What should i do after middle pillar?

[lvxx]

I am practicing lbrp and middle pillar for estimately 3 months. MP makes me feel great. I want to feel the same emotions but more intense. I also want to evoke-invoke spirits. Which books shoul i go for? What do you suggest?

 

[Vandheer]

You could add an Hexagram ritual into the mix since you seem to like Golden Dawn rituals.

 

[lvxx]

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You could add an Hexagram ritual into the mix since you seem to like Golden Dawn rituals.

which book should i use for the ritual?

 

[Vandheer]

W

which book should i use for the ritual?

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.

 

[Sabbatius]

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which book should i use for the ritual?

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

 

[Vandheer]

This looks very complicated to me

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.

 

[HoldAll]

This looks very complicated to me

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.

 

[DeTerminator]

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.

 

[HoldAll]

I'd also like to recommend Aidan Wachter's "Reclaiming Rite":

[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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[DeTerminator]

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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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.

Agreed.

 

[Johny111]

I am practicing lbrp and middle pillar for estimately 3 months. MP makes me feel great. I want to feel the same emotions but more intense. I also want to evoke-invoke spirits. Which books shoul i go for? What do you suggest?

Well, I hope you appreciate honesty and openness, because I will try to give my opinion in that way. Here I have underlined everything that I consider problematic in your approach to magical work. Don't be angry, but it is not your fault in principle. Such is the spirit of our civilization - I want it fast, I want to feel, I want to feel more intensely, I want more, I want harder... I think your work would be much more successful if you abandoned such an attitude. First of all, why do you think three months is enough to take the next step? Three months of doing one type of practice is too short for you to move on.

Try to perfect the LBRP. For example, try to perform it as long as possible. Let your performance of the LBRP last 25 minutes or even half an hour. For example, when performing the Kabbalistic Cross, let each exhalation be long and let your vibratory formula last until you practically faint due to the intense expulsion of air from your lungs. Then take a long pause, then inhale, then a new movement, a new formula. Become aware of your every movement, every sensation, every vibration. If necessary, repeat some detail in the ritual several times. When you give the sign of silence, let that silence last as long as possible. Feel that silence. When you have perfected it, then try to perform the ritual as briefly as possible. This time, let it last only half a minute. Finally, perfect the performance of the LBRP visually, because this will automatically teach you how to astrally project yourself. Visualize yourself performing the ritual. You can do this type of visualization immediately after completing the physical performance of the ritual.

And finally, when you have perfected the LBRP, do it in a public place, on the street, it doesn't matter if someone is passing by, if someone is watching you. Do it mentally while sitting in a public place, in transport, anywhere. Learn to let nothing bother you and not be disturbed by any noise or activity of the outside world. Just on the basis of what I have written here, it opens up the prospect of intensive work for a year. Once you get past that, any other form of practice of that type will be like child's play for you. In the meantime, cultivate your mind - read serious occult literature and try to understand.