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The king's legacy: 'Those who referred always to the highest, and those who looked outwards and ahead, were bound together in a sacred duty and became orders of Priests and Priestesses.'
Priests and priestesses declare the nature of their work: 'We maintain the integrity of the sacred space. We call forth the divine so that the divine and the human may meet and know each other again. Through initiation we enter the work and learn its symbols. We keep the Holy Books, the sacred flame, the ancient rituals. When we enter the sacred space, we must leave our personal lives behind, sometimes for ever. We pronounce and interpret the holy word, but we keep the mysteries too, for in this space there will be the eternally moving, timelessly resting mystery.'
Priests and priestesses are found in religions and sacred traditions of all times and places. Examples of these are/were (found in):
Priests & Priestesses is one of the twelve orders. In the octahedron, its neighbours are:
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