Liber 418 (pdf) - Koyote the Blind

THE VISION AND THE VOICE
And now we go out of the chamber; on the right is a pylon,
and the right figure is Isis, and the left figure Nephthys, and they
are folding their wings over, and supporting Ra.
I wanted to go back to the King's Chamber. The Angel
pushed me away, saying: “Thou shalt see these visions from afar
off, but thou shalt not partake of them save in the manner
prescribed. For if thou change so much as the style of a letter,
the holy word is blasphemed.”
And this is the manner prescribed:
Let there be a room furnished as for the ritual of passing
through the Tuat. And let the aspirant be clad in the robes of,
and let him bear the insignia of his grade. And at the least he
shall be a neophyte.
Three days and three nights shall he have been in the tomb,
vigilant and fasting, for he shall sleep no longer than three hours
at any one time, and he shall drink pure water, and eat little
sweet cakes consecrated unto the moon, and fruits, and the eggs
of the duck, or of the goose, or of the plover. And he shall be
shut in, so that no man may break in upon his meditation. But in
the last twelve hours he shall neither eat nor sleep.
Then shall he break his fast, eating rich food, and drinking
sweet wines, and wines that foam; and he shall banish the
elements and the planets and the signs and the sephiroth; and
then shall he take the holy table that he hath made for his altar,
and he shall take the call of the Æthyr of which he will partake,
which he hath written in the angelic character, or in the character
of the holy alphabet that is revealed in Popé, upon a fair sheet of
virgin vellum; and therewith shall he conjure the Æthyr, chanting
the call. And in the lamp that is hung above the altar shall he
burn the call that he hath written.
Then shall he kneel before the holy table, and it shall be
given him to partake of the mystery of the Æthyr.
And concerning the ink with which he shall write; for the first
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