{"collection":"Grimoires","page":1,"pages":[{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_moses7_m765_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_moses7_m765_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"","title":"* CHAPTER VII. GENERAL CITATION OF MOSES ON ALL SPIRITS","word_count":77},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_moses7_m736_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_moses7_m736_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"We, N.N., in this circle, conjure and cite this spirit Fatenovenia, with all his adherents, to appear here in this spot, to fulfil our desires, in the name of the three holy angels, Schomajen Sheziem, Roknion Averam, Kandile, Brachat Chaijdalic, Ladabas, Labul, Raragil, Bencul, in the name of God. Amen.","title":"Appendix to the General Citation of Moses on All Spirits","word_count":50},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_moses7_m726_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_moses7_m726_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The inscriptions on this seal are to be read as follows:\nMELOCH, HEL ALOKIM TIPHRET HOD JESATH\nThis brings vengeance upon enemies, and must not be disregarded because it contains the names of the Seven Tables of the Covenant.","title":"BALAAM'S SORCERY","word_count":39},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_moses7_m719_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_moses7_m719_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"","title":"BREASTPLATE OF AARON","word_count":36},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_moses7_m717_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_moses7_m717_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The Hebrew inscriptions within the seal are pronounced as follows:\nJEHOVA, ASER EHEJE CETHER ELEION EHEJE\nTheir meaning is as follows:\nThe Most High, whom no eye hath seen, nor tongue spoke; the Spirit which did great acts and performed great wonders. The Words of the Breastplate and the Helmet pronounced mean Holiness.","title":"BREASTPLATE OF MOSES","word_count":53},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_index_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Grimoires\u00a0\n \n \n The Book of Ceremonial Magic\n by Arthur Edward Waite\n [1913]\n \n \n This book is the second edition of a work \n which in its first edition was titled,\n more provocatively, The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts. This book is an attempt to synthesize the procedures of all of the\n famous Grimoires. It draws on the Key of Solomon, the Grimorium Verum,\n the apocryphal Fourth Book of Cornelius Agrippa, and many others,\n including the famous Black Pullet, or Poulet Noir.","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic Index","word_count":839},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm40_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm40_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The rite of lustration, being the sacramental mark of inward cleanliness, is prescribed in all magical ceremonies, and is equally important in Go\u00ebtic art. The ordinary daily ablution itself becomes symbolical. When the operator rises in the morning, during the preparatory triduum prescribed by the Grimorium Verum, his hands and face must be sponged with a clean white cloth, using water which has been previously exorcised according to the indications of the Ritual 1 and reciting the\nPREPARATORY\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter I: The Preparation of t...","word_count":572},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm39_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm39_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, referred to Cornelius Agrippa, but composite in character and spurious in attribution, as already seen, gives an exceedingly curious explanation of the rule of sanctity prescribed by all forms of Ceremonial Magic. The instruments used in the Art are ineffective without consecration. The act of consecration is the act by which virtue is imparted to them, and this virtue derives from two sources, the power of sanctification residing in Divine Names and in the\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter I: The Preparation of t...","word_count":1065},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm38_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm38_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The spiritual intention of the operator being thus determined, his next step was the acquisition of the mental attitude appropriate to his future work. We may picture him in the traditional state of the sorcerer--poor, proscribed, envious, ambitious, and having no capacity for legitimate enterprises, Unable to earn money, he hankers after hidden treasures, and haunts those spots up and down the country-side which are reputed to conceal them. He has done this presumably for\na long time before\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter I: The Preparation of t...","word_count":408},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm41_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm41_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The use of special garments in the ceremonies of Magic follows reasonably enough from the religious character ascribed to these operations. Peter de Abano recommends a priest's garment if possible, by which an alb may be understood. 2\n[paragraph continues] The Book of Black Magic, following the Key of Solomon, and representing the Jewish rite, prescribes an outer vestment like that of the Levites, with the following characters embroidered in red silk upon the breast:--\nAll garments, even to the\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter I: The Preparation of t...","word_count":341},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm37_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm37_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Click to view\n DEVIL FROM HEARNE'S PRINT OF THE \"DESCENT INTO HELL.