Book II.

days, and hours j for in making a circle it ought to be confidered in what time of the year, what day, and what hour, what fpirits you would call, and; to what ftar or region they belong, and what functions they have : therefore,, to begin, let there be made three circles of the latitude of nine feet, diftantone from another about a hand’s breadth. Firft, write in the middle circle the name' of the hour wherein you do the work ; in the fecond place, write the- name of the angel of the hoar ; in the third place, the feal of the angel of the hour ; fourthly, the name of the angel that rules the day in which you work, and the names of his ministers ; in the fifth place, the name of the prefent time ; fixthly, the name of the fpirits ruling in that part of time, and their prefidents ; feventhly, the name of the head of the ftgn ruling in the time ; eighthly, the name of the earth, according to the time of working ; ninthly, and for the compleating of the middle circle, write the name of the fun and moon, according to the faid rule of time : for as the times are changed, fo are the names : and in the outer circle let there be drawn, in the four angles, the names of the great prefidential fpirits of the air that day wherein you would do this work, viz. the name of the king and his three minifters. Without the circle, in four angles, let pentagons be made. In the inner circle write four divine names, with four erodes inter- pofed : in the middle of the circle, viz. towards the eaft let be written Al- pha ; towards the weft. Omega ; and let a crofs divide the middle of the circle.
When the circle is thus finifhed, according to rule, you fhall proceed to conlecrate and blefs it, faying.
In the name of the holy, hie fed, and glorious Trinity , proceed we to our work in thefe myferies to accompli (h that which we defire ; we therefore, in the names aforefaid, confecrate this piece of ground for our defence fa that no fpirit whatfoever fall be able to break thefe boundaries , neither be able to caufe injury Jior detriment to any of us here afembled ; but that they may be compelled to ) land before this circle , and anfwer truly our demands, fo far as it pleafeth Him who liveth for ever and ever ; and who fays, I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, which is, and which was , and which is to come , the Almighty ; l am the Firjl and the Laf , who am living and was dead j and behold I live
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