Circulating the Light

Magical Golden Dawn

CIRCULATING THE LIGHT

In our opinion there are three indispensable necessities for any ritual and innumerable options. Your intention is the single most important part of any ritual. The purpose of any ritual is to accomplish your purpose whether it be for good or ill, you or another. If you don't have your purpose firmly in mind, the Universe will accept your poorly-defined and unvoiced intention at its face value and that's what you'll receive. No more. No less. We do receive what we ask for.

Secondly, your Beliefs are the second most important part of any ritual. You cannot and will not receive anything you don't believe you will receive. If you don't believe, you won't receive. It's as simple as that. But what you really believe may be buried deep within your subconscious mind. That belief may be that you're not worthy to receive. That belief needs to change before you experience any success with ritual.

Thirdly, your Attitude is most important. Arrogance won't cut it. Demanding the Universe comply with your wishes will fail far more often than it succeeds. But you do need to have an attitude of worthiness and you do need to assert your beliefs. This is sometimes a difficult thing to accomplish for individuals not following a spiritual path. Those following a spiritual path do develop an attitude of humility and a deep conviction of their worthiness to receive the bounty of the Universe.

We'll discuss options as we discuss how to perform rituals. You can choose any name of Deity you want to use and you can perform your own rituals in any way you decide. You can use the magical tools of your choice or you can use yourself, your hands and feet, to accomplish the same things. Look at the suggested rituals in this way: If you don't like some part of the ritual, change it to suit yourself.

The first ritual we'll practice is called "Circulating the Light." Start by standing in an open space or the center of a room facing East, North, South or West. Say a prayer to Deity asking for your ritual to place you within a Sphere of Protection. Imagine a line going through your body from head to feet and extending upwards and downwards to infinity. Imagine a second line going from your heart both forward and backward to infinity. Imagine a third line going through your heart to the left and the right to infinity. You now stand in the middle of three lines going through your heart to infinity in six directions: Above, Below, North, South, East and West.

After a few seconds, raise your right hand with your index finger extended, and point forward with your arm extended at the height of your heart. You are now pointing straight ahead along your heart line to infinity. Imagine a white light coming out of your index finger. Slowly turn to your right stopping momentarily at each of the four directions so as to return to your beginning position. Hold this for a few moments and slowly drop your hand down to its normal position.

You've just traced the symbol of a circle of white light in the space surrounding you. The Circle is a symbol of the Spirit Element so you've just placed yourself in the center of a symbol for Spirit. Now imagine this circle as a sort of hula-hoop of white light encircling you at chest level. Envision it spinning around you counter-clockwise (or clockwise as it really doesn't seem to make any difference) faster and faster. The center of this circle is a point inside your heart and that point is part of a vertical line that runs through your heart to infinity above and infinity below. This line is the axis around which your circle of light rotates. This is the first circulation.

The second circulation is accomplished by visualizing, or imagining if you have trouble visualizing, the circle (large "hula-hoop") in front of you rising up until it's above your head. At the same time, the circle behind you is is moving downward until it's beneath your feet. Then imagine the circle spinning faster and faster as it rotates around you from front to above and back to below. You may also rotate this circle the other way by letting it rise behind you and move down beneath your feet from in front of you. Think of this circulation of light as a tumbling action similar to a forward roll. The light is tumbling around you as if it were doing a forward tumbling roll.

The third circulation is accomplished by visualizing, or imagining, the circle of white light rising on your right and lowering on your left and then spinning around you from right to above to left to below faster and faster. You may also rotate this circle from right to below to left to above and back to the right. Think of this circulation of light as being similar to a cartwheel. The light is cart-wheeling around you like it's starting a cartwheel with its left hand going down first.

You now have a sphere of spinning white light surrounding you. This light is spinning in three different directions along the three main axes through your body and centered at your heart: Above-Below, East-West, and North-South. Your heart is at the center of this spinning sphere. Actually you have three spheres spinning in different directions, but it only makes one sphere of three-way spinning light.

You've just completed your first ritual which is called "Circulating the Light." By doing so, you've created a Sphere of Protection around yourself in the form of a "Ring-Pass-Not" which defines the ends of the Universe in all directions. You're created a living example of the sphere without a circumference whose center is everywhere.

The Ring-Pass-Not is the boundary which separates the creation from the Creator, which separates us from the Abyss. The circle or sphere without circumference whose center is everywhere is a mathematical description of Deity. Consequently it's also a description of who and what we really are in our own Spirit.

The electrons spinning around the nucleus of an atom also creates a Ring-Pass-Not which is a boundary that separates one atom from another. Thus millions and millions of atoms can come together to form our physical body but each atom is protected by a Sphere of Protection created by moving electrons. The only difference is that your personal Sphere of Protection is created by a sphere of moving white light.

The sphere of spinning white light surrounding you is a Ring-Pass-Not spiritually protecting you from all negativity if that is your intention and belief, and the ritual is performed with an expectant and grateful attitude. If your intention is to protect you from all good things, that too will happen. If you believe you're not entitled to the loving grace of Deity, then the spinning sphere of white light won't protect you.If you believe you're entitled to the loving grace of Deity, then the spinning sphere of white light will protect you. As you believe, so it is.

Intention, Belief and Attitude are everything in ritual. We recommend placing yourself in a sphere of spinning white light every morning and ask Deity to protect you and help you travel your chosen spiritual path. Continue practicing until you feel comfortable doing this ritual. The next ritual for you to learn is the Elemental Cross

Make no mistake about it, Circulating the Light is a very powerful Sphere of Protection and can be used for protection against disincarnate beings. It can also be just one step in creating an even more powerful Sphere of Protection. To that end, the next step is to learn about the Elemental Cross.

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