\"\n Engraved by Michael Burghers, c. 1676. THE rites of so-called Transcendental Magic are, ex hypothesi, divine and religious rites, and the counsels, spiritual and moral, which are found in its instructions are, in their meagre and puerile way, the vulgarised counsels of perfection, whatever element of sovereign contra-reason may obtain in its experiments.","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter I: The Preparation of t...","word_count":1268},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm07_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm07_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"For the purposes of the present, inquiry it will be convenient to consider the Rituals under the three heads of Transcendental, Composite and Black, subject, as regards the first, to some specific qualifications which will appear in the second chapter, and subject, in respect of all, to the perfect understanding that these three are one. So far as may be possible, the antiquity of individual Rituals will be determined in the course of their examination, but as this inquiry is based, with a\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter I: The antiquity of Mag...","word_count":2037},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm05_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm05_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Click to view\n THE SERPENT OF THE GARDEN OF THE HESPERIDES. From a Greek Vase Painting. THE ordinary fields of psychological inquiry, largely in possession of the pathologist, are fringed by a borderland of occult and dubious experiment into which pathologists may occasionally venture, but it is left for the most part to unchartered explorers.","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter I: The antiquity of Magical Rituals: Section 1. The Importance of Ceremonial Magic","word_count":3810},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm06_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm06_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Having considered the possible standpoints from which the Rituals may be regarded, we come now to the distinctions that are made between them, and, first and foremost, to that which has been already mentioned and is artificially instituted between White and Black Magic. The history of this distinction\nis exceedingly obscure, but there can be no question that in its main aspect it is modern--that is to say, in so far as it depends upon a sharp contrast between Good and Evil Spirits. In Egypt, in\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter I: The antiquity of Magical Rituals: Section 2: The Distinction between White and Black Magic","word_count":1174},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm49_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm49_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"In the preparation of the instruments, as already abundantly evident, and in the more important works which follow it. the ceremonies of aspersion and fumigation, that is, of purifying and consecrating, are continually enjoined. Sprinkling is performed with the Aspergillus, which, according to the Grimorium Verum, should be composed of mint, marjory and rosemary, bound about with a thread woven by a virgin girl.","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Initial Rites a...","word_count":1388},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm42_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm42_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE Key of Solomon the King is the only ordinary Magical Ritual which regulates the operations of Magical Art in accordance with a formal attribution of certain hours in the day and night to the rule and influence of certain planets, while the Book of True Black Magic is the only Go\u00ebtic Grimoire which follows the Clavicle closely in this as in other respects. 1 The directions given are, however, exceedingly confused. The common attribution of the seven days to the seven planets obtains in both\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Initial Rites a...","word_count":1512},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm50_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm50_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"When the sacrifice of the Art or its substitute has once been completed, the operator is in possession of all the materials that he will require ex hypothesi for the performance of Go\u00ebtic works as described in the Book of True Black Magic or the Grimorium Verum. But as the first of these Rituals ordains that the preparation of the artist shall be made in accordance with certain planetary influences, so in like manner does it regulate the time of operation or accomplishment. The instructions\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Initial Rites a...","word_count":528},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm45_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm45_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Preliminary magical ceremonial seems to have as its chief object the personal consecration of every article, great or small, indispensable or occasional, which is connected with the several processes. The pen and ink with which characters and names\nare written must both be specially prepared. Take a new quill, says the Grimorium Verum; asperge and fumigate it after the manner of the other instruments; when you hold it in your hand to shape it, say the following words:--ABABALOY, SAMOY, ESCAVOR\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Initial Rites a...","word_count":934},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm46_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm46_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The candles used in evocation or in other magical experiences, and the images required for bewitchment, must be composed of virgin wax or virgin earth--that is to say, the substances in question must not have been applied previously to another purpose. 2 Before operating the following words must be recited over the material:--ENTABOR, NATABOR, Si tacibor, ADONAY, AN, LAYAMON, TINARMES, EOS PHILODES. 3 Angels Of God, be ye present!","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Initial Rites a...","word_count":343},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm43_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm43_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Most Go\u00ebtic rituals specify with considerable minuteness the instruments which are required for the operations, and in these respects, but with variations peculiar to themselves, and distinguishing them also from one another, they follow the authority of the Key of Solomon. Peter de Abano tells us nothing concerning them, nor yet pseudo-Agrippa, with the one exception of the sword, which, following a physical analogy, seems to be universal in practical magic. In the Grimoires, however, though\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Initial Rites a...","word_count":1749},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm44_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm44_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The great mystery of practical magic is supposed to be centred in the Magic Rod, and \u00c9liphas L\u00e9vi, who claims to have