Author: Steve Johnson Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781514754078 Category : Languages : en Pages : 36
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HAIL ERIS! ALL HAIL DISCORDIA! Did you know that God is crazy? And a girl? If not, you should probably go read the Principia Discordia, or, How I Found The Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her. Otherwise, this book won't make much sense to you. The Callipygian Grimoire contains ancient Discordian spells like "The War Song of Thule" and "The Assmonkey Curse," along with parables, mystical wisdom, and answers to questions such as "are middle managers real?" and "where do all these 23s come from, man?" Plus fun activities like mazes, word searches, and coloring pages to pass the time if you get bored on your journey to enlightenment!
Author: Claude Lecouteux Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1620551888 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 195
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An extensive study of ancient books of magic and the magical practices preserved in the few surviving grimoires • Includes spells, talisman formulations, and secret magical alphabets reproduced from the author’s private collection of grimoires, with instructions for their use • Explains the basic principles of medieval magic, including the doctrine of names and the laws of sympathy and contagion • Offers an overview of magic in the Western Mystery tradition Grimoires began simply as quick-reference “grammar books” for sorcerers, magicians, and priests before evolving into comprehensive guides to magic, complete with spell-casting rituals, magical alphabets, and instructions to create amulets and talismans. With the advent of the printing press, some grimoires were mass produced, but many of the abbreviations were misinterpreted and magical words misspelled, rendering them ineffective. The most powerful grimoires remained not only secret but also heavily encoded, making them accessible only to the highest initiates of the magical traditions. Drawing on his own private collection of grimoires and magical manuscripts as well as his privileged access to the rare book archives of major European universities, Claude Lecouteux offers an extensive study of ancient books of magic and the ways the knowledge within them was kept secret for centuries through symbols, codes, secret alphabets, and Kabbalistic words. Touching on both white and black magical practices, he explains the basic principles of medieval magic, including the doctrine of names and signatures, mastery of the power of images, and the laws of sympathy and contagion. He gives an overview of magic in the Western Mystery tradition, emphasizing both lesser-known magicians such as Trithemus and Peter of Apono and famous ones like Albertus Magnus and Hermes Trismegistus. Creating a universal grimoire, Lecouteux provides exact reproductions of secret magical alphabets, symbols, and glyphs with instructions for their use as well as an illustrated collection of annotated spells, rituals, and talismans for numerous applications including amorous magic, healing magic, and protection rites. The author also examines the folk magic that resulted when the high magic of the medieval grimoires melded with the preexisting pagan magic of ancient Europe.
Author: Arundell Overman Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
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The Grimoire of Pope Honorius first appeared in 1670. It is an instruction manual for invoking the demons of the four directions and the seven days of the week. These demons are known as Oriens, Amaymon, Paimon, Egyn, Lucifer, Frimost, Astaroth, Sirchade, Bechard, Guland, and Surgat. This edition of the grimoire contains images, sigils, and in depth information on each of the spirits, as well as instructions on how the book might be used in the modern age.
Author: STEPHEN. SKINNER Publisher: ISBN: 9780738757117 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Paperback edition of this esoteric classic. There have been many grimoires attributed to St. Cyprian of Antioch due to his reputation as a consummate magician before his conversion to Christianity, but perhaps none so intriguing as the present manuscript. This unique grimoire addresses the summoning and use of the four Archangels, Michael, Raphael, Gabriel and Uriel as well as their opposite numbers, the four Demon Kings, Paymon, Maimon, Egyn and Oriens. The latter are shown in their animal and human forms along with their sigils, a resource unique amongst grimoires. The text is a mixture of magical scripts, Greek, Hebrew, cipher, Latin, (and reversed Latin) made plain by the editors.
Author: Sascha Aurora Akhtar Publisher: Salt Publishing ISBN: Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 88
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The Grimoire of Grimalkin was conceived during passionate affairs with French fin-de-siècle literature and Russian poets from the 1920s of the obscure kind. At the same time, the poet was conducting amorous relations with Old English fairy tales, and the English language itself, its past, present and future. Roots were plundered, whilst flirting with Plato’s notions of the thing itself versus the image conjured up by the word. There is a strong strain of the Eastern courtly love tradition, too – the wretched, tortured lover, but it is never quite clear who the object of love is. Wrapped in necromancy, invocations and references to the Devil, The Grimoire of Grimalkin is a baroque excursion into language taking Bakhtin’s ideas of polyglossia, Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizome model and other postmodern philosophies and running amok with them. The work is rife with literary, film, and television references, and a particular debt is owed to The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. There is a feeling of an articulate medieval sensibility at work here. Fraught with nightmares, superstitions and mythology. In the 16th century “grimoires” were spell books written by occultists. In Akhtar’s Grimoire there is a channelling of sorts, of talking in tongues, of black magic, through the use of language of all guises. Obsolete or “dead” words mingle with contemporary British slang, “Indo-European roots” appear harmonizing with malapropisms and puns. The Devil makes several appearances in reponse to wild invocation, perhaps to enamour lovers. Any notions of “meaning” are consistently challenged in Akhtar’s primordial forge, where language melts into a bubbling cauldron of delicious trickery, sex and death, magick and mayhem and, above all, love. This is a work of contemporary Gothic, with a punk core and an anarchic sense of humour.
