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Evoking Pan

  
 
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13:32 / 03.12.02
For awhile now I've wanted to evoke Pan (or any deity for that matter). I've just been into magic for the last year or so but I've yet to see results that satisfy me: sigils never work, tarot divinations usually wrong, rain spells failed to create rain. Of course, I have had some success in small areas, mostly simple spells for everyday annoyances and success with finding my totem animal... but I really want to evoke something.

Twice I've tried to evoke Pan. Twice I think I failed at it. Both times I did a ceremony similiar to this description:

1. meditation (not that I'm very good at meditation)
2. gathering all the required items
3. clearing a space in my bedroom
4. the set-up: around me I placed a ring of small stones I collected years ago at some beach. Inside the circle I placed grass, twigs and leaves I collected on the morning of the ritual (both rituals were done in the morning). To my north was a large stone, to my east was a small portable fan (to simulate Air) to my south was a portable lamp (to represent fire) and to my west was a bowl of water. Before me was an alter made up of gay magazines (Pan being the god of male sexuality and all, plus I wanted something to jerk off to if it was needed). There was a boombox in there too.
5. I made sure I had everything and got in the circle. Then I cast the circle around me. I visualized a magic sphere around me to act as a shield. Then I did banishings in all the major directions. Finally I blessed the bowl of water using a technique Dion Fortune mentions in "Psychic Self-Defense". I then called on the 4 elements for protection. I then read my statement of intent, to evoke Pan (I forget the reason now). After this I tore up the statement (being sure to add I only wanted the ritual to succeed as long as none were hurt, mind).
6. I then got "skyclad" and turned on the music: In this case COIL's "Panic" off their "Scatology" album, a song about Pan (and god knows COIL has lots of references to Phallus and Male Sexuality). Then I decided to try going into excitatory gnosis by spinning around wildly reading a poem that I hoped would get Pan to appear, reading it in an erratic nearly breathless voice while making chaotic symbol in the air with my wand. After awhile of spinning I got dizzy and collapsed to the ground. The whole world seemed to tilt and the air suddenly got very humid and hazy. I felt very sexual, and I started to masturbate while rubbing my naked body with the leaves. Why I did this I have no clue... Usually I don't feel sexy but at that moment I did. Then I began to dance around wildly (I never dance) while jerking off and screaming wildly. The music was VERY loud too.
7. Eventually, this strange feeling went away and my mind seemed to snap back into reality. I turned off the music, cleaned up, thanked the elements, did a final set of bainshings, closed down the circle, grounded myself, and recorded the events in my magic journal. I was disappointed Pan had not appeared, though I wondered if maybe I had invoked him. I'm not sure what it's like to invoke a diety into your body.

The second ritual a few weeks later was much but the same, though this time I had two boomboxs (one playing Coil, the other playing NON) and I also had Crowley's "Hymn to Pan", a cardboard cut-out with Pan's sigil on it, and a picture of Pan. This ritual was even less satisfactory then the first. The first was pretty much improvised and there was this sense of excitement: "Hey, I'm doing my first ritual!" The second time seemed like going through the motions. Still, practice makes perfect I guess.:\

I think one of my main problems is either disbelief that it won't work (my cynical side) or the fact that I simply can't conceieve how a deity would present itself. Would he/she just magically appear in front of me? Is one supposed to reserve a seperate space for that god/spirit to appear, like a triangle (I read that somewhere)? Actually, it's probably better I not evoke Pan as I don't want to start obsessing over any one deity for too long. But it is kind of an ego-shrinker. But damn, I'd like some fireworks for a change.
 
 
illmatic
14:22 / 03.12.02
Well, you could try some astral exploration or dreamwork if you want a more vivid contact. Don't get disappointed - early days. I reckon.
 
 
mixmage
16:33 / 03.12.02
Badly prepared and without links to back it up...

Just from vague recollection, Invoking Pan traditionally involves going to a forest clearing with pipes and sacraments. The chosen substance is known to cause paralysis [I'll find it later]... This loss of the ability to move, vulnerable in the wilds causes the onset of Panic, presaging the arrival of the deity.
 
