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INCLUDING THE RITES AND MYSTERIES OF GOETIC THEURGY,
SORCERY, AN'P INFERNAL NECROMANCY, ALSO
THE RITUALS OF BLACK MAGIC
BY
ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE
AVTBOR O't' "DEVIl. WORSHIP IN RANCK," ETC., ETC.
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This Edition Prepared for Publication Under the Editorship of
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EDWD. KELLEY A MAGICIA:-1
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PREFACE
I
N the year 1889 a learned expositor of Kabbalistic doc
trines edited in English a work on Ceremonial Magic,
entitled Clavicula Salomonis, or, the "Key of Solomon
the King." In an introduction prefixed to the work he
stated that he saw no reason to doubt, and therefore pre
sumably accepted, the tradition of its authorship.1 Mr.
Mathers, it should be added, undertook his translation
more especially for the use of occult students, that is to say,
for those persons who believe in the efficacy of magical rites,
and may desire to put them in practice. With this excep
tion, the large body of literature which treats of "Theurgic
Ceremonial'' in its various branches has remained inacces
sible to the generality of readers, in rare printed books and
rarer manuscripts, in both cases l!lostly in foreign lan
guages. 2 There. is probably a considerable class outside oc
cult students to whom a systematic account of magical prac
tices would be not unwelcome, perhaps mainly as a curi
osity of old-world credulity, but also as a contribution of
some value to certain side issues of historical research;
these, however, an edition for occult students would deter
rather than attract. In the present work both interests
have been as far as possible considered. The subject is
'l The work as it now stands quotes Ezekiel, Daniel, the fourth Gospel1 and men
tions SS. Peter and PauL Most of these anachronisms are to be found m the pen
tacles accompanying the text.
1 A judicious and excellent paper was contributed some time ago to the TraMac
tiott.r of the Bibliographical Sonety under the title of "Some Books on M&Jic," by
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H .. Slater. !t does not, of course, pretend to be exhaustive, and, though tnform
ln& IS not entirely accurate.
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approached from the bibliographical and critical stand
points, and all the sources of information which many years
of inquiry have made known to the writer have been con
sulted to render it complete. At the same time, the require
ments of the professed occultist have been studied in two
important respects, which will not, it is believed, be a source
of offence to merely historical readers. They have been
studied, firstly, by the observance of strict technical exacti
tude; the ceremonial produced in this book is absolutely
faithful to the originals, and removes all necessity of having
recourse to the originals before determining any doubtful
point of magical procedure in the past. For convenience of
reference it is indeed superior to the originals, because it
bas been put systematically, whereas they often exceed un
derstanding owing to the errors of transcribers, the mis
readings of printers, the loose methods of early translators,
and seemingly, it must be added, the confused minds of the
first compilers, "Solomon" himself not excepted. The in
numerable offices of vain observance which constitute Cere
monial Magic, as it is presented in books, will therefore be
found substantially intact by tliose who concern themselves
with such observance. ·
The second respect in which the interests of the occult
student have been considered is, however, of much more im
portance. Robert Turner, the English translator of the
"Magical Elements," written, or supposed to be wrltten, by
the unfortunate Peter of Abano, describes that treatise as
an introduction to "magical vanity," a term which was
probably used in a transcendental manner, to intimate that
all things which concern the phenomenal world are indiffer
ently futile. The occult purpose of the present investiga
tion is to place within reach of those persons who are tran
scendentally inclined the fullest evidence of the vanity of
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Ceremonial Magic as it is found in books, and the fantastic
nature of the distinction between White and Black Magic
so far also as the literature of either is concerned. It would
be unbecoming in a professed transcendentalist to deny that
there is a Magic which is behind Magic, or that the occult
sanctuaries possess their secrets and mysteries; of these the
written ceremonial is either a debased and scandalous trav
esty or a trival and misconstrued application. Let a tran
scendentalist assure the "occult student" that he is dealing
therein simply with curious researches. The statement.just
made will explain why it is permissable to bring forth from
the obscurity of centuries a variety of processes which
would be abominable if it could be supposed that they were
to be seriously understood. It will explain also why this
work is entitled "The Book of Black Magic," when it deals,
as a fact, in a fairly exhaustive manner, with most extant
Rituals. These are all tainted with Black Magic in the
same way that every idle word is tainted with the nature of
sin. The distinction betwoon White and Black Magic is the
distinction between the idle and the evil word.
