new magicks for a new age: the pentagram and hexagram rituals

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The New Pentagram Rituals, by Yael Dragwyla

Yael R. Dragwyla First North American rightsEmail: [email protected] 20,489 wordshttp://polaris93.livejournal.com/

NEW MAGICKS FOR A NEW AGE

Appendices

Volume I: A New Order of the Ages

Book II. Routine Ritual Inclusions

Part 4: The Pentagram and Hexagram Rituals

Introduction

In this section, five versions of the Lesser and Greater Pentagram Rituals are given. The first is thestandard one, identical to the Golden Dawn and O.T.O. ( Liber O) versions of the ritual, which is basedupon traditional Qaballah. The second is an astrological variant of that ritual. As for the last three, theuniverse which they are constructed for incorporates the 16-Sephiroth Tree of Life and the new English-

language Qaballah based upon the ASCII symbol lexicon (see Chapter 1 of Part 2 of Volume 3 of thiswork, “Magickal Applications of the New 16-Sephiroth English-language Qaballah”).The first of these Pentagram rituals, which are standard in the Western Ceremonial tradition,

establishes the Operator in the higher realms of the Astral Light, below Tiphareth and above Yesod on thetraditional Tree of Life. The second places him or her at the center of the astrological overspacecorresponding to the physical universe, and isn’t essentially very different from the first. However, thelast three, which all use the new English-language 16-Sephiroth Qaballah* as a stabilizing mechanism,

place the Operator respectively (1) on the Tree of Life above Tiphareth and below Kether ; (2)completely above the Tree of Life, in the Inner Planes equivalent of interstellar space; and (3)completely below it, below Malkuth, in an alternate universe. These last three are especially useful for exploring aspects of reality that were unknown or only dimly conceived of and understood before the turnof this century, and can be especially useful to those who, trained as engineers, physicists, astronomers,astronauts, astrophysicists, planetary scientists, or in the biological and/or social sciences, also wish to

prepare themselves spiritually for whatever they might encounter in their chosen fields and professions.

*See Volume 3, Part 2, Chapter 1, “Magickal Applications of the New 16-Sephiroth English-languageQaballah,” for a full description of this extension of traditional Qaballah.

The Pentagrams inscribed by the Operator during the course of these rituals are identical to thoseused in the Greater Pentagram Ritual of the Golden Dawn. There are twelve possible such Pentagrams:one set for invoking and one for banishing, with six Pentagrams in each set, one for each of the four classic Elements (Fire, Water, Air, Earth) and the two forms, Active (Chaos? Void? yin?) and Passive

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(Quintessence? chi? yang?), of Spirit. Their format is also that of the Golden Dawn rituals, withmodifications as appropriate. The Calls, i.e., Hebraic or Enochian Words of Power which are vibrated(resonantly chanted or intoned) at various places in the ritual, are pronounced identically wherever theyappear – that is, the pronunciation of a given Call doesn’t vary from one place to another in any of theserituals. (See below.)

The Pentagram rituals, especially the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, are among the firstthings which the Magickal neophyte should learn, along with the Ritual of the Rose-Cross (the latter,

which is further discussed in a separate chapter, is also used for other reasons, as a sort of “house-cleaning” or “damage-control” ritual after employment of a Pentagram ritual). In their banishing forms,they are often absolutely necessary for self-defense; in fact, they can literally save life and soul, and doso when nothing else has any effect – as I can testify from my own experience. So these rituals should belearned first, before any others, and learned by heart – over learned so thoroughly that the student finallycan do them in his or her sleep.

In fact, I myself have literally done just that (to my vast surprise, the first time I had a nocturnaldemonstration of my success at such efforts). As a result, I have therefore been able to use them againstattacks by the sorts of things that turn up in one’s worst nightmares – the sorts of attacks in which you areall too excruciatingly aware that if you don’t somehow either chase off whatever it is or else wake up at once, you will be completely destroyed by it, body and soul, then damned forever. Or worse.

However, by overlearning the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram to exhaustion, I have thereafter used it reflexively, nearly unconsciously, letter-perfect when necessary, both waking and sleeping.

Anyone can do this – all it takes is practice. And everyone who desires to make a career in any kind inany of the occult or esoteric fields should do so, for exactly the same reason that anyone who wants tomake a career of flying had damned well better learn how to pack, wear, and deploy a parachute.

As soon as the aspirant begins to practice any Hermetic Art or Science, especially Magick, it is as if one had set up a giant neon sign on the Inner Planes signaling to all and sundry, near and far: “Here it is

– have we got a special for you! Nice, fresh, tender, juicy young spirit, with all the trimmings!”Something like the creation of a new, lovely, green lawn, completely landscaped and appointed, in aneighborhood full of large, ill-trained, boisterous, and well-fed dogs. The Banishing Ritual of thePentagram is a sort of esoteric version of a spray-cannister loaded with pepper-spray combined with ashotgun loaded with rock salt . . .

The banishing forms of the Pentagram ritual are also used Magickally in exactly the same way thatone polices an area in which one plans to work or play, in order to avoid such accidents as stepping on anail, and cleans it up again before leaving it, as courtesy to others and to avoid degrading theenvironment. Thus for the sake of consideration of others as well as that of bodily and spiritual safety, it

is imperative that of all the things the aspirant will ever learn in Magick, he or she should learn thePentagram rituals first and best. Nota bene: There is a fairly easy way to remember how the Pentagrams in these rituals are traced, in

their invoking and banishing forms. As Francis King and Stephen Skinner put it, in their Techniques of High Magic: A Manual of Self-Initiation (New York: Destiny Books, 1981):

From [the five] elemental points [of the pentagram, marked here by “I,” “H 1 ,”“Sh,” “V,” and “H 2 ,”] are derived the different pentagrams. All invoking pentagramsare drawn towards the point of the element being invoked. All banishing pentagramsare drawn away from the point of the element being banished. The exceptions are thePentagrams of Spirit which operate along the lines marked ‘active’ and ‘passive’ on thediagram [ see above]. For this reason there are four possible Spirit pentagrams. The

passive being used in conjunction with the passive elements, water and earth, whilst theactive pentagrams are used in conjunction with the active elements, fire and air.

Ibid, p. 193

Thus the Pentagram symbolizes the four Elements and their Quintessence, Spirit, according to thefollowing diagram:

Sh

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*V H1

* *

* *

H2 I

where “Sh” (standing for the Hebrew letter Shin) is associated with the Quintessential Element Spirit ; “I”(Yod ) with the Element Fire; “H1” ( Heh) with Water; “V” (Vav) with Air ; and “H2” ( Heh) with Earth.In addition, tracing counterclockwise around the Pentagram, beginning with the lower right-hand point(“I”), the Hebrew name IHShUA, “Yeshua,” which we usually render as either “Joshua,” “Jesse,” or “Jesus,” is traced out; this represents God made manifest in Creation.

For purposes of visualization, both to aid in reconstruction of the Pentagram Ritual from first principles and also to establish the Pentagrams the more firmly on the Inner Planes, the Aces and CourtCards of the Tarot can be assigned to the points of the various Pentagrams in the following way.

Aces correspond to Spirit, and thus to the top point of the Pentagram; Knights to Fire, and thus tothe bottom right point; Queens, to Water, and the upper right point; Kings or Princes, to Air, and theupper left point; and Pages or Princesses, to Earth, and the lower left point.

On the other hand, the Suit of Wands or Staves corresponds to Fire; Cups, to Water; Swords, to Air;and Pentacles, Discs, or Coins, to Earth.

Thus, for example, the upper right point of the Pentagram of Earth would correspond to the Queen(upper right point) of Pentacles/Coins/Discs (Earth). The lower left point of the Pentagram of Fire wouldcorrespond to the Page (or Princess) (lower left point) of Wands (Fire). And so on.

C.2.D.2.A. The Golden Dawn Pentagram Ritual Format

The Pentagram Rituals, as developed by the Golden Dawn, are based upon the Tree of Life. In thisstandard form of the Pentagram rituals, the practitioner imagines him- or herself to be positioned at the

juncture of Key 25 (Samekh, connecting Sephirah 6, Tiphareth, with Sephirah 9, Yesod ) and Key 27( Peh, connecting S . 8, Hod , with S . 7, Netzach), and therefore completely above the bulk of Qlipphotic,

pernicious influences, which are mostly confined to the sub-Lunar Spheres, i.e., below S . 9, Yesod , on theTree of Life. Before the practitioner is Tiphareth; behind him/her is Yesod ; to his/her left is Hod ; andto his/her right is Netzach. This situation is established by the ritual inscription and visualization of Pentagrams in the positions of these four Sephiroth, and visualization of the Six-Rayed Star, also in aQaballistic mode, the center of which coincides with the center of mass of the practitioner.

This form of the Pentagram ritual is in most ways similar to the one given below, in Section2.D.2.B., which are based upon an astrological model, with certain modifications. These have to do witha) the Element assigned to any particular Quarter of the compass; b) the Archangel assigned to thatQuarter; c) the astrological entity assigned to it; d) visualization of the Pentagrams assigned to theQuarters; and e) visualizations of the Six-Rayed Star. Planets and Lights are assigned to the Quarters,rather than Signs and Constellations, as in the Golden Dawn version; the Elements are associated withthe Quarters in a somewhat different way than they are in the Golden Dawn version, given above; andthe visualization methods can be quite different. The visualization techniques described in Section2.D.2.B. assign the Court Cards and the Ace of a given Element to the Pentagram that corresponds to that

Element. But the visual mnemonic from the Tarot for the Qaballistic, i.e., Planetary assignments of thePentagrams correlates the cards of the Lower Arcana and a Trump with each Pentagram, as follows.The cards of the Lower Arcana that have the same number as that of the Sephirah of the Planet or

Light associated with the Pentagram in question are assigned to the lateral points of the Pentagram because the Qaballistic Key with which they are associated represents the Sphere of Influence or Orbit of that body, and thus the Elemental Realms of that Sphere. E.g., the Five of Wands is associated with thelower right point of the Pentagram associated with Mars, the Five of Cups with its upper right point, theFive of Swords with its upper left point, and the Five of Coins/Discs/Pentacles with its lower left point.On the other hand, the Tarot Trump associated with that same Planet or Light is assigned to the apex, or Point of Spirit, of the Pentagram, because the Qaballistic Key and Hebrew letter with which it is

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coordinated represent the essential Spirit or intelligence of that body, and thus the Quintessence andRuling Lord of that Sphere. E.g. Trump XVI, The Tower , which is associated with Mars, is assigned tothe apex of the Pentagram of Mars.

For another example, let’s look at the Pentagram associated with the Sun. In the East is the Sun. HisArchangel is Raphael, and the Element assigned to this Quarter is Air. The Pentagram inscribed in theEastern Quarter may of course be visualized in terms of assignment to the Airy realm, as describedabove, with the Knight of Swords assigned to its lower-right point; the Queen of Swords to its upper-

right point; the Ace of Words, to its apex; the King or Prince of Words to its upper-right point; and thePage or Princess of Swords to its lower-right point.

But it might also, under some circumstances, be more useful to visualize this Pentagram instead interms of the Qaballistic coordinates of Sol, Who is assigned to Sephirah 6, Tiphareth, and Key 30, Resh,which connects Hod with Yesod . The corresponding Tarot cards are the Sixes of the Lower Arcana andTrump XIX, The Sun. So the Six of Wands may be assigned to this Pentagram’s lower-right point; theSix of Cups, to its upper-right point; Trump XIX to its apex, the Point of Spirit; the Six of Swords, to itsupper-left point; and the Six of Discs/Coins/Pentacles to its lower-left point. In fact, I have found in

practice that such a visualization can be even more potent than that utilizing the Court Cards and the Aceassociated with a given Pentagram. Perhaps this is due to the fact that the Trump and the cards of theLower Arcana associated with the Planet or Light in question are closer in spirit to the nature of the bodythey represent than are the Court Cards and the Ace of the Element associated with it. The Element is,after all, only one of four included in the Sphere of Influence of that body, and is ruled by it. So a closesymbolic representation of that Planet or Light itself seems to have more power on the Inner Planes thandoes that of whatever Element is in this case associated with it.

Similarly, the other three Quarters have Planetary and Elemental assignments as follows, thevisualizations of their Pentagrams similar to that used for the East in this version of the Pentagram ritual:

At the South is Venus, to Whom are assigned the Element Fire and the Archangel Michael. Her Pentagram is visualized in terms of Key 7 ( Sephirah 7, Netzach) and 14 ( Daleth, connecting S . 2,Chokmah, to S . 3, Binah) and their associated Tarot cards (respectively, the four Sevens and Trump III,The Empress). To the lower-right point of Her Pentagram is assigned the Seven of Wands; to its upper-right point, the Seven of Cups; to the apex, Trump III; to the upper-left point, the Seven of Swords; andto the lower-left point, the Seven of Discs/Cups/Pentacles.

In the West is Luna, to Whom the Archangel Gabriel and the Element Water are assigned. Her Pentagram is visualized in terms of Keys 9 (S . 9, Yesod ) and 13 (Gimel , connecting S . 6, Tiphareth and S .1, Kether and their associated Tarot cards (respectively the four Nines and Trump II, The High Priestess).To the lower-right point of Her Pentagram is assigned the Nine of Wands; to its upper-right point, the

Nine of Cups; to its apex, Trump II; to its upper-right point, the Nine of Words; and to its lower-left point, the Nine of Discs.At the North is Mercury, to Whom are assigned the Element Earth and the Archangel Auriel. His

Pentagram is visualized in terms of Keys 8 (S . 8, Hod ) and 12 ( Beth, connecting S . 1, Kether , with S . 3, Binah) and their associated Tarot cards (respectively, the four Eights and Trump I, variously titled TheMagus, The Juggler , and The Magician). To the lower-right point of His Pentagram is assigned the Eightof Wands; to its upper-right point, the Eight of Cups; to its apex, Trump I; to its upper-left point, theEight of Swords; and to its lower-left point, the Eight of Discs.

