Lesser Banishing Ritual

Banishings, on
the other hand, although self explanatory in nature, cannot be emphasized more on the
importance of their daily performance. "Render thy circle impregnable." Regardless of
their importance after an invocation, banishings on a daily basis don't hurt, and they do
help.

In today's world of rapid industrial growth, man's standard work expectation has
increased enormously over the years. With this in mind, it reminds us of one of the top
invaders of man's health - stress. This alone forms a blockade between the occultist
and his path of light. This, as well as many other inner and outer influences, must be
balanced and surmounted if any success is to be achieved.

Aside from ritualistic invocation, the use of banishings is imperative for one to be
able to control one's own mentality and emotion. In the grade of Neophyte, various
exercises described deal with such matters. By performing rituals on a daily basis,
especially the banishings, it trains one to develop both mental and will power. It
exposes to the student his own ability of will and dedication to stick to such a repetitious
plan. We can say that it also allows you to know thyself, as has been the famous
saying throughout many ancient schools of thought. Put as a whole, let it be
understood that banishings are a basis for the preparations of invocation. Competency
in banishings is required inasmuch that without it one may be led into future problems
or failure.

As magicians of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, let us understand that
we don't do magic, we are magic. It is suggested that planning a daily routine for ritual
work is very helpful to one's growth. We can now say that magic without the use of
banishings would be like a football game without a football, or a dinner without the
silverware. Banishings and invocations work hand in hand. One can't do without the
other.

In addition, a simple formula may be referred to in helping to become a
successful occultist: Persistence, Hard Work, Practice. Sounds easier said than done?
Well let it be known that one great secret of getting ahead is getting started. In one's
pursuit of accomplishing the Great Work.

Part One: The Qabalistic Cross

Step 1

You should begin this and all rituals by first calming your interior self and relaxing
your whole body. This is easily achieved by performing the Four Fold Breath. On
completing the relaxation exercise, begin visualizing yourself growing taller and bigger.
Your entire body should grow upward toward the sky and into the infinite space above.
Allow your mind to drift into that vast region of the infinite which presides above all
things and time. Literally see the Earth shrinking beneath your feet. See the planets,
the solar system and then the galaxy becoming smaller. Your body should be so
enormous that even the Milky Way has no significance to your size.
Above your head, as you continue to grow, you should begin to visualize a bright
sphere of light coming closer and closer to you. This light is only a small portion of that
infinite light which is beyond our comprehension. Allow the sphere of light, which
appears to be no larger than a dinner plate, to hover above the crown of your head.
Feel its majestic power, its vastness and the infinite love that it has for all that is
created.

Stretch both of your arms straight out to your sides into the form of a cross.
Take your right hand and gently plunge your index finger into that light which is above
your head and will it to be drawn down as you touch your forehead. Have it rest upon
your forehead as you vibrate:

AH-TAH

This should be pronounced elongated, in monotone and with one complete
breath to sound like: Aaaahhh-Taaahhh.

Step 2

Bring the point of your finger firmly down your body while willing the light on your
forehead to follow along as you point toward the ground at your feet. Visualize the light
now covering your feet and vibrate:

MAL-KOOT

Step 3

Now bring your finger up to your right shoulder, touch it, and as you do this,
visualize the sphere of white light running up through the center of your body, forming a
beam of light into your heart area shooting out to your right side to the end of your right
hand. Focus on this beam and vibrate:

VIH-G'-BOO-RAH
Step 4

Move the sphere of light to your left shoulder, touch it, and visualize all through
this process another beam of light connecting from your heart area ending at the tip of
your finger on your left hand. Vibrate:

VIH-G' DOO-LAH

Step 5

Clasp your hands together at your chest in a praying stance while visualizing
within you a cross made of light that covers your entire body. Vibrate:

LAY-OH-LAHM AH-MEN

Meaning: The meaning of the words that are vibrated at the first part of the L.B.R.P.,
the Qabalistic Cross, are as follows:

Atah - Thine

Malkuth - Kingdom

Vih-G' Boo-Rah - Power

Vih-G' Doo-Lah - Glory

Lih-Oh-Lahm - Forever

Amen - So be it.

With all of these words put together it forms the prayer:

"For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."

Does this sound familiar? It
should, for it is derived from one of the oldest prayers in the Bible. You will find this
same phrase found at the end of the Lord's Prayer.
The word amen in Hebrew translates into "so be it." Amen is a notarikon. A
notarikon is made by taking the first letter of each word of a sentence and forming a
new word. Amen is taken from the phrase: El Melech Neheman, which means "God is
our faithful King." This is the mystical meaning behind this word.

Part Two: The Formulation of the Pentagrams

Banishing Earth Pentagram

Step 1

Stand in the east and face east. Draw a pentagram in a brilliant flaming blue.
Draw it in front of you, at the distance of one full arm length. Using your right hand
begin at your left hip. See the line being drawn and following the line up to the apex of
the pentagram at the level of your head, down to your right hip, then across your body
to the furthest left of your body at the level of your shoulders, across your body again to
the furthest right of your body at the level of your shoulders, and completing the
pentagram by ending it where you first began.

Step 2

Inhale through the nose. As you do, drawn into you the sphere of light above
your head and let it mend with your breath. Feel the energy coursing and rushing
through your lungs and body. Step forward with the left foot. At the same time thrust
both of your hands forward with all fingers extended outward, palms facing the ground
so that they point at the exact middle of the glowing blue pentagram in front of you.
This is the Sign of the Enterer. As you do this, vibrate:

Yod Heh Vav Heh

Remember, when vibrating be sure to elongate each word in a continuous flow,
using one full breath.
As you vibrate this vocally, mentally hear the name echo throughout the eastern
ends of the Universe. The same will go for the south, west and north.
Revert your left foot back. Now place your left index finger to your lips, in the
form of silence. This is the form of Harpocrates, the Sign of Silence.

Step 3

Once again, point at the center of the pentagram that you have just drawn, using
the index finger of your right hand. Trace a brilliant white line from the center of the
pentagram and follow it to the south. This will form an arc of ninety degrees so that you
end up in the south, facing south.

Step 4

Now in the south repeat Step 1 and Step 2, but vibrate:

Ah-Doh-Nye

Step 5

Draw the brilliant white line connecting the pentagram in the south to the west
and repeat Step 1 and Step 2, but vibrate:

Eh-Heh-Yeh

Step 6

Draw the brilliant white line connecting the pentagram in the west to the north. Now in
the north repeat Step 1 and Step 2, but vibrate:

Ah-Glah

Complete the circle by connecting a white line from the north to the east where
you began. Then, moving in the same clockwise direction, return to where you started
the ritual; if you have an altar in the center of the four quadrants, then stand behind
that. You should once again be facing east. If you do not have room for a circle, simply
pivot where you stand.

Step 7

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 created a sphere in brilliant
white all around you with electric blue pentagrams at the quarters which have been
charged and sealed with God names.

Part Three: The Evocation of the Archangels

Step 1

Stretch your arms straight out to the sides, so that your body forms a cross.
Take a second or two to once again feel the energies that you felt when performing the
Qabalistic Cross. Re-create a cross of light within your being (the cross also represents
the four archetypal elements: Air, Earth, Fire and Water).

Step 2

Say: "Before me, (vibrate) Rah-fay-el."

Visualize the Archangel Raphael on a hill in front of you. He is dressed in a
yellow robe which has purple highlights. He carries a Caduceus Wand (the symbol
used by doctors, a wand entwined by serpents, which represents the life force). Feel a
breeze coming from behind him.

Step 3

Say: "Behind me, (vibrate) Gah-bray-el."

Visualize a figure behind you, dressed in blue with some orange highlights. The
figure holds a cup and is surrounded by waterfalls or the ocean. Try to feel the
moisture in the air.

Step 4

Say: "On my right, (vibrate) Mee-chai-el."

Visualize the Archangel Michael dressed in a scarlet red robe with green
highlights. He is holding a flaming sword. Feel the qualities of fire emanating from him.

Step 5

Say: "And on my left, (vibrate) Oh-ree-el."

Visualize the Archangel Auriel dressed in earth tones on a fertile landscape. He
holds a bundle of wheat.

Step 6

After you have invoked the Archangels move your feet slightly apart, stretch both
arms out to the sides. Now visualize yourself within a large pentagram and say:

"For before me flames the pentagram."

Step 7

"And behind me shines the six-rayed star".

Merkaba

Repeat Part One: The Qabalistic Cross.

Other people have different versions of the Evocation to the Archangels. One
version you would say, "Around me flames the pentagram, above me shines the sixrayed
star". There is little differences between what is said, but you might like to try
them and see which works best for you.

Archangels Names and their meanings:

In the east, Raphael, God has healed.
In the west, Gabriel, God is my strength.
In the south, Michael, Who is as God.
In the north, Auriel, Light of God.

Note

There are many people who will perform this ritual that have problems
visualizing. If you are one who has problems seeing visual pictures, just know in your
mind that it is there. For example, like with the pentagrams, although you may not be
able to see the lines or the color being in brilliant blue, just affirm to yourself that it is
there.

Some will encounter that they have problems feeling the energies. Don't worry,
this is common. One reason that this may be occuring is that you may not be
accustomed to the ritual, and that the energies it invokes may be too foreign to you. It
just takes time and persistence to work through this. On a more positive note, those
who think of themselves as being "Numb" will be glad to know that over a long period of 89
performing the L.B.R.P. daily, your sphere of sensation is slowly but surely becoming
accustomed to the energies. So when you have internally reached a state of openness,
you can then judge for yourself that the presence of the Archangels are truly
undoubted.

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