The Old Book of Magic

2× Ullr ()in illunk (Of £llagir A Precise History Of MAGIC lis Procedure, Rites And Mysteries AS CONTAINED IN Ancient Manuscripts Embellished With Engravings Of Wonderful Charms And Talismans By Dr. L. W. de Laurence AUTHOR OF, THE GREAT Book OF MAGICAL ART, HINDU MAGIC AND EAST INDIAN OCCULTISM.—THE MASTER KEY.— THE SACRED Book OF DEATH AND HINDU SPIRITISM.—THE MYSTIC TEST Book OF THE HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS.–THE WoNDERS OF THE MAGIC MIRROR—CRYSTAL GAZING AND CLAIRvoyANCE.—As TRAL AURAS AND CoLoRs.—THE IMMA NENCE OF GOD, KNow THYSELF.—GoD, THE BIBLE, TRUTH AND CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY..—MEDICAL HYPNOSIS AND MAGNETIC HYPNOTISM.–MANUAL OF DISEASE AND MODERN MEDICINE.— VALMoNDI; THE OLD Book OF ANCIENT MYSTERIES.—THE DEAD MAN's HoME, ETC., ETC. This Book Was Sold By The de Laurence Company, Chicago, Ill., U.S. A. U-Y NSU24– mad Copyright, 1918 . By de LAURENCE, SCOTT & CO. SPECIAL NOTICE The illustrations, cover design and contents of this Volume are protected by copyright. and must not be reproduced or copied without written permission from the Publishers. Disregard of this warning will subject the offender to the penalty provided by law. NOTICE—This work is protected by Copyright, and simul taneous initial publications in United States of America, Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, India, China and other coun tries. All rights reserved. / # - # S-(+- *722-. - s fireface This Volume is an authentic and an official work, compiled from Ancient Jtlanuscripts, and gives in full detail many rare and Secret Mysteries. The same is embellished with several full page illustrations of Magic Ceremonies; together with nearly one hun dred and fifty rare old engravings of Ancient Talismans, etc. There is also, for the first time, given to the student, in this work, a complete reproduction of the Original Mysteries and Ancient Manuscripts of the “DIVINE RAPHAEL,” better known as the “Metropolitan Astrologer” and editor of the Prophetic Almanac, and other S idral works. This book also contains the Mystic Rites, Ceremonies, and Incantations, used by the Ancient Theurgists and old Philoso phers to burst asunder the bounds of natural order, and to obtain an intercourse with the world of spirits; for let it known, to those whose eyes follow these words, that millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we are awake and when we are asleep. The rapid sale, over the world, of my books, and the unprecedented requests for Catalogues, describing the same, has caused me to publish this work although I have had these Ancient Manuscripts in my possession many, many years, hav ing purchased them at a very great cost; but as my former books are in such vigorous demand, I have deemed it expedient to present the philosophical world with this compendious Volume; wherein is contained Instructions, Secrets and Mysteries that were known only to the old Masters some four hundred years ago. The inconsistencies of many authors, and the foolish claims of book sellers, who are selling works said to have been written by RAPHAEL, always brings a quiet and sarcastic smile to the face of those that know that the market today is flooded with false and spurious editions of this great man’s writings. This Volume is an authentic one, and the student may depend upon it, from the first to the last page, as I have carefully expunged everything not valuable, original, and worthy of the student’s attention, so that he may, with as little difficulty as possible, be capable of learning the Astral and Celestial Worlds in their most essential parts. As to the Magical and Occult Parts of this work; such as Magic Rites, Charms, and Incantations, 3 4 ’ PREFACE they are most fully explained so as to enable my Students and my Disciples to complete the full development of their Occult studies. There are things taught in this Volume which will enable the student to operate many strange and wonderful things so that even this part of the work may not be devoid of utility; but may help the student to invoke powers that will render him great aid. The student of Spiritual Mysteries and Astral Powers will find ample herein to gratify his desire; for in the perusal of these Rare And Ancient Manuscripts, many of which are replete with those secrets now so much sought after, the student will realize the great worth of this Volume which will be found acceptable to the legitimate student of Magic And Celestial Science. No modern Expositor of Astrology can bear in comparison with the “DIVINE RAPHAEL,” and among ancient expositors, he stood the highest in authority, all yielding to his great knowledge. Hence, no greater name than RAPHAEL’s has ever embellished the science of Astrology and no Volume such as this one, contain ing his Original Mysteries, has ever been before published. The very