Re: The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram

[woj@remus.rutgers.edu (mineswept)]

robh@cyberspace.org (Robert Henderson) sez:
>I'm going ahead and posting my explanation of the LBRP and its
>influence in the Kate song "Lily."  

thanks for doing this rob. i have only one comment on your essay. 

>        I said
>        "Lily, Oh Lily I'm so afraid
>        I fear I am walking in the Veil of Darkness"

>This "Veil of Darkness" could mean just about anything.  I don't
>know of any special significance here.

the lyric sheet says "vale of darkness" which KaTe probably took from the
fairly famous psalm 23. the full verse is
	
	even though i walk in the vale of darkness,
	i fear no evil for thou art with me,
	they staff and thy crook are my comfort.

vale, of course, is a synonym for valley (which is often how that psalm is
translated in modern bibles).

+woj