Angels, Demons, and Spiritual Authority in Magical Texts
A detailed, source-conscious guide to how ritual books classify beings and justify the authority claimed over them, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later reception, common…
Grimoires vs Modern Ceremonial Magic
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the difference between historically situated ritual books and modern synthesized systems, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later reception, common misconceptions,…
Solomonic Magic vs Enochian Magic: Origins, Structure, and Practice
A detailed, source-conscious guide to a careful comparison between manuscript families attributed to Solomon and the angelic records of John Dee and Edward Kelley, with…
Magical Treatises in the Greek Magical Papyri
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the diverse Graeco-Egyptian papyri that preserve hymns, recipes, divine names, prayers, and ritual experiments, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later…
The Munich Manual of Demonic Magic
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the fifteenth-century Latin manuscript Clm 849 and the clerical world of learned necromancy, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later reception,…
The Book of Oberon Explained: Fairy Kings, Spirits, and Elizabethan Magic
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the large Elizabethan manuscript collection that combines ritual magic, spirit lists, prayers, and the fairy king Oberon, with manuscript history,…
The Grand Grimoire and the Myth of the Red Dragon
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the sensational French grimoire tradition centered on Lucifuge Rofocale and the literary economy of forbidden pacts, with manuscript history, symbolic…
Grimorium Verum: History, Spirits, and Manuscript Problems
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the so-called True Grimoire, its uncertain publication history, spirit hierarchies, and later editions, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later reception,…
Picatrix: Astrology, Images, and Medieval Magic
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the Arabic Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm and its Latin afterlife as one of the most influential works of astrological image magic, with…
The Sacred Magic of Abramelin Explained
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the autobiographical grimoire attributed to Abraham of Worms and its program of angelic knowledge and disciplined retreat, with manuscript history,…
Arbatel of Magic Explained: Aphorisms and Olympic Spirits
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the 1575 printed work of aphoristic Christian magic and its seven Olympic spirits, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later reception,…
The Sworn Book of Honorius Explained
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the Liber Juratus or Sworn Book and its ambitious program of divine vision, knowledge, and ritual secrecy, with manuscript history,…