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