Liber ABA Chapter XII, section II, Aleister Crowley
“In evocations the danger is not so great, as the Circle forms a protection; but the circle in such a case must be protected, not only by the names of God and the Invocations used at the same time, but by a long habit of successful defense.”
The habitual use of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (say, thrice daily) for months and years and constant assumption of the God-form of Harpocrates (See Equinox, I, II and Liber 333, cap. XXV for both of these) should make the “real circle”, i.e. the Aura of the Magus, impregnable.This Aura should be clean-cut, resilient, radiant, iridescent, brilliant, glittering. “A Soap-bubble of razor-steel, streaming with light from within” is my first attempt at description; and is not bad, despite its incongruities: P.
“FRATER PERDURABO, on the one occasion on which I was able to see Him as He really appears, was brighter than the Sun at noon. I fell instantly to the floor in swoon which lasted several hours, during which I was initiated.” Soror A.’.. Cf. Rev. I, 12-17.