Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram
Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Hexagram
1st Enochian Key
Ritual Israfel
(reception)
Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Hexagram
Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram
The Voice
There is a hidden temple deep beneath the surface of the earth, there flames the light eternal, sending forth its currents to the houses on the surface of the earth. Within each house a secret temple also, vibrating in sympathy with the temple in the center of the earth, hidden in the silent darkness, waiting for the kiss of Stellar Light.
The Light of the earth and the Light of the stars intermingle and marry, and thus a house is oriented toward the Pole Star in the North, and the true vocation of the master of the house is revealed. The vocation of the master partakes equally of heaven and earth, macrocosm and microcosm, destiny and accident – it is the product of the marriage between them.
This sacred bond pre-exists the house and the master, for it is eternal. The house is temporal, dis-oriented, and must be reconciled in time with its true origin in eternity.
Thus is the Word a reconciliation between two things, and yet beyond all number and counting – eternal, ineffable, unpronounced.
There is a city outside of time, in the luminous darkness, wherein every building is oriented aright toward the center, which is aligned with the Stellar Pole directly above. When the marriage between heaven and earth is perfect, seamless, uninterrupted, and the Word is continuous and self-sufficient, there shall the master find a place. There the master has nothing save for a place in the city, proper orientation, the Word, and that in silence.
[The City speaks to us in the silence, causing us to light fires upon the earth in order to find our way around it, appearing in art, science, religion].
The Comment
There is a hidden temple deep beneath the surface of the earth...
The house refers to the Nephesch. The raw force of life, in both ourselves and in the world, lies waiting for redemption through a marriage with the celestial. This marriage in ourselves results in spiritual transformation, while the marriage in the world refers to the goal of the work of the adept. The idea is very similar to that of the Tikkun Olam in Lurianic Kabbalah.
The Light of the earth and the Light of the stars intermingle and marry...
The Neschamah descends into the Nephesch, re-orienting it toward the Pole Star, a symbol of the center of the universe. The particular angle between our own location in the universe (symbolically, according to our nature within the whole) and the center defines our vocation or True Will, which necessarily partakes both of the temporal and the eternal, or of our particular position and the center.
This sacred bond pre-exists the house and the master, for it is eternal.
We tend to think that our true place in the world (defined by our True Will) is the result of the marriage between the individual and the universal within us, but in fact our True Will precedes us entirely - we arise from it, it doesn't arise from us.
The house is temporal, dis-oriented, and must be reconciled in time with its true origin in eternity.
Our temporal nature must be aligned with our eternal nature.
There is a city outside of time, in the luminous darkness...
The city referred to here is a higher vibration of the one referred to in installment two.
[The City speaks to us in the silence, causing us to light fires upon the earth in order to find our way around it, appearing in art, science, religion].
This part came as a vision of sorts. The state of spiritual perfection of all of humanity, like the True Will of the individual, pre-exists humanity itself, and speaks to us and affects us unconsciously even before we've "achieved" it. It is the apotheosis of all consciousness everywhere and, being eternal, is not bound by time. It is ultimately responsible for all art, culture and science. Everything we've ever done refers more or less directly to it. Note that I'm not saying that we, as a species, are necessarily going to get to that point in the course of our evolution. The perfected state exists in the archetypal world whether or not we ever actually go there in the temporal world. Whether or not it "happens" at some point in the future, it is happening continually at every point in space and time.
