Low Magick by Lon DuQuette (the reading strategies book TXT) 📕

magical rituals, is much easier to actually perform and visualize than it is to read about it.

LIBER CVIII

THE DANCE OF GANESHA

A Ritual/Meditation

Part I. The Banishing

The magician sits down in the center of the circle facing east, eyes closed. The entire ritual/meditation is accomplished in the mind’s eye.

Once relaxed and settled, the magician formulates in the mind a tiny living image of Ganesha80—standing in his colorful glory in the center of the magician’s brain.

Then, the tiny Ganesha bursts forth from the brain and stands on the floor directly in front of the magician. Magically, the image of the deity has now grown to about three feet high.

Ganesha begins to gracefully whirl widdershins. (The image of spinning Ganesha should bring delight into the heart of the magician.)

The magician now begins to chant the Pop Goes Ganesha mantra.

While continuing to whirl widdershins, Ganesha now begins to move widdershins in an outwardly spiraling circle around the magician. (See figure on next page.)

As the spiral takes Ganesha farther and farther away from the center of the circle and the seated magician, the image of the deity grows in size.

By the time the chant has reached the end of the first half of the first verse …

Ganesh Ganesh Ga-ne-esh Ganesh

Ganesh Ganesh Ganesh-a

Ganesh Ganesh Ga-ne-esh Ganesh

Ga—a—a—nesh-a.

… Ganesha’s whirling spiral dance has brought him again directly in front of the magician, but by now the spiral has carried him to the far eastern limits of the temple room. The image of Ganesha is now about twelve feet tall.

By the time the chant has reached the end of the second half of the first verse …

Ganesh Ganesh Ganesh Ganesh

Ganesh Ganesh Ga—ne—sha

Ganesh Ganesh Ganesh Ganesh

Ga—a—a—nesh-a.

… Ganesha’s whirling spiral dance brings him again directly in front of the magician, but by now the spiral has carried him to the far eastern limits of the continent (in my case, North America). The image of Ganesha is now many thousands of miles tall.

By the time the chant as reached the end of the first half of the second verse, Ganesha’s whirling spiral dance has now encompassed the sphere of the earth and the orbit of the moon. The image of Ganesha is now hundreds of thousands of miles tall.

By the time the chant has reached the end of the second half of the second verse, Ganesha’s whirling spiral dance has encompassed the Sun and the orbits of all the planets in our solar system. Ganesha is now many millions of miles in size.

By the time the chant has reached the end of the first half of the third verse, the dance has enclosed the Milky Way and Ganesha is now hundred of thousands of light years in stature.

By the time the chant has reached the second half of the third verse, Ganesha’s spiral dance has circumscribed the local group of galaxies in the neighborhood of the Milky Way. Ganesha is now millions of light years in size.

By the time the chant has reached the end of the first half of the fourth verse, Ganesha’s dance has reached so far into space that the Milky Way and our local group of galaxies look merely like one fuzzy star in the midst of billions of other star/galaxy groups. Ganesha is billions of light years in size.

By the time the chant has reached the end of the second half of the fourth verse, Ganesha’s spiral dance has pushed the physical universe to its inscrutable limits. There is no beyond. There is no size bigger. Space has been transcended. The concept of center and circumference has been obliterated. There is only the infinite immensity of Ganesha … and the infinite smallness of the magician seated in the deity’s dimensionless center.

The banishing is completed.

Part II. The Invocation

The magician has now chanted four complete verses of the Pop Goes Ganesha mantra. During those four verses, the ever-growing image of dancing Ganesha has banished (pushed away) the entire universe by whirling widdershins in a counterclockwise spiral until it has reached the limits of space-time. There is no more universe left for the now infinitely immense Ganesha to circumscribe—no outside of itself—not even empty space. When the magician has grasped the absolute immensity of this idea, he or she is now ready to invoke.

The infinitely large image of Ganesha standing before the magician now begins to gracefully spin clockwise. During the first of the four lines of the chant remaining, the spinning Ganesha will move in a very short inward clockwise arc until it enters into the magician’s right ear. This movement completely drags the first quarter of the cosmos with it and deposits it inside the magician’s own head.

Ganesh Ganesh Ganesh Ganesh

During the second of the four lines of the chant remaining, the spinning Ganesha moves in a very short inward clockwise arc until it enters into the back of the magician’s skull. This movement completely drags the second quarter of the cosmos with it and deposits it inside the magician’s own head.

Ganesh Ganesh Ga—ne—sha

During the third of the four lines of the chant remaining, the spinning Ganesha moves in a very short inward clockwise arc until it enters into the magician’s left ear. This movement completely drags the third quarter of the cosmos with it and deposits it inside the magician’s own head.

Ganesh Ganesh Ganesh Ganesh

During the fourth and final of the four lines of the chant remaining, the spinning Ganesha moves in a very short inward clockwise arc until it enters into the magician’s forehead. This movement completely drags the remaining the cosmos with it and deposits inside the magician’s own head.

Ga—a—a—nesh-a.

For a golden moment, the magician is Ganesha, the Supreme Intelligence, the Great G. There is “no outside” of the magician. The invocation is complete.

[contents]

75 See chapter 13 and appendix 2.

76 Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (EGC), the ecclesiastical arm of Ordo Templi Orientis.

77 Alternately spelled Ganesa (and known in the East as Ganapati, Vinayaka, and