The Colour Out of Space by Nicolas Torquet (CC BY-SA 2)

 

A sarcastic yet functional explanation of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.

Perhaps the most important part of beginning any esoteric working is the banishment of the profane. To break it down, you are establishing yourself and your space as a consecrated temple. You’re clearing all of the junk from within, sealing it away for maximum clarity and setting up the archetypal wards of your highest ideology to empower and bless your work. This can be done with a variety of entities (be they archangels, demon kings, gods, aliens, octopi, alien demon king octopi, or even the Great Morgan Freemen of the four Quarters) through the use of a banishing ritual.

These rituals come in all shapes, sizes, and varieties. As long as it gets the job done, you’re off to a great start! It matters less which one you do, and matters more that you just do one. The example given here is the LBRP, or as I like to call it, The Dave Mathew’s Band of rituals.¹

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The Irreverent LBRP: 

Face Jerusalem, or east, with an uncovered head, standing at attention! Imagine a brilliant star directly above your head as a gateway to creation’s highest archetypal force you know. 

 

The Qabalistic Cross

• Imagine drawing the light down to your forehead. Touch your forehead and say: 

   “AH-TAH” (Thou art) 

• Now, draw that imagined light down pointing past your toes and into the earth. Vibrate: 

   “MAWL-KUTH” (the Kingdom) 

• Draw the light back up to the center of your chest, and imagine this light going as far past you you the right that you can while touching your right shoulder and vibrate: 

   “VE-GEH-BOO-RAH” (and the Power) 

• Draw the light back to the center of your chest again, and imagine this light going as far past you you the left that you can while touching your left shoulder and vibrate: 

  “VE-GEH-DOO-LAH” (and the Glory) 

• Cross your arms over your chest all mummy-style like, bringing that light as a brilliant star bursting from within your chest as far as it can and vibrate: 

   “LE-OH-LAHM AH-MEN” (Until the world’s end, so shall it be!)

 

✪ Now ✪ the ✪ Pentagrams ✪

• Trace a banishing pentagram² of earth toward the East, bring the point to the center of the pentagram, vibrating the name: 

   “EE-AH-OH-EH” 

   (While doing this, imagine that your voice carries forward to the East of the Universe.)

• Trace a circle of light from the center of this Pentagram to the southern quarter, and draw the same banishing Pentagram of Earth and vibrate the name: 

   “AH-DOH-NIGH” 

• Go to the West, trace the same line and Pentagram and vibrate:

    “EH-EEE-EH” 

• Go to the North, trace the same line and pentagram and vibrate:

   “AH-GAH-LAH” 

• Return to the East and complete your circle by bringing the line of light to the center of the first pentagram. 

  (✞ …Almost finished )

  …Now stand with arms outstretched like Jesus getting crucified and shit, and declare this next shit with authority, like you’re yelling at your unruly children drawing pictures of poop on the wall with crayons.

   

“Before me: Raphael” – RAHF-EYE-EL 

“Behind me: Gabriel” – GAHB-RYE-EL 

“At my right hand: Michael” – MEEK-EYE-EL 

“At my left hand: Uriel” – AW-RYE-EL 

 

“BEFORE ME FLAMES THE PENTAGRAM  

IN THE COLUMN SHINES THE SIX-RAYED STAR”

 

Qabalistic Cross: 

• Perform the Qabalistic Cross once again in closing, touch your forehead and say: 

   “AH-TAH” (Thou art) 

• Now, draw that imagined light down pointing past your toes and into the earth. Vibrate: 

   “MAWL-KUTH” (the Kingdom) 

• Draw the light back up to the center of your chest, and imagine this light going as far past you you to the right that you can (while touching your right shoulder) and vibrate: 

   “VE-GEH-BOO-RAH” (and the Power) 

• Draw the light back to the center of your chest again, and imagine this light going as far past you to the left that you can (while touching your left shoulder) and vibrate: 

  “VE-GEH-DOO-LAH” (and the Glory) 

• Cross your arms over your chest all mummy-style like, bringing that light as a brilliant star bursting from within your chest as far as it can and vibrate: 

   “LE-OH-LAHM AH-MEN” (Until the world’s end, so shall it be)!

 

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OH HI THAR HORSEMAN by ▓▒░ TORLEY ░▒▓ CC BY-SA 2

Now don’t get turned off just because you aren’t of an Abrahamic worldview. These names and the imagery are tapping into the highest idealizations of the western mind. If you were raised in, or grew up in a society heavily influenced by, Abrahamic ideologies, then these are inside of you right now, ready to be accessed. This is true no matter what religious tradition or path of life you walk. They’re there to help you, now and always, and this is how you clear the internal and external clutter to properly focus the mind, set intent, and release your will on the cosmos (like Deng Xiaoping busting Maoist caps in the asses of some freedom loving college kids). 

The angels are representations of the highest element virtues. Originally in magick they were the Neo-Platonic Lords of the Pole, and it’s the Abrahamic interpretation that is a culmination of the whole of Rosicrucian philosophy in one shot. Not bad, if you ask me. 

Keep the light:

Fr. OTD

 

¹ Dave Matthews Band – Everybody knows who they are, and while you’re not going to say that in accordance with music theory that they’re terrible, nobody really wants to go into detail about their musical theory due to them yes, being heralded as a cornerstone of adult contemporary and therefore the mechanics of their music (when broken down and reproduced), has the all the elements of a good adult contemporary song but are insanely rudimentary and as a result somewhat boring to discuss. We can say the same for the LBRP. But there’s no need to fear, your friendly neighborhood BLASPHEMER is here to make that shit entertaining, since Regardie hardly went through all the trouble of making this ritual sound about as fun as wiping your butt. 

² Please make note of the differences between banishing pentagrams and invoking pentagrams. A basic tutorial of how to draw a banishing pentagram can be found here. Also, Llewellyn has a great in depth explanation of some of the various differences along with their uses.