If during the Invocation they should appear with tumult and insolence fear nothing; neither give way to anger, but appear to make no account thereof. Only show them the Consecrated Wand, and if they continue to make a disturbance smite upon the Altar twice or thrice therewith and all will be still.

It should be noted that after you shall have licensed them to depart, and they shall have disappeared you shall take a small tray or plate and put perfume therein, place it in the room wherein the Spirits shall have appeared, and you shall perfume the place all around, for otherwise the Spirits might work some evil unto persons entering by chance therein.

You shall the day after take away all the Ashes from the tray and cast it into a secret place; but above all thinks take care not to throw it either into a river or into the navigable sea.

But should you desire to procure for yourself various other Magical Secrets leave the Ashes and all things in place, as I shall also describe more particularly later in this chapter.

Also, should you wish it, you can retain your arrangements in place, and keep the room where you carry on your meditation and study proper and clean, as well as the table, which latter you may place in a corner, should it incommode you in the center of the room. For in this Apartment, if it be not contaminated nor profaned, you may every Saturday enjoy the presence of your Guardian Spirit, which is one of the most sublime things which you can desire in this Sacred Art.

The good Spirits may be invocated of us, or by us, divers ways, and they in sundry shapes and manners offer themselves to us, for they openly speak to those that watch, and do offer themselves to our sight or do inform us by dreams and by oracle of those things which we have a great desire to know. Whoever therefore would call any good Spirit to speak or appear in sight he must particularly observe two things, one whereof is about the disposition of the invocant, the other concerning those things which are outwardly to be adhered to in the invocation for the conformitv of the Spirit to be called.

It is necessary therefore that the invocant religiously dispose himself for the space of two days to such a mystery, and to conserve himself during the time, chasten, abstinent and to abstract himself as much as he can from all manner of foreign and secular business; likewise he should observe fasting, as much as shall seem convenient to him, and let him daily, between sun rising and setting, being clothed in clean linen, seven times call upon God, and make a deprecation unto the Spirits to be called and invocated, according to the rule which I will teach you. The number of days of fasting and preparation is commonly from one to two days.

Now, concerning the place; it must be chosen clean, pure, close, quiet, free from all manner of noise and not subject to any stranger's presence. This place must first of all be exorcised and consecrated, and let there be a Table or Altar placed therein, covered with a clean white linen cloth and set towards the east, and on each side thereof place two consecrated wax-light burning candles, the flame thereof ought not to go out during your operation. In the middle of the Altar thereof let there be placed clean writing paper, covered with fine linen cloth, which is not to be raised until the end of the operation. Then set a censer or small tray on the head of the Altar, wherein you shall kindle a holy fire by burning tincture of benzoin or wood alcohol one teaspoonful, and make a precious perfume of rose petals every day that you pray.

Now for your habit; you shall have a long garment of white linen, close before and behind, which may come down quite over the feet, and gird yourself about the loins with a girdle. You shall likewise have a small stand cover of pure white linen as on which must be wrote in a Purple Ink the name Zetragrazzation; all of which things are to be consecrated and sanctified in order by prayer. But you must not go into this holy place till it be first aired and then you may enter, and when you enter therein you shall make a perfume upon the altar, and then on your knees pray before the altar as I shall have directed you.

Now when the time is come for you to invoke spirits, you shall fast more strictly, and fasting on the day following, at the rising of the sun, enter the holy place, using the ceremonies before you shall make a cross with olive oil on the forehead and anoint your eyes, using prayer in all these consecrations. You shall next pray before the Altar upon your knees, and then an invocation may be made as fol-lows:

"In the name of the Blessed and Holy Adepts, I do desire ye, strong and mighty Spirits (here name the Spirit or Spirits you would have appear), that if it be the Divine Will of Him Who is called Zetra-grazzation, etc., the Holy Spirit, the Father, that ye take upon ye some shape as best becometh your Astral nature and appear to me visibly here in this place and answer my demands, in as far as I shall not transgress.the bounds of the Divine mercy and goodness, by requesting unlawful knowledge, but that thou wilt graciously show me what things are most profitable for me to know and do, to the glory and honor of His Divine Majesty, who liveth and reigneth world without end. Amen."

