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Old 11-11-2004, 05:58 PM   #1
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Dear All,

I thought it might be interesting to start a thread where people can post their experiences with various rituals, whether standard, adaptations or original creations. It may be a good way to introduce each other to new material, or compare results with standard material. Would probably be helpful to post the name of the ritual in the title box.

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Attunement of elemental earth
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An interesting idea and one I think can generate great discussion. I was planning to discuss something mundane but since I see the potential of this thread I will share something a little more personal.



Ritual: Attunement of elemental earth
Source: Shor the Kerub of elemental earth
Purpose: Well the purpose should be obvious from the title.



This is a ritual that you will not find in any book that I know of. It was obtained from the angel Shor. Its intended use is as part of the elemental grade structure in the Golden Dawn but I am sure if you wanted to it could be adapted to other uses. At first it seems overly simplistic and bears more than a passing resemblance to the EEE, but dedicated use will show it potency.



1. Stand with your arms stretched out and your legs together forming a Tau cross.
2. Visualize and feel a large black earth triangle superimposed upon your body. The tip of the triangle should come to just below your feet and the bottom of the triangle should run just across the top of your head.
3. Visualize and feel the Hebrew letter ה (Heh) at chest level.
4. While in this position vibrate the divine name Adoni HaAretz and Adoni Melekh.



The effects of this simple but effective ritual are interesting. At first it seems it does nothing at all. After a few days your body begins to vibrate during the ritual. This progresses until the vibrations crystallize until during the ritual you and earth are one and the same. This effect persists and the next stage has the Hebrew letter burrowing into your chest and entering into Tiphareth or your heart center. The next stage I will let you find out for yourself…



Additionally you can see how easily this ritual can be adapted for use of other elemental energies by looking at the YHVH formula.
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Thelemic Rosary
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Thelemic Rosary.



THIS IS MY ROSARY

The Rosary I use is an olive wood Greek Orthodox rosary with and equal armed cross. On the Cross I have written AGAPE and THELEMA in Greek letters.

Adapted from various sources...more of a meditation than a ritual I suppose.

1. Tracing the Cross with thumb I intone: SOI at the top, O PHALLE and the bottom, ISCHUROS on the right arm, EUCHARISTOS on the left, and IAO in the centre.

2. The first large beed I repeat: LAShTAL! THELEMA! FIAOF! AGAPÉ! AUMGN!

3. Next three small beads I recite either Nuit, Hadit, Ra-Hoor-Khuit or a verse from 220 which corresponds to that "deity".

4. The large beads of the rosary I say:

Seven are the veils of the dancing-girl in the harem
of IT.
Seven are the names, and seven are the lamps beside
Her bed.
Seven eunuchs guard Her with drawn swords; No
Man may come nigh unto Her.
In Her wine-cup are seven streams of the blood of
the Seven Spirits of God.
Seven are the heads of THE BEAST whereon She
rideth.
The head of an Angel: the head of a Saint: the head
of a Poet: the head of An Adulterous Woman: the
head of a Man of Valour: the head of a Satyr:
and the head of a Lion-Serpent.
Seven letters hath Her holiest name; and it is BABALON

5. The small beads I recite:

Hail Babalon filled with Joy
Ra-Hoor- khu is with thee.
Blessed and cursed art thou in thy glory
and glorious the Beast on whom thou ridest

Scarlet Woman, Mother of Abominations
Gather Our Blood in the Golden Cup of thy Fornication

AUMGN, AUMGN, AUMGN

I find this a good preparation for meditation, ritual, or to do anywhere people are watching! Using a "proper" rosary seems to go un-noticed...until you say Mother of Abomination too loud
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Re: Attunement of Elemental Earth
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Dear Nero

Love this ritual - sublimely simple with enormous potential - I'll have to check it out further!

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Dear NuHad418

Another great idea! I like the use of tactile feelings such as playing with beads whilst performing meditation or adoration. These first two posts amply demonstrate that a thread such as this has great potential for expanding the ritual regimen for many of us!

