Proceed gradually and firmly through the series, never trying anything new, until the old has fully succeeded.  This is essential, for failure leads to discouragement.  Then, in time, fully realizing all its deepest meaning, so as to impress the Imagination one may will as follows: 

“May my quickness of Perception, or Intuition, aid me in the business which I expect to undertake tomorrow.  I will that my faculty of grasping at details and understanding their relations shall be active.  May it draw from my memory the hidden things which will aid it!”

The artist or literary man, or poet, may in time earnestly will to this effect: 

“I desire that my genius, my imagination, the power which enables man to combine and create; the poetic (or artist) spirit, whatever it be, may act in me tomorrow, awakening great thoughts and suggesting for them beautiful forms.”

He who expects to appear in public as an orator, as a lawyer pleading a case, or as a witness, will do much to win success, if after careful forethought or reflecting on what it is that he really wants, he will repeat: 

“I will that tomorrow I may speak or plead, with perfect self-possession and absence of all timidity or fear!”

Finally, we may after long and earnest reflection on all which I have said, and truly not till then, resolve on the Masterspell to awaken the Will itself in such a form that it will fill our soul, as it were, unto which intent it is necessary to understand what Will really means to us in its purity and integrity.  The formula may be: 

“I will that I may feel inspired with the power, aided by calm determination, to do what I desire, aided by a sense of right and justice to all.  May my will be strong and sustain me in all trials.  May it inspire that sense of independence of strength which, allied to a pure conscience, is the greatest source of happiness on earth!”

If the reader can master this last, he can by its aid progress infinitely.  And with the few spells which I have given he will need no more, since in these lie the knowledge, and key, and suggestion to all which may be required.

Now it will appear clearly to most, that no man can long and steadily occupy himself with such pursuits, without morally benefiting by them in his waking hours, even if auto-hypnotism were all “mere imagination,” in the most frivolous sense of the word.  For he who will himself not to yield to irritability, can hardly avoid paying attention to the subject, and thinking thereon, check himself when vexed.  And as I have said, what we summon by Will ere long remains as Habit, even as the Elves, called by a spell, remain in the Tower.

Therefore it is of great importance for all people who take up and pursue to any degree of success this Art or Science, that they shall be actuated by moral and unselfish motives, since achieved with any other intent the end can only be the bringing of evil and suffering into the soul.  For as the good by strengthening the Will make themselves promptly better and holier, so he who increases it merely to make others feel his power will become with it wickeder, yea, and thrice accursed, for what is the greatest remedy is often the strongest poison.