THE RITUAL OF THE BANISHING
SEAL OF YSTE
by ALLEN MACKEY
NOTE: THE FOLLOWING EXCERPT IS FROM THE SONG OF
YSTE, FROM THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY DOC R. A.
LOWNDES, 1937. THIS WAS A PRIVATELY PRINTED AND
CIRCULATED MANUSCRIPT THAT MADE THE ROUNDS OF THE
OCCULT UNDERWORLD, UNTIL IT WAS FINALLY UNEARTHED
BY RESEARCHER ADAM QADE. THE EXACT MANNER OF THIS
RECOVERY REMAINS UNEXPLAINED. A WORD ON THE RITE
ITSELF. ALTHOUGH REFERRED TO AS "THE GRAND RITE OF
YSTE," THIS EXCERPT PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO THE POWER
AND USAGE OF THE BANISHING SEAL OF YSTE. THE WOULD-
BE LOVECRAFTIAN MAGUS IS HEREBY WARNED NOT TO PLAY
AROUND WITH THIS EXAMPLE OF DARK MAGICK.
CHAPTER THREE: THE ELDER RITUALS
THERE WAS A TIME BETWEEN THE ERAS PREVIOUS,
UNRECORDED SAVE FOR IN THE GNASHING NIGHTMARES OF
THE FEVERED AND THE MAD. THIS WAS THE TIME OF THE
VIRYKLU AND THE VARLOORNI. THIS WAS BEFORE THE
PSALMS OF YSTE HAD BEEN UTTERED BY THE DIRKYA
BROTHERHOOD, AND THE NAXYR WAS RESPLENDENT.
AND IN THESE NAMELESS MISTS DID NOT THE KNOWLEDGE
OF THE BANISHING SEAL OF YSTE KEEP MANY HUMAN
SORCERERS SAFE? REFLECT; FOR DID NOT THE DIRKYA
BROTHERS SCRY THE SECRETS IN THE BLACK MIRROR OF
GNOS'S?
[ILLUSTRATION: THE BANISHING SEAL OF YSTE. SEE THE
THOMAS BROWN ILLO IN THE CHAOSIUM EDITION OF THE
BOOK OF EIBON.]
AND KNOW:
THE YSTE CIRCLE IS THAT WHICH CAME DOWN THROUGH
THE STICKY PRIMORDIAL AEONS AS THE BANISHING SEAL OF
YSTE. IT IS FAITHFULLY RECORDED IN THE BOOK OF EIBON.
AND FROM THE BASIC GEOMETRIES HERE DESCRIBED, ONE
MAY ATTAIN THE SECRET OF THE CIRCLES OF THAOL.
ITS GEOMETRIES HAVE PROVEN USEFUL AGAINST THE
CRAWLER FROM THE PIT, AND THE NETHERMOST SLIME
FROM THE OUTER DARK.
ONCE PERFECTLY INSCRIBED, ON THE DAY OF JUPITER IN
THE HOUR OF MERCURY, IN THE MANNER PRESCRIBED FOR
ALL MAGICAL CIRCLES OF THE ELDER ART, THE SEAL WILL
PROVIDE POWER FOR THE WIELDER OVER THE SPIRIT
REALM.
SAY THE WORDS:
EEE-YAH! EEE-YAH! GRAAG PH'NN'GUH LUHL.
AKRYAD-YA! IGN GHOL YSTE RUH-TAN DR'RUH.
EEE-YAH! EEE-YAH! HAHL-LOUHN ISTA LUHL.
REPITITION OF THIS FORMULA WILL GRANT ONE HOUR OR SO
(THIS PROCESS, IT IS NOT EXACT) OF CONTROL OVER THE
FIENDS OF THE COLD, DARK REGIONS BEYOND THOSE WE
KNOW.
