Order of St. Michael Study Guide - Magdalene Circle

Invocation of Divine Guardianship (Rite One)The Meditation/Ceremony:This practice may be performed in a ceremonial fashion, with the Templar drawingtheir sword, or it may be performed completely as an internal meditation, all as seemsproper according to the need – essentially, this is a practice invoking divineguardianship of yourself, sacred space (or place) or someone else in need of protectionagainst negative forces. If it is felt that a greater field of protection is necessary and theTemplar elects to draw their sword for this invocation, then following the invocationthe sword will be laid upon the altar (or on the floor before the altar) unsheathed forthat day – then at the end of the day they will sheath the sword, saying, “It isaccomplished, amen.” Thus, the unsheathed sword becomes a physical talisman of acontinuum of divine guardianship.Go within and abide in the sanctuary of your heart, envisioning the Spiritual Sun in your heart as thepresence of the Lord seated there and gathering yourself into it; when you are centered within,envision a great sphere of light around you – white brilliance with an electric blue hue, and take up thechant: Yeshua Messiah; Kallah Messiah, abiding in the awareness of your innate unity with the RisenMessiah and Holy Shekinah.(If the sword is to be drawn, it is drawn at this point.)Then envision an emanation body arising from the Spiritual Sun in your heart in the image and likenessof Archangel Michael in Kerubic form – it is as though this emanation expands and you are in the midstof a great translucent light-body of the archangel, the emanation radiating from the Spiritual Sun inyour heart. In other words, it does not manifest before you, but emanates from within and appearsaround you; it is as though your body of light expands, “growing” into the Great Angel.The Visualization of Michael in Kerubic Form:Archangel Michael appears clad in the garb of a warrior, having the body of a human being, but thefour faces of the Kerub – face of a human, face of a lion, face of an eagle and face of an ox, eachpointing to the four directions. The head is as though hollow, but filled with brilliant light that shootsforth from the apertures of the faces, as something like a lightening flash, and the head rotates thisway and that, so that the faces change their direction in an uncanny and unsettling way – not human.In this form Michael has four great wings, and bears a sword of flashing fire and a round shield, asthough made of moon-light with a cross of golden solar light on it. *The sword is not drawn at theoutset of this visualization for the purpose of this practice. (In this meditation you arise in this form ofArchangel Michael – it is *you* who appear like this.)From the image of yourself as Archangel Michael, as though from the Light-presence within yourangelic body, envision four images of yourself emanating from your heart center into the four16