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And whereas I have allowed the Twenty-eighth Chapter to pass without
notice, I now refer hereto. Place the Symbol of the Money you require in your
purse, let it remain there for a short time, then put your right hand in your
purse, and you will there find Seven pieces of the class of Money which you
have intended to obtain. But take heed to perform this Operation only thrice
in the day. And the pieces of Money whereof you have no longer need will
disappear at once. This is why when you have need of small change you should
take heed at the same time not to ask for large pieces. I could have here set
down other values and Symbols, but I have only given those which I have
found the most necessary for a beginner, and partly also to avoid confusing
you. And also it is not right that I who am only a mortal man should give
further instructions hereon unto you who are about to have an Angel for
Master and for Guide.
We have already said that providing he recogniseth a God, any Man, of
any Religion soever, may arrive at the possession of this Veritable Wisdom and
Magic, if he employ right and proper ways and means. Now I say further that
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unto whatever Law he who operateth may pertain, he can observe the feasts,
etc., thereof, provided that they hinder not the Operation, with a firm and
true conviction that he shall have from his Angel greater lights as to the points
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wherein he may be liable to err. Wherefore you shall be ready and willing to
correct your faults, obedient in all things, and on all occasions, unto his
precepts. And you should observe exactly and inviolably from point to point,
everything touching the regimen of life, the practice, and other counsels given
in this Book.
As we have already said, if by chance some slight indisposition should
overtake you after the commencement of the Operation, you shall observe that
hereinbefore laid down; but should the illness become very much worse, so
that remedies become necessary unto the health of the body, and that you have
to undergo blood-letting; then do not harden yourself against the Will of the
Lord, but having made a brief prayer, thank Him for having visited you in this
manner. And having made use of remedies which oblige you to leave off the
Operation already begun, so as not to become as it were your own murderer,
and notwithstanding that it grieveth you to the heart to be forced so to do, yet
nevertheless conform yourself unto His Holy Will. And when you shall have
regained your accustomed health, in His own good time shall you return unto
the Operation, feeling sure that He will grant you His aid. Such a forced
desistance doth not hinder you from awaiting a fitting time, when you may
recommence; seeing that such interruption is not in any way voluntary, but
forced by necessity. Whereas, had this interruption occurred through pure
caprice, you ought never to think further of (recommencing), because we must
not make a Mock of God.
There be two kinds of sins which are infinitely displeasing unto God. One
is Ingratitude, and the other Incredulity. I say this cursorily, because the Devil
will not fail to insinuate a thousand ideas into your head (such as) that this
Operation may perhaps be (a real thing) and perhaps not; that the symbols are
badly drawn, etc., so as to make you comment upon the subject. This is why
you must have Faith, and that you must believe. Neither should you dispute
concerning that which you understand not; remember that God out of
nothingness hath created all things, and that all things have their being in Him
watch, work, and you will see.
In the Name of the Most Holy Adonai, the True and Only God, we have
finished this Book in the best order and with the best instruction which has
been possible to me. Know also that it is only in God that you will find the
sole and certain Way to arrive at the True Wisdom and Magic, but yet also by
following out that which I have written down in this Book with such
exactitude. Still, however, when you shall have put anything into practice, you
shall manifestly know how great and immeasurable hath been my paternal
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affection; and in truth I dare to say that I have done for love of you what no
one in our times hath undertaken, and in especial in that I have declared unto
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you the two Symbols, that of the Child, and your own particular one,
without the which I swear unto you by the True God that out of an hundred
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