tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post420869287593656218..comments2024-02-20T09:54:37.105-06:00Comments on Talking About Ritual Magick: Mysteries of the Magick CircleFrater.Barrabbashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11689013897789072360noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post-44430108722972088462010-07-04T22:12:48.355-05:002010-07-04T22:12:48.355-05:00Frater Barrabas wrote:
"The invoking pentagra...Frater Barrabas wrote:<br />"The invoking pentagrams set to the four wards are used to charge the circle and establish the magickal ring, so they are fully incorporated into that ritual structure and do not bleed their effects into the domain of the magick circle. Why is this so?"<br /><br />The answer to this is simple - the intention of the magician and the magical egregore created around this intention through consistent usage over time.<br /><br />Nonetheless, magical symbol systems should be internally consistent. To set wards around a circle to prevent unwanted forces from entering a circle, banishing elemental pentagrams would be more logically consistent than invoking elemental pentagrams. I have no idea how the use of invoking pentagrams became so fashionably used in modern Witchcraft, but I strongly suspect that they were borrowed from the Golden Dawn system by someone (perhaps Gerald Gardner?) who did not fully understand the symbolism of the system and the subtleties of its usage.<br /><br />This has, of course, been rendered a moot point by decades of consistent usage of these pentagrams for purposes other than they were originally intended, however logically inconsistent such usage may be. <br /><br />The same inconsistency exists with the Golden Dawn with the GD's attribution of magical forces to the lesser angles of the Enochian Watchtower tablets, which are terribly inconsistent with the original attributions given to John Dee by the Enochian Angels. Nonetheless, they work as they have acquired new meanings through usage over time according to the will of magicians.David Griffinhttp://www.golden-dawn.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post-90222151603312198182010-06-27T08:13:48.452-05:002010-06-27T08:13:48.452-05:00Greetings,
Instead of filling up space here I dec...Greetings,<br /><br />Instead of filling up space here I decided to 'give in' and create my own blog..<br /><br />Therefore my comments to this very interesting article can be found over here:<br />http://open-magick.blogspot.com/2010/06/opening-door-on-this-blog.html<br /><br />SerapisSerapishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12008276029461158529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6817682567561164198.post-46089571397841413622010-06-26T21:02:37.118-05:002010-06-26T21:02:37.118-05:00Very informative, thank you! I concur about time ...Very informative, thank you! I concur about time being altered. A small group of us were working w/ the Enochian Aethyrs once a month for some time and every time the ritual ended we came out of it completely shocked by the amount of time that had passed.John Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13983496546069265739noreply@blogger.com