Monday 29 August 2011 Religion Air

Religion Air
This posting covers the Watchtower Spell, which is elaborate heaps to magnitude its own star. It is notch VII of the ritual guide, but it can also be performed on its own as an spell of the four kind elements institute spirit. It is based on Israel Regardie's "Initiation by Watchtower" and can be performed using either Hebrew or Saintly (Enochian) words of power for the elements, and every versions are impossible at home. Our bill of the ritual uses the zodiacal directions - Radiate in the east, Minced in the south, Air in the west, and Tube in the north. Regardie uses the "winds" figure of the directions in his bill - Air in the east, Radiate in the south, Tube in the west, and Minced in the north. The zodiacal figure corresponds to the macrocosmic legroom and panic afar principal with the Y-H-V-H order of elemental invocations. Try it and see - the lead is big.

VII. THE WATCHTOWER Spell

"Officiant goes to the east, takes the fire wand, and makes the supernal triangle previously east. He or she along with holds the wand condescending head level and circumambulates in the same way as clockwise. All participants change in this manner, visualizing a wall of scorching red light all-around the temple. Carefulness essential be directed obliquely the altar."

Officiant: And to the same degree, after all the phantoms cleave to perplexed, thou shalt see that holy and vague Radiate, that Radiate which darts and flashes passing through the terrible blue of the Universe! Aim thou the Roughly of Fire!

"Officiant completes the circumambulation and along with traces the Invoking Pentagram of On the go Punch in bright light purple to the east with the fire wand."

Officiant: EHEIEH! (Hebrew) or EHNB! (Saintly)

"Officiant along with traces the Invoking Pentagram of Radiate in red to the east with the fire wand."

Officiant: ELOHIM! (Hebrew) or BITOM! (Saintly)

"The fire wand is along with returned to the altar. Officiant goes to the north, takes the water cup, and makes the supernal triangle previously north. He or she along with holds the cup condescending head level and circumambulates in the same way as clockwise. All participants change in this manner, visualizing a wall of high sad light all-around the temple fitting private the wall of red light. Carefulness essential be directed obliquely the altar."

Officiant: So suitably primitive, the priest who governeth the works of Radiate requisite sprinkle with the lustral Tube of the ear-piercing and vigorous sea!

"Officiant completes the circumambulation and along with traces the Invoking Pentagram of Meek Punch in intense purple to the north with the water cup."

Officiant: AGLA! (Hebrew) or EHNB! (Saintly)

"Officiant along with traces the Invoking Pentagram of Tube in sad to the north with the water cup."

Officiant: AL! (Hebrew) or HCOMA! (Saintly)

"The water cup is along with returned to the altar. Officiant goes to the west, takes the air cook's knife, and makes the supernal triangle previously west. He or she along with holds the cook's knife condescending head level and circumambulates in the same way as clockwise. All participants change in this manner, visualizing a wall of airy golden-haired light all-around the temple fitting private the wall of sad light. Carefulness essential be directed obliquely the altar."

Officiant: Such a Radiate existeth, extending passing through the speeding up of Air. Or even a Radiate vague, whence cometh the image of a give vent to. Or even a magnificent light, indigestible, spinning, revolving forth, howling aloud!

"Officiant completes the circumambulation and along with traces the Invoking Pentagram of On the go Punch in bright light purple to the west with the air cook's knife."

Officiant: EHEIEH! (Hebrew) or EHNB! (Saintly)

Officiant along with traces the Invoking Pentagram of Air in golden-haired to the west with the air cook's knife.

Officiant: YHVH! (Hebrew) or EXARP! (Saintly)

"The air cook's knife is along with returned to the altar. Officiant goes to the south, takes the earth pentacle, and makes the supernal triangle previously south. He or she along with holds the pantacle condescending head level and circumambulates in the same way as clockwise. All participants change in this manner, visualizing a wall of bad green light all-around the temple fitting private the wall of golden-haired light. Carefulness essential be directed obliquely the altar."

Officiant: This Radiate descendeth appearing in that darkly spectacular world, wherein each time ariseth Construction, delighting in myriad forms - rocky, development, circuitous, and easy to get to, ever forceful a box infused with the light of the Punch.

"Officiant completes the circumambulation and along with traces the Invoking Pentagram of Meek Punch in dark purple to the south with the earth pantacle."

Officiant: AGLA! (Hebrew) or EHNB! (Saintly)

"Officiant along with traces the Invoking Pentagram of Minced in green to the south with the earth pentacle."

Officiant: ADONAI! (Hebrew) or NANTA! (Saintly)

"The earth pentacle is along with returned to the altar. Officiant circumambulates clockwise back to the west of the altar and faces east. All participants change in this manner. He or she along with takes the invoking wand and traces the Invoking Pentagram of On the go Punch in bright light purple condescending the altar."

Officiant: EHEIEH (Hebrew) or MADRIAX! (Saintly)

"Officiant along with sweeps the wand immediately down and traces the Invoking Pentagram of Meek Punch below the altar."

Officiant: AGLA! (Hebrew) or CAOSGO! (Saintly)

"Officiant sets down the invoking wand. All make and deem the Snooze of Apophis and Typhon."

All: Thee we perform tricks, who art legroom.

Thee we perform tricks, who art in organize formed.

Thee we perform tricks, the unreserved and the strong.

Pitch of shade, nicely of light.

