um, what is your source for the cm you are working? - are you working from a book or do you have a actual teacher/group you are working with?
if you are working with a group, i'd ask them as these are the sorts of basic questions teachers always get
i am not a ceremonial magician, but i can probably touch on some of them - i'd love to know if i'm right on these or not - i've read regardie, etc, but i'm a witch at heart lol
>>[1] Why is the LBRP done in a dark room? Can it not be done in daylight?
in the dark your mind is more open to the thinks that cannot be seen?
>>[2] Why is it that we have to walk clockwise? What does it mean in magickal terms?
clockwise is the apparent motion of the sun - sunwise, right hand path, generation versus dissolution
>>[3] What is the significance of lighting candles? Is there a specific way the candles are supposed to be placed?
candle magic - the ritual should outline the candle placement - doesn't it?
[4] What is the purpose of calling the archangels? I've read they could be substituted, but it's not my desire to do that, I simply want to know why they are called and what functions they perform.
the archangels are probably like calling the quarters in witchcraft - they say that the alexandrian tradition, which uses quarters, influenced gerald gardner when he went to england and met some of the alexandrians and worked some rituals with them and they gave him access to their book of shadows - i don't call the quarters, but from what my old teacher told me years ago, the quarters, watchtowers, whatever, are the four beast-headed angels surrounding the throne of god (which would make them archangels, ya?)- they are the embodiment of the elements and are called as a protection and to witness the working
that should hold you til you get a proper cm answer
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