Banishing Or Invoking Pentagrams In Consecration Ritual? Options

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

Thank you very much for all your advice!

Kraig has a new edition of his book out with a nice looking cover page... there were, from what I remember, mistakes in the other issue.

Have found that the G.Dawn text tend to be open yet discreet, open in the sense that all the information and rites are there, discreet in that its left upto you to peice together what should be done with it... they've basically laid out information en mass with suggestions as to how you can actually piece it all together to create an improved whole... at least thats what I'm ''finding'' (commas suggesting its something I've noticed but haven't really looked into) its possible, I think, to create an active holistic system from the G.Dawn manuscripts, when I say holistic I of course mean whole, a system that has you incorporate every aspect of your life into its practice so that its lived as a culture rather than practiced once a day and done away with... if you look all the relevant bits and bobs are there but scattered throughout the main text, a system is within the fragments of another system, is interesting.

Always good to banish after a ritual, its like washing the dishes after a good meal, granted you could have had a salad but it will still attract bugs and such, certain things don't know good from bad, happy rolling in dung just as well as they are anything else... can make for a difficult nights sleep .lol. Also shows respect for others who may not be so well inclined to the energy you've just invoked. Not that I'm speaking from experience.