same deals with Magic, Charms, Talismans, Astral In» fluences, The Spirit World, Demonology And Witchcraft. The real manhood of man can only be gained by having a full and clear knowledge of Occultism and Ancient Magic. This is the ideal which all earnest Occult students is striving to attain, and this ideal has plainly been recognized by all intelligent leaders of human progress. The time has come for men and women “to put away childish things,” and to relinquish the beliefs and practices of the priest, the minister and the materialists. Ancient Magic is a terrible power. It is based upon the pre scientific world-conception, which in its primitive stage is called animism, imputing to nature a spiritual life analogous to our own spirit, and peopling the spirit world with individual personalities. The Old Magic stands in contrast to material science; it trans cends human knowledge by supernatural methods and is based upon the fact of operating many wonderful things by the assist ance of Invisible Powers and Intelligent Spirits who can be forced by Magical I nvocations into an alliance with the operator. The real Occult student knows that evil influences, of every kind, can be averted and warded ofi by Charms or Talismans, and that the aid of, both good and Evil Spirits, can be procured by proper Incantations and C onjurations. The world-conception of true ‘Occultism and Magic is long lingering, and its influence will not subside instantaneously with the first frown of material science. The Middle Ages were‘full of Magic, and the belief in it has not died out to this day, and never will. Dr. L. W. de Laurence. I . ‘ $#$s#$#s| Ellie (19121 Ifinnk (hf fllagir ifiart Q511e CHAPTER I “Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep." MAGICAL CEREMONIES AND INCANTATIONS. MAGIC CEREMONIES, CHARMS, AND INCANTATIONS. THE ANCIENT PRACTICE OF INVOKING THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD. This, THE OLD BOOK OF MAGIC, has, after many years of travel and research, been compiled, by the writer, from a selection of the most approved Ancient Authors, and from Ancient M anu scripts in the Libraries at the British Museum, Bristol Cathedral, and Wells; the Bodleian Library, and Ashmolean Museum at 5 6 THE OLD BOOK OF MAGIC Oxford; together with a variety of rare Occult Secrets from Ancient Manuscripts in the possession of the Adepts and Old Masters as well as other valuable Sources of authentic Informa tion. Having proceeded to' this high and mysterious part of our subject, it will not be amiss to caution the inexperienced reader, that the following observations are compiled from an attentive study of the Oldest Masters, and the choicest Ancient Manu scripts which could be procured; and, it is contrary to reason to suppose that so many eminent men, in all ages, would have written on the subject merely for the purpose of deluding or deceiving the unwary or the credulous. Therefore, I will avouch for the actual possibility of all I hereafter shall relate. My chief object, in this work, being a development of the sublime studies which occupied the attention of the ancient philosophers, and which have hitherto been as a Sealed Book to the greater part of the community, or at best involved beneath a cloud of enigmas, which it shall now be my business to solve, dispute, and also to give a general explanation relative to the mysterious History and doctrines of Cabalistical and Ceremonial Magic. OF INTELLIGENCES AND SPIRITS THEIR ORDERS AND INF ERNAL AGENTS According to the theory and belief of the Ancient Thurgists, an Intelligence is an intelligible substance, free from all gross terrestrial matter, immortal, and of supernatural influence, and the nature of all Intelligences, Spirits, and Angels, is the same. From this term, however, the internal spirits are exempted. Of the Angels there are three kinds: the first of which we call supercelestial, and minds altogether separated from a body, being, as it were, intellectual spheres worshipping only one supreme power, as it were, their most firm and stable unity or centre. Wherefore they even call them Gods, by reason of a certain participation of the Divinity, for they are always full of Supreme Power, are always about the Supreme Forces, infusing the light received from them into the inferior orders, making an equal distribution of power and duty. The Celestial Intelligences follow in the second order, which are called mundane angels, viz. being appointed, besides the divine worship, for the spheres of the world, and for the government of every zone and star; whence they are divided into so many orders as there are zones in the spirit world, and as there are stars in the heavens. Thus. the ancients termed those Saturnine who ruled the sphere of Saturn; others fovial, Martial, and so on throughout the whole order of the heavens.

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