Chapter 22.00: THE GENERAL CURSE, CALLED THE SPIRITS’ CHAIN, AGAINST ALL SPIRITS THAT REBEL.

THE GENERAL CURSE, CALLED THE SPIRITS’ CHAIN, AGAINST ALL SPIRITS THAT REBEL.

O thou wicked and disobedient spirit N., because thou
hast rebelled, and hast not obeyed nor regarded my words
which I have rehearsed; they being all glorious and
incomprehensible names of the true God, the maker and
creator of thee and of me, and of all the world; I do
by the power of these names the which no creature is
able to resist, curse thee into the depth of the Bottomless
Abyss, there to remain unto the Day of Doom in chains,
and in fire and brimstone unquenchable, unless thou
forthwith appear here before this Circle, in this triangle
to do my will. And, therefore, come thou quickly and
peaceably, in and by these names of God, Adonai, Zabaoth,
Adonai, Amioran; come thou! Come thou! For it
is the King of Kings, even Adonai, who commandeth
thee.

When thou shalt have rehearsed thus far, but still he
cometh not, then write thou his seal on parchment and
put thou it into a strong black box;[36] with brimstone,
assafœtida, and such like things that bear a stinking
smell; and then bind the box up round with an iron wire,
and hang it upon the point of thy sword, and hold it
over the fire of charcoal; and say as followeth unto the
fire first, it being placed toward that quarter whence the
Spirit is to come: