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This is the original Golden Dawn Version.

The Qabalistic cross and Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram (invoking)

Take a steel dagger in the right hand. Face East.
Touch your forehead and say ATEH (thou art)
Touch your breast and say MALKUTH (the Kingdom)
Touch your right shoulder and say VE-GEBURAH (and the power)
Touch thy left shoulder and say VE-GEDULA (and the Glory)
Clasp thy hands before thee and say LE-OLAM (for ever)
Dagger between fingers, point upward and say AMEN.

Make in the air toward the east the invoking PENTAGRAM as shown, and, bringing the point of the dagger to the center of the pentagram, vibrate YOD HEH VAU HEH, imagining that your voice carried toward the East of the Universe.

Holding the dagger out, move to the South, make the pentagram, and vibrate ADONAI.
Move to the West, make the pentagram, and vibrate EHEHIEH.
Move to the North, make the pentagram and vibrate AGLA.
Return to the East and complete your circle by bringing the dagger point to the center of the first pentagram.

Stand with arms in the form of a cross and say:

Before me Raphael
Behind me Gabriel
At my right hand Michael
At my left hand Auriel

Before me flames the pentagram- behind me shines the six-rayed star!

Note: For banishing, reverse the direction of the pentagrams. In Golden Dawn practice, aspirants performed an invoking ritual in the morning, and banishing in the evenings.

Related resources:

• Grimoires
• Texts and essays on Magick
• Correspondence tables