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The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram is not the protective charm most occult books claim it to be. Tracing the symbolism of the magic circle, the kabbalistic cross, the four archangels, and the hexagram of interlocking triangles, this breakdown argues the ritual is really a map of non-dual consciousness observing itself, with the self at the center and the rest of the universe arising from the same undivided source.
Performed with intensity, the ritual does not banish negativity so much as provoke it: inherited trauma and repressed material get pushed to the perimeter of awareness, intensifying the ego until the practitioner is forced to confront what surfaces and make peace with it. That confrontation, not protection from evil, is framed as the ritual’s true and lasting purpose.
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As you know, I’m quite fond of saying that magic is not what it appears to be, and when it comes to the lesser banishing ritual, the pentagram, that is especially the case.
In fact, when I say magic is not what it appears to be, I’m usually thinking of what the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram does, because this ritual is not what it appears to be.
Okay. I’m going to go through these points relatively quickly, but I’m assuming it might
be possible to explain to everyone what this ritual actually does. Okay. It is not necessarily
protecting you from evil. All right. All right. So when somebody takes up this practice,
maybe they might feel like they’re being baited into performing a ritual that protects them from
negative influences and that should be a wonderful thing right but what actually happens when you do
this ritual is uh the negativity in your life gets worse and that’s because that’s what this ritual
actually does it provokes that drama to come out all right so um people will know that the
lesser banishing ritual the pentagram is essentially a way of drawing a magical circle
around yourself and then putting up these four different pentagrams around yourself as sort of
wards or vanishing symbols that supposedly repel evil influences okay and they they actually do
sort of do that and the idea then is you can evoke uh spirits to appear outside the magic circle and
the magic circle will protect you from them and if the magic circle is broken those demons will come
that can invade your space and tear you to pieces that’s the mythology anyway of course that doesn’t
really happen um but uh the what the ritual does though it does tend to provoke demons demons to
appear okay so there is a truth to this but it’s not what it seems all right so the more intensified
your circle of protection becomes around yourself the more intensified the alien entities tend to
become outside of the magic circle and anybody who’s been doing the curriculum work in the
kabbalah magic book for some time now has probably experienced this at least if you’re doing the work
as directed with the intensity that you’re required to do it things begin to happen that are
can be unsettling okay um in order to explain why this happens i’m going to go into the non-duality
of magic okay so um essentially the universe is all one unified field okay but if the universe
is perfectly uniform and unif unified uh not convoluted at all nothing’s happening and so
what has happened in consciousness in order to create the universe is that field has become
disturbed okay and as that disturbance happens then you can get a separation between this part
and that part and these different parts of the universe can now look at each other and see each
other how this happens is a complete and utter mystery however we do know it has something to
do with vibration and the medium in which the universe vibrates is a little bit difficult to
understand i think probably impossible for us to understand with our human consciousness
but anyway um when this field of consciousness and uh infinite mind is disturbed then you have
various waves that appear on the surface and this wave can now look at that wave it’s like oh look
there’s a wave over there what’s it doing is it me or is it other than me okay so this is the
predicament we find ourselves in we are out in the universe and we have arisen in this physical form
that can now look at things around it and perceive things as other than itself. I hope I’m explaining
that well. Well, to illustrate that, let’s bring in the myth of the pelican, which is an ancient,
well, it’s a medieval myth. It was believed that the pelican would actually pick out its own breast
to feed its young in order to sustain its young. Pick out its own breast and then blood would come
out from its rest and feed the babies uh this is not really what happens but that’s interesting
that anybody who like in medieval times who would look at a pelican they would see this happening
and uh it was really a projection of the way the universe creates sustains its own drama okay
in other words um as the as the universal field is is uh disturbed one part of the field can now
look at another part and what happens is one part will actually pick upon another part and so they’ll
now interact okay these are these two things are part of the same thing really but but they don’t
they have lost that perspective and so this part picks up the other part prodding it to produce
various kinds of drama okay and so the pelican picking at its own breasts to sustain life of
its offspring this is a model for how the universe actually keeps its you and me constantly being
produced as life forms so in other words the universe keeps disturbing itself so that more
and more life forms can continue to emerge and participate in this sort of crazy drama okay
ah difficult thing to describe obviously and let’s see where we are here and so within the pentagram
circle that you draw there’s also a hexagram which we’ll get to that later but the hexagram
basically does symbolize those two elements of the divine which have now become separated from
each other and you could say that the upright triangle is the consciousness that is observing
and the downward pointing triangle is the field of awareness around that consciousness okay in
your magic circle you at the center of your circle are the red triangle and the the circle around you
your magic circle around you is the blue triangle these are this is another emblem of how consciousness
has now become engaged with itself all right and in the process we get vibration and this is a
Sri Yantra Mantra, which is a very famous glyph from Tantric Adepts of the East.
