The lesser banishing
ritual of the pentagram
In ceremonial magick a ritual
isn't easy. I mean with this, that a lot of text and movement
is involved. Without a minimum of basic knowledge of this
kind of magick, doing a ritual is senseless and doesn't bring
the wanted results. Knowledge and mastering of meditation,
concentration and visualisation are here just pre-demandings.
You should throw a look in some book on ceremonial magick
to get some understanding of this; Franz Bardon wrote some
good volumes on it, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki wrote a practical
handbook, Aleister Crowley gives in his many books a deep
insight in his practice, Pete Carroll brings good information
about a modern school, several hundreds of years ago, Agripps
von Nettesheim and Johannes Faustus wrote big volumes on complicated
magickal theory and practice, and Abraham von Worms' Abramelin
is even much older. And that's only just the tip of a big
iceberg. There were and are sveral schools of magick, who
use this ritual, the example below comes from a school of
chaos-mages.
Because the practice of rituals
in CM could be dangerous, could cause damage, magicians leave
out some important details, or change some things, when writing
down rituals for the public, to prevent the layman causing
that unwanted damage.
When a mage wants to practice
his magick, to reach some goal, he first creates in his ritual
a 'workplace shell': that is a place, that with the help of
magick, is protected against unwanted magickal influences,
to be sure, that only the magickal power called by the mage
is working there. There are several techniques, to create
such a protected place, one of them is described below.
The following ritual is also
part of a bigger ritual, and is done at the beginning to protect
a place, and is done again at the end to remove the protection.
Between them, the mage does his magickal action: enforcing
the wanted aim with the needed magickal power.
If you read below the word
'say', it is not ment conversation-like. Vibrating and making
the words longer should be the right way. At the end there's
some more explanation on the following ritual.
The Lesser banishing Ritual
of the Pentagram
1. Touch with the forefinger
your forehead and say Ateh (Unto Thee).
2. Touch your breast and say
Malkuth (The Kingdom).
3. Touch your right shoulder
and say ve-Geburah (and the Power).
4. Touch your left shoulder
and say ve-Gedulah (and the Glory).
5. Clasp your hands upon your
breast, and say le-Olahm, Amen (to the Ages, Amen.)
6. Turn to the East, draw
a pentagram with your finger (that of Earth) with the proper
weapon (the Wand for calling. the dagger for banishing). Say
Ye-ho-wau.
7. Turn to the South, do the
same, and say Adonai.
8. Turn to the West, do the
same, and say Eheieh..
9. Turn to the North, do the
same, and say Agla.
10. Extend your arms in the
form of a Cross, and say:
11. Before me Raphael
12. Behind me Gabriel
13. On my right Michael
14. On my left Auriel
15. For about me now the Pentagram
flames
16. And in the Column stands
now the six-rayed Star. (=Hexagram)
17-21 Repeat 1 till 5, (which
is called the Qabalistic Cross).
The basic gesture is a drawing
of energy from a divine source through the body and then forcibly
forward in the direction being invoked, capped with silence.
Stand first straight up, with your arms out at your sides
like the first step of a snow angel. Visualize the deity (do
it your way), and vibrate the name. To vibrate, draw in a
deep breath as your hands rise to your temples. The name of
the god/dess rides the in breath, unmanifested, in through
your nose and down to your feet. Remain with breath held for
a few seconds, and then let fly forward with the name, which
rushes from the soles of your feet all the way out your hands
and forward. As you project the name, hurl yourself forward
at the waist and let your hands shoot out like Superman taking
flight, straight out ahead of you. This ends when you're bent
over almost at a right angle and the force of the name is
completely projected. "It is a sign of success when the
name of the god is heard as though bellowed forth as a thousand
thunders" You can say the name in projection if your
environment is conducive, but it's not really neccessary.
When you are hurtling forward, your right foot should shoot
out about a foot in front of you or you will give yourself
a concussion when your head hits the floor. After projection,
mental stability is restored and the energy is fixed using
the sign of Harpocrates, the essential part of which is the
finger to the lips and either a solemn or a bemused expression.
One of the sources: Liber
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