Lesser Key of Solomon (Goetia) - De Laurence Edition

Their seals, therefore, represent methods of stimulating or regulating those particular spots of the brain through the eye (similar to Mr. Spencer’s Likely referring to philosopher Herbert Spencer’s theories on biology and psychology projected cube).

The names of God are vibrations calculated to establish:
(a) General control of the brain (the establishment of functions relative to the subtle world).
(b) Control over the brain in detail (the rank or type of the Spirit).
(c) Control of one special portion (the name of the Spirit).

The perfumes aid this through the sense of smell. Usually, the perfume will only tend to control a large area; but there is an attribution of perfumes to letters of the alphabet, enabling one, by a Qabalistic original: "Qabalistic"; referring to the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah, used here in an occult context formula, to spell out the Spirit’s name.

I need not enter into a more particular discussion of these points; the intelligent reader can easily fill in what is lacking.

If, then, I say, with Solomon:

“The Spirit Cimieries A spirit in the Goetia said to teach grammar, logic, and rhetoric teaches logic,” what I mean is:
“Those portions of my brain which serve the logical faculty may be stimulated and developed by following out the processes called ‘The Invocation of Cimieries.’”

And this is a purely materialistic, rational statement; it is independent of any objective hierarchy The idea that spirits exist as real, external beings outside the mind at all. Philosophy has nothing to say; and Science can only suspend judgment, pending a proper and methodical investigation of the facts alleged.

Unfortunately, we cannot stop there. Solomon promises us that we can (1) obtain information; (2) destroy our enemies; (3) understand the voices of nature; (4) obtain treasure; (5) heal diseases, etc. I have taken