The First Week: The First Exercise, part the second and final

The third is, that we exercise ourselves in like manner concerning any particular failing of the Will (we shall call this the third failing, in order to distinguish it from the two above mentioned), considering that by such a failing, even but once committed, many perhaps have lost sense of their agency and thusly could not bring themselves to accomplish thy Will; and that besides, an almost countless number, for failings fewer and lighter than mine, are perhaps punishing themselves with anguish and ineffectuality. Whence it must be turned over in the memory, how great is the importance of knowing and accomplishing one's Will and how great is the loss when we fail to do so, which weakens our magicks and deafens us to the gods and spirits.  Lastly, the affections are to be stirred up, as has already been said.

The colloquy will be made by imagining Antinous Nauigator to be present before me, standing upon the prow of the Barge of Millions of Years, which is also the Royal Barge travelling up the river Neilos. Let me, therefore, inquire with myself the reason what, if I had been he, the Beautiful Bithynian Boy, upon that ship, might have appeared to my mind and my understanding.  What route might I have seen from drought to inundation?  What hazards and what aids might I predict?  Would I expect to meet Sobek or Hapy?  Would I have considered myself a possible sacrifice?  Would I feel a flash of fear, as my foot slipped and my body fell, or nothing but a solid duty as I jumped?  Let me also call myself to account, inquiring what worthy of mention I have hitherto done for my community, what I am doing now; or ought to do. And, looking upon him thus standing at the prow of the Barge of Millions of Years, which is also the Royal Barge travelling up the river Neilos, let me give utterance to such things as my mind and affection shall suggest.

Moreover, it is the property of the colloquy to be made similarly to the language of a friend to a friend, or of a child to a respected and colloquial elder; now by asking some favour, now by accusing myself of some fault; sometimes by communicating my own affairs of any kind, and asking counsel or help concerning them. Last of all, let the Antinoan Coming Forth By Day be intoned.