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To clean out a house you can use the banishing ritual from the first part of the book or a ritual such as the LBRP or Star Ruby as a start. This will push a lot of negativity and hostile energy or entities out, but the effect is temporary. As with the bath and the making of amulets, we should strive for a three-level solution to the problem.

Again, we should meditate, invoke, and pray to the highest powers of Level 1. We should further invoke specific cleansing dietes and angels from the realm of Level 2, as well as channeling power directly through our bodies by the means of breath and will. Level 3 should be represented in terms of washes and incense.

The wash works for your home in the same way that your bath does for your body. Washes are a very old and traditional part of magick especially prevalent in African magickal traditions. There are washes to serve every magickal end: from stopping gossip, to drawing trade to brothels, to making peace, but we are concerned here only with those washes that are used in magickal cleansing and protection.

A floor wash to repel harm is applied from the rear of the house toward the front door and out, as if you were gathering up the unwanted influence and pushing it out through the door. A floor wash for attracting is done exactly the opposite and moves from the front door toward the rear of the house. If your house or building has many floors, start from above and work down to repel, and the opposite to attract. If your house is carpeted, you can mix up a batch of the wash in a spray bottle and use it to spray the carpet, or if you are more traditional, you can use feather or an aspergillum to sprinkle the wash onto the carpet. The general pattern of either back to front or front to back should be followed whichever method you use, and it will be necessary to map out your path through the house before you begin. As with the bath, the floor-wash is ideally made with water gathered from a natural source like a river, spring, or collected rainwater. Water from the tap will do in a pinch, but water from a natural source is traditional and should be used if you can get it. A relatively small amount of ingredients are added to a gallon or more of water and prayed over fervently. If you don’t want to add the ingredients directly because of making a mess, you can often brew them into a tea (as described) and add that to the water.

My favorite recipe to clear away maleifca is pine needles, saltpeter, and your own urine collected in complete silence first thing in the morning. As with ammonia, only a small amount is used. A recipe from a Santera teacher of mine is: powdered eggshells, oak bark, and lemongrass. To wash away pow- ers that are causing tension between people in a home or at an office, use sugar, lavender, and rose water.

There is no more prevalent and archetypal aspect to magickal ritual than the burning of incense. Nearly every culture on earth recognizes the spiritual power that certain herbs, resins, and woods have when burnt. By imbuing the material substance with our aspirations and desires, then burning it, it moves from the material to the intangible, and finally over into the spiritual dimen- sion where our prayers are heard.

You can burn incense in a stationary holder, but if you are using it in a ceremony of cleansing or banishing you should use a censor or something that you can carry around easily. The pattern of smoking with incense is the same as washing: back to front and out the door to expel, front to back to attract.

Incense recipes abound, and you should feel free to experiment during calm times with different formulas. When you are in dire need of defense or when someone else is relying on you is not the time to try out something new, so be sure to pick out a few successful recipes before you need them.

A great general cleansing and sanctifying incense is a combination of frank- incense, myrrh, and dragon’s blood. For reversing harm you might try mullien, sage, and rue.

A wonderful recipe for calming poltergeists and other meddling or noisy ghosts is camphor, mint, and pine.

Wash’s can be said to represent the two feminine elements: water (the water for the wash) and earth (the herbs, minerals, and other ingredients in the wash). Incense represents the male elements: air (the smoke) and fire (the burning). The combination of incense and wash is a very comprehensive way to cleanse out an environment or remove negative energy from an object. If you are using the wash on an object instead of a room, you can wash the item from top to bottom. Then hold the item over burning incense and allow the smoke to rise up and around the object, cleansing away whatever the wash did not.

You can coordinate the various elements with of the physical forms given previously with the elemental energies within your body from the pillar and

elements practice. In fact, there is a method taught to me by a Tibetan Sorcerer that uses elemental energy to cleanse an object directly. First, chan- nel the energy of fire and visualize the object engulfed in a fire that burns away all impurities. Then visualize a gust of air exstinguishing the fire and leaving all the impurities as ash. Next, visualize a torrent of water that washes away the ash and leaves nothing but the pure and pristine object behind. The element of earth is represented by the object itself. This method is used to purify offerings to spirits as well as ritual items.