Can you post some results you have had using the Thelemic Rosary?

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An Invocation of Anpu
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As I have just posted this in another forum on OF, I thought it may be worthwhile to lead of my contribution with -

An Invocation of Anpu
By - Me.

AN INVOCATION OF ANUBIS.
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Based on the Liber Israfel format (YHVH Formula)

Ring bell nine times in a series of threes

I

I invoke Anpu, the Lord of Time and Magick, God of the Mystic Veil !
Grow, O light, come forth O light.
Rise O light, ascend O light.
Thou who art without, come in.
O Thou Opener of the Roads, Governor of the Hall of the Gods, Thee, Thee, I invoke!
Thou the Jackal-Headed God, who bridges Heaven and Earth, Thee, Thee I invoke!
Thou who wieldest the Tyler’s sword! Thee, Thee I invoke!
Thou who bearest in Thy left hand the Rose & Cross of Light & Life: Thee, Thee I invoke!
Thou whose head is as onyx, and nemyss as the night-sky blue! Thee I invoke!
Thou whose skin is as flaming gold at Noontide!
Thou whose eyes penetrate the depths of the soul of Man, Thee, Thee I invoke!
Thou Knower of the sacred mysteries of Magick, Thee, Thee I invoke!
Thou the weigher of the Heart against the feather of Truth, Thee, Thee I invoke!
Thou, the Guide of Souls, the Royal Child of Khemet: Thee, Thee I invoke!


II

(Assume God-form of Anpu)

Behold I am ever present - for I am the Personification of Time, and the Guide of the Immortal Soul
I am the Horizon which divides the visible from the invisible!
I am the Lord of the Dead & of the veils beyond!
Foremost of Westeners, I am Lord of Past and Future!
I oversee the scales of Ma’at in the Hall of Judgement! Through my protection dost thou thwart Ammut the Devourer!
Behold! He is in me & I in Him!
I am He, God of Twilight and Midnight
For I am Yinepu, the Royal Child,
I am Sekhem em Pet, the Power of Heaven
I am Khent Sehet, Govenor of the Hall of the God.
Mine is the Unseen force whereof the Gods are sprung!
My tongue is the sanctuary of Maat, Goddess of Truth!
My Will is accomplished by Day and by Night,
I am the voice of Anpu in the presence of the Eternal; I see by mine own inward Light!


III

Therefore do Thou come forth unto me from Thine Abode in Amenti:
AN-HERT! YINEPU! AM UT!
By whatsoever Name Thou art called by all the Nations of the Earth, Thou art Nameless unto Eternity: Come Thou forth I say and aid and guard me in this Work of Art.
Thou the Protector of Lost Souls!
Thou Royal Child who defended Heru in the marshes!
Thou Master of the Light and of the Darkness!
Lord of the Circle and the shrine at the centre, who cometh forth from the dusk!
Come Thou forth I say, Come Thou forth! And make all spirits subject unto me, so that every spirit of the Firmament and of the Aethyr, on dry land and in the Water, upon the Earth or under the Earth, of Whirling Air or of Rushing Fire, and every Spell and Scourge of God the Vast One may be obedient unto me!


IV

TUA ANPU, SEMA UAT
A’PU EN HET-BA
UT’A EN A’MENTET
EM WEHEM TUA-TU
A’U-K WAB
A’NET-HRA-K ANPU

I make open the Veil of Life and Death,
I ascend from the Underworld;
I overshadow you with My Presence
Ye Children of Earth that are gathered in the Hall of Truth!
The God who commands is in my mouth! HU !
The God of Wisdom is in my Heart ! SAA !
My tongue is the Sanctuary of Truth !
And a God sitteth upon my Lips !
My Word is accomplished every day !
And the desire of my heart realizes itself, as that of Ptah when he createteth his Works !

Anku en shemsu en Netjer

O Glory be
Unto Thee
Through all Time
And through all Space
Glory
And Glory upon Glory
Everlastingly,
Amen and Amen and Amen.

