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inharmonious
or untrue.
Nor
can
he avoid this writing,
for this
is
a Magick Book.
If you abandon
even for an hour
the
one purpose of your life, you will find a number of meaningless
scratches
and scrawls on the white vellum; and these cannot
be erased.
In such
a case,
when
you come to conjure
a demon
by the
power of the Book,
he will mock you; he will point to all this foolish
writing,
more like his
own than yours.
In vain will you continue
with
the subsequent
spells;
you
have
broken
by your
own foolishness
the chain
which
would
have
bound
him.
Even the calligraphy
of the Book must
be firm, clear, and beautiful;
in the cloud
of incense
it is hard to read
the conjurations.
While
you
peer dimly through
the smoke, the demon
will vanish, and you will have
to write the terrible
word "failure."
And
yet there
is
no
page of this
Book
on which
this word
is not
written; but so long
as it is immediately
followed
by a new affirmation,
all is not lost; and as in this Book the word
"failure"'
is thus made of
little account,
so also must the word "success
" never be employed,
for it is
the last word that may be wTitten therein,
and it is followed
by a full stop.
This full stop may never
be written
anywhere
else;
for the wTiting of
the Book goes on eternally;
there is no way of closing
the record until
the goal of all has been attained.
Let every page of this Book be
filled with song—for it is a Book of incantation
!