3. You would then préparé your Place of Working accordingly. 
In an orange circle you would draw an eight-pointed star of yellow, 
at whose points you would place eight lamps. The Sigil of the 
Spirit (which is to be found in Cornélius Agrippa and other books) 
you would draw in the four colours with such other devices as 
your expérience may suggest. 
4. And so on. We cannot here enter at length into ail the 
necessary préparations ; and the student will find them fully set 
forth in the proper books, of which the “Goetia” is perhaps the best 
example. 
These rituals need not be slavishly imitated; on the contrary, 
the student should do nothing the object of which he does not 
understand; also, if he hâve any capacity whatever, he will find 
his own crude rituals more effective than the highly polished ones 
of other people. 
The general purpose of ail this préparation is as follows: 
5. Since the student is a man surrounded by material objects, if 
it be his wish to master one particular idea, he must make every 
material object about him directly suggest that idea. Thus, in the 
ritual quoted, if his glance fail upon the lights, their number 
suggests Mercury j he smells the perfurnes, and again Mercury is 
brought to his mind. In other words the whole magical apparatus 
and ritual is a complex System of mnemonics. 
(The importance of these lies principally in the fact that 
particular sets of images that the student may meet in his 
wanderings correspond to particular lineal figures, divine names, 
etc. and are controlled by them. As to the possibility of producing 
results external to the mind of the seer (objective in the ordinal y 
common sense acceptation of the term) we are here silent.) 
6. There are three important practices connected with ail forms 
of cérémonial (and the two Methods which later we shall describe). 
These are: 
(1) Assumption of God-forms. 
(2) Vibration of Divine Names. 
(3) Rituals of “Banishing” and “Invoking”. 
These, at least, should be completely mastered before the 
dangerous Methods of Chapter V and VI are attempted. 
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