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Bless all the children of Netjer, known and unknown!
Procession of Nebtu & Khnum, Day 4 Letters have started arriving for the bulletin boards and guests are not far behind for our second major retreat intensive this year, the Coronation Retreat here at Tawy House. Netjer is blessing us with a week of good weather and a wonderful group of friends old and new to share our lives this week during the great celebrations of the end of the Inundation season and the anniversary of my becoming your Nisut nine years ago next Sunday. It's hard to believe it's been nine years. The years have been filled with great growth, much excitement and lots of happiness, and at least this week, also with milestone anniversaries. This week also saw celebrations of the beginning of the 12th year of Kai-Imakhu Antybast (Rev. Craig's) priesthood; the beginning of our third year in our 18-room three-story building here in Joliet; and another year of great expansion of the faith which is now practiced in all 50 United States and at least 23 other countries around the globe. Nekhtet! for another excellent year of our faith journey together. May it be many more years of excitement, success, and happiness for us all. Dua Nebtu! Dua Khnum! Dua Heru! Dua Hapi! Nekhtet!
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Bless all the children of Netjer, known and unknown!
Saq-Aset and Nebt-Het in Jubilation (29th) Nekhtet! as the daily devotions resume! The great river, before it was harnessed by the Aswan High Dam, swelled to its highest point about this time of year, and Heru in the form of the Nisut visited its various points to record the flooding and give thanks for another year of fertility. While we may not live in a place where the Nile floods with birth-giving waters (even modern Egyptians no longer have this experience), it is still a time of year when the seen and unseen worlds are merging, bringing life and creativity into our sphere whether as the harvest of the Northern Hemisphere or the beginnings of spring and sowing in the Southern Hemisphere. Growth and change are the heralds of this holy time of year, welcomed in the Nile, the god Hapi, and welcomed by us. As creation is all around us, take it in hand. Do something good with this time, and be proud. I am very excited that our events for the Coronation Retreat will be starting in the next few days. What a wonderful time to celebrate renewal! Dua Aset! Dua Nebt-het! Dua Nebtu! Dua Khnum! Dua Heru! Dua Hapi! Nekhtet!
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Bless all the children of Netjer, known and unknown! Feast of Amun, Day 1 Now that we have completed the festival of Opet, we honor a quiet festival for the god Amun as creator (rather than as the King of the Gods and Lord of the Thrones of Tawy), the Great Cackler Who emerges from the primeval mound, the benben stone, to unleash creation. Use this weekend as a quiet time to get your plans in order and your creativity flowing. Do something nice to feed your ka and watch your creative powers manifest in His name. Have a marvelous weekend. May Amun bless you all! Dua Amun! Nekhtet!
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Bless all the children of Netjer, known and unknown! Opet Festival, Day 10 The day before the end of Opet, we ready the gifts and the offerings of food and every other good thing to celebrate with. Opet's end is Saq-Amun-em-Opet, a procession of Amun, and a big festival. Enjoy this day and honor the King of the Gods with great rejoicing! In the quiet of your shrine today, think about something you would like to do in your life that you could use the gods and goddesses' help on. Tell it to the Holy Family -- tell Amun-Ra, Mut and Khonsu, and ask for Their help and blessing in your endeavor. Then watch as your success is golden. Pray in Their names for all that you need at this special time of year, and have a wonderful end of Opet. Dua Amun-Ra! Dua Mut! Dua Khonsu! Nekhtet!
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Bless all the children of Netjer, known and unknown! Opet Festival, Day 8 First of all I want to give a big Dua-Netjer enten (thank you) to Kai-Imakhu Anty, Kai-Imakhu Ini, Resut, Padjai, Nehwen, Tuwer and Nari, who came out this weekend and worked their behinds off to help me clean, put away, move and otherwise redo the building in time for our next major event. All of you went beyond the call of duty to do things I didn't even expect we'd get done, and I am very grateful for all of your help. Nekhtet! Ninety-four new applicants were approved for our beginners' class, so each of you who have been waiting on one of those letters should have received one by now, and the class will start in earnest at the end of this week after we tally all the confirmations. If you have not received such a letter, there might have been a problem with the e-mail you gave us. Contact applications@kemet.org and let us know. Additionally, emails have been falling off some of our mailing lists for beginners, Remetj and Shemsu alike (our servers have been purging inactive or blocked mails over the last week or two). If you are supposed to be receiving email from one of our lists and suddenly aren't, your email may have bounced or stopped accepting mails from us. Contact my office and let us know what email we should be using so we don't lose contact! The Opet shrine is still going strong in the nice, newly cleaned temple room. Last night I could still smell the incense even though it had gone out hours before, clouds of myrrh making Amun and His family very happy. Opet is a good, rich time to be with the gods. Enjoy it. I pray in the names of all three of these wonderful gods that you are having a terrific festival and that all things are in your favor this day. Dua Amun-Ra! Dua Mut! Dua Khonsu! Nekhtet!
