Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram

Opening: The Qabalistic Cross Ritual

• Face East. Take a few deep breaths.
• Above your head descends a ball of pure, brilliant white light.
• Reach up and touch the light with your right hand or athame, drawing its light down and into your forehead.
• Intone: Atah (Thou Art)
• Visualize the light descending downward through your body.
• Point your right hand toward your feet.
• Intone: Malkuth (The Kingdom)
• Feel the connection between your crown and the Earth.
• Touch your right shoulder with your right hand.
• Visualize the light extending up to and beyond your right shoulder.
• Intone: Ve-Geburah (The Power)
• Cross over and touch your left shoulder with your right hand.
• Visualize the light extending over to and beyond your left shoulder.
• Intone: Ve-Gedulah (The Glory)
• Bring hands together in prayer position.
• Intone: Le-Olahm (Forever unto the Ages)
• Resonate in the Cross of Light running through your body.
• Intone: Amen

Charging the Banishing Pentagram

• Facing East, right hand extended shoulder height
• Draw banishing pentagram of blue light with index finger.
• Intone: Y H V H (Yod Heh Vav Heh – 4 lettered Name of God)
• Right arm still extended, draw another banishing pentagram of blue light facing South
• Intone: Adonai (Ah-doh-nye – Lord)
• Facing West, draw another banishing pentagram of blue light
• Intone: Eheieh (Eh-heh-yeh – I Am)
• Facing North, draw another banishing pentagram of blue light
• Intone: A G L A (Ah-glah – Thou Art Great Forever My Lord)
• Move East to complete the circle

Invoking the Archangels

• Face East. Extend both arms out to the side forming a T shape.
• Say: Before me, Raphael
• Visualize an angelic presence emerging from the clouds clothed in yellow and violet
• Visualize an angelic presence behind you emerging from the ocean adorned in orange and blue
• Say: Behind me, Gabriel
• On your right emerges Michael adorned in red and green
• Say: On my right hand, Michael
• On your left emerges Uriel, rising from the Earth, clothed in olive, yellow, brown and black
• Say: On my left hand, Uriel.
• Say: Before me shine the pentagrams. Within me shines the six-rayed star.

Closing: The Qabalistic Cross Ritual

• Face East. Take a few deep breaths.
• Above your head descends a ball of pure, brilliant white light.
• Reach up and touch the light with your right hand or athame, drawing its light down and into your forehead.
• Intone: Atah (Thou Art)
• Visualize the light descending downward through your body.
• Point your right hand toward your feet.
• Intone: Malkuth (The Kingdom)
• Feel the connection between your crown and the Earth.
• Touch your right shoulder with your right hand.
• Visualize the light extending up to and beyond your right shoulder.
• Intone: Ve-Geburah (The Power)
• Cross over and touch your left shoulder with your right hand.
• Visualize the light extending over to and beyond your left shoulder.
• Intone: Ve-Gedulah (The Glory)
• Bring hands together in prayer position.
• Intone: Le-Olahm (Forever unto the Ages)
• Resonate in the Cross of Light running through your body.
• Intone: Amen

 

References

1. Modern Magick by Donald Kraig
2. Guide to the Golden Dawn Enochian Scrying Tarot by Bill & Judi Genaw with Chic & S. Tabatha Cicero