I am working on a rather large text (small book on the Art of Drawing Spirits into Crystals) here is the very Rough draft of what my outline will look like:
Herein are my personal accounts, discoveries, and workings with the system of magic according
to:
TRADTIONAL EVOCATION OF SPIRITS INTO CRYSTALS
According to Johannes Trithemius
From Francis Barrett The Magus, Book II, London, 1801, pp. 135 ff. This text appeared as Part IV of Book 2, parts I-III being (I) a treatise on magnetism, (II) The Cabala, or Ceremonial Magic, plagiarized from pseudo-Agrippa’s Fourth Book, (III) The Key to Ceremonial Magic, plagiarized from Peter de Abano’s Heptameron.
Magic and Philosophy of
TRITHEMIUS OF SPANHEIM;
containing his book of
SECRET THINGS,
and
DOCTRINE OF SPIRITS
with many curious and rare secrets (hitherto not generally known;)THE ART OF DRAWING SPIRITS INTO CRYSTALS, &c.
With many other Experiments in the Occult Sciences, never yet published in the English Language. Translated from a valuable Latin manuscript,
By Francis Barrett,
Student of Chemistry, natural and and occult philosophy, the Cabala, &c.
All found and edited by Joseph Peterson
Outline:
1 Introduction
2. The experiments of traditional work. The methods behind the madness
3. The equipment:
a. The crystal, ebony pedestal, and gold disk.
b. The Table of art, candles and candlesticks.
c. The ebony wand, magic ring, and lamen.
d. The book of spirits
e. The tripod and perfumes.
f. The circle and setup.
4. Putting it to practice. Steps for evocation.
5. Conclusions and personal experiences.
In this work I hope to take any interested magicians wishing to duplicate the experiments offered in the MAGUS through each stage of the work with my own discoveries.
Frater Ashen Chassan 