Pentagram Ritual

Gnostic Pentagram Ritual (modified)

  1. Stand facing East.
  2. Stand in a stance similar to the Greek letter Psi (Ψ), and vibrate “PSI” while visualizing your whole being shining brighter.
  3. Inhale fully. Exhale slowly sustaining the sound “KHO” while visualizing a radiance of bright red energy in the head.
  4. Inhale fully. Exhale slowly sustaining the sound “PHU” while visualizing a radiance of yellow energy in the throat, chest, and the arms.
  5. Inhale fully. Exhale slowly sustaining the sound “KSĒ” while visualizing a radiance of blue energy in the belly area.
  6. As in 2, but the sound “THŌ” in the groin, legs, and feet (dark brown energy).
  7. Repat 6. Then 5, 4, 3, working back toward the head.
  8. Inhale fully. Exhale slowly, forming each of the elemental geomantic figures and elemental sounds in turn while, with the left arm, holding your hand in the air the figures. (Laetitia in the East – BI, Albus in the North – DĒ, Rubeus in the West – ZU, and Tristitia in the South – HA)
  9. Make a quarter turn to the left and repeat 8, then continue to turn and draw the remaining pentagrams with mantra and visualization until returning to the starting position.

The Banishing Pentagrams

Invocation of the Solar Guardians

IŌ ERBĒTH, take thy place before me! (A winged dragon with a crown of clouds rising above the horizon) IŌ ABLANATHANALBA, take thy place behind me! (A crocodile with the tail of a snake arising from the waters) IŌ LERTHEKSANAKS, take thy place at my right! (A falcon with wings fully outstretched wreathed in the fire of the Sun) IŌ SESENGENBARPHARANGĒS, take thy place at my left! (An infant child sitting atop a blossoming lotus) IŌ AKRAMMAKHAMAREI, take thy place in the heights! (An old balding man dressed in pale grey looking downward holding a ring of keys in his right hand and a staff in his left) IŌ DAMNAMENEUS, take thy place in the depths! (A young maiden dressed in bright red and hair covered with a red shawl looking forward holding a spear in her right hand and a torch in her left) For I am MALPARTALKHŌ, standing in the midst of the All!

Repeat the steps 2-7 from the Gnostic Pentagram Ritual and then do the Geomancer's Cross.