A Symbolic version of the ritual known as the Great Rite. In the Symbolic Great Rite, the ritual is metaphorically performed. A knife is used to represent the male and a chalice is used to represent the female. During the rite, the knife is inserted into the chalice, representing the sexual nature of the actual Great Rite.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...