Description

An exhaustive guide to the occult, featuring passages on folklore, occultist history, and magic ceremony.

First published in 1898, The Book of Black Magic and Pacts contains a large number of magic spells and occult writings taken from a variety of sources. This volume is one of the greatest overviews of the occult. Written by Arthur Edward Waite, influential scholarly mystic and co-creator of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck.

The contents of this volume feature:

1. - The Literature of Ceremonial Magic

1. - The Antiquity of Magical Rituals

1. - The Rituals of Transcendental Magic

1. - The Rituals of Black Magic

1. - The Initial Rites and Ceremonies

1. - Concerning the Descending Hierarchy

1. - The Mysteries of Infernal Evocation According to the Grand Grimoire

1. - The Method of Honorius

1. - Miscellaneous and Minor Processes

1. - Concerning Infernal Necromancy