Ritual advice please
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lostnponder
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Ritual advice please
I've been reading a lot about qabbalistic ceremonial magick and I've found much about the prepatory work like the LBRP and middle pillar ritual for example. However, what I can't seem to find a lot about is what to do after the prep work to initiate getting what your objective is. After the LBRP and middle pillar do I just ask for something?..with visualization? How do I make my request and to whom am I directing it at? Thanks for your time, it's much appreciated.
Re: Ritual advice please
I'm only in the initiating steps of Kabbalah, but you should probably design your own ritual if you have a specific need.
Arthur Waite's book on Ceremonial Magick is a good place to learn the foundations of rituals used for spiritual purposes.
I can save you a little bit of guesswork and additional reading by telling you the foundation of all magick spells and rituals for material gains.
Step 1. Reach Gnosis
Step 2. Project intent
That's it. If you can find a way to do these two things, you can perform any spell needed.
The actions themselves are usually just to get you to these steps. Some actions take you to gnosis themselves, others just help set the stage.
Rituals like the LBRP and LIRP invoke the power of God for a specific purpose (ie. to banish and invoke), and the MPR is energy work (to my knowledge) that many traditions have variations on. Energy work and casting a spell aren't the same thing, but they can be used together. The Middle Pillar is primarily to prepare your body for the physical and emotional drain that performing powerful or regular rites with take out of you (again, to my knowledge. I do Chakra meditations, and it's almost the same thing. just variances on how you move the energy.)
A lot of magick is visualization, a lot of it is understanding the correspondences of how things link together, and a pretty decent portion is made of the power of believing you can do something, stronger than a huge majority of our population believes otherwise.
I don't know, I probably didn't help too much, but if anything I said had an effect on your research, please let me know.
Arthur Waite's book on Ceremonial Magick is a good place to learn the foundations of rituals used for spiritual purposes.
I can save you a little bit of guesswork and additional reading by telling you the foundation of all magick spells and rituals for material gains.
Step 1. Reach Gnosis
Step 2. Project intent
That's it. If you can find a way to do these two things, you can perform any spell needed.
The actions themselves are usually just to get you to these steps. Some actions take you to gnosis themselves, others just help set the stage.
Rituals like the LBRP and LIRP invoke the power of God for a specific purpose (ie. to banish and invoke), and the MPR is energy work (to my knowledge) that many traditions have variations on. Energy work and casting a spell aren't the same thing, but they can be used together. The Middle Pillar is primarily to prepare your body for the physical and emotional drain that performing powerful or regular rites with take out of you (again, to my knowledge. I do Chakra meditations, and it's almost the same thing. just variances on how you move the energy.)
A lot of magick is visualization, a lot of it is understanding the correspondences of how things link together, and a pretty decent portion is made of the power of believing you can do something, stronger than a huge majority of our population believes otherwise.
I don't know, I probably didn't help too much, but if anything I said had an effect on your research, please let me know.
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"God is an imprecise name for the only thing in the universe that actually exists."
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Tell me what you know about darkness, and I will tell you about the light.
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Selected Contributions;
Planetary Associations of Common Intoxicants
The Mysteries of Death
https://hdagaz.wordpress.com/
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"God is an imprecise name for the only thing in the universe that actually exists."
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Tell me what you know about darkness, and I will tell you about the light.
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Selected Contributions;
Planetary Associations of Common Intoxicants
The Mysteries of Death
https://hdagaz.wordpress.com/
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ultimafool
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Re: Ritual advice please
Haelos offers some great advice here.
lostnponder - it all depends on whether you want to stay strictly within a qabbalistic framework. I don't have a ton of experience with qabbalistic evocations but what you'll want to do is find out which being corresponds with what it is you want. Let's say you want to be a better writer for example, you're doing stand-up and writing comedy or whatever. In this case I would want to evoke Mercury or Hermes. Being a swift footed messenger for the gods, he is associated with communication and writing and a quick mind and intellect.
Basically, you're going to need to study all the correspondences. The planets all have their attributes, places on the Tree of Life, colors, plants/incense, metals, stones, etc, which you'll want to incorporate into your ritual. Then you have your hierarchy of planetary intelligences and ruling spirits and angels and etc which will tell you what day and what time is best to perform your ritual. You could also get into astrology in order to find out which specific day out of all those days of the year would be most effective. For example, Mercury's day is Wednesday. The ruling intelligences and spirits and angels determine it should be between say 11am - 12pm. (I'm pulling this stuff out me arse, btw for examples sake) So then you consult the stars and find out that the best day is the fourth Tuesday of March.
You don't necessarily have to go all out as in the above, it just depends on how you feel about it, I guess. I've never felt the need to try it, but going all out seems like it would be more effective, if only psychologically via prepping with all these images and ideas that correspond with your goal.
Crowley's 777 is a pretty comprehensive and essential book of correspondences. Eshelman's 776 1/2 is like 777 only easier to read and better organized IMHO. I have both on my bookshelf.
I still do Middle Pillar (open and close with LBRP, of course) on its own. I find it to be extremely powerful and effective for awakening and balancing the energetic body. If you've only just started ceremonial type stuff, I'd recommend doing Middle Pillar and LBRP every day for a week or so before you do your ritual proper. It'll probably take you about a week or so to plan and gather materials anyways.
Hope that helps!
lostnponder - it all depends on whether you want to stay strictly within a qabbalistic framework. I don't have a ton of experience with qabbalistic evocations but what you'll want to do is find out which being corresponds with what it is you want. Let's say you want to be a better writer for example, you're doing stand-up and writing comedy or whatever. In this case I would want to evoke Mercury or Hermes. Being a swift footed messenger for the gods, he is associated with communication and writing and a quick mind and intellect.
Basically, you're going to need to study all the correspondences. The planets all have their attributes, places on the Tree of Life, colors, plants/incense, metals, stones, etc, which you'll want to incorporate into your ritual. Then you have your hierarchy of planetary intelligences and ruling spirits and angels and etc which will tell you what day and what time is best to perform your ritual. You could also get into astrology in order to find out which specific day out of all those days of the year would be most effective. For example, Mercury's day is Wednesday. The ruling intelligences and spirits and angels determine it should be between say 11am - 12pm. (I'm pulling this stuff out me arse, btw for examples sake) So then you consult the stars and find out that the best day is the fourth Tuesday of March.
You don't necessarily have to go all out as in the above, it just depends on how you feel about it, I guess. I've never felt the need to try it, but going all out seems like it would be more effective, if only psychologically via prepping with all these images and ideas that correspond with your goal.
Crowley's 777 is a pretty comprehensive and essential book of correspondences. Eshelman's 776 1/2 is like 777 only easier to read and better organized IMHO. I have both on my bookshelf.
I still do Middle Pillar (open and close with LBRP, of course) on its own. I find it to be extremely powerful and effective for awakening and balancing the energetic body. If you've only just started ceremonial type stuff, I'd recommend doing Middle Pillar and LBRP every day for a week or so before you do your ritual proper. It'll probably take you about a week or so to plan and gather materials anyways.
Hope that helps!