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

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Make the invoking Pentagram of Earth, visualized in green light. Vibrate EMOR DIAL HECTEGA while drawing Pentagram. Draw Taurus symbol within Pentagram. Vibrate ADONAI while making this symbol. Give the sign of Set Fighting. There are visualizations used in the ritual. These are part of the oral traditions associated with this ritual and can vary greatly between individuals and communities of practice. The following is presented as a relatively standard set of suggestions. The individual magician should experiment and develop a personalized version. For Banishing use the same Ritual, but reversing the direction of the lines of the Pentagram. [2] [3]

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 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. 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. STEP THREE. Now bring the blade up to your right shoulder. As you do this, visualize the beam of white light running down the center of your body form a beam from the heart area out to your right, past the blade at your right shoulder. See this beam of light extend to the end of the universe, and beyond. Focus on this beam and vibrate: Vih G’Boo- RAH STEP EIGHT. Now visualize the brilliant white circle expanding up and down to form a sphere above, below and all around you. What you have done is create a sphere in brilliant white all around you with electric blue pentagrams at the quarters which have been charged and sealed with names of God...

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Make the invoking Pentagram of Air, visualized in yellow light. Vibrate YHVH. Give the sign of Shu.

Return to the East and complete your circle by bringing the dagger point to the centre of the first Pentagram. The QBL, or Qabalistic Cross, is a ritual in and of itself which begins and ends the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram. The LBRP is used to clear one's working space - whether that be oneself, the Circle, Temple, or the Universe in general - of negative influences. In the Golden Dawn it is taught to Neophytes as a daily ritual so that they may learn to banish harmful forces from their immediate situation, and from their whole lives in general. The sign for Water is that of the grade of Practicus and is made by raising the hands to form a downward pointing triangle at the heart by joining the tips of the thumbs and forefingers. Just as the upward pointing triangle is the alchemical glyph for Fire, the downward pointing triangle signifies Water. Here the symbolism is that of the descent of the divine spirit of the Angel into the soul, centered at the heart, made receptive to its infuence. The sign is also made over the heart to show that this divine receptivity is accomplished through love. This is said to be the sign of Auramoth, or Mut, the consort of Amoun at Thebes. This is the Egyptian God-form assumed by the Stolistes in the G.D. ceremonies to purify the temple and the initiates with water.Extend the arms in the form of a Tau and say low but clear: ΠΡΟΜΟΥΙΥΓΓΕΣ, ΟΠΙΣΘΩΜΟΥΤΕΛΕΤΑΠΧΑΙ, ΕΠΙΔΕΞΙΑΣΥΝΩΧΕΙΣ, ΕΠΑΡΙΣΤΕΡΑΔΑΙΜΟΝΕΣ, ΦΛΕΓΕΙΓΑΡΠΕΡΙΜΟΥΟΑΣΤΗΡΤΩΝΠΕΝΤΕ, ΚΑΙΕΝΤΗΙΣΤΗΛΗΙΩΑΣΤΕΡΤΩΝΕΞΕΣΤΗΚΕ. The NAMES should be pronounced inwardly in the breat vibrating it as much as possible and feeling that the whole body throbs with the sound and sends out a wave of vibration directed to the ends of the quarter. W]hat you have done is to visualize yourself as the center of the universe with only the divine light coming through you. You may wish to remain in this position for a few minutes to feel its power. This may seem like a blatantly obvious point, but I have it on no uncertain terms, from high authority, that students of the Western tradition must have this point directly clarified.

Holding the dagger out before you, go to the South, make the Pentagram and vibrate similarly the deity name - ADONAI. When the particular Thelemic deities are given elemental attributions it produces some interesting meanings. Being deities, and therefore Briatic archetypes, these four characters can have multiple possible correspondences depending on the ritual context. By associating them to a particular element and direction it is possible to throw into relief important features of the god-forms. The following reflections use the Terrestrial correspondences:

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Mathers, S. L. MacGregor (ed.), The Kabbalah Unveiled, Penguin Arkana, New York, New York, 1991, pg. 31. In that light, in the next post in this series (coming soon), we're going to talk about the more general, all-purpose "hygenic" versions of these rituals—as in, how to use them on a daily basis to keep a general sense of centeredness, clarity and balance.