Sanctus Germanus on 23/5/2016 at 19:57
Since I unfortunately don't have another place to pour my mental overflows, I'll just get crazy and say that I once dreamed about an Old Quarter dominated by The Mechanists, a bonehoard that deepened to infernal levels (literally) and an easter egg in Escape!: Constantine's underground freak show. Surely there are lots of more interesting imaginations out there, so let's see if this thread grows or is left to rot away into oblivion.
Azaran on 3/6/2016 at 05:10
A few years ago I began to wonder what a Hammerite religious service might be like, so I decided to create a Hammerite Liturgy. I used an old Christian mass as a base, and went from there, but only did a small part. Here you go:
Priest
Hail to the Master Builder in the heavens. And on earth peace to his faithful servants.
Oh most stalwart and able Master Builder, who residest above in the great unflawed building, not made ofhuman hands, look down upon Thy humble servants as we endeavor to serve Thee and uphold Thy statutes. Strengthen, O Master Builder, our weakness through Thy mighty hammer, giving us a firm foundation, so that we may administer the holy mystery which has been given for the renovation and salvation of our degraded and ruined nature, through the mercies of Thy spirit which governeth all.
Prayer while burning incense: Sacred fire of the forge, purging the dross of matter, by thy power let this be an acceptable sacrifice, a holy offering to our God and Builder.
Pause. Then as the smoke rises: O Master Builder, accept this incense as an odour of a sweet smell, and make fragrant the evil odour of our soul and body, and forge us in Thine imperishable fire.
Descending, he shall salute the Hammer, saying this prayer before the altar:
Blessed am I, Builder, that I may do the work Thou choosest me to do. Blessed is the nail that Thou askest me to strike, and blessed is the heathen when he receiveth the grace of my hammer. Plumb and plane, fire and forge, purify my spirit and banish from me all sin and dross.
And after the proclamation:
Thee, O Master Builder, we beseech and entreat, perfect with us Thy grace, and pour out through our hands Thy gift, the strength of Thy divinity. May it be to us for the rectification the offences of Thy people, striking down Thy righteous hammer of discipline and bringing all to Thy righteousness, O Lord of all.
Assistants: Bow your heads.
The Priest says:
O Master Builder, Thine is the Holy Hammerite Order, inasmuch as Thou, through the intercession of Thy saintly forgers, didst build our holy fellowship; and from the grace of Thy wisdom, who is indeed of one nature with Thy glorious divinity, are granted the degrees of the true Hammerite ordination; and through Thy clemency Thou didst vouchsafe, O Lord, to make our weakness spiritual members in the great body of Thy Holy temple, that we might repair the crumbling beams of our fellow man. Now, O Builder, perfect Thy grace with us, and pour out Thy gift through our hands: and may Thy mighty hammer of protection, and the clemency of Thy divinity be upon us, and upon the people whom Thou hast chosen for Thyself.
(Aloud.) And grant unto us, O Builder, through Thy clemency, that we may all together, and equally every day of our life, please Thy divinity, and be worthy of a place as stones in Thine edifice, and sturdy beams in Thy holy temple evermore.
Assistants ascend to the altar, sprinkle with water and say: Let those who serve the Trickster depart hence, forthwith, from this most holy place, ere the Builder strike ye down!
And the Priest begins the responsory of the mysteries, and the Master Forger and Assistant place the hammer upon the altar. The Priest crosses his hands, and says:
We offer praise to Thy glorious Hammer at all times and forever.
