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The Green Rite consists of ecumencical services and bushcraft. It is devoted to the maintenance of ecological harmony: among elemental spirits, plants, animals, humans, invisible wights, and celestial intelligences. To inform such teleological appreciation and assist with practical aid to life, a broad study of nature, folklore, ancestral traditions, and relational psychology are necessary.
Theoretically, much weight is placed on the "Great Chain of Being" and "Doctrine of Correspondences." Through these concepts, we seek the primordial or Adamic religion, the principles of ritual, and the fundamentals of cunning knowledge.
Since members operate on the land by spending extended time in the wild, skills of primitive living are absolutely critical to master. Apart from the arts of divination and memory, aspirants are tested through periods of elemental exposure and their ability to forage.
This order specializes in public service foremost. Many will be called to itinerant work: remediating natural areas, settling ghosts or unruly creatures, placating the Fae or other local sprites, performing agricultural blessings, dowsing for wells and gravesites, electing dates for marriage and construction, reading palms and omens, making talismans and amulets, providing salves and elixirs, cleansing people and homes, etc.. In guild assemblies they are tasked with standing the inner bound, sprinkling the audience with waters, performing outreach, and addressing questions.
Gathering clay and growing herbs
Processing wheat and making bread
Eating and dieting as ritual techniques
How to perform offerings and host companions
Relating with the dead, historically and pragmatically
Addressing Elementals and healing environmental ecology
Geomancy as divinatory technique and alchemical theory
Labyrinths and the rites of perambulation
Green Speech for laying of hands and cleansing auras
Shades of green or blue may be worn by anyone in this order representing the guild in public. It is worn in remembrance of the verdant waters of life.