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Footnotes
168:1 This process is adapted from the Key of Solomon, Book ii. c. 8.
168:2 The virginity of the wax and the earth is more perfectly ensured by the directions
of the Key of Solomon, in accordance with which the operator must dig up the earth with
his own hands and reduce it to a paste, using no instrument in case of defilement. The
wax must be taken from bees who have made it for the first time.
168:3 These names differ from those in the Key of Solomon, which, however, are, for the
most part, equally unintelligible.
168:4 Ps. cxxx. and Ps. xiv. in the Vulgate.
168:5 The Key of Solomon directs that the earth should be freshly dug up on each
occasion that it is required.
§ 6. Concerning the Silken Cloth 1
When all the instruments belonging to the Art have been properly consecrated and
exorcised, they must be gathered into a costly cloth of silk, as Solomon ordains-says the
testament whereby they may be preserved clean and pure and may thus be more
efficacious. So it be not black or brown, the colour is indifferent, but the following
characters must be written upon it in pigeon's blood with the male goose-quill proper to
the Art.
Add these names: ADONAY, AMMASTIUS, ANARETON, COSBOS, ELOYM. Then
fumigate and asperge, reciting subsequently the Psalms Domine, Dominus noster, Deus
Judicium tuum Regi da and Ecce nunc dimittis. 2 Place, lastly, all the magical instruments
in this silken cloth. "So shalt thou use them at will and shalt learn their effect," says the
Magus, Iroë-Grego. But the pledge has a savour of the salt which is called prudence.
Footnotes
169:1 This process is adapted from the Key of Solomon, Book ii. c. 20. There, however,
the use of blood is omitted.