The traditional lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram devised by Golden Dawn adepts is becoming progressively less useful as time advances. Nowadays, few people are sufficiently commited to hebraic mysticism or Kabbalistic studies to derive much power from the god-names and angelic images. An invocation of the personal ego or false Holy Guardian Angel for the purpose of casting ones entire will as an Enchantment upon reality. Such an operation would normally qualify as an extreme act of Black Magic were it not prefaced by an initial invocation of the formless Kia or real Holy Guardian Angel. Despite the theories of the sixties it now appears that the neurophysiological basis of both mysticism and magic is actually consciousness contraction.
Mysticism is the extreme compression of attention into a signle point to provoke a cerebral orgasm.
Magic uses similar techniques but aims to provoke material effects in the outside world. Both are based on physiologial methods which bring about an hysterical narrowing and concentration of mental focus by ecstatic or meditative means. The quality of mysticism can only be measured by how much fun you get out of it or by how much people are prepared to pay to listen to you. Otherwise magical power provides the only objective measure of spiritual progress in Chaoist terms. Implicit in this view is the principle that all acts are basically magical, and that power equals freedom.