Everyone in occult and their grandmas heard of this ritual by this point. I have been doing it on and off over a year now, and I suppose I can dissect the ritual, lets see if I can.
Its called lesser, because we are working with lower energies, even the pentagram is the earth pentagram.
LBRP is mostly used for sterilizing the ritual space, shining the auric egg, and it also can be used to gain ones own magickal authority. However, repeated LBRP will banish everything you don’t need over time. ‘Friends’, addictions, distractions, your bad qualities… List can go on.
When you perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, you start with visualizing yourself as larger than life, to gain authority, then, you visualize a bright point above you, we can associate that light to many things, ones own divinity, God, source, etc. Then we vibrate the word Atah (means “To Thou, Essence.”) after carrying the light to our heads. Then you feel and visualize this light going inside your body, to the soles of feet, which is associated with Malkuth. After that, we complete the cross by balance of forces that rule the universe, Geburah and Gedulah, which are sephiras of Geburah and Chesed, respectively. Then we affirm the Eternity by saying, Le Olahm, Amen - “To the Ages of Ages, so be it.”
Next, we cleanse the four quarters of the Universe with pentagrams of earth made of fire, affirming the practitioner as the mirror of the divinity, and with the ability to control the elements through spirit, which is top point of these pentagrams. The deity names will echo through your working space with you being the divine authority. Since you are on the middle, you also create the symbol of the sun combined with the sphere of pentagrams you created. Sun represents the center of the universe in these types of workings.
Now I am pretty sure I could delve into much more mysteries if I tried to analyze why we say the Godnames when we ignite these pentagrams and their connection, but maybe later, I am not that good at the moment.
We got the names of Assiah now, and now we will contiuner into evoking the archangels, which are on Briah.
You, the spirit, being in the middle, you evoke the archangels with their associated elements. Mind you, this is the association of the Golden Dawn and might not work in another current that good, in Golden Dawn, it is good enough. Archangels are associated with their respective colors, which also make up for the colors of Malkuth, albeit not in all descriptions of it. Then we declare our authority one again by saying ‘For about me who flames the pentagram, and within me shines the six rayed star’. These last sentences change a lot though.
We finish by repeating the Qabalistic Cross. Now, you may wonder why do we start from east. That is because, in Golden Dawn, Sun represents the divinity, God, whatever you wanna call it. So, like sun, we revolve too. We start and end in the east.
I may update this, if I find anything interesting enough. Thanks for reading.
