The Turning Direction During the LPRP
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Hello. I'm wondering if anyone would shed some insight into the directions one turns while performing the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.
Currently I go from East, to South, then West and to North and back to the East. But I notice in this article, at the end of the article where he describes the workings of the New Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, he says to go from East, North, West and so South.
Is any direction OK? Does a certain direction do certain things?
All your insights are highly appreciated, thank you.
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Hello. I'm wondering if anyone would shed some insight into the directions one turns while performing the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.
Currently I go from East, to South, then West and to North and back to the East. But I notice in this article, at the end of the article where he describes the workings of the New Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, he says to go from East, North, West and so South.
Is any direction OK? Does a certain direction do certain things?
All your insights are highly appreciated, thank you.
Go clockwise, as is intended.
The author of the article fails to take into account his own quote:
@Crowley said
" Those who regard this ritual as a mere device to invoke or banish spirits are unworthy to possess it. Properly understood, it is the Medicine of metals and the Stone of the Wise. "
The logic behind his change is that:
@Author of article said
" Yet in this banishing ritual we are instructed to draw our circle clockwise. "
It is not a simple banishing ritual, there is no need to go counter-clockwise.
Generally speaking, my opinion is to ignore the fellow, perform it as is traditional presented.
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Hello. I'm wondering if anyone would shed some insight into the directions one turns while performing the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.
Currently I go from East, to South, then West and to North and back to the East. But I notice in this article, at the end of the article where he describes the workings of the New Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, he says to go from East, North, West and so South.
Is any direction OK? Does a certain direction do certain things?
All your insights are highly appreciated, thank you.
What Uni said.
Yes. At least north of the equator, the direction is clockwise.
One can change it, but one is then not doing the same ritual. One is doing a different ritual. I'm answering this based on the assumption that you want an answer about the ritual you actually asked about, the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram.
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Hello. I'm wondering if anyone would shed some insight into the directions one turns while performing the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.
Currently I go from East, to South, then West and to North and back to the East. But I notice in this article, at the end of the article where he describes the workings of the New Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, he says to go from East, North, West and so South.
Is any direction OK? Does a certain direction do certain things?
All your insights are highly appreciated, thank you.
@Jim Eshelman said
"What Uni said.
Yes. At least north of the equator, the direction is clockwise.
One can change it, but one is then not doing the same ritual. One is doing a different ritual. I'm answering this based on the assumption that you want an answer about the ritual you actually asked about, the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram."
Absolutely and thank you both for your responses.
So why would he write the opposite direction? Any ideas why? Could he be adding a "blind" as he mentions in his article of which were applied to other parts of the ritual to compensate for exposing said blinds?
There's no way he just wrote that for nothing right? Now, I'm not saying he's right, but I wonder why he'd suggest that.
Any ideas?
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Hello. I'm wondering if anyone would shed some insight into the directions one turns while performing the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.
Currently I go from East, to South, then West and to North and back to the East. But I notice in this article, at the end of the article where he describes the workings of the New Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, he says to go from East, North, West and so South.
Is any direction OK? Does a certain direction do certain things?
All your insights are highly appreciated, thank you.
@1614 said
"So why would he write the opposite direction? Any ideas why? Could he be adding a "blind" as he mentions in his article of which were applied to other parts of the ritual to compensate for exposing said blinds?p"
It's just a different theory. Crowley used the same theory in his Star Ruby.