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the magician born under such a constellation of the planets, even whilst in the act of
being exorcised.
It must be confessed that this process is grim and depressing, and the occult student will
not envy the sorcerer at the first palpitation of the corpse. Yet the rite is methodical, and
even sober, when compared with the monstrous alternative of the Grand Grimoire, which
must be given on the authority of Lévi; for no available editions of the work which is in
question, nor yet of the Red Dragon, nor indeed any ritual of my acquaintance, contains
it. There is reasonable probability that he invented it to make out his case at the moment.
"There are also necromantic processes, comprising the tearing up of earth from graves
with the nails, dragging out some of the bones, setting them crosswise on the breast, then
assisting at midnight mass on Christmas Eve, and flying out
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of the church at the moment of consecration, crying: 'Let the dead rise from their tombs!'-
-then returning to the graveyard, taking a handful of earth nearest to the coffin, running
back to the door of the church, which has been alarmed by the clamour, depositing the
two bones crosswise, again shouting: 'Let the dead rise from their tombs!'--then, if we
escape being seized and shut up in a madhouse, retiring at a slow pace, and counting four
thousand five hundred steps in a straight line, which means following a broad road or
scaling walls; finally, having traversed this space, lying flat upon the earth as if in a
coffin, repeating in doleful tones: 'Let the dead rise from their tombs!'--and calling thrice
on the person whose apparition is desired."
The object of Necromantic evocations was much the same as the other operations of the
Grimoires. If the sorcerer of old, like the modern magician, had ever dispossessed the
shade of Apollonius of its eternal rest, it would have been upon a question of finance. The
remaining process in Necromancy will be therefore an appropriate conclusion to our
whole inquiry, as it is designed to raise up and expel a human spirit who is supposed to
stand guard over a hidden treasure. It is from the Verus Jesuitarum Libellus, and is the ne
plus ultra of Ceremonial Magic, however distributed according to the colours of the
spectrum. The end of all things is money, says the sorcerer, and if asked to define Occult
Science, he would answer that it was the method of obtaining concealed money. The
testimony of the entire literature coincides with this definition.
A CONJURATION FOR THE SPIRIT GUARDIANS OF HIDDEN TREASURE
I cite, require and command thee, Human Spirit, who frequentest this place, and in thy
life hast interred thy treasure
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herein, who also of recent time, to wit, in the day or night of . . . ., about the hour of . . . .,
hast shewn thyself in the form of a fire at this spot.. I conjure thee by God the Father e,
by God the Son , by God the Holy Spirit , by the most glorious and Holy Mother of