The Ending of the Words is the Word ABRAHADABRA!


This ritual involves little preparation, although a large ankh and sword are great props if you have them.

Although the ritual can be easily performed by one person, it does require the ability to step in and out of the Godform to take on the two roles. It is really effective when worked with two people, one taking parts I and III, the other II and IV.

As is readily apparent, this ritual is based on the format of Liber Israfel (Bennett/Crowley) which has the great advantage that it can be adapted to a myriad of deities - one merely needs knowledge of appropriate correspondences and a little bit of creative flair.

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Dear NuHad418

Another great idea! I like the use of tactile feelings such as playing with beads whilst performing meditation or adoration. These first two posts amply demonstrate that a thread such as this has great potential for expanding the ritual regimen for many of us!

Can you post some results you have had using the Thelemic Rosary?

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My experiences have been varied depending on how much time I spend using it. Primarily I would say that using it:
  1. Calms and focuses my mind.
  2. It opens my focus to the Thelemic "feminine" principle (Babalon).
  3. Intoning the Aumgn sanctifies the "psychic" surroundings.
  4. Using it slowly gives a feel of calm and sanctity...using it quickly and forcefully opens ecstacy and "lust".
  5. Just holding the rosary actually grounds me.
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The Form of Adam Kadmon

This is, I suppose, an offshoot of the Middle Pillar Ritual. The method is slightly different, but th results are the same. The source is the Zohar. This came about from the following line of reason: if man is a microcosm, he reflects the same sefirotic tree as the macrcosm. Thus, there exists within man his own "en sof," into which the sefiroth can be projected.

I did this lying down, but I see no reason why it won't work standing, sitting, or in any other position.

Close your eyes and turn your thoughts inward.
Push all your thoughts aside until you can visualize a space in the centre.
Into that space, project a single ray of light.
Out of that ray, form the first sefira, kether, above your head.
From kether, send a ray of light to the right of your head, and form hokhmah.
Send a ray from hokhmah to your left and form binah.
Move the light to your right arm and form hessed.
From hessed, form geburah on your left.
Form tifereth in tour abdomen.
From tifereth form nesah at your right leg
From nesah, form hod at your left leg
From hod, form yesod at your groin
Finally, point the light downward and form malkhuth at your feet.
The sefirotic tree of life should now be superimposed over your body
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Evoking the four Archangels

This is something I can do separate from the LBRP, most likely becuase every Orthodox Jew who reads Kether Malkhuth does it every year on Yom Kippur, but to provide a simpler means of doing so:

After assuming the form of Adam Kadmon:
Open da'ath over the centre of your chest - it should not posess any light at all
From da'ath project four beams of light in this order: front, back, right, left
As each beam is projected, station the proper archangel:
Before me, Rafael
Behind me, Gabriel
At my right, Mikhael
At my left, Uriel
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hey... cool ritual Nero! I've been wondering about finding rituals that relate to my grade as Malkuth, I might just have to borrow that one... I've already started with the Middle Pillar in Assiah.

Anyway, here's just a simple ritual, more of an incorporation if you will, of the Godforms and the Tarot that I've been experimenting with to great results... I've been doing this especially with the Tarot doctrines of the Malkuth grade in mind from the 'True and Invisible Rosicrucian Order' from Case which is why its of significance to me...

1. Settle into the God position
2. Read an invocation unto the letter or the card it represents (I personally read from the Book of Tokens from Paul Foster Case)
3. Feel the letter in your heart, hold the card before you in contemplation
4. Gradually feel the form of the card envelope your environment
5. Close your eyes, imagine yourself in the form of the character in the card. Imagine you see as they do, feel the environment and the effect it has upon you.
6. Intone the letter of the card, and feel it expand from your heart into the Universe
7. Be still in the position, and observe as weird things happen.
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From kether, send a ray of light to the right of your head, and form hokhmah.
Send a ray from hokhmah to your left and form binah.
Move the light to your right arm and form hessed.
From hessed, form geburah on your left.
...
From tifereth form nesah at your right leg
From nesah, form hod at your left leg
...
The sefirotic tree of life should now be superimposed over your body

The Tree should normally be 'superimposed' the other way around, as if you had "backed into" the diagram.
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The Tree should normally be 'superimposed' the other way around, as if you had "backed into" the diagram.


