- THE MIDDLE PILLAR EXERCISE By Israel Regardie It is my confirmed belief that several weeks at the very least of patient application to the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram should precede any effort to perform the Middle Pillar. For one thing, it will have trained the student in several little tricks of routine and magical technique quite apart from the intrinsic virtues of the exercise, ...www.davedavies.com/splanet/magic3.htm