Questions on the Lesser Hexagram
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@hepuck said
"Thanks Jim, as always you are font of knowledge."
And thank you for the examples. - Donald Kraig's version is an innovation - it isn't what the Golden Dawn taught, nor what is taught in A.'.A.'..
This doesn't mean it's bad - just that it's a different ritual.
"3. Also...what about the Sign of Silence? I was taught originally left-hand, stomp lightly with left foot, and to do it after projecting any kind of energy in order to "cut the current", as it were. However, I see very, very few rubrics that include it at all. I do it after Resh, after the Sign of the Enterer, etc...is this wrong, or is it just part of standard training and thus gets left out of rubrics?"
It's not part of the ritual itself. It can be used for purposes such as you suggest. As to style, there are variations from school to school, all of which are essentially the same god-idea represented.
Whether to use it after invocations etc. is a personal call, and can vary with circumstances. I can't think of a reason in the world to want to "terminate the current" after Resh (although quietly giving the Sign of Silence is a final step in Resh - but nothing so noisy. The idea is to slip into silence.)
The stomping etc. is most commonly recommended after vision work, especially with considerable astral separation. The stomp, among other things, has the effect of realigning the astral within the physical (by jarring it).
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On the notariqons, here are some quotes from the Appendix of the forthcoming new edition of 776 1/2:
In a section on the Pentagram Ritual:
"One difference between the above version and nearly all other published versions is in the fourth God-Name. Most copies give... A.G.L.A., as if it were the actual Name to be vibrated. It is not. It is a blind, advertent or inadvertent. A.G.L.A. is an abbreviation (or notariqon, in Qabalistic jargon) commonly used, from Medieval times forward, for the phrase Attah gibbor le-olam Adonai (“Thou art mighty, forever and ever, O Lord”). When performing the Pentagram ritual, the full phrase should be pronounced, not the abbreviation. Adonai, translated “Lord,” is, among ceremonial magicians, a common way of addressing the Holy Guardian Angel. This phrase, Attah gibbor le-olam Adonai, is thus a recognition of the illimitable strength of the Holy Guardian Angel in all the aspects of one’s life."
In a section on the Hexagram Ritual:
"The second blind involves a notariqon, just as in the Pentagram Ritual. When published scripts of this ritual say to vibrate A.R.A.R.I.T.A., that is an abbreviation for the Hebrew phrase, Echad, rosh ache’dutho, rosh yichudutho, t’muratho echad. This may not be as critical as in the Pentagram ritual because Ararita, at least, is resonant (due to all of the vowels and Rs together), in comparison to the angular, hard-edged, terse Agla. Also, A.R.A.R.I.T.A. is not as numerically (geometrically) locked into the hexagram as A.G.L.A. (i.e., the whole phrase) is to the pentagram."
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You are definitely right (I didn't doubt you); just did both rituals with the full Hebrew, and got very warm and tingly (I am in the Bay Area...it's not a warm and tingly night). I was sweating and everything, even though my rituals were no more physically taxing than normal. It was like I had turned into a heater, though I had no other symptoms of fever.
Now I look back on literally YEARS of doing them, especially the LBRP, using the notarikon and wonder why the hell so many books would have it that way.
Thanks so much, Jim. You rock the house.
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@Jim Eshelman said
"Furthermore - as I explain elsewhere - A.R.A.R.I.T.A. is a blind. The entire sentence (of which it is the abbreviation) should be used. This makes it even less likely that the "one burst, rip it out" style would work. A sonorous chant while touching the implement to the center of the hexagram works splendidly."
Can you write a phonetic rendition of how Achad Rosh Achdotho Rosh Ichudo Temu-rahzo Achad should be pronounced with accents indicated?
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@he atlas itch said
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@Jim Eshelman said
"Furthermore - as I explain elsewhere - A.R.A.R.I.T.A. is a blind. The entire sentence (of which it is the abbreviation) should be used. This makes it even less likely that the "one burst, rip it out" style would work. A sonorous chant while touching the implement to the center of the hexagram works splendidly."Can you write a phonetic rendition of how Achad Rosh Achdotho Rosh Ichudo Temu-rahzo Achad should be pronounced with accents indicated?"
