Yael R.

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NEW MAGICKS FOR A NEW AGE

Appendices
Volume I: A New Order of the Ages
Book 2: Routine Ritual Inclusions
Part 6: The Ritual of the Rose-Cross

Right from the beginning, serious practice of any important esoteric discipline is likely to attract
attention and interference either from parts of your own unconscious mind you’ve never really
encountered consciously before or else from entities from elsewhere on the Inner Planes. This occurs for
the same reason that cattle splashing through streams in the Amazon are likely to attract the attention of
piranhas, or men overboard in high seas on the ocean are likely to attract sharks: life feeds on life, and
where there are large outputs of energy and information, living things – spirits, prions, viruses, bacteria,
eukaryotes, whatever – sense these as signals that something good to eat may be in the vicinity of those
outputs, i.e., as dinner-bells chiming “Come and get it!” This attention from things on the Inner Planes
may take the form of a series of odd coincidences, of inexplicable events, or even in the traditional form
of “ghoulies and ghosties and things that go bump in the night.” At first this may seem fun and
stimulating. But after a time it can become a bore – or worse. One of the purposes of the Rose-Cross
Ritual, described below, is to protect the user against just such outside interference. According to Wynn
Westcott:

[I]t encloses the aura . . . like a veil. The Pentagrams protect,

but they also light up the astral and make entities aware of you . . .
When much distracted use the Ritual of the Rose Cross to
maintain peace.

This ritual can also be used for other purposes. For example, it can be used to help others who may be in
pain or difficulty; and according to one of the instructional documents of the Golden Dawn,

[I]t is a call to another mode of consciousness and withdraws

you from the physical. It is a good preparation for meditation
and . . . a form of Invocation of the Hither Wisdom which is
helpful when solving problems or preparing for a difficult
interview, or in order to be calm and strong to help another . . .
It is a protection against psychic invasion from the thoughts of
others or from disturbed psychic conditions, such as there might
be in a place charged with fear, where terrible things have happened.
 The ritual is performed as follows.

Establishment of the Sphere of Divine Protection

Light a stick of incense – an astringently scented variety of joss-stick, such as sandalwood, is best;
avoid the sickly-sweet perfumed types like the plague!
Holding the stick of incense, go to the South-East corner of your temple, and there outline with your
incense-stick a large cross and circle, like this:

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[Vertical bar much longer than horizontal bar, which it

bisects exactly; circle is centered on their intersection,
traced in a clockwise manner, starting at the right and going
down, under the horizontal bar, intersecting the vertical one,
up to intersect the horizontal bar on the left, up and around
to intersect the vertical bar above; back to starting point
on right arm of horizontal bar. The arms of the cross
extend beyond the circle. In the diagram above, vertical
ticks across the horizontal bar and horizontal ticks across
the vertical bar indicates where the circle is intersected
by the arms of the cross.]

The topmost point of the vertical bar of the cross should extend from a point slightly above the top of
your head to one a little below your solar plexus. The horizontal arm of the cross and the circle should
be made in proportion, the horizontal bar shorter than the vertical one, and both bars extending beyond
the circle.*

*This is a modification of the circled cross of Dr. Masaaki Hatsumi, Grand-Master of the Bujinkan Budo
order and school of Japanese martial traditions. His symbol is an equal-armed cross circumscribed
inside a circle. Like this cross, it symbolizes peace, wholeness, the Earth reconciled with Heaven.
Geometrically, both figures represent the place on a sphere where two great circles on its surface
intersect at right angles, such as occurs at the Earth’s equator where lines of longitude cross it, or at
Earth’s poles, where two meridians intersect at right angles to each other (e.g., 0 degrees Greenwich
and 90 degrees Greenwich East or West). In other words, they are two-dimensional representations
of a the way a point on a sphere at which two great circles on its surface cross at right angles would
appear to an onlooker. The circle in either figure represents the outline or horizon of the sphere as it
appears to someone looking directly at that intersection point on the sphere; the cross represents the
intersecting great circles on the sphere’s surface passing through that point.
By implication, this suggests the sphere itself. As will be seen, by carrying out this ritual, you
are describing six such intersection points – one above, one below, and the other four at the four
 corners of the horizons – as you would see them from inside a sphere that extended to infinity. The
sphere is the three-dimensional equivalent of the circle, which, being a perfect figure, represents
God; by enclosing oneself Magickally inside such a sphere, one is thus identifying oneself with God
and also completely enclosing oneself in God’s divine protection and peace. This ritual is designed
to set up such a sphere on the Inner Planes with the Operator at its center, and thus completely within
the compass of God’s protection, love, and security. The circled crosses serve much the same
function for this purpose as they do on a draftsman’s two-dimensional representation of a sphere:
they signify the places where meridians intersect at the sphere’s poles (the crossed circles above and
below), and where meridians intersect the sphere’s equator (the crossed circles at the South-East,
South-West, North-West, and North-East). By establishing them in your own mind via the medium
of the ritual, you thus establish the circle crosses, and the sphere whose top, bottom, and equator they
represent, on the Inner Planes with yourself at its center.

