Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 4)

LIBER E vel EXERCITIORUM SUB FIGURA IX I. i. It is absolutely necessary that ail experiments should be recorded in detail during, or immediately after, their performance. 1. It is highly important to note the physical and mental condi¬ tion of the expérimenter or experimenters. 3. The time and place of ail experiments must be noted; also the State of the weather, and generally ail conditions which might conceivably hâve any resuit upon the experiment either as adju¬ vants to or causes of the resuit, or as inhibiting it, or as sources of error. 4. The A.-. A.*, will not take official notice of any experi¬ ments which are not thus properly recorded. 5. It is not necessary at this stage for us to déclaré fully the ultimate end of our researchesj nor indeed would it be understood by those who hâve not become proficient in these elementary courses. 6. The expérimenter is encouraged to use his own intelligence, and not to rely upon any other person or persons, however distin- guished, even among ourselves. 7. The written record should be intelligently prepared so that others may benefit from its study. 8. The Book John St John published in the first number of the “Equinox” is an example of this kind of record by a very advanced student. It is not as simply written as we could wish, but will show the method. 9. The more scientific the record is, the better. Yet the émo¬ tions should be noted, as being some of the conditions. Let then the record be written with sincerity and carej thus with practice it will be found more and more to approximate to thé idéal. - 368 -