I can approximate how it would be pronounced in spoken Hebrew. It is:
Echad,
rosh ache’dutho,
rosh yichudutho,
t’muratho echadwhere ch is a Cheth (close to "school" instead of "church), and the vowels are: e as in "bed," a as in "father," i as in "fig," o as in "show." The accent is on the last syllable in each case (for the words used here). The apostrophe is meant to be a schwa, and it's brief, unaccented nature is probably intuitively obvious in the rendering above.
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Thank you for that explanation Jim.
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could you post the correct hebrew phrase's replacing the notorikons(abbreviations, dont know how to spell the notor whatever word) for the lesser pentagram ritual?
also, in the rosy cross, atah and malkuth, they arent blinds like in the pentagram ritual right? or no?
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@Alias55A said
"could you post the correct hebrew phrase's replacing the notorikons(abbreviations, dont know how to spell the notor whatever word) for the lesser pentagram ritual?"
Atoh Gibor Le'Olam Adonai (AGLA) is the only notariquon used in LBRP.
...perhaps this little excursion of topic warrants a new thread?
729
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@Alias55A said
"could you post the correct hebrew phrase's replacing the notorikons(abbreviations, dont know how to spell the notor whatever word) for the lesser pentagram ritual?"
Do you want the Hebrew spelling, or the Hebrew pronunciation.
For the Hexagram Ritual, the phrase was given just above:
Echad,
rosh ache’dutho,
rosh yichudutho,
t’muratho echadThat is: AChD RASh AChDVThV RASh YChVDVThV ThMVRThV AChD.
For the Pentagram Ritual, it is:
AThH GBVR LOVLM ADNI, Attah gibbor le-olam, Adonai."also, in the rosy cross, atah and malkuth, they arent blinds like in the pentagram ritual right? or no?"
I don't understand the question. In the Rosy Cross ritual, the only words recited (besides the Analysis of the Key-Word if included at the end) are Yeheshua and Yehovasha.
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93,
lol, sorry my mistake, i assumed there was more then one blind in the LBRP.
" also, in the rosy cross, atah and malkuth, they arent blinds like in the pentagram ritual right? or no?
I don't understand the question. In the Rosy Cross ritual, the only words recited (besides the Analysis of the Key-Word if included at the end) are Yeheshua and Yehovasha."
no, i just wanted to know if any of the recited words were blinds like AGLA and ARARYTA.
Analysis of the Key-Word at the end? Yeheshua and Yehovasha? please explain.
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@Alias55A said
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"also, in the rosy cross, atah and malkuth, they arent blinds like in the pentagram ritual right? or no?I don't understand the question. In the Rosy Cross ritual, the only words recited (besides the Analysis of the Key-Word if included at the end) are Yeheshua and Yehovasha."
no, i just wanted to know if any of the recited words were blinds like AGLA and ARARYTA.
Analysis of the Key-Word at the end? Yeheshua and Yehovasha? please explain.
"You asked about the Rose Cross ritual. That ritual has you reciting Yeheshua eight times and Yehovasha once, and ends with the Analysis of the Key-Word. There are no other words in that ritual.
I'm wondering if you meant something else in your question about the Rose Cross ritual? Otherwise, it's really really hard to miss the reference to those words.
PS - I think I just figured out what you were saying. You said "In the Rosy Cross" when you meant "in the Qabalistic Cross." Is that right? (In that case, forget everything I said about the Rosy Cross ritual.)
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"PS - I think I just figured out what you were saying. You said "In the Rosy Cross" when you meant "in the Qabalistic Cross." Is that right? (In that case, forget everything I said about the Rosy Cross ritual.)"
LMAO, sorry about the brain fart, ya i meant the Qabalistic Cross, not the Rosy Cross
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i did my first hexagam ritual the other night and second pentagram one . i think its funny that a poor beginner like me didnt even know aout the abbreviations being abbreviations.
the funny thing is although I pronounced AGLA like agla and not Atoh Gibor Le'Olam Adonai at the end of the rituals i still felt very energised and energy was vibrating through my whole body as i lie down. it was quite nice.
i guess it goes to show that magic works even when you do it 'wrong' but i would like to know if there are any other blinds in crowleys rituals its quite annoying. one thinks maybe you could get even better results with the 'proper' vibrating of names.