reconstructed the primitive ceremonial, but seems rather to have over-edited his materials, supplies a highly sensational account of its powers and an elaborate method of its preparation. For him it is the sign of the transmission of the magical priesthood, which has never ceased since the darksome origin of pseudo-transcendent science. The operator is overwhelmed with\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Initial Rites and Ceremonies: Section 3: Concerning the Rod and Staff of the Art","word_count":1134},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm47_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm47_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"When all the instruments belonging to the Art have been properly consecrated and exorcised, they must be gathered into a costly cloth of silk, as Solomon ordains-says the testament whereby they may be preserved clean and pure and may thus be more efficacious. So it be not black or brown, the colour is indifferent, but the following characters must be written upon it in pigeon's blood with the male goose-quill proper to the Art. Add these names: ADONAY, AMMASTIUS, ANARETON, COSBOS, ELOYM.","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Initial Rites and Ceremonies: Section 6: Concerning the Silken Cloth","word_count":179},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm48_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm48_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"It is usually supposed that the offering of a bloody sacrifice is an essential condition of success in Black Magic and that the embrutement of the operator is the chief purpose of the ordination. It is true that such an offering is in most cases enjoined, but its object is simple and commonplace rather than diabolical or recondite, and the practice itself is based on the so-called White Magic of the Key of Solomon. It offers\nanother instance that if this text be the head and fount of the Art\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Initial Rites and Ceremonies: Section 7: Concerning the Victim of the Art","word_count":2488},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm12_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm12_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"This concludes our examination of the Rituals of so-called Transcendental Magic, comprising all those to which any currency has been given. There are no doubt other treatises which exist only in manuscript and possess no literary history, but they scarcely come within the scope of the present inquiry. I do not believe that anything has remained in obscurity which is more entitled to come into notice than those which have been mentioned briefly in the first chapter.","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Rituals of Tran...","word_count":373},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm09_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm09_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"In the year 1686, the Arbatel was translated into German, and in the same year--possibly in the same volume-appeared, also in German, a work entitled The Little Keys of Solomon or Theosophia Pneumatica. 1 There are no examples of these editions in the British Museum, and inquiry has failed to elicit any particulars concerning them. Both are reprinted, together with other specimens of Ancient Magical Literature, to illustrate the Faust legend, in the third volume of Scheible's Das Kloster, 2 The\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Rituals of Tran...","word_count":798},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm10_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm10_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"We come now to the Enchiridion of Pope Leo III., which, as already indicated, is not a book of Ceremonial Magic; it is necessary, however, to include it in this notice, and to analyse it at some length, so as to establish its true character. Misconceptions and mistakes upon a subject so obscure as Magical Rituals are, speaking generally, excusable enough, but in this case they are found where they are not excusable, namely, among those persons who have undertaken to give account of the work\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Rituals of Tran...","word_count":2188},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm08_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE term transcendental must not be interpreted in any exalted or philosophical sense when it is used, informally and conventionally enough, in such a connection as the present. It has not been adopted because it is tolerably appropriate, but rather in the absence of a better word of definition in respect of the claim implied, and because also it has been previously admitted in the same connection. It is perhaps loosely equivalent to the Haute Magie of Eliphas L\u00e9vi, which I have rendered\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Rituals of Tran...","word_count":3580},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm11_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm11_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"SUNDAY\nPater noster, &c. Deliver me, O Lord, I beseech Thee, me even, thy creature, N., from all evils Past, present and to come, whether of body or soul; grant me peace and health in Thy goodness; incline favourably unto me, Thy creature, by the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of Thy holy apostles, Peter, Paul, Andrew and of all the saints. Vouchsafe peace unto Thy creature, and health during all my life, so that, strengthened by the mainstay of Thy mercy, I may never be the slave\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Rituals of Transcendental Magic: Section 4: The Seven Mysterious Orisons","word_count":2003},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm16_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm16_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"I shall explain in the first place that this scheme of invocation derives its title from the conventional talisman on which\nthe process depends. It is made of white wax, and is inscribed as hereinafter appears. This figure is used for the four chief angels whose government extends over the four altitudes of the world, namely, East, West, North and South.","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter III: Composite Rituals:...","word_count":1232},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm18_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm18_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The Fourth Book of Cornelius Agrippa was much too informal, and left too much to the discretion of the