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 Am to the innate spirit, Pam to the Divine soul, Hrim to the intellectual soul. In the filaments of the lotus Am to Light, Im to Illusion, Urn to Victoria or the goddess of victory, Em to the atoms. Aim to Purity, Om to Felicity, Aum to Beauty, Am to Glory, Ah to the giver of all success. Above the lotus Hum phat to the adamantine clawed and toothed weapons, the great throne(24).

Then make the Dhyana or meditate on the figure of the Goddess in the following manner. Om with locks of hair, braided and flowing, and the forehead ornamented by the crescent moon, with three eyes, with a face equal to the full moon in brightness, with a complexion of molten gold, well-formed and lovely-eyed, full of the freshness of youth, decorated will all kinds of ornaments, with a set of pearly teeth, Devi, with a breast compact and full, gracefully bent at three places. Destroyer of the Buffalo Demon, with ten arms as soft and well rounded as the stalks of lotus, holding a trident on the right, a sword and a discus from upwards, a sharp arrow, and a dart in the right hand, a shield, a bent bow, a noose, a goad, and a bell or an axe. Under her lies a headless Buffalo carcass, whence rises the demon with a sword in hand, pierced