danica wrote:Jim, question about the Supreme Invoking Ritual of Pentagram:
is it to be done on its own, like the "generic" LBRP, or the Invoking should be followed by Banishing?
Though there could be exceptions, one generally wants to banish after invoking.
One exception: The Supreme Ritual, due to its wholeness, could be used as a type of Abramelin ritual (notice its structural similarity to
Liber Samekh, for example). If one were working in a set-aside temple that had already been cleansed and consecrated, and wasn't used for anything else, and performed this (alone, or as part of a larger set) daily for a specific period of time, then one wouldn't banish after. In such an operation, one just keeps one's psyche on high simmer in the crock pot.
In fact, as a parallel, remember that no banishing rituals (only invoking rituals) are ever performed
in the Vault of the Adepts; and this ritual is one that is suitable to perform in that place, or another place consecrated in the same way.
However, those are special cases. In general, one banishes after invoking (for a whole lot of good reasons).