Modular rituals?
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Pentagram rituals like the LBRP open and close with the Qabalistic Cross. But if you are doing several rituals of this sort back-to-back, do you need to repeat the QC's in between each ritual.
An example would be the LBRP immediately followed by the LIRP. You naturally close the LBRP with the QC. But do you then have to perform another QC to begin the LIRP? Or are the rituals like snap-together modules where the closing QC of the first becomes the opening QC of the next?
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@Her said
"Pentagram rituals like the LBRP open and close with the Qabalistic Cross. But if you are doing several rituals of this sort back-to-back, do you need to repeat the QC's in between each ritual."
Not necessarily. That's where the art part comes in.
The main rule I'd suggest is that beginners do things in the most rigorous ways, and when one is well past beginner then start feeling your way through the fine points on each occasion.
"An example would be the LBRP immediately followed by the LIRP. You naturally close the LBRP with the QC. But do you then have to perform another QC to begin the LIRP?"
Not necessarily. Sometimes you'd want to, in order to have a sense of conclusion, grounding, etc. But... not necessarily.
In my own case, I don't know that I've ever done the two back to back without something in the middle. (Or, if I have, it's been a long time ago.) Generally I'd have something else happening in the larger ritual between the initial preparation of the space and the subsequent invocation.
"Or are the rituals like snap-together modules where the closing QC of the first becomes the opening QC of the next?"
That's cool too
One example that comes to mind is the G.D.'s Portal ritual, where the space is prepared (early in the Opening) by a Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, and, after a small amount of intervening business, the rest of the Opening amounts to a Greater Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram.