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The Ritual of the Perpetual Rose is at once the most well-known of the Greater Rites and the least used, and perhaps most feared, of their number. There is a great deal of misinformation circling on what this rite is capable of, and there are too many copies of it floating around. Fortunately few have the miraculous power to conduct it, though when the uninformed do, its affects can be quite disastrous as we shall see in the case of Filhomeena. Luckily, as shall be shown, the copies of this Ritual have become corrupted and little more than curiosities.

The Ritual of the Perpetual Rose is a technique to manipulate the fundamental structure that is the kaleidoscopic world of abstractions known as Spiritus Dei. The Ritual allows images to be at once drawn and then erased upon the fabric of Creation, observations asserted and then rejected. In short, the Perpetual Rose Ritual is a way to maneuver through the dark scenes the even miraculous beings can be mired in, ensconced in contradiction. The Ritual of the Perpetual Rose contains at its core a vision of Reality that is always and necessarily dependent upon the phenomenology of contradiction and ambiguity.

Many scholars and mystics who would never even contemplate conducting this Rite still use it as an instrument of meditation upon the Mandala Principle. A reasonable approach given that this Rite must function by weaving through this core, bedrock assumption.

To manipulate this Rite is to flirt with the very bedrock of Creation. In the Second Age this was still possible, for Anaphora still blew through the leaves of the World Ash. In the Third Age this Rite is much harder to even contemplate, though it is rumored that it is still possible in certain places where the sap of the Ash runs hot.

And yet many figures have spoken it, to various degrees of success.

• Anthurian Azurus spent 100 years completing the Ritual of the Perpetual Rose, and in the end his great chancel was created, stolen from portions of cities on countless worlds. A process that took the world Nashistrallia and created it into the unique structure it is today. Locus Anthurian exists within the heart of Nashistrallia, the heart of a rose that folds upon itself, trapping all, and yet contains unspeakable beauty. A beauty that takes from many worlds, including Earth (see Chicago) and uses it to strengthen his vision and his needs. And even Anthurian, with his might, vision and care could not truly control this ritual.
• Filhomeena in her hubris and stolen wisdom spoke the Perpetual Rose Ritual and in so doing doomed all Rhethanum. This is an excellent example of how too much knowledge in the hands of those without proper power can lead to great disasters. There is a great deal of evidence that this use of the rite led to the events which allowed the excruciation of Anaphora.

See also Mandala Principle