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(1997) by Ai Mann
EXCLUSIVES

Part III

ARIES

RAM
3/21/18.
Kind,
ARIES
sympathetic,
keen,
independent,
jealous,
impulsive,
spendthrift,
marry
slowly,
strong
will
power,
hate
criticism,
like
music
& art, June, July,
Tuesday. Red, crimson, rose, ruby.

It is
with
the
greatest of pleasure
that
I
write
the
following Arcane Secrets.
I stumbled onto these secrets so I can
easily say that
these have never appeared in print before.
As
per AME standards, this is
something refreshingly new under the
Sun. Any
Mentalist in possesion of these secrets can baffle
anyone silly.

If you are wondering wh~t the fat lady above is. Rest easy,
she is the Devil's Advocate and she is pregnant.

VOICES FROM HADES

Modesty be
dammned again, dear
reader.
What I am about to
put to writing is simply Great. We can thank mother nature for it.
For it was mother nature who gave me the idea.
Once a
week I must
take the trash out and dump it into my
barbeque pit in my back yard and burn it.
My community will not
allow unattended
fires, so
I have
to stand over the
fire with
water running through a garden hose and a long poke and stay with
the fire till it burns out.
While watching
the fire, I
noticed a discarded book
in the
middle of the
flames. The book was opened. Although
the book was
surrounded by flames,
its pages burned very
slowly in comparison
with the other
trash.
The center of the pages of the book would
not burn!
Only the edges of the pages were singed a bit. The top
page of the open section of
the book would separate from the rest
and go up in flames, exposing the next page fully. A second or two
later another page would rolled up in flames exposing
the next
page.
I asked myself,

"Why?"

The same thing would happen if I threw an old deck of cards

into the fire.
Only the edges of the cards
blackend.
Later when
removing the ashes
I noticed that the playing cards survived the
burning.
The centers of all the cards did not burn!
Lucky for me that
the
firey
display.
somehting.

I deal in magic, and I

could see magic in
Mother nature
was
trying
to
tell me

Three components are needed to

produce a fire.
Everybody
knows that.
You need a 1.
fuel, 2. heat and 3.
oxygen.
If
anyone
of the components is removed the fire goes out.
That is
the reason why
the pages of
the book did not burn
readily.
There was no air (with oxygen) between the pages.
The
same goes for the cards.
Considering the above, I have
invented a billet that burns
faster
on one side than the other!
I named
this billet
the
Devil,s
billet.
I also constructed an envelope that burns
faster on one side than on the other.
There seems to be no end to
what a magician can do applying these principles.
The principle
can be applied to newspapers, books, etc.
The above mentioned billet and
envelope are not
treated in
anyway chemically
(I thought of that, but no chemical preparation
is
needed).
Both
the billet and the envelope must be totally
opaque.

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So let
us prepare a
Devil's billet and
do a test
with it.
Get some totally opaque paper.
I get mine from security envelopes
but any
opaque paper will
do.
Cut the paper
to the size
of an
average billet, say 2-1/2 by 4 inches.
Fig.
1, shows
the layout
of the
Devil's billet.
The
billet is divided
mentally
into four
panels.
Panels
A
and B are of major importance. Panels C
and
D will
be sacrificed
during the
ritual.

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In
panel A, draw a
line, (and
write
in a
word for
the test).
This
line
is where
the VIP
will write
his
private thought.

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Fig.

Panel
B is
what will
cover
up
panel A and the secret thought when the
billet is folded.

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Take a sharp knife and cut the crease section as

indicated by

NOTE: Panel A,
after the cutting, will be
unattached at the
bottom, the left side, and the
right side (except for about 3/16"
of material at
the bottom of cut "X".
When
this 3/16th inch of
paper burns, Panel B will act
like a flap. Attached to the billet
proper only at the top.)

PREFOLDING THE BILLET.

The prefoldini of the billet is most
important. This
you must do
in private
before the show.
And it
must be done as per the following instructions other wise the test
may fail.
1. Take
the billet
as shown
in Fig.
1, and
fold
it in
half from
RIGHT TO LEFT but
fold it
short for about 3/16th inch as shown in Fig. 2.
NOTE:
thought.

Panel

is now

covering

the

secret
Fig.

VOICES FROM HADES

THE DEVIL'S BILLET

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NOTE: To the spectators it appears that the secret writing is

covered with three
layers of paper, and it is,
but only from the
audience side.
you can tell
the audience
that.
BUT from the
performer's side, only one layer of paper covers the writing.
2. Turn the folded billet
(Fig. 2) completely over from left
to right and then fold
it into quarters
by folding from
top to
bottom towards you.
The billet will now look like in Fig. 3 as it
lays on the table tent fashion.
The billet must be folded well so that it
will fold agin into the billet as shown in Fig. 3.
Fold the billet only in one direction.

Fig. 3

You will need a pair or two of tweesers. Use tweesers that

depend on spring tention as shown in Fig. 4.

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Fig. 4
Note Fig. 4.
It shows a pair of tweesers
that will grip the
billet and
hold on to it by spring tention.
The Devil's Billet
will be released
from
the
tweesers only
if you
sqeese
the
tweesers.
The idea is not
to drop the billet accidentally.
That
would gum up your act.
After the VIP writes his thought and
refolds the billet, ask him to place it
on the table tent fashion.
YOU MUST NOT
TOUCH THE BILLET YITH YOUR FINGERS.
So
you use the tweesers.
Note Fig. 5.