It would, however, be unsafe to affirm that all ·persons
making use of the ceremonies in the Rituals would fail to ob
tain results. · Perhaps in the majority of cases most of such
experiments made in the past were attended with results of
a kind. To enter the path of hallucination is likely to in
sure hallucination, and in the presence of hypnotic and clair
voyant facts it would be absurd to suppose that the seering
processes of Ancient Magic-which are many-did not pro
duce seership, or that the auto-hypnotic state which much
magical ritual would obviously tend to occasion in predis
posed persons did not frequently induce it, and not always
only in the predisposed. To this extent some of the proc
esses are practical, and to this extent they are dangerous.
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For convenience of treatment the present work is di
vided into two parts. The first contains an analytical and
critical account of the chief magical rituals known to the
writer; the second forms a complete Grimoire ·of Black
Magic. It must be remembered that these are the opera
tions which gave arms to the Inquisitors of the past, and
justified Civil Tribunals in the opinion of their century for
the sanguinary edicts pronounced against witch, warlock,
and magician. It is, in truth, a very curious and not reas
suring page in the history of human aberration, nor has it
been wholly a pleasing exercise which has thus sought to
make it plaiD, once and for all
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CONTENTS
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PREFACE v
PART I
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CHAPTER I
THE ANTIQUITY OF MAGICAL RITUALS
§ 1. THE IMPORTANCE OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC................. 3
§ 2. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN WHITE AND BLACK MAGIC.... 12
§ 3. THE UNPRINTED LITERATURE OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC. . • • • • 16
CHAPTER II
THE RITUALS OF TRANSCENDENTAL MAGIC
§ 1. Taa ARBATEL OP MAGIC •• : • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 22
§ 2. THEOSOPHIA PNEUMATICA............................... 33
§ 3. TH£ ENCHIRIDION OF POPE LEO. • • . • • • • • • . • • . • . • • • • • • • • • 35
§ 4. THE SEVEN MYSTERIOUS ORISONS........................ 41
§ 5. SUMMARY OF TRANSCENDENTAL MAGIC..................... 48
CHAPTER III
COMPOSITE RITUALS
§ 1. THE KEY OP SoLOMON THE KING........................ so
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§ 2. TBE LEssER KJty OP SoLOMON. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
§ 3. THE FOURTH BooK OF CoRNELIUS AGRIPPA................ 57
§ 4. Tas liEPTAMER.ON.......... . . . . • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 66
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CHAPTER IV
THE RITUALS OF BLACK MAGIC
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t § 1. THE GRIYOlUUM VERUM. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 70
§ 2. TRUE BLACK ?.fAGIC.................................... 74
§ 3. THE GRAND GRIMOIRE... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 74
§ 4. THE GRIMOIRE OF HoNoRms............................ 77
§ 5. MINOR AND SPURIOUS RITUALS OF BLACK MAGIC.......... 83
§ 6. THE BLACK PULLET. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 86
§ 7. TALISMANS OF THE SAGE OF THE PYRAMIDS............... 91
§ 8. TBB GoLD-FINDING HBN' • . . . . . . . . . . • • • . • . . • • • . . . . . • • • • • 104
PART II
CHAPTER I
THE PREPARATION OF THE OPERATOR
§ 1. CoNCEitNING THE LoVE OF Goo.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 111
§ 2. CoNCERNING FORTITUDE................................. 114
§ 3. CoNCERNING CoNTINENCE AND ABSTINENCE.............. 115
§ 4. CoNCERNING THE EXTERNAL PREPARATION oF THE OPER-
ATOR, AND FIRSTLY CoNCERNING ABLUTION. • • • • • • • • • • • 118
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§ CoNCERNING THE EXTERNAL PREPARATION OF THE OPER
ATOR, AND SECONDLY CoNCERNING THE VESTMENTS.... 120
CHAPTER II
THE INITIAL RITES AND CEREMONIES
§ 1. CoNC'DNING THE VIRTUES OF THE PLANETS............... 122
§ 2. A GENERAL INSTRUCTION CONCERNING THE INSTRUMENTS
REQUIRED FOR THE ART. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 126
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