(Excerpted from ANGELS, COMPANIONS IN MAGICK by Silver Ravenwolf)
Cleansing, Consecrating and charging remove any negative residue that has attached itself to an item or place, create harmony so you may work in tandem with divinity and universal forces and instill positive harmonic energy into the object or place ensuring the success of your work. The Lesser Banishing Ritual cleanses both your body and the area you are in, and provides you with a path of harmony during the day. You should learn this ritual and perform it every night and every morning.
1. Take a deep breath, then another, then one more. Relax. Close your eyes if you like. Visualize yourself filled with divine light, growing larger, yet rooted to Mother Earth. Allow your center (around your navel area) to enter a state of complete calm, a floating sensation of peace and tranquilit6. Imagine that your feet, like the roots of a tree, dig deeply, securing your body in the earth. This procedure is called grounding and centering.
2. Bring the index finger of your dominant hand down your body until you are pointing at the ground. As you do this, visualize the white light of divinity entering the top of your head and circulating down through your body. Say Mahl-KOOT.
3. Bring your index finger to your right shoulder. Visualize the white light running down the center of your body, forming a beam from the heart area out to your right, past the finger at your right shoulder. Say Vih-g'boo-RAH.
4. Move your finger horizontally to your left shoulder. Visualize the white light extending through infinite space to your left. Say Vih-g'boo-LAH.
5. Cross your arms in the God position (fists up touching your chest, with wrists crossed). Visualize within your chest, at the point covered by your crossed wrists, a brilliant golden glow. Say Lih-oh-LAHM, Ah-Men.
6. Turn to the east. In one fluid motion, step out with your left foot, point your finger to the east, and draw the banishing pentagram in the air. Many people visualize this pentagram as blue flames or blazing white light. Some spiral the energy/visualization out from their fingers and explode the visualization of the banishing pentagram. The choice is yours. Say Yud-heh-vahv-heh.
7. Bring your hand back down to your side and turn to the south. Repeat the pentagram as above and say Ah-doh-NYE.
8. Bring your hand back down to your side and turn to the west. Repeat the pentagram as before and say Eh-heh-YEH.
9. Bring your hand back down to your side and turn to the north. Repeat the pentagram and say AH-glah.
10. Turn to the east, raise your hand, and begin to connect the pentagrams with glowing white light, moving from the east, to the south, to the west, to the north and back to the east.
11. Visualize this circle expanding to form a sphere around yourself and the room you are in.
12. Spread your arms straight out from your body, so that you form a cross. This equal-armed cross represents the four elements and the four archetypal angels. In the east, say Before me Rah-fay-EL. Behind me Gahb-ray-EL. On my right hand, Mee-chai-EL. And on my left hand, Ohr-ree-EL.
13. With your arms still up, spread your feet apart (this is the Goddess position) and say for about me flames the pentagram…
14. Visualize a golden six pointed star descending on the top of your head and moving down into your body; say And above me, now within me, shines the six rayed star. Service [touch your head], devotion [touch your heart], honor [touch your thigh], Shekinah, descend upon me now!
15. Repeat steps 2 through 5
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