Liber Samekh And everything in between
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
Folks, When Doing Liber Samekh, whats the best thing do to when your doing this ritual
- First to LBRP
- Do BRH
- Do Purications
- Do Consecrations
- Do Liber Samekh
- LBRP
Am I correct?
What are the purfications and Consecrations? what should I do there, come up with my own consecrations? and the Purifications, what does it call for the proper and right purifications?
Please explain to me on finding the HGA about Purifications and Consecrations. The only appropiate banishings is LBRP and BRH.
I just want to do this right.
Love is the law, Love under will
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
well, if i was to do liber samekh - which i probably wouldn't, by the way, i'd come up with my own thing - i'd approach it the way crowley recommends structuring rituals.
Book IV part 3 chapter XIII is quite clear as to the first steps in ceremonial practice. briefly, sealing your temple and circle, and then performing a banishing.
for my money, the ritual known as the LBRP is not the best to use in the new aeon. i find the star ruby to be much more effective, and also more in harmony with a thelemic ceremony.
the next step is to consecrate your instruments - and yourself! in Book 4 part iii chapter XIV, crowley goes into the consecrations quite extensively. i personally use the passages from liber AL vel Legis as indicated in the notes in italics.
after that, an oath of operations MUST be performed! otherwise you're just flailing about and performing a kind of magickal masturbation - will must be directed and stated - especially in the temple!
then, and only then! shall you perform an invocation. i typically split this into two parts - the first is always the same, regardless of the ceremony. it can be labeled "opening the circle" or some such. i have a series of very, very brief invocations affirming and invoking the forces i will to manifest within my khu - hadit, nuit, therion, babalon, hoor and so on.
now would come my actual ceremony.
after the ceremony there's no need for an additional banishing.
**GASP! heretic! outcast unclean! **
nonsense. i respectfully refer doubters and nay-sayers to the chaper in Book IV part iii on the license to depart. there are a number of variations on this. because i'm royalty (as are we all, at least in theory,) i use something fairly intense and commanding.
something along the general lines of "and now i command thee, all beings attracted to the power of these workings, get thee gone and return with jewels, spices and all riches of the earth! this i command because i am the master of the manifested universe! this i command because i am magician and exorcist and i command this in the name of ra-hoor-kuit, the supreme and terrible lord of the aeon! all ye spirits who gather about my circle like so many moths to my flame, you will obey my command as my words are the force and fire that resound to the very ends of the universe and i command this by the power of the curses and the blessings given unto me by the book of the law! hear me, spirits, for i command this to be so!"
don't use that one, though, hah - i just made it up off the top of my head. make your own, and make it bad-ass! they'll listen.
finally, all thelemic ceremonies end with the magician's secret adoration unto nuit! make it eleven lines long, write it with inspiration from chapter one of Liber AL vel Legis and you can't go too far astray.
(actually the final step is to write up the ceremony in your journal, but this really should go without saying.)
for general instruction and more on all of this, i cannot recommend **(http://www.hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib4.html:2lhq1edn) highly enough. i cringe in despair watching other magicians flail about in the temple as if that incredibly valuable text simply does not exist!
as for liber samekh itself, it's important to keep in mind that crowley designed it based on the formula of the neophyte as expressed in the golden dawn initiation of the same name. he goes into it at some length in Book 4 - i'd suggest at least a reasonable working familiarity with that formula before expecting too much out of liber samekh.
Love is the law, love under will