The Book of ceremonial Magic

The most barbarous and unintelligible words are said by Picus de Mirandola to be the
most powerful in Black Magic, and the affirmation applies everywhere, for the whole art
is one of illiterate delight in unintelligible images. As those here cited from the Verus
Jesuitarum Libellus seem in most cases fortuitous assemblages of letters, they are
doubtless all that can be desired, but additional constraints and conjurations, should the
spirit of the deceased miser refuse to appear, will readily occur to the reader.
Here ends the Complete Grimoire of Black Magic
APOPHIS.
Footnotes
324:1 The more intimate the knowledge possessed by the operator concerning the
deceased person, the more easily he was supposed to call him up.
326:1 The process by which the soul was called back into the dead body prior to its
interment constituted necromancy proper. The calling up of the shadow was sometimes
termed sciomancy.
CONCLUSION
THE ceremonial literature of White and Black Magic has now spoken for itself in the
catholic sense of the words. We see exactly what the Rituals had to offer, by the
hypothesis of their own claim, to those who followed in their putative practical courses. I
presume once more that it is unnecessary to debate whether the Olympic Spirits will