THE
PENTAGRAM
RITUALS

by Israel Regardie

Edited by
David Cherubim,
Israel Regardie Foundation.

THE PENTAGRAM
RITUAL OF AIR

1. Perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.

2. Perform the Lesser Invoking Ritual of the Air Pentagram.

3. Face East. Feel breezes coming eastward or from the East, and feel that the breeze goes right through you, coming into the front and going out the back. After having got the wind through, try to feel the wind as yellow. See a stream of yellow light emanating from this particular cardinal point.

4. Vibrate each of the following Names as often as you feel inclined:

SHADDAI EL CHAI (Divine Name)
RAPHAEL (Archangelic Name)
CHASSAN (Angelic Name)

5. Visualize Sylphs–little fairy-like figures. Let your imagination run away with you as with the Gnomes, but do not force it. Remember they are trying to subtilize, trying to eliminate the gross, and trying to make everything in which the Light can function. Let the cramp of the mind go and let the mind play with these fairy-like Sylphs. Feel that they are pouring through you.

6. Recite the Invocation. It is the Prayer of the Sylphs. REMEMBER YOUR IDEA OF GRATITUDE. You, too, must help them, even as they are helping you. They have no consciousness in our sense of the work. Having no consciousness, they have no sense of a goal, and we must give them a concept of goal. And for the benefit of all the Sylphs in our Nature, we recite the Invocation and we inspire them to our goal.

Holy art Thou, Lord of the Air,
Who has created the Firmament.
SHADDAI EL CHAI.
Almighty and everlasting,
Ever-living be thy Name,
Ever-magnified in the life of all.
We praise Thee, and we bless Thee,
In the changeless empire of created Light;
And we aspire without cessation unto thine
Imperishable and Immutable Brilliance. AMEN.

7. Perform Banishing Ritual.

8. Perform meditation.

THE PENTAGRAM
RITUAL OF FIRE

1. Perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.

2. Perform the Lesser Invoking Ritual of the Fire Pentagram.

3. Face South.

4. Vibrate each of the following Names as often as you feel inclined:

YHVH TZABAOTH (Divine Name)
MICHAEL (Archangelic Name)
ARAL (Angelic Name)

As you vibrate the Names, imagine a flame as coming into the room from the South, either as flame or as definite entities. See yourself as being licked by the flame, scorched by them, and see the elementals working upon you in the same way as the Gnomes, Sylphs, and Undines.

5. Visualize Salamanders.

6. Recite the Invocation. It is the Prayer of the Salamanders. REMEMBER YOUR IDEA OF GRATITUDE. You, too, must help them, even as they are helping you. They have no consciousness in our sense of the work. Having no consciousness, they have no sense of a goal, and we must give them a concept of goal. And for the benefit of all the Salamanders in our Nature, we recite the Invocation and we inspire them to our goal.

Holy art Thou, Lord of the Fire,
Wherein Thou hast shown forth
The Throne of thy Glory.
YOD-HEH-VAV-HEH TZABAOTH.
Leader of Armies is thy Holy Name.
O Thou flashing Fire,
Thou illuminest all things
With thine insupportable Refulgence
Whence flow the ceaseless streams of Splendour
Which nourisheth thine Infinite Spirit.
Help us, thy children, whom Thou hast loved
Since the birth of the Ages of Time. AMEN.

7. Perform Banishing Ritual.

8. Perform meditation.

THE PENTAGRAM
RITUAL OF WATER

1. Perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.

2. Perform the Lesser Invoking Ritual of the Water Pentagram.

3. Face West. There must be relaxation of mind, relaxed enough to let the subtle currents flow through from the Undines in whom the force comes up. We assist the Undines by our Prayer for the elemental. We enable them to formulate in consciousness for what they unconsciously feel.

4. Vibrate each of the following Names as often as you feel inclined:

ELOHIM TZABAOTH (Divine Name)
GABRIEL (Archangelic Name)
TALIHAD (Angelic Name)

5. Visualize Undines.

6. Recite the Invocation. It is the Prayer of the Undines. REMEMBER YOUR IDEA OF GRATITUDE. You, too, must help them, even as they are helping you. They have no consciousness in our sense of the work. Having no consciousness, they have no sense of a goal, and we must give them a concept of goal. And for the benefit of all the Undines in our Nature, we recite the Invocation and we inspire them to our goal.

