The Equinox (Volume I, Number IX)

THE KEY OF THE MYSTERIES you know them? Have you promised themanything? Have you signed a pact ?” “No,” interrupted the owner of the gv/moire; “I do not know them, and I have entered into no agreement with them. I only know that among them the chiefs are good, the inter- mediate rank partly good and partly evil; the inferiors bad, but blindly, and without its being possible for them to do better. He whom I evoked, and who has often appeared to me, belongs to the most elevated hierarchy; for he was good- looking, well dressed, and always gave me favourable answers. But I have lost a page of my grimoire, the first, the most important, that which bore the autograph of the spirit; and, since then, he no longer appears when I call him. “Tama lost man. Iam naked as Job, I have no longer either force or courage. O Master, I conjure you, you who need only say one word, make one sign, and the spirits will obey, take pity upon me, and restore to me what I have lost !” “Give me your grimoive/” said Eliphas. “What name used you to give to the spirit who appeared to you?” “T called him Adonai.” “ And in what language was his signature ?” “T do not know, but I suppose it was in Hebrew.” “ There,” said the Professor of Transcendental Magic, after having traced two words in the Hebrew language in the beginning and at the end of the book. ‘ Here are two words which the spirits of darkness will never counterfeit. Go in peace, sleep well, and no longer evoke spirits.” The workman withdrew. A week later, he returned to seek the Man of Science. 155