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This work is fully protected by copyright according to law. No. 4723 Y, issued January 23d, 1893. Every table, illustration and definition is copyrighted, and all persons are warned against re-printing them or any part of them, under penalty of the law, which will be strictly enforced.
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The owner of this book has signed an agreement whereby said owner is bound to not lend the work, or allow the use of the same to extend to persons outside his own immediate family, nor to allow any person to copy, nor obtain a copy of any of the rules, processes or engravings therein.
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This rule is designed as a protection to said owner, as well as to the author and the good of the Order. It is intended to prevent the wearing out and soiling of the book and the gathering of deleterious influences and magnetism by the promiscuous handling and loaning about the neighborhood that most books on occult subjects receive.
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This prohibition need not be construed so strictly as to prevent outsiders seeing the book, or even reading it in your home or presence. If your friend or acquaintance wishes to procure a copy, an order blank will always be sent, on application to us.
Olney H. Richmond,
–Chicago, Ill.
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