Finally, the Six-Rayed Star has assigned to its points Tarot Trumps corresponding to Planets whichare Qaballistically associated with those points. When this Star is visualized as the Unicursal Hexagram,completely contained in a horizontal plane running through the practitioner’s navel, two of its points lieon the East-West axis. To the Easternmost of these points is assigned Trump XXI, The World or TheUniverse, corresponding to Saturn, and to the Westernmost is assigned Trump II, The High Priestess,corresponding to Luna. The South-East point has assigned to it Trump X, Fortune, for Jupiter; the

South-West point, Trump III, The Empress, for Venus; the North-East point, Trump XVI, The Tower , for Mars; the North-West point, Trump I, The Magus, for Mercury; and in the center, at the pointcorresponding to the Operator’s navel, is Trump XIX, The Sun, for Sol.

In this standard ritual, the Trumps for Jupiter and Venus lie to the right of the Operator, who facesEast, because Their associated Sephiroth, respectively Chesed and Netzach, are located on the Right-Hand Pillar of Mercy of the Tree of Life. Likewise the Trumps for Mars and Mercury lie to theOperator’s left, since Their associated Sephiroth are located on the Tree of Life’s Left-Hand Pillar of Severity. Those for Luna and Saturn determine an East-West axis which passes through the practitioner’snavel; fittingly, Their associated Sephiroth, Yesod and Da’ath, are located on the Middle Pillar of

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Consciousness of the Tree of Life. And the point for Sol of course lies at the center of all, symbolizingHis central importance in the existence of all Earthly life, including ourselves.

*If the practitioner finds it desirable, he or she can imagine, along with or in place of these Trumps, theassociated cards of the Lower Arcana that go with these Planets and Their Sephiroth. E.g., the four

Nines would be associated with Luna and the West; the four Fours with Jupiter and the South-East;and so on. In this case, one would use the four Threes for Saturn and the East.

One other difference between this version of the Pentagram Ritual and the one given in the nextsection of this chapter has to do with the Invocation of the Archangels. This becomes self-evident in thetext, so an explanation of it here isn’t necessary.

Other than these assignments of the Quarters and the technique for their visualization, this version of the Pentagram ritual doesn’t differ from the one given in the following section, which I developed for myown use. Which of the two versions works best for a given practitioner, the one given here or that givenin the following section, depends upon his or her personal psychology, cultural background, and relatedfactors. I suggest experimentation with the banishing forms of both versions to see which one works bestfor banishing, then adaptation of that form to invoking forms as well, for both Lesser and Greater Pentagram rituals. In the banishing form, none of the versions of the Pentagram ritual given here can do

harm, so it is always useful to experiment with the banishing forms before going on to any other of their forms. Nota bene: In either version, concerning the visualization of the Six-Rayed Star, this can be

imagined as three rays intersecting at right angles through a point corresponding to the practitioner’snavel, one horizontal ray running East-West, another running North-South, and a vertical one, asdescribed above. In this case, Saturn and His associated Tarot cards should be visualized as being abovethe Operator, and Luna and Her cards, below him or her. The points for Jupiter, Mars, Sol, Venus andMercury are the same as in the preceding version, lying in the same horizontal plane that intersects the

practitioner’s navel.

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1. The Lesser Pentagram Ritual

a. The Invocational Form

1) Initialization

Perform the Qaballistic Cross (see preceding section for this subroutine).

2) The Inscription of the Pentagrams

Standing at the center of the Circle, face East. Extend the Weapon straight out to the East. Imaginethat a line of blue-white, fiery light extends from its point to a point due East at infinity. Trace theInvoking Pentagram of Air in the East:

Sh

4*

V H1

2 1=6* *

* *5 3

H2 I

5




Vibrate

IHVH

(pronounced Yeh-hoh-wah). Turn to the right, still holding still holding the Weapon extended so that its point likewise revolves with you, imagining that the tip of the ray of blue-white light is also rotatingaround to the right, and that as it does so, it races a permanent arc of fiery blue-white light at infinity,moving deosil from the upper-right hand (Water) point of the Pentagram of Air. Stop when you arefacing due South. With the Weapon, trace the Invoking Pentagram of Fire:

Sh1=6*

V H1

3 4* *

* *5 2

H2 I

Imagine that the ray of blue-white light traces this Pentagram at infinity due South of you, inscribing it ina permanent, unbroken trace connected to the arc that has been traced from the Pentagram of Air in theEast to the South Point. Vibrate:

ADNI

(pronounced Ah-doh-nah-ee). Still keeping your weapon extended, turn another quarter-turn to the right,until you are facing due West. Imagine that from the apex of the Pentagram of Fire at the South the rayof blue-white light from your Weapon now traces an arc deosil to the West point at infinity. Here, tracethe Invoking Pentagram of Water:

Sh4*

V H1

1=6 2* *

* *3 5

H2 I

This likewise, is already connected to the arc that has just been traced, as it is formed by extensionthereof. Vibrate

AHIH

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(pronounced Eh-heh-ee-eh). Now turn once more to the right, bringing the arc of blue-white light to the North point at infinity, and there trace the Invoking Pentagram of Earth:

Sh1=6*

V H1

4 3* *

* *2 5

H2 I

Vibrate

AGLA

(pronounced Ah-glah). And now swing around until you are facing due East once more, bringing the arcof blue-white light around with you.

3) Invoking the Archangels of the Quarters

Facing East, extend your arms straight out from your shoulders, feet planted slightly apart, and recite:

Before me, Raphael, Behind me, Gabriel,On my right hand, Michael,On my left hand, Auriel;

For around me flames the Pentagram –

(Here, imagine that around you is a gigantic Pentagram traced in blue-white fire, your head at its apex,the tips of your extended limbs coinciding with its lateral points.)

And in the column stands the Six-Rayed Star .

(Imagine that there is a cylinder stretching to infinity above and below you, its radius defined by thewidth of your outstretched arms held parallel to the ground, and that in a horizontal plane whichintersects your body in the region of your navel there is a Unicursal Hexagram [see section on theHexagram, below, for the description of the Unicursal Hexagram] traced in blue-white fire.Alternatively, rather than a two-dimensional hexagram in a horizontal plane, you might imagine thatwithin the cylinder there is literally a six-rayed Star formed by the orthogonal intersection, at a pointcoinciding with your navel, of three lines of blue-white fire: one line is vertical and the other twointersect with it and each other in a horizontal plane passing through your navel.)

4) Repeat Qaballistic Cross

b. Banishing Form

This is performed in exactly the same way as the Invoking Ritual, except that only the BanishingPentagram of Earth is used during the Inscription of the Pentagrams (see Section 2.D.2.A.1.a.2, above):

Sh2

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*V H1

4 5* *

* *

1=6 3H2 I

Otherwise the two rituals are identical. In the first, the Powers of the Elements are called down into theCircle, and the great Archangels of the Elements and Quarters are established to rule over them. In thesecond, the powers of the Elements are banished from the Circle, and all possible Qlipphotic or unwantedastral entities with them, and the great Archangels are called in to keep the Circle clear of perniciousinfluences. The second ritual is always done at the very beginning of every ritual, in order to make surethat no entities or influences contrary to the purpose of the Working will be in the Circle while it iscarried out; and it is carried out again at the very end of every ritual, not only in the same spirit that

prompts one to pick up one’s mess after a picnic, or keeps one from pouring raw sewage or industrialeffluent into a mountain stream, but also to make sure that no uncontrolled spill-over from the Workingwill get loose in a way the Operator isn’t prepared to deal with when the Circle itself is opened and

banished at the Working’s end.

2. The Greater Pentagram Ritual

a. The Invocational Form

1) Performance of the Qaballistic Cross

2) The Inscription of the Pentagrams

a) In the East:

At the East, make the equilibrated Invoking Active Pentagram of Spirit:

Sh5*

V H1

2 3* *

* *4 1=6H2 I

VibrateEXARP

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(pronounced Ex-ar-pay). Make the Sign of Spirit [an 8-spoked wheel] in the Pentagram while vibrating

AHIH

(pronounced Eh-heh-ee-eh). Give the Sign of the Portal: extend your hands in front of you, palmsoutward, and separate them slowly, as if you were parting a veil or curtains with them.

Make the invoking Pentagram of Air, as for the Lesser Pentagram Ritual. Vibrate

ORO IBAH AOZPI

(pronounced Oro Ee-bah-hah Ay-oh-zod-pee). Make the Cherubic Emblem of Air ü [same as sigil for the Sign Aquarius] in the Pentagram while vibrating

IHVH

(pronounced Ye-Ho-WaH ). Give the Grade Sign of Air: stretch both arms upwards and outwards, theelbows bent at right angles, the hands bent back, the palms upwards, as if you were supporting a weighton the palms of your hands.

b) At the South:

Make the equilibrated Invoking Active Pentagram of Spirit, as above. Vibrate

BITOM

(pronounced Bee-toh-mah). Make the Sign of Spirit it in while vibrating

AHIH.

Give the Sign of the Portal (as at the East Point).

Make the Invoking Pentagram of Fire, as in the Lesser Pentagram Ritual. Vibrate

OIP TEAA PDOKE

(pronounced O-ee-peh Tee-ah-ah Ped-oh-kee). Make the Cherubic Emblem of Fire ö [same as the sigilfor the Sign Leo] in it while vibrating

EL

(pronounced AyL). Give the Grade Sign of Fire: raise the arms above the head and join the hands, sothat the tips of the fingers and of the thumbs meet, forming a triangle, apex upward.

c) At the West:

Make the equilibrated Invoking Passive Pentagram of Spirit:

Sh5*

V H1

3 2

9




* *

* *1=6 4

H2 I

Vibrate

HCOMA

(pronounced Hah-coh-mah). Make the Sign of Spirit in it while vibrating

AGLA

(pronounced Ah-glah). Give the Sign of the Portal (as at the East Point).

Make the Invoking Pentagram of Water, as in the Lesser Pentagram Ritual. Vibrate

MPH ARSL GAIOL

(pronounced Em-peh Ay-ar-sel Gah-ee-ohl ). Make the Cherubic Emblem of Water ù [same as the sigilfor the Sign Scorpio] in the Pentagram while vibrating

ALHIM

(pronounced Ayl-oh-him). Give the Grade Sign of Water: raise your arms until your elbows are on alevel with your shoulders, and bring your hands across your chest, touching your thumbs and the tips of your fingers together to form a triangle with the two hands, apex downwards.

d) At the North:

Make the equilibrated Invoking Passive Pentagram of Spirit, as above. Vibrate

NANTA

(pronounced Nan-tah). Make the Sign of Spirit in the Pentagram while vibrating

AGLA.


Make the Invoking Pentagram of Earth, as in the Lesser Pentagram Ritual. Vibrate

MOR DIAL HKTGA

(pronounced Ee-mohr Dee-ahl Hec-tay-gah). Make the Cherubic Emblem of Earth ó [same as the sigilfor the Sign Taurus] in the Pentagram while vibrating

ADNI

(pronounced Ah-doh-nah-ee). Give the Grade Sign of Earth: advance the right foot, stretch out the righthand forward and palm upward, the left hand backward and palm downward, the palms open.

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3) The Invocation of the Archangels:

Recite:

Before me, Raphael; Behind me, Gabriel;On my right hand, Michael;

On my left hand, Auriel; For around me flames the Pentagram And in the Column shines the Six-Rayed Star!

4) Perform the Qaballistic cross (see above)

b. The Banishing Form

This is identical in every way with the Invoking Ritual, except for two things:

1) Giving the Sign of the Portal

When the Sign of the Portal is given, at first bring your hands out to either side, palms open andfacing each other, arms held parallel with each other and to the floor (horizontal); and then slowly bringyour hands together, your arms still held horizontally, palms facing each other, until your palms touch, asif you were thereby closing a veil or a curtain with your hands.

2) Forms of the Banishing Pentagrams

The Banishing rather than the Invoking forms of the Pentagrams are used:

a) The Banishing Pentagrams of the Elements:

1)) The Banishing Pentagram of Fire

Sh

2*V H1

5 4* *

* *3 1=6

H2 I

2)) The Banishing Pentagram of Water

Sh4*

V H1

2 1=6

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* *

* *5 3

H2 I

3)) The Banishing Pentagram of Air:

Sh4*

V H1

1=6 2* *

* *3 5

H2 I

4)) The Banishing Pentagram of Earth

The Banishing Pentagram of Earth is performed as in the Banishing form of the Lesser Pentagram

Ritual.b) The Pentagrams of Spirit:

1)) The Active Banishing Pentagram of Spirit

Sh3*

V H1

1=6 5* *

* *4 2

H2 I

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2)) The Passive Banishing Pentagram of Spirit

Sh3*

V H1

5 1=6* *

* *2 4

H2 I

C.2.D.2.B. Variations on the Original Theme

C.D.2.B.1. An Astrologically-Based Variant of the Golden Dawn Rituals

The formats of the Hermetic subroutines presented below are similar but not identical to those usedroutinely for the same purposes in the Golden Dawn and related rituals that have been described above.

Notice that in the Golden Dawn version of the Greater Pentagram Rituals, Leo/Fire is at the South, notthe West as in the following ritual, while Scorpio/Water in the Golden Dawn version is in the West,whereas here it is in the South. The original Golden Dawn forms upon which the following rituals are

based were based upon the architecture of the Tree of Life and tailored to operate optimally within theMagickal influences of the environment provided for the Magickian in England, the home base of theGolden Dawn. The following ritual are designed to work in as many human cultures and other ecologicalsystems as possible. Since we all have the sky and outer space in common, regardless of our country or

geographical location, the rituals given below are geared to the longitudes of the Zodiacal Constellationsas measured anywhere on Earth at dawn on the Spring Equinox during the new Aeon of Horus,* i.e., theConstellation Aquarius rising, Scorpio at the Zenith (due South), Leo at the West, and Taurus at the

Nadir (due North).

*Spanning approximately the period 1904-4100 e.v.

This is similar to the way in which the Golden Dawn version of the Lesser Pentagram Ritual has been reworked to give the version presented below. In the following, regardless of the originalassignment of Elements to Quarters, the Quarters are geared to the Signs of Tropical astrology,* as their longitudes can be measured anywhere on Earth at dawn on the Spring Equinox, with Aries ascending(rising in the East); Capricorn on the M.C. (Midheaven or Zenith, due South); Libra descending (in the

West); and Cancer at the Nadir (due North.).

