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That's what I figured you meant anyway. I agree. Snuffin's usage is horrible. But beyond that it is redundant. It's already been done, and done better elsewhere. Why did he try to reinvent the wheel? I just don't get it.brightcrazystar said:When I said using the LBRP with elemental pentagrams is horrid, I meant simply putting them in this ONE ritual, and yes, it is horrid.
His justifications regarding the New Aeon versus the Old Aeon make no sense to me either. I'm always baffled when people say the traditional LBRP is old Aeon.
The only things that might be considered blinds in Crowley's Liber O version of the LBR is his recommendation to pronounce IHVH as Ye-ho-wau, and the notariqon A.G.L.A. as Agla. But over the years I've seen people doing lots of different pronunciations. It doesn't bother me anymore if someone does it in a way that I might not. But I am aware that some people get a little hot under the collar on this issue.brightcrazystar said:But "snuffin" is speaking of "Blinds" - that is a word of some import, for it indicates that the author deliberately misleads the casual reader, with a misinformation or lack of information that actually makes the ritual inert or less potent.
I'm a little lost here though. As far as I know there was no Greater Ritual in the original Golden Dawn. There was the Lesser and the Supreme, and that's it.brightcrazystar said:Furthermore, there are other formulas to employ for these three Rituals. The Lesser Ritual, Greater Ritual, and Supreme Rituals as THE three rituals revealed in the analysis of the Key Word; the Pentagram and the Hexagram are two of the principle tools of analysis; lenses by which to focus it if you will. The Cross is another obvious one.
For some reason the name got changed to the Greater Ritual when Crowley published it in Liber O. Maybe Crowley (or Fuller) liked it better. After all Crowley did write the "True Greater Ritual of the Pentagram" in 1906.
Are you speaking of P.F.Case's redaction of the Golden Dawn material? I know that he developed a ritual called the Greater that was meant to sit between the Lesser and the Supreme.