You can see the two triangles interacting there and vibrating and producing the trauma of existence.
And you can see that around that field of interacting triangles and the vibration is this magical ritual space.
And in terms of the pentagram ritual, yeah, the four pentagrams would be drawn around this field of interacting triangles, okay?
So very interesting because then the magic circle becomes a symbol of the universe itself, which within itself has a vibration of interacting forces, a vibration between consciousness and what consciousness observes back and forth, back and forth within this field, okay?
all right so so when you do the lesser vanishing ritual the pentagram you are
basically drawing a picture of the universe around yourself and this is
your sphere of sensation so the ritual starts with the kabbalistic cross okay
and that’s basically drawing down the light into your head and then drawing a
shaft of light down through the body the best way to see this is if you ever look
out at the ocean and you see that the Sun is just about to set or just or has
already risen. And on the water, there’s a path of light on the water. It’s not just because the
water is somewhat disturbed anyway from the ocean, right? And so instead of making a clear reflection
of itself, the sun makes a path on the water that leads all the way up to you or where you are on
the shore, okay? And this is the, so in other words, the light of pure consciousness is now
being perceived as elongated through your body because the universe is in vibration then you
have this sort of disturbance pattern but the light is being light of consciousness is being
reflected up and down through your body okay and then you have the cross arm the cross bars of the
cross right um the side arms of the cross that you generate as well um which indicates that that
energy is now being extended into manifestation okay the balancing effect i’d also invoke
a christ christian element um of sacrifice and things like that too all right um and then
then you draw the pentagrams around yourself okay um each of the pentagrams itself is a symbol of
the universe so anytime you draw a magical symbol that symbol should be seen as as the entire
universe um appearing in one particular way i hope that starts to clarify how magic works okay
um well for many of you it might fog things up but um so if the universe appears in one particular
way then it’s going to uh take that abstract form okay and the pentagram is just one of those forms
um one of the most interesting things about the pentagram is that it’s in the shape of a human
being with the arms out to the side and the feet down below and the head up top i think that’s what
led alistair crowley to say every man and every woman is a star it’s just kind of obvious that
that’s the upright pentagram that he was thinking of um and uh what this tends to do is put an image
of an abstract human being before you behind you and to the left and to the right uh in in your
imaginal space around you these are the directions from which you experience stress okay and above
all the pentagram can be seen as many things okay but above all it’s a personification symbol
so you trace it over the space in front of you to the left of you to the right of you behind you
uh because something then in that field out there can step forth in some kind of personified form
okay also it’s a projection sort of like uh you know you’re putting a scarecrow out there
it’s kind of here’s a guard over here here’s a guard or like you’re putting guards out to the
side and they are basically scaring things around you away from you okay it works two ways so if
if you’re going to be uh for banishing it would be basically you’re placing four scarecrows around
yourself to sort of scare the negative forces out there away from you okay uh if you’re invoking
then it would be the other way around where the pentagram becomes a personification symbol and
anything out there can sort of take a human-like form for you yeah okay then comes the evocation
of the archangels all right uh then after you’ve got your circle drawn around you and there’s a
pentagram pentagram in the east and the west and the south and the north then you can uh invoke
four archangels uh these archangels are very interesting entities they are um they are
raphael michael gabriel and oriel and they correspond to the four elements okay so four
elements make it simple because everything you experience in matter will take one of these forms
solid liquid gas and fire or plasma okay um so uh that means everything is covered i think pretty
much everything you experience is now being represented by one of these archangelic forces
okay these um the way that these forces can be looked at though it’s a this is going to be a
bit strange okay uh this is the um the vajra symbol okay so imagine this symbol this is a
what a tibetan buddhist will hold up um but hold on to he also has a bell and a vajra okay
or it’s also called a dorje um you want to picture this uh tilt this upright so that those
uh one of those ends that has prongs that’s actually those prongs are actually the four
archangels okay uh because what you can see there is if you were to turn this thing upright so that
one of those ends is pointed up you can see there’s there now would be a lotus flower up like
this and on that lotus flower there sits a meditating buddha and he is surrounded on four
sides by um three uh four spirits sometimes it’s two spirits okay usually it’s four spirits
sometimes it’s more than that and um these represent offshoots of his own buddha nature
let’s say okay the projected forms of his buddha nature out there in consciousness okay
so if you see if you if you picture yourself in a western perspective cities inside your magic
circle the four archangels around you are these interesting looking prongs of the bajra symbol
okay what they show is that you are arising from the lotus flower okay but so is everything else
so if anything appears outside of your magic circle it’s also coming from the same source
