Consecrate a pentagram

The book behind the practice

Transcendental Magic

Éliphas Lévi

“The Blazing Pentagram” gives a consecration with the four elements, five breathings accompanied by five names, and a sequence of positions on an astronomical cross. The upright orientation and the order of names and positions are retained here.

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About this guide

A modern adapted rite, not Lévi’s complete prescribed ceremony. The original requires particular metals, marble or prepared lambskin and consecrated water, and insists on exact fulfilment. We use new card, ordinary water, an unlit candle and wafted air in place of the prescribed burning perfumes. Sulphur and camphor are omitted and must not be burned for this guide. The spoken dedication and teaching diagram are editorial additions. The source speaks the letter-names during the directional sequence; this guide moves them to the centre after the five positions so you can complete the actions without an invented letter-to-position mapping. The text associates the directional sequence with the Tetragrammaton, Aleph, Thau and AZOTH but does not explicitly assign an individual letter to each position; this guide does not invent such a mapping. Original and reader leaves 257–258, printed pp. 225–226; translated by A. E. Waite.

Source edition: IMJ-0026-E001. The saved journal entry includes the guide version, source checksum and the instructions used for this session. Time and difficulty are editorial estimates.

Consecrate a pentagram.

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