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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 rebalance 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 requires
- 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 oclock 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 somewaht 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.
- One 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
- unificaition 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 egregore/model) are recitation of the
- 'Lord's Prayer', the 23rd, and 91st Psalms.
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- REVIEW 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?
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- 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.
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