Intoning/Vibrating the Divine Names
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there are some different schools of thought here and there,
my approach is to elongate or stretch out, and vibrate the Vowels,
so itseeeeeeeeeeeelloooooooohhiiiiiiiiiiiimmm (Elohim, as an example)
but apply this to any of the words in the LRP, just read as is, and stretch and vibrate the Vowels
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Try this post:
www.heruraha.net/viewtopic.php?p=25248#p25248
@JAE said
"It's very difficult to render this without diacritical marks not really available in the forum format. Pronunciation also is affected by the vibration style.
E.g.: The magical tradition advises giving each Hebrew letter a separate, equally-weighted syllable. This makes a difference between pronunciation of the Names per se, and their pronunciation in the Pentagram Ritual (which is what you asked about). For example AHYH is pronounced [as best I can do in plaintext) e-he-YEH, but is chanted EH-HEH-YI-YEH.
So... know this is crude... try this:
YOHD HEY VAV HEY
AH-DOH-NAH-YEE
EH-HEH-YI-YEH
ATTAH GIBOOR LEH-OLAHM AH-DOH-NAH-YEERAH-PHAH-AY-EL
GAH-AHB-REE-EE-AY-EL
MEE-EE-KAI-AY-EL
OO-OO-REE-EE-AY-EL"On "Ve-Gevurah", "Ve-Gedulah", and "Gibbor", the "G" is hard.
The regular pronunciation would be something like "ve-ge-VOU-rah", "ve-ge-DOU-lah", and "gi-BOOR". However, in magical vibration, I pronounce the syllables with equal weight.
I'm not sure if you would use the equal-syllable-per letter that Jim described above, and if so, what that would break down into.
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The way i always learned it is attah gibbor le-olahm adonai is made into a notariqon of AGLA.
Liber O describes pronunciations as such: YHVH- YAY ho vau
ADNI- A DO NAI
AHIH- AY HI YAY
AGLA- A GLA
I didnt copy that word for word so it may be inexact, but its definitely how i pronounce them.... -
@Child of Horus said
"The way i always learned it is attah gibbor le-olahm adonai is made into a notariqon of AGLA.
Liber O describes pronunciations as such: YHVH- YAY ho vau
ADNI- A DO NAI
AHIH- AY HI YAY
AGLA- A GLA
I didnt copy that word for word so it may be inexact, but its definitely how i pronounce them...."Right, that's how it's written, but that isn't how it's to be used in the ritual. There's plenty about it in different threads all over this forum. But, here:
@Jim Eshelman said
"AGLA is definitely a blind (advertent or inadvertent). Chant: Attah Gibbor le-Olahm Adonai.
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@Child of Horus said
" Liber O describes pronunciations as such: YHVH- YAY ho vau
ADNI- A DO NAI
AHIH- AY HI YAY
AGLA- A GLA
I didnt copy that word for word so it may be inexact, but its definitely how i pronounce them...."Also, I had to pull it off my shelf just to be sure, but Liber O doesn't say any of this. There's just a little footnote that says, "Pronounce: Ye-ho-wau, Adonai, Eheieh, Agla." That's it, which is really no help at all.
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Yes, i was referring to the foot notes. Thats the copy I have...
As far as being helpful, it seemed straightforward...and easy to pronounce -
i missed the preceding post but OH REALLY??
did not know that Agla wasnt to be pronounced as such....well...i have gotten results from this ritual, so should i just keep doing it that way? I mean, who wrote those footnotes? i always just assumed it was Crowley. -
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Not at all. If I had to rely on ONE ritual as a fall back for all situations, it's the ONLY candidate on my list.
How could something like this be "outdated"?
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I'm not an authority, by any means. I'm pretty new to all this. But it doesn't seem like something has to be new or specifically use Thelemic names to be Thelemic. The purpose of the the ritual is Thelemic, and as far as I can tell it's an important one to get down before moving on to more complex practices. Crowley suggested everybody commit it to memory, which is enough for me.
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@Dar es Allrah said
"Its not a Thelemic ritual. It's pre-new-aeon. 1870- 1880's?"
But is it *un-*Thelemic? I would hold that it isn't. And I certainly wouldn't set a standard of just replacing everything because it's old. In this case, the ritual has numerous inherent virtues that aren't matched by anything else known to me.
BTW Liber Israfel isn't "new aeon" by time frame. It's an Allen Bennett ritual from his Golden Dawn days (1890s).
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In agreement, or rather, to spring-board from what Jim is saying <vbg>, I quote Liber AL II:5
Behold! the rituals of the old time are black. Let the evil ones be cast away; let the good ones be purged by the prophet! Then shall this Knowledge go aright.
Now note it does not say, "Let all the rituals of the old time be cast away," but the evil ones - and with the good ones they will be "purged" (made clean of the dross).
Maybe in the Aeon of Ma'at we will have Logan's Run for rituals, but not yet.
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If I'm understanding you correctly... I don't find any of that to be true at all. Quito the contrary, actually. It tightly affirms one's relationship to one's core. It's also a ritual tightly affirming one's relationship to the HGA. (Insidiously: It's valuable that it isn't terribly obvious in this regard.)
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He was writing a joke book <vbg>.
BTW, although he wrote two versions of the Star Ruby, there's no evidence I can find that he ever performed it. It certainly wasn't standard for him. In the late '30s or early '40s, when he sent study materials to the O.T.O. Lodge in Southern California, it was specifically the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram that he sent - along with a new brief commentary.
And, as you of course know, you and I completely disagree on the Hebrew thing.
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My way of looking at is, without any attachment to the ritual, the angels, anything, is it's a tool. I've studied a lot of different banishing rituals and none of them seem to come close to replacing the LBRP. But, like I said, I'm not an expert. I'm also not too concerned about every ritual being a specifically Thelemic one. I'm willing to use any and all tools at my disposal to aid me in the discovery of my True Will and the Work in general. Until I come across a better ritual to replace it I'm going to be using the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram. So, while I'm working with it, I'd like to learn as much as I can to make sure I'm performing it correctly.
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I have been using the updated Qabalistic Cross, but I've been touching my chest when I intone Aiwass, not the throat.
As far as the exact reason, Aiwass I get, but touching my genitals and intoning Malkuth is still a little beyond me.
But I will admit I haven't spent any time researching or looking into why Malkuth is intoned at the genitals, I just ran with it. I've been spending all my time working on how to properly vibrate everything in the ritual.