The Book of ceremonial Magic

on the wings of the wind and art endowed with superlunary motion; do thou descend and
be present, I pray thee. If ever I have merited thy society, if my intentions are pure in thy
sight, bring hither thine eternal Presence; deign to hold commune with me, in the name
of the Great God JEHOVAH, to Whom the whole choir of heaven continually sings: O
MAPPA LA MAN, Hallelujah. Amen.
By the proper observation of the rules laid down in the Pauline Art respecting the Angels
of Men, and on the assumption that he is acquainted with the actual minute of his birth, it
is said that the operator may attain to all arts and sciences, even to the sum of wisdom. In
a word, it is the royal road of knowledge, both in the theoretical and the practical degrees.
Of such is Astronomical Magic, according to the Lemegeton and its dependencies. It does
not differ essentially from the system of the Enochian Tablets followed by John Dee and
Edward Kelley, his skryer, as found in the Faithful Relation. The same observation will
apply to the content of the next section, which may be permitted to follow without further
preface.
§ 4. The Almadel
I shall explain in the first place that this scheme of invocation derives its title from the
conventional talisman on which
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the process depends. It is made of white wax, and is inscribed as hereinafter appears.
This figure is used for the four chief angels whose government extends over the four
altitudes of the world, namely, East, West, North and South. It serves also for their
ministers and inferiors. As, however, a different colour is attributed to the choir of each
quarter, and as this colour must dye the white wax, it follows that those who would traffic