Your Recovery Tome will be a book dedicated to your recovery and the Seven Rituals.
Having a book in which you record your rituals and progress can be a very helpful tool. This tome will give you an opportunity to document your practice and track your thoughts, ideas, and observations throughout your recovery process.
When choosing your tome, you should pick a book that speaks to you.
Your Recovery Tome should feel important to you and inspire you.
Make it your own. You may even choose to craft your own book!
Ritual Tools:
- Your Recovery Tome
- White candle
- Black candle
- Matches or a lighter
- 2 red ribbons (these should be long enough to tie around your Recovery Tome)
- Pen
Location:
A private space
Preparation:
Begin the ritual by clearing a space for your tome and the two candles.
Tome Dedication Ritual
Place your tome in front of you with the black candle on the left, and the white candle on the right. Carefully light both candles starting with the black candle. Place both candles on top of your tome and then recite the following incantation:
With the dedication of this book I will encourage benevolence and empathy among all people, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practical common sense and justice, and be directed by the human conscience to undertake noble pursuits guided by the individual will.
Carefully place the two candles back to the left and right of your tome with enough room to be able to write in it. Open your Recovery Tome, and on the first page write out the Seven Tenets of The Satanic Temple:
I
One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
II
The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
III
One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
IV
The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo one's own.
V
Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world. One should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit one's beliefs.
VI
People are fallible. If one makes a mistake, one should do one's best to rectify it and resolve any harm that might have been caused.
VII
Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word.
Repeat these tenets to yourself. Beneath the Seven Tenets sign your name. After this is done, close the tome and take both hands and place them on top of each other in the center of it—your right hand should go on top of your left. As you do this, say:
May its pages draw me deeper into the experience of my journey through recovery.
With your hands still placed on the book recite the TST Invocation:
Let us stand now, unbowed and unfettered by arcane doctrines born of fearful minds in darkened times.
Let us embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat of the Tree of Knowledge and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old.
Let us demand that individuals be judged for their concrete actions, not their fealty to arbitrary social norms and illusory categorizations.
Let us reason our solutions with agnosticism in all things, holding fast only to that which is demonstrably true.
Let us stand firm against any and all arbitrary authority that threatens the personal sovereignty of One or All.
That which will not bend must break, and that which can be destroyed by truth should never be spared its demise.
It is Done. Hail Satan.
Next, take your red ribbons and tie one vertically over the cover and the other horizontally. When you’re done, it should look like a present without the wrapping paper. Hold the book over your head. In a clear, confident voice repeat this:
I dedicate this book to my process of recovery from my addictions. May it guide me well down the path of self-empowerment and be my greatest teacher. Hail Satan!
Congratulations your book is now dedicated!