Author: Arundell Overman Publisher: ISBN: 9781658202435 Category : Languages : en Pages : 202
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The Grand Grimoire is a foundational book of magic from the 19th century. The first portion of the book describes the process of evocation, and the making of a pact with Lucifuge Rofocale the Infernal "Prime Minister" who controls all the wealth and treasures of the world. The second part of the book, the Sanctum Regnum, or "holy kingdom" details a hierarchy of an additional 26 spirits, and their powers. Also included is a comprehensive essay that covers the development of magic, the history of the book itself, the witch trials, the Inquisition, the spread of the grimoires through Europe, and much more. Also included are sigils, and images of the spirits, many never seen before. This will aid the magician in concentration and visualization on the spirits, so that they may be evoked for practical purposes.
Author: King Solomon Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781452807874 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 76
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Serious students of conjure will be delighted with this fresh presentation of the lesser known Solomonic grimoire, the True Grimoire, or Grimorium Verum. The True Grimoire is one of the most notorious handbooks on Black magic that contains the hidden occult secrets of the biblical king Solomon. Inside this grimoire are descriptions of specific demons, instructions for conjuring them, drawing on their powers, and dismissing them. The specific seals associated with each demon are provided and can be used in ceremonial magick applications or can be used as power seals by practitioners of hoodoo and rootwork. As one of Planet Voodoo's Classic Hoodoo Reference Series, this edition of The True Grimoire contains illustrations derived from manuscripts from the 18th century and earlier, and are provided to complement the text and provide visual interest. About Planet Voodoo's Classic Hoodoo Reference Series: A major influence on hoodoo is the European grimoires. While the rites contained in the grimoires themselves were adapted by ceremonial magicians, hoodoos borrowed the seals, talismans, and sigils from the grimoires, using them as well as the use of power words and magick squares in their rootwork.The serious student of hoodoo will be interested in the classic grimoires and texts that have substantially influenced hoodoo. Planet Voodoo's Classic Hoodoo Reference Series is proud to present a number of these grimoires and related texts that have been lightly edited for clarity and grammatical errors, but retain all of the original content so as to preserve their historical and folkloric value.
Author: David Rankine Publisher: ISBN: 9781905297665 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 250
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"I conjure thee, Oh BOOK to be useful and profitable unto all those who shall read thee for success in their affairs." Conjuration for the Book, Grimoire of Pope Honorius Description: The Grimoire of Pope Honorius is the first and most important of the French 'black magic' grimoires which proliferated across Europe in the 17th-19th centuries. Combining a grimoire of conjurations to demons of the four directions and seven days of the week with a Book of Secrets full of simple charms, the Grimoire of Pope Honorius was second only to the Key of Solomon in the influence it exerted on magicians, charmers and cunning-folk in both rural and urban France. This grimoire also played a role in social events which rocked France, being used in the Affair of the Poisons which scandalised the French royal court in 1679, and by the young priest who assassinated the archbishop of Paris in 1857. The Complete Grimoire of Pope Honorius contains material translated from all four of the different French editions of the Grimoire of Pope Honorius, including the complete text of one manuscript version never before seen in English (Wellcome 4666), and a new translation of the later corrupted German version of 1845. All of the material and its variations found in the five different editions of the Grimoire of Pope Honorius is contained in this work, presenting the entire corpus of this grimoire in print for the first time. In addition to tracing much of the material to sources such as the Heptameron, the works of Agrippa and earlier religious texts for the first time, the derivation of much of the material into later grimoires including the Grimorium Verum, the Grand Grimoire/Red Dragon and the Black Dragon is clearly demonstrated. As well as charms for health, wealth, sex and protection, the Grimoire of Pope Honorius also contains a substantial number of agrarian charms by the Norman magician Guidon for protecting livestock, emphasising the popular rural use of such charms until at least the 19th century. The corpus of charms comes from diverse sources, including Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), and some like the Letter of St Anthony can be dated back to at least the 13th century. Including numerous illustrations, and tables tracing the derivation of the material through the different editions and into other grimoires, the Complete Grimoire of Pope Honorius demonstrates the versatility and significance of this grimoire, cutting past outdated misperceptions to a viewpoint which reflects more accurately the position of the Grimoire of Pope Honorius in the development of magic since the seventeenth century.
Author: R. Shadrick Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781724540614 Category : Languages : en Pages : 366
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Grimoire is a sacred personal journal of magic spells, bindings, blessings, and invocations. Each page has a faint stationary-like background, giving a pagan atmosphere to write on.
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