Liber Spirituum Potentissimorum (Compendium Magiae Nigrae)

conjuration until the right one comes, which is how it also happened to me at the beginning. Thirdly, you should have precaution set upon the circle, so that he is not prevented in the citation: Thus you have the thorough teaching of how you should behave in the circle. That I, N., later use another manner, which no longer requires the previous one, is the reason because I have entered into another accord agreement with the spirits. And in the following of this present instruction, which I have always used at the beginning, and accomplished so much with, the circles are also different, according to what the arts are, but they must be made with diligence so that you are not misled. As a black, 2 large thick wax candles in the middle of the circle, and between them a Crucifix cross: above on the [one] by your fist. Also the lath that goes through the middle of the circle, and when the process is over, extinguish them again in geweihtem Wasser consecrated water, but it must be a piece where nothing has been tasted in a woven [vessel], pour the water, always in a place where no one steps, and all this you must do in the name of Jesus. Thus far goes Dr. Faust's instruction.