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MANVS ET SAGITTAE
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1. This book is very easy to misunderstand; readers are
asked to use the most minute critical care in the study of it,
even as we have done in its preparation.
2. In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the
Paths ; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes,
and many other things which may or may not exist.
It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing
certain things certain results will follow; students are most
earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philo-
sophic validity to any of them.
3. The advantages to be gained from them are chiefly
these:
(a) A widening of the horizon of the mind.
(8) An improvement of the control of the mind.
4. The student, if he attains any success in the following
practices, will find himself confronted by things (ideas or
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