am greatful for this opportunity. The fact our Gods even created us. The opportunity to life and given the tool to make what you want of it. to become the master architect ourselves. Our beautiful Gods and Goddesses will always guide us as long as we are consistent.
Happy Samhain!!! HAIL ZEUS!