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traditions of the Middle Ages - and a length of dowelling purchased from a Do-It-Yourself shop
should prove perfectly satisfactory.
Divided your wand into five equal segments and paint them as follows:
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Bottom (2) Segment -/- Black
Second Segment -/- Russet
Third Segment -/- Olive
Fourth Segment -/- Citrine
Topmost Segment -/- White
You have now completed the manufacture of the first of your magical implements and all that remains
before you can begin to use them is their ritual consecration; in other words, the construction of a
magical link between them on the one hand, and the Earth elementals on the other.
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Your first consecration will, inevitably enough, be comparatively crude in form. Nevertheless, if
properly carried out it will be quite as effective as the more polished ceremonies you will carry out at
a later stage of your occult career. The rite is as follows:
On the altar of your temple have (a) a glass or goblet half-full of water (a brandy glass is ideal); (b)
two saucers, on the first of which is a little salt and on the second a little ash from a used joss-stick;
(c) an unlit joss-stick in an improvised holder and (d) the geomantic box and wand.
Carry out the Qabalistic Cross and the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram the details of which
are set out in the Appendix on Pentagram Rituals. Make sure that this ritual is thoroughly mastered
before proceeding. In fact it is worthwhile spending several weeks over daily practise of the Qabalistic
Cross and Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram alone before passing on to the next step.
The next stage is the preparation of 'Holy Water', designed to be used in the ceremonial purification of
your temple.
Face towards the North, standing to the South of your altar. Extend your right hand, palm downwards,
over the salt and repeat the following prayer:
'May Wisdom abide in this salt and may it preserve my mind and body from all corruption. May all
phantoms depart from it so that it may become a heavenly salt, salt of earth and earth of salt. May it
feed the threshing ox and strengthen my hope with the horns of the Winged Bull! So mote it be.'
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