I Was Not Content To Believe In

You Must On No Account Attempt To Use The Squares Given In The Book Of The Sacred Magic Of Abramelin The Mage Until You Have Succeeded In The Operation. More, Unless You Mean To Perform It, And Are Prepared To Go To Any Length To Do So, You Are A Fool To Have The Book In Your Possession At All. Those Squares Are Liable To Get Loose And Do Things On Their Own Initiative; And You Won't Like It.

To Me A Book Is A Message From The Gods To Mankind; Or, If Not, Should Never Be Published At All. A Message From The Gods Should Be Delivered At Once. It Is Damnably Blasphemous To Talk About The Autumn Season And So On. How Dare The Author Or Publisher Demand A Price For Doing His Duty, The Highest And Most Honorable To Which A Man Can Be Called?

In Every Magical, Or Similar System, It Is Invariably The First Condition Which The Aspirant Must Fulfill: He Must Once And For All And For Ever Put His Family Outside His Magical Circle.even The Gospels Insist Clearly And Weightily On This.christ Himself (i.e. Whoever Is Meant By This Name In This Passage) Callously Disowns His Mother And His Brethren (luke Viii, 19). And He Repeatedly Makes Discipleship Contingent On The Total Renunciation Of All Family Ties. He Would Not Even Allow A Man To Attend His Father's Funeral!is The Magical Tradition Less Rigid?not On Your Life!

The More Necessary Anything Appears To My Mind, The Most Certain It Is That I Only Assert A Limitation.

Genuine Recollections Almost Invariably Explain Oneself To Oneself. Suppose, For Example, That You Feel An Instinctive Aversion To Some Particular Kind Of Wine. Try As You Will, You Can Find No Reason For It. Suppose When You Explore A Previous Incarnation, You Remember You Died By A Poisoned Administered In A Wine Of That Kind, Your Aversion Is Explained By The Proverb: 'a Burnt Child Dreads The Fire.'