Magick in Theory and Practice (Section 1)

Be alert and on your guard ! Watch before you pray ! The feeling of success in banishing, once acquired, is unmistakable. At the conclusion, it is usually well to pause for a few moments, and to make sure once more that every thing necessary to the ceremony is in its right place. The Magician may then proceed to the final consécration of the furniture of the Temple.1 i. That is, of the spécial arrangement of that furniture. Each object should hâve been separately consecrated beforehand. The ritual here in question should summarize the situation, and devote the particular arrange¬ ment to its purpose by invoking the appropriate forces. Let it be well remembered that each object is bound by the Oaths of its original consé¬ cration as such. Thus, if a Pantacle has been made sacred to Venus, it cannot be used in an operation of Mars; the Energy of the Exorcist would be taken up in overcoming the opposition of the “Karma” or inertia therein inhérent. 105