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177:1 The mutilations of the Divine Names in the Grimoires are part of the distinguishing
characteristics of these works, and hence they are preserved in the text. It may scarcely be
necessary to inform the student that the words mentioned should read AHIH, ASHR,
AHIH.
177:2 The Key of Solomon offers choice between a vessel of brass, of lead varnished
within and without, and of earth.
178:1 Psalm vi. and Psalm xlii. in the Vulgate.
178:2 The plant here condemned is prescribed by the Key of Solomon.
179:1 As these Psalms, lxxi. and cxvi. in the Vulgate, are widely separated from each
other, and so also in the Authorised Version, it is difficult to determine those which are
referred to in the text.
180:1 The names given in the Key of Solomon are Adonai, Lazai, Dalmai, Aima, Elohi.
180:2 A short way to Magic by means of perfumes is given by Nyrauld in his work on
Lycanthropy. To discern future events, fumigate yourself with linseed and seed of
psellium, or with roots of violets and wild parsley. To drive away evil spirits and
phantoms, make a perfume of calamon, peony, mint and palma Christi. To attract
serpents, burn the windpipe of a stag; to expel them, burn a horn of the same animal.
Make a perfume with gall of fish, thyme, roses and aloe wood. When kindled, sprinkle
with water or blood, and presently the whole house will seem full of water or of blood, as
the case may be. Add earth which has been turned up by a ploughshare, and the ground
will appear to tremble. The enumeration might be continued almost indefinitely.
§ 9. Concerning the Time of Operation
When the sacrifice of the Art or its substitute has once been completed, the operator is in
possession of all the materials that he will require ex hypothesi for the performance of
Goëtic works as described in the Book of True Black Magic or the Grimorium Verum. But
as the first of these Rituals ordains that the preparation of the artist shall be made in
accordance with certain planetary influences, so in like manner does it regulate the time
of operation or accomplishment. The instructions still follow, and still in a confused
manner, the authority of the Clavicle. It will be well to reproduce them here in a succinct
analysis, though the piecemeal nature of the treatise attributed to Iroë-Grego leaves the
rules without much practical value, while no attention is paid to them by other makers of
Grimoires:--