Follow this with a call to the angels (spirits) of earth, air, fire and water, giving precedence to air and earth, for these must be cloven if the spell is to succeed. One must hold these things in the strictest balance, and with concentration unbroken, exert the will toward establishment of a window, a doorway, a corridor between this place and that. The secret of this spell is this: That it has not one, but four catalysts, and that these catalysts square each other, and that they are all of openings, and that these openings contain the catalysts, which are living symbols. Let him who has ears hear—these four catalysts may represent the kingdom of Day or of Night or of Twilight, and these four may allow the user to see or to be or to control. These are the faces of increasing levels of power, of which there are three. I beg God’s forgiveness that we have not always stayed in the light. May He have mercy on us. Kassia’s eyes drifted past Marija’s translation of Pater Honorius’ tidy Latin scrawl to the symbols below it.