*The Signs are not identical to the Constellations. The latter are patterns of Stars in the heavens, whereasthe former are 30-degree longitudinal segments of the sky that begin at the line of celestial longitudeupon which the Sun stands at the first moment of Spring (when His declination is 0ºs, exactly on thecelestial equator, increasing in a Northern direction – at the Autumnal Equinox, His declination isagain 0ºs, but increasing in a Southern direction), and continue East around the sky in sectionsexactly 30ºs of celestial longitude wide (as measured along the celestial equator). About 2,500 yearsago the Signs corresponded to the belt of twelve Constellations that lie along the Ecliptic, called the

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Zodiac, such that the first degree of the Sign Aries – the Sun’s celestial longitude at dawn on the firstday of Spring – corresponded to the first degree of the Constellation Aries. But now (1995 e.v.), dueto the precession of the Equinoxes and the consequent apparent drift of the Stars Eastward throughthe heavens, the first degree of the Sign Aries corresponds to about 28ºs of the ConstellationAquarius, which group of Stars is directly behind the Sun in the sky at that time, hidden from us bySol.

The following rituals consciously recreate and stabilize the Magickian’s psychospiritual universe.The sphere is the most perfect solid form; the spherical Heavens are thus as close to a physical mirror of God as we have. So all the Hermetic languages and disciplines, from Qaballah through the various formsof divination to Magick and Alchemy, are grounded in astrology, the study of the Heavens as a reflectionof the ecological dynamics of the Inner Planes and the limitations upon and opportunities for theMagickian which their continuous mutations bring about.

This version of these most basic Magickal subroutines thus serves to recreate for the Magickian theultimate foundation of the Magickal worlds, the Heavens as the Mirror of God. The Lesser PentagramRitual clears out all extraneous, pre-existent influences from those Inner Heavens much as a blackboarderaser wipes off all the chalk-marks on the blackboard to make space to write upon it legibly. Inaddition, it also invokes the Elemental aspects of the Signs – the Seasons – of the year. The Greater Pentagram Ritual then invokes the Archangels of the Quarters in relation to the Stars, coordinating theQuarters with the Constellations as these now stand in the Heavens at dawn on the Vernal Equinox.

The Lesser Pentagram Ritual thus purifies the Inner Heavens of unwanted Qlippoth of Seasonalinfluences that may have accumulated in the workplace prior to the ritual, and gears the biophysicaldynamics of the Operator’s body and spirit to the ebb and flow of Seasonal and diurnal energies. TheGreater Pentagram actually invokes Stellar Powers, calling up the four Archangels of the Quarters whoare represented by the four Royal Stars or Watchers of the Heavens of the Persians: Fomalhaut ( Fom al

Haut , Mouth of the Fish), between the Constellations Aquarius and Pisces, now rising in the East at dawnin early Spring; Antares (Anti-Ares, Rival of Mars), Shiloh, or Cor Scorpio (Heart of the Scorpion), inthe Constellation Scorpio, now in the South at dawn in Spring; Regulus, or Cor Leonis (Heart of theLion) in the Constellation Leo, now setting at Sunrise on the Vernal Equinox; and Aldebaran ( Al

Dabaran, the Follower) in the Constellation Taurus, in the North at dawn in early Spring.Whereas the Pentagram Rituals are used to call up Stellar energies, either directly, as in the Greater

Pentagram Rituals, or indirectly, via the Seasons (whose “gear” with the Zodiac is continuously mutating

at the rate of 50 seconds of arc per year Westward drift relative to the Stars), as in the Lesser PentagramRitual, the Hexagram Rituals, used for Planetary Invocations, thus also recall the Tree of Life and theHuman Body and Spirit as these are mapped on the Tree of Life. So the Pentagram Rituals are useful for Seasonal, Elemental, and Stellar Invocations and Evocations, while the Hexagram Rituals are useful for Planetary Rituals of all kinds. In addition, since the Outer Planets, Saturn through Pluto, are eachrespectively associated with the Elements Earth, Air, Water and Fire, a Hexagram Ritual employing theHexagrams of one of these four Planets can also be used to Invoke or Evoke its associated Element.

In the following ritual forms, the Invoking and Banishing Forms of the four Pentagrams of theElements and the Active and Passive Pentagrams of Spirit are exactly as traced in the Qaballistic versionsof them given in the preceding subsection (2.D.2.B), above.

Nota bene: Theoretically, not only can the Pentagram and Hexagram Rituals, as developed here, beused anywhere on Earth, they could also be used anywhere in our Galaxy, the Milky Way. In that case,ritual East and West would be respectively identical with Galactic East and West, ritual South being 90ºsclockwise around the periphery of the Milky Way from East, ritual North being 90ºs clockwise around its

periphery from West. Also, for such off-Planet Workings, “up” would be equivalent to Galactic Northand “down” to Galactic South.

* * * * *

a. The Lesser Pentagram Ritual

1) Invoking

a) Perform the Qaballistic Cross, as before

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b) The Inscription of the Pentagrams

Standing at the center of the Circle, face East. Extend your Wand, Fire-Dagger, finger, or other appropriate Weapon straight out the East. Imagine that a line of blue-white light extends from its pointto a point due East at infinity. Turn to the right, still holding your Weapon extended so that its pointlikewise rotates with you, imagining that the tip of the ray of blue-white light also rotates around to the

right with you, as well, and, in doing so, traces a permanent arc of blue-white light at infinity deosil fromthe East point. Stop when you are facing due South. With the Weapon, trace the Invoking Pentagram of Earth. Imagine that the ray of blue-white light traces this Pentagram at infinity due South of you,inscribing the Pentagram there in a permanent trace, connected to the continuous arc you have tracedfrom the East Point to the South Point. Vibrate

ADNI

Still keeping your Weapon extended, now turn another quarter-turn to the right until you are facing dueWest. Imagine that from the apex (the point of Spirit) of the Earth Pentagram the ray of light emitted byyour Weapon now traces a continuous arc around to the West point at infinity. Here, trace the InvokingPentagram of Air, likewise connected to the arc you have just traced at its upper-right point (the point of Water). Vibrate

AHIH

Now turn to the right, bringing the arc of light around to the North point at infinity, and there trace theinvoking Pentagram of Water. Vibrate

AGLA

Now swing around with Weapon extended until you are facing due East once again, bringing the arc of light around with you. Trace the Invoking Pentagram of Fire in the East. Vibrate

IHVH

c) The Invocation of the Archangels

Facing East, extend your arms straight out from your shoulders, feet planted slightly apart, andrecite:

Before me, Michael, Behind me, Raphael,On my right hand, Auriel,On my left hand, Gabriel;

For around me flames the Pentagram –

(Here, imagine that your body is circumscribed by a gigantic Pentagram traced in blue-white fire, whose points correspond with your head (Shin, Spirit), the tips of your extended arms and hands (first Heh,Water, and Vav, Air), and the toes of your feet (Yod , Fire, and second Heh, Earth.)

And in the Column stands the Six-Rayed Star.

(Imagine that there is a cylinder stretching above and below you to infinity, its radius defined by thewidth of your outstretched arms held parallel to the ground, and that in a horizontal plane intersectingyour body in the region of your navel there is a Unicursal Hexagram (see section below for itsdescription) traced in blue-white fire. Alternatively, instead of employing a two-dimensional hexagramin a horizontal plane, imagine that within the cylinder there is literally a six-rayed three-dimensional Star formed by the intersection at a point of three orthogonal lines, one vertical, the other two intersecting

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with it and each other in a horizontal plane perpendicular to the first one, such that the point at which allthree lines intersect coincides with your navel.)

d) Repeat Qaballistic Cross

2) Banishing

This is performed exactly the way the Invoking Ritual is done, except that only the BanishingPentagrams of Earth are used (see Section 2.D.2.A.1.B, above). Otherwise the two rituals are identical.In the first, the Powers of the Elements are called down into the Circle, and the great Archangels of theElements and Quarters are established to rule over them. In the second, the Powers of the Elements arebanished from the Circle, all possible Qlipphotic or otherwise unwanted astral entities banished withthem, and the great Archangels are called in to keep the Circle clear of malefic influences. The secondsubroutine is always done at the very beginning of every ritual, in order to make sure that no entities or influences contrary to the purpose of the Working will be in the Circle while the Working is carried out.It is also performed at the end of every ritual. This is for two reasons. The first is in the same spirit that

prompts one to pick up one’s mess after a picnic, or keeps one from pouring raw sewage into a wild river or the ocean; the second is to make sure that no uncontrolled spill-over from the Working will get loosein the world in a way you aren’t prepared for when you open the Circle and banish it at the end of your Working.

b. The Greater Pentagram Ritual

1) Invocation

a) Perform the Qaballistic Cross

b) The Inscription of the Pentagrams

1)) At the East

Inscribe the equilibrated Invoking Active Pentagram of Spirit. Vibrate

EXARP

Make the Sign of Spirit (an eight-spoked wheel) in the Pentagram while vibrating

AHIH

Give the Sign of the Portal.Make the Invoking Pentagram of Air. Vibrate

ORO IBAH AOZPI

Make the Cherubic Emblem of Air [the sigil for Aquarius] in the Pentagram while vibrating

IHVH

Give the Grade Sign of Air.

2)) At the South

Make the Equilibrated Invoking Passive Pentagram of Spirit. Vibrate

HCOMA

Make the Sign of Spirit in it while vibrating

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AGLA


Make the Invoking Pentagram of Water. Vibrate

OIP TEAA PDOKE

Make the Cherubic Emblem of Water in it while vibrating

EL

Give the Grade Sign of Water.

3)) At the West

Make the equilibrated Invoking Active Pentagram of Spirit. Vibrate

BITOM

Make the Sign of Spirit in the Pentagram while vibrating

AHIH


Make the Invoking Pentagram of Fire. Vibrate

MPH ARSL GAIOL

Make the Cherubic Emblem of Fire in the Pentagram while vibrating

ALHIM

Give the Grade Sign of Fire.

4)) At the North

Make the equilibrated Invoking Passive Pentagram of Spirit. Vibrate

NANTA

Make the Sign of Spirit in the Pentagram while vibrating

AGLA

Give the Sign of the Portal (as at the East Point).Make the Invoking Pentagram of Earth. Vibrate

MOR DIAL HKTGA

Make the Cherubic Emblem of Earth in the Pentagram while vibrating

ADNI

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Give the Grade Sign of Earth.

c) The Invocation of the Archangels

Recite:

Before me, Raphael;

Behind me, Michael;On my right hand, Gabriel;On my left hand, Auriel;

For around me flames the Pentagram And in the Column shines the Six-Rayed Star!

d) Perform the Qaballistic Cross (see above).

2) Banishing

This is identical in every way with the Invoking Ritual except for two things: First, when the Sign of the Portal is given, at first the Operator brings his or her hands out to either side, palms open and facingforward, arms held parallel with each other and to the floor (i.e., horizontal); then the hands, the armsstill held out horizontally, palms forward, are slowly brought together until the palms touch, as if he or she were closing a veil or curtain by pushing the drapes on either side together with his or her hands.Second, Banishing rather than Invoking Pentagrams are used. Otherwise the two forms of this version of the Pentagram rituals are the same.

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C.D.2.B.2. Calling the ‘Grams: A Purely Vocal Method of the Employment of the Pentagram andHexagram in Magickal Operations

There are times when it may be very much desired to use a Pentagram or Hexagram for Magickal purposes when it cannot be physically traced in the air or any other physical medium. At such times, theability to reproduce the power of the Pentagram by use of a simple vocal Call, or one made in some other non-graphic sensory mode, could be extremely valuable.

As previously described, the Pentagram is represented thus:

Sh

*V H1

* *

* *

H2 I

The I , H , V , and Sh respectively represent the Hebrew letters Yod . Heh, Vav, and Shin. Each of these isassociated with one of the four Elements or the Quintessence, as follows:

HebrewLetter

Name of HebrewLetter

Roman Letter Pronounced Element

é Yod I Long andshort I, Y, J

Fire

ä Heh (1) H H, short E Water

å Shin Sh Sh, as in“short”

Sprit (Will,intentionality,

purposiveness)

ù Vav V U,V, O, F, W Air

ä Heh (2) Sh H, short E Earth

When a Pentagram is traced in the air or onto a surface, as described above, it is traced as acontinuous line, going from point to point of the Pentagram such that the tracing is never reversed and no

pointed is traced twice except for the point of origin, which is also the trace’s terminus. The tracings of the Elemental Pentagrams are carried out as follows, represented by the Roman equivalents of theHebrew letters associated with the points of the Pentagram (see diagram and table given above):

Element Invoking Form Banishing Form

Fire Sh*I*V*H1*H2*Sh I*Sh*H2*H1*V*IWater V*H1*H2*Sh*I*V H1*V*I*Sh*H2*H1

Air H1*V*I*Sh*H2*H1 V*H1*H2*Sh*I*VEarth Sh*H2*H1*V*I*Sh H2*Sh*I*V*H1*H2

Spirit (Active) I*V*H1*H2*Sh*I V*I*Sh*H2*H1*VSpirit (Passive) H2*H1*V*I*Sh*H2 H1*H2*Sh*I*V*H1

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But these letters can also be pronounced ,* and that is how the Calls of these Pentagrams are determined.For example, in the case of the Invoking Pentagram of Fire, which, as shown above, is traced from Shinto Yod to Heh-1 to Heh-2 back to Shin again. But the sequence “Sh-I-V-H-H-Sh” also represents the

phonetic spelling in Hebrew letters of something which, if it were a Hebrew word, would be pronouncedsomething like “Shiv-e-hash” or “Shi-u-hesh.” Similarly, all the tracing listed in the table above can be

pronounced – spoken or sung aloud – assuming that they are also phonetic spellings in Hebrew letters of Calls.**

*H1 and H2 have exactly the same pronunciation. The only difference between them is the position of each on the Pentagram relative to that of the other.

