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changed. I am now at the stage where I am trying to forge a stronger relationship with the
archangels. I have successfully worked with Raphael in regards to some healing. I can state
that it was awe inspiring. The first time I made contact it was no big deal I always pray to
YHVH starting my day and daily ritual. Just after I evoked the Angels of the quarters, I asked
Raphael to make himself known to me. After vibrating his name about five times I felt the
sudden change in atmosphere in the room. I was pretty much taken off guard at the experience
it was a very intense feeling. I asked him about my health and his responses where direct and
came immediately. The only way to describe Raphaels presence is very authoritative,
overwhelming almost gracious. But powerful at the same time.
The LBRP is really interesting when you do it for a period of time, as it seems to have the
effect like psychic hygiene or astral weight training, or charging your spiritual batteries as
Frater Fio would put it, in that you're maintaining and developing your aura (or Circle or
whatever?) in optimum condition through daily development. But after a while I've found that
it simultaneously re-enforces the belief that the universe around you is full of 'astral stuff' that
needs to be banished and cleaned off. There is no clear cut way to explain this? And I find
talking to those that have been practicing this ritual for a prolonged period of time understand
what I am talking about.
The angelic Sentinels of the Quarters: The Archangels are not merely the guardians against
the Banished Elements at the Quarters. They must be called upon to guard the very ends of
eternity from the Elements, as well as all aspects that they rule: in their Quarters and
Sephiroth. The very names of the Archangels contain keys to their Dominions. I find this
quote very very important as I have spoken to a lot of Practitioners who just go through the
motions they do not have the respect for the divinity and power of the Hebrew angels. I feel
there is more power in actually having the religious connection with YHVH maybe its my
Christian background?
Practice Outline:
When you perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, you begin by aspiring to the
highest concept you can imagine, by the vibration of Atah, "To Thou, Essence." This is then
affirmed on Earth with Malkuth, and in the balance of forces that rule the universe, Geburah
and Gedulah. It is then affirmed in Eternity as Le Olahm, Amen - "To the Ages of Ages, so be
it." You have, with the Qabalistic Cross, placed yourself at the centre of the Universe, having
first brought the divine presence into your heart, mind and body. Next you go on to cleanse
the four quarters of the Universe with pentagrams of fire, affirming Man as the mirror of the
Divine Image and with the ability to control the elements through spirit, the topmost point.
The deity names are sent thundering through to the Ends of the Universe and back again. Your
Magical Universe is then defined by the marking of the circle of light, another reminder of
Spirit, and of Kether the Godhead, the Crown of the Tree of Life. The drawing of the four
pentagrams automatically invokes spirit, the fifth point, and so raises the microcosmic
consciousness to the level of the macrocosm, having completely sealed the circle against the
Outer Darkness, the World of unbalanced forces called Qliphoth. This Hebrew word means
literally, "Shells". (Those who court the favours of Venus should do well to remember that she
is often depicted as riding upon one!) Malkuth is shown divided into four sections of colour
on the Tree diagram: citrine, russet, olive and black in the colours of the Queen Scale. The
black part, representing the Dead End of Matter, the point of maximum inertia in the
Universe, abuts onto the World of Shells, the husks or discarded astral remnants that souls
departing the earth plane have left. This world is also inhabited by many other undesirable
waste products of the Universe, including thought forms of a very low order.
Now, with the power of the pentagram and the Ineffable Name, you have sealed yourself off
from the outer world, the profane world of ignorance and darkness, from the false and the
unseemly. By this act you have called into operation themacrocosm, as the Greater Voice
responding to the lesser. Therefore, above you and below you, as if you stood in a vertical
column, appears the six-rayed star of the cosmos, the hexagram of two interlaced triangles. If
you were to count all of the points of the pentagrams and hexagrams, you would have thirtytwo, the total number of the Sephiroth plus the twenty-two paths of the Tree of Life. You
stand in a Palace built for the Indwelling Glory, the Shekinah, the Soul of God. Light spelled
in Roman numerals LVX adds up to sixty-five, and so does the Divine Name of Malkuth
Adonai (ADNI). Six is the macrocosm, the Divine Being, and five is the number of man in the
Lower World. The union of these two is the object of the Great Work. In the ordinary case, by
cleansing and banishing your sphere, you would have left inside that sphere a kind of vacuum.
This is not a good thing to do, for in nature anything left empty does not stay empty for long!
So you continue, and by the clockwise direction of your movement you evoke the Archangels,
guardians drawn from the Briatic World of Creation. Correspondingly a spiritual brightness
appears in the aura as the four elements are brought into perfect balance.
Your position in the centre constitutes spirit, and by adding Above and Below to the four
elemental directions in space, the six of the macrocosm is once more confirmed. Finally you
repeat again the Qabalistic Cross which places the flame of the Eternal in your heart, the
centre of the Magical Universe. And this procedure, when well-practiced, can be completed
perfectly well in all of two minutes of your time!