The ADF Dedicant Path has an optional documentation component; the documentation can be turned in to certify one as having completed the requirements (as the path continues ever-onward).
The required sections are:
- The Nine Virtues
- High Day Essays
- Book Reviews
- The Home Shrine
- The Two Powers
- Mental Discipline
- Nature Awareness
- High Day Attendance
- The Three Kindreds
- Cultural Practice (Personal Religion when I started it)
- Dedicant Oath Rite
Note that is likely there have been some errors during the cut-and-paste process to set up these pages, and rather than ask permission to use names they have largely been edited out. Some footnotes did not incorporate well, either.
Dedicant Path documentation
Dedicant Oath Rite
Intentions Some perform their Dedicant Oath as part of a larger rite; I, due to issues of timing (trying to find the optimum set of my community that could attend, for one) and personal interest, created a whole rite. Though the Core Order of Ritual is only required for High Days, I have found it useful for other purposes, and fit it to the purposes of this rite.
I had much personal difficulty over my sense of community; while the Dedicant Manual indicates one’s oath is a private thing (relative to other people), other resources – and common ADF practice – often incorporates one’s oath into a High Day celebration (or, more rarely, into a festival’s main rite).