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THE MAGIC ROD ACCORDING TO THE BLACK PULLET
The characters should be graven on the Pod with Chinese Ink.
THE GOËTIC CIRCLE OF THE BLACK PULLET.
The range of human ambition recognised by Ceremonial Magic being always somewhat
restricted, it is not surprising that the offices of these talismans frequently overlap one
another, or that some of them correspond very closely to the powers ascribed to the
Magus by the transcendental science of the Arbatel. The talismans are preceded in the
original by the figure of a magical rod, stained, says the letterpress which accompanies it,
with the blood of a lamb and having the form of a serpent. The description is somewhat
obscure, but the
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wand must be apparently flexible, so that it can be bent at need, and the mouth and tail
joined by means of a golden chain, thus forming a circle. It will be observed that it is the
old symbol, the great and mystic symbol, but in what strange company has it fallen! The
wand should be six feet long and when bent can be used as a circle of evocation. There is
also a figure of the grand magical circle, but it is not described in the text. There are thus
twenty-two figures in all, and the inclusion of the word TAROT in the list of evoking
terms is not without significance in this connection. A certain correspondence between
the talismans and the Tarot Trumps is indeed unmistakable, at least in some instances,
and seems to indicate that the work has a more definite occult aspect than would appear
at first sight. It is the symbolism of the Trumps Major redirected towards the Powers of
the Deep.
§ 8. The Gold-Finding Hen