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How did this start?

Shortly after refactoring the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram into the version I've called VANSAX, I thought, "Well, I like using Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram and Lesser Ritual of the Hexagram as a pair, so maaaybe it would be nice to have an Enochian version of that as well?"

So I set to work.

What to expect from this page

I'm going to provide my notes/write-up of Lesser Ritual of the Hexagram (mostly sans commentary) so it can function as a reference as to what changes I made and why I made them. I still don't fully understand Lesser Ritual of the Hexagram, in spite of all the time I've spent analyzing it. It's a beautiful ritual with a lot going on beneath the surface.

Disclaimer

While I provide a more in-depth disclaimer here, I'll say it again here: it's entirely probable that you know more about this material than I do—especially when it pertains to Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn material, and even more especially when that material is viewed in the light of the New Aeon as per Aleister Crowley and A∴A∴ or Ordo Templi Orientis. Therefore, if you disagree with this approach, find flaw in it, if it doesn't resonate with you, or for any other reason you're not about it, that's fine—think of it less as a prescription of "Good Practice" and more as an exploration of how things could be otherwise.

Lesser Ritual of the Hexagram

Keyword Analysis

  1. Face East.
  2. Place your left arm at your side, and hold your right hand in front of your heart with your tool or fingers pointed upwards.
  3. Intone: "INRI."
  4. Intone: "Yod. Nun. Resh. Yod." As you do so, trace each Hebrew letter from right to left with your right hand. The letters are as follows. ינרי
  5. Place your right hand back in front of your heart.
  6. Say: "Virgo, Isis, Mighty Mother." Trace the sign of Virgo.
  7. Say: "Scorpio, Apophis, Destroyer." Trace the sign for Scorpio.
  8. Say: "Sol, Osiris, Slain and Risen." Trace the sign for the Sun. Start at the top of the circle, and go clockwise. Once back at the top, penetrate the middle.
  9. "Isis. Apophis. Osiris. IAO." As you say each name, trace the appropriate zodiac sign. Keep your hand or the tool you’re holding in the middle of the sign for the Sun as you intone the name "IAO."
  10. Make the Sign of Osiris Slain (opens in a new tab). Say: "[The Sign of] Osiris Slain."
  11. Make the Sign of Isis in Mourning (opens in a new tab). Say: "[The Sign of] Isis in Mourning."
  12. Make the Sign of Apophis and Typhon (opens in a new tab). Say: "[The Sign of] Apophis and Typhon."
  13. Make the Sign of Osiris Risen (opens in a new tab). Say: "The Sign of Osiris Risen."
  14. Make the Sign of Osiris Slain (opens in a new tab) again. "L.V.X. Lux. The light of the cross." As you say, "The light of the cross," bring your arms back into the Sign of Osiris Risen (opens in a new tab).

The Hexagrams 1

  1. With either your hand or tool, trace the Fire hexagram in front of you, either the invoking or banishing depending on what you're doing. Visualize it. As you draw the hexagram, say the notariqon: "ARARITA". Alternatively, you can say what it stands for, "Achad Rosh Achdotho Rosh Ichudo Temurato Achad."
  2. Turn to the South. Trace the appropriate Earth hexagram in the same manner as you did (15). Use the same phrase as in (15).
  3. Turn to the West. Trace the appropriate Air hexagram in the same manner as you did (15). Use the same phrase as in (15).
  4. Turn to the North. Trace the appropriate Water hexagram in the same manner as you did (15). Use the same phrase as in (15).
  5. Turn to face East.

From there, perform the keyword analysis again. Perform steps (2) - (14) again.

Closing

This is purely an artifact of my own practice. For workings, I often perform Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram followed by Lesser Ritual of the Hexagram. What follows is something I do to cement the connection between my Will, the microcosm, and the macrocosm.

