Oriental Magic by Idries Shah

Author:Idries Shah [Shah, Idries]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: ISF Publishing
Published: 2016-02-24T05:00:00+00:00

Having mastered these important names, the magician purifies himself with this prayer: “Thou shalt purge me with Hyssop, O Lord, and I shall be clean: thou shalt wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.”

The circle is next sprinkled with the correct perfume (which will be described later), and the exorcist drapes himself in a white linen cloak fastened back and front. At the moment of vestment he says:

“Ansor, Amacon, Amides, Theodonias, Aniton: by the merits of the Angels, O Lord, I will put on the garment of salvation; that this which I desire I may bring to effect, through thee, the most holy Adonai, whose kingdom endureth for ever and ever, Amen.”

The Christianized text which we are following, while retaining most of the ritualistic marks of Semitic and other systems, yet has added the warnings that those who desire wealth and power, or anything material for themselves, will not be able to raise spirits. This is not, however, the established view. “First the heart and mind must be cleansed of desires and if the ability be used at any time toward selfish and personal ends, the power is thereby renounced. Only those with the ability to touch the heights know this.”

In necromancy we find the Magic Circle and words of power still in use. The procedure is very much the same in both types of process. When the Asian sorcerer Chiancungi and his witch sister Napala raised evil spirits, they commanded Bokim to appear, and give them his infernal aid. They draped a deep cave in black and then drew the circle, with Seven Thrones and a like number of planets inscribed in it. Even for these notorious sorcerers, it took months before Bokim actually appeared. When he did, he guaranteed them one hundred and fifty-five years of extra life, and many other boons beside. As the “selling of the soul” theory is not so well known in the East, the only penalty that the sorcerers were expected to pay was that they would serve the demon for that period. In their work, as in most invocation spells, they made free use of perfumes and other fumigations.

When the planet involved was Saturn (that is, when the operation was in the hour or day of Saturn), the perfume thrown on the brazier was pepper, with musk and frankincense. When this was burning, spirits in the form of cats or wolves should be seen. Jupiter required offerings of peacock feathers, a swallow, and a piece of lapis lazuli. Their ashes were then added to the blood of a stork. Spirits of Jupiter had the appearance of kings, accompanied by trumpeters. Under Mars, the fire was fed with aromatic gum, sandalwood and frankincense, myrrh and the blood of a black cat. For the Sun, musk, amber, frankincense, myrrh, saffron, cloves, laurel and cinnamon were mixed with the brain of an eagle and the blood of a white cock,** formed into balls and placed on the flames. Spirits raised under the aegis

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