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Of the manner of working.
LEt the Moon be increasing and equal, if it may then be done, and let her not be combust.
The Operator ought to be clean and purified by the space of nine daies before the beginning of the work, and to be con∣fessed, and receive the holy Communion. Let him have ready the perfume appropriated to the day wherein he would per∣form the work. He ought also to have holy water from a Priest, and a new earthen vessel with fire, a Vesture and Pen∣tacle; and let all these things be rightly and duly consecrated and prepared. Let one of the servants carry the earthen vessel full of fire, and the perfumes, and let another bear the book, another the Garment and Pentacle, and let the master carry the Sword; over which there must be said one mass of the Holy Ghost; and on the middle of the Sword, let there be written this name Agla †, and on the other side thereof, this name † On †. And as he goeth to the consecrated place, let him continually read Letanies, the servants an∣swering. And when he cometh to the place where he will erect the Circle, let him draw the lines of the Circle, as we have before taught: and after he hath made it, let him sprinkle the Circle with holy water, saying, A••••erges me Do∣mine, * 1.1 &c.
The Master therefore ought to be purified with fasting, chastity, and abstinency from all luxury the space of three whole dayes before the day of the operation. And on the day that he would do the work, being clothed with pure gar∣ments, and furnished with Pentacles, Perfumes, and other things necessary hereunto, let him enter the Circle, and call the Angels from the four parts of the world, which do go∣vern the seven Planets the seven dayes of the week, Colours and Metals; whose name you shall see in their places. And with bended knees invocating the said Angels particularly, let him say, O Angeli supradicti, estote adjutores meae petitioni,