Hold the joss-stick to the center of the cross and vibrate:

YHShVH
(pronounced “Yeh-hesh-oo-ah).
With your arms outstretched on a level with the center of the cross, holding the joss-stick, go to the
South-West corner of the temple. There, make a circled cross like the previous one and repeat the word
(YHShVH) as before.
Move to the North-West corner of the temple. Make the circled cross and repeat the word, as before.
Move to the North-East corner of the temple, make the circled cross, and repeat the word, as before.
Return to the South-East corner of the temple. Imagine that you see the first circled cross in front of
you. Bring the hot-point of the joss-stick to the center of the figure’s cross.
Holding the joss-stick high, walk across the temple on the diagonal toward the North-West corner.
Pause at the center of the temple, trace the circled cross above your head with the joss-stick, and repeat
the word. Continue to the North-West point, imagining that you see the circled cross you traced there in
the air before you, and bring the hot-point of the joss-stick to its center.
Point the joss-stick downwards, retrace your path toward the South-East, pause at the center, trace
the circled cross just above the floor (as if it were on or below the floor, and you were tracing it a few
inches above where it actually was), and repeat the word. Continue on to the South-East then, retrace the
original circled cross there, touch its center with the hot-point of the joss-stick, and say the word.
Now, raising the joss-stick high above your head again, return to the center of the temple. There,
retrace the circled cross you made above your head and repeat the word. Go to the North-East, retrace
the circled cross you made there, bring the hot-point of the joss-stick to its center, and repeat the word.
Then, pointing the joss-stick downward, moving along the diagonal from North-East to South-West, go to
the center of the temple, retrace the circled cross on (just above) the floor of the temple there, and repeat
the word. Continue on to the South-West, retrace the circled cross you made there and say the word.
From the South-West, walk around the temple in a clockwise direction, pausing at the places in the
North-West and North-East where you made circled crosses to retrace those figures and repeat the word
for each one. When you reach the site of the original circled cross, at the South-East, retrace it again, but
larger than you did the first time. As you draw the lower part of the circle say the word as before, but as
you draw the upper part, say:

YHVShH
(pronounced Yeh-hev-ash-ah).
Return to the center of the temple. Face east. Visualize the six circled crosses – one directly above
you, one directly below you, the other four on a plane that passes through your chest, one at each corner
of the globe – traced out in lines of blue-white fire and arrayed around you in a protective network.
Imagine that the center of each circled cross at the corners of the heavens is connected by an arc of blue-
white fire to that of each of its immediate neighbors as well as to the centers of the ones above and
below, and that the centers the ones above and below are each connected by similar arcs to the centers of
the circled crosses on the horizontal plane. These six circled crosses and the arcs that connect them thus
describe points on the surface of a great sphere of blue-white light that completely encloses you, so that
symbolically you are identified with and completely protected by God and God’s divine love and
protection.

The Analysis of INRI

Now, extend your arms in the form of one crucified (the Sign of Osiris Slain), and say:

Yod Nun Resh Yod

(pronounced as spelled).
L. Keeping your left arm extended, stretch your right arm vertically upward, so that your arms
describe the letter “L.” Bow your head towards your left arm (the Sign of the Mourning of Isis), and say:

Virgo, Isis, Mighty Mother

V. Raise your arms above your head so that they make a V, and throw your head back (the Sign of
Apophis and Typhon). Say:

Scorpio, Apophis, Destroyer

X. Cross your arms over your breast. Bow your head (the Sign of Osiris Risen), and say:

Sol, Osiris, Slain and Risen

Gradually raise your arms, saying:

Isis, Apophis, Osiris

When your hands are fully extended upwards once more, raise your head as though looking upwards at
the Sun, and say:

I. A. O.
(pronounced “Eee-ay-ooo). Repeat the L, V, and X signs (make them with your arms as before), saying
as you do so:

L-V-X – LUX – LIGHT

Fold your hands across your breast, bow your head, and say:

The Light of the Cross

Visualize a stream of blue-white fiery light coming into existence above the crown of your head, pouring
into your body, right down to your feet, and filling your body with energy. Say:

Let the Light Descend

as long as you continue this visualization, which can be extended to as long as two or three minutes.

Conclusion and Recommendations

Thus ends this rite. Once your have committed it to memory, you can perform it in your
imagination, visualizing your self in your Body of Light walking around the room while your physical
body remains seated or even lying down in another room. If possible, try to feel yourself acting out this
ritual from the position of your Body of Light in the visualization, rather than just watching from outside.
While doing this, your physical body should maintain a fairly deep rhythmic breath cycle. The climax of
the ritual, the analysis of INRI, should be done standing (in your Body of Light) behind your physical
body, and the descent of the Light should be visualized as the Light pouring into your physical body from
above, bringing peace and a deep sleep.
If you wish to carry out the rite for the benefit of someone else in difficulty or pain, modify the
working by introducing an astral image of that person in the center of the room, backed up by a portrait
photo or painting of him or her if that helps as a visualization aid,* affirming a strong connection
between this image and the person. Call down the light as before, but direct it into the astral form of the
person. At the close of the ceremony, bid the figure to return to the person it represents, taking with it
the peace of YHShVH.
In summary, this ritual is a protection and a veiling which cleanses the place in which it is performed
without stirring up and attracting surrounding astral entities in the way the Pentagram Rituals can do. At
the same time, when combined with the analysis of INRI (which is also an integral part of the Hexagram
Ritual used in Planetary invocations), it can act as a channel for Light which can bring healing,
protection, and rest for yourself and others.

*According to esoteric theory, a photograph, painting, or drawing of a person either is or acts as a carrier
for an astral image or projection of him or her. Thus where the photo or whatever is, so, in a sense,
he or she is also, especially for Magickal purposes.