A seal for the opening of a way that was closed by circumstance. Leave this page open and the lord's name is uttered once each second, carried through the night and over the letter that goes out.
The Key requires three days' preparation before any operation of consequence — abstain from idle, shallow and impure thoughts, and say the prayer of Book II ch. ii daily. If you have not kept the three days, keep what you can and say so plainly in the confession. The Art does not reward pretending.
Have ready: white linen; copper, which is the metal of Venus (Bk I ch. xviii); rose incense in the censer; a vessel of wine; the Second Pentacle of Venus, drawn on clean parchment — "suitable for obtaining grace and honour, and for all things which belong to Venus" (Bk I, Fig. 40); and the letter itself, printed.
Directions are in this face. Spoken text is set apart and is said aloud. Where a name is bracketed, say it as written.
Begin in the hour of Venus on her day — 21:44, the third hour of the night. The Key is emphatic that the beginning is what carries: "the ritual derives its force and power from its beginning, which extends and spreads over the following hours" (Bk II ch. ii). Start on the hour. You may run past it.
Wash. Vest in white linen. Face west, the quarter of Venus. Set the copper, the wine, the censer and the pentacle before you, and the letter beneath the eagle.
Say, in your own words and without flinching, what you have done and left undone — the Key sets the confession before the work (Bk I ch. iv). Then say:
O Lord God, who are seated above the Heavens and who look down upon the depths below, grant me Your grace, I beseech You. Let that which I conceive in my mind be accomplished in my work, through You, O God, the Sovereign Ruler of all, who live and reign forever and ever. Amen.
Key of Solomon Bk II ch. ii, p.114.
Light the rose. Cense the pentacle, the eagle and the letter, and say over them:
O Lord, most Holy, most Righteous, and most Mighty God, Who has made all things through Your Mercy and Righteousness which fills You, grant that we may be found worthy. May this ritual be consecrated and perfect, so that the Light may issue from Your Most Holy Seat, O Lord, to obtain favour and love for us. Amen.
Key of Solomon Bk I ch. xv, "the Ritual for Seeking Favour and Love", p.79.
Name the four angels of the planet, west-facing, one breath each:
NOGAHIEL · ACHELIAH · SOCODIAH · NANGARIEL
Be present, angels of Venus, and let this work be of her nature and not against it.
Key of Solomon Bk I, Fig. 40, p.101. The second line is direction, not source text — say it or leave it.
The Shem angel is the benefic counterpart of the spirit and is called first. Say:
LAUIAH. Angel of the succedent decan of Virgo by day, seventeenth of the Seventy-Two Fold Name, I call upon you before I call upon any other, that what is done here is done under mercy and not otherwise. Stand in this work.
Agrippa, Occult Philosophy Bk III p.303 gives the name; the address is mine, and is not from a grimoire.
This is the First Conjuration of the Goetia, verbatim, with the spirit's name in place. Say it in a clear voice, unhurried:
I do invoke and conjure you, O Spirit BOTIS; and being armed with power from the SUPREME MAJESTY, I strongly command you, by BERALANENSIS, BALDACHIENSIS, PAUMACHIA, and the SEAT OF APOLOGIA; by the most Powerful Princes, Genii, Liachidae, and Ministers of the Tartarean Abode; and by the Chief Prince of the Seat of Apologia in the Ninth Legion, I invoke you, and by invoking, I conjure you.
And being armed with power from the SUPREME MAJESTY, I strongly command you, by Him Who spoke and it was done, and to whom all creatures are obedient. Also I, being made after the image of GOD, endowed with power from GOD and created according to His will, do exorcise you by that most mighty and powerful name of GOD, EL, strong and wonderful; O you Spirit BOTIS.
And I command you by Him who spoke the Word and HIS DECREE was accomplished, and by all the names of God. Also by the names ADONAI, EL, ELOHIM, ELOHI, EHYEH, ASHER EHYEH, ZABAOTH, ELION, IAH, TETRAGRAMMATON, SHADDAI, LORD GOD MOST HIGH, I do exorcise you and powerfully command you, O you Spirit BOTIS, that you appear before me here, in front of this circle, in a fair human shape, without any deformity or twisted appearance.
And by this ineffable name, TETRAGRAMMATON JEHOVAH, I command you. At the hearing of this name, the elements are overthrown, the air is shaken, the sea retreats, the fire is quenched, the earth trembles, and all the hosts of the celestial, terrestrial, and infernal realms tremble together and are troubled and confounded. Therefore, come now, O Spirit BOTIS, immediately and without delay, from any or all parts of the world wherever you may be, and give rational answers to all things that I shall demand of you. Come peaceably, visibly, and affably, now and without delay, manifesting that which I desire. For you are conjured by the name of the LIVING and TRUE GOD, HELIOREN, therefore fulfil my commands and persist in them until the end, according to my interest, speaking to me visibly and affably with a voice clear and intelligible, without any ambiguity.
Goetia, "The Conjuration to call forth any of the aforesaid Spirits", pp.68–69. Repeat as often as you please; the text provides a Second Conjuration (p.69) if he delays.
His office is the whole reason he is called: "he reconciles friends and foes." Charge him with it, and say the number aloud:
BOTIS, President and Earl, ruling sixty legions: your office is to reconcile friends and foes. I do not ask you to make anyone buy. I ask what is yours to do.
There are sixteen thousand who paid me and were moved without being asked. They were shut out by a door I built. Reconcile what I broke. Let the way be opened to them, and let them know the thing was theirs the whole time.
And let the letter carry — that it goes out clean, is opened, is believed, and is not mistaken for a sale.
Office from Goetia p.39. The petition is yours; specificity is the technique. Say the true count if you have it — the segment total was never verified, so this says the round figure rather than a false precision.
Mansion 7 gives the image and the manner of its use: the tin eagle with the face of a man, the lord's name on its chest, fumigated, and carried before the army. Cense it once more and set it over the letter, saying:
CREDO, lord of the seventh mansion, Anathia: go before this as the eagle goes before the host. What follows you, follow through.
Picatrix p.440. The address is mine; the image, the name and the manner are the text's.
Do not omit this, and do not leave the place until it is said:
O you Spirit BOTIS, because you have diligently answered my demands, and have been very ready and willing to come at my call, I do here license you to depart to your proper place, without causing harm or danger to man or beast. Depart, then, I say, and be very ready to come at my call, whenever you are duly exorcised and conjured by the sacred rites of magic. I charge you to withdraw peaceably and quietly, and may the peace of GOD be ever continued between you and me! AMEN!
Goetia, "The License to Depart", p.78.
The Goetia is explicit: "you are not to go out of the circle until he or they are gone, and until you have made prayers and rendered thanks to GOD" (p.78). Give thanks in your own words. Then quench the light, and go.
Leave this page open and the seal keeps its watch — one silent utterance each second, even while you sleep. The count is remembered between visits.
Spoken text is verbatim from the sources except where a citation says otherwise — the addresses to Lauiah and to Credo, and the petition itself, are written for this working and are not grimoire text. Nothing here is Enochian: the Goetia is Solomonic and does not use that language, and no Enochian name for these spirits exists to give.