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shamefully profited from this averred truth to gain money by deceiving credulous clients; but this does not negate that which is nevertheless true. We possess many authentic grimoires in our lodge which tract of this subject. When we read these ancient writings, it seems to us that sometimes the green eye of the true magic of the Evil One flashes its terrible gaze at us. For example, we find, in certain receipts, that a mixture of colors, to which has been added the blood of a fetus, which has been pulled out of the belly of its mother by the operation of the cross, is of a sublime efficacy. Of other receipts we see, that if one mixes into the paint some drops of the blood of a pure virgin, who is offered, after this, to the pleasure of a succubus, one may give formidable power to a living picture. There are some drugs, recommended to painters, which contain a human magnetic charge, to be used during solitary excitation. Their effect is particularly malefic. Living pictures have been used through the dark ages to perpetrate mysterious assassinations: An enemy, masked by the gentleness of the gift offered, sends out death in a succubique picture, and the person receiving the gift, who hangs the portrait in his room, will die soon after. The Holy Inquisition enforced an end to these terrifying abuses by burning the manuscripts of the mages and persecuting the sorcerers. The entire science of magic could have disappeared in this ferocious reaction of Catholicism but, fortunately for us and for the future of humanity, they found some philosophies which concealed the secret and were thus protected from the vengeful hands. These were works that cultivated the magical art for pure motives of initiated wisdom. It is thus that one of our brothers, living in Spain in the first half of the 18th century, was able to recover manuscripts containing some receipts and counsels of great importance. This brother devoted ten years of his life to these studies and researches. [And so on ... Please refer to the book. ] p 125: THE LIVING STATUES These principle teachings also permit the preparation of statues and other living sculptures. One makes them, most often, by sculpting in dark brown earth. When they are ready, one bronzes them. Next, one bathes them in the individual perfume mixed with the fluid condenser. This bath, which is a maceration, must last for twenty days. After removing it from the bath, the sculpture must dry for six days in a normal temperature. When it is completely dry, one gives it a coat of paint with the colors prepared as for the living pictures. The hollowed out space of the statues must be filled with a living liquid, that one knows of from the receipt and manner of preparation. The opening through which one introduces this liquid is soldered by means of an amalgam of gold. Plaster, wood and porcelain are equally recommended materials for this sort of statues. One can also use the materials indicated for the preparation of "'Volts" with success.