  1. Gesture above you, similar to the Sign of Air. Say: "As above."
  2. Gesture beneath you, as though the Sign of Air upsidedown. Say: "So below."
  3. Gesture towards yourself with both hands. Say: "As within."
  4. Gesture in front of you with both hands. Say: "So without."
  5. With both hands, make an infinity symbol going clockwise around the circle to the right. While making the symbol, say, "As the universe."
  6. Pause with both hands in the center of the infinity symbol. Say: "So the soul."
  7. Gesture towards yourself again. "As is my Will."
  8. Gesture in front of you, spreading outwards from a center point. "So it was, is, and shall be."
  9. Give the Sign of Silence.

Considerations in the Adaptation

I immediately recognized that Enochian-izing Lesser Ritaul of the Hexagram was going to be an extremely challenging endeavor because of its Egyptian-leanings. One would think, with all of the angel names present in the Angelic lexicon, one could substitute angels for the Egyptian deities. But the Egyptian deities are so meaning-rich whereas the angels are incredibly vague (e.g., "servient angel of fire of earth" or whatever), and going that route would feel like a shallow and hollow replacement.

Furthermore, double-meanings permeate the Hexagram ritual in the form of metaphors, notariqon, and initialisms. For anyone who has attempted to translate one language to another, puns, initialisms, and linguistic play generally do not transfer well.

The Keyword and its iterations

At the beginning of the Hexagram ritual, there is a double-entendre with the keyword: I.N.R.I. This can represent both "Iesus, King of the Jews," but also "Igne Natura Renovatur Integra", which means: through fire, nature is reborn. Additionally, stating the Hebrew letters "Yod Nun Resh Yod" afterwards probably also has a depth of meaning, one which I don't fully understand (Hebrew is not my strong suit).

There is no word for "Jesus" in the Angelic language nor for "reborn", so taking a literal approach is off the table. Therefore, I decided to examine the sentiment of I.N.R.I., and, with my very best understanding, create a notariqon in the Angelic language that communicates that concept.

One thing working in my favor (arguably) is that Angelic letters have conceptual correspondences, at least per one source. These correspondences are things like, "The Root of Negation," which is encapsulated by the letter "Ged" (which stands for the English hard and soft "G").

The first Angelic notariqon I invented was: "LOKGH—UR MED VEH GED NA-HATH: L OIAD CHRISTEOS GE HOXMARCH." The root concepts communicated by the letters are: "Primacy/First—Being/Existence—Manifestation/Making—Negation—Life/Breath," which I took to mean, "The first being made not life." The translation of the phrase that followed is: "The first [of] God let there be not fear."

Personally, I think that is kind of neat, a bit eerie (afterall, the idea of the thing that brings about death also meaning the first created by God are to not be afraid, is kind of spooky), and I liked it well enough to have it in my first draft. But it didn't hit the mark as to what was being communicated by I.N.R.I.

The next I experimented with was: "NA-HATH ORTH GED NA-HATH UN NA-HATH," which signifies, "Life—manifests—not—life—[then] begins—life." I liked this a lot because it was a lot closer to what is going on with I.N.R.I.: life destroys, but life begins out of death. There was no phrase I could come up with using the Angelic lexicon that was satisfactory, so even though I liked the idea behind it, I ultimately went in search of a replacement.

The one I'm currently using is this: "NA-HATH TAL DRUN UN: HANDA MALPRG NOTHOA AMGEDPHA," which signifies, "Life—knows—in itself—the beginning," and translates to, "The seed of God, through-thrusting fire, in the midst [of], I begin anew," or, to phrase it a less literally in English: "[As] the seed of God, in the midst of a through-thrusting fire, I begin anew." What I like about it is the shift from the life-death-rebirth cycle occurring outside of the self to something the practitioner explicitly undergoes.

Isis, Apophis, Osiris: IAO—what do?

As stated before, there are absolutely no Egyptian gods or goddesses referenced in the Angelic lexicon. Also, try as though I did, constructing IAO as another initialism was frustrating, and ultimately I didn't get anywhere.

