I keep getting asked what I do for a basic and quick banishing / invoking ritual, and if I use the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram (LBRP), or the lesser invoking ritual of the pentagram (LIRP). The short answer is yes, but I have modified it for my own use and praxis. I also do not do very much banishing at all these days, I much prefer to continually invoke to bring beneficence to my life, and only banish when necessary. Banishing is used to clean out astral sludge and minor negative entities from your home, body, and energy body. For invoking you use the invoking pentagrams and circumambulate deosil, for banishing you use the banishing pentagrams and circumambulate widdershins.
To start face North and say the following words from the Stele of Jeu the Hieroglyphist:
“Aoth Abraoth Basym Isak Sabaoth Iao
Subject to me all daemons, whether heavenly or aerial,
or earthly or subterranean, or terrestrial or aquatic,
and every enchantment and scourge which is from the gods.“
Clap your hands and say “Hekas”
Clap your hands again and say “Hekas”
Clap your hands again and say “Este Bebeloi”
Do the Goetic cross:
The cross:
Visualize yourself growing as tall as the universe until the earth is but a speck beneath your feet.
Visualize a ball of white light glowing just above your head, coming from the heavens.
With a sword mudra, touch this light and Vibrate:
“Ourania“
Pull the light down from the heavens and touch your third eye and vibrate:
“Ashtaroth“
Visualize the light going down your body to about 2 inches below your navel and vibrate:
“Baal“
Now visualize it going through your feet and down to the furthest reaches of Hades.
Point at your feet and vibrate:
“Kthonia“
Visualize your heart glowing with light, touch the light and merge the empyrean and infernal and vibrate:
“Heylel”
Visualize your heart glowing and the light exploding out your right shoulder to the end of the universe.
Touch your right shoulder and vibrate:
“Brimo“
Visualize your heart glowing with light again and exploding out your left shoulder to the end of the universe.
Touch your left shoulder and vibrate:
“Soteria“
Put your hands out to your sides in orans and vibrate:
“IAO” (ee-ah-oh)
Face North:
Draw an invoking earth pentagram visualizing it in green flame make the sign of the enterer by shooting your hands forward and stepping with your left foot and vibrate the epithet:
“Physis“
Make the sign of silence, by stepping back and bringing your right index finger to your lips as if to say “shhhhh”.
Draw a line of white flame from North to East.
Then draw an invoking air pentagram visualizing it in yellow flame, make the sign of the enterer by shooting your hands forward and stepping with your left foot and vibrate the epithet:
“Phosphoros“
Draw a line of white flame from East to South.
Then draw an invoking fire pentagram visualizing it in red flame, make the sign of the enterer by shooting your hands forward and stepping with your left foot and vibrate the epithet:
“Dadophoros“
Draw a line of white flame from South to West.
Draw an invoking water pentagram visualizing it in blue flame, make the sign of the enterer by shooting your hands forward and stepping with your left foot and vibrate the epithet:
“Mene“
Draw a line of white flame from West back to the North completing the circle.
Put your hands out to your sides in the form of a cross, grab the edges of the circle and bring your hands together above your head closing the top half of the sphere, go back into the cross and grab the edges of the circle again and close your hands together below your waist closing the bottom half of the sphere. Go back into the cross and say the words below, vibrating the names:
“Before me: Egyn“
Visualize Egyn coming forth from your earth pentagram, appearing like a man with flames coming from his tusked mouth, riding upon a dragon, wearing a crown of precious stones, on his right side are two hissing serpents and he comes with a great noise from musical instruments.
“Behind me: Amaymon“
Visualize Amaymon coming forth from your fire pentagram, appearing as an old man having a long beard
and long hair hanging over his eyes, crowned with a bright crown and riding a lion, in his right hand he holds a dart, and he comes with dancers and all manner of minstrels.
“At my right hand: Oriens“
Visualize Oriens coming forth from your air pentagram and appearing with a fair complexion and as a woman, riding upon an Elephant and all manner of minstrels before him.
“At my left hand: Paymon“
Visualize Paymon coming forth from your water pentagram and appearing riding a camel, crowned with a
bright crown and with the countenance of a woman, with him comes a band of men with trumpets and musical instruments, and the kings Belial and Baasan.
Visualize the pentagrams flaming around you and the kings surrounding you, allow yourself to fill with light bursting forth from your heart and say:
“For about me flames the pentagrams, and within me shines the power of Enodia.“
Repeat the cross.
Short version invoking:
Face North
“Aoth Abraoth Basym Isak Sabaoth Iao
Subject to me all daemons, whether heavenly or aerial,
or earthly or subterranean, or terrestrial or aquatic,
and every enchantment and scourge which is from the gods.“
Clap “Hekas”
Clap “Hekas”
Clap “Este Bebeloi”
Touch the heavens: “Ourania“
Touch the indigo eye: “Ashtaroth“
Touch below the navel: “Baal“
Point to your feet and hades: “Kthonia“
Touch your heart and merge epyrean and infernal: “Heylel“
Touch your right shoulder: “Brimo“
Touch your left shoulder: “Soteria“
Hands in orans: “IAO“
Enterer “Physis” Silence
Enterer “Phosphoros” Silence
Enterer “Dadophoros” Silence
Enterer “Mene” Silence
Close the sphere above and below
“Before me, Egyn
Behind me, Amaymon
At my right hand, Oriens
At my left hand, Paymon“
“For about me flames the pentagrams, and within me shines the power of Enodia.“
Touch the heavens: “Ourania“
Touch the indigo eye: “Ashtaroth“
Touch below the navel: “Baal“
Point to your feet and hades: “Kthonia“
Touch your heart and merge epyrean and infernal: “Heylel“
Touch your right shoulder: “Brimo“
Touch your left shoulder: “Soteria“
Hands in orans: “IAO“
Short version banishing:
Face North
“Aoth Abraoth Basym Isak Sabaoth Iao
Subject to me all daemons, whether heavenly or aerial,
or earthly or subterranean, or terrestrial or aquatic,
and every enchantment and scourge which is from the gods.“
Clap “Hekas”
Clap “Hekas”
Clap “Este Bebeloi”
Touch the heavens: “Ourania“
Touch the indigo eye: “Ashtaroth“
Touch below the navel: “Baal“
Point to your feet and hades: “Kthonia“
Touch your heart and merge epyrean and infernal: “Heylel“
Touch your right shoulder: “Brimo“
Touch your left shoulder: “Soteria“
Hands in orans: “IAO“
Enterer “Physis” Silence
Enterer “Mene” Silence
Enterer “Dadophoros” Silence
Enterer “Phosphoros” Silence
Close the sphere above and below
“Before me, Egyn
Behind me, Amaymon
At my right hand, Oriens
At my left hand, Paymon“
“For about me flames the pentagrams, and within me shines the power of Enodia.“
Touch the heavens: “Ourania“
Touch the indigo eye: “Ashtaroth“
Touch below the navel: “Baal“
Point to your feet and hades: “Kthonia“
Touch your heart and merge epyrean and infernal: “Heylel“
Touch your right shoulder: “Brimo“
Touch your left shoulder: “Soteria“
Hands in orans: “IAO“
NOTES:
Possible meanings of the words from the stele of Jeu. These are used to assume a god face and get authority for conjuration.
Hekas Hekas Este Bebeloi – This is from the mysteries of Eleusis and means “Away, Away, be all ye profane.”
Epithets of Hekate:
Ourania – ‘Celestial’, ‘Heavenly’,
Kthonia – ‘Of the Underworld’, ’Of the Earth’,
Brimo – ‘Angry-One’, ‘Terrifying’
Soteria – ‘Savior’
Physis – ‘Nature’ (personified)
Phosphoros – ‘Light-bringer’
Dadophoros – ‘Torchbearer’
Mene – ‘Moon’
Enodia – ‘Of the crossroads’, ‘Of the Roads’, ‘Of the Path’
You can of course change the epithets of Hekate should you choose, I recommend this list by Mat Auryn.
The names in the middle of the Hekatean cross are the names of the chief princes of the earth. Ashtaroth is the original Hebrew name for Astaroth and is sometimes used to mean Goddess. Baal is an honorific title meaning lord or owner, in this case, it is taken from Baal Zebub, meaning lord of the flyers or lord of flies, we use the honorific to honour his place as lord of the earth. Heylel is the original Hebrew for Lucifer and means light bearer. All three names have possible historical connections with the Morning Star Venus. These three chief princes are said in the Grimorium Verum to rule over the earth, with Lucifer having dominion in Europe and Asia, Beelzebub having dominion over Africa, and Astaroth having dominion over the Americas. We put Astaroth in the indigo eye, Beelzebub in the fetch, and Lucifer in the heart, bringing them together to become the light bearer.
The four kings of the earth are called to the quarters. The four kings are found throughout the grimoire tradition by various names but are most famous for their appearance in the Elizabethan fairy grimoire The Book of Oberon, and the Cyprianic grimoire The Clavis Inferni. By calling to them through the authority of Hekate and the chief princes we gain the powers of the seven mighty thrones of the earth ruled by the daemons of old. The descriptions of them and how they come are taken from the book of Oberon.
Hekate of course has dominion over all Goetic spirits being the queen of Goetic sorcery from the Graeco Egyptian era of late antiquity. There is precedent for this in many places.
Should you choose to skip adding in the chief princes simply do the Ourania and pull the light into your indigo eye, then do the Kthonia pointing to hades through your feet, then do Brimo, then do Soteria.
The images of the kings are from The illustrated black dragon by Arundell Overman, used here with his permission.
“In another example, Solomon is depicted as a magician performing hydromancy on one side of a Jewish amulet (CIJ 394). On the reverse side an image of Hekate is inscribed (tri-formed) next to a five-branched menorah and several other symbols. […] Goodenough cites many other amulets in which Hekate appears with the name(s) of the Jewish God and various Jewish symbols. He concludes that Hekate was highly valued for Jewish magic, and freely invoked for her operative power.”
The Colossian Syncretism: The Interface Between Christianity and Folk Belief at Colossae” by Clinton E. Arnold, Chapter on ‘Hekate: Goddess of Magic” (p 145-6)
In Hekate: Liminal Rites Sorita d’Este and David Rankine wrote (2009):
“Considering the level of cross-fertilisation between Hellenic and Jewish spirituality, the extent to which Greek magic was conflated with Jewish magic is another point we need to explore. The connection between Hekate and Jewish magic is found both in the Greek Magical Papyri and on amulets. “
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