Nothing has gone wrong yet, and the first thing said is already a description of the world coming apart.
What this is
This is where the ceremony in the 1904 edition starts. Three other entries in the Archive are the rungs above it: the Constraint, the Spirits' Chain and the Vessel of Brass. Read in order they are one escalation.
The spirit called is one of the seventy-two, and the operator stands in a circle while the spirit is required to appear in a triangle drawn outside it. Everything that follows assumes the spirit has heard and is choosing not to come.
What the text was understood to do
To summon a named spirit before it has refused anything.
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 What follows is a historical document and a reading of it.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 S. L. MacGregor Mathers printed it in 1904, 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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