Finally, to conclude this section on romantic love, I shall deal with the second type of operation which
comes under the definition of necromancy, and as such was mentioned previously in the chapter on
divination. The operation of amatory necromancy is known among witches as the Dumb Supper. It
can, however, be utilized for two purposes; the first being the evocation of the shade of a dead loved
one, the second the calling forth of what is known as an eidolon or wraith, the spectral apparition of a
future loved one or spouse.
Whether the operation is of the necromantic or eidolon variety does not change the central ritual, the
Dumb Supper proper. The only difference lies in the thirteen days preparation for the necromantic
variant, similar to that of the necromancy of intelligence.
In common with all the other amatory operations aforementioned, no boundary circle will be needed
for this rite; even if the work is one of necromancy, the constraining ties by which the shade is
summoned are those of love and affection and one will not be dealing with a potentially hostile entity.
Should you, in fact, be calling the shade of a dead loved one, you should time the operation to
coincide with some date which was in some way auspicious to him—the day of death, birthday,
wedding anniversary, or whatever. Some time which you feel that the soul of the deceased, in
whatever state of consciousness it may have passed into, may still dimly be aware of; a time when the
ties of Earth may yet exert some slight influence on it, however weak.
Prior to summoning, you should arrange a commemorative shrine facing east on the west side of the
room in which you plan to do your magical working. This should be composed of a photograph or
portrait of the deceased, veiled with a dark cloth and flanked with flowers which should be changed
from time to time, and any object links or personal mementos of the deceased that you might have.
Exactly at midnight on every one of the thirteen preparatory nights, seal yourself in your place of
working, light one of your lamps of art in the east of the room, unveil the portrait, kindle a small
amount of amatory necromancy incense in your thurible, and seat yourself facing the picture with the
light streaming from behind you. Inwardly, call the person by such names as you knew him by, while
keeping your eyes fixed on the picture. Try to recall the incidents you can wherein you shared
moments of affection or love with the deceased. Continue your meditation for anything from ten
minutes to one hour before extinguishing the lamp, redraping the portrait, and so concluding.
During the thirteen days of preparation you must also try to seclude yourself from company as much
as possible, even from that of other witches, reserving most of your affections for the memory of the
dead person. This can be very difficult, but it should be persevered in. It is, in effect, the sounding of a
preliminary, gentle call into the unseen to the shade of the departed one, which builds each evening at
your meditation, culminating finally in the actual evocation ceremony.
When the night of evocation arrives, having eaten no supper nor partaken of any refreshment since
sunset, just before the hour of midnight strikes, arrange your place of working in the following
manner:
Cover your altar table with a new, white, exorcised cloth, and place a chair at the west side of it facing
east, and one opposite, facing west. On the table, place a bouquet of sweet-smelling flowers. Then
light two of your lamps before the portrait, and kindle your thurible, burning amatory necromancy
incense.
Consecrate your place of working now, walking backwards beginning at the east, passing to the south,
the west, and finally the north, asperging and censing as you go, and calling upon Habondia to aid you
in this work. Every action in the ceremony must be performed silently and backwards for only thus do
we begin to walk in the paths of the dead.
Having got this far, you must now lay two place settings at the table, yours in the east, the deceased's
in the west, using your ordinary household dish service and cutlery which should have been passed
previously through fire and water. The settings should be sufficient to provide for the normal amount
of courses you would serve at a regular dinner for two if you were serving it, preferably of the type of
food you know was favoured by the deceased. It should also include a glass for wine, beer, or
whatever beverage the deceased enjoyed drinking with meals. You must now proceed to serve the
food, again walking backwards to and from the kitchen, and always as silently as you can. When you
serve the food, you must serve only very small portions, a quarter of the amount you would regularly
eat, as it is a symbolic gesture only: The dead are very light eaters!
You should allow sufficient time for the first half of the operation in order to reach this point just as
midnight arrives. As the hour strikes, approach the portrait, backwards as always, slowly unveil it, and
mentally repeat the necromantic grand citation to yourself as you do so:
By the mysteries of the deep, by the flames of banal, by the power of the east, by the silence of the
night, And by the holy rites of Hecate, I call thee by the ties of love, Spirit of [name of deceased] to
break thy eternal fast with me. So mote it be!
Then, after replenishing the incense, move backwards clockwise round the table to your seat and
begin to eat your portion of your supper. As you do this, avoid looking directly at the seat opposite
you. This is most important. If you break this rule, you can effectively nullify the spell. The
temptation is enormous but must be resisted strongly.
When you have finished your repast, leave the dishes as they are, and walking backwards, replenish
the incense and extinguish the lamps at the portrait, still avoiding staring directly at the chair in the
west. Then return to your own. Close your eyes, call the deceased's name three times, and then
mentally repeat the words of the great necromantic charge: "Allay Fortission Fortissio Allynsen Roa!"
