Why The Lbrp? Options

Okay, I've recently decided to have a change a scenery and try Ceremonial Magick instead of Witchcraft. Well, I bought a great book titled Modern Magick. And it, like every other source I've read says I should do the LBRP every day. but why the lbrp? Why not some other banishing ritual. Just wondering

Okay, I've recently decided to have a change a scenery and try Ceremonial Magick instead of Witchcraft. Well, I bought a great book titled Modern Magick. And it, like every other source I've read says I should do the LBRP every day. but why the lbrp? Why not some other banishing ritual. Just wondering

Hi!

Craig's book is great!

The short answer is that Craig's book is operating out of a Golden Dawn inspired tradition of magick, and the LBRP was used as the banishing ritual in the Golden Dawn. IOW, the ceremony matches the historical banishing used in one of the greatest movements in ceremonial magick.

The long answer is that the LBRP achieves different outcomes than other 'banishing' rituals. Some people (i.e. Crowley) have gone so far as to call the LBRP the philosopher's stone itself, though this may or may not be an inflated estimation of its value.

In general, I like to think of the LBRP as 3 parts:
1. The initial prayer and visualization.
2. Tracing of the banishing pentagrams with vibrations of the 4 tetragrammatic god names.
3. Summoning the 4 elemental archangels.
...and then the prayer again at the end.

I would challenge you to look at each of these parts seperatly and to determine through your reasearch and contemplation their intent and meaning. Then, reflect on what this means all together, and consider that 'banishing' might just be one of the outcomes of a very complex ritual.

Cheers,

Try doing the Middle Pillar within the influence of the LBRP, should make for some interesting results... if Kraig doesn't recommend that already... is it his new book you have or the old one? Do remember there being a mistake in his old one that should have been revised.

Try doing the Middle Pillar within the influence of the LBRP, should make for some interesting results... if Kraig doesn't recommend that already... is it his new book you have or the old one? Do remember there being a mistake in his old one that should have been revised.

It's the newest edition, and he already says to do the middle pillar, but only after you've memorized the lbrp

It's the newest edition, and he already says to do the middle pillar, but only after you've memorized the lbrp

I suggest to everyone the path of Chaos, (the word is a gross misrepresentation of the practice.) It is the duty of the Chaos magician to change belief to try and understand every path there is and utilize worth out of each. You would then be able to practice ritual as well as personal gain at the same time, Liber Null & Psychonaut (one book) and Liber Kaos by Peter J. Carroll and I would also suggest Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson.

Fortune Favors Fools,
Dancin' Coyote.