Thank you for visiting the First Church of Polyamory in Atlanta.
If you wish to join the Atlanta Chapter, please E-mail us and let us see where it goes.
What we are about
1) To provide a place where people can combine sexuality with spirituality
2) To help like minded Polyamorous Pagans find each other
3) Help each other make contact with our Divine Lover within
Bless you and may the magick always run strong
Some things about what we believe in
The Highest Spiritual Emotions
1) The Sacredness of Ankh
Ankh is everything in the universe. Ankh is every atom, every flower, every seed, every sunrise, every moment. Ankh is the everything. Ankh is like the brain and we are the cells of that body. Ankh is all of us put together. In perfection, Ankh is unity. We all die like the cells of a body, But Ankh lives on. There is a Ankh in all of us. There is a little bit of God in all of us. There is an extension of that Ankh in all of us. When we all unite, Ankh becomes stronger. Ankh becomes strongest when life is at its most passionate. The highest celebratory display for the Ankh is an orgy, and more people in that orgy, the greater the symbolic display of Ankh’s power.
2) The Sacredness of Life
Due to our belief that Life is the highest possible spiritual emotion, we are adamantly against abortion unless it endangers the life of the mother. We also encourage vegetarianism, and give great importance to Birthdays. We consider murder to be a sin. We do not see the need for War when the People have become Kamasutrans and have acquired the confidence for peaceful resistance. We do however accept Mercy Killings in the event that the pain of death cannot be thwarted for unbearable periods of time.
In all other cases, we believe that Ankh gave Life and only Ankh can take it.
3) The Sacredness of a Mother’s Love
We believe that the second greatest Spiritual emotion is the love felt by a mother for her child. In Church, we hold a great celebration when a baby is born, but this celebration is meant for the mother, to rejoice with her the emotion she will now feel as the child grows
4) The Sacredness of a Father’s Love
We believe that the third greatest Spiritual emotion is the love felt by a father for his child.
Ritual of the Fathers Love
From their seats, the congregation will say a silent prayer for all the fathers of the world. The father of all the father of world, the father of all humanity is a secret kept within the Ankh. We pray to the father that was borne from the Ankh.
5) The Sacredness of Platonic Love
It is Ankh that draws two human beings together in love, that makes them attracted to each other by love and tears. We believe that the fourth greatest Spiritual emotion is love felt between two human beings. We consider this love to be permanent, and one that must be allowed to grow. In our religion, a great ceremony is performed to celebrate the two human beings who have discovered that they do indeed have a platonic love for each other.
The Religious duty of each platonic lover, is to make his or her partner, happier by finding them even more platonic lovers, at least one attempt should be made every five years.
6) The Sacredness of Self Love
We believe the fifth greatest Spiritual emotion is the love felt for oneself. This is the reason we encourage group Masturbation as a ritual, to show the entire world ourselves in our most primal instincts.
7) The Sacredness of Reality.
We believe the sixth greatest Spiritual emotion is the love felt for reality. We believe Reality is Ankh. We liken Ankh to the brain and all things in the universe to be its cells. The cells are born and they die but Ankh must go on. The continuation of that reality even after our deaths is what we strive for.
8) The Sacredness of Good Health
We believe that our bodies our gifts given to us, and so we frown upon Drug Use, Excessive Alcohol, and smoking. These are considered sins.
9) The Sacredness of Philosophy
We believe the Sacredness of Philosophy to be the eighth highest Spiritual emotion. We believe in truth and we believe truth is held within open debate, open information, and the love of learning.
10) The Sacredness of Justice
We believe that Justice for all is the ninth highest spiritual emotion.
10)The Sacredness of the love we have for those we know.
We believe that our love for those know to be the tenth highest spiritual emotion.
11) The Sacredness of the love we have for those we do not know.
We believe that our love for those we do not know to be the tenth highest spiritual emotion. This is the love and compassion we feel for strangers who suffer before our eyes.
12) The Sacredness of privacy and individual ambition
We believe that every human being lives in a world of secrets that require space, and that space is sacred
13) The Sacredness of the forgiveness of hurt
We believe that everyone who has hurt, ourselves included, must be forgiven and loved.
