Rite of the Hundred Sacred Names
A foundational purification rite drawn from the prologue of the Sworn Book of Honorius, which calls the text "sacred" in part because it contains the hundred sacred names of God — recited here alongside confession, prayer, and almsgiving to cleanse the practitioner before any major working.
Ritual Overview
The Sworn Book of Honorius (Liber Juratus Honorii) opens its prologue by explaining why the text is called sacred: among its reasons, the book states that it contains the hundred sacred names of God, names of power that run through its operations as both invocation and shield. Before any of the book's greater workings can be safely undertaken, the practitioner is instructed to first undergo a period of purification — confession of wrongdoing, devout prayer, the wearing of plain and clean clothing, fasting, and the giving of alms to the poor. This rite adapts that purificatory regimen into a standalone working, performed in the days before any significant magical undertaking, whether ceremonial evocation, sigil consecration, or angelic communion.
The rite is not itself an act of power in the way a binding or an invocation is — it is a clearing of the vessel. The practitioner examines their conscience honestly, sets aside grievance and impurity of intention, dresses in unadorned clean garments, and recites the hundred names (or a devotional selection representing them, where the full historical list is unavailable) as a litany. Almsgiving closes the rite, grounding the working in an act of charity rather than pure self-interest.
In the Sworn Book's own framing, this purification is not optional — it is the threshold every operator must cross before the text's deeper operations, including the Sigillum Dei and the Visio Beatifica, may be attempted with any hope of success. Practiced on its own, it functions as a general rite of spiritual cleansing and preparation, suitable before any working that calls for a clear conscience and a settled mind.
Ritual Steps
Examine the Conscience
Over the preceding days, set aside time each evening for honest self-examination — a private confession, spoken aloud or written, of wrongdoing, resentment, and impure intention.
20 minutes nightly for 3 nights
Visualization
Each admission is a stone lifted from the chest and set down outside the body.
Ablution and Vesting
On the day of the rite, wash the hands and face with the bowl of clean water, then dress in the plain clean clothing, setting aside any jewelry or ornament.
10 minutes
Visualization
The water carries away the residue of the ordinary week, leaving the skin bare and receptive.
Light the Candle and Censer
Light the white candle and the frankincense. Ring the bell once to mark the formal beginning of the rite.
5 minutes
Recite the Hundred Names
Read the litany of the hundred sacred names of God slowly and devotionally, pausing between each to let it settle. Where the full historical list is unavailable, a devotional selection of divine names may stand in its place.
25 minutes
Visualization
Each name is a bead of light strung onto a single unbroken thread running through you.
Prayer of Fasting Intention
Speak a short prayer committing to simple, moderate eating for the remainder of the day — a symbolic fast rather than a severe one — as an act of discipline in service of the working ahead.
5 minutes
Give Alms
Set aside the coins or goods gathered beforehand and give them to a person or cause in need, closing the rite with an act of charity rather than self-interest alone.
5-10 minutes
Visualization
The gift completes the circuit the rite has opened, sending outward what was cleared inward.
Ingredients
- Plain white or unbleached clean clothing
- A small bowl of clean water
- White beeswax candle
- Frankincense incense
- Coins or goods set aside for almsgiving
- Parchment or paper listing the hundred sacred names (or a devotional selection)
Tools
- Censer
- White altar cloth
- Small hand bell
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Radionic Rate
10-100-10-70