"Lord, Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven; make clean my heart within me, and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me. O Lord, by Thy Name I have called them, suffer them to administer unto me. And that all things may work together for Thy Honor and Glory, to Whom with Thee thy Son and blessed Spirit, be ascribed all might, majesty and dominion, world without end. Amen."

The Invocation being properly made the Good Spirits will appear unto you which you desire, which you shall entertain with a chaste communication and license them to depart.

Now the Seal which is used to invoke any Good Spirit must be made after the following manner: Either in metal conformable or in new wax mixed with convenient spices, or it may be made with pure white paper, and the outward form of it must be square and not circular nor triangular, or of the like sort according to the rule of the Hindus, on which there must be written the names of the Astral Spirits you wish to invoke. And in the center of the Seal draw a character of six corners. In the middle thereof write the Name and Character of the Spirit, also your name, to whom the Good Spirit that is to be called into subject to your wishes. And about this character let there be placed numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, as the Spirits you would call, many come together at once. But if you should call only one, nevertheless there must be made four numbers wherein the name of the Spirit or Spirits with their characters are to be written. Now this seal ought to be composed on those days and hours when the Moon is in her increase, and if you take fortunate months, which are May, January and July, therewith, it will be better for the producing of the effect, which seal being rightly made in the manner I have fully described must be consecrated according to the rules above delivered.

And this is the way of making the general seal and invocation of all Spirits whatever, the form whereof you may see in seals and plates. I will yet declare unto you another rite more easy to perform this thing: Let the Man who wishes to receive an oracle from a Spirit be chaste, pure and sanctified; then choose a place being pure, clean and covered not with dust or filth, and on the Lord's day in the new of the Moon let him enter into the place clothed with clothing that is clean; let him exorcise the place, bless it and make a circle therein with a piece of tailor's chalk, let there be written in the outer part of the Circle the Names of the Astral Spirits he wishes to have appear, in the inner part thereof write the name of Mjura. Have the vessels for the perfumes ready and burning. You must now pray towards the East this whole Psalm:

"Blessed are the undefiled in the way, etc." (Psalm cix.) Then make a fumigation and deprecate the Spirits by their Names that they will appear unto you and reveal or discover that which you so earnestly desire, and do this continually for one-half hour. Next enter the Circle, perfume it, and anoint thyself with the Oil of the Olive upon the forehead, eyes and in the palms of both hands and upon the feet, then with bended knees say the Psalm aforesaid, with Divine and Angelical Names. Which being said arise and walk around the Circle from East to West until thou shalt receive a communication or impression to sit like a Hindu, legs crossed, down in the Circle, where thou mayest rest, and thou wilt be wrapped up in an ecstacy, and a Spirit will appear and inform thee of all things necessary to be known. You must observe also that in the Circle there ought to be four waxen candles burning at the Four Parts of the World, which ought not to want light for the space of your operation.

And the manner of eating is this, to abstain from all things having a life of the wild animal, and from those which do proceed from them, drink only pure running water; neither is there any food or wine to be taken for two hours before this operation. Let the perfume and the Oil of the Olive be made as is set forth in Exodus and other holy books of the Bible. It is also to be observed that as often as you enter the Circle have in your right hand a seal as described above, upon which must be written the name Zetragrazzation, in the manner I have be-fore mentioned. Other directions for invoking Astral Spirits are as follows:

Make a small book containing the names of the days of the week when you intend to have your operations; the names of the Astral Spirits you desire to invoke; a seal as above described, which being done thou shalt consecrate the same unto God and unto the pure Spirits in the manner following: Thou shalt set in the destined place a small table covered with a white cloth, whereon thou shalt lay the Book opened at the seal, which should be drawn on the first leaf of the said Book, and having kindled a candle, which should be placed in the center of the table, thou shalt surround the said table with a circle, clothe thyself in the proper vestments, as directed above, and holding the Book open repeat upon thy knees the following prayer with great humility: