Ritual In Latin From "The Ninth Gate"

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I was watching the movie "The Ninth Gate" with some friends again. I haven't seen it in a long time. As the movie showed the ritual with Liana Telfer reading stuff in Latin I was asked something like "Does it actually mean anything or..."

Well, there is this beautiful German word "Jain". It means something like "Yes-and-no". Those are actual Latin words but sentences don't "connect" to each other as one would expect. I suppose many people who saw the movie would be interested to know what it means so here we go.

Only the words pronounced by Liana Telfer will be discussed, because the "murmur" factor of the congregation (about 50 voices) renders their words very hard to understand. So, here is what can be made out of the movie:

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