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
CONTENTS
PREFACE
xxiii
INTRODUCTION
xxxi
PART I
The Literature of Ceremonial Magic
CHAPTER I
THE ANTIQUITY OF MAGICAL RITUALS
§ 1. THE IMPORTANCE OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC
3
§ 2. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN WHITE AND BLACK MAGIC
13
§ 3. THE UNPRINTED LITERATURE OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC
17
CHAPTER II
THE RITUALS OF TRANSCENDENTAL MAGIC
§ 1. THE ARBATEL OF MAGIC
24
§ 2. THEOSOPHIA PNEUMATICA
35
§ 3. THE ENCHIRIDION OF POPE LEO
39
§ 4. THE SEVEN MYSTERIOUS ORISONS
46
§ 5. SUMMARY OF TRANSCENDENTAL MAGIC
54
CHAPTER III
COMPOSITE RITUALS
§ 1. THE KEY OF SOLOMON THE KING
58
§ 2. THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON
64
p. xvi
§ 3. THE PAULINE ART
66
§ 4. THE ALMADEL
72
§ 5. THE FOURTH BOOK OF CORNELIUS AGRIPPA
77
§ 6. THE HEPTAMERON
89
§ 7. THE SACRED MAGIC OF ABRAMELIN THE MAGE
92
CHAPTER IV
THE RITUALS OF BLACK MAGIC
§ 1. THE GRIMORIUM VERUM
96
§ 2. TRUE BLACK MAGIC.
100
§ 3. THE GRAND GRIMOIRE
100
§ 4. THE GRIMOIRE OF HONORIUS
103
§ 5. MINOR AND SPURIOUS RITUALS OF BLACK MAGIC
110
§ 6. THE BLACK PULLET
113
§ 7. TALISMANS OF THE SAGE OF THE PYRAMIDS
117
§ 8. THE GOLD-FINDING HEN
130
PART II The Complete Grimore
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