The robe serves as a screen, protecting the magician from the outside world, unlike soiled clothing, from common usage, which are a constant reminder of the world that must be abstracted from before entering the world of magic. The clothes do never leave the magicians occultum or cabinet, in which he keeps his instruments, and should not be "polluted" by the outside world.
In fact, while putting on his robe, he have sewn in a white linen cloth, the wizard creates a microcosm, a "bubble" a sort of realm 'in between" the human world and the world of higher entities, within which he have the ability to communicate with them. The five-pointed star, the pentagram, and the six-pointed star, hexagram, embroidered or drawn on the front and back of the robe, symbolize the active and the passive principle, two worlds coming together and between which a flow can take place.
The robe also shows the dispositions of the magician: the colour of the robe, white for what concerns us, is an indication in itself, of the energy he will activate. The consecration of the robe is done each usage.
* Consecration of the robe
"Amor, Amator, Amides, IDLODANIACH, Pamor, PLAIOR, Amitor: by the merit of the holy angels, I take on the robe of power, making me able to carry through the things I desire to accomplish, for thee, holy saint Adonai, whose kingdom and empire are eternal. Amen"
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