Grimoires

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• * CHAPTER VII. GENERAL CITATION OF MOSES ON ALL SPIRITS
• Appendix to the General Citation of Moses on All Spirits

  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…

• BALAAM'S SORCERY

  The inscriptions on this seal are to be read as follows: MELOCH, HEL ALOKIM TIPHRET HOD JESATH This brings vengeance upon enemies, and must…

• BREASTPLATE OF AARON
• BREASTPLATE OF MOSES

  The Hebrew inscriptions within the seal are pronounced as follows: JEHOVA, ASER EHEJE CETHER ELEION EHEJE Their meaning is as follows: The…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic Index

  Sacred Texts Grimoires The Book of Ceremonial Magic by Arthur Edward Waite [1913] This book is the second edition of a work which in its…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter I: The Preparation of t...

  The rite of lustration, being the sacramental mark of inward cleanliness, is prescribed in all magical ceremonies, and is equally important…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter I: The Preparation of t...

  The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, referred to Cornelius Agrippa, but composite in character and spurious in attribution, as already…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter I: The Preparation of t...

  The spiritual intention of the operator being thus determined, his next step was the acquisition of the mental attitude appropriate to his…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter I: The Preparation of t...

  The use of special garments in the ceremonies of Magic follows reasonably enough from the religious character ascribed to these operations…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter I: The Preparation of t...

  Click to view DEVIL FROM HEARNE'S PRINT OF THE "DESCENT INTO HELL." Engraved by Michael Burghers, c. 1676. THE rites of so-called…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter I: The antiquity of Mag...

  For the purposes of the present, inquiry it will be convenient to consider the Rituals under the three heads of Transcendental, Composite…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter I: The antiquity of Magical Rituals: Section 1. The Importance of Ceremonial Magic

  Click to view THE SERPENT OF THE GARDEN OF THE HESPERIDES. From a Greek Vase Painting. THE ordinary fields of psychological inquiry…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter I: The antiquity of Magical Rituals: Section 2: The Distinction between White and Black Magic

  Having considered the possible standpoints from which the Rituals may be regarded, we come now to the distinctions that are made between…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Initial Rites a...

  In the preparation of the instruments, as already abundantly evident, and in the more important works which follow it. the ceremonies of…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Initial Rites a...

  THE Key of Solomon the King is the only ordinary Magical Ritual which regulates the operations of Magical Art in accordance with a formal…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Initial Rites a...

  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…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Initial Rites a...

  Preliminary magical ceremonial seems to have as its chief object the personal consecration of every article, great or small, indispensable…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Initial Rites a...

  The candles used in evocation or in other magical experiences, and the images required for bewitchment, must be composed of virgin wax or…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Initial Rites a...

  Most Goëtic rituals specify with considerable minuteness the instruments which are required for the operations, and in these respects, but…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Initial Rites and Ceremonies: Section 3: Concerning the Rod and Staff of the Art

  The great mystery of practical magic is supposed to be centred in the Magic Rod, and Éliphas Lévi, who claims to have reconstructed the…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Initial Rites and Ceremonies: Section 6: Concerning the Silken Cloth

  When all the instruments belonging to the Art have been properly consecrated and exorcised, they must be gathered into a costly cloth of…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Initial Rites and Ceremonies: Section 7: Concerning the Victim of the Art

  It is usually supposed that the offering of a bloody sacrifice is an essential condition of success in Black Magic and that the embrutement…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Rituals of Tran...

  This concludes our examination of the Rituals of so-called Transcendental Magic, comprising all those to which any currency has been given…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Rituals of Tran...

  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…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Rituals of Tran...

  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…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Rituals of Tran...

  THE term transcendental must not be interpreted in any exalted or philosophical sense when it is used, informally and conventionally…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter II: The Rituals of Transcendental Magic: Section 4: The Seven Mysterious Orisons

  SUNDAY Pater noster, &c. Deliver me, O Lord, I beseech Thee, me even, thy creature, N., from all evils Past, present and to come, whether…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter III: Composite Rituals:...

  I shall explain in the first place that this scheme of invocation derives its title from the conventional talisman on which the process…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter III: Composite Rituals:...

  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…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter III: Composite Rituals:...

  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…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter III: Composite Rituals:...

  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…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter III: Composite Rituals:...

  The Lemegeton, or Lesser Key of Solomon, Rabbi and King, is a work of far more exalted pretensions, which deploys all the hierarchies and…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter III: Composite Rituals:...

  BY far the most important class of Magical Rituals is that which incorporates elements both of Black and White procedure-so called. For…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter III: Composite Rituals:...

  The existence of this text had been known to students for a considerable period before it was made available in an English translation by…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter III: Concerning the Des...

  Having regard to the nature and antecedents of the Intelligences with which Black Magic professes to be concerned, it must be highly…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter III: Concerning the Des...

  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…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Go...

  Click to view THE SEAL OF VAPULA LX. VAPULA, a strong duke, comes in the form of a lion with griffin's wings. He gives skill not only in…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Go...

  Click to view THE SEAL OF BAAL I. BAAL, a king ruling in the East, who imparts invisibility and wisdom. He appears with a human head, or…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Go...

  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…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Go...

  Click to view THE SEAL OF MORAX XXI. MORAX, 1 a great earl and president, who appears like a human headed bull, and gives skill in…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Go...

  Click to view THE SEAL OF FORAS XXXI. FORAS, 1 a great president, who appears in the form of a strong man and teaches the virtues of all…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Go...

  THE Goëtic Art of Solomon 1 gives instructions for the evocation of the seventy-two spirits whom the King of Israel, according to a…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Go...

  | Click to view THE SEAL OF BUER | Click to view THE SEAL OF GUSION | X. BUER, 1 a great president, who appears when the sun is in…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Go...

  Click to view THE SEAL OF MALPAS XXXIX. MALPAS, a powerful president, appears at first like a crow, but afterwards, when so commanded…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of Goëtic Theurgy according to the Lesser Key of Solomon the King.: Demons: LII. (Allocen) to LIX. (Orias)

  | Click to view THE SEAL OF ALLOCEN | Click to view THE SEAL OF CAIM | LII. ALLOCEN, 2 a strong duke, appears in the form of a soldier…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of In...

  THE Grand Grimoire divides with the Grimoire of Honorius the darksome honour of an intelligible and unmutilated Ritual of Black Magic. Each…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Mysteries of In...

  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…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Rituals Of Blac...

  VI. Sets to work enough genii for the immediate achievement of any work which the possessor may desire to undertake, and for the stoppage…

• Book of Ceremonial Magic: Chapter IV: The Rituals Of Blac...

  TALISMAN VIII . VIII. Gives invisibility, even to the eyes of genii, so that God alone shall witness the actions of the possessor.

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