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.
The Key divides operations in two: "the first is to test what can be easily performed without a Circle; in this case, it is not necessary to observe anything except what you will find in the relevant chapters" (Bk I ch. iii, p.40). The Ritual for Seeking Favour and Love is one of those chapters — it prescribes no circle, no disciples, no sword. So this form is not a watered-down rite. It is the other kind.
What cannot travel: the censing, the vesting, the wine, speaking aloud. What travels: the hour, the west, the pentacle, the conjuration, the charge, the license. Those are the load-bearing parts, and they are all portable. Do not omit the license because you are in public — say it under your breath or in the mind, but say it.
A narration script for the whole of this form — eight tracks, about twenty-two minutes, with the pauses timed so you are the one saying the words — is in the repository as audio-script.md, together with notes on what to produce it with. Cue it so the conjuration lands on the hour.
The Second Pentacle of Venus on a card in your pocket, or as your lock screen. The letter's first line in your head. Nothing else.
Begin at 21:44, wherever you are. If you are mid-set, finish the set and begin. The Key: the operation "derives its force and power from its beginning" — so mark the beginning deliberately, even if the beginning is racking a bar.
The rite opens with washing and vesting. You have both: the shower, and clean clothes after. If you can arrange it, put the working at the end of the session and let the shower be the ablution — the correspondence is exact and costs you nothing.
Find west and put your back to the room. On a treadmill or a bike, face it. On the floor, orient your mat. This is the one direction the physical rite insists on and it survives the move intact.
Warm-up is the confession. Say it in the mind, in your own words, without flinching — what you have done and left undone. Then, silently:
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.
You cannot cense. Breath is the substitute that is not a cheat: the censing consecrates by what passes over the thing, and here what passes is your own. Four slow cycles — in four, hold four, out six — and on each exhale, the prayer of the favour rite:
O Lord, most Holy, most Righteous, and most Mighty God, 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, p.79, abridged for one breath. The full text is in the altar form above.
If you are lifting, take one angel per set — name it on the first rep, and let the set be the offering. Four sets, four angels:
NOGAHIEL · ACHELIAH · SOCODIAH · NANGARIEL
Key of Solomon Bk I, Fig. 40, p.101.
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.
Name from Agrippa Bk III p.303; the address is mine.
This is the hard part in public and it is not optional. Say the First Conjuration sub-voce — lips moving, no sound — through the heaviest work of the session. If you cannot hold the whole of it, the short form below is the same text cut to its spine, and the full version is in the altar form above:
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.
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 by this ineffable name, TETRAGRAMMATON JEHOVAH, I command you. Come now, O Spirit BOTIS, immediately and without delay, from any or all parts of the world wherever you may be. 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.
Goetia pp.68–69, cut. Every word is the source's; the omissions are mine and are marked by their absence, not by paraphrase.
Put this on the last set — the one you would otherwise talk yourself out of. Effort is the offering the Key would have taken in incense.
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.
Say it before you unrack, before you leave, before you talk to anyone. Under the breath is enough. The Goetia does not let you walk away without it.
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. I charge you to withdraw peaceably and quietly, and may the peace of GOD be ever continued between you and me! AMEN!
Goetia p.78, lightly cut.
The Goetia will not let you go out of the place until thanks are given. Give them under the water, in your own words. Then it is finished, and you go.
Forty minutes. One intent, one sound, one drink, one sigil, one discharge. No linen, no censer, no circle, no Latin unless you want it. The names still do the work — they are the specific handles this decan hands you, and specificity is the only part of the older rite that was ever load-bearing.
You need: rose tea. The speakers. Paper and something to write with. A door you can close.
Write it once, in one line, present tense, and do not decorate it. This is the whole working compressed; everything after is just getting it past your own censor.
THE DOOR IS OPEN AND THEY WALK BACK IN.
That is the one I would use — short enough to hold at the peak, and it names the result rather than the mechanism. Write your own if it doesn't fit your mouth.
Rose is Venus. You are not burning it, you are drinking it, which is the better version of the same move — the substance goes in rather than up. While it steeps, say the intent out loud once, then stop thinking about it.
Set the timer for 21:44 if you want the hour. It genuinely helps and it costs nothing. If you miss it, do it anyway.
Standard Spare method, in case it has been a while:
Write the intent in capitals. Strike out every repeated letter. Take what remains and knot it into one glyph — overlap, rotate, mirror, whatever makes it stop looking like language. It is finished when you can no longer read the sentence in it.
From the line above you get: T H E D O R I S P N A W L B C K — fifteen letters to knot. Draw it big. Draw it badly. It is a switch, not a drawing.
Below. Put it loud enough that you feel it in the sternum. Venus is the 221.23 Hz tone here — the Cousto planetary octave, which is a modern system and not in any grimoire, but it is the one that works on speakers. The binaural offset drags you toward theta.
Sit with the sigil in front of you and drink the tea while it comes up. Four or five minutes. Do not strain toward anything.
Out loud, one on each exhale, no ceremony:
NOGAHIEL · ACHELIAH · SOCODIAH · NANGARIEL
The angels of Venus, Key of Solomon Bk I Fig. 40 p.101. You are borrowing the address, not the apparatus.
The angel first, then the spirit. This ordering is the one piece of the old structure worth keeping — it puts the benefic half of the pair in the room before the operative half.
LAUIAH — stand in this.
BOTIS — you reconcile friends and foes. That is your office and that is what I want. Sixteen thousand people paid me and I moved their books without asking. Open the door. Let them walk back in.
Botis's office: Goetia p.39. Lauiah is his Shem counterpart, Agrippa Bk III p.303. Say it in your own words if these feel stiff — the office is the fixed part, the phrasing is not.
Stare into the sigil until the sound has taken the edge off your interior monologue. Then take it up — whichever way you actually reach gnosis. Breath-hold, overbreathing, spinning, exhaustion, sex, a scream into a cushion, or just staring past it until the room goes strange. The method has never mattered; the wall it puts you through does.
At the peak: see the sigil, and let it go completely. Not "release it into the universe." Drop it the way you drop something heavy.
The timer below marks the interval. It will not tell you when the peak is — you will know.
Kill the sound. Burn the sigil, or tear it up and bin it — do not keep it, do not photograph it, do not admire it. Then say the license, because it costs eight seconds and closing a thing you opened is not superstition, it is hygiene:
BOTIS — go, and peace between us.
Then do something aggressively ordinary. Eat. Put on something stupid. The point of banishing by laughter is to make the working unmemorable to your conscious mind so it stops fingering the result.
Do not check the Mautic dashboard tonight. Do not reread the letter. The lust for result is the only failure mode this technique actually has, and you already know that.
Venus tone 221.23 Hz (Cousto planetary octave — modern, not grimoire). Isochronic works on speakers; binaural needs headphones to do anything at all. Start around 35% and come up. If you have epilepsy, leave this off.
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.