 
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16:41 / 03.12.02
Yeah, I read on a website (the Temple of Pan?) that traditionally one should go to a forest. But there aren't a whole lot of forests in my part of town and I usually try to avoid doing things the traditional way (well, in most cases: I still do some of the usual basic techniques like circles, banishings, etc.)
 
 
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16:43 / 03.12.02
As for substances, if you mean drugs, I don't do 'em (not that I consider myself straight-edge).

I want to buy pan pipes this month. I'll definetly use them next time.
 
 
mixmage
17:20 / 03.12.02
... or make a set from the hollow stems of Hemlock!

A little digging fills out the details. The supplicant would make the sacramental pipes which, through contact with the mouth, induced the altered state.

Just for reference.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
20:01 / 03.12.02
Not to rain on your parade or anything, but unless you're very lucky that doesn't sound like the best way to get the Horned God's attention. Find some woods if you can, somewhere wild (I suggest Europe if at all poss.) and walk. And walk. And walk some more. Look at your surroundings. Find out about the area. Find out about the plants and animals you see around you. Listen to the sounds, smell the smells. Keep on doing that every time you can. Make every moment, every step, every breath, every acheing muscle, a sacrement to Pan. He'll show.

(And when he does, tell him I said hi, yeah?)
 
 
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20:46 / 03.12.02
I walk around my campus a lot. When I do I try to take in all the details, look for things I've never seen before. Like recently I went behind the old stadium at the north end of my campus, all the way to the end and I saw a lone tree. For some reason this location gave me a feeling of peace. A few other spots on campus do that for me too. I have a great connection with the crows at my school.

Having said that, no way am I going to Europe anytime soon. I don't have that kind of money!

As for the ritual not being a good way to get Pan's attention... Hell, they were my first rituals, what did I know? Practice makes perfect. I know SOMETHING happened in the first one, I'm just not sure exactly what...
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
21:53 / 03.12.02
I never quite understood where this forest thing came from. Actually, that's a lie. I understand that it comes from the Homeric Hymn to Pan, but I don't understand *why*. Pan's a pastoral god, and you can't easily herd sheep through woods. He's also a goat god, and goats are designed for hills and rugged terrain. He's also associated with caves in an anonymous fragment of lyric and in Euripides' Ion, so a bit of spelunking might not go amiss.

Which means that you can probably skip Europe, but I would suggest getting out of the city and finding some nice jagged scrubland or a cavern. It'll probably do your lungs a power of good if nothing else. Failing that, the Temple of Pan in Athens was low down and unkempt - a wild-flowering bit of wasteland under an archway might do in a pinch...
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
02:38 / 04.12.02
I invoked Pan twice a day for two weeks using Carroll's "Mass of Chaos 'B'" (from Psychonaut). Got some interesting results but it took awhile. You might want to check out the Mass.
 
 
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02:49 / 04.12.02
I have that book. I'll have to read that book again (of course I'm looking for evocation).

Just wondering, when you invoked him, what did it feel like? Can you remember? I'm very curious? And Mordant, have you actually seen "The Horned King"? What did he look like if you did?
 
 
Tamayyurt
06:18 / 04.12.02
Not to shine on your parade but... I think your first attempt was quite successful. You never dance, yet you danced. You never feel sexy, yet you felt sexy! You rubbed yourself down with twigs and leaves for fuck's sake and you fucking loved it! I think for a while there Mr. Pan was in the room. I mean, what did you expect? It was only the first date! Maybe the second time didn't work cause you were trying to hard, a bit self conscious, over shot. Try and keep it improvised and chaotic. He'll get a little closer each time. Keep at it.

I'm curious though ... what was the lurid little purpose of this ritual?
 
 
illmatic
09:25 / 04.12.02
The Great God Pan"
 
 
illmatic
10:13 / 04.12.02
Pissflaps - link doesn't work properly -page down in the toolbar on the side of the page and there's a link for the Pan essay.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
10:29 / 04.12.02
Here's a link straight to the article.

Of course, there is a school of thought that believes that Thamuz heard "panmegas theos apothneskei", rather than "Pan, megas theos, apothneskei", which is to say "The all-great god is dead", which could be a reference to all kinds of shit...
 
