Publisher's Synopsis
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
