Laying the table

On Wednesday just gone we gathered together for the first action in the ongoing Enochian work we began this year.  The scryer for the session was unwell, toothache, so the five of us that were there took the Holy Table and Sigillum Dei Aemeth that had been made for the workings and performed the action up to the end of the ‘Temple Ceremony’ as a form of ‘activating’ the table and sigillum.  The script for the rite is linked here and there are some pictures taken during the making of the Holy Table linked to the picture on the left.

It was a good rite, with a strong LBRP and Middle Pillar chants.  This was very satisfying, as last time we’d been active we’d been using the SIRP.  The ‘Temple Ceremony’ aspects from DuQuette’s book then followed, the 7 chants of the Holy Table side letters, then the 7 chants of the middle 12, each one first 3, then 4.  After this the calling fo the 49 names of the Sigillum and the whispering incantation of the Round table of Nalvage.  We noted that each of us whispering, almost to themselves, the final Nalvage chant had a kind of re-centring role after the earlier chants of the letters.  Those whispered chants at the end were repeated until each person felt they ended, rather than in unison, which may be why they worked like that.

After that we banished with laughter and chatted about the rite.  Timewise it seemed to take about 35-40 minutes only to get to the elemental scrying operation.  That would mean that there is enough time in the rite so far for there to be a comfortable scrying session of anything from 10 minutes to half an hour, with possibly room for other activity after the scrying if we wanted to consider that at a later point.  It’s possible we might find scrying sessions go on longer, though I doubt it at this early stage of the work.