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THE BOOK OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC
The Secret Tradition in Goëtia, including the rites and mysteries of Goëtic theurgy,
sorcery and infernal necromancy.
By ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE
" Alii damones malos virtute divinorum nominum adjuratos, advocare solent, atque hæc
est illa Necromantiæ species quæ dicitur malefica: vel in Theurgiam, quæ quasi bonis
Angelis, divinoque numine regitur (ut nonnulli putant) cum sapissime tamen sub Dei, et
Angelorum nominibus malis Dæmnoun illusionibus peragitur ."--ROBERT FLUDD.
London
[1913]
Scanned at sacred-texts.com, December, 2001-November 2002. J.B. Hare, Redactor
Bibliographic note: This is the second edition of this book; the first edition was titled The Book of Black Magic , and published in 1898;
the second edition contains substantially the same material as the first with some additions.--JBH
CONTENTS
PREFACE
xxiii
INTRODUCTION
xxxi
PART I
The Literature of Ceremonial Magic
CHAPTER I
THE ANTIQUITY OF MAGICAL RITUALS
§ 1. THE IMPORTANCE OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC
3
§ 2. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN WHITE AND BLACK MAGIC
13
§ 3. THE UNPRINTED LITERATURE OF CEREMONIAL MAGIC
17
CHAPTER II
THE RITUALS OF TRANSCENDENTAL MAGIC
§ 1. THE ARBATEL OF MAGIC
24
§ 2. THEOSOPHIA PNEUMATICA
35
§ 3. THE ENCHIRIDION OF POPE LEO
39
§ 4. THE SEVEN MYSTERIOUS ORISONS
46
§ 5. SUMMARY OF TRANSCENDENTAL MAGIC
54
CHAPTER III
COMPOSITE RITUALS
§ 1. THE KEY OF SOLOMON THE KING
58
§ 2. THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON
64
p. xvi
§ 3. THE PAULINE ART
66
§ 4. THE ALMADEL
72
§ 5. THE FOURTH BOOK OF CORNELIUS AGRIPPA
77
§ 6. THE HEPTAMERON
89
§ 7. THE SACRED MAGIC OF ABRAMELIN THE MAGE
92
CHAPTER IV
THE RITUALS OF BLACK MAGIC
§ 1. THE GRIMORIUM VERUM
96
§ 2. TRUE BLACK MAGIC.
100
§ 3. THE GRAND GRIMOIRE
100
§ 4. THE GRIMOIRE OF HONORIUS
103
§ 5. MINOR AND SPURIOUS RITUALS OF BLACK MAGIC
110
§ 6. THE BLACK PULLET
113
§ 7. TALISMANS OF THE SAGE OF THE PYRAMIDS
117
§ 8. THE GOLD-FINDING HEN
130
PART II The Complete Grimore
CHAPTER I
THE PREPARATION OF THE OPERATOR
§ 1. CONCERNING THE LOVE OF GOD
139
§ 2. CONCERNING FORTITUDE
142
§ 3. CONCERNING CONTINENCE AND ABSTINENCE
144
§ 4. CONCERNING THE EXTERNAL PREPARATION OF THE OPERATOR, AND FIRSTLY
CONCERNING ABLUTION
147
§ 5. CONCERNING THE EXTERNAL PREPARATION OF THE OPERATOR, AND SECONDLY
CONCERNING THE VESTMENTS
148
p. xvii
CHAPTER II
THE INITIAL RITES AND CEREMONIES
§ 1. CONCERNING THE VIRTUES OF THE PLANETS
150
§ 2. A GENERAL INSTRUCTION CONCERNING THE INSTRUMENTS REQUIRED FOR THE
ART
154
§ 3. CONCERNING THE ROD AND STAFF OF THE ART
161
§ 4. CONCERNING THE PEN AND INK OF THE ART
164
§ 5. CONCERNING VIRGIN WAX OR VIRGIN EARTH
168
