(10-11-2017, 12:37 PM)GentleWanderer Wrote: What Aion said for the dagger, i've heard it's best to not use it unless you're very experimented and very pure. The dagger is used to
command entities who aren't necessarly 100% benevolent and if they are invoked they will try to find your weaknessess and play tricks on you. Use your hand instead.
Quote:I spoke with a friend who is more knowledgable than myself and he recommends not even using the LBRP for protection but rather a prayer would probably be more effective. He is going to send me the prayer the ritual is based on and I would recommend using that. The reason being that while the LBRP is a protection ritual of sorts, that's actually totally secondary to its purpose and the reason for which it was created. It was a creation of the original Golden Dawn and was subsequently taken way out of context. A lot of people don't even know there is an Invoking form which is actually more important for practice.
The problem is that it has been 'misused' for so long that everyone just thinks it's for 'cleansing the space' but there is actually so much more attached to that ritual that people aren't aware of. So, I agree with my friend, if you want good protection without the risk of getting plugged in to some current or egregore then it's best to use a strong heartfelt prayer or even a ritual you have written yourself rather than one that is plugged in to some other channel that you're not familiar with.
Even above you see, promoting it as a 'protective ritual' and this is only partially true. (No offense intended, Nau7ik.)
What about "but there is actually so much more attached to that ritual that people aren't aware of" ? I often come across two opinions, one being to be careful about the risks of plugging in a negative egregore. Others people, who practice the version in The light over the kingdom by alexandre moryason say there is no risks with the version in the books because it's protected by high entities. In the book the LBRP is considered to do far more than protection, it's true goal is inner purification of the aura and the subconsious. I've also heard that some of these high entities wanted to close some orders because some distortions started to install there.
There are certain forms of the LBRP which are guarded by group egregores which keep them positive. It is a combination of both the visualizations, the words, movements, etc. There is a lot of fine detail that can go in to a ritual and people often tend to only work generally. So that is probably what they would be referring to as the 'high entities' is the egregore created by the magicians as they work together. This would also include all the guardians of each individuals, so it can be quite a force.
Yes, there are alchemical aspects to the ritual and there is a method and use for it in that process.