Leaving The Door Open
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what are your thoughts regarding the invocation of a particular energy without banishing it?
as a couple of examples, let's say one wants more of a particular energy in their lives - lets say an increased capacity for learning - so an invocation of mercury is used, and the ceremony is intentionally not concluded with a banishing.
or, in the case of crowley's version of the bornless ritual as included in his publication of the goetia, various invoking pentagrams are used (ala supreme ritual of the pentagram), however nothing is said about banishing in the same way after performing that particular rite. should in fact the supreme banishing ritual of the pentagram follow the invocation of the bornless one in this case?
i've heard opinions that the supreme or greater rituals of pentagram and hexagram are hazardous to leave "open", as it were, though i am rather ambivalent on that point currently. i could see it leaving one unbalanced, though i personally feel that many aspects of magical practice are made to sound - even by their practitioners - unnecessarily "dangerous" or "scary".
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I wouldn't banish The Bornless One (aka "Myself made perfect"), that would be like saying "please suck all the oxygen out of Earth's atmosphere, please." As far as working with a particular spirit (such as your example of a mercurial spirit), I'd end the rite with a license to depart ("Stay if you will, go if you must" sort of thing). My understanding is that the more you work with the particular vibration of a particular spirit, the more your personal vibration over time with continue to resonate with it. So there's no need to wish to not let the spirit be free to go if it pleases in order to find yourself becoming more in tune with it.
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@bdc said
"what are your thoughts regarding the invocation of a particular energy without banishing it? "
As a general rule, don't do it. There might be exceptions, but, in general, don't do it.
As a rule, unbanished forces, unsustained by continuous mindful control become q'lippothic. It's not all that different from leaving great food sitting out. It breaks down, decomposes, degenerates.
The best alternative is to coalesce the energy into some physical medium - for all intents and purposes, a eucharist - and then consume it. Then banish. You build the matter into your cells, but don't have stray magical energies flying around uncontrolled and (for lack of a better term) rotting.
"as a couple of examples, let's say one wants more of a particular energy in their lives - lets say an increased capacity for learning - so an invocation of mercury is used, and the ceremony is intentionally not concluded with a banishing."
You're neglecting the magical link here. You have to forge a magical link to anchor the effect, then banish the energies composed to create the effect. (The examples in the back of 776 1/2 include some good examples of this sort of thing.)
Here's the analogy for the magical purpose you mentioned: If you hire a tutor to help you learn something, the intended consequences of the "working" is that a change was made in you. It doesn't undo that change when you tell the tutor to get out of your house and go home. (Also, it often wouldn't accomplish your purpose if you were relying on the tutor staying with you for your upcoming exam.) YOU have to be willing to be changed.
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@Takamba said
"I wouldn't banish The Bornless One (aka "Myself made perfect"), that would be like saying "please suck all the oxygen out of Earth's atmosphere, please." As far as working with a particular spirit (such as your example of a mercurial spirit), I'd end the rite with a license to depart ("Stay if you will, go if you must" sort of thing). My understanding is that the more you work with the particular vibration of a particular spirit, the more your personal vibration over time with continue to resonate with it. So there's no need to wish to not let the spirit be free to go if it pleases in order to find yourself becoming more in tune with it."
I always banish after doing the bornless one. When I first started out, I tried not banishing, but it just didn't feel right, like I was leaving myself too open or not grounding myself enough. So then I started doing the Star Ruby afterwards all the time.
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@nameless said
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@Takamba said
"I wouldn't banish The Bornless One (aka "Myself made perfect"), that would be like saying "please suck all the oxygen out of Earth's atmosphere, please." As far as working with a particular spirit (such as your example of a mercurial spirit), I'd end the rite with a license to depart ("Stay if you will, go if you must" sort of thing). My understanding is that the more you work with the particular vibration of a particular spirit, the more your personal vibration over time with continue to resonate with it. So there's no need to wish to not let the spirit be free to go if it pleases in order to find yourself becoming more in tune with it."I always banish after doing the bornless one. When I first started out, I tried not banishing, but it just didn't feel right, like I was leaving myself too open or not grounding myself enough. So then I started doing the Star Ruby afterwards all the time."
The Star Ruby and the LBRP don't exactly "banish" any thing, they invoke balance. They create centeredness. They mark sacred time and space. Yes, use those rites to begin and end if you wish, but you do not banish The Bornless One.
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FWIW the First Method in Liber Yod describes first banishing the elements, then the signs of the zodiac, then the ten sephiroths. I'm not sure what's left after banishing Kether, but presumably the magician does not vanish or die...
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Theory
If one has been at a specific location, and banished at that specific location, is it possible to remotely(meaning practioner is not physically at that location any longer) reopen this frequency?
Realizing of course that you can put an elephant through the eye of a needle, and so anything is truly possible.....
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were you raised in a barn? Shut the door!
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regarding the bornless one, i don't mean an actual banishing of the bornless one (trying to adapt that invocation into a banishing seems completely pointless to me), rather banishing of the elements shared with the supreme invoking ritual of the pentagram employed in crowley's adaptation of the rite. for example, a performance of the supreme banishing ritual of the pentagram after the invocation of the bornless one*. i have tried using that, and also used the bornless invocation without any banishing after, and i am currently unsure as to whether or not there is much point doing the banishing pentagram ritual.
*and if this is the case, should a general banishing follow every general invocation, such as the star sapphire or middle pillar? i'm inclined to think not, since these are general invocations, whereas specific invocations of elemental or planetary forces should be specifically banished.
as for the stream of banishings in liber yod, i haven't previously looked into that in any great detail, though it strikes me as an induction of "ego death" (and not particularly dangerous, at least safer than using psychedelic substances to achieve that result).