One of the purposes of the Rose Cross Ritual is to protect its user against just such outside interference; ‘it encloses the aura’, it is like a veil. The pentagrams protect, but they also light up the astral and make entities aware of you….. When much distracted, use the Ritual of the Rose Cross to maintain peace.
There are other reasons for using the ritual. It can be used, as will be explained later, to help others who may be in pain or difficulty and, as in said in one of the instructional documents of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, ‘it is a call to another mode of consciousness and withdraws you from the physical. It is a good preparation for meditation and …. A form of Invocation of the Higher Wisdom which is helpful when solving problems or preparing for a difficult interview, or in order to be calm and strong to help another … It is a protection against psychic invasion from the thoughts of others or from disturbed psychic conditions, such as there might be in a place charged with fear, where terrible things have happened.