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flame thereof ought not to go out all thefe days. In the middle of the altar let there be placed lamens, or the holy paper we have before defcribed, co- vered with fine linen, which is not to be opened until the end of the days of confecration. You {hall alfo have in readinefs a precious perfume, and a pure anointing oil.— And let them both be kept confecrated. Then fet a fenfor on the head of the altar, wherein you {halt kindle the holy fire , and make a preci- ous perfume every day that you pray.
Now for your habit, you {hall have a long garment of white linen, clofe be- fore and behind, which may come down quite over the feet, and gird yourfelf about the loins with a girdle. You {hall likewife have a veil made of pure white linen on which mu ft be wrote in a gilt lamen, the name Tetragrammaton ; all which things are to be confecrated and fanftified in order. But you muft not go into this holy place till it be firft wafhed and covered with a cloth new and clean, and then you may enter, but with your feet naked and bare ; and when you enter therein you fhall fprinkle with holy water, then make a perfume upon the altar j and then on thy knees pray before the altar as we have directed. -
Now when the time is expired, on the laft day, you fhall faft more ftridrly ; and falling on the day following, at the rifing of the fun, enter the holy place, ufing the ceremonies before fpoken of, firft by fprinkling thyfelf, then, making a perfume, you fhall fign the crofs with holy oil in the forehead, and anoint your eyes, ufing prayer in all thefe confecration s. Then, open the lamen and pray before the altar upon your knees ; and then an invocation may be made as follows :
^ Invocation of the Good Spirits.
IN the name of the blefied and Holy Trinity, I do defire thee, ftrong and mighty angels ( here name the fpirits you would have appear J that if it be tire divine will of him who is called Tetragrammaton, &c. the holy God, the Father, that thou take upon thee fome lhape as beft becometh thy celeftial nature, and appear to us vifibly here in this place, and anfwer our demands, in as far as we {hall not tranfgrefs the bounds of the divine mercy and goodnefs.
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by requeuing unlawful knowledge ; but that thou wilt gracioufty fhew us what things are moft profitable for us to know and do to the glory and honour of his divine Majefty who liveth and reigneth, world without end. Amen.
Lord thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven — make clean our hearts within us, and take not thy holy fpirit from us. O Lord, by thy name we have called them, fuffer them to adminifter unto us.
And that all things may work together for thy honour and glory, to whom with thee, the Son and bleffed Spirit, be afcribed all might, majefty, and do- minion, world without end. Amen.
The particular Form of the Lamen. — (For the form of the Lamen fee
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THE invocation being made, the good angels will appear unto you which you delire, which you fhall entertain with a chafte communication, and licence them to depart.
Now the lamen which is ufed to invoke any good fpirit mult be made after the following manner : either in metal conformable or in new wax mixed with convenient fpices and colours ; or it may be made with pure white paper with convenient colours, and the outward form of it may be either fquare, circular, or triangular, or of the like fort, according to the rule of the numbers, in which there mult be written the divine names, as well general as fpecial. And in the centre of the lamen draw a hexagon or character of fix corners, in the middle thereof write the name and character of the Ear, or of the fpirit his governor, to whom the good fpirit that is to be called is fubjeCt. And about this character let there be placed fo many characters of five corners or pentacles as the fpirits we would call together at once. But if we fhould call only one, neverthelefs there mult be made four pentagons, wherein the name of the fpirit or fpirits, with their characters, are to be written. Now this lamen ought to be compofed when the moon is in her encreafe, on thofe days and hours which agree to the fpirit ; and if we take a fortunate planet
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therewith, it will be the better for the producing the effedt : which table or lamen being rightly made in the manner we have fully defcribed, muft be con- Iterated according to the rules above delivered:
And this is the way of making the general table or lamen for- the in- vacating of all fpirits whatever ; the form whereof you may fee in the Plates of pentacles, feals, and lamens.
Neverthelefs, we make fpecial tables congruent to every fpirit by the rule which we have above fpoken concerning holy pentacles.
We will yet declare unto you another rite more eafy to perform this thing : let the man who wiihes to receive an oracle from a fpirit be chafte, pure, and fandtified ; then a place being chofen pure, clean, and covered every where with clean and white linen, on the Lord’s-day in the new of the moon, let him enter into that place clothed with white linen ; let him exorcife the place, blefs it, and make a circle therein with a confecrated coal ; let there be written in the outer part of the circle the names of the angels ; in the inner part thereof write the mighty names of God ; and let be placed within the circle, at the four parts - of the world, the veffels for the perfumes. Then, being wafhed and fafting, let him enter the place and pray towards the eaft this whole Pfalm, “ Blefied are the undefiled- in the way,” &c. Pfalm cxix. Then make a fumigation, and deprecate the angels by the faid divine names, that they will appear unto you, and reveal or difeover that which you fo earneftly defire ; and do this continually for fix days, wafhed and fail- ing. On the feventh day, being wafhed and fafting, enter the circle, per- fume it, and anoint thyfelf with holy oil upon the forehead, eyes, and in the palms of both hands, and upon the feet ; then, with bended knees, fay the Pfalm ’ aforefaid, with divine and angelical names. Which being faid, arife, and walk round the circle from Eaft to Weft, until thou fhalt be wearied with a giddinefs of thy head and brain, then ftraitway . fall down in the circle, where thou mayeft reft, and thou wilt be wrapped up in an eeftafy ; and a fpirit will appear and inform thee of all things neceffary to be known. We muft obferve alfo, that in the circle there ought to be four holy candles
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burning at the four parts of the world, which ought not to want light for the fpace of a week.
And the manner of fading is this : to abftain from all things having a life of fenfe, and from thofe which do proceed from them, let him drink only- pure running water ; neither is there any food or wine to be taken till the go- ing down of the fun.
Let the perfume and the holy anointing oil be made as is fet forth in Exodus, and other holy books of the Bible. It is alfo to be obferved, that as often as he enters the circle he has upon his forehead a golden lamen, upon which there muft be written the ■ name Tetragrammaton, in the. manner we have before mentioned.
Of O racles by Dreams.
BUT natural things and their own commixtures do likewife belong unto magicians, and we often ufe fuch to receive oracles from a fpirit by a dream 5 which are either by perfumes, undtions, meats, drinks, feals, rings, &c.
Now thofe who are defirous to receive oracles in or through a dream, let him make himfelf a ring of the fun or Saturn for this purpofe. There are likewife images of dreams, which, being put under the head when he goes to deep, doth effectually give true dreams of whatever the mind hath before determined or confulted upon, the practice of which is as follows :
Thou fhalt make an image of the fun, the figure whereof muft be, a man lleeping upon the bofom of an angel, which thou fhalt make when Leo afcends, the fun being in the ninth houfe in Aries ; thou fhalt write upon the figure the name of the effedt defired, and in the hand of the angel the name of the intelligence of the fun. Let the fame image be made in Virgo afcending, Mercury being fortunate in Aries in the ninth ; or Gemini a f- cending. Mercury being fortunate in the ninth houfe in Aquarius j and let
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