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grass and same amount of amber. Then sit bv the brazier
take the bar and extend it all around you and draw a circle
that vou are.the center of. Then take seven handfuls of
beanstalks and put them in seven different locations of the
circle. Then take your sacrifice and divide it to seven parte
and put each piece on one of each of the straws. Then light
them up with the bar, till it lights up well and burns the
sacrifice. Then stand up in the middle of all that and say O
Bright Moon, with the great sultanate, the high in h
the higfi in place, you are the one titat engineers the world,
I ask you with your spiritual power to grant me (so and
so). Then you bow and say Hiroot, hiroot, girooth, girooth
twenty times. Then vou lift vour head and vou will see
immediately a spirit standing in front of you, then ask him
immediately what you desire because he will grant you
your wish.
Invoking the Moon when it is descending in the sign of |
Cancer. You go to a high location like a room that has a
view on the street or any high place that you can inspect
your right, left, front and back and hold in your hand a
stock dove. Then sacrifice the dove and take from its right
wing, left wing and tail four feathers. Cut a part of the
dove's beak, then you burn the rest Take the feather and
add two dirhams colocynth grease, four dirham licorices, j
Put all together in a linen cloth and then make a statue
from two ounce white snow and the ash of the saci
kneaded in gold water. The statue head will be a man's
head on a body of a lion. You get up and hold the statue in
front of you, light up a fire and say as you cense O Moon
that is filled with light, beautiful glory, the high in levels,
I ask you to grant my request Draw a circle on the ground
and put the statue in it after you write the name of whon
you want. Then repeat the words, bow to him, lift
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