E. A. Koetting - staticfly.net

WORKS OF
DARKNESS
memorized, he does not want to have to pause every ten minutes to
remember the next stanza or to focus so completely on remembering
what he is saying that he forgets why he is saying it. Any distraction
from the purpose of the ritual is unwelcome, and should be discarded or
destroyed altogether.
Finally, in the rituals below, the Sorcerer will learn to establish
a psychic link with aspects of his environment, with the human
conveyors through which he works, and with the universe itself without
the use of a physical medium aside from the candle's flame. Most ritual
Practitioners will gather fetish items either belonging to their victims
or evoking in their minds a clear image of what they desire. This is
unnecessary; the only link needed is the vision and the connection
made by the Black Magician's once latent abilities abilities that will
be cultivated and magnified through the Operations that follow.
In studying the specific abilities and powers granted by the spells
and evocations of the classic ancient grimoires, the gulf between the
Aeon of the past and that of the present is illustrated in a near comedic
blatancy. Although the greater part of them are still relevant to the
needs of the modern magician, there are a few that make the casual
reader stop and wonder if they apply to him at all.
In the Third Book of The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the
Mage, the fifteenth chapter, the Magic Squares therein are used "For
the Spirits to bring us anything we may wish to eat or to drink, and
even all kinds of food that we can imagine," complete with wine and
cheese. Footnote D goes on to explain that "for this food although it be
appreciable by the eyes, and by the mouth, doth not long nourish the
body, which hath soon hunger again, seeing that this food gives no
strength to the stomach.'"
Such food, as elusive as turns out to be, was desirable enough to
be counted among the thirty chapters of The Book of the Sacred Magic of
Abramelin the Mage. The powers that can end the life of a man and
again raise that body from the dust and breathe life into it were used to
summon an illusion of good food.
Today, if the Black Magician was in dire need of bread or meat,
he would travel to the nearest market to purchase such items and enjoy
them immediately or store them in his electric refrigerator. In the late
1300'S, when the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage was supposedly
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