I'm aware that the course of pathworking directs one from malkhuth to kether. When I did this, I was operating on the principle of the microcosm. In other words, our own mind and will act as En Sof, and we project our own sefiroth out of our consciousness. The Tree of Life is also said to reflect the body of Adam Kadmon (primaeval man), who was Adam in the image of God (in this case, Metatron). Since this is, in some way, an inverted pathworking, the thaumaturge is not climbing to God, but drawing God in.
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This little meditation was explained to me by Raziel. I call it the "Blue Sphere"

1) Lie / sit in your normal meditation position
2) Do 3 fold breathing until you are relaxed as per normal astral prep
3) DO NOT start to enter a trance state, simply relax your body and become aware of your natural energy flow
4) Focus on the constant chatter that goes on in your mind, the inner voice that never shuts up and usually distracts you just as you are about to achieve true meditation
5) While focussing on the chatter, become aware that it has a certian vibration
6) direct this vibration out of your "third eye" and visualise it forming into a glowing blue sphere above your heart centre
7) visualise a pure white light coming out of the blue sphere, down into your heart centre
keep going for a few minutes, come out of it normally

The main thing with this is to do it slowly and not to force it, this one works itself. It's especially good when you are sick... hint hint
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EVOKATION - A.E.Waite's "Black Magic & Pacts;" Richard Cavendish's "The Black Arts"
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Todd,

This is a well-written ritual of evokation done by a fellow (Morpheus Shapiro) using A.E.Waite's "Black Magic and Pacts" and Richard Cavendish's "The Black Arts". I like the fact the author quotes chapter and verse and tells the story from an balanced perspective of perceiving entities. I am placing it here as a tid-bit that some may find of interest. I'd not like to resurrect or create a Thread: The Evokation of So-&-So, when this Thread of yours presents itself so well.

PM me if you'd like it removed or have a better suggestion where it would fit.

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In the last quarter of 1970, I performed an experiment in old-style Ceremonial Magick. This was a summoning by the practice of Goetic Magick (use ofCrowley's "k' for such stuff is debatable). The theory was clear to me andseemed safe. My sources were not very reliable, and my experience was slight. The whole thing would have gone well enough if my colleague hadn't ignored the simplest precautions.

'C.' and I met over a glass of wine in his apartment. He and his wifeoccupied the rooms over mine for several months during the years I lived inOakland. C's wife was celebrating her birthday, and she had invited me to the occasion. I had not met her husband before, but the fact that their bedroomwas directly above mine made for something of an introduction.

C. remarked proudly that he had managed to get a science fiction storypublished. We discussed that a bit, and I thought to pick up the laggingconversation with a few remarks about my occult interests. The wine waspleasant and slightly dulling to wits and judgment. When I mentioned that Ipossessed several rituals used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance forsummoning the "devil," C. immediately became alert. He abruptly suggested that we try one. This startled me; but, to save face under the gentle persuasion of the wine, I slowly agreed. It would not be possible to do afull job of it on such short notice, I told him, but we could give it a try. I reasoned that the demons were only facets of the self, and that no possible harm could come through such an experiment. I was more than half convinced that C. was just making a joke and not really serious. That may have been the case at the start.

We adjourned to my apartment. I assembled the necessary props and references. For a ritual we used A.E.Waite's "Black Magic and Pacts" (a stupidly blinded book) and Richard Cavendish's "The Black Arts". I took a robe with a black lining and reversed it. I had an old masonic sword, quite elaborate and magical. This sword had a silver chain from guard to pommel. Where the chain joined the pommel, a tiny silver ring formed the last link. There was a fireplace with wooden mantle in the West wall of the room. The flue had long ago been closed and an electric heater filled the entire hearth opening. We placed our half empty glasses on the mantle and set to work.

