The teachings of East Indian Occultism are the True Wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the True Secrets of Spirit Magic, and he but buildeth upon a foundation of sand, and his building can in no way last. Many conjurers of Black and Devilish Arts have attempted to persuade me to be wise, while they themselves, with words which I myself well understood, but which is little known, and with extravagant Symbols made bells to sound, and while with execrable conjurations made appear in glasses him who had committed a theft, and they made a liquor causing an old man to appear young (and that only for the space of two hours and no longer). All these things which they indeed taught me, but the whole was but vanity, low curiosity, and a pure deception of the Evil Spirits leading to no useful end imaginable, and tending to the loss of the Soul. I having the true veritable knowledge of the Sacred Hindu Magic, and banished them from mine heart and desires. These impious conjurers, with the aid and assistance of Evil Spirits, performed astounding feats. They used to render themselves invisible, so as to be able to enter locked-up rooms. They knew our greatest secrets, and once they told me things which only I alone could know.

But this art cost them too dearly for the Evil Spirits had made them swear in the Pact that they would use all their secrets to the dishonor of their friends, and to the prejudice of their neighbors. Ultimately their soul and body was dragged through deep misery. This was all the profits they drew from their Diabolical Science and Damnable Magic. In some parts of the Orient I found an infinitude of Black Magicians who only occupied themselves in killing and maiming men, in putting discord among married people, in causing divorces, in tying witch-knots in osier or willow branches to stop the flow of milk in the breasts of nursing women, and similar infamies. But these miserable wretches had also made a Pact with Evil Spirits, and had become their slaves, having sworn unto them that they would work without cessation to destroy the happiness of all living creatures. Some of these had two years (for their Pact) to run, some three, and after that time they underwent the same fate as all who form a Pact with Evil Spirits. At Benares, India, I was introduced to a young Indian woman, who one evening invited me to go with her, assuring me that without any risk she would conduct me to a place where I greatly desired to find myself.

I allowed myself (in order to find her out) to be persuaded by her promises. She then gave unto me an ungent with which I rubbed the principal pulses of my feet and hands; the which she did also; and at first it appeared to me that I was flying in the air in the place which I wished, and which I had in no way mentioned to her.

I pass over in silence out of respect for my Disciples, that which I saw. After I appeared to have remained there a long while, I felt as if I were just awakening from a profound sleep, and I had a decided pain in my head. I turned round and saw that she was seated at my side. She began to ask me what I had seen, and that which I had seen was something I never wish to behold again. I was, however, much astonished, because it appeared to me as if I had been really and corporeally in the place, and there in reality to have seen that which had happened. One day I asked her to go alone to that same place, and to bring me back news of a Hindu friend whom I knew for certain was distant 200 leagues. She promised to do so in the space of an hour. She rubbed herself with the same ungent, and I was very expectant to see her fly away, but she fell to the ground and remained there about three hours as if she were dead, so that I began to think that she really was dead. At last she began to stir like a person who is waking, then she rose to an upright position, and with much pleasure began to give me the account of her expedition, saying that she had been in the place where my friend was, and told me all that he was doing; which was entirely in keeping with his profession, of which I had told her nothing.

Whence I concluded that what she had just told me was not a simple dream, and that this ungent was not a causer of Astral sleep; whereon she confessed to me that this ungent had been given to her by the Evil Spirits. All the Arts of. the Witches and Conjurers are Enchantments and Fascinations, through which wonderful things can be done. But the Evil Spirits hold them enchained in these accursed Arts so that the Foundation of the True Magic may be unknown to them which would render them more powerful than they; and I was the more confirmed in this opinion because their operations were of no practical use whatever, and caused injury unto him who put them into practice, as in fact many of them avowed plainly to me that they were envious because I was an Adept who had the True and Sacred Magic of the Hindus. There are also many operations which they say are handed down from the Ancient Zuroos. There is an Art called White and Black Xoozj; another Angelical, Teatim; in which I avow that I have seen Orations so learned and beautiful, that had I not known the venom therein hidden, I would have given them herein.

I say all this because it is very easy for him who is not constantly upon his guard to err in studying Spirit Magic