Inner and Outer

by Nick Farrell

Many people think if you do the GD ritual as if it were a perfectly performed play it is enough to archive spectacular magical effects. Such people advocate turning the GD into a sort of Masonic order. But with respect to those who do attempt to do Masonic rituals in an esoteric way, the GD is a MAGICAL order. The mere performance of a rite will simply produce a minor effect. If it were all about play acting we would be better off taking part in the Importance of Being Earnest with the local am-dram club.

You will have heard me talking about the ritual taking place in the Judgement Hall of Maat, none of this is mentioned in ‘the script' it is part of the astral or inner workings of the ritual. These involve the manipulation of different Egyptian godforms in a sort of twilight between the material and the spiritual realms.

The Hierophant builds up these godforms and causes them to vibrate at a particularly frequency by calling their names in an ancient language. This work I find makes it easier for me to see them clairvoyantly during the main working. These godforms are ‘Golden Dawnised' images of the Ancient Egyptian God in particular colours that are designed to enhance their power in the working.

Esoteric teaching says that there are three basic levels to the universe. The first is the material, the next is the astral level which is at right angles to this one and is the realm of imagination and dreams. Finally there is the divine level which is where the realm of the gods and goddesses or just God depending on your tradition.

Magical power comes from the divine level and therefore to call power into your rites you need to build an astral bridge between the group on the material and the divine. What the hierophant does along with anyone else who is sitting on the top table in the East, is visualising a halfway house on the astral in their imagination. This temple is populated with Egyptian gods and goddesses and these act as channels for divine power. This halfway house is then placed over the top of the physical temple. This is just like a pathworking . By setting up an inner structure it places symbols in the physical space.

Some of the Gods are placed over the officers, other are just left passive conduits of power. In the GD this godform work was considered top secret and would only be know to the highest grades in the group. The layout of the Inner Temple and the various depictions of the Gods and Goddesses used were kept in a single coloured scroll or book in some temples and which only those who did the visualising saw. Usually when a temple closed this scroll or book was the first to be destroyed to prevent anyone getting access to the group's egregore. For this reason anyone can perform rites that have been published, no one can claim to link to the original group. They build new godforms but they will never have access to the original egregore because these will never be the same or visualised in the same way.

The godforms provide the halfway force between the Earth and the spiritual forces you wish to attract, but the godforms we have formed does not yet actually draw much force to it. The Hierophant has built a circuit and are is yet to power it up. To do so the Hierophant ascends spiritually to the highest level they can and draws down spiritual energy into the thought-forms created.

At the point in the ritual where the Hierophant says: “By names and images are all things awakened and reawakened” you will notice that he does the sign of the enterer but does not do the sign of silence until a few seconds afterwards. It is during this point that he or she is powering up the circuit.

So how can we see what this is like? Well what we are going to do is in a clear space in this physical room we are going to build a godform. Then we are going to each step into it and feel what it is like.

A godform could be anything and does not even have to be something that someone would ever consider holy. I once did this experiment using a character from Star Trek. However this time we are going to use an Angelic form because they are a bit more user friendly.

The angel we are going to build up is Raphael, the Angel of the Sun, and the Archangel of Tiphareth. In this situation we can see him as dressed in the colours of a sunrise. So we can see him with a gold robe with a light pink cloak. In his hand he holds a golden sword. Angels should look a bit androgynous and in this case he should have short cropped blonde hair and hazel eyes. His wings should be the colour of the rainbow. Now I am not saying that Angels have wings, or are even human looking, but we are building a symbolic form here.

So, do a LBRP ritual first, then get someone to stand in the spot where you are going to get this Archangel to stand. This is just to get the right height and proportions to make it easier to visualise. Once everyone has worked out where the Angel is going to be in proportion to where they sit the 'dummy' can sit down and join in.

Now visualise the Angel as clearly as possible. Make it as clear in your own mind as possible. Take your time. You need to be able to make out details such as the folds in his cloak etc.

Have someone read the following:

In the name JHVH ELOAH Ve DAATH
Come forth Raphael, Archangel of the Sun
Come forth "God had healed"
Come forth into this vessel which we have prepared for thee
Come forth as we chant thy holy name

All chant Raphael six times. While this is done let everyone see a light appear above his head. Then let it pour into the form and come alive.

Feel this energy for a while and then one by one go and sit in the space that the Angel occupies. See what you feel and discuss it afterwards.

Notice that in the little invocation we just used we started with the highest name (that of god) to call the archangel. In the GD there is never any straight calling of a being into a room. It is always done through the agency of a higher power.