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Comselha:
An Enochian Macrocosmic Ritual
By
Benjamin Rowe
Copyright 1993
Comselha: An Enochian Macrocosmic Ritual
The purpose of this working is to invoke the transcendental power of the
Enochian god, IAD BALT, to transform it in turn through all the macrocosmic
powers within the Elemental Tablets, and to organize them into a balanced form.
At the same time, these powers are conditioned so that they express a particular
view of the creation of which they are a part. As the final step, these energies are
directed so that they energize the magician himself.
The magickal records covering the results of the first use of this exercise
are available separately.
I have received several complaints about my published rituals recently.
Some complain that they are too elaborate, others that they are too simple, and
some question whether they really qualify as magickal rituals in the traditional
sense.
The complaints of over-elaborateness stem from the fact that it is
impossible to perform any significant part of the works in a single session. This
is perfectly correct, and is done deliberately. My experience has been that the
rewards given to the magician by the “angels” of the Enochian system are very
precisely gauged to the amount of care and effort the magician puts into the
work. Works that are planned, rehearsed, and carried out over a period of weeks
or months are much more likely to produce significant initiations than any
number of single-session efforts. The present work was designed to be
performed in stages, with the expectation that each stage will be performed until
the powers invoked achieve a self-sustaining presence in the magician’s temple
before he passes on to the next stage. It can be expected that the rewards will be
commensurate with the effort involved.
Complaints of excessive simplicity derive from lack of the pompous
verbiage typically found in formal rituals, and the dearth of advice concerning
symbols, implements, and materiel that would help to fire the imagination of the
magician. There is a decidedly bare-bones feel to the descriptions. This is
perhaps an expression of my own character as a magician; I find that complex
pomp and ceremony put me off rather than enhancing the work. I have complete
faith that every magician’s imagination and intuition will provide him with
enhancements appropriate to his or her own character and style, and so see no
need to provide more than the minimum schema necessary to accomplish the
work successfully.
The differences between these rituals and more traditional forms derives
from the nature of Enochian magick. In most systems, the primary difficulty is in
producing a flow of the desired power. The major portions of the rituals are
dedicated to simply getting the power to appear. Once it does appear, its
direction to the desired end is a relatively simple matter.
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In contrast, the Angelic Calls and Names provide a means by which even
a beginning magician can easily call up a strong flow of force. But the forces
involved are much more ambiguous than in other systems. Each appears to have
many different natures depending on the level and orientation from which they
are viewed; their manifestations seem to be potentially infinite. The primary
work of a ritual must accordingly be to focus, direct, and condition them,
through the use of the imagination, so that they manifest in a clear and
manageable way. This work conforms to that necessity.
Additionally, the specific form used makes this work something
resembling an inverse path-working exercise, going top-down rather than
bottom-upwards. And as Frater Azoth has pointed out, there are resemblances to
the mandala-workings and chakra-visualizations used in Tibetan Buddhism.
They are certainly very similar in intent, though the similarity of form was
unintentional.
The Place of Working
The work may be done in either a physical or an astral workplace. The
magician may find astral working preferable due to the size of the magickal
circle, and also because the area can not be used for any other purpose while this
work is proceeding.
The magickal circle is actually four concentric circles having specific
relative proportions. The "units" referred to may be of any convenient size,
provided that the innermost circle is large enough to stand or sit in comfortably.
The inner circle has a radius of four units. The next circle has a radius of
eleven units, and thus produces a band 7 units thick around the inner circle. The
third circle has a radius of 12 units, making a band one unit thick around the
second circle. The outer circle has a radius of 13 units, making another band one
unit thick.
All four circles are divided into quarters by lines going from the center to
the circumference in the cardinal directions. Each quarter of the second circle is
further divided into six pie-sections fifteen degrees wide. Each quarter of the
outer circle is divided into three pie-sections thirty degrees wide.
The innermost circle should be colored some dark neutral color, such as a
dark gray. The two outermost circles in each quarter should be colored in the
King-scale elemental color of the corresponding element, thus:
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Quarter
Element
Color
Northwest
Air
Bright pale yellow
Northeast
Water
Deep blue
Southeast
Fire
Glowing orange-scarlet
Southwest
Earth
Warm velvet black
The second circle should be in some light neutral color, such as a slightly
grayish white. Alternately, each sector of this circle could be outlined in the
elemental color of the quarter with a fill in one of the planetary colors, following
one of the schemes described further on. But this alternative may be too
burdensome for an astral working.
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Comselha: An Enochian Macrocosmic Ritual
Symbolism of the Circle
The structure of this magickal circle mirrors the medieval concept of the
heavens. In that cosmology, the planetary and heavenly realms are viewed as a
series of concentric circles surrounding the Earth, each circle going outwards
representing an increasingly more "divine" power. The planets each take a circle
in their cabalistic order. The sphere of the zodiac is outermost, representing an
outer "shell" around creation; beyond it is the Empyrean, the unknown, invisible
realm of God.
The scheme has been slightly modified here to fit the actual natures of the
Enochian powers involved. It is recommended that the magician make a
diagram of the circle and completely familiarize himself with the meaning of the
various parts before beginning work. If this is done, the actual work becomes a
much simpler prospect.
Our goal in this work is to take the invisible power of the divine, bring it
into the realm of creation, and then bring it downward through a series of
transformations to energize and consecrate the Earth and ourselves. Thus we
will be working from the outer circles towards the center.
Functionally, the three Names of God in each Tablet act to gather the
invisible power of the divine and transform it so that it is accessible to the lower
powers of their Tablet. As such they act as the interface between the Empyrean
and the realm of creation, in a way similar to that of the zodiac. The outermost
band of our magickal circle will embody this principle.
Each of the twelve Names of God will have dual attributes. The first,
which we will call the "outer" attribute, represents the energy the Name takes in
from the divine, as symbolized by one of the zodiac signs. The second "inner"
attribute represents the energy as it has been transformed by the Name into a
form compatible with its Tablet. This latter attribute also uses the zodiac signs,
but after another fashion.
The cross that divides the circle into quarters represents the solstices and
equinoxes, and at the same time the "Black Cross" that binds the four Elemental
Tablets together into the Great Table. The western arm of the cross is the spring
equinox and the eastern arm the autumnal equinox. The northern arm is the
winter solstice, and the southern arm the summer solstice. The three Names of
god are assigned to their quarter's three sectors of the circle's outer band in
clockwise order. The relevant attributes of these names are as shown in the
following table.
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