{"collection":"Western Esoteric Texts","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_sta_sta24_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_eso_sta_sta24_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_eso_sta_sta24_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/eso/sta/sta24.htm","summary":"CEREMONIAL magic is the ancient art of invoking and controlling spirits by a scientific application of certain formul\u00e6. A magician, enveloped in sanctified vestments and carrying a wand inscribed with hieroglyphic figures, could by the power vested in certain words and symbols control the invisible inhabitants of the elements and of the astral world. While the elaborate ceremonial magic of antiquity was not necessarily evil, there arose from its perversion several false schools of sorcery, or\u2026","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Secret Teachings of All Ages: Ceremonial Magic and Sorcery","tradition":"Western Esoteric Texts","translated_text":null,"word_count":5379}