What banishing rituals do you like?

[Wolf]

I have extensively used the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram and the

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; would like to try a few more to broaden my understanding of the art of banishing.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

The way I see it, when you perform an act of magic, you can have unexpected consequences that ripple out from your original intent, as if you had thrown a stone into a pond. One of the purposes of banishing is to try and minimise these unexpected effects, although bizarre coincidences linked somehow with the magical act work as indicators that your magic was successful.

 

[HoldAll]

The Sword Banishing Ritual in Damon Brand's "Magickal Protection":

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[Aeternus]

I enjoy doing the LBRP, it really helps with banishing evil energies and invoking the power of Angels.

And also the Damon Brand sword ritual, it really is great

 

[Rowena]

For personal grounding/centering/cleansing - Phil Hine's Lightning Flash from Chaos Servitors: A User's Guide.
It's a quick, simple & effective & I've got a bunch of variants of this that I use.

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For circle-casting, especially for group-work, I usually use something based on Andrew D Chumbley's poetry in the Azoetia which a someone I know IRL came up with decades ago for a working group he ran.

Collection - Books by Andrew D. Chumbley

Contents: Opuscula Magica Vol. 1 & 2 Khiazmos The Grimoire of the Golden Toad The Dragon-Book of Essex Azoetia Mysticism, Initiation and Dream Qutub https://mega.nz/folder/FeVAjDBI#SynXlDmTN1LeojpjPsdoVg

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[pixel_fortune]

I have extensively used the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram and the

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; would like to try a few more to broaden my understanding of the art of banishing.

The Hexagram rites seem like the obvious next step

I don't think I've ever done an LBRH - I do greater banishing hexagram rites if I've invoked Mars, Saturn or Mercury (the first two because they're malefics, the third because I'm personally extremely overbalanced in Mercurial energies - anything else I'm happy to leave to fade out naturally on its own).
so I can't say I 'recommend' the LBRH, but it is the standard next one to learn after the LBRP in golden dawn style magic. There's no Thelemic equivalent I don't think, the Star Sapphire is an invoking ritual

I use the AL-KT banishing when i want something quick but powerful:

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(it's only slightly more complex than banishing by fiat)

The Rite of the Milk of the Stars is quite a lovely Thelemic one

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Try searching the forums - here's a couple more people have shared:

[Tutorial] - Basic Banishing Rite - Sphere Of Hekas (LBRP alternative)

For those of us allergic to Abrahamic influences :) Part 1: Conjuring the Column Begin by standing and facing east. Imagine that you are at the very center of the universe. I don't mean to imagine that you have left your room and are now somewhere out in space, but rather that the very place...

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[Tutorial] - The Adjuration of Metatron — a banishing / protection spell.

1. Facing East, recite: By the great name of the Father, and to his Glory! And that of those who stand in his presence, Athonas Siak Ksas Sabak Kaab Kaesas Ekoe I call upon thee, O Angel of the Presence! (The visualization here is of a brilliant and blinding light descending from above and...

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Some more

Spoiler: Informal Banishing Ritual of Lesser Bullshit

Step 1: Imagine a speck of pure, concentrated light. If doing this to an object/place, put it in the very center of it. If doing this to you or someone else, put that biatch somewhere in the chest/solar plexus area.

Step 2: Now make this light slowly expand, in all directions as a sphere. As it gets bigger and bigger, it pushes everything else out. Where that light exists, darkness cannot. Don't just imagine it, WILL it. You have to use willpower here as well as thinking in absolutes, or this method will not work.

Step 3: Expand till big enough to surround the target in question. By this point, all the bullshit will have been pushed directly outside the sphere you've created. Take this bullshit, and push it into the ground.

Step 4: At this point, you can either dissipate this sphere of light or harden it off into a shield on the outside, since you're already halfway there. Whichever one suits you.

Spoiler: Chaos Magic All-Purpose Banishing Rite

Banishing is a ritual for making a safe space to practice magic for a limited time.