14) The sacredness of beauty and ugliness
We believe that beauty must be idolized and ugliness glorified. We express this belief in the clothes we wear for we enjoy showing the world how beautiful we are
15) The Sacredness of change
We believe in the sacredness of Change, and perform rituals to remind ourselves of how great change is
16) The Sacredness of history
We believe that history is sacred and we study it as a religious duty for the world cannot move forward if we do not know history
17) The celebration of no identities
We celebrate the fact we have no identities, no differences in gender, sexual orientation, race, history, education, or background, and accept we are all the same inside with elaborate rituals
18) The celebration of identity
We celebrate our identities as we determine to create them, our pride in our gender, sexual orientation, race, history, education, background, and after we celebrate our identity in an elaborate ritual, we proceed to the next ritual which celebrates other’s identities.
19) The celebration of Order and Self Discipline conquering Chaos
We perform rituals to accept that without Order and Self-discipline, we cannot destroy the evil that Chaos has brought upon the world.
20) The celebration of Freedom and Self expression
We perform rituals which show how our creativity has taken control of chaos and molded it into something beautiful
21) The Celebration of Invitation
We pray for the other souls of the world who are still imprisoned without truth, who are afraid of our love, and pray that one day they too will join our family and accept the power of the Ankh that opened our eyes and delivered us from the disguise of this world. We also make a pledge there that we will do everything we can to free humanity of evil, to free other humans of their fears, to spread the message of the Ankh, to be her humble messenger of love, to the furthest corners of the earth, and to convert as many souls as possible to Salvation that we ourselves have seen only the Ankh is capable of providing.
22) The celebration of death
We celebrate Death, for all must die so that God may live.
Rituals
Pledge to secrecy
The Ankh Community is a secretive community. We know each other by the sign of the Ankh. All members of the community will remain discreet about their beliefs until the High Priest and Priestess determine the environment had changed enough for us to be open about our faith in the Ankh. This is a promise the baptismal must make to the Ankh in the presence of everyone before the sun rises. The Baptismal must also swear allegiance to the Ankh and the community and its chain of leadership above all else before the sun rises.
Baptism
Only one person is baptized at a time, and only when they have reached the age of Eighteen. He or she accepts the Ankh in an acceptance ceremony. Before the sun rises, the baptismal must stand in a tranquil blue and passionate red robe facing the horizon. A song chosen by the initiator, or the one who guided the Baptismal into the temple, chosen by the baptismal, must be played at that time. When the sun begins to rise, two helpers wearing commitment brown robes, chosen by the initiator, will derobe the baptismal naked and give the baptismal the temple Ankh in a ceremonial room with others of the temple who wear their best clothes, and watch the sunrise. The Baptismal holds the symbol of the Ankh against his or her chest. In the presence of the Ankhan community, the baptismal makes a verbal and conscious promise that the baptismal will spread the message of the Ankh to the furthest nations of the world, that the baptismal will live according the highest spiritual beliefs of the community, and that the baptismal has placed their trust in the Ankh and in the community. After the baptismal has made this promise, He or she must place the large temple Ankh to the ground before the Sunrise. The initiator will approach the baptismal, will provide an Ankh necklass, carasses the baptismal, looks the baptismal in the eyes, and says ‘You are one of us. You have always been one of us. May you always be free, and may you never be lost with the Ankh safe in your heart’ after which he/she gives a deep kiss with his or her tongue. The temple community will then approach the baptismal, take the baptismal off the ground, and satisfy the baptismal sexually in every inch of the body, keeping the baptismal in the air, until the initiator has let go of the baptismal. Once the initiator lets go of the baptismal, everyone will allow the baptismal to lay on the ground, leave slowly and walk out of the room following the initiator, without a word leaving the Baptismal alone. No one is allowed to say anything at all within the room except for the ritual words of the initiator and baptismal. The baptismal is allowed an hour alone in the initiation room, after which the baptismal must dress in their best, and join the temple for breakfast inside the Ankh temple. Only those who have been baptized are allowed entry into the Ankh temple. Inside the Ankh temple, the participants can play board games, play a game of cards, watch football, and just relax after breakfast, or do something together to bond as a community. And welcome the newest member of the community.
Perform the Ritual of the Kamasutran Ankh
All participants must come in their best clothes and face the rising sun with clasped hands. They will then sing a song of joy praising life while holding hands. After the song is over, they will clasp their hands and bow to the Ankh within those standing beside them. After they have bowed to at least three people, they may return to their seats.
Perform The Ritual of Val Camonica
From their seats the congregation will pray a silent prayer for all the mothers of the world. The mother of all the mothers of world, the mother of all humanity is a secret kept within the Ankh. We pray to the mother that was borne from the Ankh.
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