**Those readers who are interested may wish to experiment to determine which vocal renderings of theRoman transliterations of the Hebrew letters listed above are the best pronunciations for Magickal

purposes. Remember that vowels are to be inserted between the [capitalized] Roman representationsof Hebrew letters where necessary to make pronunciation possible, though these vowels should bekept to a minimum. Also Vav = V can be variously pronounced as “U,” “V,” and “F”; Yod = I, as“I,” “J,” or “Y”; and Heh = H as either “H” or “E.” In all cases where these may be rendered asvowels, whether the vowels are long, short, Roman, or Latin (e.g., the Roman long “E” is like the“E” in “meet,” whereas the Latin long “E” is pronounced like “EY” in “whey”), is something thatneeds to be worked out by experiment.

The Hexagram is also used in Magick (see section NM0C2.E of this chapter, following this one).Whereas the Pentagram is used for dealing with Elemental and Stellar Powers and spirits, including thoseassociated with the Signs and Constellations, the Hexagram is used for Planetary ones, including thoseassociated with Earth as a Planet rather than as an Element. Consider the following diagrams:

1)

Th1=7

*

P K 3 5* *

R 0

*

* *6 2

B D*

4G

2)

Sh1

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*

* *3 2

A M

(In each of these two diagrams, above, the numbers indicate the order in which to trace the figure, goingin a continuous line from point to point until reaching the origin once more. The first is a UnicursalHexagram – a six-pointed figure that is traced in one continuous line, rather than with the two used totrace the more usual Star of David. In it, the “0-th” or center point, R, is not part of the Hexagram itself;it is created as the result of the crossing of the trace over itself at that point. The second is an equilateraltriangle which also represents the top triad of the Tree of Life, including its first three Sephiroth in their normal order.)

The points of the Unicursal Hexagram shown above and, following it, the Triangle of Art, with their associated Hebrew letters, correspond to the Planets, as follows:

Hebrew letter Name of letter Romanequivalent

Pronunciation Planet/Element

ù Shin S, Sh “S” as in“Ross,” “sh” asin “shadow”

Pluto/Fire (Will,Spirit,Quintessence)

í Mem M As in “mother” Neptune/Water

à Aleph A, E As in “ El Shaddai”

Uranus/Air

ú Tav T, Th “T” as in “cat,”“th” as in“theater”

Saturn/Earth(both Elementand Planet)

ë Kaph K As in “lack” or “Kate”

Jupiter/Air

ó Peh P As in “Paul” or

“phony”

Mars/Fire

ø Resh R As in “rat” Sun/Gold ( yang )

ã Daleth D As in “dog” Venus/Metal

á Beth B As in “boy” Mercury/Water

â Gimel G Hard “g,” as in“girl”; soft “g,”as in “gem”;sometimes hard“c” as in “cat,”or soft “c,” as in“cinder”

Luna/Silver ( yin)(alternate:Chaos/Void)

There are also Hexagrams for the Elements, just as there are for the Planets. But unlike the latter, thosefor the Elements are not traced using the Unicursal Hexagram diagrammed above. They are as follows:

1) The Hexagram of Fire

Th*

Sh

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*

* *A M

* *P K

I.e., two triangles are traced. For the invoking form, the first is Th*D*B*Th, the second is G*K*P*G.The second triangle is traced after the first, and superposed on it. For banishing, first trace Th*B*D*Th,then, superposed on the first, G*P*K*G. Note that the Hexagram of Fire is identical to the Hexagram of the Planet Pluto.

2) The Hexagram of Water

P * * K

G**Th

B * * D

In the invoking form, first G*P*K*G is traced, then, just below it, Th*D*B*Th. For banishing, first traceG*K*P*G, then, below it, Th*B*D*Th. This Hexagram is identical to that of the Planet Neptune.

3) The Hexagram of Air

Th

*

B * * D

P * * K

*G

For invoking, first trace Th*D*B*Th, then, below the first triangle, G*P*K*G. To banish, traceTh*B*D*Th, then G*K*P*G. This Hexagram is the same as that for the Planet Uranus.

4) Earth (the Element)

The Hexagram of Earth is identical to that of Saturn, which, like those for Jupiter, Mars, the Sun,Venus, Mercury, and the Moon, is traced out as shown in the table given below, with reference to theUnicursal Hexagram (the following diagram):

Th*

P K

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* *

*

* *B D

*

G

With reference to the diagram of the Universal Hexagram given above, the Planetary Hexagrams (belowthe Abyss) are traced out, point to point, as follows:

Planet Invoking Banishing

Luna G*P*D*Th*B*K*G G*K*B*Th*D*P*GMercury B*Th*D*P*G*K*B B*K*G*P*D*Th*BVenus D*P*G*K*B*Th*D D*Th*B*K*G*P*DSun See below* See below**Mars P*D*Th*B*K*G*P P*G*K*B*Th*D*PJupiter K*G*P*D*Th*B*K K*B*Th*D*P*G*K

Saturn/Earth Th*D*P*G*K*B*Th Th*B*K*G*P*D*Th

*The Invoking Hexagram of the Sun is made by tracing the Invoking Hexagram of Saturn, immediatelyfollowed by that of Luna.

**The Banishing Hexagram of the Sun is made by tracing the Banishing Hexagram of Saturn,immediately followed by that of Luna.

Calls can be constructed out of the tracings of the Hexagram, just as they can from those of thePentagram. As an example, consider the Invoking Hexagram of Luna. Represented as a string of Romanletters, the transliterations of the original Hebrew letters associated with the points of the Hexagram andthe Planets, it is

G*P*D*Th*B*K*G

By inserting vowels to make this string of letters pronounceable, as if it were a word, we get somethinglike

GaPeDiThoBuKaG

(Which vowels are selected for this last is mostly a matter of taste since, Magickally speaking, only theconsonants have Qaballistic, hence Magickal properties and powers which we desire to activate by meansof ritual. Thus the choice of vowels is up to the Operator, because by themselves they are unlikely to

affect the outcome. However, it is recommended that you select those vowels you find easiest to use for this purpose and which, if anything, add to the resonance and power of your voice as you make the Call.)After you’ve settled on a choice of vowels to make this string of consonants into a pronounceable

Magickal “word,” you should then practice, practice, PRACTICE saying this “word” until you can use itin your sleep, and have no trouble at all remembering it. This is true of all these Calls which, like the

physical inscription of the figures of the Hexagrams and Pentagrams, should be over-learned sothoroughly that, short of major brain-damage, you’ll be able to recall them at need without any effort.

Nota bene: This method of representing a lineal figure by means of a purely vocalized Call can beextended to any graphic which can be represented as a finite set of points, each of which has associatedwith it a unique letter of some alphabet. The interested reader may wish to experiment along those lines.

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C.2.D.2.C. The Supernal Pentagram Ritual

1. The Lesser Supernal Pentagram Ritual

During the course of this ritual, the Operator establishes him- or herself at the intersection of theSecond Plane of the Tree of Life and the Path associated with Key 13, the Path associated with the

Hebrew letter Gimel and Tarot Trump III, The High Priestess, connecting Sephirah 1, Kether , withSephirah 6, Tiphareth. At the same time, he or she also inscribes a total of six Pentagrams abouthim-/herself: one directly above, one directly below, and the other four at the four Cross-Quarters of theSecond Plane.

The Second Plane of the Tree of Life contains the traditional Sephiroth Chokmah (2) and Binah (3),connected by the Path associated with Key 14, the Hebrew letter Daleth, and Tarot Trump III, The

Empress. So by means of this ritual the Operator is established immediately above Tiphareth and below Kether , on a line midway between Binah and Chokmah. In addition, the Second Plane of the Tree of Lifealso contains the new, Transcendental Sephiroth, i = √-1, associated with the trans-Plutonian PlanetPersephone, and Aleph2, associated with the trans-Persephonean Planet Hera, both therefore on the samelevel of the Tree as Chokmah and Binah and connected by a new Path sharing that Plane with Daleth butorthogonal to the latter Path. So this ritual establishes the Operator at the intersection of three Paths onthe Inner Planes: Gimel (Key 13), Daleth (Key 14), and the new Path, associated with some distinctASCII character and one of the elements from the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements, connectingSephirah i with Sephirah Aleph2.

In order to establish him-/herself at that site on the Tree, the Operator imagines three line segments,two horizontal, one vertical, intersecting at right angles in the same point, and that he or she stands attheir point of intersection. The first, horizontal line segment represents Daleth, connecting Chokmahwith Binah; the second, at right angles to the first but also horizontal, represents the new Path connectingi to Aleph2; and the third, vertical line segment, at right angles to both the first two, represents Gimel ,connecting Kether with Tiphareth.

The six Pentagrams with which the Operator surrounds him-/herself mark out a protective Spherearound him or her. They represent the points defined by the intersections of the three Great Circles thatdefine the protective Sphere: above and below, where the two Great Circles in orthogonal vertical planescross each other, and at the four Cross-Quarters, where those vertically-aligned Great Circles cross that inthe horizontal plane, at right angles to it. Associated with each Pentagram is a Divine Name, anArchangel, a Planet, and an Element. Each Pentagram has two forms, depending upon whether it is used

for invoking or banishing.These Pentagrams are protective in and of themselves. So is the Sphere of Light which theyimplicitly create around the Operator. Further, by use of this ritual, the Operator establishes him-/herself far above almost all the lower Planes of the Tree of Life, above even the Upper Astral, and therebyduring the course of the ritual rises above almost all possible Qlipphotic influences or avenues of attack.As a result, this ritual gives the Operator three-fold protection of enormous power. Used for banishing, itwill ward off all ordinary and almost all extraordinary malefic and Qlipphotic influences. OnlyQlipphotic entities associated with Kether or from regions beyond the esoteric universe associated withthe Tree of Life and its physical manifestation, our Solar System, can break through the wardsestablished by the Banishing form of this ritual, and then only with extreme difficulty. Since suchentities are only rarely encountered, even by advanced students and practitioners of Magick, this ritualwill be more than sufficient to give adequate Magickal protection in the overwhelming majority of cases,regardless of how severe or potentially damaging any malefic attacks or Qlipphotic infestations againstwhich it is used may be.

On the other hand, when the Greater Supernal Pentagram Ritual is used in invocations, it enables theOperator to invoke entities from the realms associated with the traditional Supernal Sephiroth ( Kether ,Chokmah, and Binah) and the new Transcendental ones (∅ [Null or Empty Set], Zero, i = √-1, Aleph0,

Aleph1, and Aleph2) with a reasonable degree of safety and realistic hope of success.The Golden Dawn version of the Pentagram Ritual establishes the Operator at the intersection of the

Paths connecting Tiphareth with Yesod and Netzach with Hod . This places him or her completely abovethe sub-Lunar realms of the Lower Astral and the pernicious Qlipphotic influences associated with it;defines a Circle around him or her by means of four Pentagrams; and suggests Tiphareth above andYesod below, as upper- and lowermost positions on a protective Sphere about the Operator, between themthe image of a vertical column containing a “Six-Rayed Star” (this last can be imagined either as two

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Hexagrams, either Stars of David or Unicursal Hexagrams, lying parallel to the horizontal plane in whichthe Operator stands and directly above and below him or her; or as the Origin and six Rays that definethe standard Cartesian coordinate space, with the X-, Y-, and Z-axes emanating from the Origin, whichcoincides with the Operator’s navel).

This is a very potent ritual, one which is almost always outstandingly efficacious for banishing aswell as many types of invocation. But it doesn’t establish the Operator at a point any higher on the Treeof Life than the Fifth Plane, which contains Netzach and Hod , and doesn’t equip him or her to deal with

influences and energies much above the Lower Astral, the upper boundary of which is the Sphere of Yesod (the orbital of Luna, the dominion of things ruled by Her). In a few, admittedly rare but extremelyfrightening or even deadly cases, one may come under attack by Qlipphotic entities associated withrealms in the Higher Astral or higher on the Tree of Life, or even completely alien ones from beyond theTree of Life and the Inner Planes of our local Solar System. In such cases, the Golden Dawn standardPentagram ritual may not be sufficient for protection. On the other hand, when one desires to invoke

beings – whether divine or otherwise – from realms associated with portions of the Tree of Life aboveTiphareth or even completely beyond it, such as those associated with other Stellar systems far beyondthe bounds of Sol’s, that ritual, which is geared to the esoteric universe associated only with the Solar System, may prove to be useless. The Supernal Pentagram ritual, like the Transcendental and Other-Universe Pentagram rituals, which follow, takes account of much more of the esoteric realms than doesthe Golden Dawn version, and may be much more useful to the Operator in either sort of case; in thecase of invocations, for example, it can be used to invoke Gods associated with the Outer Planets of theSolar System, for which the Golden Dawn Pentagram ritual is useless.*

*For invoking the Gods associated with the Planets of other Stars, e.g., for accomplishment of successfulmanned missions from Earth to far-away Stars on the physical plane, or for obtaining knowledge of the infrastructure of the Inner Planes associated with Planets of Stars other than Sol, our own,however, the Transcendental Pentagram ritual is necessary; the universe of the Supernal Pentagramritual does not extend far enough outward from Earth for such purposes. For evoking beings frombelow Malkuth and the roots of the Tree of Life, the Tunnels of Set,1 as well as for warding oneself against them, the Trans-Universe Ritual of the Pentagram is necessary. Both of these are describedin this article below, in full.

The various forms of the Supernal Ritual of the Pentagram is described as follows below. The reader

is advised to study the various forms of the Pentagrams used in the Golden Dawn Pentagram rituals to seehow each Pentagram is inscribed, in relation to the Element associated with it and the purpose, invokingor banishing, for which it is used (see Section C.2.D.2.A of this article for a full description of the GoldenDawn Pentagram ritual).

a. Invocation

Facing East, the Operator performs the Qaballistic Cross, as follows:

*The form given here for performance of the Qaballistic Cross is standard for all versions of thePentagram rituals.