operator, to be satisfactory for a science so exact as that of Ceremonial Magic. A form of procedure which bequeathed nothing to the imagination and asked no other skill than the patient exactitude of the rule of thumb was necessary to the weakness of the ordinary sorcerer. The Heptameron, or Magical Elements ascribed to Peter de Abano is an attempt to supply the want and to offer to the\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter III: Composite Rituals:...","word_count":1051},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm17_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm17_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"It is a matter now almost of general knowledge that a Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy is attributed to Cornelius Agrippa, and that it is rejected as spurious. The authenticity of the famous three books has never been questioned and is indeed beyond challenge; the fourth is perhaps less interesting from the nature of its contents than from this question of its authorship. It is, at the same time, a much more skilful performance than the common run of magical impostures; it connects with and\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter III: Composite Rituals:...","word_count":3285},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm15_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm15_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"If the intimation of the last section be accepted as a working hypothesis in respect of the Lemegeton, and if its third and fourth books be therefore set apart as accretions, there is possibly some colourable pretence for placing The Pauline Art among composite Rituals. It is very difficult to speak certainly, as what is offered in the work is the Ritual for the Invocation of the Angels of Day and Night, the Angels of the Twelve Signs and those of the Zodiacal degrees, who are termed Angels of\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter III: Composite Rituals:...","word_count":1684},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm14_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm14_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The Lemegeton, or Lesser Key of Solomon, Rabbi and King, is a work of far more exalted pretensions, which deploys all the hierarchies and evokes spirits by milliards. About its antiquity there is no need for serious dispute; it claims to be translated from the Hebrew, but its earliest perfect examples are in French of the seventeenth century, and no one has heard of the original. It must have existed, however, in a much earlier form; it is the subject of continual reference by demonologists\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter III: Composite Rituals:...","word_count":664},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm13_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm13_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"BY far the most important class of Magical Rituals is that which incorporates elements both of Black and White procedure-so called. For convenience of treatment these are here termed composite. At the head of all, and, within certain limits, the inspiration and the source of all, stands the Key of Solomon, with its complement, in many respects more important than itself, the Lemegeton, or Lesser Key, sometimes attributed to Solomon Rabbi; the Rabbi and the monarch are, however, one and the\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter III: Composite Rituals:...","word_count":2188},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm19_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm19_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The existence of this text had been known to students for a considerable period before it was made available in an English translation by the editor of the Key of Solomon. The amateurs of occult science in the more dubious of its practical branches became possessed of this pearl of tradition in 1898, and I suppose that it is familiar enough in certain circles. I am sorry that it seems necessary to say a few words concerning it in the present place.","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter III: Composite Rituals:...","word_count":1028},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm52_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm52_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Having regard to the nature and antecedents of the Intelligences with which Black Magic professes to be concerned, it must be highly important that the operator should know the kind of apparitions which may be expected, when, despite the incredulity of Horatio, the spirits from the vasty deep do\nrespond to conjuration. The majority of the Grimoires leave it to be inferred from their silence that they come in human shape--possibly in \"a neat surcoat and snow-white linen,\" like the Adonay of the\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter III: Concerning the Des...","word_count":415},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm51_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm51_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"IN all matters of ceremonial the inspiration of the Grimoires must be sought in the Key of Solomon proper, but for the names and offices of the demons it must be sought in the Lesser Key. The hierarchy, according to the Lemegeton, with its accompanying evoking processes, will be given in the fourth chapter, as there is no special reason for separating it from the practical context. I shall therefore deal in this place with the simpler though later summaries, which will prevent these curious\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter III: Concerning the Des...","word_count":1984},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm60_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm60_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Click to view\n THE SEAL OF VAPULA\nLX. VAPULA, a strong duke, comes in the form of a lion with griffin's wings. He gives skill not only in manual professions but also in philosophy and the sciences contained in books--I suppose, as distinguished from the secret sciences.","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Go...","word_count":1162},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm54_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm54_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Click to view\n THE SEAL OF BAAL\nI. BAAL, a king ruling in the East, who imparts invisibility and wisdom. He appears with a human head, or with that of a toad or cat, 1 but sometimes with all at