Ritualistic Magic

“	Ritualistic magic is a very dangerous thing.	„
— Royale Reideen to Klein Moretti on Lord of Mysteries, Chapter 50

Ritualistic Magic encompasses a wide variety of long, elaborate, and complex rituals of magic. The works included are characterized by ritual and numerous requisite accessories to aid the performer. It may need to select the date and time, preparing the corresponding materials, and strictly following the format and process. It’s often used in prayers and summons; to achieve a certain supernatural effect through a ritual.

Description

If ordinary people attempt ritualistic magic, they have to follow the results from astromancy or read corresponding manuals. They have to choose suitable dates and times to increase the probability of success. For Beyonders, their acute spirit vision and potent Astral Projections are keys. For the pathways which are not good at ritualistic magic, there is a need for bells, crystal balls, silver (another metal depending on the target deity) cups, incense, or other supplementary items as a medium.

According to Old Neil, Low-Sequence Beyonders are not strong enough. Almost all the ritualistic magic they can perform are the seeking of external powers and help.

Theoretically, as a Beyonder, as long as one’s spirituality was enhanced, things like Spirit Vision, divination, and ritualistic magic could be learned. But in fact, the differences between the various sequences was vastly obvious. For example:

• Beyonder of the Sleepless Sequence are known for their high spirituality. If they were willing to, they could learn spirit pendulums, dowsing, dream divination, and so on. But their rate of success wasn’t something worth noting. It was the same situation with ritualistic magic as well.
• Hunter lack spirituality, but their physical abilities are great, for them even Cogitation would be difficult to learn, their spirituality increases with their sequence but they can't compare to pathways specialized in this field.

Similar kinds of ritualistic magic can be split into three parts, the first being a sacrifice that sparks the interest of a corresponding existence. The second is comprised of incantations specifically describing the existence in question. The third is using simple formatting and symbols to convey what one is asking for.

Ritualistic magic can also be use to pray to yourself. Obtaining power from your own spirituality, without going through a god. The benefit of this kind of ritualistic magic is that it avoids calling upon a god but relies purely on a person’s power. It achieves various magical effects without the constraints imposed by a god’s specialized domain. The problem lies in the strength of a person. A weak result for the weak, and a strong result for the strong.

Numerology

The Moses Ascetic Order believe that all objects are numeric. Every number has spirituality. The number in ritualistic magic is significant and represents something particular.

• "0" represents the unknown or Chaos.
  • It symbolizes the state of the universe before it was born.
• "1" represents a beginning, the first Creator.
  • It also accurately pinpoints a particular existence, this also include the ritual performer.
• "2" represents the world and various divinities that were produced from the Creator's body.
  • It fully represent a deity, but also represent a return to the origin.
• "3" represents the contact between divinities and material objects to create all things.
  • It represent a deity and the ritual performer.

Ritual Performance

Requirements

The ritualistic magic needs a target. It can be the seven orthodox gods, other hidden beings, or even evil gods or devils. It can even be you. When the performer prays to the orthodox gods, the performer needs to check or choose the date and time "They" rule over. This and the purpose of the ritual designates the required incantation.

The performer must prepare the corresponding ingredients. Burning extracts, essential oils, and herbal powder serve two purposes:

• First, it helps the ritual's host attune their spirituality and enter the correct state of mind.
• Second, it pleases the deity or entity being invoked, increasing the chances of a response.

If the performer wishes to pray to an existence, prepare herbs, essential oils, powders, extracts, and so on from "Their" domain to please "Them", most ingredients are used to make candles with 2 related ingredients per candle.

Set up an Altar

The altar will have a pure metal dagger, candles, extracts, essential oils, herbal powders or animal materials. The most important are the candles used during the ritual. Candles can’t simply be lit, although, there are times when ordinary methods can work, but that’s not always the case. The correct way is to extend the performer's spirituality, rub it against the wick, and light it.

Ritualistic magic needs a clean spiritual environment where they will not be disturbed. There’s no need for a special holy solemnity. It’s mainly because there can’t be any miscellaneous items.

The burning of extracts, essential oils, and herbal powder mainly had two uses—one was to help the ritual’s host to better adjust his spirituality and enter Cogitation; and the other was to please the corresponding deity, or target of the sacrificial object, and to increase the probability of a response. In this aspect, every deity had certain characteristics and preferences.

The first step for the performer is to enter Cogitation. Focus their mind and draw out their strength, construct a wall of spirituality (the modified version as a thin film of spirituality is a spirituality cage) around the altar with the supplementary items blessed by a sanctification ritual, for example, holy night powder, or a silver dagger ^{(Evernight Goddess, The Fool)}. The dagger can be other pure metals depending on the ritual's target deity or the performer's preferences, such as a brass dagger preferred the God of Knowledge and Wisdom.

