... master of the art shall, by separate experiments, speak with spirits, he must practise himself in forming circles which shall be different and which shall have something special about them.”
The circle being at length traced, the author of manuscript No. 2350 says, “ Now thou shalt enter into this circle of the Art ; thou shalt have with thee the Tentacles. ” We must inquire what these pentacles are, and manuscript No. 2349, already quoted, will throw full light on the subject. Here are, to begin with, six pentacles “to influence good spirits favourably” (see plate facing p. 108). Each contains a Hebrew name of the Deity, as well as strange and scarcely intelligible formulas, wrongly called Cabbalistic, which we And in all examples of demoniac method
— “ Tavar alcilo Sedoan acheir, Nestabo cacay extabor erional, Anapheta Dinotor Drion Sarao,” and the rest. During the Middle Ages these and similar formulas enjoyed a repute they have possibly not quite lost even to-day. Others like them are found in he Miracle de The'ophile , by the celebrated thirteenth-century trouvere Rutebceuf, where we find the sorcerer Salatin conjuring ...
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