it’s a big heads up to you okay it’s arising out there but you are maintaining an awareness that
oh it is uh it and i are coming from the same source this is the ultimate realization um behind
this symbol and it’s the ultimate realization that it’ll eventually hit you when you do the lbrp
lesser bandaging ritual the pentagram every day okay that was hard to explain after the
invocation by evocation after the evocation of the archangels uh then there is the hexagram um
you say for about me flame the pentagrams and in the column shines the six-rayed star
the and then you visualize a hexagram that’s pretty much in your torso the upright red triangle
and the downward pointing blue triangle of that hexagram is now inside your torso so you’re
surrounded on all four sides by four pentagrams and four archangels and in the midst in the center
of your magic circle inside your body is the hexagram once again the hexagram is the pure
consciousness that is looking at itself the upright triangle is the pure consciousness and the
downward porting pointing triangle is the view screen of the mind that it is sort of enmeshed
with okay and once again that’s a non-dual perspective so in other words you by practicing
the lesser vanishing ritual of the pentagram you’re creating a space with four sides and
inside that space there is a magical field in which the drama of creation can now unfold
where the consciousness can now look at its own contents of its mind okay so pretty much you’re
looking out in the world and everything you see is a projection of consciousness the reason that
this is portrayed as a protection ritual is because it does tend to push negative forces
out in the perimeter what happens is that any forms of troublesome scenarios that you have any
any forms of trauma that you have inherited from your evolutionary past will now appear more
strongly outside the magic circle and what happens then is that the tension between your
embedded traumatic traumatic scenarios and yourself begins to intensify and this can lead to
actual hallucinations it can lead to you seeing things that some people refer to as astral garbage
i remember don michael craig referred to them as the little nasties
basically what’s happening is that the traumatic scenarios from your evolutionary past are now
surfacing before your waking eyes sometimes and they’re troubling you more than before
what also happens because of this because there’s a strong separation now between yourself
and your environment is it intensifies the ego and it leads to ego inflation okay so in other
whereas the consciousness is now being separated out
from the view screen of its mind.
And the stronger that separation,
the stronger the ego becomes.
This is the reason why ceremonial magic
tends to turn magicians into assholes.
People have been wondering, you know,
why are, what’s wrong with ceremonial magicians?
Well, the ego inflation is a sign
that the magic is actually working.
however uh the people who are practicing this stuff they don’t realize what’s actually happening
they don’t have a teacher to help them through the process and the ego inflation becomes
unmanageable yeah so what’s what should be happening is that you are now you’re giving
getting a chance to confront the things that bother you and make peace with them okay so
that’s how the progress can actually result so in other words you’re making your own psychological
problems worse so that you can confront them and make peace with them. And then so that they will
never trouble you again, eventually they will disappear forever. This is the secret purpose
behind the pentagram ritual. It’s pushing those negative forces out there. They were a part of
you anyway. They’re all as one, right? And that’s pushing them out there so that you can see
these troublesome forces that you have sort of been, that you’ve inherited. They can now rise
in some kind of form around you
in the forms of the dramas that you
experience in everyday life
you start to project your
negativity out there all over the place
this is actually a desirable
process because when it
surfaces out there
beyond the bounds of your magic circle so to speak
you now have the opportunity
to make meaning
out of it and make peace with it
so this is the whole idea of conjuring up your
demons and then making peace with them
and dissolving them
so that they might never return there’s a lot to be said about that and i have said a lot about that
in the forbidden realms articles okay all right so i hope this is um somewhat illuminating uh it is
the the true nature of the um pentagram ritual okay the lesser banishing ritual the pentagram
um one of the hard things to get across here and this is going to rub some people the wrong way
this version of the pentagram ritual that i’m giving you now is not really negotiable it’s not
liam’s way of seeing it oh he has such a unique perspective on the lbrp but that’s just one way
of looking at it no i’m sorry to say it is the way of looking at it so when you have a non-dual
perspective of reality this is the way that these kinds of banishing rituals actually work this is
what they do okay so there are a lot of fantasies about you know using them to protect you from
negative influences and all that that are not true because the more you intensify your separation
from the negativity in your consciousness the worse that negativity actually gets the reason
this is beneficial though is you eventually learn to make peace with that so that it never bothers
you again so there is a beneficial side to this why would i do this why would i banish evil forces
so that they appear outside my magic circle to bother me now even more from the outside
well that’s why so that i can make peace with them and they eventually will not bother me again okay
uh and this interesting stuff that can happen too they don’t necessarily go away not all forces
dissolve completely okay so there’s something to be said for um making friends with spirits
and keeping them around because they not all of them will disappear forever but
that’s a subject for a future that’s a subject for a future recording
Source: Lyam Christopher