While I didn't arrive at anything nearly as multilayered as I did in the keyword, I took a similar approach: focus on the concepts rather than finding one-to-one analogs for Isis, Apophis, and Osiris.

In the keyword analysis segment of the Hexagram ritual, the schematic is more or less, "First, I will name 'the thing'. Then, I will say 'the thing'. Lastly, I will show 'the thing'." It sounds redundant, but it spirals in on itself and builds and culminates in the hexagram segment.

At any rate, so my way of saying, "Virgo, Isis, Mighty Mother; Scorpio, Apophis, Destroyer; Sol, Osiris, Slain and Risen. Isis Apophis Osiris: IAO," was this: "EXENTASER. VOVINA GALSE ZOMD. ADIN TORZUL. OL OM CICLE: TEMPA." This translates to, "Mother of All; The dragon in the midst of the night sky; The sun of God from the divine shall rise. I understand the mysteries: the exception of death is life."

Eh. Close enough, I guess (I hope).

Instead of Doing and Naming the Signs of LVX

The LVX section of the original Hexagram ritual does have one thing that I can never decide what to do with: do I say the signs' names as I perform them or not? If so, do I also say, "The Sign of [Insert Sign-name Here]"? To me, it's a little like being a magician acting like a Pokémon; it would be like every time you punch and kick during a fight saying, "Punch! Side-kick! Elbow! Uppercut! Grapple!"

So I took this as an opportunity to do something a little different.

Rather than simply showing the formula of LVX, I decided to narrate the formula of LVX as I showed it. It amounts to this (imagine one sign per sentence): "IABES IP APILA. OHIO NOTHOA. TELOAH: OVCHOA TOL. IABES TORZUL; IABES I OIAD." Translation: "The supreme life not liveth. In the midst of mourning. Death: let it confound all. The supreme life is of God."

Rather than reiterating what is found in the first part of the analysis of the keyword, my version expounds upon what was stated (although not as clearly as the original) before.

I further draw attention to the relationship between nature-death-rebirth through the single Angelic word, "DANPHA." This translates as, "The three are one." This idea of a unity encapsulating the different concepts is suggested in IAO of the original.

Lastly, rather than saying, "LVX, Lux, the Light of the Cross," I say, "ZIRDO CASGO OD ZIR OIAD," which means, "I am of the earth and I am of God." While it is a faulty syllogism technically, I intended to infer that I am the supreme life referenced earlier—or at least share in their nature.

The Hexagrams' Notariqon, but no longer a notariqon

The original notariqon is interesting because ARARITA has standing outside of Lesser Ritual of the Hexagram. As a word, in itself, it is sacred. Sure, the Hebrew it stands for is also meaningful, but the word alone carries power.

That all said, I have a hard time saying ARARITA in a way that sounds beauty and communicates the grandeur of the concept it captures. So, for my own practice, I took the time to learn the Hebrew, אחד ראש אחדותו ראש יחודו תמורתו אחד, which translates as: "One is His Beginning; One is His Individuality, His Permutation is One."

With the Angelic language, there are no established notariqon to my knowledge, so I am not able to lean on words of power that are manufactured from other words—outside of, you know, sentences.

So rather than trying to build another notariqon or initialism like I did with the keyword at the beginning, I settled for trying to approximate a translation. What I arrived at was, "L I A-CROODZI; L I IOIAD; IADOIASMOMAR I FAXMAL." Essentially: "One is thy beginning; One is him that lives forever; Him that was, is, and shall be crowned is one with the infinite." Unfortunately, the lexicon does not really give any clear indication on how to say, "his beginning," but oh well. We do what we can with what we have.