Holy art Thou, Lord of the Mighty Waters,
Whereon Thy spirit moved in the Beginning.
ELOHIM TZABAOTH.
Glory be unto Thee RUACH ELOHIM,
Whose Spirit hovered over the
Great Waters of Creation.
O Depth, O inscrutable Depth,
Which exhalest unto the height;
Lead Thou us into the true Life,
Through sacrifice, through Love,
So that one day we may be found
Worthy to offer unto Thee,
The Water, the Blood and the Tears,
For the remission of sins. AMEN.

7. Perform Banishing Ritual.

8. Perform meditation.

THE PENTAGRAM
RITUAL OF EARTH

THE PENTAGRAM
RITUAL OF SPIRIT

We are dealing with a subject which is considerably more complex to discuss than any which we heretofore had. It is the Fifth Element–Ether or Akasha. The ancients did not include this and we have to look to the Alchemists for whatever we are able to give out regarding it. As soon as we reach this Fifth Element, we have difficulty in understanding what they meant. We have no prayer for the Fifth Element; but that there is a Fifth Element is fairly obvious. This Element is half manifest, half concealed. The Alchemists pay attention to five Elements and to the manipulating of this Fifth Element of Ether. The Fifth Element synthesizes the Four Elements and yet, although a synthesis is an Element by itself, this Fifth Element is a duality.

We will use the truncated pyramid. A truncated pyramid is one whose vertex is cut off by a plane usually parallel to the base. (The vertex of a pyramid is the point of intersection of the generating lines or boundary planes respectively.) Each side of the truncated pyramid is considered to be one of the elements, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. The base is OLAHM (the World). The top is ALEPH TAU–the Alpha and Omega, Spirit, and Essence–and it is directly involved here as the Fifth Element.

Imagine, after thoroughly relaxing, that you have built up a huge pyramid. See that Pyramid built up with all the imagination you have. You have to build up that Pyramid with the truncated top, and see yourself standing at the top. The East side of the Pyramid is Yellow in color, the South is Red, the West is Blue, and the North is Green. Expand your consciousness. Here, however, we approach a different concept, not Elemental, but Spiritual. Up to now we have dealt with the elemental side, the Green Ray. That was to strengthen the interior basis of your nature, so that now it will have something interior to work on. Enlarge your body to fill infinite Space so the forces of God can pour through you.

Inasmuch as there are some of you who are able to do this Ritual twice a day, I am going to give you variations of this in two ways because I do not want it mixed up with other work–not even with the Middle Pillar. Simply do this one thing. Of course you do the relaxation. It is always a part of your formula and routine.

1. Perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.

2. Perform the Greater Invoking Pentagram Ritual of Spirit, Active and Passive.

3. Face East and trace the Sign of Aquarius with your hand outstretched, and vibrate the appropriate divine Names I gave you for the Element of Air:

SHADDAI EL CHAI
RAPHAEL
CHASSAN

Stand still and recite the prayer of Air, and at the same time imagine that the Sylphs are there and pouring through you:

Holy art Thou, Lord of the Air,
Who has created the Firmament.
SHADDAI EL CHAI.
Almighty and everlasting,
Ever-living be thy Name,
Ever-magnified in the life of all.
We praise Thee, and we bless Thee,
In the changeless empire of created Light;
And we aspire without cessation unto thine
Imperishable and Immutable Brilliance. AMEN.

4. Face South and trace the Sign of Leo. Then vibrate the appropriate divine Names of Fire:

YOD-HEH-VAV-HEH TZABAOTH
MICHAEL
ARAL

Stand still and recite the prayer of Fire, and at the same time imagine that the Salamanders are there and pouring through you:

Holy art Thou, Lord of the Fire,
Wherein Thou hast shown forth
The Throne of thy Glory.
YOD-HEH-VAV-HEH TZABAOTH.
Leader of Armies is thy Holy Name.
O Thou flashing Fire,
Thou illuminest all things
With thine insupportable Refulgence
Whence flow the ceaseless streams of Splendour
Which nourisheth thine Infinite Spirit.
Help us, thy children, whom Thou hast loved
Since the birth of the Ages of Time. AMEN.

