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HOWLINGS FROM THE PIT
an apocryphal edition
A JOURNAL OF OLD SYSTEM MAGIC,
THEURGY, AND GOETIA
VOLUME II NUMBER 1
AUGUST 2008
A PUBLICATION IN HONOUR OF 8
TH
MATRIX PRESS
AND
JOSEPH C. LISIEWSKI, PH.D.
©Copyright 2007 by George Abraham
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Journal Issue – Volume II, Number 1
September 2008
Table of Contents for Volume II Number 1
The Aspersion Ritual ….….................................................. 4
History of the Aspersion Ritual............................................. 5
Joseph Lisiewski and The Return to Innocence ....................6
Questions about The Aspersion Ritual...................................10
The Daily Aspersion Ritual and it's Kabbalistic Analysis........17
Impedimenta for the Practice of The Aspersion Ritual...........17
The template practice of the actual Ritual of Aspersion.........20
The Kabbalistic and Hermetic analysis...................................24
Special Announcements ………………………………………. 29
In the next issue......................................................................30
Mark Stavish's reviews to Joseph Lisiewski's books...............30
Cover Illustration —
Pantaculum Salomonis
as given in
The Book of Black
Magic
by A.E. Waite
The Daily Aspersion Ritual
(re)discovered, (re)constructed and written by Joseph C. Lisiewski, Ph. D.
and
analyzed, compiled and commented by George Abraham
The dweller sought to enter the house of mysteries, lingering still on his profane
self. His will and his faith were but a castle built on sand, and upon its collapse, he was
thrown out between the lands. He had tried to steal the mysteries, and gain from them
prosperity. Light indeed did shadow him, but after a time he lost all. Fate did not let
itself be cheated. The price was paid in the results themselves, because the dweller
remained nothing more than a dabbler even if he dared to call himself a magus. The laws
of fate came upon him as a slingshot effect, because he dared to look back. There is no
looking back, and if you do not want the same fate of Lot
s wife to be bestowed upon
you, you will not shatter the Veil of the High Priestess, but approach her in silence. By
this the fate of the dweller will not reach you, because you gained the rights of the first
born, the name of the Magus. Such is the knowledge that you will gain from the
following pages.
Within this paper will be discussed the vital importance of The Daily Aspersion
Ritual as a protocol for entering Old System Magic. You will find the information most
beneficial in the process of creating and polishing your personal subjective synthesis of
Old System Magic. Subjective Synthesis is term coined by Dr. Joseph Lisiewski to
define the state of eclectically balanced subconscious synthesis realized by the process
of studying, learning, understanding, comprehending, practicing, apprehending and
applying the apprehended knowledge during a larger period of time. It is the
accomplishment of achieving Subjective Synthesis that wards the practitioner against the
slingshot effect - the unwilled effects, often of an evil nature, that occur when the magus
is unprepared or performs the ritual in a wrong manner
You will find that this work provides insights into the subject from different
approaches: a historical approach in the first part of the work; an apologetic-polemic one
present mostly in the second section perspectives; an operative-ritualistic (liturgical) one
that follows; and in the final part the doctrine and a mystical interpretation. It is my hope
that through these different approaches, the present work will be complete in its own
1 Lot (the biblical character, Abraham's friend)
way. By studying it as a whole, you will come to the conclusion that this work is
pragmatically oriented, and its only real goal is creating the premises of achieving
REAL RESULTS (with little or no slingshot effect) by using one of the most efficient
methods of magic: Old System Magic. We may understand Old System Magic as
referring generally to the magical practice of the Medieval and Renaissance Western
Mystery Traditions. Specifically this refers to magic of the grimoires (such as the
Heptameron) and the Solomonic Clavicles of Ceremonial Magic).
“
“ History”
”
of The Aspersion Ritual
The Aspersion Ritual has been present, in one form or another, throughout the
entire history of the Catholic Church. During the pre-tridentine missals (performed in
the Roman Church, prior to 1570), it was done on a daily basis before Mass. The priest
would have taken holy water and would have started purging around the altar, from left
to right, by saying: “Asperges me hyssopo ...” (Psalm 50:8 Septuaginta and Vulgata,
51:8 Massoretic text translation). The intention of the priest was to make “holy” the
region in which the Body and Blood of Christ was to be trans- substantiated from the
bread and wine, consecrated during the Holy Mass. The fact that this rite was performed
on a daily basis is of great importance, since, by dint of this fact, the Catholic priests1
(the authors of the magical grimoires) accomplished a very high level of subjective
synthesis and crystallization of faith. By “subjective synthesis”, I mean an
internalization of faith and insight into its nature.
All of the religions and authentic magical orders in the world have purification
rituals, in which water is one of the most important elements. As an example, we have
the washing before prayer done by the Arabs, the washing in the Ganges done by the
Hindus, the ablutions made by the Jew etc. I mention these not merely to validate the
existence of Dr. Joseph Lisiewski’s Aspersion Ritual, but because I wish to make the
reader aware of a singular fact:
it is a general and universal fact proven by the history
and philosophy of religions that cleansing, washing, and purification utilizing the
Element of water is considered absolutely necessary for spiritual growth or psychic
unfoldment. And general and universal facts should always be taken into account as
valid in any circumstance.
The Aspersion Ritual is, nevertheless, a ritual within Experimental Old System
Magic. Even though the general and universal facts, proven by the phenomenology of
religions, are taken into account as an argument for the validity of the ritual, we must
observe the fact that this ritual has a particular form and a particular purpose and enters
into a particular system of magic, that is to say: Old System Magic. By “Old System
Magic”, I mean
Old Magic
(medieval-renaissance magic) and the
system of thinking
that
is at the base of that old magic (meaning the theory of old magic – most of which is
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