The Grand Grimoire and the Pact of Lucifuge Rofocale
The Grand Grimoire promises wealth through a formal pact with Lucifuge Rofocale, infernal minister of treasures, and surrounds that promise…
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Grimorium Verum and the Infernal Hierarchy of Scirlin
Grimorium Verum presents a practical infernal administration of chiefs, subordinate spirits, sigils and Scirlin, the intermediary through whom the magician…
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The Heptameron and the Seven Days of Conjuration
The Heptameron organizes conjuration by weekday, season, wind and planetary authority, surrounding each operation with circles, names, exorcisms and celestial…
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The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy and the Shadow of Agrippa
Published after Agrippa’s death, the Fourth Book transformed his reputation by supplying the spirit hierarchies, seals, consecrations and ceremonies his…
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The Grimoire of Pope Honorius and the Corruption of Sacred Authority
The Grimoire of Pope Honorius turns Mass, priesthood, sacred names and ecclesiastical command into the machinery of private conjuration and…
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The Magus of Francis Barrett and the Occult Revival
Francis Barrett’s 1801 Magus gathered Renaissance occult philosophy, celestial tables, talismans, alchemy and spirit magic into a lavish book that…
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The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses and the Global Life of a Grimoire
A nineteenth-century German compilation presented secret Mosaic seals as lost biblical revelation, then travelled through migration, mail-order print and living…
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The Black Pullet and the Talismans of Revolutionary Egypt
La Poule Noire hides a manual of twenty-two talismans inside the story of a French soldier initiated beneath the pyramids…
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The Lesser Key of Solomon and the Making of the Ars Goetia
The Lesser Key is a seventeenth-century manuscript compilation whose first book, the Ars Goetia, reorganized older demon catalogues into seventy-two…
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The Cipher Manuscripts and the Birth of the Golden Dawn
Sixty encoded folios supplied the grade outlines and ritual skeleton from which Westcott, Mathers and Woodman constructed the Hermetic Order…
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