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profitable. The Chaldaean Oracles of Zoroaster (edited by W.W. Westcott) also provides an excellent
source of invocatory passages.
A little ingenuity on the part of the practitioner can work more wonders for a ritual than any amount
of 'correct' invocatory techniques: it is for this reason that a specific ritual has not been laid out in this
chapter - rather a series of suggestions as to how to put one together. Just as you are the only person
who can consecrate your own Elemental Weapons, so you are the best person to construct your own
invocation which will be your exclusive link with the god invoked.
Often during the course of your first attempts at invocation you will get quite clear intimations as to
how to improve the invocation - even complete invocations, far surpassing the usual run of
invocations, will be delivered to your inner ear - these, for you, will be infinitely more effective. For
this reason always have plenty of writing material handy.
Of course you should incorporate the usual clearing of the place and Banishing Rituals that you are
already familiar with, but outside of these basic defences against delusion or intrusion by an unwanted
entity, the task is to open yourself, and make a channel to receive the god. Like emptying a tank-you
need not worry about the 'head' of water, just worry about opening the tap. The ritual which has been
built up using the correct correspondences provides the right 'climate' for the manifestation of the god,
both externally and psychologically. The god (unlike a spirit which is constrained to manifest) can not
be coerced, but must be enticed.
It is for this reason that a thorough knowledge of the nature of the god, his attributes, hymns, myths,
characteristics, dress, even his foibles, is so necessary.
Articulate your impressions of the God - preferably use your own invocation built out of reading
mythology and meditative preparation. Within the circle ideas may begin to come - if so concretize
them by articulating them - don't fear that they are not appropriate: they may be you beginning to
speak as the god.
If it does not work the first time then immerse yourself in the histories of the God and again build a
ceremony. However faltering or self-conscious your own words are, they are a better indication to you
of the nature of the God and are preferable to the perhaps more high sounding products of someone
else's evolution. Later you can test the veracity of your invocation, when you are more 'familiar' with
the god.
Finally, remember to note down in full in your Magical Diary details of the ceremony and its
outcome.
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