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The Great Invocation

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Magick
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    I have been asked to do the Great Invocation on the 20th of March for my local Oasis. I have performed the ritual twice now alone (with a strange result of causing people to bring me beer). I have only seen it done by someone else once and do not have a lot of good reference material for research on practical issues surrounding the ritual performance itself. What sacrament would be appropriate? Which robe would be appropriate? The staff I was thinking of using is a short iron rod, is this inappropriate? Is audience participation a good thing or detrimental?

    Suggestions on the performance would be appreciated!

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    @TGoC said

    "I have been asked to do the Great Invocation on the 20th of March for my local Oasis. I have performed the ritual twice now alone (with a strange result of causing people to bring me beer). I have only seen it done by someone else once and do not have a lot of good reference material for research on practical issues surrounding the ritual performance itself. What sacrament would be appropriate? Which robe would be appropriate? The staff I was thinking of using is a short iron rod, is this inappropriate? Is audience participation a good thing or detrimental?"

    I did it regularly for years with small and moderate sized groups, but it's been decades - going entirely from memory.

    Audience is WAY useful in the choruses. The whole thing builds to a great deal of power, and the energetic participation of the audience on the choruses, justaposed with the magus' solitary work, is very effective.

    On physical accoutrements, I don't think it matters at all. I've done it in whatever robe fit and, on one occassion before a convened O.T.O. annual business meeting, did it in a three-piece suit (which, nonetheless, was a single robe! 😉 ) - to good effect. The main things, I think, are the execution of the mathematical formula, your sustained concentration, and the enthusiasm.

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    Are you talking about Alice Bailey's Great Invocation, "From the point of Light within the Mind of God, etc."?

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    @gmugmble said

    "Are you talking about Alice Bailey's Great Invocation, "From the point of Light within the Mind of God, etc."?"

    No, the Great Invocation which is in Book 4, written by Crowley. It's used by the OTO in the Spring for Equinox ritual sometimes.

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