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- From: dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin)
- Newsgroups: alt.magick
- Subject: Re: ShadowClasping Ritual from the Orgone Committee
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 19:19:20 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec26.074006.5022@u.washington.edu> <1992Dec26.075205.5894@u.washington.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec26.075205.5894@u.washington.edu>, mimir@hardy.u.washington.edu (Al Billings) writes:
- >
- > This working is an invocation of the shadow side of each of the
- > four elements. For earth fears of being buried alive, for water
- > drowning, for fire being burned alive, for air falling. These are
- > obvious examples. Your own tortuously twisted psyche can certainly
- > provide a cornucopia of infinitely more personal/fetishistic fears
- > for your own enjoyment and elucidation than I could. In each case
- > the fear is categorized under one of the four elements. Wether it
- > is best to concentrate on a single fear for each element, or even
- > to only invoke and integrate one particular fear during the course
- > of a ritual, is best decided by each practitioner on a case by case
- > basis. This working can be performed by one or many.
-
- [stuff deleted to shorten]
-
- > The formula for the overall construction of the ritual is
- > banish-invoke-banish. Of course the incontrovertible necessity of
- > performing opening and closing banishing in a working in which
- > literally unknown numbers of demons are being stirred up in order
- > to examine and integrate them is too obvious to comment on here.
- > As is the sub-moronically simple precaution of repeating any part
- > of the working that is not performed exactly to the predetermined
- > formula for the working. Mistakes are costly when dealing with our
- > fears. Obsession is a natural state for fear when excited, and
- > usually the Will of the practitioner is better served by
- > integration. Immediate entering of the working in your magickal
- > diary is of incalculable value but you know that or you don't. Joy
- > be to you in the attainment of your Will.
-
- [more stuff deleted for space]
-
- > The banishing hexagrams are simply traced in each quarter in
- > opposite sequence with the invoking hexagrams ie: first the
- > elemental sigil, then the hexagram. If all four hexagrams are being
- > traced at once at the end of the invocations, do so counter-cloc-
- > kwise. Vibrate each word of power in the same way as you did for
- > the invoking hexagrams. Picture the shadows leaving as they came,
- > through each hexagram.
- >
- > Perform the banishing circles as described in the beginning, being
- > even more careful, if possible, than with the opening banishing to
- > insure smooth as possible integration.
-
- I know that the poster didn't write these rituals, and he may not want
- to comment on them, but I wanted to ask some questions that I had in
- case someone would like to talk about them a bit.
-
- Maybe I'm mis-reading this, or maybe my reading reflects a weakness in
- the way I would do a ritual like this, but it seems to me that your
- invocations are much stronger than your banishings. It almost seems
- to me that one would be stuck sitting in the middle of a circle with
- visions of primal terrors on all sides, and finish up by saying "thanks
- for coming, let me get your coat."
-
- Are you saying that after calling up these images of four fears, one should
- look each of them in the face and then close the circle? Like, the idea
- is just to look at each of them and face them, and then close off the ritual?
- I guess I could see something like that being useful, but it seems like
- something is missing. I guess what bothers me is that all you mention
- for the second banishing is tracing hexagrams, and I would want some sort
- of mental image to go along with it. What is the main idea of a ritual
- like this? Just acknowledging your fears, or banishing them? Or using
- them? If acknowledging, then what kind of banishing image would you want
- to use to just say 'I know you're their and you're not going to bother
- me now'? Is it a good idea to try to overcome these fears -- say, you
- invoke a fear of falling in the east and then when you're closing off
- the east you envision something like being able to fly or landing on
- something soft to bring yourself down to safety again? Or do you think
- that would kill energy, or maybe leave a false sense of confidence?
-
- Grr, I'm getting frustrated with myself, I'm not sure I'm communicating
- what I want to say here. There's a lot in the post that bugged
- me, but it was certainly thought provoking. Thanks for posting it.
-
- Dawn
-
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