The Artifact of my Practice, but revised

To capture the ideas of "As above so below, as within so without, as the universe so the soul, as is my Will so it was is and shall be," I lifted a phrase from Scott Michael Stenwick and built outwards from there: "TA CALZ I OROCHA, ZIR TOFGLO NOTHOA, MANIN OIAD I MANO, OL ASCLEH I ZI ROP CHISO TOFGLO ZOMD." The literal translation: "As above the firmaments is underneath you, I am in the midst of all things, the mind of God is the soul of humanity, my Divine Will is, was, and shall be in the midst of all things."

An interesting note about the word ZIR: it seems, based on the definitions I've read, indicates one's presence almost as much as oneself, so it could be taken to mean, less literally, "My presence is in the midst of all things."

Either way, I'm okay with it.

OL OM CICLE

Here is my version in full.

Angelic Keyword Analysis

  1. Clasp hands together and intone the following angelic letters: NA-HATH TAL DRUN UN (letters signify: "life—knows—in itself—the beginning"), HANDA MALPRG NOTHOA AMGEDPHA (The seed of God, through-thrusting fire, in the midst [of], I begin anew)
  2. Draw the zodiacal sign of Virgo and intone: EXENTASER (Mother of All)
  3. Draw the zodiacal sign of Scorpio and intone: VOVINA GALSE ZOMD (The dragon, the night sky, in the midst [of])
  4. Draw the alchemical sign of Sol and intone: ADIN TORZUL (The sun of God from the divine shall rise)
  5. Clasp hands together once more and intone the following: OL OM CICLE: TEMPA (I understand the mysteries: the exception of death is life)
  6. Make the Sign of Osiris Slain and intoneIABES IP APILA (The supreme life not liveth)
  7. Make the Sign of Isis in Mourning: OHIO NOTHOA (Mourning, in the midst [of])
  8. Make the Sign of Apophis and Typhon: TELOAH: OVCHOA TOL (Death: let it confound all)
  9. Make the Sign of Osiris Risen: IABES TORZUL; IABES I OIAD (The supreme life shall rise, the supreme life is of God)
  10. While maintaining the Sign of Osiris Risen: DANPHA (the three are one)
  11. Make the sign of Osiris slain: ZIRDO CAOSGO (I am of the earth)
  12. While transitioning the Sign of Osiris Risen: OD (and)
  13. Make the Sign of Osiris Risen: ZIR OIAD (I am of God)

The Hexagrams

  1. Facing East, draw the Fire hexagram and intone: "L I A-CROODZI; L I IOIAD; IADOIASMOMAR I FAXMAL." (One is thy beginning; One is him that lives forever; Him that was, is, and shall be crowned is one with the infinite.)
  2. Turn clockwise until facing South, draw the Earth hexagram and intone the same as (14).
  3. Turn clockwise until facing West, draw the Air hexagram and intone the same as (14).
  4. Turn clockwise until facing North, draw the Water hexagram and intone the same as (14).

Perform (1) through (13) again.

The Arbitrary Addition

  1. Gesture above you, similar to the Sign of Air. Say: "TA CALZ." (As above the firmaments)
  2. Gesture beneath you, as though the Sign of Air upsidedown. Say: "I OROCHA." (is underneath you)
  3. Gesture towards yourself with both hands. Say: "ZIR." (I am)
  4. Gesture in front of you with both hands. Say: "TOFGLO NOTHOA." (in the midst of all things)
  5. With both hands, make an infinity symbol going clockwise around the circle to the right. While making the symbol, say, "MANIN OIAD." (The mind of God)
  6. Pause with both hands in the center of the infinity symbol. Say: "I MANO." (is the soul of humanity)
  7. Gesture towards yourself again. "OL ASCLEH." (My divine will)
  8. Gesture in front of you, spreading outwards from a center point. "I ZI ROP CHISO TOFGLO ZOMD." (is, was, and shall be in the midst of all things.)
  9. Give the Sign of Silence.

Footnotes

  1. Check here (opens in a new tab) for another reference to how this is performed as well as images of the Hexagrams. ↩