Ritual Begins

The performer lights the candles from left to right, beginning with ‘god’ followed by ‘me’. There is an option to form the wall of spirituality first then light the candles. Then apply the essential oil drop and or herbal powders to the candles' flame, or lit herbals/ingredients and thrown them in a cauldron. If the performer is holding a ritualistic magic that prays to a deity, the performer usually needs to draw the symbol of what he or she wants on the paper and burn it during the ritual after reciting the ritual incantation.

Ritual Incantation

Before reciting the ritual incantation, the performer needs to enter Cogitation to ensure rationality throughout the ritual. The standard ritual incantation is divided into 4 parts:

1. A prayer for someone's power. This ‘someone’ needs to be replaced by the symbol of a deity, an honorific name, or a domain ruled over by "Them".
2. Phrase is ‘I pray for the God’s loving grace.’
3. What to pray for. The sentence must be brief and finish it in one sentence.
4. To give more power to the incantation. For example, ‘Sun Flower, a herb that belongs to the Sun. Please bestow your powers to my incantation.’

Throughout the entire process, they have to confirm the symbolism and corresponding incantation. Incantations are best done in Hermes. The incantations had a particular format. As long as those points were satisfied and the key meaning was expressed in Hermes, the rest could be left to one’s creativity.

Sacrifice

Some rituals may need a sacrifice. There's no real distinction between using a knife to sacrifice someone and using a chemical explosion to kill the intended victim as part of the ritual for the entity the host desires to invoke. In fact, some rituals may require such explosions to be effective.

Large scale ritual, may often need huge amount of sacrifice to be gathered, such as often huge quantity of living peoples for the ritual. Certains methods can also be used during such sacrifice, to gather sacrifice on a large scale such as a whole city, and gather the Souls on the altar before being sacrificed. This is often used by Witch to cast terrifyingly potent Curses targeting eitheir a single entity, or a whole group.

Living ordinary peoples are the third-best sacrifice. The second-best are beings with Beyonder characteristics. And the best are demigods.

Ritual Ends

After reciting the incantation and completing the goal of the ritual, drip a drop of essential oil on each candle and burn the piece of paper that was used to draw the symbol. After the paper is burned, the ritual comes to an end. Then, thank the target/deity and extinguish the candles in the order of ‘me’, followed by ‘god’, right to left. Finally, dispel the wall of spirituality.

Praying to Oneself

One had to craft a three-line description of their being and feign the role of a creature from the spirit world. It could be done in any manner, devoid of any wielding of authority, as long as it could pinpoint the location within the wall of spirituality. For example Lumian Lee:

“	Cordu Village's Trickster King, Aurore Lee's younger brother, An entity known as Lumian Lee…	„
— Lumian Lee praying to himself on Circle of Inevitability, Chapter 162

Suspend a Ritual

Suspension-style ritualistic magic referred to the termination of a ritual according to the Beyonder’s judgment. They could finish other matters first before returning to continue the ritual. Even by doing so, it was still possible to gain the desired effects.

This was a technique produced over 1000 years of ritualistic magic development. After all, many high-level ritualistic magic required multiple steps. The duration ranged from an hour to half a day before finishing. It was difficult to ensure that no one disturbed them during the entire process or that there wouldn’t be any accidents. After gaining lessons from various predecessors through blood and tears, gaining feedback through each failure, being able to suspend ritualistic magic became mainstream at the higher levels while it also indirectly affected the lower level rituals.

However, being able to suspend a ritual didn’t mean that the ritual could be suspended at any time. One had to abide by mysticism theory and grasp the corresponding technique. If not, the failure of the ritual was unavoidable. it could even result in a terrifying backlash effect.

For example, when Klein prayed Evernight Goddess using suspension-style, he included: "I pray that you would wait for a moment, a moment for that unfortunate girl."; in the prayer.

List of Known Rituals

Luck Enhancement Ritual

Main article: Luck Enhancement Ritual

Deity Prayer Ritual

The standard ritual template in mysticism to obtain a sliver of a deity's attention to conduct magics.

Old Neil's IOU Ritual

“	I’ll be using magic to settle that debt of thirty pounds today.	„
— Old Neil to Klein Moretti on Lord of Mysteries, Chapter 51

The grounded ritual performed by Old Neil as a demonstrate to Klein, using the standard "3" candle ritual which are lit from left, right then down. Old Neil prays to the Evernight Goddess to settle his debt of thirty pounds bill.

