The Sworn Book of Honorius
The Sworn Book claims to preserve the secret art of magicians threatened by ecclesiastical destruction, compressing their knowledge into a…
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The Book of Oberon
The Book of Oberon preserves a crowded Elizabethan magical world in which fairies, demons, angels, treasure spirits and learned conjurations…
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The Munich Manual of Demonic Magic
The Munich handbook is one of the starkest surviving witnesses to learned medieval necromancy: Latin experiments for illusion, knowledge, coercion…
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The Cambridge Book of Magic
The manuscript known as the Cambridge Book of Magic preserves experiments, spirit operations and learned magical material from an England…
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The Book of Abramelin
Abramelin presents magic as a demanding spiritual reordering: the operator seeks knowledge and conversation with a holy guardian before commanding…
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The Key of Solomon
The Key of Solomon places ritual purity, planetary timing, tools, prayers and pentacles beneath the authority of the biblical king…
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The Grand Grimoire
The Grand Grimoire, often linked with the Red Dragon, stages one of occult literature’s most notorious encounters: a treasure-seeking pact…
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The Grimoire of Pope Honorius
The Grimoire of Pope Honorius exploits the highest name in Western church authority, placing conjuration and spirit command inside a…
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Liber Officiorum Spirituum
The Book of the Offices of Spirits belongs to the manuscript ancestry behind later demon catalogues, listing named beings, ranks,…
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Livre des Esperitz
Livre des Esperitz preserves an early French catalogue of spirits whose names, ranks and offices anticipate or parallel beings later…
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