For Greater Awareness, Relaxation, and Illumination
& A Tribute and Intro to Israel Regardie
Visit Israel Regardie to hear the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram and to learn the Middle Pillar and Rite of Three Pillars.
The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram
0. Face EAST holding a dagger in the right hand or using your extended index finger.
Perform the Qabalistic Cross:
(THE QABALISTIC CROSS)
1 Imagine yourself growing taller and taller until the earth is but a pebble beneath your feet. Imagine that you are at the center of the universe with darkness surrounding you.
2. Visualize a ball of white light above your head, far off in the distance. Extend the dagger to touch the light and bring it down to your forehead as you inhale and intone the Divine name ATEH
3. Touch Your forehead with the tip of the dagger or finger and as you exhale vibrate the word ATEH and imagine the ball of white light grow to the size of a coconut or melon (approx 7") above and slightly in your skull.
4. Touch the genitals and intone MALKUTH while imagining a shaft of white light descending to your feet. Exhale and vibrate the Divine name MALKUTH while you imagine a sphere below your feet fill with white light and energy.
5. Touch the right shoulder and intone the Divine name VE-GEBURAH while imagining white light extend from your heart to form a 7 inch sphere of brilliant white light just next to your right shoulder. Exhale and vibrate the Divine name VE-GEBURAH
6. Visualize a shaft of light extend from the right shoulder across your heart to form another sphere at your left shoulder. Touch the right shoulder and intone the Divine name VE-GEDULAH while imagining white light extend from your heart to form a 7 inch sphere of brilliant white light just next to your left shoulder. Exhale and vibrate the Divine name "VE-GEDULAH"
7. Hold or clasp your hands together at your Heart and intone and then vibrate the Divine name "LE-OLAHM AMEN" while imagining light from the 4 ends of the cross merging and uniting in ecstasy at your heart, forming a cross of light or energy.
(BANISHING THE FOUR QUARTERS)
8. In the air facing EAST, draw a Banishing Earth Pentagram. Make the sign of the Enterer as your extend your arms and dagger (or index fingers) through the center of the pentagram and vibrate the divine name Y H V H. Drop your arms and make the Sign of Silence.
9. Stab the center of the pentagram with the dagger and make a quarter circle as you turn toward the SOUTH. Draw another Banishing Earth Pentagram as you did in the east. Make the sign of the Enterer and Vibrate the Divine name ADONAI. Drop your arms and make the Sign of Silence. .
10. Stab the center of the pentagram with the dagger and make a quarter circle as you turn toward the WEST. Draw another Banishing Earth Pentagram as you did in the east. Make the sign of the Enterer and Vibrate the Divine name AHIH. Drop your arms and make the Sign of Silence.
11. Then, turn towards the NORTH, while tracing the circle. Draw another Banishing Earth Pentagram as you did in the east. Make the sign of the Enterer and Vibrate the Divine name AGLA. Drop your arms and make the Sign of Silence.
12. Return to the EAST, completing the circle of Light and bringing the dagger back to the starting point in the EAST.
(INVOKING THE ARCHANGELS)
13. Extend your arms out to the sides in the form of a cross, and say: BEFORE ME and vibrate RAPHAEL (pronounced RAH-PHYE-EHL) In your mind visualize an Archangel in a Yellow robe with Violet highlights in front of you. He is surrounded by clear blue air and white fluffy clouds.
15. Say BEHIND ME and vibrate GABRIEL (pronounced GAH-BREE-EHL) In your mind visualize an Archangel in a blue robe with orange highlights behind you. She is in front of a rushing blue water fall which sends water flowing over your feet.
16. Say AT MY RIGHT HAND and vibrate MICHAEL (pronounced MEE-CHYE-EHL)
In your mind visualize an Archangel in a red robe with green highlights at your right side. He is in center of a volcano. Fire blazes into the air and lava flows towards your feet.
17. Say: AT MY LEFT HAND and vibrate AURIEL (pronounced AWE-REE-EHL)
In your mind visualize an Archangel in a black robe with silver highlights at your left side. She is standing in the middle of a field of wheat on a giant mound of rock and earth.
18. Say ABOUT ME FLAMES THE PENTAGRAM, AND IN THE COLUMN STANDS THE SIX-RAYED STAR
Visualize the circle of light and 4 pentagrams aflame in blue around you and the cross of light within you.
19. Repeat the QABALISTIC CROSS (Steps 1-7)
20. CONCLUDE WITH THE SIGN OF SILENCE.