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Pagan Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram
We all know that there is the Kabbalistic version on the LBRP, but there is a Pagan version which I find more comfortable. Feel free to change any of the Goddess names to ones you feel are more appropriate to you or your workings.
The Ritual
Facing east, invoke strongly the feeling of Mother Gaia below your feet. Feel her infinite strength and energy, her caring and compassion, her love and wisdom. Feel that energy rise up, climbing your legs to the dan-tien point (app 2-3 inches below the navel). Touch that point with the forefinger of your right hand and say,

"Blessed Be, Great Mother!"

Allow the energy to rise up your body to the 'third eye' point on your forehead. Touch that point, and say,

"Blessed Be, Consort!"

Feel the energy stretch out of the top of your head into infinity. Next, feel the energy stretch out of your heart to the right, infinitely. This energy is the active energy of play, change, movement. Touch your right shoulder and say,

"Blessed Be, Maiden!"

Feel the energy stretch out of your heart to the left, infinitely. This energy is the passive energy of understanding, knowledge, wisdom. Touch your left shoulder and say,

"Blessed Be, Crone!"

Extend both hands out to each side in the orant prayer stance (arms out, elbows bent, palms up) and say,
"Blessed Be!"

Know that you stand at the meeting place of two infinite axis, delineating space; the centre of the cosmos. Clap your hands in front of you and say,
"So mote it be!"

Extend right hand and inscribe a blue flaming pentagram in the air in front of you. Strongly phantasm on the other side of the pentagram, Athena, standing high on a cliff top, arms raised to the sky. She wears a Sword on her waist, and an Owl circles high in the sky above her. Step forward with the right foot and "charge" the pentagram, intoning,
"Athena ..."

Step back. Extend the right hand and trace a flaming blue 1/4 circle from the centre of the pentagram to the south.
Inscribe the second pentagram and phantasm on the other side, Agni, Fire God. Agni is reddish, with black wild hair. He has three arms and seven legs. He has several tongues which flick widely in his mouth, like slivers of fire. Agni dances across the flaming surface of a lava pool, within an ancient volcano. In his hands, he twirls flaming brands. Again step forward and charge the pentagram, intoning,
"Agni ..."

Return and trace the circle to the west.
Inscribe the third pentagram and phantasm a seascape. The full moon sits high in the sky, and just off the shore, Mother Isis bathes. She pours water over her head with a silver chalice. Step forward and charge the pentagram, intoning
"Isis ..."

Return and trace the circle to the north.
Inscribe the final pentagram and phantasm a dark wood. Deep within the wood, Cernnunous stands silently watching. He rests his right arm around the neck of a white stag which stands behind him. His left arm rests atop a pentacle inscribe shield. Step forward and charge the pentagram and intone,
"Cernnunous ..."

Return and connect the circle to the east. Say,
"Before me stands, Athena,
Behind me stands, Isis,
On my right hand stands, Agni,
On my left hand stands, Cernnunous.
About me flame the pentagrams,
And throughout me flows the light of the Goddess!"


After performing any additional rites one might desire, repeat the Cross at the beginning.
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