 
Badbh Catha
13:41 / 04.12.02
I never quite understood where this forest thing came from...Pan's a pastoral god, and you can't easily herd sheep through woods. He's also a goat god, and goats are designed for hills and rugged terrain. – Haus

Hmmm...yes. Forests are more stag than goat. I suspect the forest vibe that Pan gets nowadays comes from an association with the Celtic
Cernunnos.

This was noted in the article on Pan linked above:

In continental Europe, as well as in Britain, some worshippers of the ancient Celtic and Graeco-Roman gods had refused to convert to Christianity, and the rites they performed were interpreted as magical rites. The Celts worshipped a horned male god that may have reminded the Romans of the god Pan; a minor god to be sure, but one who could drive you into a 'panic' terror when you encountered him at noontime. This combination of horned gods, one Celtic, one classical, produced a very powerful deity around which the pagani rallied.
 
 
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18:48 / 04.12.02
H'mm, actually, now that I recall, both rituals I did were done around noontime. And I never even knew that at the time...

As for the lurid little purpose of this ritual, well... most things I do are lurid anyway. actually, it was just one of my first rituals and I thought it would be cool to try to evoke Pan (and try some solo-sex magic to boot). Probably not the best reason for such a ritual but you learn through trial and error I guess.
 
 
illmatic
08:30 / 06.12.02
I forgot - you might wanna check out a bit of Arthur Machen.
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
09:53 / 06.12.02
>I was disappointed Pan had not appeared, though I wondered if maybe I had invoked him. I'm >not sure what it's like to invoke a diety into your body.

I think you might be getting a bit hung up over the invocation/evocation thing, which (based on my own experience - which is all I can really vouch for) is a lot less clear cut in practice.

For example, I think that any successful evocation of a spirit or entity will involve a degree of invocation or at least a very subtle 'overshadowing' type phenomena where you move from your day to day individual persona into the territory of the being you're attempting to make contact with. It helps the evocatory process if you're willing to meet the Spirits halfway. It might be useful to think of it in terms of 'Morphogenic Fields', which is a fairly mad theory in itself but a useful metaphor for magickal work of this type.

The various ritual trappings that you're utilising are a means to bring you further into the morphogenic field of the entity you're calling to, by creating a suitable setting and environment to access the part of nature/universe that the God or Spirit is associated with/rules over. Part of the evocatory process could be interpreted as using ritual to step right out of your own world and it to the world of Spirit so that contact can take place - so even if the work is intended as an 'evocation' it's by no means an entirely external process.

Looking at your write up of the ritual, I'd say that you've taken a good first step along the road to contact with PAN.

>actually, it was just one of my first rituals and I thought it would be cool to try to evoke Pan

I don't want to sound too prescriptive, but one of the things to remember is that these entities you're calling on are Gods - therefore it's of utmost importance to approach them with the proper respect. Even if you're working from a chaos magick standpoint where you consider yourself to be temporarily adopting the paradigm of Greek Mythology - you're still going to get the best results if you show proper respect for what the entity actually is, and make the effort to do things on their terms rather than your own.

Successful entity work, in my opinion, is all about cultivating very real relationships with the Gods, and it's something that progresses over a period of time - like all relationships. It sounds like you've made a successful first contact, but I'd be careful to avoid making it look as if you expect the Gods to be at your beck and call. If you could evoke the Gods to visible appearance if and when you feel like it, then they wouldn't really be the Gods. It's effectively a denial of the power of their divinity to imagine that you're in control of the situation rather than them.

As far as evoking an entity to visible appearance goes, it might be worth questioning your motives for attempting this. Do you want to make contact with the Divine or do you want to experience a spooky occurence which gives you objective proof that all this magick stuff is real and not just you fooling yourself. If there's a strong element of the latter, then you're bringing an awful lot of lust for result to the process and creating a significant obstacle to experiencing that sort of manifestation. It's a bit of a vicious circle, but that's magick for you.

