Magic ceremonies.
Lettering under aquatint: "Such were the mystic rites, ceremonies and incantations, used by the ancient Theurgists to burst asunder the bonds of natural order, and to obtain an awful intercourse with the World of Spirits" Vide page 227.
The tabernacle bears the inscriptions "Sic omnia" (thus are all things), Oratorium (place of prayer), "Felix cui [Hebrew tetragram] a consilius" [consiliis] (happy is he who is advised by God??), "IKHVNRW" (beginning of name of Heinrich Khunrath?), "Ne loqueris de deo absque lumine" (do not speak of God without light), "Hoc hoc agentibus nobis aderit ipsi [ipse] Deus" (To us when we do these things God himself shall be present); (above skull and hourglass) "Disce bene mori" (learn to die well)