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'O Thou Spirit N., because thou hast diligently answered unto my demands, and hast been ready and
willing to come at my call, I do here license thee to depart unto thy proper place; without causing
harm or danger unto man or beast. Depart, then, I say, and be thou very ready to come at my call,
being duly exorcised and conjured by the sacred rites of magic. I charge thee to withdraw peaceably
and quietly, and the peace of GOD be ever continued between thee and me! AMEN!'
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9] 'The King of the East.
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Needless to say, this, together with the final banishing rituals are extremely important, as they are the
safeguards that the magician uses to prevent any 'overlap' into ordinary life of the special conditions
prevailing during the evocation.
Evocation requires months of preparation and supervision by somebody who has already mastered the
techniques. It is included here so that the broad field of magic is covered, and because it is such an
important technique, but anyone lacking the above requirements and who has not already completely
mastered all else touched upon in this book would be most unwise to attempt an evocation.
The preparations for evocation cannot arbitrarily be altered, as the magician is here dealing not with a
god, but with an essentially incomplete entity whose reactions to the magician have to be carefully
prepared for. Consequently it is advisable only to assay evocation when you have collected together
all the necessary equipment.
However, it is worth remembering that Abramelin makes provision for the evocation of spirits at the
end of his long magical retirement, and in many ways this technique is preferable to some of the more
dubious grimoire recipes which verge more onto the 'selling-your-soul' type of magic than the
legitimate practice of evocation.
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