With regard to the préparations for such Sacraments, the 
Catholic Church has maintained well enough the traditions of the 
true Gnostic Church in whose keeping the secrets are. 1 
Chastity 2 is a condition; fastrng for sonie Iiours previons 
is a condition; an carnest and continuai aspiration is a con¬ 
dition, Without these antécédents even the Eucharist of the 
One and Seven is partiaily — though such is its intrinsic virtue 
that it can never be wholly — baulked of its effect. 
A Eucharist of some sort sliould most assuredly be cou* 
summated daily by every magician, and be sboitld regard 
if as the main sustenance of bis magica! life, It is of more 
importance than any other magical ceremony, because it is a 
complété circle. The whole of the force expended is completely 
re-absorbed 3 yet the virtue is that vast gain represented by the 
abyss between Man and God. 
The magician becomes füled with God, fed upon God, 
intoxicaîed with God. Lit lie by little Ms hody will bec orne 
pnrified by fbe internai lustration of God; day by day bis 
mort ai frame, shedding its earihly éléments, will become 
in very truth the Temple of tbe Holy Gliost. Day by day 
matter is repîaeed by Spirit, tbe bmnau by the divine ; 
ulîimately the change will be complété; God manifest in 
flesh will be bis naine, 
This is the most important of ail magical secrets that ever were 
or are or can be. To a Magician thus renewed the attainment of 
the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel 
becomes an inévitable task; every force of his nature, unhindered, 
tends to that aim and goal of whose nature neither man nor god 
may speak, for that it is infinitely beyond speech or thought or 
1. Study, in the Roman Missal, the Canon of the Mass, and the chapter 
of “defects”. 
2. The Word Chastity is used by initiâtes to signify a certain State of 
soûl and of mind déterminant of a certain habit of body which is nowise 
identical with what is commonly understood. Chastity in the true magical 
sense of the word is inconceivable to those who are not wholly emancipated 
from the obsession of sex. 
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