The Great Secret of Holy Death. Maribel Pedrera Pérez – Maga Beth

of the Most Holy, you may choose any figure you like. They are usually made of clay, resin, fibreglass or papier-mâché with the different symbols that I mentioned before.

      You must decide whether you want a full-body image, an image sitting down, or on a throne, etc. and also which colour you want depending on your spiritual needs. You can also put several saints, dedicated to special works and can place them with their own offerings. It is preferable that you choose an image that gives you confidence, faith and devotion.

      You can also choose a printed image or a picture of the Holy Death, if you have no space. You should also choose the one that inspires you the most, and gives you confidence, faith and devotion. The way the Holy Death is represented does not matter, since she is in all her different forms.

      The advantage of choosing a picture or an image is that you can carry it around, and take it and put it anywhere.

      To continue the altar must be consecrated.

      This must be done by someone who knows and manages energies in the mortuary theme, and everybody should choose the person they trust the most. However, if it is your own altar and you do it yourself, you can ask for it with a lot of faith, since you will be the one who will attend it and worship it. For this, you will have to clean yourself first and then clean the altar. Before doing any ritual, it is very important that you do this: you must wash yourself and purify your body, soul and spirit. You must take a hot bath to open the pores to help you to receive the energies you are about to generate.

      Then, you have to dress in white and while you are getting dressed you must pray:

      Oh! Lord, forgive me I beseech you,

      I have had mistakes, but I regret,

      I ask for your forgiveness, for all the evils

      that I have consciously and unconsciously caused,

      I offer you good behaviour,

      since the forces that I invoke are in good faith

      and I do not intend to do any harm,

      but I do it because I think

      in the happiness of this person and mine,

      if You decide otherwise, I accept it.

      Pray 3 Lord’s Prayers and 3 Hail Marys.

      Cleansing Ritual

      This must be done before doing any other ritual, since the environment must be clean from energies to invoke the Holy Death.

      Ingredients:

      – 1 mortar to mix everything

      – 1 white candle

      – cleaning mix (as a granular mixture): one part of incense, one part of myrrh, one part of rue, one part of lavender, a pinch of chilli powder

      – 1 censer to put the mixture

      – 1 glass with salt and water

      To begin with, you must wash yourself as I said before, because it is essential that the environment is clean and cleanliness is done on the physical plane.

      Use the mortar to mix the cleaning mixture, enough to perfume and purify the environment you want to clean. When you are ready to start, light the candle and relax, visualise the negative energy leaving your body and see how you are washing yourself. Let the candle burn to the end and throw what is left (even if it has not been completely burnt out).

      It is important that when you have finished cleaning yourself in the inside, you visualise that all this negative energy burns and disappears.

      Bless the water, salt and incense (you may also use holy water), and add a pinch of salt to the water. Then, go around the corners of all the rooms in the house with the censer. Stop at every corner and let some smoke out. Visualise a light that expands and starts to wrap the whole house.

      Stop at each door and each window, doing the same thing and saying the following: I bless this… (door, window, room, house).

      When you finish, take the glass with salt and water and walk around the house making a cross with the glass on all the walls of the house. Finally, go back to the place where you want to put the altar and mentally check if there was any place or dark space in which there could be negativity or you noticed it somewhere.

      Cleansing the Altar

      To carry out the spiritual cleansing you must do a rite and a petition to the Most Holy Death. These are the ingredients you need:

      Ingredients:

      – incense (any you like)

      – liquors: spirits, mescal, tequila etc.

      – 3 white candles

      – flowers and vases

      – 1 cigarette or cigar

      – wooden matches

      Use any flowers you can buy: if possible, it is better that someone gives them to you or that you cut them from your own flowerpots.

      First, take a sip of the drink you have chosen. Then, take another sip and spray the drink that is in your mouth all over your site of worship. It is important that you only spread the contents of one sip, and make sure that the altar is in a well-ventilated place and without any flame lit to avoid accidents. Then, pray 3 Lord’s Prayers and 3 Hail Marys.

      Fill the glass of the Holy Death with the drink. Then, light the cigarette or cigar with a wooden match and blow the smoke of the cigar on the altar and the image. You must do this nine times and then say the following prayer:

      In the name of the Father,

      the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

      immaculate being of divine light,

      I beg you to grant me the favours I ask,

      until the last day, hour and moment

      in which your Divine Majesty

      commands to take me

      before your presence.

      Death dear to my heart,

      do not forsake me of your protection.

      So be it.

      While praying, light the candles and the incense, and put the flowers in the vases. It takes 9 weeks to enshrine the altar; every Friday from the first Friday, you will say nine times this prayer or novena, with the candles lit and the incense burning, and changing the flowers when they begin to wilt because they must always look good.

      The prayer for the enshrinement must not be interrupted, but if for any reason this happens, you must start again from the beginning; this might be a sign that you are not ready yet, or convinced to start the worship and handle such powerful energies.

      In order to begin, the altar must be set up in this order: first the altar, and then the prayer to the Most Holy and some Lord’s Prayers. Once the tablecloth is placed, light a white candle dedicated to the Holy Death and pray again. Light the candle with your right hand. Once the candle is lit, place the image you have chosen on the altar. The image must have been washed one day before and left to dry in the open on the previous afternoon. To enhance her power, you may impregnate the image with the perfume you use. It is important not to do all this in front of people who are not from the house, so they do not disturb the Holy Death’s energies.

      It is advised to cleanse the altar every 9, 18 or 27 days. If you miss the date, you can cleanse it on a Tuesday, preferably at noon; never in the early morning, afternoon or evening, or when there is bad weather.

      Wash the tablecloth, the plates, glasses, incense-burners and other elements. Except the tablecloth, the objects are cleaned with a damp cloth or are shaken, but they are never washed because the essence of the offerings must be preserved. These objects are cleaned and then put back in their place. All the good and bad energy of the altar goes to the tablecloth; and that is why you must wash it to keep it always pure.

      If you do a job for another person, all the objects must be thrown