If you're determined to try and experience a visible manifestation, then there's various things that you can do to assist the process. Work up to it slowly, make it a devotional activity, try a series of nightly meditations on the power of the God. Don't expect anything spectacular to happen, just do it for its own sake. Build an altar to the God, quest for items to place on the altar, make it a piece of art or a sculpture of found objects relating to the Power you're approaching. If you're not prepared to put this sort of effort into it, then you shouldn't really expect them to go to the trouble of a full physical manifestation just to satisfy your sorceror's curiosity.

I think it can also help if you provide some material basis for the manifestation, if this is what you're trying to attempt - the altar building is a good start for this, also maybe use copious amounts of incense (preferably of a type associated with the God, maybe this could come directly out of meditation, or you could look it up in 777) to give the entity something to create a physical form out of, perhaps go for some level of intoxication, doesn't have to be psychoactive drugs - could be wine or beer. Something to blur the boundaries between the waking world and the world of Spirit.

>But there aren't a whole lot of forests in my part of town and I usually try to avoid doing things the >traditional way

I know what you're getting at here, but I think if you're trying to contact a God with a history and tradition of worship/interaction, then you can't really avoid incorporating elements of that tradition as these are the physical anchors that the entity is most likely to respond to.

I don't really have a relationship with PAN so I can only speculate on this, but as others have pointed, out it might be best to look for PAN in the great outdoors. If you live in a city then there are probably a few options that you may not have considered - for example, the rowdiest area of town on a weekend is a place you might want to visit to attempt communication with the spirit of PAN. Walking through London's West End on a Friday or Saturday night, when you're totally sober but the streets are filled with seemingly mad intoxicated characters and every type of human life is seemingly on the streets celebrating and drifting from one party to another. It may well be the case that PAN - God of PANIC is very much alive in places like this, more so than in the safe confines of a comfy flat at any rate.

All just suggestions and thoughts, hope none of it comes across as too prescriptive as everyones practice is generally going to differ, just sharing some ideas in the hope some of it might be useful - feel free to contradict, etc..
 
 
cusm
15:23 / 11.12.02
Yep, I'd say that was definitely a successful invocation. No doubt about that from your description. That's the sort of manifestation you can expect from the type of ritual you did, and it looks like you made contact.

Gods and the like don't normally appear in front of you like in myth, unless you're either prone to hallucination already somehow or are very good at seeing spirits, a talent all its own. More traditional evocations involve tactics like filling the room with smoke and trying to see the being in the haze. With demons and elementals, one uses a thaumaturgic circle to call them into and bind them. You don't want to do that with a god, and especially not Pan. I doubt he'd take well to being pulled into a triangle and ordered around.

If its still face to face contact you're looking for, you're best off either trying for a vision such as with drugs, exaustion, heat etc, or in dream or meditation. He's not likely to appear in your living room in any case. Its as Gypsy Lanters says, you have to meet them half way.

And if you do manage to get a good relationship going with him, you might well actually see him at some point, reflected in the window of a passing car out of the corner of your eye.

If you really want results of some sort, I suggest you reword your intention as "Pan, reveal yourself to me". You won't get what you expect (you never do, I think that's one of the laws of magick), but you might get something that way, though it might just be by getting lost in the woods or being fucked with (or perhaps fucked, even) by some stranger at a bar. You'll have to pay attention to catch how he arrives.
 
 
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14:30 / 12.12.02
Wow, I'm glad all of you took the time to type in such detailed responses to my question. I was a little wary posting the details of the rituals because I thought "They'll think I'm a freak or a pervert or something". But then I remembered what website I was on.

Regarding showing respect to the deity one wants to evoke/invoke, I wasn't exactly sure how to show respect to Pan as this was still early in my magicial education. So I decided to play up on the whole god of chaos/male sexuality/phallic thing, seeing as there were no flocks or herds at the moment at hand (I must remember to get those Pan pipes after christmas). At the very least it was chaotic in nature.

