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Grimoires and Ritual Magic
Historical grimoire and ritual-magic texts with Solomonic, Mosaic, Abramelin, and elemental-spirit transmissions, kept separate from modern neo-Hermetic revival.
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Doctor Faust's Great and Mighty Coercion of HellDoctor Faust's Great and Mighty Coercion of Hell: a short German treasure grimoire for compelling the spirit Aziel to bring two hundred and ninety-nine thousand ducats in gold, with his seal, signs, hours, citations, curses on Lucifer and the dismissal, translated complete from Scheible's 1851 printing.Doctor Faust's Great and Mighty Sea-SpiritDoctor Faust's Great and Mighty Sea-Spirit: a short German treasure grimoire in which four purified persons conjure Lucifer and the sea-spirits Forneus, Vepar and Zaleus to bring up the wealth of the waters, translated complete from Scheible's 1851 printing.Doctor Faust's Threefold Coercion of Hell, Part 1 — The Pact and the First Four Princes of HellThe first part of the Threefold Coercion of Hell ascribed to Doctor Faust: the pact with all the spirits, the making of candles, incense and the three-banded circle, the great citation of Hell, and the first four grand princes Barbiel, Mephistophiel, Apadiel and Aciel, with all twenty-one plates of the copy used, translated complete from Scheible's 1849 edition of the Coburg manuscript.Doctor Faust's Threefold Coercion of Hell, Part 2 — Chapters XVIII–LIIDoctor Faust's Threefold Coercion of Hell, Part 2 (chapters XVIII–LII): the treasure-work of the Grand Prince Aciel, the confessions, seals and circles of the Grand Princes Anael, Ariel and Marbuel, and the lesser ranks of hell's host, translated complete from Scheible's 1849 edition of the Coburg manuscript, with its 36 plates described.Doctor Faust's Threefold Coercion of Hell, Part 3 — The Elemental Spirits, the Finding-Ball and the Magic MirrorsThe third part of Doctor Faust's Threefold Coercion of Hell, chapters LIII–LXXII: the spirits of fire, air, water and earth, the Pygmies' feast, the Finding-Ball cast from seven metals, the earth-mirror, the magic bell and the scrying-glasses, translated complete from Scheible's 1849 edition of the Coburg manuscript, with its fifteen plates described.Doctor Faust's Threefold Coercion of Hell, Part 4 — The Last Testament, Chapters I–XVIThe fourth part of Doctor Faust's Threefold Coercion of Hell, from the Coburg manuscript printed by Scheible in 1849: the opening of the book called his Last Testament, with the serpent-princes Jazariel and Bazarachiel, the citing of the spirits who guard the treasures of the dead, the four after-spirits with their hours and seals, a lead seal for treasure, the banishing of a poltergeist and the Herpentil of Solomon, translated complete with Plates 75–92.Doctor Faust's Threefold Coercion of Hell, Part 5 — The Precious Seals for Citing and Treasure-RaisingThe fifth and last part of Doctor Faust's Threefold Coercion of Hell, the nine chapters of his Art of Seals: the seal that holds a treasure fast, Pluton's nose-coercion, the seals of the seven throne-angels, Solomon's pentacles and treasure-seals, the pentacles of the planets and of the seven Olympic spirits, the two seals of the New Testament, the writing spirits Kunifer and Salmison, and Wagner's experiment for driving the spirits from a buried treasure, translated complete from Scheible's 1849 edition of the Coburg manuscript, with its fifty-five plates described.Doctor Johann Faust's Coercion of Spirits and of HellDoctor Johann Faust's Coercion of Spirits and of Hell: a German conjuration book in which a Master and his companions, inside a consecrated circle, compel the infernal princes Astaroth, Berith and Beelzebub to bring a million florins in gold, translated complete from Scheible's 1851 printing.Magick in Theory and Practice — Aleister CrowleyAleister Crowley's 1929 systematic treatise on ceremonial magic, Part III of his Book Four, covering ritual theory, the magical weapons, and the formulae of Thelemic practice.Pow-Wows, or Long Lost Friend — John George HohmanJohann Georg Hohman's 1820 Pennsylvania Dutch charm-book of folk-healing remedies, protective charms, and braucherei (pow-wow) blessings, published in Reading, Pennsylvania.The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage — S.L. MacGregor MathersA foundational grimoire of ceremonial magic detailing the system of Abra-Melin, including the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.The Comte de Gabalis — Abbe de VillarsA seventeenth-century French esoteric classic presenting Rosicrucian and elemental philosophy through witty dialogues between the narrator and the mysterious Comte de Gabalis.The Key of Solomon the King — S. Liddell MacGregor MathersThe most influential grimoire of the Western tradition, detailing Solomonic conjurations, pentacles, and ceremonial preparations.The Key to Faust's Threefold Coercion of HellThe Key to Faust's Threefold Coercion of Hell: a German treasure conjuration under Faust's name, in which archangels, the middle spirits, God himself and Lucifer under the name Seloth are adjured to yield seventeen hundredweight of Oriental gold, translated complete from Scheible's 1851 printing.The Lesser Key of Solomon — Mathers and CrowleyThe Goetia and Lemegeton -- the famous catalogue of seventy-two spirits with their seals and conjurations.The Secret of the JesuitsThe Secret of the Jesuits: a short German treasure book, ascribed to a Jesuit Father Erhardus of Ingolstadt, in which the spirit Terophi is compelled by thirteen conjurations to bring money in gold, translated complete from Scheible's 1851 printing.The Seventh Book of MosesThe companion to the Sixth Book of Moses, presenting the Twelve Tables of the Spirits and an elaborate system of Mosaic conjurations.The Sixth Book of MosesA German magical text presenting the seven mystical seals of Moses with their spirit conjurations, widely used in folk magic traditions.The Tarot — S.L. MacGregor MathersS.L. MacGregor Mathers's 1888 treatise on the Tarot: card history, symbolism, cartomantic meanings, three methods of divination, game rules, and Qabalistic correspondences.The True Account of the Jena Christmas-Night TragedyThe True Account of the Jena Christmas-Night Tragedy: the official report, printed at Jena in 1716, of the treasure conjuring of Christmas Night 1715 in which a student read from Faust's Coercion of Hell and two peasants died, with the physicians' findings and the Leipzig faculties' judgment, translated complete from the appendix to Scheible's Bücherschatz.The True Jesuit Coercion of HellThe True Jesuit Coercion of Hell: a short German conjuration book, ascribed to a Father Eberhard SJ of Ingolstadt, in which the spirit Tarafael is called nine times to bring up 50,000 florins in silver from the sea, translated complete from Scheible's 1851 printing.The Vision and the Voice, Liber 418 — Aleister CrowleyAleister Crowley's visionary record of the thirty Enochian Aethyrs, first sought in Mexico in 1900 and completed in the Algerian desert in 1909, with his own added commentary.