With your eyes still shut, mentally welcome the loved one. Traditionally, this is the place where the
shade will manifest. You should slowly open your eyes and see what you can see. Again, as in the
necromancy of intelligence, this will depend on the stage of your development. Communication with
the shade theoretically can be carried out mentally; most witches find that this takes the form of a
peculiar wordless communion, a sort of spiritual osmosis or blending together of ideas, your own, and
that of the deceased. Even if your inner eyes are not sensitive enough to perceive any form, or the
current raised by the operation is not sufficiently strong to bring about a materialization, it can
nevertheless be a very unnerving experience to find yourself confronted by someone loved, but long
dead, and in such intimate contact again that your very minds meld together. Allow yourself to enjoy
this silent communion without reservation. The time will pass all too quickly. When you have fully
enjoyed, or been duly horrified by, whichever the case may be, the manifestation or, alternatively,
when the experience begins to dwindle like a dream as the hour of midnight passes and the magical
current slackens, repeat the licence to depart silently to the shade:
Go, go, departed shade [name of deceased]
by Omgroma Epin Sayoc,
Satony, Degony, Eparigon,
Galiganon, Zogogen, Ferstigon,
we licence thee depart into the proper place
and be there love between us evermore.
So mote it be!
Cast a few more grains of incense on the coals as you silently bid adieu.
Finally, before you finish for the night, complete your magical record, as always.
Now, as I mentioned before, some witches claim this very same ritual can be used to evoke an eidolon
of one's future loved one. This is a form of summoning of the living. The only difference between this
and the necromantic version just described is that the summoning of the eidolon omits the thirteen
days preliminary preparation. It is, morever, a tricky operation for beginners to perform and also a
somewhat untrustworthy one, as there is obviously no object link possible, save for the operator's
tenuous emotional link with the future.
This may strike some as the last word in absurdity, but if you pause to reconsider the parapsychic
phenomenon of precognition as we did in Chapter 3, you will realize that for a witch who deals
wholly with the world of the paranormal, the laws of time as well as space as we know them in our
everyday lives do not necessarily apply.
The time to employ this ritual of evocation of a future loved one is traditionally midsummer's eve, the
night of June 20, just before the summer solstice.
On that note, I shall end this first section of spells for lovers. The following pages will deal with spells
designed for the more impetuous practitioners.
comes under the definition of necromancy, and as such was mentioned previously in the chapter on
divination. The operation of amatory necromancy is known among witches as the Dumb Supper. It
can, however, be utilized for two purposes; the first being the evocation of the shade of a dead loved
one, the second the calling forth of what is known as an eidolon or wraith, the spectral apparition of a
future loved one or spouse.
Whether the operation is of the necromantic or eidolon variety does not change the central ritual, the
Dumb Supper proper. The only difference lies in the thirteen days preparation for the necromantic
variant, similar to that of the necromancy of intelligence.
In common with all the other amatory operations aforementioned, no boundary circle will be needed
for this rite; even if the work is one of necromancy, the constraining ties by which the shade is
summoned are those of love and affection and one will not be dealing with a potentially hostile entity.
Should you, in fact, be calling the shade of a dead loved one, you should time the operation to
coincide with some date which was in some way auspicious to him—the day of death, birthday,
wedding anniversary, or whatever. Some time which you feel that the soul of the deceased, in
whatever state of consciousness it may have passed into, may still dimly be aware of; a time when the
ties of Earth may yet exert some slight influence on it, however weak.
Prior to summoning, you should arrange a commemorative shrine facing east on the west side of the
room in which you plan to do your magical working. This should be composed of a photograph or
portrait of the deceased, veiled with a dark cloth and flanked with flowers which should be changed
from time to time, and any object links or personal mementos of the deceased that you might have.
Exactly at midnight on every one of the thirteen preparatory nights, seal yourself in your place of
working, light one of your lamps of art in the east of the room, unveil the portrait, kindle a small
amount of amatory necromancy incense in your thurible, and seat yourself facing the picture with the
light streaming from behind you. Inwardly, call the person by such names as you knew him by, while
keeping your eyes fixed on the picture. Try to recall the incidents you can wherein you shared
moments of affection or love with the deceased. Continue your meditation for anything from ten
minutes to one hour before extinguishing the lamp, redraping the portrait, and so concluding.
During the thirteen days of preparation you must also try to seclude yourself from company as much
as possible, even from that of other witches, reserving most of your affections for the memory of the
dead person. This can be very difficult, but it should be persevered in. It is, in effect, the sounding of a
preliminary, gentle call into the unseen to the shade of the departed one, which builds each evening at
your meditation, culminating finally in the actual evocation ceremony.
