Consecration of Various Items

✾ Water and Salt

Our own usage is for the High Priestess to consecrate the water, and the High Priest the salt; the High Priestess then holds up the bowl of water while the High Priest pours the salt into it. But the whole thing can of course be done by one person.

Place the bowl of water on the pentacle, hold the tip of your athame in the water, and say:

I exorcize thee, O Creature of Water, that thou cast out from thee all the impurities and uncleanness of the spirits of the world of phantasm. Mertalia, Musalia, Dophalia, Onemalia, Zitanseia.

Remove the bowl from the pentacle, replace it with the bowl of salt, hold the tip of your athame in the salt, and say:

Blessings be upon this Creature of Salt; let all malignity and hindrance be cast forth thence from, and let all good enter therein. Wherefore I bless thee and invoke thee, that thou mayest aid me.

Changing over the bowls again and pouring the salt into the water, say:

Yamenton, Varon, Tatonon, Zarmesiton, Tileion, Tixmion. But ever mind, water purifies the body, but the scourge purifies the soul.

✾ Sword or Athame

If possible, the weapon should be consecrated in contact with an already- consecrated sword or athame as High Magic's Aid puts it, “to communicate increased power”.

Lay the sword or athame over the pentacle, preferably together with, and touching, another already consecrated weapon of the same kind. The man sprinkles them with the salt-and-water mixture. The woman then picks up the weapon to be consecrated, passes it through the smoke of the incense, and replaces it over the pentacle. Man and woman then lay their right hands on it and press down.

Say the first conjuration:

I conjure thee, O Sword / Athame, by these Names, Abrahach, Abrach, Abracadabra, that thou servest me for a strength and defense in all magical operations against all mine enemies, visible and invisible. / conjure thee anew by the Holy Name Aradia and the Holy Name Cernunnos; I conjure thee, O Sword / Athame, that thou servest me for a protection in all adversities; so aid me now.

Once again, the man witch sprinkles and the woman witch censes, and the weapon is returned to the pentacle. Proceed with the second conjuration, saying:

I conjure thee, O Sword / Athame of Steel, by the Great Gods and Gentle Goddesses, by the virtue of the heavens, of the stars and of the spirits who preside over them, that thou mayest receive such virtue that J may obtain the end that I desire in all things wherein I shall use thee, by the power of the Lord and Lady.

The Book of Shadows says that this consecration should, if possible be done by a man and a woman together, “both as naked as drawn swords”. If a solo witch has no choice but to do it alone, however, the final embrace could perhaps be replaced by holding up the newly consecrated sword or athame for a moment in silent offering to the God and the Goddess, envisioned as being beyond the altar.

✾ Other Working Tools

This form is used for any ritual tool except a sword or athame. In it the tool is placed on the pentacle, and the right hand is placed on it. Say:

Lord and Lady, deign to bless and to consecrate this [tool] that it may obtain the necessary virtue through you for all acts of love and beauty.

The man sprinkles the tool with the salt-and-water mixture, and the woman passes it through the smoke of the incense and replaces it on the pentacle. Say:

Lord and Lady, bless this instrument prepared in your honor.

In the case of the Scourge or the Cords, add:

… that it may serve for a good use and end and for your glory.

Kiss the object, then hold it to the breast in the same way as for ritual tools. Then the owner, or owners, of the newly consecrated tool should immediately use it, in the way suggested.

✾ Personal Jewelry and other Wearables

Place the object on the pentacle, and lay the right hand on it and say:

I consecrate thee in the element of Earth.

They sprinkle the object with the salt-and-water mixture, saying:

I consecrate thee in the element of Water.

They pass the object through the smoke of the incense, saying:

I consecrate thee in the element of Air.

Pass the object above the flame of the candle (well above, if it is something which flame could damage), saying:

I consecrate thee in the element of Fire, in the names of the Lord and Lady.

Kiss the object, then hold it to the breast in the same way as for ritual tools. Then, if the object is something which can be worn immediately, the one who is the owner should wear it if possible.