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: – The Literature of Ceremonial Magic – The Antiquity of Magical Rituals – The Rituals of Transcendental Magic – The Rituals of Black Magic – The Initial Rites and Ceremonies – Concerning the Descending Hierarchy – The Mysteries of Infernal Evocation According to the Grand Grimoire – The Method of Honorius – Miscellaneous and Minor Processes – Concerning Infernal Necromancy