The book of the magi : a complete system of occult philosophy, consisting of natural, celestial, cabalistic, and ceremonial magic ; invocations ; conjurations of spirits, &c., &c. ; biographical sketch of seventeen great philosophers and adepts.

  • Barrett, Francis, F.R.C., Prof. of Chemistry.
Date:
1896
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Credit: The book of the magi : a complete system of occult philosophy, consisting of natural, celestial, cabalistic, and ceremonial magic ; invocations ; conjurations of spirits, &c., &c. ; biographical sketch of seventeen great philosophers and adepts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Images of the Dragon’s Head and Dragon’sTail 117 Images of the Twenty-eight Man- sions of the Moon 118 Magic Seals; that human Impreca- tions naturally impress their Powers upon external Things; and how Man’s Mind, through a Degree of Dependencies, ascends into the Intelligible World, and becomes like the more sublime Spirits and Intelligences .... 120 The Conclusion of Talismanic Magic; in which is included the Key of all that has been written upon the Subject; shewing the Practice of Images, and the Com- position of Talismans, by way of Example; and, likewise, the necessary Observations of the Celestials requisite for the Per- fection of all Talismanic Opera- tions 124 MAGNETISM. Magnetism 129 Of the Magnetic or Attrattive Faculty 131 Of Sympathetic Medicines .... 132 Of the Magnetic or Sympathetic Unguent; the Power of Sympathy, Armary, Unguent; and curing of Wounds, Ectasies, Witchcraft, Mummies, &c 134 Of the Weapon Salve 134 Of the Imaginative Power, and the Magnetism of the Natural Spirits, Mummial Attraction, Sympathies of Astral Spirits, and their Bodies, upon which is founded the whole Art of Necromancy 136 Of Witchcraft in particular .... 139 Of the Yital Spirit 141 Of the Magical Power, &c ... . 142 Of exciting or stirring up the Magi- cal Virtue 143 Of the Magical Virtue of the Soul, and the Medium it Acts by . . . 144 The End of the Magnetism . . . 145 BOOK III. CABALISTICAL MAGIC. Of the Cabala, &c 147 What Dignity and preparation is necessary to Him who would be- come a true Magician 148 That the Knowledge of the true God is necessary for a Magician 148 Of Divine Emanations, and Ten Se- phiroths, and Ten most sacred Names of God which rule them, and their Interpretation .... 148 Of the Power and Virtue of the Divine Names 150 Of Intelligences and Spirits; and of the threefold Kinds of them, and their different names; and of In- fernal and Subterraneous Spirits 154 Of the Order of Evil Spirits; their Fall, and different Natures . . . 161 The Annoyance of Evil Spirits, and the Perservation we have from Good Spirits 167 That there is a threefold Keeper of Man; and from whence each proceeds 169 Of the Speech of Angels, and their speaking amongst themselves, and with us 170 Of the Names of Spirits, and their various Imposition; and of the Spirits that are set over the Stars, Signs, Corners of the Heavens, and the Elements 174 How the Cabalists draw forth the Names of Angels from Sacred Writ; and of the Seventy-two Angels that bear the Names of God; with the Tables of Ziruph, and the Commutations of Names and Numbers 174 Of finding out the Names of Spirits and Genii, from the Disposition of the Celestial Bodies 175 Of the calculating Art of such Names, by the Tradition of the Cabalists 178 Of the Characters and Seals of Spirits 182 Another Way of making Charac- ters, according to the Tradition of Cabalists 183