Forbidden Rites

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.

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.

Witchcraft & Wicca.

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

Successful working of any of these devotions will enable you to share consciousness with the Angel of Death as well as becoming 'one' with your own death.

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