THE ROYAL RITUAL
                      OF THE MIDDLE PILLAR

                     Issued by the Thelemic
                    Order of the Golden Dawn
                   (Novus Ordo Aureae Aurora)

                   By Israel Regardie, Edited
                      by Sir David Cherubim

                     Copyright (c) 1990 e.v.
                   Israel Regardie Foundation.

                             PART I

1. Relax soul, mind and body.
2. Perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram. 
3. Formulate a Flaming Sphere  of White Brilliance above the
head.  Concentrate on this Sphere.  
4. Vibrate the Divine Names  AHIH, AGLA.
5. Continue to  concentrate on the White Brilliance, and when you
feel it is aroused say: 
     I am the Lord of Silence and of Strength,  
          The Mighty and Unconquered Lord of the Universe!
     I am He, the only-begotten Child 
          of Osiris My Father and Isis My Mother. 
     He that was slain; She that bore Me in Her Womb, 
          Flying from the Terror of the Water!
     I have formulated My Father and made fertile My Mother!
     I did avenge the Horror of Death; I am the Slayer of Typhon!
     I did lift Mine arms, and the Dragons of Death were as dust;
     I did raise Mine Head, and the Crocodile 
          of Nile was abased before Me!
     My Nemyss hideth the Universe with night, 
          the impermeable Blue!
     About My presence is shed the darkness of Blue Light, 
          the unfathomable glory of the outmost Aethyr, 
          the untravelled, the unthinkable immensity of Space. 
     I am He who concentratest all the Thirty Aethyrs in one
          darkling sphere of Fire!
     I am RA-HOOR-KHUIT, Lord of the Word! (Sign of Horus.)
     I am HOOR-PAAR-KRAAT, Lord of Silence. (Sign of Silence.)
     I am the Rising Sun of the New Golden Dawn! 
     The Crowned and Conquering Child of the New Aeon! 
     LET THE WHITE BRILLIANCE OF THE CROWNED CHILD DESCEND!  
6. Vibrate  EXARP, BITOM, NANTA, HCOMA. (These Names equilibrate
the White Light.)  

                             PART II

1. See Shaft of Light come down in skull to the neck. 
2. Formulate  Flaming Sphere of Brilliant Yellow and see ball
extend all the way through the neck, and see it extend up into
the head. (Air)
3. Superimpose on the  Yellow Sphere  the Sign of Aquarius in the
complementary color of Purple. 
4. Vibrate YOD HEH VAV HEH, and the Angelic Names RAPHAEL,
CHASSAN.
5. When you  feel the ball is alive and real, and spiritual power
is  pouring through you, and when you feel the power of the
Names,     
6. Say the prayer of the Sylphs.

                            PART III

1. See Shaft of Light  descend once more to the Solar Plexus or
Heart Centre.
2. Formulate Flaming Sphere of Brilliant Red.  See ball extending
from front to back. 
3. Superimpose on the Red Sphere the Sign of Leo in the
complementary color of Emerald Green. 
4. Vibrate ELOHIM, and the Angelic Names MICHAEL, ARAL.
5. When you  feel the ball  is alive and real, and spiritual
power is pouring through you, and when you feel the power of the
Names, 
6. Say the prayer of the Salamanders. 

                             PART IV

1. See Shaft of Light descend once more to the region of the
hips, the generative region. 
2. See Flaming Sphere of Brilliant Ultramarine Blue.
3. Superimpose on the  Blue Sphere the Sign of Scorpio in the   
complementary color of Orange. 
4. Vibrate EL, and the Angelic Names GABRIEL, TALIHAD.
5. When you feel that the ball is alive and real, and spiritual
power is pouring through you, and when you feel the power of the
Names,
6. Say the prayer of the Undines. 

                             PART V

1. See Shaft of Light descending to the feet, from about the
ankles. 
2. Formulate Flaming Sphere of Brilliant Indigo.
3. Superimpose on the Indigo  Sphere the Sign of Taurus in the   
complementary color of Pale Yellow.
4. Vibrate ADONAI, and the Angelic Names AURIEL, PHORLAKH.
5. When you  feel the ball is alive and real, and spiritual power
is pouring through you, and when you feel the power of the Names,
6. Say the prayer of the Gnomes.

                             PART VI

1. Circumambulate the  Light.  See all the power in the feet
centre.  See it rush up like water powerfully pushed up as in a
fountain. 
2. As it rushes up it takes all the power from each of the
Spheres on its ascent. So imagine as it goes from ball to ball,
it takes all power out of each Sphere in turn until it gets to
the White Light.  So this power will be a combination of all the
colors -- but "see" the sense of power rather than the color. 
The power remains a White Power. 
3. Make sure  the power is circulating away from the centres and
the result will be that you have formed around you an Aura by the
power issuing up the Shaft. 
4. In the circulation of the fountain the power goes up the
centres.  Then with the exhalation down the left side, and the
inhalation up the right side. Exhale down the front of the body,
inhale up the back of the body. This will cause the Aura to be in
a subtle state of great activity, the Light pouring through and
making it a great and dynamic power.
5. Close with the God-form of Harpocrates. 
6. Perform the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.