I showed C. the preparations and schooled him briefly in the ritual. We took up a stand in the center of the room, facing East. After passing the sword slowly about us both to define a magical circle, I moved the sword inside the circle to duplicate a design shown on page 238 of Cavendish's book. We went through the lesser pentagram banishment. The conjuration we used next is given on pages 241 and 242 of Waite's book. It is very poorly written, but it was enough to call something from the depths of C's mind. It even produced a few external results.

Immediately after the conjuration, a loud and steady buzzing sound issued from the closed-up fireplace behind us. The sound persisted for several minutes and resembled the buzzing of a large fly trapped behind the grate. The sound had not been heard in that place before and it never occurred again. No material cause ever presented itself, but something physical could have caused it. I chose to interpret this sound as a warning from the demon Baalzebub,"Lord of Flys" (Actually, "Baalzebut" is derived from Syriac, not Hebrew, and signifies "Bridegroom"). The sound had come from the West while we were facing East. Even as East is the direction of the rising Sun, it is said in Christian mysticism (the conjuration was partly Christian) that Christ shall come from the East on Judgment day and the devils shall fly with the souls ofthe damned toward the West. Accordingly, I suggested that we should face the when summoning by this formula. We faced West and pronounced the following"discharge," also found in Waite's book, page 243:

"Go in peace unto your places. May there be peace between us and You, and be ye ready to come when ye are called. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen."

We resumed the conjuration. This procedure was repeated many times during the night and into the early morning hours. We called in turn upon two "demons,"Belial and Asmoday, and used the information and seals presented by Waite in"Black Magic and Pacts."

On page 175:

"Asmoday, a strong and powerful king, appears with three heads, the first like a bull, the second like a man, and the third like a ram. He has a serpent's tail, the webbed feet of a goose, and he vomits fire. He rides an infernal dragon, carries lance and pennon, and is the chief of the power of Amaymon. He must be invoked bareheaded, for otherwise he will deceive. He gives the ring of virtues, teaches arithmetic, geomancy, and all handicrafts,answers all questions, makes men invisible, indicates the places of concealed treasures and guards them if within the dominion of Amaymon."

On page 187:

"Belial, a mighty king created next after Lucifer, appears in the form of a beautiful angel seated in a chariot of fire, and speaking with a pleasant voice. He fell first amongst the superior angels who went before Michael andother heavenly angels. He distributes preferences of senatorships, causes favors of friends and foes, and gives excellent familiars. He must haveofferings and sacrifices made to him."

As we multiplied our conjurations, I grew gradually weary of the wholeprocess. Nothing much happened beyond an occasional movement of a curtain oran odd sound from outside. Things were different for C. As I grew more bored, he grew more tense. Sweat broke out on his brow, and his bodygradually became rigid. His breathing became audible and forced. He had the sword when he did a very foolish thing.

We had just finished the conjuration of Asmoday and were waiting for the usual flop when he suddenly thrust the hilt beyond the circle and said: "I offer you the magic sword if you appear!"

I uttered a warning, but it was too late. He had broken the circle with the chief instrument of protection. Nothing happened then beyond a minor mishap. When he passed the sword hilt through the circle, the chain from guard to pommel fell free of the pommel. After giving the discharge, we tried to rejoin the chain to the pommel; but the silver ring that formed the link was nowhere to be found. I reasoned that it had probably caught in his clothing when he thrust the hilt forward and that it must have fallen off. We continued.

I became concerned about C's reactions. What he did was harmless as physical actions go; but this action was far from harmless in the ritual setting. To give up protection in the evocation of a harmful spirit is to ask that spirit to obsess you. Even if the ritual is nothing but a psychological game, that is a very odd thing to do. I resolved to participate in only one more try and then to stop.

