LBRP
LBRP, affectionately known as the "Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram."
Recommended by Bill Heidrick as an absolute prerequisite to any advanced work, lest you want to rattle your marbles. A year is good, daily. Crowley said, and I paraphrase, he who does not appreciate this, does not deserve to have it.
It has Christian elements, to annoy the pagans (there are some versions in the Ciceros' edition of the Middle Pillar which edit out these annoyances); and heathen aspects to annoy the Christians. And a lot of Jewish aspects, to annoy everyone else.
To get a complete edition, Google LBRP or or "Lesser Banishing Ritual." Or buy Regardie's Middle Pillar, in the unembellished original edition, or in the Lewellyn reissue with Regardie's students (they say) the Ciceros' edits and annotations. Or find it in Ophiel's books, he seems to include it in each. In 11 Lessons in Magick. Or in the back of Magick in Theory and Practice, reprint edition or expanded OTO edition; or in Regardie's Golden Dawn.
First is the "cross of light" or kabbalistic cross; similar to crossing onself in Church.
No, first would be imagining oneself very large, outgrowing the earth, solar system, and universe; imagining oneself in idealized form. Radiant, majestic (but not arrogant or brash), with a body of subtle energy and light, not flesh and blood. The four spiritual directions - east in front, west behind, to the right the south, to the left the north. Above you the infinite, below you the cosmos Everything mundane is encompassed by the extremes of these compass points. Having done the LBRP right, you not only cleanse the minutum mundi, your aura, but the larger world in which you move in secular space.
Imagine awesome brilliant, yet soft and full, white light in a ball above your head. Reach up your right hand and draw down the light through your body and you direct it to your feet and below; at your feet you imagine a citrine, olive, russet, and black (in the quadrants) ball of light. As the beam of light passes through your body, it hits the throat, solar plexus, genital, and feet energy centers - corresponding to Daath, the unknown Sephiroth, Tiphareth, the heart, Yesod at the genitals, and Malkuth below the feet. Violet, golden yellow, purple, and citrine/olive/russet/black, respectively. At the same time you feel the centers at Chokmah and Binah, Geburah and Gedulah (left and front brain lobes, right and left shoulders) energize. You are not doing the "Middle Pillar" exercise with concentration and formality, you are simply remembering the vital centers associated with the Kabbalistic Tree of Life in the human aura. Your human aura.
When you first reach up, you touch Kether, white Kether, and vibrate "atoh;" pointing to your feet, "malkuth;" at the right shoulder "ve [vay] geburah;" and at the left shoulder, "ve gedulah;" finally palms together at the heart "le olahm, amen [om or aumgn]."
Thus finishes the Kabbalistic Cross, the first part of the LBRP. More to follow.
A comment on olahm, om, and aumgn. To me these are the same root sounds, but separated by time and cultures. "om" is best known as the primary creative word for Hindus; arguably the sound ends when the lips are closed (no nasal sound to continue with the last expiration). "aumgn" is Crowley's adapatation, as explained in MTP (Magick in Theory and Practice); it continues the last part of the breath as a nasal sound, once the lips have closed. I like Crowley's spin on things better than the traditional explanation that the palms together means "forever." "aumgn" means, to me, the entire cycle of creation (which is always a moving process of beginning, middle, end; start over) plus the "eternity" that lies behind and encompasses the cycle plus the aspect of "nowness" or the eternally present.
That's the fun thing about the LBRP. It is a one page ritual, but you add your own glosses over the years. Much as Blake added his own glosses to Swedenborg's visionary Christianity, until Blake was way out there, in the mystic.
Recommended by Bill Heidrick as an absolute prerequisite to any advanced work, lest you want to rattle your marbles. A year is good, daily. Crowley said, and I paraphrase, he who does not appreciate this, does not deserve to have it.
It has Christian elements, to annoy the pagans (there are some versions in the Ciceros' edition of the Middle Pillar which edit out these annoyances); and heathen aspects to annoy the Christians. And a lot of Jewish aspects, to annoy everyone else.
To get a complete edition, Google LBRP or or "Lesser Banishing Ritual." Or buy Regardie's Middle Pillar, in the unembellished original edition, or in the Lewellyn reissue with Regardie's students (they say) the Ciceros' edits and annotations. Or find it in Ophiel's books, he seems to include it in each. In 11 Lessons in Magick. Or in the back of Magick in Theory and Practice, reprint edition or expanded OTO edition; or in Regardie's Golden Dawn.
First is the "cross of light" or kabbalistic cross; similar to crossing onself in Church.
No, first would be imagining oneself very large, outgrowing the earth, solar system, and universe; imagining oneself in idealized form. Radiant, majestic (but not arrogant or brash), with a body of subtle energy and light, not flesh and blood. The four spiritual directions - east in front, west behind, to the right the south, to the left the north. Above you the infinite, below you the cosmos Everything mundane is encompassed by the extremes of these compass points. Having done the LBRP right, you not only cleanse the minutum mundi, your aura, but the larger world in which you move in secular space.
Imagine awesome brilliant, yet soft and full, white light in a ball above your head. Reach up your right hand and draw down the light through your body and you direct it to your feet and below; at your feet you imagine a citrine, olive, russet, and black (in the quadrants) ball of light. As the beam of light passes through your body, it hits the throat, solar plexus, genital, and feet energy centers - corresponding to Daath, the unknown Sephiroth, Tiphareth, the heart, Yesod at the genitals, and Malkuth below the feet. Violet, golden yellow, purple, and citrine/olive/russet/black, respectively. At the same time you feel the centers at Chokmah and Binah, Geburah and Gedulah (left and front brain lobes, right and left shoulders) energize. You are not doing the "Middle Pillar" exercise with concentration and formality, you are simply remembering the vital centers associated with the Kabbalistic Tree of Life in the human aura. Your human aura.
When you first reach up, you touch Kether, white Kether, and vibrate "atoh;" pointing to your feet, "malkuth;" at the right shoulder "ve [vay] geburah;" and at the left shoulder, "ve gedulah;" finally palms together at the heart "le olahm, amen [om or aumgn]."
Thus finishes the Kabbalistic Cross, the first part of the LBRP. More to follow.
A comment on olahm, om, and aumgn. To me these are the same root sounds, but separated by time and cultures. "om" is best known as the primary creative word for Hindus; arguably the sound ends when the lips are closed (no nasal sound to continue with the last expiration). "aumgn" is Crowley's adapatation, as explained in MTP (Magick in Theory and Practice); it continues the last part of the breath as a nasal sound, once the lips have closed. I like Crowley's spin on things better than the traditional explanation that the palms together means "forever." "aumgn" means, to me, the entire cycle of creation (which is always a moving process of beginning, middle, end; start over) plus the "eternity" that lies behind and encompasses the cycle plus the aspect of "nowness" or the eternally present.
That's the fun thing about the LBRP. It is a one page ritual, but you add your own glosses over the years. Much as Blake added his own glosses to Swedenborg's visionary Christianity, until Blake was way out there, in the mystic.
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