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By Arthur Edward Waite

Culled from the infrequent and infrequently inaccessible genuine manuscripts of magical grimoires from the 14th, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, this copy of the 1911 variation of the vintage paintings on magic and its secrets and techniques unearths all of the sleek magician must understand on the way to commence communing with the supernatural and appropriating its strength. Waite, a preeminent 19th-century specialist in esoterica, the following explores:
* the variation among white and black magic * the rituals of transcendental magic * the rituals of black magic * the names and places of work of evil spirits * the mysteries of Goëtic theurgy * the "key" of Solomon the King * the mysteries of "infernal evocation" * and lots more and plenty extra.
Complete with all of the diagrams you want to solid your individual spells--black and white--this is a vital quantity for the library of someone within the thrall of magic. yet be warned: Dabbling within the paranormal arts is an experience undertaken at your individual hazard.
American-born British writer ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE (1857-1942) was once cocreator of the recognized 1910 Rider-Waite Tarot deck. between his quite a few books are satan Worship in France, The Holy Kabbalah, and New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry.

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The works of St. John of the Cross, of Ruysbroeck, of Eckart, of Molinos, of Saint-Martin, even the Imitation of St. Thomas à Kempis--these contain the grand processes of true Transcendental Magic, were it other than desecration to apply a term which is worse than ridiculous to treasures which would be disparaged by the association. Here there must be understood simply those occult processes and that socalled Theurgic Ceremonial, in which there is at least no explicit connection with Black Magic, which not only contain no dealings with evil spirits for evil purposes, but appear to eschew all such communication, for what purpose soever.

The use of this Hebrew term is, however, peculiar in connection with the fact that the references to the Old Testament are few and unimportant, while the sayings of Christ, and the New Testament narrative generally, are subjects of continual citation. Solomon, moreover, is not mentioned in the frequent enumerations of adepts and wise men. So far concerning the origin, authorship and date of the book. It remains to say that it is incomplete. Of the nine "Tomes" into which it purports to be divided, we possess only one.

There is, indeed, little specific difference between the prayers which incorporate them and the Invocations which swarm in the Rituals. It may be added that the use of such Divine Names is supported by a mendacious reference to the Angelical Theology of Dionysius. The prefatory matter ends at this point. The prose of the Gospel of St. John follows, with versicles and a prayer. Next come the Seven Penitential Psalms, with the Litany of the Saints, after which are the Mysterious Prayers of Pope Leo, followed by a multitude of others not less mysterious, and prevailing against human fragility, and so forth.

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