The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram
Part Two: Formulation of the Pentagrams
Preliminaries:
When doing this part of the ritual, always move in a clockwise fashion, east to south, south to west, west to north, and north back to east. Form the pentagrams in the air using your right hand with your left at your side. If you have a knife (not the air knife, use another dagger for the LBRP), hold it in your right hand. If not, make a fist and point with the index finger extended. Point outside your left hip, draw a line above your head, then to the outside your right hip. Move the blade to outside your left shoulder, across horizontally to the outside of your right shoulder. Finally, trace a line to the left hip, ending in the same place you started. Keep the knife or your finger pointed away from you.
While you draw the pentagrams visualize them a very bright, pure blue (the same color as an electric spark or gas flame). If you are unable to see them, know that beyond all doubt that they are there.
Step One:
Going to your left, move around to the front of your altar, to the edge of the space of your circle and facing away from the middle of the circle where your altar stands. In other words, you are at the east and facing east. Here, draw a pentagram as described above. Be sure to visualize the figure as a flaming gas-jet blue pentagram as you draw.
Step Two:
Inhale through the nose. As you do, feel the energy flow from the ends of the universe through your nose, and down your body and out of the bottoms of your feet to the center of the Earth. (You are no longer at the center of your magickal circle and, thus, no longer at the center of the universe as in the first part of the ritual.) As you inhale, both hands should be raised by your ears. The dagger (or right-hand index finger) should be pointing forward. Your left hand (which should have remained at your side until now) is drawn into a similar position by your left ear, index finger pointing forward, the rest of the fingers closed into a fist.
Step Three:
Step forward with the left foot. At the same time, thrust your hands forward so that they point to the exact center of the glowing blue pentagram in front of you (this is known as a "God Form" and is the God Form known as "The Enterer"). As you do this, you should exhale and feel the energy come back up your body, out your arms and hands, through the pentagram and to the ends of the universe. You should use the entire exhalation to vibrate the God Name:
Yud-Heh-Vahv-Heh.
Step Four:
Bring your hands back to your ears while bringing your left foot back to its original position. Put your left hand down by your side and point to the center of the pentagram with your right forefinger (or dagger). Now trace a line in the air at the height of the center of the pentagram as you move in a clockwise direction around the edge of your circle's space. You should go 90 degrees so that you end up in the south, facing south. As you trace the line in the air you should visualize a brilliant white light emanating from the tip of your finger or blade. At the South, repeat steps 1 and 2 above, but vibrate the God Name:
Ah-Doh-NYE.
Step Five:
Repeat as above, but move to the west and vibrate
Eh-Heh-YEH.
Step Six:
Repeat as above, but move to the north and vibrate
AH-Glah.
Step Seven:
Complete the circle by connecting the white line from the north to the east where you began. Then, moving in the same clockwise direction, come back behind your altar and in front of the chair as when you started the ritual. You should once again be facing east. Note: If you do not have room for a circle, simply pivot where you stand behind the altar.
Step Eight:
Now visualize the brilliant white circle expanding up and down to form a sphere above, below, and all around you. What you have don is create a sphere in brilliant white all around you with electric blue pentagrams at the quarters which have been charged and sealed with the names of God.
Part Three: The Evocation of the Archangels