The Book of Ceremonial Magic. The Secret Tradition in Goëtia, including the rites and mysteries of Goëtic theurgy, sorcery and infernal necromancy

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This book is the second edition of a work which in its first edition was titled, more provocatively, The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts. This book is an attempt to synthesize the procedures of all of the famous Grimoires. It draws on the Key of Solomon, the Grimorium Verum, the apocryphal Fourth Book of Cornelius Agrippa, and many others, including the famous Black Pullet, or Poulet Noir. While Waite is careful in his analysis of the various Grimoires, he treats the subject matter skeptically. The result is an unparalleled look at the details of ceremonial magic. THE BOOK OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC The Secret Tradition in Goëtia, including the rites and mysteries of Goëtic theurgy, sorcery and infernal necromancy. By ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE "Alii damones malos virtute divinorum nominum adjuratos, advocare solent, atque hæc est illa Necromantiæ species quæ dicitur malefica: vel in Theurgiam, quæ quasi bonis Angelis, divinoque numine regitur (ut nonnulli putant) cum sapissime tamen sub Dei, et Angelorum nominibus malis Dæmnoun illusionibus peragitur."--ROBERT FLUDD. London [1913] Scanned at sacred-texts.com, December, 2001-November 2002. J.B. Hare, Redactor Bibliographic note: This is the second edition of this book; the first edition was titled The Book of Black Magic, and published in 1898; the second edition contains substantially the same material as the first with some additions.--JBH