It is the only working in the Archive that needs nothing. No wax, no wand, no words. Two people and a line of sight.
What this is
Agrippa finished the three books around 1510 and they were printed at Cologne in 1533. The Archive quotes the English translation of 1651, which is the same printing the planetary characters in the Library of Sigils were taken from.
This is the fiftieth chapter of the first book, and the first book is the natural one: Agrippa is not describing a ceremony here but explaining how he thinks a known effect physically works. The evil eye was not in question. What it was made of was.
What the text was understood to do
To harm a person by looking at them.
A note before the text. What follows is a historical document and a reading of it. It is recorded, not recommended.
The text, the reading of it, and where to find it.
The passage as Henry Cornelius Agrippa printed it in 1651, quoted in full and unaltered; the same passage in modern English; how the working was put together and what each part of it was for; the commentary; and the book, chapter and page it stands on.
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