Facing East, using the finger of your dominant hand, your Wand, or your Fire-Dagger, inscribe theInvoking Pentagram of Air, while vibrating

ORO IBAH AOZPI

In the center of this Pentagram, envision the Ace of Swords and Trump 0, The Fool , of the Tarot;

the physical Planet Uranus; the glyphs for Uranus Ý, the Element Air ∧, and the Cherub of Air or

Aquarius ü; the Goddess Liberty/Urania, the God Ouranos, and/or the God

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Hermes/Mercury/Djehuti/Odin; a gigantic steel sword with a bronze hilt, held vertically, point upward, a blazing crown of white-gold draped with laurel hovering above the point of its blade; an opal set in aring made of bronze; strong winds blowing, or even tornadoes and hurricanes; and a huge sphere of pure

jet black banded in fiery scarlet, for the Sephirah.Americans may find it useful to imagine the American or bald eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

flying through the Eastern skies for this Quarter, as well as the grizzly bear. Images of bears in generalas well as of bats are good here. The image of the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World in New York

Harbor, silhouetted before the Sun rising out of the Atlantic Ocean, may be particularly useful here,regardless of one’s country of origin. In addition, anything associated with Keys 1, 3, and 15(respectively Kether , Binah, and Heh*), e.g., revolution, socialism, communism, other collectivistcultures and philosophies, accidents, catastrophes, crises, space-travel, women’s liberation and other liberation movements, breakthrough discoveries of any kind, modern high-power and/or electronictechnology, the Bomb, etc., are appropriate for the envisioning of this Pentagram, as is the Season of Winter.

Finally, the Fixed Stars Fomalhaut (alpha Piscis Australis),** now standing at about 4ºs of the SignPisces (as of 1995 e.v.), and the Star Polaris (alpha Ursa Minoris), at about 28ºs of the Sign Gemini,† areassociated with Uranus.

Fomalhaut, like Regulus, Antares, and Aldebaran, discussed below, is one of the four Royal Stars or Watchers of the Heavens of the Persian astrologers. In their time, about 3,000 b.c.e., Fomalhaut roseabout five hours before dawn and stood at the Midheaven on the Vernal Equinox, thus being the Watcher of Spring. It now rises about four hours after dawn on the first day of Winter, and is thus the herald of the Dawn on the first day of Spring, rising about two hours before the Sun on the Vernal Equinox.

In the 15th century, Polaris, at the tip of the handle of the Little Dipper, enabled Western Europeannavigators such as Columbus to sail the great oceans of the Northern hemisphere with only a compassand sextant as navigational tools, thus liberating Western Europe from its former isolation from most of the Planet, and enabling its peoples to discover a whole new world of unparalleled wonder and freedom,the Americas. Later on, Black slaves in the American South made their way to freedom in the North byusing Polaris as their navigational beacon; their use of this Star for that purpose is memorialized in thewell-known Negro “spiritual,” “Follow the Drinkin’ Gourd,” one of many such musical intelligencemanuals and road-maps passed among Black slaves in the American South right under the noses of their owners and overseers.‡

*In Aleister Crowley’s system, Key 15 and the Hebrew letter Heh are associated with the Sign Aquarius,

which is ruled by the Planet Uranus. In Golden Dawn and traditional systems, however, Key 28 andTzaddi should be used in association with Aquarius, while Heh should be used in association withAries.

**See Vivian E. Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (York Beach, ME: SamuelWeiser, Inc., 1979), pp. 57-58, 114-115, and 165-167; Richard Hinckley Allen, Star Names, Their

Lore and Meaning (New York: Dover, 1963), pp. 344-347; Robert Burnham, Jr., Burnham’sCelestial Handbook: An Observer’s Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System, Revised and

Enlarged Edition (three volumes. New York: Dover, 1978), Volume 3 ( Pavo Through Vulpecula), pp. 1483-1488.

†Robson, op. cit., pp. 65-66, 108-109, 184-185; Allen, op. cit., 447-460; Burnham, Jr., Vol. 3, 2006-2026.

‡See Gloria D. Rall’s outstanding article, “The Stars of Freedom,” Sky and Telescope Vol. 89 No. 2(February 1995), pp. 36-38, for a detailed discussion about this song and its use as a guide to the North and freedom by Black slaves before and during the American Civil War.

Turn to the South. Inscribe the Invoking Pentagram of Fire, while vibrating

OIP TEAA PDOKE

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In the center of this Pentagram, envision the Ace of Wands, the four Knights, and Trump XX, The Aeon; the physical trans-Plutonian Planet Hera; the glyphs for the Element Fire < , the Cherub of Fire or Leo ö, and the Planet Hera (an upright cross in a circle whose arms extend beyond the circumference of the circle; in the center of the cross is a large dot); a huge Wand from which fresh green growth and

brilliantly-colored blossoms are bursting, blazing with an ethereal fiery light; any of the Great Mother Goddesses and Queens of Heaven, such as Pallas Athena, Kali, Hera, Durga, Kwan Yin, Juno, MaryMother of Christ, Ishtar, Cybele, etc. Colors of the sky, blue flowers, flowers associated with Aquariusand Saturn, blue star sapphires, and roses are appropriate symbolism for the Mother Goddesses; and agigantic sphere all the colors of the sky, for Her Sephirah.

American practitioners may find the symbolism of the mountain lion and the geographic region of Mexico especially useful, here. In general, the Bengal tiger, the parrot or parakeet, the crocodile or alligator, or any animal or plant peculiar to the tropics is a good symbol of the South. In addition,anything associated with the idea of Aleph2, the Set of All Possible Mathematical Structures, isappropriate to the envisioning of this Pentagram, as is the Season of Summer.

Finally, the fixed Stars Spica (alpha Virginis),* currently at about 24ºs of the Sign Libra, andRegulus (alpha Leonis or Cor Leonis, Heart of the Lion),** at about 29ºs of the Sign Leo, are associatedwith Hera. Regulus is one of the aforementioned Four Royal Stars of the Persians. As Watcher of the

North, it marked the Summer Solstice at about 3,000 b.c.e., standing high in the Southern heavens on thatday of the year. It is now the herald of the Dawn on the Autumnal Equinox, rising about two hours

before dawn on that day. Spica, on the other hand, now rises with the Sun a few days before Sol enters

the Sign Scorpio; marking the fertile tip of the beard of wheat held by the Virgin in the ConstellationVirgo, it is known to astrologers as “the most fortunate of all Stars,” almost invariably heralding greatgood fortune for anyone or anything in whose astrological chart it is strong.

*Robson, op. cit., pp. 66-67, 112-113, and 211-212; Allen, op. cit., pp. 460-473; Burnham, Jr., op. cit.,Volume 3, pp. 2042-2109.

**Robson, op. cit., pp. 48, 110-111, and 194-197; Allen, op. cit., pp. 252-263; Burnham, Jr., op. cit.,Volume 2 (Chameleon Through Orion), pp. 1047-1082.

Turn to the West. Inscribe the Invoking Pentagram of Water, while vibrating

MPH ARSL GAIOL

In the center of this Pentagram, envision the Ace of Cups, the four Knights, and Trump XII, The

Hanged Man; the physical Planet Neptune; the glyphs for Neptune Þ, the Element Water = , and the

Cherub of Water or Scorpio ù; any of the Gods Poseidon/Neptune, Shiva, or Maya (Illusion); a greatsilver chalice covered with brilliant gemstones and chased with gold intaglio spelling out such holynames as Christos, Dionysos, and Osiris; a great star ruby; the raging waters of Ocean, and a vastsphere all the colors of the Ocean Sea for the Sephirah, Chokmah.

Americans will find images of rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, and a vista of the Pacific Ocean particularly useful here. In addition, anything associated with Keys 2, 23, and 29 (respectively Chokmah,Mem, and Qoph) is appropriate to the envisioning of this Pentagram, as is the Season of Autumn.

Finally, the Star Antares (alpha Scorpii or Cor Scorpio, Heart of the Scorpion),* which currently

stands about 10ºs of the Sign Sagittarius, is associated with Neptune. This Star, another of the Four Royal Stars of the Persians, as Watcher of the West marked the Autumnal Equinox in 3,000 b.c.e.,standing near the Zenith at noon on that day of the year. Today is rises about four hours after dawn onthe first day of Autumn, and is thus currently the herald of the Dawn on the Winter Solstice, rising abouttwo hours before the Sun on that day.


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Turn to the North. Inscribe the Invoking Pentagram of Earth while vibrating

MOR DIAL HKTGA

In the center of this Pentagram, envision the Ace of Disks and Trump XXI, The Universe; the

physical Planet Persephone; the glyph for the Element Earth ï , the Cherub of Earth or Taurus ó, and thePlanet Persephone (like that for Hera, except that here the cross is tipped at 45º to the vertical, forming an“X”); any of the Gods of Earth, such as Keres, Demeter, Saturnus, Persephone, Gaia, etc.; a giganticmountain of black basalt streaked with white salt rising to the Empyrean; and an enormous spherecovered with the Mandelbröt Set as well as all possible Julia sets, worked in every color of theelectromagnetic spectrum, all those above violet and below red as well as those in the visible spectrum(alternatively, only in the colors midnight black, ice-white, and bloody scarlet).

Colors of the Earth and Her fertility, soil, oil (petroleum), dung, lava, magma, a perfect black roseand black star sapphires are appropriate associations for Persephone. Americans may find the bison andthe ancient Canadian wintering grounds of this animal to be especially appropriate symbols for Her. Inaddition, anything associated with Keys 10, 26, and 32 (respectively Malkuth, A’ain, and Tav) areappropriate to the envisioning of this Pentagram.

Finally, the Fixed Stars Algol (beta Persei),* currently at about 26ºs Taurus, and Aldebaran (alpha

Tauri),** at about 10ºs Taurus, are associated with the Planet Persephone and Her Sephirah, i = √-1.Aldebaran was also one of the Four Royal Stars of the Persians. As Watcher of the East, it marked theVernal Equinox, standing high in the sky at noon on that day of the year, about 3,000 b.c.e. It now risesabout three hours after dawn on the first day of Spring, and is thus the herald of the Dawn on the Summer Solstice, rising before the Dawn on that day of the year. Algol, on the other hand, a variable Star marking the head of Medusa held in the hand of Perseus in the Constellation Perseus, with an extreme

Northern declination, is known as “the most evil Star in the heavens,” causing misfortune, violence,decapitation, hanging, electrocution, and mob violence in charts of people and things in which it isstrong.**


**Robson, op. cit., pp. 56, 108-109, and 123-125; Allen, op. cit., pp. 378-386; Burnham, Jr., op. cit.,Volume 3, pp. 1798-1888.

Turn back once more to the East. At the Zenith, above your head, inscribe the Invoking ActivePentagram of Spirit while vibrating

AHIH

In the center of this Pentagram, envision the four Aces of the Tarot, collected together; the physicalPlanet Pluto; the glyphs for the Element of Spirit (the same as that of Fire, except that above thetriangle’s apex is a small circle; or the circumscribed eight-rayed Star, as before) and Pluto î ; and of the

Gods of Death and Rebirth, such as Pluto, Hades, Dis, Lucifer, Kali, Hel, Anubis, Parvati, BaronSamedhi, etc.; the Archangel Michael, armed with the Flaming Sword, as Defender of the Throne of Godand Protector of the People; the blazing, scintillating Lamp of Spirit; and an almost inconceivably large,

bright sphere of white light, like a quasar seen close up, for Kether , the Sephirah.A useful geographical association for Pluto is Antarctica, particularly as portrayed in H. P.

Lovecraft’s novel At the Mountains of Madness. In addition, anything associated with Keys 1, 24, and 31(respectively Kether , Nun, and Shin) is appropriate to the envisioning of this Pentagram.

Finally, the Fixed Stars Acrux (alpha Crucis),* now at about 12ºs of the Sign Scorpio and some 63ºsSouthern declination, and Bungula (alpha Centauri),** the closest of all Stars to us, our gateway tointerstellar space, at about 29º 30’ of Scorpio and 61º South declination, are associated with Pluto. So are

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the Constellation of Crucis, the Southern Cross,† and the Clouds of Magellan,‡ those vast, irregularlyshaped Stellar assemblies so prominent in Southern skies but not visible from much of the NorthernHemisphere.

*Robson, op. cit., pp. 60, 112-113, and 116; Allen, op. cit., p. 191; Burnham, Jr., op. cit., Volume 2, pp.728-729.

**Robson, op. cit., pp. 36-37, 112-113, and 148-150: Allen, op. cit., pp. 148-159; Burnham, Jr., op. cit.,Volume 1, pp. 535-571.

†Robson, op. cit., pp. 41-42; Allen, op. cit., pp. 184-191; Burnham, Jr., op. cit., Volume 2, pp. 726-734.

‡Robson, op. cit., pp. 53; Allen, op. cit., pp. 294-295; The International Encyclopedia of Astronomy(Patrick Moore, editor. New York: Orion Books, 1987), pp. 238-239; Burnham, Jr., op. cit.,Volume 2, pp. .837-852, and Vol. 3, pp. 1915-1921.

Now at the Nadir, below your feet, inscribe the Invoking Passive Pentagram of Spirit while vibrating

ALHIM

In the center of this Pentagram, envision the four Sixes, collected together, and Trump XIX, The

Sun; Sol, our Sun; the glyphs of Spirit and the Sun Ö; the Lamp of Spirit; any Solar divinities of thevarious cultures of the world, such as Ra, Christos, Baldur, Dionysos, Helios, Apollo, etc.; the ArchangelRaphael, armed with the Bright Shining Sword of Truth; a vast disc of Solar gold; gemstones of the hueand brilliance of the Sun; and a huge, brilliant sphere of bright yellow or golden light for Tiphareth, theSephirah.

In addition, anything associated with Keys 6, 19, and 30 (respectively Tiphareth, Teth, and Resh) isappropriate to the envisioning of this Pentagram.

*Robson, op. cit., pp. 62-63, 108-109, and 119-122.

