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Author: Richard Kieckhefer Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271065443 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 393
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Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections of the text, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages. The result is the most vivid and readable introduction to medieval magic now available. Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, this handbook is a miscellany rather than a systematic treatise. It is exceptional, however, in the scope and variety of its contents—prayers and conjurations, rituals of sympathetic magic, procedures involving astral magic, a catalogue of spirits, lengthy ceremonies for consecrating a book of magic, and other materials. With more detail on particular experiments than the famous thirteenth-century Picatrix and more variety than the Thesaurus Necromantiae ascribed to Roger Bacon, the manual is one of the most interesting and important manuscripts of medieval magic that has yet come to light.
Author: Richard Kieckhefer Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271065443 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 393
Book Description
Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections of the text, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages. The result is the most vivid and readable introduction to medieval magic now available. Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, this handbook is a miscellany rather than a systematic treatise. It is exceptional, however, in the scope and variety of its contents—prayers and conjurations, rituals of sympathetic magic, procedures involving astral magic, a catalogue of spirits, lengthy ceremonies for consecrating a book of magic, and other materials. With more detail on particular experiments than the famous thirteenth-century Picatrix and more variety than the Thesaurus Necromantiae ascribed to Roger Bacon, the manual is one of the most interesting and important manuscripts of medieval magic that has yet come to light.
Author: Richard Kieckhefer Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 9780271017518 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 400
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Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of one of the most interesting and important manuscripts of medieval magic that has yet come to light. In addition to the Latin text, Kieckhefer provides full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages.
Author: Dante Abiel Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781731541888 Category : Languages : en Pages : 206
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Learn how to perform the most dangerously powerful rituals of Saturnian Necromancy. Raise the demonic forces of black magick to exploit the spirits of the dead and contact the Other Side with the forbidden rites of death magick. Tablet of Death Foreword p.5 Introduction p.13 Initiation, Grimoire & Spellbook Ch. 1 - Theory & Practice p.23 Ch. 2 - Human Ritual Relics p.27 Ch. 3 - Raising the Dead p.45 Ch. 4 - Order of the 13th Judgement p.57 Ch. 5 - The Book of Azrael p.95 Ch. 6 - Old Gods of a New Path p.105 Ch. 7 - Vodoun Rises p.127 Ch. 8 - Crossing Paths p.151 Ch. 9 - Forbidden Death Magick p.159 Ch. 10 - Returning Home p.171 Ch. 11 - Zandor & the Secret of the Congo p.181 Ch. 12 - Reconciliation p.189 Addenda Manifestations of the Left Palm p.191 Glossary p.199
Author: Arthur Edward Waite Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 354
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The Book of Ceremonial Magic is famous as one of the first attempts to document various famous grimoires and other magic texts. In this work, Waite pays much attention to the history of magic texts, refuting many of their legends. He also raises a question of the relations between magic and theology. He discusses these issues in particular examples, like raising the question of why good angels would be summoned to kill an enemy. Another merit of this work is synthesizing many famous grimoires into one system.
Author: Jim Butcher Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101146664 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 465
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In this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files, Chicago's only professional wizard takes on a case for a vampire and becomes the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders. Harry Dresden has had worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Like fleeing a burning building full of enraged demon-monkeys, for instance. Or going toe-to-leaf with a walking plant monster. Still, there’s something more troubling than usual about his newest case. The film’s producer believes he’s the target of a sinister curse—but it’s the women around him who are dying, in increasingly spectacular ways. Harry’s doubly frustrated because he only got involved with this bizarre mystery as a favor to Thomas—his flirtatious, self-absorbed vampire acquaintance of dubious integrity. Thomas has a personal stake in the case Harry can’t quite figure out, until his investigation leads him straight to the vampire’s oversexed, bite-happy family. Now, Harry’s about to discover that Thomas’ family tree has been hiding a shocking secret: a revelation that will change Harry’s life forever.
Author: Frank Klaassen Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271061758 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 292
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In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic (in its extreme form, overt necromancy), which could not. Image magic tended to be recopied faithfully; ritual magic tended to be adapted and reworked. These two forms of magic did not usually become intermingled in the manuscripts, but were presented separately. While image magic was often copied in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Transformations of Magic demonstrates that interest in it as an independent genre declined precipitously around 1500. Instead, what persisted was the other, more problematic form of magic: ritual magic. Klaassen shows that texts of medieval ritual magic were cherished in the sixteenth century, and writers of new magical treatises, such as Agrippa von Nettesheim and John Dee, were far more deeply indebted to medieval tradition—and specifically to the medieval tradition of ritual magic—than previous scholars have thought them to be.
Author: David J. Collins, S. J. Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271084391 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 301
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Inspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval religion and magic so difficult to differentiate. The essays in this collection investigate how the holy and unholy were distinguished in medieval Europe, where their characteristics diverged, and the implications of that deviation. In the Middle Ages, the natural world was understood as divinely created and infused with mysterious power. This world was accessible to human knowledge and susceptible to human manipulation through three modes of engagement: religion, magic, and science. How these ways of understanding developed in light of modern notions of rationality is an important element of ongoing scholarly conversation. As Kieckhefer has emphasized, ambiguity and ambivalence characterize medieval understandings of the divine and demonic powers at work in the world. The ten chapters in this volume focus on four main aspects of this assertion: the cult of the saints, contested devotional relationships and practices, unsettled judgments between magic and religion, and inconclusive distinctions between magic and science. Freshly insightful, this study of ambiguity between magic and religion will be of special interest to scholars in the fields of medieval studies, religious studies, European history, and the history of science. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume are Michael D. Bailey, Kristi Woodward Bain, Maeve B. Callan, Elizabeth Casteen, Claire Fanger, Sean L. Field, Anne M. Koenig, Katelyn Mesler, and Sophie Page.
Author: Melissa McShane Publisher: Night Harbor Publishing ISBN: 9781949663181 Category : Languages : en Pages : 336
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THE UNDEAD RISE After finding two items they need to save Alaric's peoplefrom the wizard who enslaves them, Sienne and her companions feel confidentthat success is just around the corner. But the quest takes a dark turn whenthey learn the next step leads them into the forbidden world of necromancy. Hired to locate a missing man whose studies in the dark artcould give them what they need, the companions soon discover how deep hissecrets run-and encounter a creature that may be impossible for them to defeat. A thrilling tale of life, death, and the shadow worldbetween.
Author: Richard Kieckhefer
Author: Richard Kieckhefer
Author: Richard Kieckhefer
Author: Jeanette Ellis
Author: Dante Abiel
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Author: Jim Butcher
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