Path: typhoon.sonic.net!vnetnews.value.net!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.gblx.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!dca1-hub1.news.digex.net!intermedia!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!nntp2.onemain.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Tom Schuler" Newsgroups: alt.magick References: <8qddt4$4ti$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Subject: Re: Question on L.P.R. Lines: 19 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:11:48 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.26.4.44 X-Complaints-To: abuse@onemain.com X-Trace: nntp2.onemain.com 969570603 216.26.4.44 (Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:10:03 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:10:03 EDT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:210915 wrote in message news:8qddt4$4ti$1@nnrp1.deja.com... > In the Lesser Pentagram Ritual, the copy found in the Magick > of Thelema by Duquette, I am invoking the Angels but I am not > sending them away at the end. Why? I have never encountered > any ritual that I have not done so. There are all sorts of rituals in which what is called is not sent away again. In rituals that do send the called entities away, it is to keep the unbalanced aspect called forth from remaining at play in one's other affairs, where it may not be appropriate. The archangels of the four quarters do not represent imbalance. They are quite the opposite. They represent equilibrium.