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169:2 Psalm viii. and Psalm lxxi. in the Vulgate, together with the Canticle of Simeon. § 7. Concerning the Victim of the Art It is usually supposed that the offering of a bloody sacrifice is an essential condition of success in Black Magic and that the embrutement of the operator is the chief purpose of the ordination. It is true that such an offering is in most cases enjoined, but its object is simple and commonplace rather than diabolical or recondite, and the practice itself is based on the so-called White Magic of the Key of Solomon. It offers p. 170 another instance that if this text be the head and fount of the Art, it is also the root of its diabolism. The Art--I should explain--has its victim, not because blood is required in the one case more than the other, but because it was customary for pacts and pentacles to be written on parchment or vellum, and, in view of that doctrine of personal consecration already explained, the Black Magician had, as far as possible, to dispense with outside labour, to be his own whitesmith, his own penmaker, and hence also his own tanner. Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest was the maxim of Paracelsus, and it was carried further in Goëtia than mere intellectual independence. Make yourself what you want; do not trust it to others; it will not only possess more of your personal virtue, but you will be sure of the article--such might be the commentary of the Grimoires upon the aphorism of the sage of Hohenheim, and there is the more reason in the counsel because even the accessible substances required by the operator had usually some awkward conditions attached to them, which might remain unfulfilled unless he himself was actively present in their preparation. A particular case in point is the parchment used in the Art. The magician was required to slay a lamb or kid with his own hands, not because there was any symbolical importance attached to the act of destruction--the Grimoires make no such ascription--not because the blood was used-for its use is seldom prescribed--but to insure that the animal was one from which virgin parchment or virgin vellum could be prepared. That is called virgin, says the Book of True Black Magic, which is made from animals that have never engendered, males above all, 1--from which definition it is obvious that recourse p. 171 to the professional tanner might jeopardise the entire injunction. But seeing that every operation undertaken in the Art assumed a religious aspect, the slaughter of the animal became a sacrifice 1 and had its accompanying ceremonies, prayers and invocations, each ritual possessing its own variants. The preparation of the virgin parchment is given as follows in the Grimorium Verum: 2-- CONCERNING THE VICTIM OF THE ART 3
Take your kid; place it on a block with the throat turned upward, so that it may be easier for you to cut it; be ready with your knife, and cut the throat at a single stroke, pronouncing the name of the Spirit whom you wish to invoke. For example, say: I slay thee, N, in the name and to the honour of N. . . . Have a care that two blows be not needed, but let it die at the first; then skin it with the knife, and while skinning it make the following INVOCATION ADIRAM, DALMAY, LAUDAY, TETRAGRAMMATON, ANERETON, 4 and all ye holy angels of God, be ye here and deign to impart p. 172 virtue unto this skin, that it may be properly conserved, and that all things thereon written may attain their perfection. After the skinning, take salt well pounded; stretch the skin; strew your salt upon it so as to cover the whole surface. But first let the salt be blest in the following manner:-- EXORCISM OF THE SALT I exorcise thee, creature of salt, by the living, God, by the God of gods and the Lord of lords, that all illusions may depart from thee, and that so thou mayst serve to make the virgin chart. BENEDICTION OF THE SALT God of gods and Lord of lords, Who hast created all things out of nothing, and hast especially designed salt for human health, bless and sanctify this salt, and may I so use it that all things which are in this circle may receive the required virtue for that effect which we desire. Amen. This ended, place your salted skin in the rays of the sun for the space of one day. Then prepare a vessel of glazed clay and write the characters of Guland and Surgat (Chap. III. Sec. 2) about it with the pen and ink of the Art. Set quicklime slaked with exorcised water in the pot, and while it is liquid place your skin therein, and so leave it till it peels of itself. When the hair is ready to fall at the touch of a finger, take it from the pot and peel it with a knife of hazel-wood, over which you have pronounced these words: Host Holy ABOEZRA, be pleased to impart such virtue unto this wood that I may cleanse this skin therewith, through Thy Holy Name AGASON. Amen. p. 173 This done, and the skin being also cleansed, stretch the same upon a board of new wood, and round about it set stones of the same length as the sides of the skin. But first say over them the prayer which here follows
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THE BOOK OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC The Se
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§ 7. TALISMANS OF THE SAGE OF THE
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§ 3. CONCERNING THE EXPERIMENT OF
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talisman with the monogram of Micha
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connection with the congeries of ar
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ehind Magic, or that even the occul
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THE TEMPTATION OF EVIL From Cædmon
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qualification of the soul's eternit
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and suffered and died, had risen an
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about the quest and its enthusiasm,
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that anything responds to its metho
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gold earth. There words and wishes
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ecommendation that it was a convent
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ejected, and it follows in this man
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position, but it is regrettable tha
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which usually terms itself Black, b
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convocation of all the "masters of
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the Sworn Book, while that entitled
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properly understood, is, however, a
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It is an open question whether all
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THE CHARACTER OF BETHOR The affairs
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THE CHARACTER OF PHUL Lunary concer
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30:2 This reference, taken in conne
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Footnotes 35:1 Claviculæ Salomonis
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of his great prosperity is acknowle
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specific difference between the pra
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for ever , Amen. May the blessing o
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worst, are scattered, all infirmiti
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p. 55 PLATE IV MYSTIC FIGURES OF TH
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Mr. Mathers' presentation of the Ke
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impostures of colportage; but in wh
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p. 65 for seventy-two chief devils
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The Ruler of the Eighth Hour is OSG
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Gabriel; for the Earthy Triplicity,
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with the entire hierarchy must comp
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empowered thee, whereunto I now adj
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Spirit which we intend to call. If
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There can be no doubt that these di
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naked maid; a she-goat; a camel--po
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Paris, but at the instigation of je
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Abramelin the Mage was an instructo
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IV. THE CONSTITUTION OF POPE HONORI
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combinations of characters, whereby
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MAGICAL SWORDS AND WAND obtained pa
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FIRST CONJURATION I invoke and conj
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INVOCATION OF THE KING O thou great
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ind thee to remain affably and visi
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ASTRACHIOS, ASACH, ASARCA, ABEDUMAB
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THE IMP STATUE. LINCOLN. Footnotes
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operator shall rejoice in the honou
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THE GREAT CIRCLE OF WHITE MAGIC You
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which you may hear, for at this ext
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Further, I command thee to surrende
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to the entrance of the circle. Then
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yourself with the stone called Emat
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Reply of the Spirit I cannot grant
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y Whom thou art overcome; when thy
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MYSTIC FIGURES FROM THE TITLE-PAGE
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A later edition substitutes the fol
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words:--May this which hath been re
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p. 276 The Beginning of the Holy Go
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p. 278 A. P. Why tarriest thou, and
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God invisible, consubstantial, in a
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A LESSER PENTACLE OF SOLOMON To dis
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the time of His dolorous passion an
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on Monday; compose the circle, and
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Write about the circle as follows:
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p. 293 Trinity. Come without inflic
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y the other Sacred Names of the mos
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of . . . . . . . . . that as the fa
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When the characters and images have
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Whether in the increase or wane of
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p. 208 of a dead man; place one of
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No person who is familiar with the
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For the Masters of Black Magic, as
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upon, &c. [Here name the subject up
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Lord, Who hast been, Who art, Who s
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IT is only within recent times that
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Then gently smiting the carcase nin
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God , by the most holy wounds of ou
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The most barbarous and unintelligib
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sanctuaries to which I alluded far
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