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Krimoires. According to Agrippa, to summon such the magicain had
10 use blood, or a part of the body of the dead person, bones of the
honey, and oil. The had to be carried out in the
haunted or where the summoned person spent much time. The
place most suitable for such a ceremony would be a churchyard or an area
where criminals were or many people died a violent
death. The ceremony also had to involve artificial lights with of
names and seals.46
published made Agrippa a and
in the contemporary His name is mentioned in
many literary Thomas Nashe's The
llnfo rtunate Traveller. No wonder that
of various legends and stories about Faust. In Christopher Marlowe's
I,lmolls dramatic work Doctor Faustus Agrippa appears as a
figure and as one of the characters. Faustus calls for him to obtain advice
magical Marlowe' Faustus himself is a character
modeled on and stories from his life. In the centuries to follow
Agrippa's would be taken by many writers and used as a prototype
of many Among them were such as the
magician from Marguerite Yourcenar's L'oeuvre au nair (1968) and, of
course, the most famous Faust character created Goethe in his dramatic
work.
Edward KeUy
Edward the infamous assistant of the acknowledged
John was one of the Renaissance most
commonly with black demonic and often
called a mere trickster and a charlatan. There are, however, certain things
which he was more than a mere con man.
Crowley's opinion of Kelly is very favourable. According to him, Kelly was
a and a skilful Crowley even considered himself to
be the reincarnation of Kelly .
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