§ 6. CONCERNING THE SILKEN CLOTH
169
§ 7. CONCERNING THE VICTIM OF THE ART
169
§ 8. CONCERNING ASPERSION AND CLEANSING
177
§ 9. CONCERNING THE TIME OF OPERATION
182
CHAPTER III
CONCERNING THE DESCENDING HIERARCHY
§ 1. THE NAMES AND OFFICES OF EVIL SPIRITS
184
2. CONCERNING THE FORMS OF INFERNAL SPIRITS IN THEIR MANIFESTATIONS
193
CHAPTER IV
THE MYSTERIES OF GOËTIC THEURGY ACCORDING TO THE LESSER KEY OF SOLOMON
THE KING
§ 1. CONCERNING THE SPIRITS OF THE BRAZEN VESSEL, OTHERWISE CALLED THE
FALSE MONARCHY OF DEMONS
195
2. CONCERNING THE RITE OF CONJURATION FROM THE "LEMEGETON"
220
CHAPTER V
CONCERNING THE MYSTERY OF THE SANCTUM REGNUM, OR THE GOVERNMENT OF
EVIL SPIRITS; BEING THE RITE OF CONJURATION ACCORDING TO THE GRIMORIUM
VERUM
236
p. xviii
CHAPTER VI
THE MYSTERIES OF INFERNAL EVOCATION ACCORDING TO THE GRAND GRIMOIRE
§ 1. THE RITE OF LUCIFUGE
241
§ 2. CONCERNING THE GENUINE SANCTUM REGNUM OR THE TRUE METHOD OF MAKING
PACTS
254
CHAPTER VII
THE METHOD OF HONORIUS
265
CHAPTER VIII
MISCELLANEOUS AND MINOR PROCESSES
§ 1. CONCERNING WORKS OF HATRED AND DESTRUCTION
297
§ 2. CONCERNING VENEREAL EXPERIMENTS
299
§ 3. CONCERNING THE EXPERIMENT OF INVISIBILITY
306
§ 4. CONCERNING THE HAND OF GLORY
310
§ 5. CONCERNING THE VISION OF SPIRITS IN THE AIR
313
§ 6. CONCERNING DIVINATION BY THE WORD OF URIEL
314
§ 7. CONCERNING THE MIRROR OF SOLOMON, SUITABLE FOR ALL KINDS OF DIVINATION 318
§ 8. CONCERNING THE THREE RINGS OF SOLOMON, SON OF DAVID
320
CHAPTER IX
CONCERNING INFERNAL NECROMANCY
323
CONCLUSION
EXPLANATION OF FULL-PAGE
PLATES
PLATE I
FRONTISPIECE--The witch has shot a peasant in the foot with a magic hazel wand. The
victim takes off his shoe when he feels his foot beginning to swell. If the peasant yields to
the witch the spell will be lifted. (Ulrich Molitor was a medieval demographer.)
PLATE II
Page 37
The Angels of the Seven Planets, their Sigils, the Signs and Houses of the Planets, the
names of the Seven Heavens, according to the Magical Elements of Peter de Abano, with
the names of the Olympic Spirits of the Planets according to the Arbatel of Magic , and
the Infernal Sigils of the Evil Planetary Spirits according to the Red Dragon .
The name of Michael, the Angel of the Lord's Day, appears over his Sigil, together with
the Astrological Symbol of Sol, the Zodiacal Sign of Leo, which is the House of the Sun,
and the name of the Fourth Heaven, Machen. The name of Gabriel, the Angel of Monday,
appears over his Sigil, together with the Astrological Symbol of Luna, the Zodiacal Sign
of Cancer, which is the House of the Moon, and the name of the First Heaven, Shamain.
The name of Samael, the Angel of Tuesday, appears over his Sigil, together with the
Astrological Symbol of Mars, the Zodiacal Signs of Aries and Scorpio, which are the

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