• Top left - Night Vanilla Candle: Black candle made of night vanilla and slumber flowers that represent the night.
• Top right - Moon Flower Candle: Crimson red candle made of moon flowers and dark-red sandalwood, it represents the Goddess’s identity as Lady of Crimson in the ritualistic magic.
• Bottom middle: A very ordinary candle which only has a little bit of mint added (plants like roses, lemons, mint, moon flower, night vanilla, and slumber flower are beloved and cherished by the Goddess). It is close to the performer, Old Neil.

Colin Iliad's Fate Siphon Charms Ritual

The ritual performed by Colin Iliad, using the standard "3" candle ritual. Colin prays to Mr. Fool to use "His" powers to create charms made from Amon's leftover Worms of Time materials.

1. With a carving knife, Colin Iliad carves a palm-sized charm vessel to which the secret symbol of The Fool is drawn on both sides. Using his powerful spirituality, guides liquid mercury into the charm patterns, then repeated the charm creation again.
2. Colin Iliad places them in front of the candles and places a Worm of Time on each of them. He uses his two swords to precautionary form the 'cage' of the Proof of Glory.
3. Colin Iliad uses his desk as an altar and creates a sacred and clean environment that no one could disturb. He then lights the three candles. He bows his head and scatters the plant powder, monster hide, and fur into the candle flame or lit them and throws them into a cauldron so as to please the secret existence he is about to pray to.

Sanctification Ritual

"I sanctify you, _(item)_ !
I cleanse and purify you, allowing you to serve me in this ritual!
…
In the name of _(deity/existence/self)_ .
You have been sanctified!"Simplified Chinese: 
"我圣化你，_(纯银之刃)_！
我清洁和净化你，让你在仪式里侍奉我！
........
以_(____)_的名义，
你被圣化了！"

— Sanctification Ritual General Incantation

It is the commonly used miniature ritual during a grounded ritualistic magic to set up the altar or to have a private prayer. The ritual allows the performer to build the wall of spirituality during Cogitation, create a clean and undisturbed ritual environment or sanctify an ordinary item. The performer usually uses salt and or pure water to cleanse the item while pronouncing an incantation when setting up an altar. The most common sanctified item is a silver (or other pure metal) knife/dagger. During the sanctification ritual, the penultimate sentence should be in the name of a certain deity or a hidden existence, but as wild Beyonders, it’s best not to use them to avoid unnecessary trouble. As a Beyonder, it’s enough to use the performer's name to sanctify an ordinary item. Although it won’t be as effective as the original version, it can still be used.

Mediumship Ritual

It allows the performer to communicate souls, asking them questions and receiving answers without any barriers. It can also be used on living beings, not just living humans.

Sacrificial Ritual

It allows the performer to offer an object to a divinity. To sacrifice, one need to choose the symbols based on which deity or unorthodox mysterious existence they are going to offer a sacrifice to.

For the incantation, the performer must use either Jotun, Dragonese, Elvish, or ancient Hermes. Use the natural powers in these languages to establish a direct connection with the corresponding entity. They can design the exact incantations to use, but it must include these critical terms: ‘pray,’ ‘notice,’ ‘offer,’ ‘kingdom,’ ‘gates,’ and ‘open.’

Bestowment Ritual

Also named the Bestowment Request Ritual. It allows the performer to receive an object from a divinity. To bestow, use the same sacrifice ritual altar setup. The incantation is also similar, but it must include these critical terms: ‘pray,’ ‘notice,’ ‘give,’ ‘kingdom,’ ‘gates,’ 'strength,' and ‘open.’ Even the term 'bestowment' works. The bestowment ritual is commonly used to make charms.

Dualistic Ritual

Also called the dualistic method/principles, a proportionally equivalent ritual of the performer using an item and two candles; each candle for the performer and for the deity, and an item related to the target deity to conduct the same "3" candle ritual. The key to a dualistic ritual is channeling the divine power in the object. A prime example is the creation of Flaring Sun Charms by siphoning power from the Mutated Sun Sacred Emblem. The Fool's Sacrificial and Bestowment Ritual uses the dualistic method, but with cheap candles and a written down symbol to conduct a Sacrificial/Bestowment Ritual.

Spirit Dances

Originated from the ancient sacrificial dances that were popular in the Southern Continent. It was the ritual method that Death loved.

A “Spirit Dance” was to use the beat, rhythm, and movements to harmonize one’s spirituality so that it could interact with the natural environment so as to establish an interaction with the target of the prayer. Then, combined with a simple altar arrangement and corresponding honorific name, it can achieve the effects of a more complex ritualistic magic.

Artificial Sleepwalking Ritual

It allows the performer to enter a state where the mind was in deep sleep while their spirituality is dispersed. This was a technique in mediumship and was used to communicate with higher-level spirits. At an extremum, it could even allow a Beyonder to travel the spirit world under the pretext of maintaining a special lucidness.