**Robson, op. cit., pp. 56, 108-109, and 123-125.

Now, still facing East, stand with feet planted a little ways apart, arms outstretched to either side,and recite:

Before me, ERZLA

(pronounced Er-zod-eh-lah, the name of the Enochian Archangel of Air of Air),

Behind me, HTAAD

(pronounced Heh-tah-ah-deh, the name of the Enochian Archangel of Air of Water),

On my right hand, BDOPA

(pronounced Beh-doh-pah, the name of the Enochian Archangel of Air of Fire),

On my left hand, NBOZA

(pronounced En-boh-zo-dah, Enochian Archangel of Air of Earth),

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Above me, MICHAEL, Below me, RAPHAEL, For around me flame the Pentagrams, And in the column stands the Six-Rayed Star .

Repeat the Qaballistic Cross, and you are done.

b. Banishing

This is identical to the Invoking Supernal Pentagram Ritual, except that in every case only theBanishing Pentagram of Earth is used.

2. The Greater Supernal Pentagram Ritual

This is identical to the standard Golden Dawn Greater Pentagram Ritual, with two sets of exceptions.First, the Golden Dawn’s version of this ritual is here extended to the Zenith and Nadir, for both of

which Directions the appropriate Pentagrams are inscribed, the Active Pentagram of Spirit at the Zenithand the Passive Pentagram of Spirit at the Nadir, as in the Lesser Supernal Ritual of the Pentagram,above.

Second, rather than the God-Names, Archangels, and other associations used with the Pentagrams of the Quarters employed in the Golden Dawn ritual, the ones employed in the Lesser Supernal Ritual of thePentagram, described above, are used, as follows:

Quarter Element Planet Tarot associations God-Name Archangel

East Air Uranus The four Threes; thefour Queens; Trump0, the Fool

ORO IBAHAOZPI

ERZLA

South Fire Hera Trump XX, The Aeon OIP TEAAPDOKE

BDOPA

West Water Neptune The four Twos; thefour Knights(Princes); Trump

XII, The Hanged Man

MPH ARSLGAIOL

HTAAD

North Earth Persephone The four Pages(Princesses); TrumpXXI, The Universe

MOR DIALHKTGA

NBOZA

Above Spirit(Active)

Pluto The four Aces AHIH MICHAEL(MIKHAIL)

Below Spirit(Passive)

The Sun The four Sixes; thefour Kings; TrumpXIX, The Sun

ALHIM RAPHAEL

Otherwise, the Greater Supernal Ritual of the Pentagram is just like the Golden Dawn Pentagram Ritualin both its invoking and banishing forms, except for the inscription of the Pentagrams Above and Below

as well as at the Quarters.2

C.2.D.2.D. The Transcendental Pentagram Ritual

By means of this ritual, the Operator establishes him-/herself just above Kether on the Tree of Life,with Kether just below his/her feet, infinite Starry reaches all around him/her, and a blazing Star directlyabove his or her head, the appearance and identity of which will be described and explained shortly. Kether , below the Operator’s feet, is visualized as a huge sphere of white brilliance, tinged with gold,like the fireball of a nuclear explosion at the moment of its inception (except that, rather than dissipatingrapidly, its form and the intensity of the light it gives off remain constant). The Star above the head

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appears in the form of a silver Sunburst, with a radiant aura that emits all energies above the visiblespectrum from ultraviolet light upward to the hardest gamma radiation.

The Pentagrams inscribed at the four Quarters of the horizontal plane that intersects with theOperator’s navel, along with the associations used with them, including God-Names and names andforms of the Archangels and Angels, are identical with those described in the previous section on theSupernal Pentagram Ritual. Only the associations used with the Pentagrams directly above and below theOperator differ significantly in this ritual from those used in that one.*

*This will not be quite true in the case of the Trans-Universe Pentagram Ritual, described in the nextsection, however. For a complete discussion of the differences between the Transcendental andTrans-Universe Pentagram rituals, see that section.

Use of this ritual establishes the Operator at the outermost bounds of the Solar System, just beyondthose portions of the Inner Planes corresponding with the Orbit of Pluto, and thus in the esotericequivalents of true interstellar space.*

*In esoteric terms, with reference to the 16-Sephiroth English-Language Qaballah developed in Part 3 of

Volume 1 and Chapter 1 of Part 2 of Volume 3 of this work, because Pluto corresponds with Kether ,His Sphere is thus the Outer Bound of Sol’s Territory. However, on the one hand, the Kuyper andÖort cometary clouds (in bands lying respectively 30-200 and 200-20,000 AU from Sol), come

between Pluto’s orbit and true interstellar space; and on the other, the six hypothetical new Planetsthat fill out the 16-Sephiroth Qaballah, though They are diagrammed three-dimensionally on theSphere of Life as falling closer to Sol than Pluto does, physically speaking Their orbits are assumedto lie farther from Sol than Pluto’s. So while the Transcendental Pentagram Ritual is superb for invoking beings associated with other Stars in our universe than Sol, it could also easily be adaptedfor invocation of the beings associated with those hypothetical new Planets or with the Kuyper andÖort cometary clouds that are within the Solar System, however remote from Sol they may be. Insimilar wise, the Supernal Pentagram ritual described in the previous section could also be used toinvoke beings associated with e.g., the bodies of the asteroid belt lying between Mars and Jupiter,maverick planetoids such as Chiron and Pholus having orbits outside the asteroid belt but which arenot really true Planets, Moons of other Planets, and so on. (The original Golden Dawn Pentagram

Ritual and its astrological variant also given in this article are fine for invoking beings anywhere between the center of Sol and the Earth/Luna orbit, but not much else. Early on, the HexagramRituals were adapted for invocation of Gods associated with Planets Whose orbits lie outside Earth’s,

but the Hexagram Rituals isn’t very adaptable much beyond that point, and it was to provide for itsdeficiencies that I developed the Supernal, Transcendental, and Trans-Universe Pentagram Rituals.

The workings of the mind, the spirit, the psyche, and material reality all interact and are inextricablyinterconnected with one another; the workings of any one of them inevitably affect all the others in verysignificant ways. The functioning of the spirit determines that of the psyche and intellect; thefunctioning of the latter strongly affect that of the physical brain, which in its turn similarly shapes that of the rest of the physical body, through which we act on the world in measurable ways. In return, the

physical environment strongly affects the physiology of brain and body, and in turn these certainly affectthe way in which the psyche, intellect, and spirit express themselves in the manifest world, since they can

only do so through the physical media of brain and body. Thus the functioning of any one of these servesas a very useful mirror of any of the others. To understand any one of them is to have some significantunderstanding of all the rest; to affect any of them is to affect the others in some significant way.

Magickal ritual, which acts on esoteric reality on the Inner Planes, thus has a tremendous impactupon exoteric reality, the physical Outer Planes. The following rituals, which enable psyche and spirit toexplore the esoteric equivalents of interstellar space in our own physical universe (the TranscendentalPentagram Ritual) as well as regions in alternate physical universes (the Trans-Universe PentagramRituals) can therefore be very useful for workings dedicated, e.g., to the eventual achievement of the

physical exploration and colonization of interstellar and trans-universal physical space by Earthly life of some kind, human or otherwise.*

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*After all, regardless of species, all of us are part of the same homeworld, Mother Earth, and thereforechildren of the same Living God, the Great Spirit.

A ritual such as those that follow, below, is absolutely necessary for achieving and maintaining the psychospiritual health of our world once physical exploration of these non-terrestrial realms has begun.For the only spiritual resources we will have with us at the inception of such endeavor will be those wecarry within us: our Gods, our myths, our symbols, and our history, both human and pre-human. Ritualssuch as those given here will establish them firmly within us, and connect them to the new, strangecosmos we have already begun to physically explore, thereby creating for us the psychospiritualequivalents of life-support systems to sustain our spiritual and emotional existence in whatever domainsof the Inner Planes area associated with those alien regions of the physical cosmos. Otherwise, that alien

psychospiritual environment, for which we have not as yet been selected by gigayears of naturalevolution (not to mention possible Qlippoth of those realms) could quickly destroy our essential selvesand, worse, doom Gaia’s efforts to reproduce Herself. 3

This first ritual is performed as follows:

1. The Lesser Ritual Form

a. Invocation

The Operator faces East, and performs the Qaballistic Cross (standard). This is followed by theinscription of the Pentagrams:

Facing East, using the forefinger of your dominant hand,5 your Wand, or your Fire-Dagger, inscribethe Invoking Pentagram of Air while vibrating

ORO IBAH AOZPI

The same visual symbolism is used with this Pentagram as is employed in the Supernal Pentagram Ritual,except that the Constellation Aquarius is substituted for the physical Planet Uranus, along with all its

most prominent or astronomically interesting Stars.Turn to the South. Inscribe the Invoking Pentagram of Fire while vibrating

OIP TEAA PDOKE

For this Pentagram, the same visual symbolism is used as employed for it in the Supernal PentagramRitual, except that the Constellation Leo and its most prominent Stars are substituted for the physicalPlanet Hera.

Turn to the West. Inscribe the Invoking Pentagram of Water while vibrating

MPH ARSL GAIOL

The only difference in visual symbolism between that used with this Pentagram in the Supernal

Pentagram Ritual and that used with it here is the substitution of the Constellation Scorpio and its most prominent Stars for the physical Planet Neptune.Turn to the North. There, inscribe the Invoking Pentagram of Earth while vibrating

MOR DIAL HKTGA

The sole difference in visual symbolism between that used with this Pentagram in the SupernalPentagram Ritual and that used with it here is the substitution of the Constellation Taurus and its most

prominent Stars for the physical Planet Persephone.

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Turn back once more to the East. At the Zenith, above your head, inscribe the Invoking ActivePentagram of Spirit while vibrating

NUIT

(pronounced Noo-eet ). In the center of this Pentagram, envision the following: the Constellation calledthe Little Dipper, also known as the Drinkin’ Gourd, the Lesser Wain, etc. (see previous section of thisarticle, concerning inscription of the Invoking Pentagram of Air in the East, for discussion on thisConstellation and its place in Afro-American history); the glyph for the Element of Spirit [an 8-spokedwheel]; the Lamp of Spirit; the Goddess Liberty (Whose image is the same as Bertolli’s statue of “Liberty Enlightening the World” in New York municipal harbor); any of the Gods of Journeying andWayfarers, such as Hermes/Mercury; any of the Gods associated with the Alien, such as Eris, Yuggoth(Pluto), Uranus, etc.; the Empyrean of the Paradiso of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy; an enormous,silvery Sunburst radiating all the energies above the visible electromagnetic spectrum from ultraviolet onup through the hardest gamma radiation; the Ain Soph Aur , “Limitless Light,” of the Qaballah; thecluster of Fixed Stars in the Constellation Taurus known as the Pleiades, which the Polynesians call theSeven Little Eyes, the Guides of the Far-Travelers; and the Fixed Star Polaris (alpha Ursa Minoris), atabout 29º of the Sign Gemini and 89º North declination (see remarks on this Star in previous section,along with those on the Little Dipper). (The great silvery Sunburst is of course the Fixed Star Sirius[alpha Canis Majoris], at about 14ºs of the Sign Cancer and 17ºs South declination, called Sothis by the

Greeks. This is also the emblem of the A.A, the Inner Order of the cult of Thelema.

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) Now, at the Nadir, below your feet, inscribe the Invoking Passive Pentagram of Spirit while vibrating

AHIH

In the center of this Pentagram, envision the following: four Aces, collected together, and Trump XX,The Aeon, of the Tarot; the physical Planet Pluto; the glyphs for the Planet Pluto, the Element of Spirit,and the Element of Fire; the Lamp of Spirit; the Archangel Michael, armed with the Flaming Sword, asDefender of the Throne of God and Protector of the People; an almost inconceivably large, bright sphereof white light, like a quasar; and any of the Gods and Goddesses of Demon-Slaying, Protection of thePeople, Death, Destruction, and Rebirth, such as Kali, Hades, Dis, etc. In addition, anything associatedwith Keys 1, 24, and 31 (respectively Kether , Nun, and Shin) are appropriate to the envisioning of thisPentagram.

Still facing East, standing with your feet planted a little way apart and arms outstretched to either

side, chant:

Before me, ERZLA, Behind me, HTAAD,On my right hand, BDOPA,On my left hand, NBOZA,

Above me, Hermes-Djehuti –

(the God of all those involved with the Esoteric Arts and Sciences, such as Magick and Divination of allkinds, as well as of all those who wander far from home; He is also associated with the Star Sirius)

Below me, MICHAEL, For around me flame the Pentagrams, And in the column stands the Six-Rayed Star.


b. Banishing

This is identical in all ways to the Invoking Supernal Ritual of the Pentagram, except that only the banishing form of the Pentagram of Earth is used throughout.

2. The Greater Transcendental Ritual of the Pentagram

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This is identical in every way to the standard Golden Dawn Greater Pentagram Ritual, with two setsof exceptions.

First, the original Golden Dawn ritual is here extended to take account of the Zenith and the Nadir,as in the Lesser Transcendental Ritual and both the Lesser and Greater Supernal Ritual of the Pentagram.At the Zenith the Active Pentagram of Spirit is inscribed, and at the Nadir, the Passive Pentagram of Spirit is used, just as in these other extensions of the traditional Golden Dawn ritual.

Second, rather than God-Names, Archangels, and other associations used with the Pentagrams of the

Quarters that are employed in the Golden Dawn ritual, those given up for the Lesser TranscendentalRitual of the Pentagram are also employed here.

Otherwise, the Greater Transcendental Ritual of the Pentagram is like the original one used by theGolden Dawn in both its invoking and banishing modes.

C.2.D.2.E. The Trans-Universe Pentagram Ritual

This ritual is used to deal with the truly bizarre, the alien, the otherly, the demonic, the realm of acompletely alien space-time continuum. Therefore, with only one exception, the inverse, the demonic,and chaotic, and the alien characterize the symbolism of this form of the Pentagram ritual, which willthus be unlike those previously described in almost every way.

The exception involves the employment of God-Names during the inscription of the Pentagrams, asin the rituals described in previous sections of this article, rather than demonic names. The reason for this is that Divinity is always far more powerful than the demonic. Furthermore, unlike the demonic,which is particularized and limited in its possible modes and environmental matrices of manifestation,God is truly universal – or rather, multiversal, omnipresent in all possible universes. In addition, we needour Gods, in forms with which we are familiar, to protect, guard, and sustain us in the alien realm of thetrans-universal. By itself, the demonic is either insufficient for and incapable of doing this for us, or elseis essentially untrustworthy and dangerous to us in its own right.