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Bless all the children of Netjer, known and unknown! Opet Festival, Day 5 Purification is an important part of our faith. This weekend, we will be purifying our temple, Truth and the Mother, and our retreat center, Tawy House, as we do our annual clean-up event. Dua-Netjer to everyone who has offered to come and help us with the not so glamorous parts of owning your own landmark building. We'll be working hard but it's all good work and when we're done this place will shine once again. During Opet we offer the pure offerings of our hearts and kau to the gods and goddesses of the feast. What do you have to offer Amun-Ra, Mut, and Khonsu? When They accept your offering, what will happen next? I pray in the names of all three of the gods of this festival that you are blessed with love in this new month, the month of Hethert, the Great Mother. Dua Amun-Ra! Dua Mut! Dua Khonsu! Nekhtet!
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Bless all the children of Netjer, known and unknown! Opet Festival, Day 2 As I set out the Opet altars last evening, I had some nice offerings to present to the Deities. I had a large new group of Remetj, who will become part of the temple later this evening upon graduation from the beginners' class. I had an even larger group of interested people signed up for the next beginners' class that will start sometime later this week after we finish going through the piles of applications (nekhtet!) I had a copy of the Egyptian Prayerbook which finally saw its release in August, and a letter about the upcoming History Channel documentary on the Egyptian Book of the Dead I will appear in soon. I had plenty to share with Them, to give thanks for, to give thanks with. They have blessed our faith very greatly over the past year and I have nothing but gratitude for everything that They have done. As I finish dressing those altars tonight, before we hold our Dua ceremonies along with the memorial service for our Panehem who passes his 70 days on Thursday, I will give more thanks and ask for Their guidance as we enter another Kemetic year. May it be a year with Their blessing upon it and may we do Their work in the world. I pray in the names of these mighty gods that you have a wonderful Opet celebration. Dua Amun-Ra! Dua Mut! Dua Khonsu! Nekhtet!
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Bless all the children of Netjer, known and unknown!
Pesdjentiu (New Moon Festival) Two major religions begin major festivals over the next day or so thanks to the new moon: the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah and the holy Islamic month of Ramadan. L'shana Tova to our Jewish friends -- and for our Muslim friends, may this be a blessed and meaningful Ramadan. Here in Kemet we also begin one of our major annual festivals: the new moon of II Akhet is the time of the Opet Festival. Opet is the holiday marking the marriage feast of Amun-Ra, King of the Gods, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands, to the great goddess Mut, Mistress of the Double Crown, Lady of the city of Uaset (Thebes). During the days of this great feast Amun-Ra, Mut and Their son Khonsu are honored with processions, offerings, and prayers. It is a time of singing and gift-giving and a special time at Mut's temple at Karnak and the special temple to Mut at the southern Opet, modernly called the temple of Luxor. Luxor is also significant as the birthplace of the Kingly Ka, and Opet is the birthday of that great spirit that invests us with kingship, "a lifter to lift the loads off men's backs," as one ancient text explains. So with a marriage and a birthday celebration we'll be pretty busy here at the temple! Nekhtet! May the Holy Family of Amun-Ra grant you all blessing at Opet, and may each of you receive joy and abundance without measure. May the gods Montu, Heru and Sokar, great protectors also associated with the conception of stewardship and leadership; and the great goddesses Satet, Anuket, Menhyt and Nebtu, Who are all associated with creation and renewal and are celebrated on this day as well, also bring you joy. Have a great festival! Dua Amun-Ra! Dua Mut! Dua Khonsu! Dua Satet! Dua Anuket! Dua Menhyt! Dua Nebtu! Dua Sokar! Nekhtet!
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