Boddo Hekate is the Buddho-Pagan invokation of the Unity of the Goddess Hekate, Lady of the Crossroads, and Black Tara, the wrathful aspect of the Vajrayana Buddhist Goddess of Liberation. As a Praxis, Boddo Hekate is an observation of the Daily Quarters - Dawn, Noon, Sunset, and Midnight - as marked by the Tetralemma Sun Mandala, which is the work the precedes Boddo Hekate, is dedicated to Her, a
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Boddo Hekate is meant to be collective work of global magic and suggestion, particpated in by solitary practitioners around the globe. It is a ritual and it is a work of art. Boddo Hekate means to produce a specific evolution in the human consciousness. That evolution is two-fold and intertwining: to produce a deep sense of the absolute physical Unity between oneself and our planet, with all its inhabitants, especially each other as one human family; to induce the power to perceive a claim and its opposite each time a claim is asserted - especially by oneself. This work means to inspire the ADF Druid song, "Earth Mother" as an active feature of the human unconscious, from where it will always speak, as aconstant counterpoint to racism, national division, gender and gender-identification oppression, and classism, and all mental formations purposed to divide humankind. We are One with the Mother
We are One with the Earth
We are One with each Other
By our blood, by our Birth. Take a moment, then, to imagine what it would be for this intertwined vision to become common for humankind. It wouldn’t, exactly, be World Enlightenment. The Rapture wouldn’t ensue; accordingly, Boddo Hekate is NOT meant to replace anyone's practice. Rather, it would be more akin to entirely historical leaps in mass consciousness, such as when the developed world generally decided Slavery Is Bad, or that Voting Is Good, or that Voting Is Good Even For Women, or that Lovers Of The Same Sex Ought Be Free To Marry, or that No One Ought Be Poor (still in progress). Very roughly speaking, there was an historical divide. On one side of it, people thought one way; on the other side, they thought another way. This is the sort of historical shift in consciousness Boddo Hekate means to induce. The habit of Dogmatism will be made to recede from the human mind. The sense of one’s self as first and foremost One with All this Earth and All Upon This Earth, will be induced into the human mind. This is meant to be a revolutionary working. Through its mere existence, and its existence becoming known, the intertwining shift in consciousness will be inexorably induced upon the human mind, as a Praxis where practiced, and as a Meme where not. Boddo Hekate means to be private cult and public theatre, a show running on a channel that can never be changed, on a screen that can never be turned off. We will drill this evolution into the human consciousness like a bass line - beginning with our own. Boddo Hekate grows out of the study of the collision of traditional Hellenistic Paganism and early Buddhism that took place in the Gandhara and Kushan periods (and associated empires) from the 3rd C BCE to the 5th Century CE. This is the place and period that saw the rise of Mahayana Buddhism, with its tradition of significant Pagan and Polytheist influence. So Boddo Hekate can be said to belong to something called Buddho-Paganism, to Paganism and Druidry, to Hellenistic Polytheism, and, perhaps, to Western Buddhism and Hellenic Buddhism. It shares something with Syncretic Buddhisms like Shinbutsu-shūgō, Cao Đài , or the Order of InterBeing, as well as New Religions like Soka Gakkai, Unitarianism, the Rastafarian Church (about that Fifth Precept...) In a Pagan context it is perhaps more Earth-centered, Wheel-centered, and Witchy than most of what falls under “Polytheism” or “reconstruction.” In a Western Buddhist context, it grows out of the discourse that includes Stephen Batchelor, Vira Avalokita, and the effort to achieve a Buddhism free of local Asian Pagan influences - but as the exact, complementary opposite of that effort. Boddo Hekate precisely embraces all those traditions, and adds the Gods of the ancient Mediterranean and all the rest of the world to their number, as They are so willing. Boddo Hekate honors all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and likewise all the kami and the Shens. All paths are welcome; no path is safe from poaching. A very powerful Skeptical teaching, through Pyrrho and his heirs, is at the heart of this Practice, but it will tend to be Skepticism seen through eyes that already witness a Magickal world, and who wish to navigate that world; there are already Western Buddhisms being hatched for our materialist friends, though you are welcome here as well. Our Pyrrho is the Pyrrho who was priest of Zeus, and who wed his teaching to the ancient Hellenic religion of Alexander. Stay, watch, and have the habit of Dogmatism recede from your mind, and have the sense of yourself as first and foremost One with All this Earth and All Upon This Earth induced upon it. To join, begin to post your own Tetralemma Sun Mandala, invoking and inviting your own Gods, and your own inspired images, at your own Dawn, Noon, Sunset, and Midnight, as you are able. This action marks you as *Outis* for your part of the Planet - one who marks your place's Dawn, Noon, Sunset, and Midnight on the Tetralemma Sun Mandala. In time, you will know how to make this into a physical meditatin or ritual. The ideal is to have an Outis at work somewhere at every place upon this Planet as She rotates in the Dark, facing the Sun, and away from the Sun. What is *Outis*? It is the name Odysseus gave the Cyclops, Polyphemos, meaning "No Man." It is the Name through which One becomes All. Do this for a month, and you will be eligible to receive an Iron Key as token.
