The Rollright Ritual

by William G. Gray

In the early 1970s the redoubtable old occultist William G. Gray bicycled from his Gloucestershire home to the Rollright stone circle in Oxfordshire on a clear and full-mooned summer night. The visionary experiences he encountered on that night and in other similar visits resulted in the writing of this book, originally published by Helios Books in 1975 and now a classic among pagan and craft traditions. The text of the ritual is given in full, along with a discussion of its pattern and purpose. The Rollright Ritual is a powerful initiatory rite for attuning oneself to a personal and communal path of spiritual growth, presented here with an explanatory text and a discussion of the spiritual lives and practices of the stone circle builders of Great Britain. "Somehow, we ought to get away from ideas that a Standing Stone is only an outworn sign of our past, and see it as an upraised Finger of Fate beckoning us ahead toward our future. The Stone is not merely a memorial of bygone beliefs, but a pointer that should raise our highest hopes of finding faith in all the Life that lies ahead of us."

Genres: Magick

166 pages, Hardcover

First published February 21, 2011

About the author

English ceremonial magician (1913-1992)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_...

William G. Gray, better known to many as Bill Gray, was an English ceremonial magician, Hermetic Qabalist and writer, who published widely on the subject of western esotericism and the occult. Gray founded a magical order known as the Sangreal Sodality.

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Reviews

[Taylor Ellwood · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a amazing book where the author discusses how to connect and work with the land magically using ritual and elemental energies. It’s a profound book which shares a ritual that can be performed and used to connect with the original ritual, but just as importantly can inspire you to develop your own work with the sacred space and land you are part of. I highly recommend this book as an example ow how to work with the land magically and how to develop a ritual.