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POSTED BY: A 33-YEAR SURVIVOR OF NEW YORK CITY
Spare me the elaborate temple setup. Forget the robe, the incense, the hand-illuminated grimoire propped on a velvet lectern. After 33 years navigating the delightful hellscape of New York City, I can tell you with complete sincerity: the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram may be the single most practical piece of ceremonial technology ever devised.
Developed within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the late 19th century — drawing on Kabbalistic attributions of the Tetragrammaton, the Qabalistic Cross rooted in Agrippa's Occult Philosophy, and the fourfold Archangelic invocations of Raphael, Michael, Gabriel, and Uriel — the LBRP is, on paper, a formal banishing rite. In practice, it is a complete psychic firewall. Israel Regardie described it as both a preparatory and protective working; Aleister Crowley called it the foundation upon which all other ritual rests. Strong words from men who rarely agreed on anything.
"Recently on 6th Avenue, a large drunk gentleman from New Jersey (of course) took a profound interest in my personal space. I ran the LBRP in my head in approximately half a second — then introduced him to my left hook. He took a nap on the pavement."
The beauty is in the internalization. Once this rite is truly in your body — the vibrations, the visualized pentagrams, the column of light from Kether to Malkuth — you can run it silently, instantly, anywhere. Subway platform at 2am with the wrong energy closing in? Done. Someone decides you look like a profitable evening? Done. No altar required. The magician is the temple.
I have lost count of the number of times a silent inner LBRP shifted the atmosphere around me on the NYC subway — that particular petri dish of human chaos — redirecting what felt like impending ugliness into a stranger simply… moving on. Coincidence? Perhaps. But 33 years of consistent results is a decent sample size.
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Your turn, fellow travelers in the unseen.
How have you used the LBRP beyond the ritual chamber? Have you internalized it to the point of instant deployment? Has it ever failed you — or surprised you? Curious whether others have found it effective in genuinely physical confrontations, or is that just a New York thing. Drop your experiences below. This is the good stuff.
Spare me the elaborate temple setup. Forget the robe, the incense, the hand-illuminated grimoire propped on a velvet lectern. After 33 years navigating the delightful hellscape of New York City, I can tell you with complete sincerity: the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram may be the single most practical piece of ceremonial technology ever devised.
Developed within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the late 19th century — drawing on Kabbalistic attributions of the Tetragrammaton, the Qabalistic Cross rooted in Agrippa's Occult Philosophy, and the fourfold Archangelic invocations of Raphael, Michael, Gabriel, and Uriel — the LBRP is, on paper, a formal banishing rite. In practice, it is a complete psychic firewall. Israel Regardie described it as both a preparatory and protective working; Aleister Crowley called it the foundation upon which all other ritual rests. Strong words from men who rarely agreed on anything.
"Recently on 6th Avenue, a large drunk gentleman from New Jersey (of course) took a profound interest in my personal space. I ran the LBRP in my head in approximately half a second — then introduced him to my left hook. He took a nap on the pavement."
The beauty is in the internalization. Once this rite is truly in your body — the vibrations, the visualized pentagrams, the column of light from Kether to Malkuth — you can run it silently, instantly, anywhere. Subway platform at 2am with the wrong energy closing in? Done. Someone decides you look like a profitable evening? Done. No altar required. The magician is the temple.
I have lost count of the number of times a silent inner LBRP shifted the atmosphere around me on the NYC subway — that particular petri dish of human chaos — redirecting what felt like impending ugliness into a stranger simply… moving on. Coincidence? Perhaps. But 33 years of consistent results is a decent sample size.
△ ✦ △
Your turn, fellow travelers in the unseen.
How have you used the LBRP beyond the ritual chamber? Have you internalized it to the point of instant deployment? Has it ever failed you — or surprised you? Curious whether others have found it effective in genuinely physical confrontations, or is that just a New York thing. Drop your experiences below. This is the good stuff.