Part II is a more systematically organized version of these ancient texts, adapted by A. Waite to the ways of the modern academic. This volume remains one of the best sources of magical procedure, touching on such topics as gods, costume, and the planets and their relation to the supernatural.
Although disapproving of the application of magic and the black arts in his introduction, Waite nonetheless defends those victims persecuted throughout history because of their participation in these superstitious beliefs. He also speaks positively about astrology and alchemy, noting them as more important categories of the magical arts. Through this volume, the contemporary reader can finally begin to understand the beliefs in the black arts that were so deeply rooted in our civilization's past.
Whan Park. The stage coach. Christmas eve. Christmas day. The Christmas dinner. Little Britain. Traits of Indian character. Philip of Pokanoker. John Bull. The pride of the village. The angler. The legend of Sleepy Hollow. L'envoy by Washington Irving. Diamonds, Band Bezaubernd by Emma Green. Diamonds - Volume 10 : Foudroyant by Emma Green.
Moreau by Bram Stoker. Austin Freeman. Diamonds, Band 5: Strahlend by Emma Green. Diamonds - Volume 3 : Flamboyant by -. Tanri Abeng, M.
Emerson Eggerichs. Diamonds, Band 1: Leuchtend by Emma Green. Diamonds, Band 6: Blitzend by Emma Green. Biographical sketches. Even a small contribution helps :. I have secured this object--which after all is clear and simple--not by a regrettable comparison of what I have written there with that which appears in the present place, but by shewing in a brief introduction the proper sense in which phenomenal occultism and all its arts indifferently connect with the tradition of the mystics: they are the path of illusion by which the psychic nature of man enters that other path which goes down into the abyss.
The book in its present revision remains of necessity a presentation of old texts by the way of digest I have added some new sections that in this department it may be rendered more representative, and if a touch of fantasy, which is not wholly apart from seriousness, will be pardoned here at the inception, the work itself is now an appendix to the introductory thesis--the textual, historical and other evidence by which it is supported.
For convenience of treatment the present work is divided into two parts. The first contains an analytical and critical account of the chief magical rituals known to the writer the second forms a complete Grimoire of Black Magic.
It must be remembered that these are the operations which gave arms to the Inquisitors of the past, and justified Civil Tribunals in the opinion of their century for the sanguinary edicts pronounced against witch, warlock and magician. It is, in truth, a very strange and not reassuring page in the history of human aberration nor has it been a pleasing exercise which has thus sought to make it plain, once and for all.
About Author: Arthur Edward Waite October 2, - May 19, was an occultist and co-creator of the the popular and widely used Rider-Waite Tarot deck and author of its companion volume, the Pictorial Key to the Tarot. This was notable for being one of the first decks to illustrate all 78 cards fully, as opposed to the 22 major arcana. Waite was a prolific author with many of his works being well received in academic circles. He wrote occult texts on subjects including divination, Rosicrucianism, freemasonry, black and ceremonial magic, Kabbalism and alchemy; he also translated and reissued several important mystical and alchemical works.
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