“Arise and stand my beloved,” Stella said and then she walked over and opened the trunk She then removed an identical Ankh but instead of being gold this one was silver with a silver chain.
Stella then knelt in front of Phillip and bowed her head once then looked up. Phillip knowing what to do, placed the Ankh around Stella’s neck and recited the same pledge Stella had to him when she placed the golden Ankh on Phillip’s neck. In returned she recited the acceptance pledge.
Stella then stood and placed her hands in Phillip’s and said “The first part of the Ceremony is complete.” She then said with a smile, “Now we do like they do in traditional weddings, the bride and groom kiss.
Stella and Phillip embraced and kissed as their lips met and their bodies touched, their necklaces also touched in the stone areas. Instantly, their was a sudden jolt like a jolt of electricity which coursed through their bodies, sending a sensation though both of them that words could never explain.
At the same time, their minds mystically joined, and they saw through each other’s eyes and they knew each other’s thoughts, hopes dreams and deepest darkest fantasies.
Once the kiss was broken, they returned to their own minds but knew they were eternally joined.
“Now the spiritual joining,” Stella said. “We must don our ceremonial unity robes,” she added as she took Phillip’s robe and placed it on him and Phillip placed Stella’s on her.
Stella then took out a chalice from the trunk and a ceremonial dagger. The chalice was silver with raised Egyptian glyphs carved onto the metal. The width of the opening was four inches across the top and its depth was the same yet it the width narrowed to two inches on the bottom as it met the stem which was 2 inches wide and 2 inches high.
The dagger had a silver handle with intricate ruins carved into it and a five inch, double edged, silver blade with runes etched onto the flat of the blade, and as Phillip would soon find out, as sharp as the Klingon blades he had seen depicted on the Sci-Fi show “Star Trek.”
Stella then closed her eyes, concentrated and then softly said in a calm confident voice “Haree!” which is ancient Egyptian for fire. With that, the candles instantly and mysteriously lit as some unseen mystical force had lit them.
Stella took the bottle of liquid, lifting it into the air recited an arcane chant from the book. She then opened the bottle and poured some of the contents into the chalice.
“Extend your hand my beloved but do no flinch,” Stella said then added with a soft sweet smile. “The pain may be intense and only short lived, but the pleasure will be worth it.”
Stella then took Phillip’s hand and quickly ran the blade over it and his palm began bleeding but Phillip was stoic calling on the strength of his martial arts training. She then turned his, palm down over the chalice so his blood ran into the cup, mixing with the liquid.
Stella then took the blade and cut her hand allowing her blood to flow into the cup. She then raised the cup and recited the following chant: “Oh most Holy Mother Eden, bless our union. May our life forces join with each other and you and may we be united with thee in eternal bliss and harmony.”