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If you find yourself in a situation where you can’t perform the Sphere of Protection for some reason, an even simpler version of the Three Cauldrons exercise can be done. Simply call a ray of light down from high above you, as in the beginning of the Elemental Cross, and send it down to the center of the Earth. Then imagine the cauldron of the earth in your belly and draw telluric nwyfre into it three times with three inbreaths, as in the ritual. Imagine the cauldron of the Sun in your chest, and draw solar nwyfre into it three times with three inbreaths. Imagine the cauldron of the Moon in your head, and bring the currents up the midline of your body to it with three inbreaths. Finally, perform the circulation of light. This version should not be used often, since it lacks the balancing effect of the elemental invocations, but it works well in a pinch.
The Rising Dragons The next phase of the Inner Grail working draws its imagery from a Celtic tradition of the Middle Ages.Two of the earliest accounts of King Arthur, the ninth-century History of the Britons by Nennius and the twelfth-century History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth, both include detailed references to it, and a different version appears in a tale in the Mabinogion, the story of Lludd and Llefelys. As Nennius and Geoffrey tell it, the wicked British king Vortigern wished to build a stronghold in the mountains of northern Wales, but the stones his workmen put up each day fell down again each night. He summoned his wizards and asked them for advice, and they told him that the stronghold would stand if the blood of a child without a father was mixed into the mortar. Vortigern sent messengers throughout his
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