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the love object facing down, and put your right foot on it. Bend your left knee to the ground, and while looking up at the highest star in the sky and holding a candle of white wax (big enough to burn for a full hour), recite the spell written in the grimoire.
    Although, like most spells, this one began with a fairly lengthy invocation to angels and planets and stars, it got down to business soon enough:
I conjure you again, by all the Holy Names of God, so that you may send down power to oppress, torture and harass the body and soul and the five senses of [girl’s name], she whose name is written here, so that she shall come unto me, and agree to my desires,liking nobody in the world . . . for so long as she shall remain unmoved by me. Let her then be tortured, made to suffer. Go, then, at once! Go, Melchidael, Bareschas, Zazel, Firiel, Malcha, and all those who are with thee! I conjure you by the great Living God to obey my will, and I [your name here] promise to satisfy you.
    After this tender and loving plea had been recited three times in its entirety, the candle was to be used to set fire to the parchment. The ashes were to be put in the conjurer’s left shoe and kept there “until the person whom you have called comes to seek you out. In the Conjuration, you must say the date that she is to come, and she will not be absent.”
    The long-term prospects for such a relationship remain unclear.
    If revenge against an enemy was your goal, your first stop was a cemetery, where you were instructed to remove the nails from an old coffin. As you did so, you were to say, “Nails, I take you, so that you may serve to turn aside and cause evil to all persons whom I will.”
    Nails in hand, your next stop was the road or street where your intended victim was known to walk. Once you’d seen him leave a footprint, you were ready to go: drawing in the dirt the figures of the three spirits Guland, Surgat, and Morail, you were to place the nail smack-dab in the center of the footprint, saying, "Pater noster upto in terra.” Then, while driving the nail into the ground with a stone, utter the words “Cause evil to [X], until I remove thee.”
    After making a careful notation of where you’d hammered in the nail (because the only way to undo the spell, should you wish to, was to find and remove it), you were to conceal the spot with some dirt and dust. If all went as planned, you’d see your enemy start to suffer from one thing or another in short order.
    If, after a while, you felt he’d been punished enough, youcould always cancel the curse by plucking the nail out, saying, “I remove thee, so that the evil which thou hast caused to [X] shall cease.” Using whichever hand had not drawn them in the first place, you were then to rub away the characters of the three spirits you’d made in the dust. That done, the spell would be at an end.
    After conducting many of these rituals, all that remained was to dismiss the infernal spirits who might still be hanging around, wondering what to do next. As they were known to be of a prickly nature, it was wise to dismiss them with care and solicitude. The True Grimoire advised the sorcerer to disperse them with the following formula: “Go in peace to your own place, and peace be with you, until I shall invoke you again. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.”
    THE LIBER SPIRITUUM
    Besides his grimoire, the sorcerer had another, handmade volume in his occult library, and this was called the liber spirituum (the book of spirits).
    As would be expected, it was to be made only of virgin parchment, and the sorcerer was instructed to fashion it himself. On each left-hand page, he inscribed the name and seal of one of the spirits he was planning to conjure. On the right-hand page, he wrote the words of the incantation that would summon, and control, that same spirit. This information included the spirit’s full name, its ranking in the spirit world, the