The Circle of 11 Serpents

This is a different kind of magic circle. The right way up, it's designed to attract Lilith. Reverse it and the Hebrew forms a protective circle to keep Lilith out. The text is Isaiah 27:1 - "In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan, the piercing serpent; even Leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea".

I finished the circle on Wednesday from a second shorn sheepskin and, after a little experimentation, figured out how to tie the strips to make the closed circle. I threw together a ceremony to invoke Lilith and ask her blessing on these two implements. Just a simple purification, consecration and banishing, followed by the invocation then a ritual of purifying them with water bought on the day and the hour of Jupiter.

So far, I haven't had a lot of success with the invocation. Could be because I'm dead-tired after 12 hour days at work. Could also be because I've had to take some shortcuts, (like purchasing the sheepskin rather than obtaining it directly from its owner!). If I did everything Tyson describes in the grimoire, it would be several months before I could start the work. This way, I'm figuring that I can at least get the process going, and go back to do the steps more thoroughly later on, (all the time hoping this isn't a recipe for disaster!)

Nights with Lilith

I've officially started my work with Donald Tyson's Liber Lilith!

I started invoking Her a few months ago as part of the Qliphotic explorations in the Dragon Rouge curriculum with limited success. Limited but enough to get me hooked. Since then I've been reading everything I can on Lilith mythology, from early Kabbalistic texts to Mr. Tyson's 'received grimoire'. I was very suspicious of this book for a long time, but when I finally read it, it was Lilith all right. The Lilith I've come to know. In fact this is the ONLY book that came close to my understanding of the Mother of Demons.

There's a LOT of preparation to follow Tyson's system. I'm not looking to follow it EXACTLY, more to combine it with the Dragon Rouge system to meet Lilith as an equal, to gain illumination, and to explore her shell world in the Qliphoth. Even so, I decided to follow the steps he lays out in order to gain 'Knowldge and Conversation'. The first of these is the creation of a Pentacle of Lilith and the 'Circle of 11 Snakes', both on parchment created from sheepskin, (sans wool). The Pentacle has taken over a week, (see the pic above!), and I'm about to start on the Circle. After that, there's a Seal, a sculpture, a house... and even a diet!

This could take a while!