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What should i do after middle pillar?
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which book should i use for the ritual?
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Michael Kraig's Modern Magick, it was posted on the forum. Lots more of extra practices in it as well, should satisfy you for a while.
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As Vandheer stated that you do like Golden Dawn ritualist workings, you can have copious amounts of rituals with David Griffin's Ritual Magic Manual
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This looks very complicated to me
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Yeah its one of the harder ones when it comes to rather known rituals, but you are gonna meet a tweaked version of it called "Bornless Rite" sooner or later if you keep practicing the Golden Dawn rites.
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Not really - I hope that you realized that only one of the versions highlighted in gray is to be used by the practitioner, either the Greek or English ones. I perform the rite as an incantation only, without the 'beneficial sign', preparatory purifications or special ritual garments.
I quoted that link mainly because of the thorough background information it contains; what I really use is the (more antiquated) wording of the rite given in Jason Miller's "Real Sorcery" (p. 85) because I like it better but beforehand checked the 'barbarous names' against the DigitalAmbler's version (which is probably more accurate, given his amount of experience with the PGM in general). One great idea of his are the 'add-ons' he inserts, e.g. for general good health or for contacting your HGA. I wouldn't recommend Crowley's "Bornless Rite" version in Liber Samekh though as he messes with the barbarous names and distorts the rite to fit his own mythology but many swear by it, so it's up to you.
The best thing to do is to copy out the version of the rite you like best into some text file and 'perform' it first without the barbarous names for some time because they're the toughest to learn by heart. The incantation itself has a certain inner logic and poetry, making it is easier to commit to memory; some people leave out the barbarous names altogether because they say it makes them feel weird. Again, up to you. The barbarous names in this rite aren't that difficult, there are some PGM rituals with these 'nonsense words', as 19th century philologists called them, being over 100 letters long.
In this rite, you literally BALG, something that magic from an Abrahamic background traditionally shies away from. It's a daring and audacious concept. Those Late Antiquity Egyptian sorcerers didn't mess about. They bossed the gods around, even coerced and blackmailed them. Works wonders for your attitude as a magician.
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BALG = b e c o m e a l i v i n g g o d, seems like something autocorrected me.
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I'm not sure about which route you want to take, as far as attempting to find a ritual that is more intense than the two you had mentioned. What I did after learning and practicing the LBRP and Middle Pillar for a few months was to learn the Circulation of the Body of Light, to perform following after the Middle Pillar. Then the Rose Cross Ritual. That is where I'm at now, after about 9 months from starting.
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I'd also like to recommend Aidan Wachter's "Reclaiming Rite":
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[Tutorial] - Reclaiming Rite (for recovering scattered power) by Aidan Wachter
I have found this to be very effective. This rite appears in both Six Ways and Changeling. This is the Changeling version but they both work. Reclaiming Rite: Theory Aidan Wachter says: Repeat daily for 21 days, then reflect whether it has helped in any way. If it has, you could choose to...
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I forgot one to mention one other ritual that I learned when starting out. It is the Banishing Ritual of the Hexagram. That I do after the Middle Pillar/Circulation of the Body of Light, usually. Those 5 rituals cover what I might do on a good day, and takes about 35 minutes or so.
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Agreed.