Israel Regardie - The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic.pdf

VOLUME THREE
It is said that the Banishing Pentagram may be used as a protection against
negative psychologic states in both yourself and others. Make a mental image of your
concern or anxiety then formulate it before you. Project it away from you with the saluting
sign of a Neophyte (which is depicted on a later page) and when it is about three feet away
prevent its return with the sign of silence. Now imagine the form in the Eastern quadrant
before you and perform the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram to destroy it. In your mind's
eye see it dissolve on the outside of your circle of flame.
Furthermore it may be used as an exercise in concentration. Seated in meditation
or lying down, imagine yourself standing up in robes and holding a dagger. Project your
consciousness into this mental image of yourself. When there move to the East. Make
yourself feel there by touching the wall, opening your eyes, stamping on the floor etc.
Begin the ritual while in this form and move around the room mentally vibrating the
words and trying to feel them being emitted from the mental image. Finish the ritual in the
East. Try to feel what has resulted from the ritual, then walk back and stand behind the
head of your resting physical body and let yourself be reabsorbed.
HOW TO PERFORM THE RITUAL
THE INVOKING PENTAGRAM
Take a steel dagger or knife in the right hand, face East:
Touch your forehead and say Atoh (thou art).
Touch your chest and say Malkuth (the Kingdom).
Touch the right shoulder and say ve-Geburah (and the Power). Touch the left
shoulder and say ve-Gedulah (and the Glory).
Clasp your hands in the center of the chest and say le Olahm (forever). Hold the
dagger, point upwards, in clasped hands and say Amen (so be it).
The word Amen in addition means the end. It has been associated with Amoun the
concealed one. It is also a notariqon of three Hebrew words, Adonai Melekh Neh-eh-mon,
which means The Lord Faithful King.
Facing East make a very large invoking pentagram as shown above. When completed
thrust the point of the dagger to the center of the pentagram and vibrate the Deity name
YHVH (Yod, Heh, Vau, Heh), imagining that your voice carries the vibration to the East of
the Universe.
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