once.","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Go...","word_count":913},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm61_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm61_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"In communicating with the seventy-two spirits, the age of the Moon should be observed, for it is affirmed on the authority of Solomon that all days are profitable save the second, fourth, sixth, ninth, tenth, twelfth or fourteenth of that luminary. The seals must be made of metals; those of the chief kings should be of gold; marquises, of silver; dukes, of copper; prelates, of tin or silver; knights, of lead; presidents, of fixed quicksilver; 1 and earls, of silver and copper in equal parts\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Go...","word_count":3181},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm56_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm56_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Click to view\n THE SEAL OF MORAX\nXXI. MORAX, 1 a great earl and president, who appears like a human headed bull, and gives skill in astronomy and the liberal sciences, with good familiars. He knows the virtues of all herbs and precious stones.","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Go...","word_count":695},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm57_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm57_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Click to view\n THE SEAL OF FORAS\nXXXI. FORAS, 1 a great president, who appears in the form of a strong man and teaches the virtues of all herbs and precious stones, as well as logic and ethics; he makes men invisible, imparts wit, wisdom and eloquence, discovers treasures and restores things lost. Click to view\n THE SEAL OF ASMODAY\nXXXII.","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Go...","word_count":704},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm53_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm53_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE Go\u00ebtic Art of Solomon 1 gives instructions for the evocation of the seventy-two spirits whom the King of Israel, according to a well-known legend, shut up in a brass vessel and cast into a deep lake. When the vessel was discovered by the Babylonians, it was supposed to contain a great treasure and was accordingly broken open. The spirits who were thus set at liberty, together with their legions, returned to their former places, Belial excepted, who entered into a certain image, and gave\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Go...","word_count":216},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm55_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm55_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| Click to view THE SEAL OF BUER | Click to view THE SEAL OF GUSION | \nX. BUER, 1 a great president, who appears when the sun is in Sagittarius and teaches philosophy, logic, the virtues of herbs, &c. He heals all diseases and gives good familiars.","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Go...","word_count":671},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm58_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm58_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Click to view\n THE SEAL OF MALPAS\nXXXIX. MALPAS, a powerful president, appears at first like a crow, but afterwards, when so commanded, assumes a human form, speaking with a hoarse voice. He brings artificers swiftly from all parts of the world, destroys the desires and thoughts 1 of enemies, gives good familiars and receives a sacrifice kindly, but will deceive him who offers it.","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Go...","word_count":963},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm59_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm59_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| Click to view THE SEAL OF ALLOCEN | Click to view THE SEAL OF CAIM | \nLII. ALLOCEN, 2 a strong duke, appears in the form of a soldier, mounted on a great horse, his face like that of a lion, exceedingly red, his eyes flaming fire, his speech hoarse and loud. He teaches astronomy and the liberal sciences, and gives a good familiar.","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Go\u00ebtic Theurgy according to the Lesser Key of Solomon the King.: Demons: LII. (Allocen) to LIX. (Orias)","word_count":588},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm63_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm63_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE Grand Grimoire divides with the Grimoire of Honorius the darksome honour of an intelligible and unmutilated Ritual of Black Magic. Each after its own kind is indeed an exceedingly curious work. In the first is contained what is probably the only printed method of making pacts; the second is remarkable, firstly, on account of its pretended origin and the elaboration with which it is set forth, secondly, for the ecclesiastical complexion of its process, which can scarcely have failed to\u2026","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of In...","word_count":3171},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm64_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm64_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"There are two kinds of pacts, says the Grimorium Verum, the tacit and the manifest; but know at the same time that among the several kinds of spirits there are some which bind and some which do not bind, save only in a very light manner. As to the first, they are those which require something personally belonging to you whensoever a pact is agreed. Against these you must be on your guard, because the guileful friend becometh an open enemy.","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of In...","word_count":2941},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm28_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm28_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"VI. Sets to work enough genii for the immediate achievement of any work which the possessor may desire to undertake, and for the stoppage of any which may oppose him. The talisman should be of lilac satin with the figures embroidered in shaded silk.","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Rituals Of Blac...","word_count":187},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm29_htm","collection":"Grimoires","id":"sacred_texts_v1_grim_bcm_bcm29_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"TALISMAN VIII\n. VIII. Gives invisibility, even to the eyes of genii, so that God alone shall witness the actions of the possessor.","title":"Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Rituals Of Blac...","word_count":71}],"sort":"title","tag":null,"total":515}