When the night of evocation arrives, having eaten no supper nor partaken of any refreshment since
sunset, just before the hour of midnight strikes, arrange your place of working in the following
manner:
Cover your altar table with a new, white, exorcised cloth, and place a chair at the west side of it facing
east, and one opposite, facing west. On the table, place a bouquet of sweet-smelling flowers. Then
light two of your lamps before the portrait, and kindle your thurible, burning amatory necromancy
incense.
Consecrate your place of working now, walking backwards beginning at the east, passing to the south,
the west, and finally the north, asperging and censing as you go, and calling upon Habondia to aid you
in this work. Every action in the ceremony must be performed silently and backwards for only thus do
we begin to walk in the paths of the dead.
Having got this far, you must now lay two place settings at the table, yours in the east, the deceased's
in the west, using your ordinary household dish service and cutlery which should have been passed
previously through fire and water. The settings should be sufficient to provide for the normal amount
of courses you would serve at a regular dinner for two if you were serving it, preferably of the type of
food you know was favoured by the deceased. It should also include a glass for wine, beer, or
whatever beverage the deceased enjoyed drinking with meals. You must now proceed to serve the
food, again walking backwards to and from the kitchen, and always as silently as you can. When you
serve the food, you must serve only very small portions, a quarter of the amount you would regularly
eat, as it is a symbolic gesture only: The dead are very light eaters!
You should allow sufficient time for the first half of the operation in order to reach this point just as
midnight arrives. As the hour strikes, approach the portrait, backwards as always, slowly unveil it, and
mentally repeat the necromantic grand citation to yourself as you do so:
By the mysteries of the deep, by the flames of banal, by the power of the east, by the silence of the
night, And by the holy rites of Hecate, I call thee by the ties of love, Spirit of [name of deceased] to
break thy eternal fast with me. So mote it be!
Then, after replenishing the incense, move backwards clockwise round the table to your seat and
begin to eat your portion of your supper. As you do this, avoid looking directly at the seat opposite
you. This is most important. If you break this rule, you can effectively nullify the spell. The
temptation is enormous but must be resisted strongly.
When you have finished your repast, leave the dishes as they are, and walking backwards, replenish
the incense and extinguish the lamps at the portrait, still avoiding staring directly at the chair in the
west. Then return to your own. Close your eyes, call the deceased's name three times, and then
mentally repeat the words of the great necromantic charge: "Allay Fortission Fortissio Allynsen Roa!"
With your eyes still shut, mentally welcome the loved one. Traditionally, this is the place where the
shade will manifest. You should slowly open your eyes and see what you can see. Again, as in the
necromancy of intelligence, this will depend on the stage of your development. Communication with
the shade theoretically can be carried out mentally; most witches find that this takes the form of a
peculiar wordless communion, a sort of spiritual osmosis or blending together of ideas, your own, and
that of the deceased. Even if your inner eyes are not sensitive enough to perceive any form, or the
current raised by the operation is not sufficiently strong to bring about a materialization, it can
nevertheless be a very unnerving experience to find yourself confronted by someone loved, but long
dead, and in such intimate contact again that your very minds meld together. Allow yourself to enjoy
this silent communion without reservation. The time will pass all too quickly. When you have fully
enjoyed, or been duly horrified by, whichever the case may be, the manifestation or, alternatively,
when the experience begins to dwindle like a dream as the hour of midnight passes and the magical
current slackens, repeat the licence to depart silently to the shade:
Go, go, departed shade [name of deceased]
by Omgroma Epin Sayoc,
Satony, Degony, Eparigon,
Galiganon, Zogogen, Ferstigon,
we licence thee depart into the proper place
and be there love between us evermore.
So mote it be!
Cast a few more grains of incense on the coals as you silently bid adieu.
Finally, before you finish for the night, complete your magical record, as always.
Now, as I mentioned before, some witches claim this very same ritual can be used to evoke an eidolon
of one's future loved one. This is a form of summoning of the living. The only difference between this
and the necromantic version just described is that the summoning of the eidolon omits the thirteen
days preliminary preparation. It is, morever, a tricky operation for beginners to perform and also a
somewhat untrustworthy one, as there is obviously no object link possible, save for the operator's
tenuous emotional link with the future.
This may strike some as the last word in absurdity, but if you pause to reconsider the parapsychic
phenomenon of precognition as we did in Chapter 3, you will realize that for a witch who deals
wholly with the world of the paranormal, the laws of time as well as space as we know them in our
everyday lives do not necessarily apply.
The time to employ this ritual of evocation of a future loved one is traditionally midsummer's eve, the
night of June 20, just before the summer solstice.
On that note, I shall end this first section of spells for lovers. The following pages will deal with spells
designed for the more impetuous practitioners.
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