Chapter 17

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The Making of the Spirit Vessel. The body of Lilith being composed inwardly of dancing fire but
outwardly of moist vapours, it is difficult for the waking mind to apprehend. To aid with communication
with her spirit her lover constructs an image for her indwelling. This is needed when first he seeks to
obtain her favours. For like the maiden outwardly coy but inwardly hot, Lilith puts on a mask modesty
and must be courted with diligence. Now she extends her embrace, now she withdraws. To overcome
her caprice he must prove his dedication.

The height of the vessel is half a cubit. The likeness is that of a beautiful woman who stands in repose
with arms near to her sides. Her hair is long, her breasts full and round, her waist narrow. The hands
and feet are delicate. Her face is painted in the colours of life. He fashions it out of red clay of the
highest quality with an aperture at the crown of the head and a hollow chamber in the midst of the
body.

Above all other matters he ensures that the eyes of the image are open and look back into his eyes
when he looks upon them. They are fashioned with cunning from polished bit of Selenite for the white
parts and green Malachite at the middle. A bead of Jet forms the inner orbit. With great care he takes
care to perfect them. No statue may live without eyes. Through them he interprets the heart of Lilith.
Through them she expresses her purposes and desires.

On a leaf of papyrus newly made he draws with monstrous ink the secret and true image of Lilith herein
rendered. Nor let it be papyrus from which the writing has been removed but only a virgin sheet. He
rolls it and places it inside the hollow through the aperture of the head. He closes the hole with wet
clay. The image of earth is the outer vessel of Lilith even as Eve was formed from the clay of the earth.

The image of papyrus is the inner vessel of her spirit even as Eve was inwardly made upon the pattern of
Adam taken by Samael from out of his side.

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The True Image of Lilith
The Awakening of the Image is after this manner. Each night before sleep he sits within the Circle of
Eleven Serpents. The Seal of Lilith is put inside the Pentacle. The clay vessel is placed on a table before
his face or he holds it in his hands. He invokes her with the words of her Invocation. After she opens
her arms and he becomes her lover, he anoints the image with the oil on the crown of the head. She
comes swiftly, but before she embraces him he has no oil.

He courts her with diligence each night for many cycles of the Moon. She spurns him with her foot. The
clay remains lifeless. He has no oil. She will not look out through the eyes. Night after night he woos
her with beguiling words of love. His eyes are fixed all the while upon the left eye of the image. He
praises her beauty and sings songs in praise of her gentle heart. He speaks with soft words and longing
sighs. The soul in his body is poured out through his right eye and passed into the eye on the left hand
side of the Image. He presses his loving words into the clay with the force of his will even as the potter
leaves the imprint of his thumb in the pot.

With great love he treats the hollow vessel as if Lilith has already filled it up with her spirit. As yet she is
not in the vessel but he pretends that she is in the vessel. He has no oil and must wait with the patience
of a suitor for her coming. He kisses the Image with tender love as a father would kiss his child. He
must woo her with true love, for only then will she truly love him. He caresses it with the wondering
caresses of a youth who adores a maiden.

The Parts that are Kissed. They are the same parts that receive the caresses of the hand. He kisses her
upon the crown, the brow, the outer corners of the eyes, the cheeks, the lobes of the ears, the lips, the
hair, the hollows of the throat, the nape of the neck, the roundness of the shoulder, the breasts, the
belly, the matrix, the thighs, the back, the buttocks, the hollows of the knees, the insides of the wrists,
the backs of the hands, the pals of the hands, the fingertips, the tops of the feet, the toes, the soles of
the feet. In all these places he kisses and gives her his caresses. And he adores her with true adoration.
In the fullness of time she turns her notice upon him. She enters the Image. Its eyes become bright and
move. The lids flicker. The lips purse and smile at the corners. The nostrils flare. He sees the breast of
the image rise with gentle breaths. The features alter and become more like unto the True Countenance
of Lilith. Nor is her lover in after times able to look upon its face of clay without seeing her
countenance. As he looks into her eyes with his eyes he sees the movement of her hands and she
gestures to him.

At the first she is weak in her coming. After the passage of several cycles of the Moon she enters the
Image with greater ease. Some nights she appears to her lover more clearly than other nights, yet
everything is equal and no action is changed within the Circle. The he must have patience and continue
to court her. Even when she does not appear he must court her. He tells her all the secrets of his heart
and holds converse with her. She looks upon him with tenderness as a mother listens to the troubles of
her child, and she smiles with a countenance of gentle love. He invokes her every night before sleep
into the Image, yet it is on the nights surrounding the New Moon that she comes with greater strength.

At the same time when she first enters the Image of clay and gives it animation his member begins to
rise and fall of its own accord. Even though his heart is empty of lustful thoughts his member cleaves to
his belly as he gazes into the eyes of the Image. It rises and falls and again rises and falls as she extends
her caress. She is both inside the Image and outside caressing his member at the same instant. When
his sinful part is rampant he keeps his mind steadfastly turned to the eyes of the Image and his heart
filled with feelings of tender love. If he lusts for her caress she withdraws her hand from his member.
For she is testing his love. She behaves as a capricious maiden who does not yet know her own desire.

When she becomes sure of his love she arouses his member whenever he requests it and sustains it for
as long as he chooses. Then it is that the oil of Lilith begins to flow from its slot. And he collects the oil
and uses it to anoint the crown of the Image when he invokes her. Through the power of the oil she
comes to him with ease and loves him with infinite sweetness, and the course of love is made straight.
He no longer needs the Image. She comes to him in darkness upon his bed and they sin together. Yet
he continues to use the Image to study her expressions and gather understanding of her desires and
purposes. Through the Image he knows of her presence even when she does not appear in the air
before his eyes or offer him her caress. Through the Image he is enables to speak to her all in an instant.
And he knows that she hears him.