Year: 1913
Author: Waite, Arthur Edward
Genre: Magical grimoires
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
English language
Format: PDF
Interactive table of contents: No
Number of pages: 266 (in the book version 336)

Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942) was a scholarly mystic who wrote extensively on occult and esoteric matters, and was the co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. As his biographer, R.A. Gilbert described him, "Waite"s name has survived because he was the first to attempt a systematic study of the history of western occultism - viewed as a spiritual tradition rather than as aspects of proto-science or as the pathology of religion." "The Book of Ceremonial Magic" is the second edition of a work which in its first edition was titled, more provocatively, "The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts." It 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". The result is an unparalleled look at the details of ceremonial magic.

PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
PART I
The Literature of Ceremonial Magic
CHAPTER I
THE ANTIQUITY OF MAGICAL RITUALS
§ 1. THE IMPORTANCE OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC
§ 2. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN WHITE AND BLACK MAGIC
§ 3. THE UNPRINTED LITERATURE OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC
CHAPTER II
THE RITUALS OF TRANSCENDENTAL MAGIC
§ 1. THE ARBATEL OF MAGIC
§ 2. THEOSOPHIA PNEUMATICA
§ 3. THE ENCHIRIDION OF POPE LEO
§ 4. THE SEVEN MYSTERIOUS ORISONS
§ 5. SUMMARY OF TRANSCENDENTAL MAGIC
CHAPTER III
COMPOSITE RITUALS
§ 1. THE KEY OF SOLOMON THE KING
§ 2. THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON
§ 3. THE PAULINE ART
§ 4. THE ALMADEL
§ 5. THE FOURTH BOOK OF CORNELIUS AGRIPPA
§ 6. THE HEPTAMERON
§ 7. THE SACRED MAGIC OF ABRAMELIN THE MAGE
CHAPTER IV
THE RITUALS OF BLACK MAGIC
§ 1. THE GRIMORIUM VERUM
§ 2. TRUE BLACK MAGIC.
§ 3. THE GRAND GRIMOIRE
§ 4. THE GRIMOIRE OF HONORIUS
§ 5. MINOR AND SPURIOUS RITUALS OF BLACK MAGIC
§ 6. THE BLACK PULLET
§ 7. TALISMANS OF THE SAGE OF THE PYRAMIDS
§ 8. THE GOLD-FINDING HENPART II The Complete Grimore
CHAPTER I
THE PREPARATION OF THE OPERATOR
§ 1. CONCERNING THE LOVE OF GOD
§ 2. CONCERNING FORTITUDE
§ 3. CONCERNING CONTINENCE AND ABSTINENCE
§ 4. CONCERNING THE EXTERNAL PREPARATION OF THE OPERATOR, AND FIRSTLY
CONCERNING ABLUTION
§ 5. CONCERNING THE EXTERNAL PREPARATION OF THE OPERATOR, AND SECONDLY
CONCERNING THE VESTMENTSCHAPTER II
THE INITIAL RITES AND CEREMONIES
§ 1. CONCERNING THE VIRTUES OF THE PLANETS
§ 2. A GENERAL INSTRUCTION CONCERNING THE INSTRUMENTS REQUIRED FOR THE
ART
§ 3. CONCERNING THE ROD AND STAFF OF THE ART
§ 4. CONCERNING THE PEN AND INK OF THE ART
§ 5. CONCERNING VIRGIN WAX OR VIRGIN EARTH
§ 6. CONCERNING THE SILKEN CLOTH
§ 7. CONCERNING THE VICTIM OF THE ART
§ 8. CONCERNING ASPERSION AND CLEANSING
§ 9. CONCERNING THE TIME OF OPERATION
CHAPTER III
CONCERNING THE DESCENDING HIERARCHY
§ 1. THE NAMES AND OFFICES OF EVIL SPIRITS
§ 2. CONCERNING THE FORMS OF INFERNAL SPIRITS IN THEIR MANIFESTATIONS
CHAPTER IV
THE MYSTERIES OF GOËTIC THEURGY ACCORDING TO THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON
THE KING
§ 1. CONCERNING THE SPIRITS OF THE BRAZEN VESSEL, OTHERWISE CALLED THE
FALSE MONARCHY OF DEMONS
§ 2. CONCERNING THE RITE OF CONJURATION FROM THE "LEMEGETON"
CHAPTER V
CONCERNING THE MYSTERY OF THE SANCTUM REGNUM, OR THE GOVERNMENT OF
EVIL SPIRITS; BEING THE RITE OF CONJURATION ACCORDING TO THE GRIMORIUM
VERUM
CHAPTER VI
THE MYSTERIES OF INFERNAL EVOCATION ACCORDING TO THE GRAND GRIMOIRE
§ 1. THE RITE OF LUCIFUGE
§ 2. CONCERNING THE GENUINE SANCTUM REGNUM OR THE TRUE METHOD OF MAKING
PACTS
CHAPTER VII
THE METHOD OF HONORIUS
CHAPTER VIII
MISCELLANEOUS AND MINOR PROCESSES
§ 1. CONCERNING WORKS OF HATRED AND DESTRUCTION
§ 2. CONCERNING VENEREAL EXPERIMENTS
§ 3. CONCERNING THE EXPERIMENT OF INVISIBILITY
§ 4. CONCERNING THE HAND OF GLORY
§ 5. CONCERNING THE VISION OF SPIRITS IN THE AIR
§ 6. CONCERNING DIVINATION BY THE WORD OF URIEL
§ 7. CONCERNING THE MIRROR OF SOLOMON, SUITABLE FOR ALL KINDS OF DIVINATION
§ 8. CONCERNING THE THREE RINGS OF SOLOMON, SON OF DAVID
CHAPTER IX
CONCERNING INFERNAL NECROMANCY
CONCLUSION

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