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What Is the Purpose of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram?
Why repeat a banishing ritual when no particular danger is present? In the Golden Dawn’s system, the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram establishes the conditions in which subsequent ceremonial work is meant to take place..
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Deseret Alphabet Chart: All 38 Letters, Plus OY and EW
The alphabet at a glance This chart follows the 38-letter order used in the 1868–69 printed books, followed by the two additional letters OI/OY and EW found in some oth
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Mithraism Explained: What Did the Roman Cult of Mithras Believe?
Mithraism was a mystery religion of the Roman imperial period centred on the god Mithras. Its worshippers met in small temple rooms called mithraea, used images of Mithras killing a bull and participated in a graded religious community. The cult spread across Roman prov
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What Is Martinism? Saint-Martin, Reintegration and the Inner Way
Martinism is the name applied to several connected currents of Western Christian esotericism rooted in the teachings of Martinez de Pasqually, Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin and Jean-Baptiste Willermoz. Later initiatory Martinist orders revived aspects of that inheritance
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How to Perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram: Step by Step
The familiar Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram has four main parts: the Qabalistic Cross, a circuit of four pentagrams, the archangelic invocation and a concluding Qabalistic Cross. A quiet room and enough space to turn.
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How to Read the Deseret Alphabet: A Beginner’s Step-by-Step Guide
Stop trying to recognise whole English words At first, treat each Deseret letter as a sound. Point to one character, make its sound aloud, then move to the next. A word
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What Is Poimandres? Creation, the Seven Spheres and the Hermetic Vision
Poimandres is the opening treatise of the Corpus Hermeticum and one of the clearest places to begin reading ancient Hermetic thought. Its narrator, Hermes, encounters a revelation of cosmic origin, humanity’s place in nature, and the possibility of coming to know God. T
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What Is Ritual Magic? Ceremonies, Tools and the Purpose of Magical Practice
Ritual magic is the use of deliberately structured actions, words, spaces and objects for an intended spiritual or extraordinary purpose. A ceremony may involve prayer, purification, a circle, divine names, images or offerings. The details differ so radically between an
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What Is the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (LBRP)?
The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, usually abbreviated LBRP, is a short ceremonial form associated with the Golden Dawn. Its purpose within the system is to establish an orderly ritual space: the practitioner marks the.
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What Is the Deseret Alphabet? History, Letters and How It Works
An alphabet for the sounds of English The Deseret Alphabet is an alternative way of writing English developed among Latter-day Saints in nineteenth-century Utah. Its ce