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The Law is for All
23. For perfume mix meal Sc honey 8c thick leavings of red 
wine: then oil of Abramelin and olive oil, and afterward 
soften 8c smooth down with rich fresh blood.
24. The best blood is of the moon, monthly: then the fresh blood 
of a child, or dropping from the host of heaven: then of 
enemies; then of the priest or of the worshippers: last of 
some beast, no matter what.
25. This burn: of this make cakes 8c eat unto me. This hath also 
another use; let it be laid before me, and kept thick with 
perfumes of your orison: it shall become full of beetles as it 
were and creeping things sacred unto me.
26. These slay, naming your enemies; & they shall fall before 
you.
27. Also these shall breed lust & power of lust in you at the 
eating thereof.
Commentary: The word “lust” is not necessarily to be taken 
in the sense familiar to Puritans. It means robustness, “merri­
ment” as of old understood: the Germans have retained the 
proper force of the term in lustig. But even the English retain 
“lusty.”
The Puritan is undoubtedly a marvel. He has even succeeded 
in attaching a foul connotation to a colourless word like 
“certain”—“In a section of the city with a certain reputation 
women of a certain class suffering from certain diseases are 
charged with performing certain acts” is a common enough item 
in the newspapers. It allows the fullest play to the dirtiest 
imaginations—which appears to be the aim of the Societies for 
the Suppression of Vice, and their like.
28. Also ye shall be strong in war.
29. Moreover, be they long kept, it is better; for they swell with 
my force. All before me.
30. My altar is of open brass work: bum thereon in silver or 
gold!