Aspidiske-L0RD01:
Crafting A Ritual
Laws of Practice
Golden is the missing link. Follow what is cavernous and wailing.
Iteration -1: The rules are set—play fair.
Don’t trust the prophet’s tongue. You know exactly what you know now—nothing else.
You must speak the ritual, clearly and concisely. You must not lose your head.
Do not write down what is implied. Trace your path only once.
When paths diverge, they sing in chorus. Pin down your songbird—decide his solo now.
Of object and of subject. Of earth and of mind.
A word is a mule. It’s own weight must drag on the weight of your burdens double.
You design the world. You are designed by the world.
Respect the powers that be.
The Circuit
1. Chaos
Your problem awaits.
2. Conception
Start outlining your ritual on a notepad/post/document.
Meditation: The ritual outline should be structured and written as if a third party is going to see it. This is to maintain a standard of comprehensibility.
The first section will be titled Things to Keep In Mind: These are general guidelines you want to design your ritual around, as well as meditations during the ritual process. You will think of more guidelines during creation and implementation—this list should be constantly changing and evolving. These guidelines shiould double as methods of solving your issue.
The second section should be an outline of the Ritual process titled Circuit—which will outline the actual process of the ritual. Include Meditations of what should be kept in mind during specific steps.
Include some sort of symbolic gesture within your ritual process to codify it.
Bold keywords, and identify the devices used within the process—both physical and abstract objects used for the ritual. Color code the devices according to the following: Issues, Major Ritual Components, Physical Devices, Small Ritual Components, Conceptual Ritual Components
Entangle the ritual process.
3. Beta Implementation
Test your initial circuit for efficacy.
Make any necessary tweaks to the process, and add additional meditations.
Repeat the process of revising and testing your ritual outline until satisfactory.
4. Ritual Visualization
Identify the components of the larger process. Create a Structure Visualization to describe the structure of the ritual using an UML component diagram.
Create a Process Visualization to describe the process of the ritual using an UML interaction overview diagram. Create the requested referenced diagrams.
Meditation: strongly reference the ritual outline for this.
5. Finalization
Repeat Beta Implementation process for the UML Diagram.
Print out the relevant diagrams back to back in full color. If color is not available, use available medium to add color. Outline breakdown should be printed as smaller sheet.
Create a symbol of the ritual—write on a scrap paper, and cut/tear it into a square that can be secured onto the printed diagram.
6. Implementation:
Identify when ritual can be implemented, and carry out and revise the implementation as needed.
Each implementation must be logged on completion.
Each revision requires the slight modification of the associated symbol.
