Pillar Charging and Pentagram Ritual
Lesson 2b: Pillar Charging and Pentagram Ritual
The Pentagram and Hexagram rituals were originally published in lesson 16. I’ve no idea why they were placed so late in the course. I’ve decided to add this additional sub lesson here covering a simple but powerful pentagram ritual. You begin by charging your bodymind (pillar exercise), then proceed with the pentagram or 5 point star ritual. I recommend you draw the star out on paper or on a white board in color several times before performing the ritual for real. This helps with visualization.
In ceremonial magick the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (LBRP) is one of the most important and powerful exercises you can perform. It can be used daily or several times a day if desired. The power of the ritual comes from persistent daily use. On this site under Videos is a link to my YouTube page. I will keep playlists of quality videos on related subject matter from other content creators there. For the LBRP I highly recommend Foolish Fish’s videos on the subject.
My only issue with the LBRP is that it relies heavily on Hebrew terms and related beliefs. Chaos magick developed a “non-denominational” version which uses vowels instead of vibrated sacred names. This is called the Gnostic pentagram ritual. It is equally powerful but somewhat less complicated. Making it a great exercise and ritual for beginners. Though I’ve been practicing magick and meditation for over 30 years and have studied various magickal systems for 20 of them and I still use the version offered here. Often simpler things are more potent.
Here is my version of the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram. It is based on the Gnostic version. However, I’ve made some modifications over the years.
Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram
As you vibrate the sounds below, you will vary your pitch. IIIIee should be high pitch. EEE a little lower. AAAye in the middle of your range. OOOh should be a little deep. UUUR should be very deep. OOOMMM and NNNGGG should be in a comfortable pitch for you.
Begin with the Pillar Charging Exercise: Start facing East (this will make explaining easier, once you have some practice, the starting direction isn’t important). Stand tall, feet shoulder width apart.Take a few slow deep breaths. Raise your hands above your head as you inhale fully, palms facing each other. Have the intent of drawing down power in your mind. Visualize your head (crown and eye chakras) glowing yellow as you vibrate the sound IIIIIIIIIIIIIeee for one full exhalation while slowly bringing your hands down to chin level, palms still facing each other. Inhale fully. Next, slowly bring the hands down to shoulder level as your throat/neck glows blue and you vibrate the sound EEEEEEEEE as you exhale fully. Inhale fully, bring the hands down slowly to the solar plexus level as you visualize the chest glowing green as you vibrate the sound AAAAAAAAye. Inhale fully and as your hands drift slowly to the hips visualize the abdomen glowing orange as you vibrate OOOOOOOOOh. Inhale fully and as your hands drift down to your sides visualize your groin and legs glowing red as you vibrate UUUUUUrr.
Inhale and exhale, feeling the power flowing down from above your head into the ground, charging you. Now reverse the process. Starting from the ground up, red UUUR, orange OOOh, green AAAye, blue EEEEEE, yellow IIIIIeee. One full breath each. Take a breath to feel the power flowing up from ground to sky.
Now slowly lower your arms out to the side as you visualize your aura purple and vibrate OOOOOMMMMMMMM. Repeat as you slowly float your arms back up above your head. You may do this a third time with the arms above your head. Now bring your palms together above your head and visualize electric violet light beaming down through your body into the ground, draw your hands down slowly to a prayer position in front of your heart as you vibrate NNNGGGGGG (through your nose, close the mouth for the gggg part).
Take another full breath. Then begin on the Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram portion.
If you have space, step forward. If not, stay where you are facing East. Hold your hands down and out to the sides in a welcoming position. State firmly “Thus to the East do I cleanse this space of all negativity.”. Use the pointer finger of your right hand (I use pointer and middle), wand, or ritual dagger to draw a pentagram before you as such”
Starting in the lower left point vibrate UUUURRR as you visualize tracing a red line to the top point. From the top vibrate OOOOOh as you draw an orange line down and to the lower right point. Now vibrate AAAAAye as you draw a green line from bottom right to top left point. Next vibrate EEEEEE as you draw a blue line from top left to top right. From top right vibrate IIIIIIeee as you draw a yellow line to the starting point at the bottom left point. Now draw a purple circle counterclockwise (bottom left to bottom right to top right to top to top left to bottom right) as you vibrate OOOOMMMM. Bring your hand closer to you and then extend out to point into the center of the pentagram as you vibrate NNNNNGGGGG.
Turn a quarter turn to the left, to face North. Say “Thus to the North do I cleanse this space of all negativity.” Repeat the process of drawing the pentagram.
Do the same to the West, “Thus to the West do I cleanse this space of all negativity.”. Then again to the South, “Thus to the South do I cleanse this space of all negativity.”. Finally turn to the left to face East once again. Again point into the center of the pentagram there and vibrate NNNGGG to connect the circle.
Clap your hands together in front of your chest and say “A'Heil' Aam!” or “So be it!” or similar.
Thus the space is cleansed of all negative energy.
Alternatively you can use this to change lower or negative vibrations into positive or higher ones. Simply set that as your intent and feel the energy of the space uplifting as you vibrate each sound at a higher pitch than the last.
I typically use this banishing pentagram ritual before my daily energy work and daily meditation. I start with the Cross of Power and Protection. Then the Pillar Charging, then the Banishing Pentagram. From there I may do the invoking pentagram below with a brief meditation on each element. I follow this with any prayers I am making that morning. Then I do my power chants in lesson 4. At the time of writing this I have been using these same power chants for over two decades. I have tried many other things,
When casting a circle I use a similar process for the Invoking Ritual of the Pentagram. I start East and turn to the right, clockwise, for each direction. To make it invoking I start at the top of the pentagram, then draw to the bottom left, then upper right, then across to the upper left, then down to the bottom right, then up to the top, then make a clockwise circle from top to top right to bottom right to bottom left to top left to top. Then pierce the star. As I draw through the lines I vibrate in the same order as the Pillar Charging Exercise. As I face each direction and just before I draw the pentagram I will say a short invocation of the element as so:
To the East, elements of air and intellect. Thus do I invoke power, peace, and protection!
To the South, elements of fire and transformation. Thus do I invoke power, peace, and protection!
To the West, elements of water and intuition. Thus do I invoke power, peace, and protection!
To the North, elements of earth and stability. Thus do I invoke power, peace, and protection!
At the end of your working you can then dismiss the elements as such.
Start in the North. “Thanks to the North, elements of earth and stability. Go now in peace and in love, harming none upon thy way.” Clap.
Turn to the left, “Thanks to the West, elements of water and intuition. Go now in peace and in love, harming none upon thy way.” Clap.
Turn to the left, “Thanks to the South, elements of fire and transformation. Go now in peace and in love, harming none upon thy way.” Clap.
Turn to the left, “Thanks to the East, elements of air and intellect. Go now in peace and in love, harming none upon thy way.” Clap.
From the center, “Thank to all spirits who attended this circle. Go now in peace and in love, harming none upon thy way.” Clap 3 times, saying “A'Heil' Aam!” each time.
Pause for a moment to reflect.
It’s a good idea to experiment and make modifications to suit your own needs and experience. I tried to leave the directions clear enough to follow but still leaving room for interpretation. The idea is that you should follow the intuition you are developing through meditation.
End lesson 2a.
Updated June 2022.
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