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The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram

“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.”
- Aleister Crowley

Reprinted from the description of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram from Liber O, a publication of the occult order A.'.A.'.


I.    Touching the forehead, say "Ateh (Unto Thee)."
II.   Touching the breast, say Malkuth (The Kingdom)."
III.  Touching the right shoulder, say "ve-Geburah (and the Power)."
IV.   Touching the left shoulder, say "ve-Gedulah (and the Glory),
V.    Clasping the hands upon the breast, say "le-Olahm, Amen (To the Ages, Amen)."
VI.   Turning to the East, make a pentagram (that of Earth) with the proper weapon (usually the Wand). Say (i.e. vibrate) "IHVH" (Ye-ho-wau).
VII.  Turning to the South, the same, but say "ADNI" (Adonai).
VIII. Turning to the West, the same, but say "AHIH" (Eheieh).
IX.   Turning to the North, the same, but say "AGLA" (Agla).
X.    Extending the arms in the form of a cross say:
XI.   "Before me Raphael;
XII.  Behind me Gabriel;
XIII. On my right hand Michael;
XIV.  On my left hand Auriel;
XV.   For about me flames the Pentagram,
XVI.  And in the Column stands the six-rayed Star."
XVII. Repeat steps (i) to (v), the "Qabalistic Cross."

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And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words… As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.
                                                             — Alan Watts                                                      
         

The Symbolist Brotherhood That Believed Art Had Divine Powers by Thackara

In 1892, on the corner of the grand, tree-rimmed avenue of Boulevard Haussmann in Paris, a peculiar new art salon opened to considerable fanfare at the Galerie Durand-Ruel.

Paintings of damsels, sirens, and monstrous femmes fatales, as well as religious visionaries, mythical figures, and fantastical temples hung salon-style from the walls. Wafts of burning incense and the sound of the prelude to Wagner’s Parsifal, which was played on an organ throughout the opening night, filled the space.

The event’s master of ceremonies, the eccentric poet and novelist Joséphin Péladan, greeted the city’s cultural elite (including the French author Émile Zola) in a long robe and pointed beard and, one imagines, with a gravely serious air. A year earlier, in 1891, Péladan had initiated an offshoot of the Rosicrucian order—a religious brotherhood (symbolized by a rose on a cross) that combined elements of Christianity, Jewish mysticism, and occult practices with the belief that its practitioners were the recipients of ancient wisdom.

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“Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.“ - Rainer Maria Rilke

Yet I who through the labyrinth can find my way,
Will not by erring lights be led astray.
I hold the thread that leads me to the core;
Peacefully I watch where others uselessly make war.

On the world’s stage I play no part at all.
To the vain, therefore, do I seem insignificant and small.
And while they strive to gain some part in multiplicity,
Mine is the All—O true felicity!

—Lao-tzu

Elm ::: Woven Into Light

Label: Blackest Rainbow ‎– none
Format: Cassette Box Set, Limited Edition
Country: UK
Released: 07 Dec 2008
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental

Tracklist:
A1 Rising Smoke Woods   
A2 Fog Water Shroud
A3 On Golden Wing   
A4 Solemn Night Prayer   
B1 Long Winter's Howl   
B2 Mist Left To Hide The Ashes   
B3 Waves Break Into Beams Of Light   

Notes
Limited to 25 copies enclosed in a stamped card box with paste on artwork and a hand numbered parchment paper insert.

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Insekt ::: Dreamscape

Label: KK Records ‎– KK 074
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Belgium
Released: 1992
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro, Industrial

Tracklist:
A1 Torture (Rhythm Pain)    
A2 Scum    
A3 Cocaine    
A4 The Punisher    
A5 Dreamscape    
B1 Spiritual Experience    
B2 Deceptions    
B3 Games    
B4 Knock Me Down    
B5 Pressure    
B6 Mask

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De Press ‎::: Product

Label: Siberia Music ‎– SM 2
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Norway
Released: 1982
Genre: Rock
Style: New Wave, Coldwave

Tracklist
A1 The Fatal Day    
A2 In A Position To Know    
A3 Passages    
A4 In A Crowded Room    
A5 Signals    
B1 Product    
B2 Another Man's Sin    
B3 Heaven    
B4 Total Corruption    
B5 Swienty Pokoj

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http://ceesty.com/qXL1oq

Tragic Comedy ‎::: Lustrous Christ

Label: Not On Label (Tragic Comedy Self-released) ‎– none
Format: Cassette, Limited Edition
Country: Sweden
Released: 1992
Genre: Electronic
Style: EBM, Synth-pop

Tracklist:
A1 Counter Point    
A2 Utopia    
A3 Piecing Puzzles    
B1 Lustrous Christ    
B2 Rigid Walk    
B3 Delirium
   
Notes
Limited hand-numbered edition of 100 copies.

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The Unknown (11) ::: Killing Fields

Label: Not On Label (The Unknown (11) Self-released) ‎– none
Format: Cassette, Limited Edition
Country: Germany
Released: 1992
Genre: Electronic
Style: EBM

Tracklist:
A1 Intro   
A2 Love   
A3 Killing Fields   
A4 Daddy's Little Girl   
B1 Places   
B2 Synthetic   
B3 Machines   
B4 Midnight TV/Sleepwalker

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Escape Industry ‎::: First Contact

Label: Not On Label ‎– none
Format: Cassette
Country: Belgium
Released: 1994
Genre: Electronic
Style: EBM

Tracklist
A1 Faith Is Real   
A2 Just Kill For Peace   
A3 Fear   
A4 Distortion   
B1 Abandon You   
B2 X   
B3 Fun By Cry

Download:
http://destyy.com/qKKf55

Mental Conquest ::: Braindead

Label: Not On Label (Mental Conquest Self-released) ‎– none
Format: Cassette
Country: Belgium
Released: 1995
Genre: Electronic
Style: EBM, Industrial

Tracklist:
A1 Mind Conquer    
A2 Fatal Psychosis    
A3 True Believer    
B1 The Mission    
B2 Lost Control    
B3 Final Ride

Download:
http://destyy.com/qKKHWC

Second Voice ‎::: A Strange Day's D.A.W.N.

Label: Not On Label (Second Voice Self-released) ‎– VoSV05
Format: Cassette
Country: Germany
Released: 1989
Genre: Electronic
Style: EBM, Synth-pop

Tracklist:
A1 1 2 Love    
A2 Before He Learns To Talk    
A3 Mind    
A4 Bodystyle    
A5 Brain    
A6 If You Had...    
A7 Strange Day    
B1 The Calling    
B2 Trauma    
B3 Cover Me    
B4 The Hateful Affection    
B5 Life Plays    
B6 D.A.W.N.

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