5. Face West and trace the Sign of Scorpio. Then vibrate the appropriate divine Names of Water:

ELOHIM TZABAOTH
GABRIEL
TALIHAD

Stand still and recite the prayer of Water, and at the same time imagine that the Undines are there and pouring through you:

Holy art Thou, Lord of the Mighty Waters,
Whereon Thy spirit moved in the Beginning.
ELOHIM TZABAOTH.
Glory be unto Thee RUACH ELOHIM,
Whose Spirit hovered over the
Great Waters of Creation.
O Depth, O inscrutable Depth,
Which exhalest unto the height;
Lead Thou us into the true Life,
Through sacrifice, through Love,
So that one day we may be found
Worthy to offer unto Thee,
The Water, the Blood and the Tears,
For the remission of sins. AMEN.

6. Face North and trace the Sign of Taurus. Then vibrate the appropriate divine Names of Earth:

ADONAI HA-ARETZ
AURIEL
PHORLAKH

Stand still and recite the prayer of Earth, and at the same time imagine that the Gnomes are there and pouring through you:

Holy art Thou, Lord of the Earth,
Which Thou hast made for Thy footstool.
ADONAI HA-ARETZ, ADONAI MELEKH.
Unto Thee be the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory.
MALKUTH-GEBURAH-GEDULAH, AMEN.

The Rose of Sharon, and the Lily of the Valley.
O Thou who hidest beneath the Earth,
In the Valley of Gems,
The marvelous seed of the Stars.
Live, reign, and be Thou the eternal
Dispenser of Thy treasures,
Whereof Thou hast made us
The wardens. AMEN.

7. Return to the center of the Temple, and relax forthwith in the completest way possible.

8. Build up the Pyramid

East side of Pyramid YELLOW
South side of Pyramid RED
West side of Pyramid BLUE
North side of Pyramid GREEN
Base side of Pyramid BLACK
Truncated top of Pyramid WHITE

9. Then imagine that you are standing on the top of the Pyramid. You are a vast figure of enormous size perched on an equally large Pyramid, and feel that you are standing on that truncated peak.

10. Then vibrate the Names:

JEHESHUAH
JEHOVASHAH

and whilst vibrating the Names, feel yourself being bathed with Light, and that the power is coming through from every part of Space, making you glow with Light.

11. Get off the Pyramid. Wait of course on top, and when you get the impulse to do so, get down. This is a test. I am not telling you what side. You go down to the bottom of the inside of the Pyramid, and remember I am not telling you what side you go into the Pyramid, or what side you go out.

12. Inside the Pyramid you vibrate once more the Divine Names:

JEHESHUAH
JEHOVASHAH

and then four other additional Names. They are four words of five letters each:

EXARP (pronounced X-R-Pay)
HCOMA (pronounced Hay-Co-Mah)
NANTA (pronounced En-En-Tah)
BITOM (pronounced Bay-E-Toe-Em)

These are Enochian Spirit Names.

13. Then wait quietly inside. Do not try to make things happen or formulate things in your imagination. If you get ideas, feelings, or any other concepts, make a mental note of it, and record it in your own notebook or diary at the end of the ritual. Wait quietly for some time until you feel the Meditation has come to an end.

14. Then ascend once more to the top of the Pyramid and feel yourself once more bathed with Light.

15. Then as you stand on the top of the Pyramid, recite the Invocation:

JEHESHUAH, JEHOVASHAH.

I invoke ye, ye Angels of the Celestial Spheres
Whose dwelling is in the Invisible.
Ye are the Guardians of the Gates of the Universe.
Be ye also the Guardians of this Mystic Shrine.
Keep far removed the evil and the unbalanced.
Strengthen and inspire me so that I may preserve unsullied
This abode of the Mysteries of the Eternal Gods.
Let my Sphere be pure and holy,
So I may enter in and become a partaker
Of the secrets of the Light Divine. AMEN.

16. Then when you feel you have enough, draw in and perform the Greater Banishing Ritual of the Spirit Pentagram, Active and Passive.

17. Perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.

18. Record the result of your Meditation in your notebook or diary.

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