We Should
Bring the Exercise of the Art to Perfection
The Days and Hours have already been treated of, in general, in the First Book. It is
now necessary to notice in particular at what hour accomplishment and perfection
should be given to the Arts, all things necessary having been previously prepared.
Should it then happen that thou hast undertaken any secret operation for conversing
with or conjuring Spirits, in which the day and the hour are not marked, thou
shalt put it in execution on the days and hours of Mercury, at the sixteenth or twenty-third
hour, but it will be still better at the eighth, which is the third of the same night,
which is called and means before the morning, for then thou shalt be able to put in
practice all the Arts and Operations which should he performed, according as it shall
please thee by day or by night, provided that they have been prepared at the hours
suitable to them, as hath been already said. But when neither hour nor time of operation
or invocation is specified, it is then much better to perform these experiments at
night, seeing that it is more easy to the Spirits to appear in the peaceful silence of
night than during the day. And thou shouldst inviolably observe, that wishing to
invoke the Spirits, either by day or by night, it is necessary that it should be done in a
place hidden, removed, secret, convenient, and proper for such Art, where no man
frequenteth or inhabiteth, as we shall relate more fully in its place.
If then thou shouldst operate touching anything which hath been stolen, in whatever
way it be performed and whatever way it may have been prepared, it is necessary
to practice it on the days and hours of the Moon, being if possible in her increase, and
from the first unto the eighth hour of the day.
But if it be by night, then it should be at the fifth or at the third hour; but it is better
by day than by the night, for the light justifieth them, and maketh them much
more fit for publication. But if the Operations be regarding Invisibility, they should
be put in practice at the first, second, and third hours of Mars by day. But if by night,
until the third hour. If they be Operations of seeking love, grace, or favor, they should
be performed until the eighth hour of the same day, commencing with the first hour
of the Sun; and from the first hour of Venus unto the first hour of the same day of
Venus.
As for Operations of destruction and desolation, we should practice and put them
into execution on the day of Saturn at the first hour, or rather at the eighth or fifteenth
of the day; and from the first until the eighth hour of the night.
Experiments of games, raillery, deceit, illusion, and invisibility, ought to be done
at the first hour of Venus, and at the eighth hour of the day; but by night at the third
and at the seventh.
At all times of practicing and putting into execution Magical Arts, the Moon
should be increasing in light, and in an equal number of degrees with the Sun; and it is much better from the first quarter to the Opposition, and the Moon should be in a
fiery Sign, and notably in that of the Ram or of the Lion.
Therefore, to execute these Experiments in any manner whatsoever, it should be
done when the Moon is clear, and when she is increasing in light.
In order to put in execution those of Invisibility after everything is properly prepared,
the Moon should be in the Sign of the Fishes, in the hours proper and fitting,
and she should be increasing in light.
For experiments of seeking love and favor, in whatever way it may be desired, they
will succeed, provided that they have been prepared at the proper hours, and that the
Moon be increasing in light and in the Sign of the Twins.
So exact a preparation of days and hours is not necessary for those who are
Adepts in the Art, but it is extremely necessary for apprentices and beginners, seeing
that those who have been little or not at all instructed herein, and who only begin to
apply themselves to this Art, do not have as much faith in the experiments as those
who are adepts therein, and who have practiced them. But as regards beginners, they
should always have the days and hours well disposed and appropriate unto the Art.
And the wise should only observe the precepts of the Art which are necessary, and in
observing the other solemnities necessary they will operate with a perfect assurance.
It is, nevertheless, necessary to take care that when thou shalt have prepared any
experiment thyself for the days and hours ordained, that it should be performed in
clear, serene, mild, and pleasant weather, without any great tempest or agitation of the
air, which should not be troubled by winds. For when thou shalt have conjured any
Spirits in any art or experiment, they will not come when the Air is troubled or agitated
by winds, seeing that Spirits have neither flesh nor bones, and are created of
different substances.
Some are created from Water.
Others from Wind, unto which they are like.
Some from Earth.
Some from Clouds.
Others from Solar Vapors.
Others from the keenness and strength of Fire; and when they are invoked or
summoned, they come always with great noise, and with the terrible nature of fire.
When the Spirits which are created of water are invoked, they come with great
rains, thunder, hail, lightning, thunder-bolts, and the like.
When the Spirits which are created of Clouds are invoked, they come with great
deformity, in a horrible form, to strike fear into the invocator, and with an exceeding
great noise.
Others which are formed from wind appear like thereunto and with exceeding
swift motion, and whensoever those which are created from Beauty appear, they will
show themselves in a fair and agreeable form; moreover, whensoever thou shalt call
the Spirits created from Air, they will come with a kind of gentle breeze.
When the Spirits which are created from the Vapors of the Sun are invoked, they
come under a very beautiful and excellent form, but filled with pride, vanity, and conceit. They are clever, whence it comes that these last are all specified by SOLOMON in
his book of ornament, or of beauty. They show great ostentation and vainglory in
their dress, and they rejoice in many ornaments; the boast of possessing mundane
beauty, and all sorts of ornaments and decorations. Thou shalt only invoke them in
serene, mild, and pleasant weather.
The Spirits which are created of Fire reside in the east, those created of Wind in
the south.
Note then that it will be much better to perform the experiments or operations in
the direction of the East, putting everything necessary in practice towards that point.
But for all other operations or extraordinary experiments, and for those of love,
they will be much more efficacious directed towards the north.
Take heed further, that every time that thou performest any experiment, to reduce
it unto perfection with the requisite solemnities, thou shalt recommence the former
experiment if interrupted therein, without the preparation of hours or other
solemnities.
If by chance it should happen that having performed an experiment with due
observance of days, hours, and requisite solemnities, thou shalt find it unsuccessful, it
must be in some manner false, ill-arranged and defective, and thou must assuredly
have failed in some matter; for if thou doest ill in one single point, these experiments
or these Arts will not be verified.
Thus upon this Chapter dependeth this whole Key of Arts, Experiments, and
Operations, and although every solemnity be rightly observed, no experiment will be
verified, unless thou canst penetrate the meaning of this Chapter.
the intangible rings of the upper spheres,
so that creation is, in truth,
the process of making tangible the intangible
by extending the intangible into various vibratory rates.”
― Manly P. Hall
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel
― Manly P. Hall
The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel
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