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[from http://w3.one.net/~willb/rituals/ ] Instructions for the: Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram with visualizations as related by Josh Norton (aka Benjamin Rowe) "1. Stand in the center of the circle, feet together, facing east. Using your thumb, touch the center of your forehead, and vibrate "Ateh." + As you say "Ateh," imagine a ball or dome of brillant white light forming above your head. 2. Still using your thumb, gesture down the centerline of your body until your thumb is pointing at the ground between your feet. + As your gesture moves downwards, imagine a column of white light about 3" thick, descending through the center fo your body at the same rate of speed (as if you were "drawing" the column with your gesture). Try to feel the column as if it were filled with a vibrating energy that sets up a sympathetic vibration in your body where it touches it. Vibrate "Malkuth." + Imagine the column of light descending into the ground below your feet. Once there, it forms another ball of light; this ball starts out a dark red, but quickly becomes brighter and whiter as more energy enters into it. 3. Touch your right arm just below the shoulder and vibrate "ve-Geburah." + Imagine a small ball of light forming where you touch. Move your hand to the same point on your left arm and vibrate "ve-Gedulah." + As you move your hand, imagine another line of white light being traced horizontally through the center of your body, intersecting the vertical column about where your heart is. When the line reaches your left arm, imagine another small ball of light forming there. Then imagine a flow of energy back and forth between them. Try to feel that energy as it passes through your body. 4. Make a clockwise circle about 6" across around your heart. Vibrate "le-Olahm." + As soon as you complete this circle, imagine a big pink rose blooming inside it, with its stem at the intersection of the horizontal and vertical lines of the cross. Imagine that you can feel the movements of its petals in your heart as it unfolds. When it is completely unfolded, imagine a rose-pink radiance being emitted from it in all directions. This radiance expands until it completely encloses the cross and your body. 5. Bring your arms down to your sides, relax as much as you can while still standing straight, and take a few moments to appreciate and feel everything that you have visualized so far. Then vibrate "Amen." 6. Let the above visualizations fade. Don't try to "erase" them, just stop giving attention to their maintenance. If they continue to exist without any effort on your part, that's fine. If they disappear, that's fine, too. 7. Advance to the east point of the circle. Draw a large [Earth banishing] pentagram with your wand, or with the pointed fingers of your hand. + The lines of all the pentagrams, and the circle connecting them, should be visualized in a blue-white color. The appearance and color of a "Star Wars" light-sword is just about right. Make a stabbing gesture at the center of the pentagram with wand or hand, and vibrate "Yahweh." + As you vibrate the name, imagine the inside of the pentagram becoming an open window into the Realms of Air. Beyond the window, you should imagine some landscape that seems Airy to you. I've used a couple that seem to work well: An endless region of blue sky, through which fleecy clouds float; a flower-filled meadow in northern Italy, overlooking the Adriatic, with a cool breeze blowing from the east. Whatever, you should feel that the landscape embodies the force of Air. + Once you have the landscape firmly visualized, imagine a cool wind blowing into your circle through the pentagram. This wind fills up the circle and blows through your body and soul, blowing out and replacing the Airy elements of your own nature. Keep feeling this wind until you feel cleaned out and filled with Airy power. + Note: If you are banishing, you should next feel the power sweeping out of yourself and the circle, back through the pentagram. After which you should imagine the "window" closing again. Same for all the following quarters. 8. Move clockwise around the circle until you come to the south. Starting at the center of the eastern pentagram, draw a blue-white line as you go. Face the south and draw a large pentagram. Make the stabbing gesture at the center of the pentagram, and vibrate "Adonai." + I have lost Josh's notes for the visualization here...it has to do with visualizing a hot landscape (Death Valley, for instance) and repeating those visualizations in step 8, but with a fiery concept. I apologize for not having his words, but last I heard from him, he was going to rewrite this part. I'll get the fix up when I get it. 9. Move clockwise to the west, drawing a segment of the circle as you go. Face the west, and draw a large pentagram. Make the stabbing gesture at the center of the pentagram, and vibrate "Eheieh." + Imagine the pentagram becoming a window into the Realms of Water. Imagine a watery landscape. I use either an endless region filled with water; or an underwater view of a reef with plenty of fish and plant life, and waves crossing the surface overhead. + With the landscape visualized, imageine Water pouring into the circle and yourself, washing out any impurities and replacing them with its own pure power. Keep feeling this until you feel clean and totally filled with Water. 10. Move clockwise tot he north, drawing the circle as you go. Face the north, draw a large pentagram. Make the stabbing gesture at the center of the pentagram and vibrate "AGLA." + Imagine the pentagram becoming a window into the Realms of Earth, beyond which you can see some landscape that seems supremely "Earthy" to you. I use either a soft, warm darkness (sort of womblike) of infinite extent; a cave with ancient paintings on the walls; or cultivated land with all sorts of food-crops growing. + Imagine the Earthy power moving through the pentagram, filling up the circle and yourself, making any impurities so inert and heavy that they fall downwards out of your body, to be replaced by a pure earth force. Keep feeling this until you feel clean and totally filled with Earth. 11. Complete the circle by returning clockwise to the east, drawing the line as you go. Return to the center of the circle and face east. + Standing in the center of the circle, try to see all four landscapes at once, and feel the power of all four elements focused on you through the pentagrams. 12. Say: "Before me stands Raphael; behind me stands Gabriel; on my right hand is Michael; on my left hand is Auriel." The names of the archangels should be vibrated. + The angels should be imagined appearing as their names are vibrated. Each should be seen as an immense figure on the horizon beyond the landscape in their quarter. You should have a definite sense of them as sapient, self-aware beings of great power, come to aid you in your work. The landscapes represent the natural, non-sapient force of the elements; the archangels represent the divine powers that rule and direct those elements. + The archangels should have some form that signifies -- in your mind -- their rulership over their elements. I see them as figures in robes the color of the elements. Raphaiel has blond hair that moves in an invisible breeze; he holds a fan in his right hand pointed towards you. His face has an aquiline cast. Gabriel has dark hair with a bluish cast, dark skin, and holds a silver cup towards you. His robes seem to move in an invisible current. Michael has hair and eyes like flames, a slightly fox-like cast to his face, and his robes seem to be made of woven threads of fire. He holds a flaming sword pointed towards you. Auriel wears black or green robes. His face is rounded, and of a nut-brown color. He holds a disk-like pantacle with one face pointed towards you. + Imagine each of the archangels sending a benediction to you through his weapon. 13. Stand with your arms stretched out to the sides, and feet apart. Say: "About me flames the pentagram..." + Imagine a big, glowing pentagram forming about your body, its points congruent with your head, hands, and feet. Remember that the pentagram signifies rulership of the Spirit over the four elements, and that by identifying it you are claiming that rulership for yourself. Try to feel yourself as Spirit, connected to the four elements, but also above them. Say: "...and in the column shines the six-rayed star." + Imagine a large golden hexaagram, the same width as your circle, forming in the air above you. Rays of power shine radially outwards from each of its points. The lowest point of the hexagram is congruent with the highest point of the pentagram previously visualized. + The hexagram signifies the planetary or "heavenly" realms that are above the worlds of the elements. Elemental Spirit is a summation of concentration of these heavenly forces. By claiming the power of the elemental Spirit, you are also declaring your freedom from the rule of the mundane worl, and claiming the right to enter into and work in those higher realms. But as yet, you have only touched the lowest portion ot those realms, thus only the lowest point of the hexagram touches yourself. "Back Home