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Ñêṗēōç
Ñêṗēōç is a phonetically constructed word based on a Greek root word meaning infant or newborn through the toddler stage used within the context of the Temple to refer to Sentients between birth and full childhood.

Ñêṗēōç
Garden of Life considers Werks acknowledging and/or commemorating Passages from one stage of a lifecycle to the next as Pagan Sacraments. The timing of such Celebrations are not determined solely by physical ages but by the Individuals actual attainment of that stage. Ñêṗēōç passage and/or the Birth Perfectioning - marks the physical birth, helps to stabilize the infant's physical senses. It is the entrance into a new stage of existence from the last. We must make the passage easier and direct it to that being's True Will, whatever that may be. The child is formally dedicated to their Ultimate Potential Perfection, whatever that might be. Should the parents wish it, this is the traditional time to give the child a Mægikal Name within the Circle. Spiritual Gifts are often Called for the infant, by attending Celebrants, for instance: the Gift of Dance, the Gift of Beauty, and so forth. Goddess/God Parents are named if so desired. The Ñêṗēōç Passage and/or Birth Perfectioning may be performed at any point after the birth, and is the most popular of these Rites. Many different forms of Birth Perfectionings and/or Nepeos Rites of Passage have been Celebrated within the Garden of Life Temple context, but three main systems have received most of the Work. One pattern, that was developed first could be called an Element Blessing form, a very similar form could be called the Chakra Blessing form, the third, based on predynastic Ægyptian roots, could be called the Child Lotus form. These will be detailed below, other forms will be explicated as the information jells in our gestalt consciousness.

Element Blessing Form
In this Form, a robe, in a single symbolically significant colour is made or acquired by the parents, usually approximately twice the height of the Child from neck to toes (symbolizing the child's need for nurturance), with or without wings, halos or other accoutrement. The parents ask somewhere between 4 and 7 people to perform the Element Blessings, depending on whether they are going to use the 4 element pattern (Earth, Fire, Air, Water), 5 element pattern (Earth, Fire, Air, Water, Spirit), 7 element pattern (Earth, Fire, Air, Water, Spirit, Æther, Stone or Metal), or other. When the Perfectioning is Celebrated in Circle, the Officiants are spaced appropriately around the Circle. The parents carry the Child around to each station and the Child is blessed by each Officiant in a manner appropriate to that station. After this is finished the parents take the Child to the main altar (however that has been determined), where the Child is held up and "Hail the Crowned and Conquering Child" is proclaimed, with "So Mote It Be"s and other affirmations responding.

Chakra Blessing Form
This form is the same as the Element Blessing Form except that a Chakra pattern is substituted and the patterning consists of an Officiant performing Blessings related to each of the 7 (or other system) Chakras.

Child Lotus Form
In the original pattern, the Child was taken to the Nile as soon as practical after birth, and passed through a semicircle of Priestesses, from as many Traditions as possible, finally to the GrandMother (or someone filling that role) who encased the Child in a Lotus robe, and passed the Child through a slit in a Golden Veil, held by Priestesses of the Two Lands, to the Mother who stood on the Land. After this all retired to the home of the parents for a feast and conviviality. We ordinarily use a swimming pool and pass the Child through a semicircle of the assembled Celebrants, with each Blessing the Child.

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NEGATIVE CONFESSION (when considered as a Sacrament)
When in reference to a Technique utilized in Garden of Life and probably other Traditions, Negative Confession is a type of Officiant Sanctification derived in form primarily from Ægyptian sources. When discussed as a Sacrament in Temple context, an Act, Acts, a Process, Processes and/or Series of Acts and/or Processes performed among Officiants, prior to a Werking to Cleanse their Total Fields of Being and Becoming (Physical, Mental, Spiritual and any other components) from anything which might detract from their peak functioning within the Werking, at their chosen type of Officiation. There is the further function of Consecrating their Total Fields of Being and Becoming (Physical, Mental, Spiritual and any other components) to this Werkings Success, to which they have pledged themselves. In our Tradition this is usually done by one Officiant kneeling in front of another Officiant, placing Her/His hands on the Heart Chakra of the other Officiant, reaching a calm centered state and either silently or aloud enumerating Her/His Actions that are causing concern (which has led them to request assistance in initiating this sacrament) perhaps incorporating the Ægyptian model of I Have Not Done . . ., until the Officiant feels that the Process is finished.
Below please find the wording that Garden of Life uses in it's Articles of Organization to delineate this Sacrament:
An Act, Acts, a Process, Processes and/or Series of Acts and/or Processes performed among Officiants, prior to a Werking to Cleanse their Total Fields of Being and Becoming (Physical, Mental, Spiritual and any other components) from anything which might detract from their peak functioning within the Werking, at their chosen type of Officiation. There is the further function of Consecrating their Total Fields of Being and Becoming (Physical, Mental, Spiritual and any other components) to this Werking's Success, to which they have pledged themselves. In our Tradition this is usually done by one Officiant kneeling in front of another Officiant, placing Her/His hands on the Heart Chakra of the other Officiant, reaching a calm centered state and either silently or aloud enumerating Her/His Actions that are causing concern (which has led them to request assistance in initiating this sacrament) perhaps incorporating the Ægyptian model of "I Have Not Done . . ." until the Officiant feels that the Process is finished.

NEGATIVE CONFESSIONS (when considered as a Sacrament)
The above type Sacrament, referred to in the plural.

Negative Confessions (when considered as part of the original Ægyptian Religious Writings)
In almost all the currently known recensions of the Book of Shadowing Forth by Day, (inaccurately referred to commonly as the Egyptian Book of the Dead), often listed as chapter 125 or CXXV, is a list of "I Have Not . . . ) statements, of varying number, but often one each for each of the existing Nomes (usually 42 or 44, occasionally less or more), with each one addressed to the primary Deity of each Nome, named metaphorically, e.g.: Wide Wing for Mut and so forth). These were listed and interred with the usually mummified body of persons, in order to assist them in attaining a favorable outcome in the Hall of the Weighing of Hearts in the afterlife.

Negative Confessions (in reference to the Garden of Life Rose Recension of Negative Confessions) - see: Rose Recension of Negative Confessions

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