Hmmm… although I love the notion of you hailing my arrival with rose petals and neon post-its bearing witty aphorisms, I think it would look unseemly to have the high priestess of the cult doing so. I am a fan of high priest and priestess as titles, but I am open to others. I love anything that is both ecclesiastic and pagan.

As for the rose petals and flying aphorisms, I do think the initiates can do that for both of us and even some of the higher ‘conclave’ (okay, just coming up with titles for our various cult members is hard work, I think we would all benefit from your wit and viewpoint here, will you be in charge of this aspect of the nascent cult?)

I will brush up on my early middle english so I can participate more fully in our antiquated conversations. Just 2 questions, would speaking in Arameic be allowed/promoted and would the subjects of our discussion too have to be antiquated “What think’s thou of yon gentle lady’s corset?” (okay, not an antique subject matter necessarily, but there is no way I could forgo my chance to say corset in middle english speak. Corsets make me happy, if I can get a photo, I have another entry to my 100 things).

I am also in favour of your proposed ceremony (although I am seeing the ceremony of the movie Ridicule here for some reason: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117477/)

Now, with respect to your dancing and burning wicker effigies of Edmund Burke, we may have some issues to discuss. I have no problem with the burning of the wicker Edmund Burke, but I recommend that the person who is in charge of the ceremonies for the night (we need a name for this person…) have chosen the person whose effigy is to be burned, remembering that the goal is to honour the Sublime and Beautiful in life…. I like the dancing, and the more whirling in ecstatic devotion that we can include the better.

Clearly here is where the wine comes in, and I think that given the evenings earlier pursuits of enlightenment and sophistication (in its most antequated terms) this would call for an overindulgent spree of… well… indulgence…. I do think some secrecy as to what happens in these later evenings is important, both because first secrecy is cool and second, I am not sure exactly how indulgent we want our cult to get. Could get weird.

Also a higher purpose must be identified, and although I am a fan of space prupolsion devices, this has been done to death by too many cults before us (see Heaven’s Gate and Scientology).

I am concerned though that you see the wine as a for now only item, is that because we will be switching to tequila and beer, or are you proposing a dry cult…

Yep this cult is coming together. So it is decided all people who want to join must send us a photo of themselves wearing their home designed togo (does this include us?) By the way, as promised, here is the toga that I am saving for you from Microsoft. Still in the bag. Forgive them by the way, they do not know the difference between a laurel wreath and an ivy wreath (they lack culture apparently).