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Sepher Raziel: Liber Salomonis (Singapore: Golden Hoard Press, 2010; 2nd expanded edition, 2017)
The Study of Solomonic Magic in English
Don Karr
Three Noteworthy Books Treating Solomonic Magic Significant Recent Publications Texts of Solomonic Magic in English Works of Related Interest (a bibliography with notes) Addendum: Solomonic Magic on the Internet This paper is periodically updated.
Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy
Encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy
2006 •
Chief Medicine Horse Dennison
I did not author this book , just sharing it.
Arthur Edward Waite - The book Of Black Magic And Of Pacts - 1910 - 10th edition
1910 •
François Isabel
Arthur Edward Waite - The book Of Black Magic And Of Pacts - 1910 - 10th edition
TWO HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Entangled Religions 14/3
Entangled Religions Vol. 14 No. 3 (2023): WESTERN LEARNED MAGIC AS AN ENTANGLED TRADITION
2023 •
Bernd-Christian Otto
I edited a special issue of the journal Entangled Religions (Bochum) on the topic 'Western Learned Magic as an Entangled Tradition'. It includes contributions by Michael Noble, Sophie Page, Owen Davies, Dirk Johannsen, Henrik Bogdan, and myself. My contribution "Conjuring Planetary Spirits in the Twenty-First Century: Textual-Ritual Entanglements in Contemporary 'Magic(k)'" deals with Frater Acher and his unique 'Arbatel experience'. All articles are open access: https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/issue/view/323.
The Cosmic Movement: Sources, Contexts, Impact
The Reception of Ritual Magic in Max Théon’s Circles
2020 •
Gal Sofer
Within Max Théon's circles – The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor and the Cosmic Movement – there was great interest in ritual magic. Some of the works associated with these movements reveal a theoretical and practical approach that had been adopted from medieval and renaissance grimoires, which they used for different purposes. The methods of The Key of Solomon – perhaps the most influential medieval magical text – were reborn in Theon’s circles where they were transformed into psychological and spiritual practices. Gal Sofer’s chapter explores the reception of ritual magic by Alma and Max Théon, as well as by members of the H.B. of L., in order to reveal how these figures participated in the revival of ritual magic and how their interpretations influenced practitioners in the twentieth century and beyond.
History of Western Magic
Simonida M O N A Vulić
Conjure Codex
2011 •
Chief Medicine Horse Dennison
I did not author this book , just sharing the knowledge.
Entangled Religions
Conjuring Planetary Spirits in the Twenty-First Century: Textual-Ritual Entanglements in Contemporary 'Magic(k)'
2023 •
Bernd-Christian Otto
This article illustrates textual-ritual entanglements in Western learned magic across almost two millennia through an analysis of Frater Acher's Arbatel experience. Frater Acher is a contemporary practitioner of 'magic(k)' who, between 2010 and 2013, performed a series of conjurations of six planetary spirits inspired by an early modern manual of learned magic named Arbatel. Frater Acher combined the Arbatel with ritual techniques from numerous further contexts, among them the late ancient Greek Magical Papyri, the Clavicula Salomonis tradition, Paracelsianism, Hermeticism, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, theurgy, modern imagination techniques, as well as chaos 'magic(k)'. As a consequence, Frater Acher's Arbatel experience-as he frames his ritual diaries published online-reveals a strikingly entangled ritual that illustrates the breadth, depth, and complexity of Western learned magic, as well as its manifold entanglements across time and space. His diaries also demonstrate that, even while following largely formalistic premodern scripts of learned magic, contemporary practitioners may nonetheless display a high degree of flexibility, creativity, and innovation. The article closes by reflecting on whether it is likely that such strategies were also present in premodern practitioner scenarios. In doing so, it calls for taking the-extensive but hitherto almost completely neglected-data of experience reports by contemporary practitioners of 'magic(k)' into account when interpreting premodern sources of learned magic. As a consequence, this is the first systematic attempt to compare and juxtapose premodern and modern interpretations and mindsets of practitioners of learned magic. It is thus also the first scholarly article that aims at elucidating a premodern manual of learned magic through reading and analysing the experience report of a contemporary practitioner.
The Seeds of Satan: Conceptions of Magic in Contemporary Satanism
2012 •
Jesper Aagaard Petersen
