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The dramatic method of invocation is best suited to workings which involve a large number of
persons, so that the combined energy available is much greater: it becomes then a true celebration.
However, for our present purpose a large scale ritual which demands elaborate staging and a number
of competent participants is beyond the scope of this book. If however it was intended to proceed with
an invocation using this method it is extremely important that all the participants be thoroughly
rehearsed in their various parts, allowing each a certain period of improvisation during which, if they
feel moved (but not otherwise) they should do as their inner promptings dictate.
The magician who leads the ritual should arrange it so that his climax and period of improvisation
provide the climax for the entire ceremony and this should if successful partake of the nature of the
god being invoked: it may be speech, dance, song or trance.
The Ceremonial Method
This method has been most favoured in the West, and if the devotional method does not appeal to you,
then the ceremonial method is the next obvious choice.
The ceremony should provide a uniform environment suited only to the manifestation of one type of
force. It should isolate the magician from any other possible influences. Every sensory input, be it
colour, sound, scent or feel should be thus symbolic of the god being invoked. This effectively blocks
all distraction and enforces a form of concentration: the magician becomes single pointed in a ritual
rather than a meditational manner.
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[6] One of the best accounts of this technique is Crowley's Liber CLXXV, Magick in Theory and
Practice, pp390-404.
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Let us suppose that you intend to invoke Jupiter. As Jupiter is attributed to the fourth Sephirah of the
Tree of Life, Chesed, it is necessary to fill your temple with the symbolism of Jupiter. Thus one
should have hangings of a sky blue colour, the circle should have a four sided figure set within it,
around which is written the godname, archangelic name and angelic name of the fourth Sephirah (for
which see the table in Chapter Eight). The four Fours of the Tarot pack should be displayed upon the
altar, an amethyst or a sapphire, or any other light blue stone should be provided as a focus in the
centre of the talisman of Jupiter (which should previously have been consecrated according to the
rules given in Chapter Eight).
If obtainable a shamrock and a olive branch or perhaps celandine should also be laid upon the altar,
cedar should be burnt in the censer, and a tetrahedron, pyramid or cube should also be placed upon the
altar. Your robe should be belted with a blue cord.
Having thus established an environment conducive to Jupiter, it is now necessary to use a general
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