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On my little browsing trek during a quick break, I came across a video clip for the LBRP

http://www.riteofluna.com/sound-photos.htm

Not sure I liked the music accompanying and I would have preferred a strong vibratory feel to the voice, but such as it is, it DOES do the job in showing what you are to focus on, pentagram sizes and which Archangel sits where.

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It's actually part of a rock opera directed by Jon Sewell based on Crowley's seventh play in his Rite of Eleusis. Of course it seems like the only major changes to the play may be costume and of course the added musical scores.<br><br><a href="http://www.seattle-oto.org/rites.htm">The Rites' scripts + Essays on the Rites of ELeusis.</a><br><br>Not many fans of theatre here?<br><br>The script itself calls for the LBRP, to "banish the spirits of the elements."<br>Performs the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram and returns.<br>It is after all a play, and meant to entertain overall. However, being "theatrical" in one's ritual work is by no means a negative thing, it actually adds a little something to it, especially with rituals that grow vapid and tiresome as part of the daily routine. Daniel Christensen (Taurus) preformed the LBRP in an entertaining fashion with his sharp movements, about faces, costume, etc, but he preformed it well. Was it Hine that encourages a bit of dramaticism in one's ritual work?<BR><br>In all actuality I believe Jon Sewell did an excellent job with the Rite of Luna. I'm sure he didn't have an endless supply of fundige for it ( understaffed too it looks like ),and as a result the editing wasn't exactly top notch... the actors/singers/preforming-artits/fellow-occultists themselves actually preformed quite well IMHO, and put forth a noble effort at adapting the play. I'm surprised at how it was received here by some, but I suppose de gustibus no est disputandum. <br><br> <hr 50%> Music in The Pentagram RitualBy Jon Sewell <br><br>I began by composing music for the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (LBRP), which is one of the rituals given to Neophytes of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. This ritual has come to be respected as one of the most utilitarian and universal rituals in ceremonial magick. It is a powerful ritual on its own. It is useful for generating a quiet or neutral space for contemplation, as well as being a preliminary ritual for more powerful workings, from Tarot readings and other divinations to the conjuring of Angels or Demons. The LBRP is a solid foundation upon which to build a magickal practice.<br><br>Composing music for the LBRP as it appears in The Rite of Luna began with a simple theme. I used a ¾ time signature because it worked well with the three-tone (three-letter) words of the LBRP that begin and end the Qabalistic Cross section of the ritual (AThH and AMN, respectively). The theme is a musical representation of the Name of Names or Tetragrammaton, as it is combined with other planetary tones that represent analogous deities, in particular Jupiter, from Dr. Case's scale (see "Composing Music for Magick" for more details. <br><br>The tempo is slow, to reflect the character of Brother Taurus, who performs the ritual. Taurus deposes Venus at the end of The Rite of Venus, and presides as Mercury in The Rite of Mercury. He then enthrones Gemini at the end of that rite, where she sits as Luna and he becomes one of her guardians. This, combined with the earthy nature of Taurus led to my decision to portray his character as slow and rigid, in the same way that logical thought can seem inflexible when compared to the fluid nature of dream images. He reflects the quick mind mired in repetitive thought.<br><br>When the elements are banished in our production of Luna, all the Pentagrams were "Earth Banishing" as this is the simplest model of the ritual. <br><br>During the performance, large images of the Archangels were projected behind Taurus while he intoned their names. I created each of these images with the help of Doug Blake. These images are used with his permission. The color scales reflect the traditional elemental colors, with flashing colors used for the wings and the corresponding King's Scale colors are used for the Hebrew renderings of the Archangel names as they appear in the illustrations. You can view these images here, but please do not use or distribute them without permission. The projected animation was created by Courtney Landes in PowerPoint.<br><br><center><a href="http://www.riteofluna.com/merchandise.htm"><img border="0" width="450" height="50" src="http://www.riteofluna.com/banners/450x50.gif" alt="The Rite of Luna: A Rock Opera--Now available on DVD"></a><br /><a href="http://www.riteofluna.com">The Rite of Luna: A Rock Opera</a><br><a href="http://www.riteofluna.com/merchandise.htm"></a></center><br>