The Book Of Black Magic And Gf Pacts INCLUDING THE RITES AND MYSTERIES OF GOETIC THEURGY, SORCERY, AND INFERNAL NECROMANCY, ALSO THE RITUALS OF BLACK MAGIC BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE ‘AUTHOR oF “DEVIL, WORSHIP IN FRANCE,” ETC, ETC TWO HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS ‘This Edition Prepared for Publication Under the Editorship of L. W. de LAURENCE ‘Author of “The Great Book of Magical Art, Hindu Magic and East Indian Occult- ism,” “The Sacred Book of Death, Hindu Spiritism, Soul Transition and Sou! 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SPECIAL NOTICE ‘The loatrations, cover design and contents of this Volume are ected by copyright, and mutt ote reproduced Irithout writen persasion from the Publiabere Dis ‘Warning will subject the offender to the Deaalty DroPREFACE N the year 1889 a learned expositor of Kabbalistic doe- 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 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 ‘‘Theurgice Ceremonial’’ in its various branches has remained inacces- sible to the generality of readers, in rare printed books and rarer manuscripts, in both cases mostly in foreign lan- guages.” 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 1 The work as it now stands quotes Ezekiel, Daniel, the fourth Gospel, and men- tions SS. Peter and Paul. Most of these anachronisms are to be found in the pen- faces acompanying th text 3 A judicious and excellent paper was contributed some time ago to the Transa tions of tie ‘Bibliggrophical Soelly Under the tte of "Some Magic™ by J.-H, Slater. It does not, of course, pretend to be exhaustive, and, though inform ag, is not entirely accurate. vPreface 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 has 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 those 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 written, 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 viPreface Ceremonial Magic as it is found in books, and the fantastic nature of the distinction between White and Black Magic— xo 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 anade 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 between 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 clai 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. viiPreface 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 plain, once and for all.CONTENTS PREFACE ... he Literature of Ceremonial Magic CHAPTER I THE ANTIQUITY OF MAGICAL RITUALS 1, Tae Iuportance of CeRemontaL MAGIC.........+ 2, Tue Distinction serween Wure AND Back Mact 3. Tae Unraintep Lirgzatune or Ceremoniat Macic. CHAPTER II THE RITUALS OF TRANSCENDENTAL MAGIC 1. Tae Arpatet or Macic. 2. TugosoraiA PNEUMATICA. 3. Tae Encummton oF Porr Lzo. 4. Tax Seven Mysterious Onisons. 5. Summary oF TRANSCENDENTAL Mat CHAPTER III COMPOSITE RITUALS 12 16