Book 4 (Part II)

CHAPTER XIII THE BOOK THE Book of Spells or of Conjurations is the Record of every thought, word, and deed of the Magician; for everything that he has willed is willed to a purpose. It is the same as if he had taken an oath to perform some achievement. Now this Book must be a holy Book, not a scribbling-book in which you jot down every piece of rubbish that comes into your head. It is written, Liber VII, v, 23: "Every breath, every word, every thought, every deed is an act of love with Thee. Be this devotion a potent spell to exorcise the demons of the Five." This Book must then be thus written. In the first place the Magician must perform the practice laid down in Liber CMXIII so that he under- stands perfectly who he is, and to what his development must necessarily tend. So much for the first page of the Book. Let him then be careful to write nothing therein that is 149