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The Grimoire Of

Honorius

The person who desires to invoke the perverse “Spirits of Darkness must observe a

three days’ fast; he must also confess and approach the Holy Altar. After these three

days, upon the morrow, and at the hour of sunrise, he shall recite the Seven Gradual

Psalms, with the accoinpanying Litanies and Prayers,

the whole on his knees; further,

he must drink no wine and eat no meat on that day. Next, he shall rise at midnight on

the first Monday of the month,

and a priest shall say a Mass of the Holy

2 The three days’ fast must therefore have been regulated so that it expired on the previous Saturday.

Ghost.

After the consecration, taking the Host in his left hand,he shall

recite the following prayer on his knees :

PRAYER

My Sovereign Saviour Jesus Christ, Son of the living God! Thou who

for the salvation of all mankind didst suffer the death of the Cross; Thou

who, before being abandoned to Thine enemies, by an impulse of

ineffable love didst institute the Sacrament of thy Body; Thou who hast

vouchsafed to us miserable creatures the privilege of making daily

commemoration thereof; do Thou deign unto thine unworthy servant, thus

holding thy Living Body in his hands, all strength and ability for the

profitable application of that power with which he has been entrusted

against the horde of rebellious spirits. Thou art their true God, and if they

tremble at the utterance of Thy Name, upon that Holy Name will I call,

crying Jesus Christ! Jesus, be Thou my help, now and for ever! Amen.

After sunrise a black cock must be killed, the first feather of its left wing

being plucked and preserved for use at the required time. The eyes must

be torn out, and so also the tongue and heart; these must be dried in the

sun and afterwards reduced to powder. The remains must be interred at

sunset in a secret place, a cross of a palm in height being set upon the

mound, while at each of the four corners the signs which here follow

must be drawn with the thumb :

3 The Mass of Pentecost, except the Epistle, which should be

that of the Tuesday after Pentecost, and the Gradual, for which there are special versicles.

On this day also the operator should drink no wine and abstain from

eating meat.

On Tuesday, at break of day, let him say a Mass of the Angels,

placing

the feather taken from the bird upon the altar, together with a new

penknife. The signs hereinafter represented must be inscribed on a sheet

of clean paper with the consecrated wine which is the Blood of Jesus

Christ :

They should be written upon the altar, and at the end of the Mass the

paper should be folded in a new veil of violet silk, to be concealed on the

morrow, together with the oblation of the Mass and a part of the

consecrated Host.

On the evening of Thursday the operator must rise at midnight, and, having sprinkled

holy water about the

1 The Mass for the Apparition of St. Michael, May 8, with a special Epistle, Gospel,

Commemoration, &c,

chamber, he must light a taper of yellow wax, which shall have been

prepared on the Wednesday and pierced in the form of a cross. When it is

lighted he shall recite Psalm

lxxvii.

—Attendite, popule meus, legem meam,

&c.—without the

Gloria Patri.

He shall then begin the “Office of the

Dead”

with 1/enite exultemus Domino,

&c. He shall recite Matins and

Lauds, but in place of the versicle of the ninth Lesson 1 he shall say:

Deliver us,

O Lord, from the fear of hell. Let not the demons destroy my soul when I

shall raise them from the deep pit, when I shall command them to do my

will. May the day be bright, may the sun and moon shine forth, when I shall

call upon them. Terrible of aspect are they, deformed and horrible to sight;

but do Thou restore unto them their angelic shapes when I shall impose my

will upon them. 0 Lord deliver me from those of the dread visage, and grant

that they shall be obedient when I shall raise them up from hell, when I

shall impose my will upon them.

After the “Office of the Dead” the operator shall extinguish the taper, and

at sunrise shall cut the throat of a male lamb of nine days, taking care that

the blood does not gush forth upon the earth. He shall skin the lamb, and

shall cast its tongue and heart into the fire. The fire must be freshly kindled,

and the ashes shall be preserved for use at the proper time. The skin of th~

lamb shall be spread in the middle of a field, and for the space of nine days

shall be sprinkled four times every day with holy water. On the tenth day,

before the rising of the sun, the lambskin shall be covered with the ashes of

the heart and tongue, and with the ashes also of the

2 This Psalm is numbered lxxviii. in the Authorised Version.

1 This is extremely confused; the Office of the Dead does not begin with the

Venite exultemus.

The ninth Lesson

belongs to the third Nocturne of the Matins. The prayer given in the Grimoire is based on the verses which it replaces.

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