The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram: A 21st Century Grimoire

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There is an association of the Arch Angels and also the 4 Rivers with Briah, as there is the Divine Names with Atziluth, the 4-Winds and the Kerub with Yetzirah, and the 4 Vessels or Bodies with Assiah. STEP SIX. Move your left foot out to your left and visualize another beautiful blue pentagram all around you, outlining your body. Say, For about me flames the pentagram...

Hadit is free. As such he is the innermost flame and free of the Self, the incarnation of the True Will. Will itself corresponds to free. Here's what the actual deal is: The "lesser" forms work with all of the elements or planets at once, and the "greater" forms work with them one at a time, and in much greater and more elaborate detail. The SIRP really makes only two substantive additions to the GRP. First, symbols are drawn within the Pentagrams. The Pentagrams of Spirit all have the eight spoked wheel of Spirit drawn within them. The elemental Pentagrams all have the fixed sign of the zodiac associated with their element drawn and visualized within them. These are the signs of Aquarius for Air, Scorpio for Water, Taurus for Earth, and Leo for Fire. In the original G.D. material, the outline of an eagle's head is drawn in profile in place of the sign of Scorpio. The eagle is the Kerubic guardian of Water, as it represents the highest of the three octaves of Scorpio, the other two being symbolized by a snake and a scorpion.Owing to how these rituals are constructed, it can be easy to make the assumption that the elemental and planetary energies are actually "outside" of you; for instance, that the earth element is always to the north, the fire to the south, and so on. They are not—this is just for convenience and dramatic effect within the context of the ritual. The actual elemental and planetary energies are present at all levels of your internal world and the external world alike, ubiquitous and interwoven throughout everything, and these too are but metaphorical, short-hand terms convenient for discussing vast arrays of phenomena—much like all constructions of human language. The pentagrams and hexagrams drawn in the air are but conventions for accessing each "energy." As can be seen, the Star Ruby follows the basic structure of the Golden Dawn Pentagram rituals rather closely, and its general form and purpose can be understood in terms of the discussion of those spells. There are a number of interesting additional features as well. Turning to the East, make a Pentagram (that of Earth) with the proper weapon. Say (i.e., vibrate) YHVH. Provide students with effective tools to master their own minds and beings, and thereby to gain the true magical power: Power to live the life they choose, on their own terms. The Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram invokes or banishes all four elements in one fell swoop, and calls the Archangels associated with those elements.

It is very similar to Martin Luther's coat of arms. Rosicrucianism has historically been very closely tied to Protestantism. This connection is clear in The Manifestos themselves. Although this association only captures the exoteric context of the movement's initial matrix of manifestation, it nevertheless shows that Rosicrucianism has had a commitment to political and religious freedom as an integral aspect of its spiritual vision even in its initial manifestation. This has at times been obscured by its more capitalistic and/or ignorant manifestations, but Thelema is an explicit inheritor of this aspect of its tradition. In this sense, as well as in others, Thelema is a Rosicrucian religion.

Neglect not the Performance of the Ritual of the Pentagram and of the Assumption of the Form of Hoor-pa-Kraat. (Liber Aleph, De cultus) Go to the East. Make the invoking Pentagram for Spirit Active, visualized in white light. Vibrate EXARP while drawing Pentagram. Draw wheel within Pentagram. Vibrate EHEIEH while making wheel. For example, the initiate said raising his hand to his forehead, “For thine,” then added “is,” and continuing as he brought down his hands to his breast, “the kingdom,” then to the left shoulder, “the justice,” afterwards to the right shoulder, “and the mercy”—then clasping his hands, he added, “in the generating ages.” Tibi sunt Malkuth et Geburah et Chesed per aeonas—a Sign of the Cross which is absolutely and magnificently kabalistic, which the profanations of Gnosticism have completely lost to the official and militant Church. This sign, made after this manner, should precede and terminate the Conjuration of the Four. In a different and equally valid symbolism, the Kabbalistic Cross represents the manifestation of the Tree of Life on and as the human body. This expresses the Hermetic concept of the unity of the macrocosm and the microcosm. The Tree of Life, representing the 'Body of God' and the aspects of the cosmos is shown to simultaneously be the body of the magician and the aspects of their being. Here is the doctrine of anthropocosmos — that the exalted physical and Imaginal body of the magician is the body of God. IAO is a name of God used by the Gnostics. In the Thelemic tradition it is a divine name appropriate to Tiphareth. It also conceals a formula of justification through suffering which will be discussed at more length in chapter 12.

The Kabbalistic Cross is made on the body, signifying that one's self is an expression of the symbols and meanings described by the ritual gestures. The cross has a vertical and horizontal dimension. The vertical component represents the divine reality. The horizontal is material or manifest existence. The vertical line is drawn first to show the ontological priority of spirit, which extends to all planes of reality both above and below our world. The horizontal axis is then described, such that the two axes of matter and spirit meet in a point at the heart. A mathematical point has no extension, and so this point, which is in the heart, represents Hadit, the true Self. It is also the mystical nothing, that silent place where spirit and matter meet and are one. When first learned, these rituals are usually engaged with in a strictly performative manner. Words and gestures are memorized and used without deeper reflection. Familiarity with the ritual can often breed forgetfulness that it is not merely a performance piece, however, but rather a profound prayer and moving meditation. Actual, not merely symbolized identification with the absolute is the true goal of the ritual. This requires mindfulness and concentration in the performance of the visualizations, gestures and vocalizations. Personal issues and problems should be set aside before the manifestation of the sacred space of the ritual. As The Chaldean Oracles of Zoroaster state: The QBL, or Qabalistic Cross, is a ritual in and of itself which begins and ends the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram. The divine names used with the elemental Pentagrams themselves are based on a Sephirotic correspondence, but a different one then that of the four lowest Sephiroth. The name used for Earth is Adonai. This is meant to be a shortened form of Adonai Ha-Aretz, the divine name of Malkuth. The divine name for the air quarter is YHVH, which is intended as a shortened form of YHVH Eloha Ve-Daath, assigned to Tiphareth. Water is El, for Chesed, and Fire Elohim or Elohim Gibor for Geburah. This gives the following correspondences. Element Make the invoking Pentagram of Water, visualized in blue light. Vibrate EL. Give the sign of Auramoth.

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Extend the arms in the form of a Tau and say low but clear: ΠΡΟΜΟΥΙΥΓΓΕΣ, ΟΠΙΣΘΩΜΟΥΤΕΛΕΤΑΠΧΑΙ, ΕΠΙΔΕΞΙΑΣΥΝΩΧΕΙΣ, ΕΠΑΡΙΣΤΕΡΑΔΑΙΜΟΝΕΣ, ΦΛΕΓΕΙΓΑΡΠΕΡΙΜΟΥΟΑΣΤΗΡΤΩΝΠΕΝΤΕ, ΚΑΙΕΝΤΗΙΣΤΗΛΗΙΩΑΣΤΕΡΤΩΝΕΞΕΣΤΗΚΕ. A few things should be said about the original context of meaning of the rose cross, as used in the Rosicrucian manifestos. There seems no real reason why the archangels are omitted at the quarters, other than that the Spirit Pentagrams are perhaps supposed to fill the same role of symbolizing Briah. Depending on their preferences, individual magicians can fill in this step using the wording from the LRP. STEP TWO. Bring the point of the dagger (or your finger) firmly down your body until you are pointing toward the ground. Your hand with the blade should be covering your groin. As you do this, visualize the light in your head coming down along with the blade (or finger), down through your body and beyond your feet, down to eternity. Vibrate: Mahl- KOOT.

In various formulations, these rituals can be customized to work with all of the aspects of the Western esoteric conception of the universe— the five elements, the seven classical planets, and the twelve signs of the zodiac. Holding the dagger out before you, go to the South, make the Pentagram and vibrate similarly the deity name - ADONAI. Return to the East and complete your circle by bringing the dagger point to the centre of the first Pentagram. There are many more depths of meaning to the cross, which further reflection and contemplation can reveal. It is not merely a Christian sectarian icon. Probably the most thorough work on this subject is Rene Guenon's Symbolism of the Cross.Puella or girl is made by the magician " standing with feet together, head bowed, his left hand shielding his phallus, and his right hand shielding his breast (attitude of the Venus de Medici)." Now imagine the form in the East before you and do the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram to disintegrate it, seeing it, in your mind's eye, dissolving of the further side of your ring of flame.