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            ** MAGICK 8 -- HEALING AND BANISHING **


Psychic or spiritual healing is a human potential we all possess.
Some people are especially good at this. It is probably easier to
heal someone else by occult means than yourself. In addition to
healing in the presence of the person, there is 'absent healing'
in which the healing occurs at a distance. Note that there are
some who maintain that influence on another person without his
specific knowledge and permission (yes, even in healing and
helping) is black magick. (After all, everybody is living
according to his own true will, so that healing or helping
someone without permission is affecting his will). This means it
is important to tell the person what you are planning to do and
to ask his permission. The theory of psychic healing is that
sickness is characterized (although not necessarily caused) by a
deficiency and imbalance of vital energy. Psychic healing
transfers energy from the healer to the sick to repair and re-
balance his energies. If an inept healer overdoes the process, or
if he doesn't take the precaution to 'disconnect' himself
afterwards, he may find himself becoming sick due to energy drain
and a linkage to his subject. Similarly, the healer should always
be in a good state of health or he could unintentionally transfer
his illness to the subject.

The basic methods of psychic healing are: 1) creative
visualization, 2) prayer, 3) ritual. Creative visualization is
one of the easiest techniques. Mild illness may yield to only one
or two treatments; serious ills will require many treatments over
time. Psychic healing should always be combined with medical care
and treatment. It does not replace doctors, medicine, or
hospitals, since different levels (worlds) are involved. In
creative visualization, we visualize the person being well. It
may be helpful to utilize the appropriate color from the aura
chart (such as bright apple-green, rose pink, or white) sent as a
beam to the person or as a cloud surrounding him. This technique
can be extended to include a simple kind of yoga in which we feel
energy sent as we exhale explosively; the energy sent either via
the breath or from one of the chakras such as the solar plexus.
Sometimes in absent healing it is helpful to arrange a time for
treatment in advance, asking your subject to be in a receptive
state of mind and to sit back and close his eyes.

                      THE BANISHING RITUAL

One of the most basic and useful ceremonial rituals of magick is
called the *banishing ritual*, or lesser ritual of the pentagram.
A pentagram (or pentacle) is a five-pointed star with the point
up. The banishing ritual is helpful in psychic protection and
healing since it forms a protective barrier against malevolent
forces. The psychic barrier it creates can be made to permit
entry of desired (constructive) forces and the exclusion of
negative ones. Thus, the banishing ritual is an essential first
step in almost any formal full magick ceremony. The ritual▄j▄îrequires that you use a magical implement or "weapon", such as a
ceremonial knife, wand, or simply point your index finger, to
"draw" the pentagram in the air at each of the cardinal points
(four directions). Also, you will be chanting ('vibrating') some
Hebrew names of God.

Holding your magical weapon and facing east, extend your arm out
straight in front of you. In this ritual you will use the full
sweep of your arm to draw the pentagram in the air. Follow the
description below by beginning at the lower left and sweeping
your magical weapon up toward the right, etc. as shown. Do not
bend your arm at the wrist or elbow. While you do this, visualize
the lines and eventually the star as vibrant white, floating in
the space before you. You are projecting energy to do this, and
the result will be a gleaming 5-pointed star floating in the
east; visualize this as vividly as you can. Now you will energize
it further by piercing the center of it with your magical weapon
and vibrating (speaking slowly in a slightly lower than normal
pitch, remember) "Yod-He-Vau-He".

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 -- DESCRIPTION --  Approximate points on a round clock face --1.
Begin at 7:30 position. 2. Point to 12 o'clock position.  3.
Point to 4:30 position. 4. Point to 10:30 position. 5. Point to
2:30 position. 6. Return to 7:30 position.]
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Then turn slowly to the next cardinal point in sequence, and as
you do so, with your arm still extended in front of you,
visualize a white line connecting around to the cardinal point.
Trace a similar pentagram with the appropriate words and
following the same procedure:

South -- Adonai Tzaboath

West  -- Eh-Ei-He

North -- Agla. Now complete the white line drawn back to the
center of the eastern pentagram. Note that the cardinal points
must be followed in a clockwise order, and the pentagram must be
drawn in the manner illustrated; to do otherwise would change the
function of the ritual. The result of all this should be a large
bright white pentagram visualized hanging in mid-air at each of
the four directions, all tied together by a bright white line.
You could now, for example, visualize the pentagrams moving out
to the circumference of your home, thereby protecting all within.

There is also a somewhat simplified version of this ritual in
which the pentagram is traced only once overhead and then is
energized with one of the four names, such as "Eh-Ei-He".
Oftentimes the simplified version is sufficient, but naturally
the effect of the full version is more complete.
▄j▄îOne of the primary uses of this ritual is to ward off psychic
attack -- that is, when another is (consciously or unconsciously)
attempting to harm you, cause sickness, accidents, bad dreams,
emotional upset, or to force you to do something against your
will. Fortunately this doesn't happen very often. The world of
the magician is fairly safe for the pure of heart. Psychic attack
usually depends upon vulnerabilities. If you are not vulnerable
you are safe. Thus unification with the true will is the greatest
protection possible. And the use of the banishing ritual is never
hurtful. You can even use it to hold off negative aspects of
yourself.

Other forms of protection sometimes helpful (depending upon one's
model) are recitation of the 'Lord's Prayer', the 23rd, and 91st
Psalms.






































▄j▄îREVIEW QUESTIONS

1) What is a pentagram?
2) What is psychic healing? List the basic methods.
3) What is the banishing ritual? Why is it used?

BOOK LIST
Dion Fortune, Psychic Self-Defense. ________, Sane Occultism.
Adeliade Gardner, Vital Magnetic Healing.
Max Heindel, The Vital Body.
Ernest Holms, The Science of Mind.
Mouni Sadhu, Theurgy.

======== Phil Hansford,
4/88 Mysteria
[phone] (modem)
P.O. Box 83 Tujunga, CA 91042

Copyright (c) 1988 by Phil Hansford. This article is licenced for
free non-commercial distribution only.