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The Book of Oberon: The Elizabethan Grimoire of Fairies, Spirits, and Demons
The Book of Oberon is the modern name for Folger Shakespeare Library manuscript V.b.26, an anonymous English and Latin compilation assembled in late …
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The Red Dragon: The Grimoire Feared Across Europe
Le Dragon rouge, closely related to the French Grand Grimoire tradition, promised command over spirits, conversation with the dead, material gain, an…
1 week ago
The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses: The Occult Text That Spread Across the World
A surviving 1880 English volume promises “Moses’ magical spirit-art,” invoking Cabala, the Talmud, seals, sacred names, and hidden knowledge beyond t…
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The Key of Solomon: The Ritual Magic System Behind Western Occultism
The Key of Solomon, or Clavicula Salomonis, is among the most influential books in the history of Western ritual magic. Yet it is not a surviving anc…
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The Munich Manual of Demonic Magic: The Medieval Book Written for Necromancers
In the Bavarian State Library in Munich, a fifteenth-century paper manuscript survives under the shelfmark Clm 849. Traditionally described in Latin …
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The Ars Goetia: The 72 Spirits Solomon Was Said to Command
The Ars Goetia is the best-known section of the Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis, often called The Lesser Key of Solomon. In its surviving form, it is a…
1 month ago
The First Apocalypse of James: The Secret Escape Teaching of the Hidden Brother
An ancient Christian revelation places James, remembered as the brother of Jesus and an important Jerusalem figure, before a final confrontation beyo…
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The Apocalypse of Peter: The Banned Vision of Heaven and Hell
The Apocalypse of Peter is an early Christian apocryphal work, probably composed in Greek during the first half of the second century CE. Written und…
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The Ascension of Isaiah: The Prophet Who Saw the Seven Heavens
The Ascension of Isaiah is an ancient Jewish-Christian apocalyptic work attributed to the biblical prophet Isaiah but almost certainly composed and e…
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The Book of Noah: The Lost Flood Scripture Hidden Inside Other Texts
The Book of Noah is a proposed lost Jewish writing known through traces in Second Temple literature: First Enoch, Jubilees, the Genesis Apocryphon, a…
2 months ago