Upon returning from the Big Island, I started working with Pele on the substance of the grimoire. I was told to set it aside twice to work through other books over the span of about a year, before being told to pick it back up. It had been hanging over my head and I felt it disrespectful to keep putting it aside, even if that’s what I was told to do. My interactions with Pele continued, just not the grimoire work.
It is important to understand that as Madame Pele is gray and neither entirely good or bad, some of the beneficial rituals could also be used for harm, if one was interested, with few modifications needed. I am not here to moralize or debate what anyone else considers right or wrong. We’re big enough kids to make our own decisions and whatever consequences may or may not be caused from those decisions. I have done every ritual in this book using several variations, several times. Follow your own compass.
The book will start off with a baseline set of abilities and workings to help ensure that someone picking this up will be able to complete many of the rituals in it that they’re interested in. It is expected that the practitioner will have some experience with meditation, be able to feel energy and/or visualize it in the absence of feeling it. You don’t have to be really experienced to work through this book. It will be easier if you are, though.
There are also sections for Hi’iaka and Kamohoalii, who came to speak with me at different times. Their sections are smaller than Pele’s, but some of their teachings were folded into the beginning section, when more appropriate to do so (the structuring exercise, for example, came from Hi’iaka).
First, she asked for a Dedication to learning from her.
