The Great Invocation
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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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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!
@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. -
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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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!