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the Sworn Book, while that entitled Liber Lunæ, concerning the intelligences of the
mansions of the moon, the squares of the planets, their seals, rings and so forth--which,
by the way, seems in this form unknown to modern critics--has given material to other
and later collections.
The unprinted literature of Ceremonial Magic offers a considerable field to research,
though even in the historical or bibliographical interest it is questionable whether it
would repay the pains, unless research of all kinds whatsoever is to be regarded as its
own reward. Among the miscellaneous MSS. in the British Museum, it is here only
necessary to notice two,
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as they contain materials connected with the present design. Sloane 3884 includes a
process in Necromancy--how to call the ghost of a dead body--the invocation of spirits
into a crystal--the form for summoning spirits within the circle--and a method of
exorcism in the Tuscan language,--all impudently attributed to the author of the Nullity of
Magic--that is to say, Roger Bacon. In the second part of my present work a special
chapter is devoted to Infernal Necromancy, and the MS. here mentioned will be useful for
purposes of reference. Sloane 3850 is a MS. of the seventeenth century, which contains
transcripts from the fourth book of Cornelius Agrippa and from the Heptameron of Peter
de Abano in Latin. There is also a Good and Proved Experiment for evocation, which
uses the Pater, Ave, Credo and Litany of the Saints as magical formulae. Finally, there
are processes, mostly in Latin, but some in English, for the discovery of things lost, the
recovery of things stolen, for the spirits of the dead who cannot rest in their graves, and
for persons possessed by evil spirits. The treatise De Novem Candariis Salomonis,
containing curious figures and sigils, deserves particular mention, as this again seems
unknown to students. Its attribution notwithstanding, it is the work of a Catholic writer.
THE SACRED URÆUS OR BASILISK
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