Book II.

letters wrote in pure gold ; and it ought to be confecrated and fprinkled (as before often fpoken) with holy water.
When the vefture is put on, it will be convenient to fay the following oration :
An Oration when the Habit or Vesture is put on.
ANOOR, Amacor, Amides, Theodonias, Anitor; by the merits of the an- gels, O Lord ! I will put on the garment of falvation, that this which I de- lire I may bring to effedt, through thee, the moll holy Adonai, whofe king- dom endureth for ever and ever. Amen.
The Manner of Working.
LET the moon be increaling and equal, if it can then be conveniently done ; but efpecially let her not be combull, or in Via Combulla, which is between fourteen degrees of Libra and fourteen degrees of Scorpio.
The operator ought to be clean and purified for nine days before he does the work. Let him have ready the perfume appropriated to the day wherein he does the work ; and he mull be provided with holy water from a clergy- man, or he may make it holy himfelf, by reading over it the confecration of water of baptifm ; he mull have a new vefiel of earth, with fire, the vellure, and the pentacle ; and let all thefe things be rightly and duly confe- crated and prepared. Let one of the companions carry the vefiel with fire, and the perfumes, and let another bear the book, the garment, and pentacle ; and let the operator himfelf carry the fword, over which Ihould be faid a prayer of confecration : and on the middle of the fword on one fide let there be engra- ven Agla -f-t and on the other fide, *j On> -f Tetragrammaton -f*. And the place being fixed upon where the circle is to be eredted, let him draw the lines we have before taught, and fprinkle the fame with holy water, confe- crating, &c. &c.
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