Nota bene: In all cases below, the inverse Pentagram – inscribed with two feet up, apex down, asopposed to the upright form, which has its apex up and two feet down, as is used in all other versions of the Pentagram ritual – is used. Generally speaking, the upright Pentagram is used to invoke (call in)Gods, while the inverse Pentagram is used to evoke (call up) lesser spirits, both benign and malefic.However, in the case of evocation, in the popular imagination if not in fact malefic spirits are invokedmore often than benign ones, simply because they are far more powerful than the latter, in most cases,and thus are at least potentially much more useful to the Magickian as slaves. Because of the strongemotional hold this popular misconception has on our imaginations, the inverted Pentagram, which is

used to evoke spirits, has come to be popularly associated with evil, while the upright one, used to invokethe Gods, is associated with the good. The scholarly among students and practitioners of Magick, atleast, will consciously reject this popular idea as childish and bigoted. But the Magickal Machine isreally the Deep Unconscious, individual and collective, and the Unconscious is shaped from the

beginning by predominant ideas held by the great majority of people in the culture in which we come tomaturity. The Unconscious takes a long, long time to become civilized – it still hasn’t achieved thatnoble and glorious state of being, and there is reason to wonder whether it ever will – and until it does so,it will continue to embrace that which was learned first and best, as a small child taking in everythingwhich one’s parents and the other adults that make up a child’s small universe have to say about realitywith wide-eyed, uncritical wonder. Thus while the upright Pentagram is often used to symbolize theHoly and the Divine,* the inverse Pentagram is frequently used to symbolize the demonic, theQlipphotic, and the alien, the fact that it is a graphic reversal of the upright one only reinforcing thissymbolism.

Note here as well that the directions used here are mirror-image reversals for the associations given

for the rituals described in previous sections of this article.

*In fact, the upright Pentagram is often used pedagogically to teach the mystical meanings of the name of Jesus and the implications of his nature and divinity. In this case, the “J” of Jesus is associated withthe bottom right-hand point of the Pentagram, the Hebrew letter Yod of the God-Names “Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh” and “Yod-Heh-Shin-Vav-Heh,” and the Element Fire; the “E”, with the upper right-hand

point, the first Hebrew letter Heh, and the Element Water; the first “S”, with the top point, theHebrew letter Shin, and the Quintessence or Element of Spirit; the “U”, with the upper left-hand

point, the Hebrew letter Vav, and the Element Air; and the second “S”, with the lower left-hand

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point, the Hebrew letter Heh, and the Element Earth. This symbol thus represents God mademanifest in Creation as Jesus Christ.

1. The Lesser Ritual Form

a. Invocation

Facing West , the Operator performs the standard form of the Qaballistic Cross. This is followed bythe inscription of the Pentagrams:

Facing West , inscribe the inverted Invoking Pentagram of Air

I H2

3 5

* *

* *1=6 2

H1 V

*4Sh

using the weakest finger of your sub-dominant hand 5 or a debased, degraded version of the Wand or Fire-Dagger 6 held in that hand, while vibrating

ORO IBAH AOZPI

In the center of this Pentagram, envision the symbols associated with the Element and the Pentagram Air given in previous sections of this article, but in their most degraded, deteriorated, or debased forms. Inaddition, envision the demonic Nyarlathotep of Lovecraftian mythology, playing his Pipes of Idiocy,evoking destruction and chaos, and any other evil spirits associated with Air, as well as any Qlipphotic

beings or phenomena you may be aware of associated with Keys 3, 11, and 17 (respectively Binah, Aleph, and Zain*).** (If you are employing aids in other sensory modes to reinforce the power of theritual, e.g., drugs, gemstones, perfumes, incenses, music, etc., these should likewise be the Qlipphoticversions of the ones used for those rituals discussed earlier in this article, for example, shattered glass,rancid olive oil and spoiled coconut for Key 28, sky-blue glass beads, formaldehyde, concentrated skunk-oil for Key 3, etc., rather than the associations suggested in Crowley’s’ Liber 777 . In general, thisconsideration applies throughout to all ritual reinforcement aids used for the Trans-Universal Pentagram,visual or otherwise.)

*In Crowley’s system, in which Key 28 is also associated with Heh. In more traditional systems, Key 15is usually associated with Heh and 28 with Tzaddi.

**For the names, natures, and sigils of the Qlipphotic beings presiding over the realms of the Qlippoth,see Kenneth Grant, Nightside of Eden (London: Frederick Muller, 1977), passim.

Turn to the South. Inscribe the inverted Invoking Pentagram of Fire

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I H2

2 5

* *

* *4 3

H1 V

*1=6Sh

while vibrating

OIP TEAA PDOKE

In the center of this Pentagram, envision the symbols associated with the Element and the Pentagram of Fire given in the previous sections of this article, as well as any Qlippoth associated with Keys 1, 19, and25 (respectively, Kether , Teth, and Samekh), but in their most degraded, deteriorated or debased forms.In addition, envision the demonic Hastur of Lovecraftian mythology and any other evil spirits associatedwith Fire.

Turn to the East. Inscribe the inverted Invoking Pentagram of Water

I H25 3

* *

* *2 1=6

H1 V

*4

Sh

while vibrating

MPH ARSL GAIOL

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In the center of this Pentagram, envision all the things associated with the Element and the Pentagram of Water given in previous sections of this article, but in their most distorted, debased, and deterioratedforms, as well as any Qlippoth of Keys 2, 23, and 29 (respectively Chokmah, Mem, and Qoph). Also,envision the demonic Cthulhu of Lovecraftian mythology and any other demonic spirits of Water youknow of.

Turn to the North. Inscribe the inverted Invoking Pentagram of Earth

I H2

3 1=6

* *

* *5 4

H1 V

*2Sh

while vibrating

MOR DIAL HKTGA

In the center of this Pentagram, envision all symbols associated with the Element Earth given in therituals discussed in previous sections of this article, but in their most debased, deteriorated, and distortedforms. In addition, envision the demonic Shub-Niggurath, the obscenely fertile Goat With a ThousandYoung, and any other demonic spirits of Earth you know of, as well as Qlippoth associated with Keys 10,

19, and 32 (respectively Malkuth, Yod , and Tav).Turn back once more to the West. At the Zenith, directly above where you are standing, inscribe theinverted Invoking Passive Pentagram of Spirit

I H2

4 1=6

* *

* *2 3H1 V

*5Sh

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while vibrating

ADNI

In the center of this Pentagram, envision an enormous sphere that is all the colors of Earth – the browns,reds, blacks, and tawneys of Her soils, the grays and whites of Her ices and clouds, the blues, greens, andgrays of Her skies and oceans, the rainbow hues of the living beings that grow and move upon Her surface and swim in Her seas – but infested with vast running sores dripping with industrial effluents and

pollutants haloed with the shining, nacreous shimmerings that dance on the surface of oil slicks and other noxious industrial effluvia. In this vision, the life that lives on and in Her is all sick, diseased, cancerous,crazed and debilitated from the industrial toxins that poison their environments. Gigantic roots all themad colors of fractal space twine weirdly about this great polluted ball, representing the Tunnels of Set.Buried in this ball up to his neck, upside-down, is the tri-visaged, bat-winged Satan who inhabits the verycenter of the Ninth Circle of Dante’s Inferno; perched triumphantly upon the ball, crowing in loud pride,is a gorgeous peacock, the symbol of Shaîtan, the Peacock Angel of Islamic angelology, the former Godof the Yezidi, Bedouins who converted to the Shi’ite branch of Islam before the first Crusaders ever cameto Jerusalem from Europe. The sigil of Spirit goes with this Pentagram, and so do all the associations of Key 32 (Tav), though only in their most Qlipphotic Forms.

Now at the Nadir, directly below your feet, inscribe the inverted Invoking Active Pentagram of Spirit

I H2

1=6 4

* *

* *3 2

H1 V

*5Sh

while vibrating

Eris

(the name of the Greek Goddess of Chaos and Discord). In this direction is the domain of the wholly andcompletely alien, chaos, the absolute unknown.

In the center of this Pentagram, envision a vast black hole enhaloed by the blue-white residues of Cherenkov radiation, behind which is an infinite vista of miles-high, hissing scarlet and crimson flamesand roiling black smoke, the Fires of Forever. Woven through these flames are fractal designs, andabove them is a sky like that above the Courts of Chaos in Roger Zelazny’s quintilogy of novels, TheChronicles of Amber .* Kerberus, the three-headed dog of the Underworld, runs back and forth before theflames, growling, baying, and barking ferociously, foam dripping from his jaws, his horrible red eyesglowing madly. Images of the Void, Emptiness, the Abyss, and Chaos are all appropriate to thisPentagram, as are the following: the glyph of Spirit; electromagnetic radiation lower than the visiblespectrum (including infra-red, radio, UHF, microwave, and especially the 3-degree Kelvin backgroundradiation of the universe, which suggests entropy and the ultimate heat-death of all things); discordant

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music and loud noise of any kind; cacophonies of noxious odors and scents; abrasive and otherwiseunpleasant tactile sensations ranging from merely irritating to agonizing; drugs with horrible side-effectsor unplanned impacts on mind and body (e.g., ergot, bad Acid, many kinds of street-quality recreationaldrugs, synthetic steroid hormones, tranquilizers such as Haldol, antidepressants such as Prozac,tetracycline and other antibiotics used so inappropriately that they have created countless drug-resistantstrains of microbes, etc.); or any other noxious, painful, or debilitating ritual reinforcement aids. Scenesfrom Parts I (“Come, Then, Mortal, We Shall Seek Her Soul”) and III (“The Fishing of the Demon-Sea”)

of Michael Shea’s Nifft the Lean (New York: DAW Books, 1982) would be appropriate here, as wouldscenes from Dante’s Inferno, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s Inferno (New York: Pocket Books,1976), the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Salvador Dali, etc.**

*Zelazny, Roger. The Chronicles of Amber . Two-volume set. Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday,Inc., 1978. Comprises the quintilogy of fantasy novels, originally published separately, including

Nine Princes in Amber , The Guns of Avalon, Sign of the Unicorn, The Hand of Oberon, and TheCourts of Chaos.

** For additional effective imagery and other source-material for use as ritual reinforcements, see( passim) John Ciardi’s outstanding translation of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno (New York: Mentor/NewAmerican Library, 1954); Robert Pinsky’s stunning The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation(bilingual edition. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994); Salvador Dali, Dawn Ades (London:Thames & Hudson, 1983; Alan E. Bernstein, The Formation of Hell: Death and Retribution in the

Ancient and Early Christian Worlds (Ithica, New York: Cornell University Press, 1993); Alice K.Turner, The History of Hell (New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1993); C. L. Moore, The Best of C.

L. Moore (New York: Ballantine Books, 1975); C. L. Moore, Jirel of Joiry (New York: Paperback Library, 1969); C. L. Moore, Northwest Smith (New York: Ace Books, 1981); the series of anthologies edited by Janet Morris beginning with Heroes in Hell (New York: Baen Books, 1986),which combine utterly modern viewpoints with gripping and horrifying classic portraits of Hell; andthe hypnotically, hauntingly beautiful graphic novel by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Sam Keith, MikeDringenberg, and Malcolm Jones III, The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes (New York: DCComics, 1995).

In addition, the following Fixed Stars have associations with this Pentagram: the radio source

Albireo (Beta Cygni),* a binary Star, one of whose components may be a black hole; Sagittarius A,*another radio-emission source in direct line with the center of our Galaxy as seen from Earth, the latter also probably being a black hole; and Algol (beta Persei, previously discussed).

*See Robson, op. cit., pp. 42, 114-115, and 118-119; Allen, op. cit.., pp. 196-197; and Burnham, Jr., op.cit., Volume 2, pp. 754-757;

**See Allen, op. cit., p. 357; Burnham, Jr., Volume 3, pp. 1635-1644; and The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy, op. cit., pp. 368-369.

Still facing West, standing with feet planted a little way apart and arms outstretched to either side,vibrate

IXAXAAR 7

(pronounced Eetz-ah-tzah-ah-reh). Recite:

Before me, XERZLA8

(Tzah-er-zod-ehl-ah, Enochian Archdemon of Air of Air)

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Behind me, KHTAAD

( Keh-heh-tah-ah-deh, Enochian Archdemon of Air of Water),

On my right hand, IBDOPA

( Ee-beh-doh-pah, Enochian Archdemon of Air of Fire),

On my left hand, ANBOZA

( Ah-en-boh-zod-ah, Enochian Archdemon of Air of Earth)

Above me, Shaîtan,9

Below me, Yuggoth,10

For around me flame the Pentagrams, And in the column stands the Six-Rayed Star.


b. Banishing

This is identical to the Invoking Trans-Universe Pentagram Ritual described above, except that onlythe banishing form of the inverted Pentagram of Earth is inscribed at the Quarters, above, and at the

Nadir, rather than any of the invoking forms of any of the Pentagrams of the Elements:

I H2

3 1=6

* *

* *5 4

H1 V

*2Sh

2. The Greater Trans-Universe Pentagram Ritual

This is like the Greater Transcendental Pentagram Ritual described in the last section of this article,with the following exceptions: the inverted* rather than the upright forms of the Pentagrams are used inthis ritual; the directions are reversed 180ºs from those of the Golden Dawn, Supernal, andTranscendental Pentagram Rituals, as in the Lesser Trans-Universe Pentagram Ritual; and the imageryand other sensory reinforcements as well as the Magickal Weapons employed in association with thedirections is like that of the Lesser Trans-Universe Pentagram Ritual rather than that of the Pentagramrituals described in previous sections.