Summoning Ritual

Main article: Messengers § Summon A Spirit World Creature

Soulfall Ritual

It allows their soul to pass through the Spirit World and attach itself to other body. It works on anyone below that of a demigod, with an effective distance of no more than 500 nautical miles. It involves reason and communication, and it belongs to the realm of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom. The related materials are: God of Knowledge and Wisdom’s Sacred Emblem hand-drawn with familiarity with the appropriate altar set up. Inside the wall of spirituality, a candle, the lavender and mint extracts in a bottle, brass dagger, the salt plate, and the fountain pen and paper.

A more formal version is: Still three candles, but the difference was the symbol drawn, the Sacred Emblem of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom—an omniscient eye on an open book. The ritual’s dagger also switched to a brass knife. In mysticism, the blue star corresponded to the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, and the metal that belonged to the blue star’s domain was mercury and brass. It is also the to-be-burned corresponding herbal powder, and mixed lavender and mint extracts.

The soul partially controls the performer's body and share their senses while the performer can still physically communicate. The soul can write on the paper with the fountain pen to communicate their thoughts similar to a SMS-hybrid-Phone call. The ritual was essentially to free the performer's body and allow the target’s Astral Projection to possess the performer to establish an effective communication channel.

Mirror Divination

It allows the performer to receive a revelation from a third party through a mirror.

• Klein used it once, praying the Evernight Goddess to reveal what a mirror has seen in the past month, with the following incantation: "I pray for the mirror to receive a brief restoration, I pray for it to show every person that it reflected in the past month."
• Audrey also asked a revelation to The Fool the same way: "Mirror, Mirror, please tell me the location of the owner of this notebook."

Klein noted that this kind of divination is extremely advantageous for the third party. There's almost no price to be paid to connect to the real world. If he wishes, he could even torn out of the mirror with his Spirit Body form! But to the user, it's indeed dangerous. They will appear under the "sights" of an unknown existence without any protection. From there, they can be possessed, controlled, cursed, and corrupted....

Secret Deed Ritual

The principle of a secret deed ritual is to adjust one’s state, release one’s mind and body, and align oneself with the target of the prayer bit by bit. Finally, an overlapping will occur, allowing one to acquire the corresponding knowledge. And this kind of alignment and overlapping is relative. While acquiring knowledge, the performer's secrets will also be open to the target of the prayer. The pollution of knowledge given by the Hidden Sage is a passive and irresistible version of this ritual.

It could only give knowledge or direct effects such as purification or corruption, letting the target’s mind gain a wonderful experience. It couldn’t interfere with the divination or other matters done by another person. Simply put, the secret deed ritual directly affected the target’s Spirit Body, Astral Projection, Body of Heart and Mind, and Ether Body. The related positive or negative states were removed.

Blood Moon Sacrifice

A ritualistic magic that used the element of a secret deed. The process was to use a material rich in spirituality, preferably the blood of a Beyonder, to write the honorable name of the target of the secret deed on an animal hide, and to draw the corresponding symbols and magic labels. If necessary, the specific circumstances of a given time and place also had to be taken into account. This ritualistic magic Klein found in Klarman's Book of Secrets. The final outcome of this ritual was unknown. It all depended on what the hidden or great being bestowed. Klein modifies this ritual to turn it into a secret deed ritual that belonged to The Fool.

The Fool Secret Deed Ritual

Based on the Blood Moon Sacrifice, Klein made his own version that point to The Fool. Klein replaced the honorable name with his own and the symbol with the one carved behind the seat of The Fool in the Sefirah Castle.

Mindprint Manifestation

The ritualistic magic involves creating images replicated from the mind, requiring a suitable and secure target for prayer. This practice is more common among official Beyonders who have orthodox gods to appeal to. Wild Beyonders seldom resort to praying to dangerous entities for trivial matters.

• Old Neil utilizes the ritual to draw Ray Bieber's portrait through prayer to the Evernight Goddess.
• Klein, unable to draw, employs the ritual to conjure Sirius Arapis's portrait by praying to himself.

Pathways

Some pathways grants a high spirituality since the start, it's notably the case for the Seer, Monster, and Mystery Pryer pathways. Some sequence also include some knowledge of ritualistic when someone took the potion.

• The Sequence 9, Secrets Supplicant include a small amount of knowledge about ritual magic, and the honorific name of hidden entities, but they're all secret entities with sinister names.
• The Sequence 7, Spirit Medium grant knowledge of various kinds of mysticism rituals related to spirits.
• The Sequence 8, Archaeologist grants basic ritualistic magic.
• The Sequence 7, Serial Killer grants all kinds of knowledge and rituals related to devil worship.
• The Sequence 8, Alms Monk grants them 5 ritualistic spells only a Beyonder of this Pathway can use.