This last week I modified the gpr and like the results. The aim was to help me focus on the whole of the ritual at certain times during the ritual. Sometimes I find it easy to focus on all the elements in a ritual at once while other times it proves to be difficult. This probably has a lot to do with my cabbage intake on the day of the ritual... J/K. But here it goes.

see Gnostic Pentagram RItual in liber kaos for carrolls original version.

Prepare yourself for ritual. I use a candle, incense and staff.

I choose to use octrin color for all the visualizations in the gpr. I think the color you see as octrin is subjective and arbitrary, but here is the symbolism I take from white light as pure magic. I compared pure magic to white light... light travels through the easiest path possible (much like magic), it exists as both a wave and particle (quantum model), white light holds all the other colors of light just as pure magic holds all other magics and white is not one of the colors of the other magics/selves making it easy to differentiate the magic i am performing.

Take a few deep breaths or whatever it is you do before starting a ritual.

Make a statement of intent.. i.e. it is my will to do something which this ritual might do... banish, enter gnosis, strengthen aura, etc.

1. Face any direction you choose, hold you staff out with your left hand.

2. Turn 360 degress in one continuous motion while holding your staff in front of you to form a brilliant octrin circle around you. Vibrate I, E, Ah, Oh, Urr as you do this. On the Urr, feel the octrin circle around you glow more intensely.

3. Now, draw a pentagram before you with the staff, vibrate I, E, Ah, Oh, Ur for each side of the pentagram. Place your staff in the center of the pentagram and Vibrate I, E, Ah, Oh, Ur again and this time on the Urr stab the center of the pentagram and visualize it glowing more intensely. Turn counter clockwise 90 degrees, draw a curve from your first pentagram to the center of your second and repeat this step until you are back to your original position with 4 pentagrams about you.

4. Place the staff on the ground just behind your left leg, (this is the starting point for a pentagram below you) rotate 360 degrees while drawing the pentagram on the floor around you, vibrate I, E, Ah, Oh, Ur.

5. Draw a pentagram above your head to match the one on the floor, vibrate I, E, Ah, Oh, Urr.

6. With your right hand point to your 3rd eye, vibrate III. Visualize an octrin light in your third eye. (a whole exhausted breath to each sound)
EEE at your throat, Ahhh at your chest, Ohhh at your groin, Urrrrr at your feet (point down for feet)
When you vibrate Urrr visualize a small octrin circle of light at the base of your feet and as you continue to vibrate urrr visualize that octrin light expanding to make a bigger octrin circle that goes out to the same point of the circle you drew in step 2. When the light has been visualized to cover the floor space of your circle visualize all previous work of the ritual intensify (the circle, the pentagrams, the chackras) Also, as the circle at your feet expands feel it pushing out all unwanted thoughts, energy, etc. out of your circle and outside of the pentagrams.

7. Now starting with your feet and Urr, repeat step 6 backwards back up to your 3rd eye.

8. Repeat steps 1 - 7.

9. Now with your ritual all drawn up (twice at that) Let out one last Long continuous breath of I, E, Ah, Oh, Ur. ( make this one the biggest, longest, loudest of them all)
As you let out your last vibrations visualize the whole ritual as fully as possible with your octrin light shining as bright as possible.

10. Silence, no thinking, not a thought, as long as you can.

Closing statement... i.e. This is my will... my will is done...

And.... don't forget to burn out your candle... only You! can prevent forest fires!

That's it, my modified version of the ritual... which isn't all too much modified. But the main point is to set aside parts of the ritual to visualize the whole thing and to help describe the boundaries around you. For me, when I repeat steps 1 - 7 the second time, the ritual is really reinforced and takes me a lot deeper into gnosis. If you don't have a perception of octrin... use any color you prefer.