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For the banishing version of the Greater Trans-Universe Pentagram Ritual, the banishing forms of the Pentagrams of the Elements are as follows (except for that of Earth, which is shown two paragraphs

back):

a. Fire

I H2

1=6 3

* *

* *4 5

H1 V

*2Sh

b. Water

I H2

3 5

* *

* *1=6 2

H1 V

*4Sh

c. Air

I H2

5 3

* *

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* *2 1=6

H1 V

*4

Sh

d. Active Spirit

I H2

2 4

* *

* *5 1=6

H1 V

*3Sh

e. Passive Spirit

I H2

4 2

* *

* *1=6 5

H1 V

*3Sh

C.2.D.2.F. The Combined Pentagram Rituals: From Hell to Infinity

I recently experimented with a ritual which combines the standard Golden Dawn Pentagram ritualwith the new Supernal, Transcendental, and Trans-Universe Pentagram rituals described in previous

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sections of this article as an aid to breaking through blockages in my life that nothing else seemed to beable even to touch. I give it here more for theoretical than practical considerations, adding some sharpwarnings as to employing it rashly or in the absence of real need. The experienced Hermeticist willeasily see the reasons for such caution from the description of the ritual itself, given below; those withless experience should be extremely careful about attempting it, doing so only after putting a great deal of research and thought into it – and only if nothing else seems to work for the purpose. Above all, Idefinitely advise against using this combined form of the Pentagram merely for “centering” or meditation

purposes, in the way that simpler, far less risky versions of the Pentagram ritual are used.

Briefly speaking, the following forms of the Pentagram rituals are used here, in the order given, oneimmediately after the preceding one: (1) the invoking form of the Lesser Trans-Universe PentagramRitual (see Section C.2.D.2.E, above); the banishing form of the standard Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram(see Section C.2.D.2.A, above); (3) the banishing form of the Lesser Supernal Pentagram Ritual (seeSection C.2.D.2.C, above); and (4) the banishing form of the Lesser Transcendental Pentagram Ritual(see Section C.2.D.2.E, above).

When these four rituals are done in that order, each one immediately after the preceding one, theresults are as follows:

Step (1) pulls an enormous high-energy outwash from Absolute Alienness into the Operator’s sphere.Like any extremely high-energy radiation, of course, this energy could prove lethal to the Operator or anyone in his/her immediate vicinity within a very short time unless dealt with in some appropriate way.

Thus Steps (2)-(4). Done in the order described, these quickly remove the Operator and everythingin his or her immediate environment farther and farther away from that high-energy upwelling rush of Qlipphotic energy. In addition, they also move the Operator from Malkuth and the Manifest World upthrough the Astral Light to regions of the Inner Planes corresponding to parts of the Solar Systemincreasingly farther away from Sol, and finally into esoteric realms corresponding to interstellar space.

A close analogy to this combined ritual form is the very primitive space-drive known as the “impulsedrive” which, as risky as it sounds, could actually be used to get a space-ship up from the surface of aPlanet such as the Earth into interplanetary or interstellar space (more or less) intact, with all passengersand cargo aboard in (more or less) acceptable shape. This “drive” works as follows:

The space-ship itself consists of a very strongly built container that houses all cargo, passengers, andinstrumentation. One side of this container is even more strongly reinforced, the reinforcementconsisting of an enormous thickness of the finest, hardest, and densest of structural materials (currently, ahigh grade of steel). Behind this reinforced wall, on the outside of the ship, a series of low-yield nuclear devices of about the size of the ones that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 are successively

detonated. These are delivered to the site of their intended detonation by some appropriate deliverysystem from a storage area within the ship. If the ship is properly built and the yield of each nuclear device isn’t too great, the effect of this is to kick the ship upstairs into extraplanetary space without

broaching the walls of the ship or shaking up anybody or anything inside it so strongly that they areirreparably damaged.*

*For an excellent though hypothetical illustration of the use of such a drive and its probable results, seeLarry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s outstanding science-fiction novel. Footfall (New York: BallantineBooks, 1985).

The blast and radiation of the nuclear bombs used to drive the ship here correspond to the

dangerously high-intensity uprush of Qlipphotic energy/information which Stage (1) of this combinationritual evokes into the Operator’s immediate neighborhood. The acceleration into outer space which thenukes used for the impulse drive impart to the space-ship for which they provide the drive corresponds towhat happens when Stages (2)-(4) are executed, in order, immediately after executing Stage (1). The

possible destruction of the ship and its cargo and the death of its passengers that would occur if bombs of too high a yield were used, or if the ship weren’t properly built, correspond to what could happen if Stages (2)-(4) of this ritual aren’t executed right after Stage (1) and/or aren’t executed properly. (Whichunderscores the fact that this is a rather risky ritual which deserves much serious thought andconsideration prior to using it, and that it should be applied only in the face of dire need.)

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I did try this ritual myself – once. It worked for its intended purpose, apparently without appreciableunwanted side-effects (though later on, things happened which strongly suggested that such side-effectswere not non-existent, only delayed). I was very careful to execute every step of it properly and in theright order. In addition, I performed this ritual only in the face of real need, and only after everythingelse available to me for the purpose had failed. This is all the field-data I can provide at this timeconcerning actual use of this ritual. Beyond that, all I can do is add: caveat emptor .

Nota bene: Other combined forms of the Pentagram rituals could be created for various purposes in

ways similar to the one given in this section. The interested reader should experiment freely with thisidea, putting different versions of the Pentagram rituals together in different ways for a variety of

purposes – such free experimentation being done on paper or in computer memory, recorded in ink and/or electrons. But before putting such combined forms of the Pentagram rituals into practice, a greatdeal of caution is very much in order.

Endnotes

1For a complete description of these, and their significance for both general esoteric theory andMagickal practice, see Kenneth Grant, Nightside of Eden (London: Frederick Muller, 1977), passim.

2Rather than associating the Passive Pentagram of Spirit inscribed at the Nadir with Sol, Tiphareth,and Resh and the attributions usually assigned to these, you may want to associate this Pentagram with

Da’ath, the Sephirah of the Abyss between Chesed and Binah, lying between Tiphareth and Kether onthe Middle Pillar of the Tree of Life, and its traditional attributions. Doing so may confer a greater strength and stability to the Sphere of Protection you are creating about yourself and generally increaseyour chances of success during invocations.

The God-Name traditionally associated with Da’ath is YeHoWaH ALoHIM YeHoWaH , and the nameof Da’ath’s Archangel is the compound name Raphael-Michael-Gabriel-Auriel.* These should besubstituted for the ones traditionally associated with Sol, Tiphareth, and Resh (respectively YeHoWaH

ALOaH Va Da’ATh and Raphael) if you want to envision Da’ath below you rather than Tiphareth.

*Since Da’ath partakes of both Chaos or Void and the Quintessence and, like them, is a composite of thefour essential Elements, Fire, Water, Air, and Earth.

There is, however, one situation in which you wouldn’t want to associate the Nadir with Da’athinstead of Tiphareth. This is the case in which you want to strengthen your throat chakra and thyroidgland, associated on the physical plane with the throat chakra. In this case, you would use the SupernalRitual of the Pentagram as given, but with the following modifications.

In this version of the Supernal Pentagram Ritual, you establish yourself on the Tree of Life on thePath connecting Kether with Tiphareth, associated with the Hebrew letter Gimel , Tarot Trump II, The

High Priestess, and Luna, Earth’s Moon. You are also in the Abyss, in the gap between Daleth,connecting Chokmah (Neptune) to Binah (Uranus), and the Path connected Chesed (Jupiter) withGeburah (Mars).* The following associations are made with the four Quarters of the Heavens: (1) East= before you = Air = Liberty/Hera/Durga (S. Aleph2); (2) South = to your right = Fire = Neptune/Jupiter (Chokmah/Chesed ); West = behind you = Earth = Persephone/Kali (S. i = √-1); (4) North = to your left

= Water = Uranus/Mars ( Binah/Geburah); (5) Above = Active Spirit = Pluto ( Kether ); and (6) Below =Passive Spirit = Sol (Tiphareth). For the sake of convenience, the relevant Sephiroth may be envisionedas huge, radiant balls of living light in colors appropriate to them, e.g., gray or aqua-blue for Chokmah,

black/red/electric-blue for Binah, royal blue for Chesed , scarlet for Geburah, white-brilliance or white-gold for Kether , and yellow, salmon, and other bright, warm colors for Tiphareth. Chokmah is to your right and slightly above you, but not as high as is Kether ; Chesed is to your right and slightly below you,

but not as far below you as Tiphareth is; Binah and Geburah are to your left, with Binah slightly aboveand Geburah slightly below you, both between the Planes containing Kether and Tiphareth.

At the same time, imagine that you are on the Path between Tiphareth and Kether , with your headtoward Kether and your feet toward Tiphareth, your surroundings looking much like those pictured in

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Trump II of the Tarot, The High Priestess (with you yourself in the position and posture of the HighPriestess in that Trump).

This version of the Supernal Pentagram Ritual is useful in exercises designed to strengthen and protect the throat chakra and the physical thyroid gland. In its banishing form, it can ward off Astralattacks aimed at the throat chakra and the thyroid, and establish protective shields around them.

*Traditionally, Lamed , associated with Trump XI, Justice and the Sign Libra, connects Chesed toGeburah. In Crowley’s system, however, this Path is associated with Teth, Trump XI, Lust , and theSign Leo.

3As exemplified in Gaia theory. See the works of James Lovelock concerning Gaia theory, such ashis The Ages of Gaia (New York: W. W. Norton, 1988) and Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (NewYork: Oxford University Press, 1979).

4The works of Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Grant, Israel Regardie et al. associated with theestablishment of Thelemic theory and practice in this century should be consulted for a completedescription of both the Ordo Templi Orientis or Outer Order of Thelema and the A:.A:., the Order of theSilver Star, the Inner Order of Thelema. The following works are particularly useful as introductions to

the history of the founding of these orders and the nature of their work: Aleister Crowley, TheConfessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography (New York: Hill & Wang, 1969) and Magick Without Tears (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1973); Michael Edwardes, The Dark Side of History: Magicin the Making of Man (New York: Stein & Day, 1977); Ellic Howe, The Magicians of the Golden

Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magickal Order (York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1978); FrancisKing and Isabel Sutherland, The Rebirth of Magic (London: Corgi Books, 1982); Louis Pauwels andJacques Bergier, The Morning of the Magicians (Rollo Myers, translator. New York: ScarboroughBooks/Stein & /Day, 1977. Published in England in 1963 as The Dawn of Magic); and Israel Regardie,The Eye in the Triangle (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1970).

5In right-handed people, the dominant hand is the right hand, the sub-dominant hand the left one; thereverse is the case for southpaws.

6Instead of the Fire-Dagger, you could use a similar Weapon which is, however, made with a hilt of

some virtually non-burnable wood, such as sequoia, and a blade and a tang composed of a hashinappropriate metals such as the slag thrown out from smelting operations; for the Sword, the bladecould be made of copper or bronze contaminated with a mixture of lead, rare earths, mercury metal, other inappropriate elements, and (very small amounts of!) spent uranium; for the Wand, one could use, say,the thighbone of a mongrel dog castrated or spayed at birth, adorned with rings of inappropriate metals,e.g., aluminum rather than silver, pyrites instead of gold, painted lead instead of copper, antimony or

bismuth rather than lead, etc.

7See Kenneth Grant, Outside the Circles of Time (London: Frederick Muller, Ltd., 1980), passim (asnoted in the index of that work) for definitions and descriptions of this and other terms from Lovecraftianor cultic mythology.

8While I have used adjusted Enochian archdemonic names here, the names of archdemons from anysystem could be used. A good source for them is found in the system devised by Francis Barrett, as

described by him in his two-volume work, The Magus: A Complete System of Occult Philosophy(originally published in 1801 in London by Lackington Allen, & Co.; reprinted under one cover in trade

paperback by Citadel Press, 1967). Other useful sources include S. L. MacGregor Mathers’ translation of The Grimoire of Armadel (York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1980); Arthur Edward Waite, The

Book of Ceremonial Magic, Including the Rites and Mysteries of Goetic Theurgy, Sorcery and Infernal Necromancy (New York: Bell Publishing Co., 1969); S. L. MacGregor Mathers’ translation of The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage (New York: Dover Books, 1975); Anton Szandor LaVey,The Satanic Bible (New York: Avon Books, 1969); and Aleister Crowley’s Magick in Theory and

Practice, in his Magick (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973). Information concerning EnochianMagic, including demonic entities and the practice of Enochian evocation, is available in such works as

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Gerald J. Schueler’s Enochian Magic: A Practical Manual (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1987) and Enochian Physics: The Structure of the Magickal Universe (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 1989); andGeoffrey James’ excellent translation of The Enochian Evocation of Dr. John Dee (Berkeley Heights, NJ:Heptangle Books, 1988).

9Other Names of power that can be used here instead of “Shaîtan” include “Asati” or “Set” (thename given by the Egyptians to the God of the Foreign and Alien), “Atlas” (a Titan who was charged and

bound with the task of holding up the heavens on his back as a punishment for rebellion against Zeus andthe Olympians), “Lilith” (traditionally associated with the Qlippoth of Malkuth), “Azyn” (see the worksof Kenneth Grant cited above), “Koth” (see Grant), “Paroketh” (see Grant), etc.

10Yuggoth is the name by which H. P. Lovecraft referred to the Planet Pluto, as well as to certainregions of the Inner Plains associated with the infernal and alien. It is the Qlippothic analog of Kether .For a critical analysis and review of Lovecraft’s works and philosophy, see the works of S. T. Joshi, suchas his H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism (as editor. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1980);

H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West (Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism 37. Mercer Island,WA: Starmont House, 1990); H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1996);The Annotated H. P. Lovecraft (New York: Dell Publishing, 1997); and Selected Papers on Lovecraft (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1989). Lovecraft’s work has been collected in severalanthologies, the best of which are the following: S. T. Joshi, editor, At the Mountains of Madness (textsselected by August Derleth. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., 1964); S. T. Joshi, Dagonand Other Macabre Tales (texts selected by August Derleth. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers,Inc., 1986); S. T. Joshi, editor, The Dunwich Horror and Others (texts selected by August Derleth.Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., 1984); S. T. Joshi, editor, The Horror in the Museum(Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, Inc., 1989); August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, editors,

H. P. Lovecraft: Selected Letters, Vols. 1-5 (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, 1965)

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