In the LBRP ritual we vibrate God names -correct.
Is it essential to know the meaning of these names for the ritual to be effective ?


-- sessh

It is better to know what things mean as they provide a map for you if you are hoping for a particular outcome, but I did my first LBRP hardly knowing what it was for and I got results; on the one hand it tells me that you don't need to know what things are about to get results, the only problem is when you get further into your practices, if you don't know what is going to happen, you may end up getting results you don't want and they may not always be easy to reverse.

Yes, you vibrate the God names unless you are doing it silently, but people usually start out doing the whole thing in the physical until they start to feel and 'see' things, then you will find that you don't need to do everything in the physical.

Is thinking about the names while doing the LBRP effective for beginners ?

Also can anyone briefly explain the meaning of the words used. (I'm a beginner.)

Atah- "Thou Art"
Mahlkuth- "The Kindom"
Vig'Boorah-"and the Power"
Vig'doolah- "and the Glory"
Liohlaham- "Forever"
Ahmen- Amen

As for the God names they too have meaning, I only know the meanings of Eheiei (excuse my spelling) it means "I AM". Aglah is a Noiktaron(Code) for a larger hebrew phrase. YHVH is the ultimate unspeakable name of God, its true pronunciation is unknown. And Adony means "My Lord".

You can just type in something like " what are the meanings of the god names used in the LBRP" on a search engine like google.

As for thinking about the meanings as you perform the ritual: that is not neccessary, because at that moment you should be focusing on the visualizations and the actual vibration. You can't do three things at once. But you should have some feeling of devotion to the Allmighty.

As a beginner, you should be focussed on each part of the ritual you are doing, you should be doing it with concentration, so you should not be able to do anything but think of the name whilst you are vibrating, you certainly shouldn't be thinking about your shopping list whilst performing ritual (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Consider it as if you have arrived at a great and important place, you have been let into a grand entrance hall and in carrying out the ritual, you are waiting to see if any doors are being opened into another world for you.

Hope it helps to think of it like that.

Aglah is a Noiktaron for "Thou art great forever my Lord"

Well, it is better to know the whole meanings and what is behind them as you preform the LBRP. Such as with any form of magick. You can recite all the latin passages you want but you won't get the desired effect unless you know what they mean. Once you've gotten a greater understanding of this, it's ok to focus on the ritual. When I preform the LBRP, I'm not necessarially focusing on the meaning, but more so the directing of energy and the visuals.

This post has been edited by Angalor: Apr 30 2006, 08:50 PM

Yup.. AGLA is an acronym for

Ateh Gibor Le-olam Adonai

In my practice, I have come across many spellings due to Hebrew not translating well to English. So there is no real "correct" way to vibrate since spelling differs from group to group. I have heard shrieks, screaming, high pitch to low pitch and everything in between and they have all worked to varying degrees. The main approach, where ever you are on the scale IMO is when items in the room where you are banising start to vibrate or "sing" especially anything made of metal, etc.