Hello and greetings to all. This is my first post although I have been lurking for some time.

In my work, I have come to this point that I am now ready to consecrate my elemental tools. I use standard GD style
tools.

When reading about these consecration rituals, I noticed a difference in the description of this ritual between Donald Michael Kraig's
"Eleven lessons...." and Konstantino's "Summoning spirits".

At the end of the ritual, a LBRP should be performed, but using the elemental tool instead of the LBRP dagger. Let's take the earth pentacle as
an example.

According to Konstantinos, in order to banish all the elemental forces invoked during the ritual, banishing pentagrams of earth should be traced
with the earth pentacle during the final LBRP (page 104). But according to Kraig, invoking pentagrams of earth should be traced (page 270). Kraig
doesn't provide an explanation to why it should be so, but I instinctively feel that Konstantinos has a valid point. The strong elemental forces invoked
previously in the ritual must be banished in order to maintain balance.

What are your opinions about this, and how should I proceed?

This post has been edited by Peking: Aug 14 2010, 04:55 PM