The Complete Book of Black Magic and Witchcraft: Including the rituals of Ceremonial Magic, Exorcism, True Sorcery and Infernal Necromancy

by Shadow Books

The Complete Book of Black Magic and Witchcraft is a mainstay for both beginners and advanced seekers into genuine occult methods because it is the first instruction manual to systematise the techniques and aims of Ritual Magic. Including how to prepare for rituals of exorcism and purging, and the rites and mysteries of sorcery, and Infernal Necromancy. This was achieved this by years of research pooling information from rare manuscripts on these subjects and comparing the various sub-sections of each to find the central methods of Ceremonial Magic. While crucially informing the readers of the differences so they can experiment with which works best.This Complete Book of Black Magic and Witchcraft is a reliable, accurate and scholarly work. Originally published in 1898 it is still highly sought after by initiates in the know today. Many scarce magical texts are included, complete with hundreds of Sigils, dozens of Talismans, multiple Keys, Seals, Calls, Prayers and Chants. All of these images have been digitally remastered in high quality. Along with diagrams of how to cast magic circles and how to prepare one's magical equipment and tools including timings and the special Characters of all the intelligences and spirits. All of which come with copious footnotes and a commentary showing how they are used in magic and pricelessly where the original source work came from. Discover all you ever wanted to know about ageless magic and its mysterious teachings for invoking spirits. All its ancient lore and its secrets now revealed for you to experiment with - if you dare.

Genres: Occult, Witchcraft, Magic, Crafts

212 pages, Paperback

Published June 29, 2020

Reviews

[Hannah · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too much effort tbh :/

[Queen Elsa · Rating 1 out of 5]

I normally don’t believe in rating books but this one was just such an annoyance for multiple reasons. Firstly is that the distributor advertises it as an ‘instruction manual to the techniques of ceremonial magic’ and while I suppose you could look at it that way, it’s actually a hodgepodge of Arthur Waite’s writing on the history of various Grimoires (it’s only in very fine print in the publisher’s blurb that it’s stated that this book was written by Waite back in 1898 and that the actual title is ‘ceremonial magic and pacts’ but I guess that’s not as catchy). So if you are interested in the very early history of academic writing on western esotericism this book should prove more interesting than its silly cover would suggest right? Not so fast! While Waite was arguably an important early scholar on this topic, this book is simply lacking in substance as the comparative readings he establishes is but a fraction of the text with the bulk of it being a reprint of chunks of sources like the Lesser Key of Solomon and such. The reprinted sections were frustrating because there is nothing to signify what is commentary versus what is quotation. Additionally the physical product itself was a disappointment due to the numerous spelling mistakes, typos and endless errors in the footnotes. My goodness! Those footnotes! I’ve never come across more frustrating use of notes! Why is there sometimes serval footnotes marked ‘1’ in a row? And then the corresponding note often doesn’t even exist?? I don’t believe that there was a single chapter in which the numbers and the actual notes lined up properly!

If you want to learn about the history of alternative religions I think most people will get much more use out of a modern textbook.

[Rose Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing
Great

[Raihan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is good books

[Aryan Chowdhury · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good overall.

[Michael Crichlow · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jesus Is Lord.

[Bella · Rating 1 out of 5]

It looked pretty on my bookshelf okay!