The Equinox (Volume I, Number X)

THE EQUINOX for he told me he had seen you, and it is I who sent him to you.” No more doubt, then; the unhappy priest had found the fatal grimoive, he had done the evocation, and prepared himself for the murder by a series of sacrileges. For this is in what the infernal evocations consist, according to the grimotre of Honorius: “Choose a black cock, and give him the name of the spirit of darkness which one wishes to evoke. “ Kill the cock, and keep its heart, its tongue, and the first feather of its left wing. “Dry the tongue and the heart, and reduce them to powder. “Eat no meat and drink no wine, that day. “On Tuesday, at dawn, say a mass of the angels. “Trace upon the altar itself, with the feather of the cock dipped in the consecrated wine, certain diabolical signatures (those of Mr. Home’s pencil, and the bloody hosts of Vintras). “On Wednesday, prepare a taper of yellow wax; rise at midnight, and alone, in the church, begin the office of the dead. “Mingle with this office infernal evocations. “ Finish the office by the light of a single taper, extinguish it immediately, and remain without light in the church thus profaned until sunrise. “On Thursday, mingle with the consecrated water the powder of the tongue and heart of the black cock, and let the whole be swallowed by a male lamb of nine days old... .” 176