1. Get all your stuff for doing magic in one place. Double check. Triple check. You don't want to have to leave the safe area to get a pencil sharpener or lube or whatever.
2. Start by saying, "I am doing magic now."
3. Name your protector. "_____ protects me from harm." If you've already got a relationship with patrons, friends or servants, you can name them. If not, you can name Beginner's Luck. You can also name a magical weapon or talisman you have with you, like a knife, amulet, crystal, or rattle. If you don't like depending on external entities, you can also name your own personal qualities, like, "my good intentions" or "my wizardly skills" or "my rippling biceps".
4. If you have any offerings for your protector, give them now. Otherwise, this is a good point to shake your rattle, wave around your patron's sigil, or flex those 24-inch pythons.
5. Delineate your safe area. You can do this by putting objects out at the corners or sides, or drawing on the floor if you can, or making a blanket fort, or just tracing a line with your pointed finger. You can also make a whole room or building safe.
6. Say, "This is my safe area. Any who wish me harm must leave. Go!" Give them a second to pack up and get out.
7. Say, "As long as I stay in this area, I am safe from those who wish me harm, and from my own mistakes."
8. Do your magic. Don't leave the safe area! This should be obvious. If you forgot some object, end the ritual and start again. Sorry, but I did warn you!
9. When you're done, thank your protector. More offerings are ok here.
10. Say "I am done doing magic now." Clear any boundaries you've put around your space.
11. Leave the space. You're safe to do so, but you have to assert that. They can smell fear!

There is the Omnil banishing (a combination of "omni + nil") in William Gray's Magical Ritual Methods. He describes it as "zeroing out" your sphere of sensation in time and space so you become neutral and invisible or something like that

 

[Wintruz]

For personal grounding/centering/cleansing - Phil Hine's Lightning Flash from Chaos Servitors: A User's Guide.
It's a quick, simple & effective & I've got a bunch of variants of this that I use.

I'd never heard of Hine's 'Lightning Flash' before but it's perfect for what I Need at the moment.

Thank you for sharing this.

 

[Aeternus]

For personal grounding/centering/cleansing - Phil Hine's Lightning Flash from Chaos Servitors: A User's Guide.
It's a quick, simple & effective & I've got a bunch of variants of this that I use.

Book – PDF - Phil Hine - Chaos Servitors A Users Guide [Scan & OCR]

Phil Hine's groundbreaking 1991 pamphlet, which is essentially the first modern work on the creation and use of servitors. Unlike his other booklets from this time, this work has never been reprinted or reissued as a pdf, but some of the content has been re-used in his later works...

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For circle-casting, especially for group-work, I usually use something based on Andrew D Chumbley's poetry in the Azoetia which a someone I know IRL came up with decades ago for a working group he ran.

Collection - Books by Andrew D. Chumbley

Contents: Opuscula Magica Vol. 1 & 2 Khiazmos The Grimoire of the Golden Toad The Dragon-Book of Essex Azoetia Mysticism, Initiation and Dream Qutub https://mega.nz/folder/FeVAjDBI#SynXlDmTN1LeojpjPsdoVg

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Great addition Thanks for sharing

 

[Xenophon]

I know of a couple traditions/schools out there that claim one does not need banishings. The one, though, strikes me as a con man. In his book he repeats "don't banish" a little too often. The other group insists on a rigorous course of preparation before one actually starts dealing with energies. In effect, one makes his life a sort of moving fortress.

 

[Aeternus]

I know of a couple traditions/schools out there that claim one does not need banishings. The one, though, strikes me as a con man. In his book he repeats "don't banish" a little too often. The other group insists on a rigorous course of preparation before one actually starts dealing with energies. In effect, one makes his life a sort of moving fortress.

I can say that banishing should be done with a lot of precaution.

But still... don't banish, that much repeated??? Nuh uh, I don't think that is a good idea

 

[Accipeveldare]

Anything that works lol

 

[Aeternus]

Anything that works lol

To some extent, it really is useful ngl