I wouldn't say I was doing it to prove I have the gods at my beck and call: I have enough problems as it is WITHOUT gods being at my beck and call. Why did I want to evoke Pan? Probably for the latter reason you mentioned Gypsy, to prove to myself magic worked, and also because I'm working on a fantasy novel where Pan is crucial to the plot so I thought "Hey, wouldn't it be cool to meet Pan face to face and then try to work it into the book?". You know, research, etc. In retrospect it seems like a very bad idea to contact a god for such a trivial thing, but what did I know. Had he appeared I didn't even have anything prepared to say, so it was probably for the best the ritual worked the way it did. Still, I'll consider that alter thing, right now the only god I have a small alter for is Ganesha, and all that is is a stand with a pink Ganesha "Monster in my Pocket" attached to it that I leave candy and sweets at everyday.

I doubt I'll drink any wine or beer though, as alcohol is a big no-no for people who suffer chronic acid reflux (like, um, me...) I definetly will not use drugs, but incense is a possibility I might consider in the future.

As for going to the rowdiest part of town... well, maybe if I hang out in front of the local church when the old people go play Bingo. Yeah, it's a very small boring town I live at, and the biggest city we have ain't really that great either. In fact, one of the only good things about Rhode Island was that Lovecraft lived here, which gives the place a bit of atmosphere. I MUST visit his grave one day, it's only about 20-25 minutes from where I live.

I think I may of said something along the lines of "Pan, reveal yourself to me" but I'd have to find that spell first to jog my memory.
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
19:09 / 12.12.02
My invocatory experience of Pan was pretty cool... hold on let me check my mad diaries...

Here's some notes on results of various invocations:

"Good but concentration off because of headache. Using the basic 7 chakras (from The Magician’s Companion by Bill Whitcomb). No real visions in the chalice other than hazey hazes. Best way to ixtasis I think is just giving up–”Thy will be done” as Crowley says in the section on Oaths in Magick in Theory & Practice–giving in to higher self, which can’t be seen-felt-smelt-heard-tasted or even properly imagined but certainly can be petitioned. The ixtasis achieved in this bit of bhakti yoga is different, also–mellower. More practice needed. Baphomet building up as life-current, grokking him as just the personification of the life-force. Space-kundalini runs vertically up spine, time-kundalini runs horizontally through somewhere around heart/throat/third-eye chakras. When gazing in chalice close-up, so that the only reflection is of the nose and brow, it looks just like the seal of the O.T.O. which is possibly important, probably not."

"Nothing seen in chalice. Weird physical effects: delerium from dizzy sickness a bit, back felt really hot when chalice-gazing. Couldn’t think of anything but sex (weird non-sexual tingling in groin), had to call ex-girlfriend over for a fuck. Menstrual blood all over the blankets. Complete lizard mind. Nature red in tooth & claw. She gave me a copy of “Void Of Course” by Jim Carroll. Of course."

"Full vocalizations. No dark liquid so I improvised and used a black shut-off computer monitor. I hazed out with crossed eyes and saw a dark man coming out of the screen towards me. Coool. Like my own re-hallucinated reflection. Brian shows up out of nowhere to check up on me with a Red Bull in tow. “Christ, man, it’s like fucking Lord of the Flies in here,” he says–I’m acting really weird and hopping around like a loony trying to get my comic done."

"Excellent. Beginning to have bits of the Hymn to Pan commited to memory, along with the whole Oath. Hit a real packet of energy this time. Just this raw muscular lust for life that left my eyes stuck in the crossed position until I forceably refocused them. Rigid muscles and shaking body. Goat head. Whaaaoo. Nothing scryed.
Time Kundalini–I can’t have been the first to think of this, can I? Basically an extrapolation of Peter Carroll’s Retroactive Enchantment. If Karma means the past is still with you then it can probably be altered. In the history-stream of your life, the stress-points (birth / first consciousness of self / first consciousness of death / first day at school / birth of brother / suicidal depression / first heard The Beatles / concussion on head at 7 / mononucleosis 3 months at 10 / deaths of grandparents / deaths of pets / childhood magical & mystic experiences / drugs & alchohol / best friend near-overdoses on morphine 9th grade / first sexual experiences / black depression / “oh shit it’s real” / strip nearly all of my clothes off in 11th grade English class while reading poetry as an act of shamanism & upbeat self-hating humor / high school graduation / drugs & alchohol / black depression / sudden lust for life / butterfly unfolds in head and you realize what you’ve been missing / meeting Grant Morrison and talking for an hour / Laura: “I feel like I’m enlightened and you, you’re just this black hole.” / fucking two beautiful girls same time / standing on top of a heap of paper...) are the chakras and can be enflamed with memory and transformative light. The present can be altered by the proper application of the observer effect–contextualization of “observation-as-change” as a blisteringly life-affirming act. Make the time particles jump like you tell them to and alter your own narrrative.
Life-as-Baphomet. Life as a force strong enough to buck the self, the status quo, the situation, the laws of space & time itself. Life as a force strong enough to buck its own history in this incarnation. Gotta be, gotta be, GOTTA BE, GABBA GABBA HEY!!!!!!"