The next evocation proceeded as did the others, no trouble and no result. After it I told C. that I was growing tired (the dawn was breaking) and that I wished to cease the conjurations. He pleaded with me to do one more. I refused to help, but agreed that he could do it alone if he wished.

At first he protested that I would be outside the circle and in danger. To quiet him, I showed him a large crucifix with a death's head at the base. This, I said, would be protection enough. He agreed.

I seated myself at some distance from his workings. From my new position, I was able to get a better look at him. What I saw distressed me. He looked like a man intoxicated with fear. His clothes were wet with sweat, and he had a wild look. I began to have misgivings about the whole thing. Yet, he had begun; and I thought it best not to interrupt him.

He quickly rushed through the conjuration. When it was finished, he stood for a moment with the book open at his feet. Suddenly he dropped to his knees and said in a clear voice; "Come and take me! You can have my soul if you appear!" That was a stupid thing to do!

He immediately slumped forward on his knees at an unnatural angle and began recitation of the discharge. When he finished, he lowered himself closer to the Waite book, which was open to the seal of Asmoday, and said; "I don't want to go. Don't send me away." He froze in that position with all his muscles rigid.

The first thing that crossed my mind was; "What am I going to do with the body?" Taking the initiative, I went up to C. and held the cross between his eyes and the book. Then I raised the cross to touch his forehead. He uttered an enormous sigh and relaxed.

C. retrieved a wine glass from the mantle and went to my couch to sit down. Between sips of the wine he was telling me how harrowing his experience had been, when suddenly he uttered an inarticulate sound and stared at his glass. He brought the glass over to me, asking; "Do you see that?" "Do you see that?"

I took the glass from his trembling fingers and inspected it. After a moment I saw on the bottom, beneath an inch or so of red wine, the silver ring that had fallen from the sword. I quickly drank the rest of the wine to reassure him. How did the link reach the glass? It would have had to travel an almost impossible path from the place where the chain broke free to the tiny opening of the glass on the mantle three feet above. Perhaps C. introduced it into the glass himself. I don't know. If he did it himself, he couldn't have been fully conscious of it. He was genuinely disturbed.

When C. recovered enough to leave, he insisted on taking the sword up to bed with him as a protection against --- what? Later, as I lay in my bed, I heard gasping from the room above, like the sounds made by a person dying of a heart attack. A few days later, C. asked if we could do something like that again. I evaded the question. He later became a Jesus Freak of some kind, enlisted in the Armed Services and developed a neurotic fear of the honking of geese.

The whole episode may be interpreted as a lesson in applied psychology from my own inward god to me. As for C., his inward god seems to need heavy handed tactics to teach him lessons. I hope he learned how to live more gently, but I have my doubts.
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My version of the LBRP
Old 01-24-2005, 10:18 AM   #15
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Default My version of the LBRP

Using the Crowley Thoth Tarot deck (because I love the imagery for doing rituals) I place the Ace of Disks (Earth) at North, the Ace of Cups (Water) at West, the Ace of Wands (Fire) at South, and the Ace of Swords (Air) at East. This creates my circle.

Standing in the center and using my athame I do the Qabalistic Cross. I begin the LBRP doing a banishing pattern with the pentagrams. Once I finish saying "Before me flames the pentagram. Behind me shines the six ray star" I then cross my arms across my chest in a pharaoh type manor while still holding the athame and then I say

North, South, East and West
I call upon your guardian best
Earth, Fire, Water, Wind
To this circle I invoke within
Charge your powers create a shield
A spirit wall I ask you build
Protect this time protect this space
Protect this ritual in this place

At which point I open the circle. Then I do any candle magick or prayers or waiting to hear for the Divine that needs to be done. Sometimes I connect with the element Air.

Then I do the invoking version of the LBRP. Then I recite

North, South, East and West
I thank you for your guardian best
Earth, Fire, Water, Wind
I thank you for your presence within

I then close the circle.

I then go outside and toss salt three times into the wind as an offering to God. I toss bird seeds three times into the wind as an offering to Goddess.
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