Fig.5

In Fig. 5 the tweesers are being used to pick up the billet.

NOTE that the tweesers are pinching only three panels, panels A, C
and D., keeping the air out,
while panel B is loose.
The folded
billet has two vital
spots. Spot X is
the loose
corner of
panel B which is
covering the written word.
Spot Y is
the fold where
panel B is attached by only
3/16th inch material.
The tweesers
serve three purposes.
to see the billet.
4

They

allow the audience

VOICES FROM HADES

THE DEVIL'S BILLET

cont.

The tweesers pinch together three panel~, A, C and D, keeping

the air out and slowing down the burning of the three panels.
The
tweesers protect your fingers from burning.
TESTING TIME
Let's
test the above claims.
Get a billet,
write a
word on it and hold it as in
Fig. 5.
Don't be a hero.
Stand still. Don't wave your arms or the billet.
Now take a match
or a candle and apply fire
to point X first and immediately apply
fire to point
Y.
Hold the billet on the
vertical line.
As soon
as point Y catches
on fire, panel B will be like a flap and free
to curl up
and burn faster
uncovering the secret word just long
enough for you to read it.
As soon as the word is read turn the billet writting-side
down and allow it to burn completely.

Fig. 6

Fig. 6 shows the end

results of two
tests I
did in my office.
I put the fire out as soonasthe
secret word was
uncovered
and then
I made
foto

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You
can glimpse
the secret
word.
All you need is a tall candle with the flame
at about
you height of
eye. Lift the
billet with
the tweesers
tilting the
bottm of
it a
tiny bit
towards you.
Then you
must look at what you are
doing, glimpse the word and burn the billet.

VOICES FROM HADES

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Here we will deal with an opaque envelope that is sealed and

burnt.
We simply
preparethe letterenvelope
so that
the address
panel of the
envelope, acts like"tbe flap panel
B of the Devil's
Billet.
Get a
security envelope.
Fig.
8 shows a
letter
size
envelope,
3-1/2
by 6-1/2
in
size.
With
a
sharp knife
we
slit the entire bottom of the ~
envelope.
We
slit also
the
sides of the
envelope but not
entirely.
The
address
panel
of
the
envelope will
be
attached
to
the
back panel
only at the top and about 3/16
inch at
the
lower corners.

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Fig. 8

, We also
cut a
triangular piece
from the
left side
of the
address panel
only. Fig.8 X.
This is to later be able
to insert
the tweesers and
also to see the index card
inside and stick the
tweesers over the edge of the index card.
Prepare an index card as shwon
in Fig. 9. Mark the card on its back
with a
pencil dot
so that
you can
tell the bottom of the card.
After the VIP
writes the
word
tell him
to turn the card
over and
then have
him insert the
card into
the
envelope and
then
seal
the
envelope.
You

Fig. 9

Make sure
the index card
shows through the
triangular cut.
, of course are covering the triangular cut with your fingers.
The envelope can be shown all around.

the tweesers
FOR THE PRESENTATION,
Take the envelope with
thruogh the
making sure
that one prong of
the tweesers
goes in
triangular cut and over the index card.
two lower corners
of the
envelope on fire
and the
Set the
you a glimpse of
the secret
address panel will burn fast giving
message.

VOICES FROM HADES

THE DEVIL'S BILLET

cont.

I know
that at least one of my readers will try
Devil's Billet Test with two or more billets.

doing the

Fig. 10
If you set
two
billets
on fire
audience can not follow your method.

at

the

same time,

your

Fig.
TRY IT YITH A DOLLAR BILL.
The VIP memorises
and folds
the dollar bill into quarters. You
tweesers as shown in Fig. 11 and then set fire
corner.
Tha~ part will burn faster
and you can
three or four digits of the bill and that is all

the serial number

grip it with the
to the lower left
memories the last
you need.

TYO BILLETS.
Give a billet that has the name of
a force
card,
word or number to one spectator,
while you
take a
real
billet with a secret message and have
both billets
burned. The
distraction of
two billets
burning will entertain and misdirect
your audience.
YITH A BIT OF THOUGHT AND
billets hung on bulldog clips in
them have three Devil's Billets
three billets while you burn the

BOTHER, you can have

three blank
podition
1, 2 and 3, and next to
hung. A spectator burns the first
three Devil's billets.

VOICES FROM HADES

cont.

ATTENTION DOCC HILFORD AND ALL BIZARISTS

SHADES OF MALINI.
You prepare a hardcover book
that you no
longer want
by breaking
its spine and make sure that
the book
opens to the same page every time when you drop it spine down. Say
it opens to page 105.
Go to page 111 and write in big letters the
name of
a force card, say,
QUEEN OF HEARTS or
its initials. You
have forced the
Queen of Hearts upon one of
the celebrities that
you have invited to a pic-nic.
At the
picnic call on the
celebrity and show him
the book.
Say that you are going to perform a magic
ritual.
You have this
magic book
that is now obsolete and you must
burn it.
So you
throw
the book
into the
pic-nic fire
carefully making
sure it
lands with
the pages opon.
Tell the VIP
to watch and
one page
goes up in
flames and then another until the
page with the Queen
of Hearts shows up.
Well you know what to do.