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Wednesday, 9-6-06, 7:46pm (Date/Time chosen after social concerns-
job/domestic- and negative astrological conditions ruled out all
Sundays in September and all but this time on Wednesday. Sadly,
this had to be done as the Sun was setting- however it was an Hour
of Sol.)
The purpose of the evocation was to call upon Michael as the
warrior and exorcist, to ask him how to break chronic mundane
issues that have been troubling us, drive away nuisance spirits,
etc. This is actually the beginning of an extended series of
evocations for this purpose. (This was also the very first time we
have summoned Michael to our new home.)
In this first session, we wanted to focus particularly upon our
house cats- who have been plagued with sickness since we moved
into our new house just a few months ago. (All different issues,
unrelated to each other. One, a kitten, got bronchitis and pulled
through, only to get a bad fever a few weeks later. He pulled
through that as well. We then discovered that two cats- a brother
and sister- had genetic problems, and we lost one of them. Now
another cat is very ill, and the vet says that she is not making
new red blood cells. Though it seems against the odds, this cat
really seems to be recovering - but we won't know for sure until
another week or so has passed.) Our intent in calling Michael
(rather than the Healer Raphael) was not so much to heal the cat
who is currently sick, as to drive away the evil forces that
appear to be attacking all of our pets.
As an interesting note: during the days leading up to this
evocation, we have had several instances of odd buzzing, growling
and large shadowy shapes moving around the house. The day before
the evocation itself, we lost power to the house - and the problem
can not be fixed until tomorrow. (That's three days with no
power!) The evocation itself was almost de-railed because of this,
but we perservered and went through with it anyway. All in all, we
got the distinct impression that something around us did NOT want
this summoning of Michael to take place.
Preparations involved a seven-day vegetarian fast. I did not
recite invocations to Michael on these days like I should have
(which I will remedy next time). However, we did spend these seven
days preparing all things for the ceremony. We created a Talisman
of Michael, obtained a yellow 7-day candle, prepared solar incense
(frank., copal, benzoin), prepared a solar offering (dates,
raisins, a lemon, an orange and hot yellow peppers), wrote the
necessary invocations, etc.
Finally, we observed a complete fast for the 12 hours before the
ceremony. I performed all necessary consecrations at about 2:30
that afternoon- the day and hour of Mercury. My wife painted the
Talisman at this same time- with consecrated instruments, paints
and ink.
Temple set-up was standard for us: Two altars- one in the east and
one in the center of the room. The eastern Altar is white, and
represents our Temple's Holy of Holies. The central altar could
have been covered in yellow for the Sun, but we stuck with white
for that as well. Present for this Rite were myself (the master of
ceremony), my wife (our skryer) and two observers. (These two were
invited to take part in the skrying, but chose instead to remain
silent for this, their first time with us in a full Solomonic
evocation.)
Procedure began with the shortened version of the Solomonic bath.
I went first, so that I could open the Holy of Holies while the
others took their turns in the bath. I performed the standard
Abramelin prayers and invoked my Guardian Angel. After all were
present in the Temple, I opened with a recitation of three lines
from the Book of Loagaeth - which lines Edward Kelley referred to
as "A Preface to the Creation of Angels" and two "Invitations to
Good Angels." I followed these with Angelical Keys One and Two-
which serve to summon the "Kings and Ministers of Government" (the
Seven Archangels).
Afterward, I recited Solomonic-style invocations to the Most High
to send Michael, and then to Michael to appear as the
warrior/protector.
Finally, according to instructions in Dee's journals, I began
recitation of the 7 Penitential Psalms until my skryer reported
Michael had arrived.
The result was good, considering this was the first of a series of
evocations. However it didn't go exactly as I had planned. Where I
had wanted to lead Michael toward Santerian-style magickal advice
(such as: "To break this curse, make X offering to Y God or Angel
at Z time and place, etc."), Michael just wouldn't be led that
way. He insisted we have the knowledge to rid ourselves of the
offending spirits, but we must pray to the Highest God with a
joyous heart, etc. (He was fairly vague - but we'll see what comes
of later evocations.) I then began to ask him about our cats - but
he cut me off and told us to bring our currently-sick cat to him.
He said he could make no promises, but he would aid her. (We'll
see what comes of this in about a week.) After he put the cat
down, he swiftly departed.
We offered thanks and told him we would leave the solar-food
offering either on the Altar in the Temple, or on his own Altar
(which is near our front door). We will likely do that sometime
tomorrow after our power problem is repaired. (Hard to work with
food in the dark!)
There is no clear conclusion to this one - though we didn't really
expect one. We've initiated a new process, and the lesser spirits
of the house (who worked so hard to stop us from calling Michael)
now see that we mean serious business. We expect Michael's mere
presence in the house to have a positive effect.
LVX
Aaron
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