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Satan, the apotheosis of Faust is certain. Behind the manifest exaggerations of such definitions there lies, however, a hidden pearl of truth, which concerns the temerity of opening the door to evil, and in this sense even the heedless act or the act of folly carries all its consequences and all to which it may lead like an implicit within it. 255:1 But Lucifer, in ordinary cases, is contented with a cat, though it may be suggested that it is held only as a kind of hostage. 256:1 See c. iii. sec. i. 264:1 But contracts with Infernus could apparently be repudiated with even greater facility. "If you are disposed to renounce the devil after having entered into a compact with him," says the Vocabulaire Infernal, "spit three times on the ground, and he will have no further power over you,"--in which case Black Magic with all its grim theatricals is the Art of exploiting lost Angels with impunity. But the lost angel within the operator would not be exploited with impunity like this at the end. CHAPTER VII The Method of Honorius THE Grimoire of Honorius is perhaps the most frankly diabolical of all the Rituals connected with Black Magic, and yet, as we have already seen, its enormities have been much exaggerated. It suffers comparison, for example, with the Key of Solomon, and it is preferable to the Lemegeton because it is less disguised. Its most evident objections are: 1. Profanation of the mysteries of religion. 2. A bloody sacrifice, characterised by details of a monstrous kind. A less manifest objection is the superstitious nature of some of its ordinances. It must be confessed that such a charge seems fantastic, having regard to the innumerable offices of vain observance with which I have been dealing. But a vain observance, it should be remembered, is not necessarily superstitious. To assume that a virtue is resident in parchment prepared from the skin of an animal which has not engendered, and that such virtue is wanting in the skin of one which has reproduced its species,
p. 266 MYSTIC FIGURES FROM THE TITLE-PAGE OF THE "GRIMOIRE OF HONORIUS" may have no foundation in fact, and may be eminently foolish, but it is not a superstitious assumption. It has been well pointed out by Éliphas Lévi that the term superstition signifies survival; that is to say, it is the sign surviving the idea. Thus, the Catholic doctrine of Transubstantiation, in its open theological sense, may or may not be true doctrine, but in neither case can the worship of the consecrated elements be superstitious, because such worship draws directly from the idea which has created the outward sign. If a time could be supposed when the Elements should continue to be worshipped after the doctrine itself had passed away, that would be a superstitious observance. But the etymological conception of superstition connects also with the idea of redundance. Thus, a double consecration of the Eucharistic elements would be a superstitious observance, as well as blasphemously absurd, because the first consecration is effectual by the theological hypothesis. But the repetition of the Angelical Salutation in the devotion of the Holy Rosary is not superstitious, because the first recitation is not necessarily effectual by the devotional hypothesis. So also the magical practice which consists with the magical hypothesis will not be superstitious, though it may not consist with reason. The slaughter of a kid with a view to securing a virgin parchment is not a superstitious but a precautionary or assumptive measure. The conversion of this slaughter into a sacrifice is not superstitious, because it has a purpose which consists with the magical hypothesis, namely, the increase of virtue by the consecration of the religious motive. The importation into such sacrifice of ceremonies which are not precautionary, and do not, by the hypothesis, increase the virtue, are redundant and so far superstitious. Such offices do not occur in the Grimoires, with the exception of that of Honorius, in which Ritual they are further characterised p. 267 by brutal features. The slaughter of a black cock and the extraction of the eyes, tongue and heart, which must be reduced into powder, and that powder subsequently sprinkled on the lambskin, is a redundant and monstrous observance. Were I therefore an occultist,
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THE BOOK OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC The Se
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§ 7. TALISMANS OF THE SAGE OF THE
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§ 3. CONCERNING THE EXPERIMENT OF
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talisman with the monogram of Micha
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connection with the congeries of ar
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ehind Magic, or that even the occul
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p. xxxi THE TEMPTATION OF EVIL From
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qualification of the soul's eternit
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and suffered and died, had risen an
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about the quest and its enthusiasm,
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that anything responds to its metho
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gold earth. There words and wishes
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ecommendation that it was a convent
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ejected, and it follows in this man
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position, but it is regrettable tha
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which usually terms itself Black, b
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convocation of all the "masters of
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the Sworn Book, while that entitled
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properly understood, is, however, a
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It is an open question whether all
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THE CHARACTER OF BETHOR The affairs
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THE CHARACTER OF PHUL Lunary concer
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30:2 This reference, taken in conne
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Footnotes 35:1 Claviculæ Salomonis
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of his great prosperity is acknowle
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specific difference between the pra
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for ever , Amen. May the blessing o
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worst, are scattered, all infirmiti
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p. 55 p. 57 PLATE IV MYSTIC FIGURES
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Mr. Mathers' presentation of the Ke
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impostures of colportage; but in wh
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p. 65 for seventy-two chief devils
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The Ruler of the Eighth Hour is OSG
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Gabriel; for the Earthy Triplicity,
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with the entire hierarchy must comp
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empowered thee, whereunto I now adj
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Spirit which we intend to call. If
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There can be no doubt that these di
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naked maid; a she-goat; a camel--po
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Paris, but at the instigation of je
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Abramelin the Mage was an instructo
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IV. THE CONSTITUTION OF POPE HONORI
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combinations of characters, whereby
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process for the evocation of evil s
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Principem et ejus Angelos Conjurati
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104:2 La Clef des Grands Mystères.
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conjurations, all exceedingly brief
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p. 116 apparitions of blazing lamps
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The characters should be graven on
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TALISMAN VIII. The characters shoul
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I must pass, however, to the incuba
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THE APPARITION OF THE GRAND CABALA
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PLATE VI: THE SABBATIC GOAT DEVIL F
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p. 141 the book of True Black Magic
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one, and the other is a distant dan
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p. 147 strict, the meals being limi
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147:2 The statement is adapted from
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Hogos = Venus = ♀ = Friday. Cocao
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It will be seen from this table tha
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p. 155 shaping it with a new sword
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p. 159 poniard or stiletto and the
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156:3 Of a black cat, says the Clav
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it to your abode. You must next go
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The instruction continues---As it i
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Take your kid; place it on a block
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When you have skinned it, take salt
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This Aspergillus may be used on any
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SATAN BOUND. ON PRE-NORMAN CROSS SH
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THE SEAL AND CHARACTERS OF LUCIFER
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CHARACTER OF MERSILDE MERSILDE can
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CHARACTER OF MORAIL MORAIL has the
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of the hierarch; they must have bee
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VIII. BARBATOS, a great count and d
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Page 203 and 204: THE GREAT CIRCLE OF WHITE MAGIC You
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Page 251 and 252: For the Masters of Black Magic, as
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Page 255 and 256: Lord, Who hast been, Who art, Who s
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