Quote:64.4 ↥ Questioner: Thank you. Could you explain the basic principles behind the ritual which we perform to initiate the contact and what I would call the basic white magical rituals— principles of protection and other principles? Could you please do this?

Ra: I am Ra. Due to your avenue of question we perceive the appropriateness of inclusion of the cause of this instrument’s transitory vital energy distortion. The cause is a bias towards the yearning for expression of devotion to the One Creator in group worship.

This entity was yearning for this protection both consciously in that it responds to the accoutrements of this expression, the ritual, the colors and their meanings as given by the distortion system of what you call the church, the song of praise, and the combined prayers of thanksgiving and, most of all, that which may be seen to be most centrally magical, the intake of that food which is not of this dimension but has been transmuted into metaphysical nourishment in what this distortion of expression calls the holy communion.

The subconscious reason, it being the stronger for this yearning was the awareness that such expression is, when appreciated by an entity as the transmutation into the presence of the One Creator, a great protection of the entity as it moves in the path of service to others.

The principle behind any ritual of the white magical nature is to so configure the stimuli which reach down into the trunk of mind that this arrangement causes the generation of disciplined and purified emotion or love which then may be both protection and the key to the gateway to intelligent infinity.

(07-08-2014, 02:21 PM)Tanner Wrote: Most importantly however is the way ritual magic can work in groups. This form of magic is useless for those who are obsessed with "natural" or willed magic or whom want to "do everything" or are insistent on their own power or designs. Group ritual (whether that be with others incarnate or disincarnate beings) is a communal effort of intention.

(07-08-2014, 02:37 PM)Bring4th_Plenum Wrote:

(07-08-2014, 02:21 PM)Tanner Wrote: Most importantly however is the way ritual magic can work in groups. This form of magic is useless for those who are obsessed with "natural" or willed magic or whom want to "do everything" or are insistent on their own power or designs. Group ritual (whether that be with others incarnate or disincarnate beings) is a communal effort of intention.

thanks Tanner. I think this was the aspect I was overlooking. The group element.

cheers!

Quote:This singleness of thought then can be used by the positive adept to work in group ritual visualizations for the raising of positive energy, by negative adepts for the increase in personal power.