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Lesser Banishing
Ritual of the Pentagram
by
various sources (lifted from Qabalah FAQ)
Date Unknown
This
ritual can be done to purify a room for further ritual work or meditation
and can be used for protection. Its effects are primarily on the Astral
(IMHO) though it uses the Earth pentagram. It also promotes a still
mind, free of outside influenes which is a useful aid in meditation.
It is therefore recommended that the ritual be used as part of a daily
meditation work. It can be carried out physcially or in the mind (as
a preface to sleep for example).
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Stand
facing East.
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Perform
the Qabalistic Cross
- Touch
forehead with first two (or index) fingers of right hand and visualizing
a sphere of white light at that point, vibrate: Atah (translates roughly
- Thou Art)
- Lower hand to solar plexus and visualize a line extending down to
your feet, vibrate: Malkuth (the Kingdom)
- Raise hand and touch right shoulder visualizing a sphere of light
there. Vibrate: Ve Geburah (and the power)
- Extend the hand across the chest tracing a line of light and touch
the left shoulder where another sphere of light forms. Vibrate: Ve
Gedulah (and the glory)
- Clasp hands in center of chest at crossing point of horizontal and
vertical lines of light. Bow head and vibrate: Le Olam, Amen. (for
ever - amen.)
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Facing
east, using either the extended fingers or a dagger, trace a large
pentagram with the point up, starting at your left hip, up to just
above your forehead, centered on your body, then down to your right
hip, up and to your left shoulder, across to the right shoulder and
down to the starting point in front of your left hip. Visualize the
pentagram in blue flaming light. Stab you fingers or dagger into the
center and vibrate: YHVH (Yod-heh-vahv-heh - which is the tetragrammaton
translated into latin as Jehovah)
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Turn
to the south. Visualize that the blue flame follows you fingers or
dagger, tracing a blue line from the east pentagram to the south.
Repeat step three while facing South, except vibrate: Adonai (another
name for god translated as Lord)
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Turn
to the West, tracing the blue flame from south to west. Repeat step
3, but vibrate: Eheieh (Eh-hay-yeah more or less - another name of
God translated as I AM or I AM THAT I AM Or "I will be"
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Turn
to the North, again tracing the blue flame from west to north. Repeat
step 3, but vibrate: AGLA (Ah-gah-lah - a composite of Atah Gibor
le olam Amen - see step 2)
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Return
again to the east, tracing the blue flame from North to East. Stab
the fingers or dagger back again into the same spot as in step 3.
You should now visualize that you are surrounded by four flaming pentagrams
connected by a line of blue fire
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Extend
your arms out to your sides, forming a cross. Vibrate (visualizing
each Archangel standing guard at each station):
- Before me RAPHAEL (rah-fah-yell)
- Behind me GABRIEL (gah-bree-ell)
- On my right hand, MICHAEL (mee-khah-ell)
- On my left hand, AURIEL (sometimes URIEL aw-ree-ell or ooh-ree-ell)
for about me flames the Pentagrams, and in the column stands the six-rayed
star. (Alternatively the last two lines can be: before me flames the
pentagram, behind me shines the six-rayed star)
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Repeat
the Qabalistic Cross (step 2). As can be seen, Raphael is in the East,
Gabriel in the West, Michael in the South and Auriel/Uriel in the
North.
For more detailed
information I refer the reader to: The Practical Qabalah by Charles
Fielding; Ceremonial Magic, The Complete Golden Dawn System
of Magic and The Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie
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