How to build a powerful magic circle
In Magical traditions across the world, special attention is paid to the four cardinal directions. This is a cross cultural constant, wherein not infrequently are also associated certain entities.
These are awakened through a series of magical names of power directing consciousness from one step to another, thus establishing a relationship between all of them.
These powerful magical names should provide an equally strong link throughout the stages of inner manifestation.
These sacred names and attributes of the rulers of the quarters can be quite different depending on the culture or the mystery system. One of the most effective, with a track record spanning a century and a half, is the magical system of the Golden Dawn.
Our Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram leaves little doubt that the most practical concepts for any Western Magician are those of the four Archangels; Rafael, Mikael, Gabriel, and Auriel.
These are very well established by time and tradition, and have the proper characteristics entirely in keeping with our culture and ethnological lifestyle.
As far as Initiates are concerned, each Archangel corresponds to specific energies that correspond with certain desired manifestations.
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The Archangels have major roles to play and fulfill specific functions in the construction and expansion of the universe.
Each one is a major heading as it were, under which all other allied aspects of awareness and properties and actions may be grouped into.
As familiar figures as these four Archangels are to many people, it may be useful to remind people of their idiosyncrasies again right now.
Rafael
Rafael is the healer of God and he typifies the useful enthusiasm and proactive discipline we need in order to make necessary spiritual progress.
He is the rising of the inner light in humankind, and heals the damage and the pains and injuries that we encounter in circumstances in life and in our eagerness to follow where he ultimately leads us.
It is important to note that when we use the term he orshe in the spiritual sense we are talking about energy.
In the physical sense, there are positive, negative and neutral. In the spiritual sense gender is only a reference to energy.
Rafael personifies a natural curiosity and desire to gain knowledge in general about all things.
To a certain extent he is like Hermes as a leader of souls and instructor of the mind.
The major symbol attributed to Rafael is the caduceus wand in the Golden Dawn system.
Michaell
Michael the God-like stands in full midday splendor, a familiar figure in warrior type armor. He is commonly pictured with a spear or a sword stepping on a conquered Demon or evil monster.
Michael depicts the power of light over darkness and is known as the right hand of God. This is his natural position in the universe and its order. He is the right-hand angel who tells us what we should be doing, while his colleague on our left, Auriel warms us what not to do.
Michael appointed himself as the mediator of mankind before the throne of God. He promised to stand by even in the worst of times for the worst of mortals as long as he could detect the slightest good in them. Michael is therefore the champion of the universe over chaos, and we can definitely consider him a solar angel.
It is Michael who cures human diseases arising from unbalance and disorder of natural forces. He typifies our inherent longing be right in every way. If we ever achieve any degree of such an objective it would only come through his help. Michael's key symbol is the sword or the spear.
Gabriel
Gabriel is known as the potency of God. Gabriel is the fertility figure who triumphs over death through potency and the strength of love. Gabriel personifies compassion and feeling, tenderness and strength combined.
Gabriel's key symbol is the cup with all its significance. Gabriel is visualized usually with chestnut hair, amber eyes, and a friendly and sympathetic voice, together with a completely congenial disposition.
Wearing blue robes with orange accents, Gabriel typifies the great need of loving and being loved, the desire of conviviality and also the deepest necessity for true spiritual sustenance, without which we might as well not live at all. Gabriel directs attention to the moral as distinct from the intellectual side of the mysteries, and therefore presides over the companionship that should prevail in every circle.
Gabriel's element being water, he is a pervasive Archangel, cooling hotheadedness, soothing irritations, and generally dissolving most difficulties capable of solution by such means.
Auriel
Archangel Auriel's robes are sombre. Being aligned with winter and midnight, blacks, dark browns, gray, and earthly tones are his colors, yet lightened by the sparkle of frost, the shining of stars and brilliant moonlight.
He is represented as a kindly elder and also can be envisioned with graying black hair and a beard if you like, with dark eyes and a deep deliberate voice.
Auriel is very much an angel of light. He is the light shining in darkness, that the darkness didn't understand yet couldn't extinguish.
Consciousness in unconsciousness, knowledge and ignorance, being and non-existance. Auriel is the light of experience and wisdom, shining brightly in the dark womb of the eternal mother. He typifies the seed of light that manifests in us as living beings in which we be a from life to life that it may grow ever brighter until it becomes a sun of its own system.
Auriel is associated with all tolerance, wisdom and development that should come with your experience of life and death.
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