"All make the Snooze of Muffle. The four walls of light now are visualized melting together appearing in cheerless light and forming appearing in a justly that surrounds the temple. Pentagrams in the appropriate colors growth on all six faces - red in the east, sad in the north, golden-haired in the west, green in the south, bright light purple condescending, and dark purple below. Offering is a short stance to allow for pompous fad. Officiant along with moves to the northeast with all participants rotational moral."

Officiant: The obvious Sun is the point of light unto the Minced. Let us suitably form a swirl in this study that the unobtrusive Sun of Punch may gleam herein.

"All circumambulate three and a unfinished mature, making the Snooze of the Enterer to the same degree stunted the east. All essential attention on the focus of the Plot and conceive of the huge Peak budding on the planes to the level of Tiphareth, one theme per Enterer, from beginning to end which the elemental justly melts appearing in a theme of golden light. At the objective of this all arrive on the scene back at their innovative positions."

Officiant: Peh Resh Kaph Tau. The word is PAROKETH, which is the robe of the sphere. In and by that word "(makes the Snooze of Rending the Leather)", I open the robe.

"All make the Snooze of the Enterer directed at the focus of the altar."

All: ABRAHADABRA!

"All along with make the Snooze of Osiris Risen."

Mention ON THE Exercise FOLLOWS.

The Initiation by Watchtower is repeatedly premeditated an Enochian ritual, but it is primary a Blond Dawn/Qabalistic ritual even if the Saintly words are recycled for the elements. It calm refers to the Leather of Paroketh, which is not part of the Enochian materialize, and uses the basic Blond Start appearance rather than anything from Dee and Kelly's jam. This is not a bad thing - the Initiation by Watchtower is a well-mannered synthesis of Qabalistic and Enochian concepts and has a good mark come in together with practicing ritualists.

Highest books that question Regardie's ritual do not disguise visualizations just about as ornamental as the ones described at home. I appropriate that elaborate visualizations were in the same way as part of the European magical tradition, but the teaching lineages were finished so lots mature by every House of worship and Lapse annoyance that he separate long-lasting remants in the Nineteenth Century were the written texts, lots of which were unlawful (such as the "Faustian" grimoires that emphasized the essential of a agreement with the Fiend and without explanation appeared in the decades following the imposingly smooth story of Faust). According to this contemplation, the visualizations and other basic magical techniques were qualified as vocal tradition with the written grimoire containing the texts and names of spirits that were too apex to be even to alliance.

When I cleave to attempted to do at home is garrote in a series of visualizations that are thought-out to add details to the basic ritual symbols. It is apex to understand that these visualizations intend not be skilled for you to use the rite, and in fact the use of the ritual is the best way to learn them. It will work even if your visualizations are not very good - Regardie himself published the finish off symbols sans them and they cleave to been recycled that way to good effect for lots years. We cleave to found that the visualizations make the ritual even pompous effective, and to the same degree they are done well by a group of people the have a spat are big. Ascertain them a trim at a time and garrote in weary as you can deem them in your thoughtfulness, and not separate will your rituals work principal but your would-be to conceive of will hurriedly enhance.

The elemental armaments are positioned in the zodiacal position, regularly on an altar in the focus of the ritual space still you could place a painstaking altar for each element at the appropriate precincts fitting large heaps to deem the tool. The supernal triangle alludes to the three spheres at the top of the Tree of Vim and vigor and is traced by imagining the Tree in be in the lead of you and rapid speech Kether, along with Chockmah, and along with Binah. The weapon is thought condescending the Officiant's head as he or she circumabulates, and the wall of color essential follow the tip of the weapon.

EHNB is Saintly for Punch and is recycled for every On the go and Meek Punch, period in Hebrew spanking Punch names are recycled for the spry and passive elements.

The fourth line, for Minced, "This fire descendeth appearing in that darkly spectacular world..." has been rewritten from Regardie's bill. The innovative ritual had "Lower yourself not down appearing in that darkly spectacular world, wherein each time lieth a treacherous thickness, and Hades wrapped in glumness, delighting in faint images, rocky, circuitous, a black ever-rolling perforation, ever espousing a box unluminous, vague, and insincerity" and we honest that this statement was far too derogatory just before the element of Minced and seemed troubled from the others. The dichotomy stating that Punch is good and Things is evil has degraded spirituality in Europe and America for far too long.

The Hebrew words recycled at the altar are Eheieh (On the go Punch) condescending and Agla (Meek Punch) below. The Saintly words are MADRIAX ("The Publicize") and CAOSGO ("The Minced"). These words are recycled having the status of Saintly has separate one name for Punch, EHNB.

"Thee we perform tricks, who art Cosmos..." is used to from the liturgy of the Guide Pitch Absolute of the Blond Start. The innovative line,

Divine art Thou, Member of the aristocracy of the Cosmos

Divine art Thou whom organize hath not formed,

Divine art Thou, the unreserved and strong One!

Member of the aristocracy of the light and of the shade.

is afar pompous supplicating, and the bill recycled at home invokes the divine direct more readily. It also has been rephrased to do away with the separateness amongst organize and spirit.

The Leather of Paroketh is the robe that separates the theme of Tiphareth from the elemental world. The Officiant opens the robe, and along with with the Snooze of the Enterer the members of the group measure passing through it, equally stepping passing through a shroud. ABRAHADABRA is Crowley's Murmur of the Aeon opposite number to the grade of Adeptus Petty and suitably Tiphareth, and is vibrated to portion coming on at the theme. The Snooze of Osiris Risen also corresponds to Tiphareth.