"Less need for pan-attire. Good. Jacked in again. Present effects past and the past was always hollow waiting to be fertlized by the present, like a Qlippothic shell. The past was always a hollow shell missing the crucial energies. Fertilized & colonized by the present. Nothing in chalice but fell asleep briefly and saw a tiny, tiny snake on a giant plate, also a boy’s face circa 1940s Britain."

"Every gnostic experience creates a new time-chakra, a new stress-point in personal history."
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
19:23 / 12.12.02
More results, once I refined the ritual a bit:

"Good. Interrupted after summoning Baphomet so I got to talk to Jess about the rent as Mr. Alldevourer Allbegetter. Kind of interesting. Felt like I was on drugs, that kind of disassociation where you’re high and you don’t jibe with sober people. No real visions, trying to imagine stuff in the chalice to at least set up some kind of neural pathway. Fuckin’ nothing. I need either a much bigger surface and/or better gnostic techniques. "

"Good. Ritual cleaned me out as usual, got a really instant ixtasis during the first bit of ritual, nice! Kind of seeing how the Baphomet aeonics kind of apply to my own life, even. Getting more control over that state–being able to get in quick. More chalice-gazing. What am I supposed to be aiming for here? A Nightgaunt jumping out and grabbing me by the left nut?? Making friends with Baphomet, that’s the idea. “Let’s be friends.” Damon Albarn on the stereo: “All of which makes me anxious, at times unbearably so.” Well, yeah!"

"Good. Baphomet’s been with me all along, really, if I’m correctly identifying the feeling. The anarchic, viscious, charming, non-good non-evil of Nature. Nature personified as a living, fucking clever force, that always has the last word and laughs at human beings trying to imagine themselves seperate or higher than nature. Trickster-Devil, the guy who looks like an anarchist because he’s playing by much, much older & unbreakable & real Rules (the passing of seasons, truth of death, using the crushing weight of time to his advantage, etc.) What I always tried to be as an adolescent. Maybe what I should always try to be. Right, me & B, we’re friends now, we’ve always been friends, I know him. Threw away the caduceus–no need for this stupid ritual shit in the face of something so “real.” Seperating out writing and magick. They are not the same thing and the hang-ups on one should not hinder the other. Watch out for false personal interpretations of the word grammarye."

"Good. I’ve summoned Satan and he’s a nice guy, everyone. LBRP visualizations building up–”archangels” giving me a sense of security and should be really built up. They’re “sticky” (this is what I’ll call things that have an inscrutable magnetic pull for me.) Gazing: at one point this kind of “scrying force”?, or the attention, whatever, was coming out of the extreme left and extreme right corners of my eyes. Like my attention-field reversed. Also thinking about the barrier between me and what I want to be–almost palpable, very strong body architecture (Reich?). I was thinking that instead of trying to get past it, I should use it like a pole-dancer and completely swing myself around to the other side. Or I could even decide to live completely within that space between “two worlds”? (the implication is not necessarily shamanic as in “walking between two worlds.” But it MIGHT be.) Pere Ubu on stereo right then: “He could live, he could live, in the empty spaces of his life.” Lots of music synchs."

A note on correspondences: Pan/Priapus is traditionally associated with ATU XV, THE DEVIL. But Chaos people like to consider him as associated with ATU XXI, THE WORLD; that is, they approach him as the manifestation of the "terrestrial life current," the life force of the planet. That's certainly how I tapped into him, although I used 777 correspondences for ATU XV. As for personal correspondences, I liked playing the William S. Burroughs' bit "Apocalypse" off of "Dead City Radio," which is like a postmodern Hymn to Pan.

By the way, here's the ritual I cribbed, composed and developed for invoking Baphomet/Pan. Let me know if you guys groove on this!

MASS OF CHAOS ‘B’, ADOPTED FOR USE IN VOID OF CHAOS AND FOR PERSONAL SYMBOL SYSTEM

0. To be done quietly. Dress self in the following way to suggest the Lévi version of Baphomet:
a. Wear only pants
b. Rubber-band small toes together to suggest hooves
c. Finger-trace averse pentagram on forehead
d. Place caduceus between legs and rest top against collar
e. Sit on two pillows, knees up, legs crossed halfway through lower legs with left leg on top
f. Curl bangs into two horns
g. Write “Solve” on right arm (at shoulder so it can be concealed in the day) and “Coagula” on left–use right arm and hand as the active hand in all banishings (this means all banishings must be LBRPs.)
1. Preparation: Hymn to Pan. Relaxation Ritual, LBRP, drop into magnification ixtasis.
2. Statement of Intent: Hold up chalice full of distilled water, intone “It is my will to [Feel the void/See visions] in this chalice.”
3. Invocation of Chaos: Light incense as sacrifice. Draw Chaostar above area of working, visualize throughout working. Maintain ixtasis. Vibrate Enochian using inhuman vowel sounds from GPR practice:
“OL SONUF VAROSAGAI GOHU / VOUINA VABZIR DE TEHOM QUADMONAH / ZIR ILE IAIDA DAYES PRAF ELILA / ZIRDO KIAFI CAOSAGO MOSPELEH TELOCH / PANPIRA MALPIRGAY CAOSAGI / ZAZAS ZAZAS NASATANATA ZAZAS!7 ”
4. Invocation of Baphomet.
a. Visualize self as the Levi version of Baphomet.
b. Visualize inverse pentagram over self.
c. Spacewill Kundalini: Visualize energy running up spine from perineum/coccyx to base of brain. Attempts to extend energy field at a 360º angle behind self, or to reverse center of attention so that it sees backward, should assist in raising the kundalini energy. The sensation seems to have the precursor of the straining of the back muscles at mid-chest height–as if great wings are beginning to beat (Baphomet also has wings). Wings visualized in analoguing of self to Baphomet should be made to beat. This could possibly trigger the momentary defeat of the psychic censor? that I experienced as the unfolding of the snake in my head.
Pass the “Kundalini” energy through the following centers:
i. Muladhara (Point-down electric blue triangle in yellow square at base of spine. Corresponds to the Baphometic force.)
ii. Svadhishthana (Silver horns-up crescent that fills with luminous waters, one inch below navel. Prana/astral light. )
iii. Manipura (Red circle surrounding red point-down triangle at solar plexus. Heat/adrenaline.)
iv. Anahata (Gold hexagram at heart. Lovelight sunrays.)
v. Visuddha (Point-down red triangle at back of throat containing a violet circle. Smoke/creativity.)
vi. Ajna (Gold circle with ida/pingala petals on either side, point-up red triangle inside with an eye inside the triangle. Spiritual consciousness/eyes soft-focused.)
vii. Sahasrara (Brilliant white spiral vortex above head. Transcendence.)
Now reverse the process.
d. Timewill Kundalini: Visualize life as a current or tunnel, run voltage up it from the sperm/egg genesis point through each “time-chakra” (improvise) to this-present-moment.
Now reverse the process.
5. Oath:
a. Reinforce chaostar.
b. Intone:
“In the first aeon, I was the Great Spirit
In the second aeon, Man knew me as the Horned God, Pangenitor Panphage
In the third aeon, I was the Dark one, the Devil
In the fourth aeon, Men know me not, for I am the Hidden One
In this new aeon, I appear before you as Baphomet
The God before all gods who shall endure to the end of the Earth.”
c. Hold cup up and consecrate it to the ritual by whatever inspired means presents itself.
d. Intone “This Is My Will.” Drink water as sacrament.
6. Augury – Fill chalice with dark liquid (coffee)– 1 hour of chalice gazing [for void/visions].
7. Closing
a. Remove all Baphometic paraphernalia. Visualize upright pentagram over self.
b. Use any techniques necessary to “snap out of it.”
c. Linguistic self-displacement, intonement of given name if necessary
d. LBRP
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
19:28 / 12.12.02
Oh, and my best result:

"Used sexual gnosis for the Enochian call and really felt like I was Baphomet, instead of having to visualize him. Very angular, stylized image of myself as Baphomet. But he came on all peaceful, strangely enough. Just this completely peaceful, silent appreciation of life. I really liked that. I did a sudden Oath, saying off the top of my head: “Oh peace / Oh the satisfaction of Pan / Oh when generation is done / Oh what peace comes to Man.” Pan starts off all horny and mad, but what happens when he gets what he wants? He’s just peaceful and quiet. Now, if Pan/Baphomet is the personification of the drive for life, as represented by the phallus, then using “as above so below” what does this tell us about the human race? Man must seed something? Himself? Space? All our bloodbaths and rape camps, maybe we’ve just got blue-balls? Waiting for the big O, waiting to fulfill our biological destiny so we can get to the Pax Humana? Maybe. Maybe I’m getting Horus stuff mixed up with Pan.
Provoking some visions well allright. Just vague stuff, but the check’s in the mail. “Fake it till you make it.”"
 
 
LVX23
20:03 / 12.12.02
Wow! Hard act to follow, Boy. Very impressive. And inspirational.

>Now, if Pan/Baphomet is the personification of the drive for life, as >represented by the phallus, then using “as above so below” what >does this tell us about the human race? Man must seed something? >Himself? Space?

Indeed, the Macro incarnation of Pan is the universal creative force of nature. The dance that unfolds, the cosmic joke who's punchline is Nothing, the coagulation and dissolution of matter from form to form. The Micro incarnation of Pan then is the reproduction of organisms, the drive to procreate - this is the vector for creation in the realm of living Nature; the process by which DNA/RNA evolves into newer and newer forms. This is the Dance of Pan on earth but keep in mind that creation is only half the picture, for it proceeds only by death (Law of Conservation of Energy), hence the invocation 'IAO Pangenitor, IAO Panphage" - Pan creates and Pan destroys, Life arises and Life is resorbed back into the plenum, the cycle repeating itself eternally. (As a side note, this cyclical nature of life which seems present on all levels, as well as the harmonic nature of the electromagnetic spectrum, is proof to my mind that this universe, at some point, will contract and collapse back into itself, and begin the cycle again).

On another point - I like the idea of Gypsy that one should form a relationship with the deity as a precursor to a full invocation. I believe this will yield far greater results.
 
 
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20:50 / 12.12.02
Very impressive, boy in a suitcase (isn't that a COIL song? I forget)but you lost me with all the Kundali stuff. I'm shit when it comes to yoga.
 
 
Dances with Gophers
11:10 / 13.12.02
Possibly a silly question but.. Is the Goat of Mendes analogous with Pan. I'm not sure of the history of the Goat of Mendes, what I do know is that it symbolises the force of nature. Perhaps this is why Pan can be accessed in any part of nature?

I did once experience a short unexplained bout of Panic on hill-top watching Orion rise one winter night, which I felt at the time was Pan.
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
20:04 / 13.12.02
The Goat of Mendes is the version of Baphomet worshipped by the Templars.
Of course, the Eye of Mendes=the asshole, which tells you something about the Templars.
According to Frater V.'.D.'. in "Secrets of Western Sex Magic," a good way of raising the Kundalini is getting someone to blow lightly on yer choad, the space between the perinium and asshole.
 
 
jeff
22:22 / 20.03.03
I've got a date set for the Ntavelis Cave to see the ancient temple of Pan next Friday. Does anyone know about this place or indeed any actions pertinent towards a sighting of the supernatural?
 
  
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