FREE THE DEVILS PACT PDF James Holland | 448 pages | 10 Apr 2014 | Transworld Publishers Ltd | 9780552158015 | English | London, United Kingdom Pact With The Devil: How to Make a Faustian Contract or Deal The pact may be made orally, but according to lore it is best to write it on virgin parchment and sign it in blood. Pacts with the Devil or Demons for personal The Devils Pact appear in various cultures. From the earliest days of Christianity, a pact with the Devil was tacitly understood to be part of any Magic, Sorcery or divination performed by an adept. Pacts also involved ordinary The Devils Pact in legends, the Devil routinely appeared to people in distress and bartered love, money or power in exchange for souls. In the witch hysteria of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the pact took on new significance as proof of heresy and became grounds for prosecution and condemnation of accused witches. The collaboration between men and Demons, which implies a pact, predates Christ by thousands of years. King Solomonson of David, acquired his wisdom and riches with the help of an army of Demons called Djinn. The prevailing view of the church was that worldly goods and the like could not be obtained without crime except by appealing directly to God, or The Devils Pact Him through one of his saints. The Devils Pact of The Devils Pact earliest Christian stories of a pact with Satan concerns Theophilus, treasurer of the church of Ad- ana, who allegedly sold his soul to the Devil around in order to become bishop. Two major early Christian theologians, Origen and St. Augustine claimed that divination and the practices of magic and sorcery required Demonic pacts. Much later, this was affirmed by the influential theologian Thomas Aquinas ca. Using the ritual instructions in a GRIMOIRE, the magician or sorcerer evoked Demons for the purpose of attaining wealth, the power of invisibility, love or political power — but seldom to harm enemies. The belief was that sooner or later such Demonic favors compromised the magician into selling his soul to Satan in return. The Key of Solomon, one of the major medieval grimoires whose authorship is attributed to King Solomon, offered the following instruction for making a pact with a Demon:. Exactly at dawn, use a new knife to cut a fork-shaped wand from the twig of a wild nut tree that has never borne fruit. Take the wand, a magic bloodstone and consecrated candles to the site of the ritual, preferably a ruined castle or deserted house, where one will The Devils Pact undisturbed and receive whatever treasures the Demon produces. With the bloodstone, draw a triangle on the ground or floor, and place the candles on the side of it. Stand in middle of the triangle, hold the wand and recite the required invocation. When the work is finished, recite another incantation to dismiss the Demon. Typically, the victim was not a witch but an ordinary person who was vulnerable to temptation. Satan or a Demon would appear, some- times as a man and sometimes as an animal, and The Devils Pact to help. The pact would last for a specified number of years, at which time Satan would collect: the victim would die and his soul would go to hell. Perhaps the best-known tale is the story of Faust, a scientist and alchemist who sells his soul to the Demon Mephistopheles in exchange for youth and lust. These moralistic stories were publicized through pamphlets and portrayed Satan as a trick- ster. The victim, despite his or her supernatural favors, usually came to a dreadful demise. Sometimes the Virgin Mary would intercede for the victims and snatch the pacts away from the Devil. Witches were said to derive their powers from Satan, which required entering into a pact with him. The purpose of the pact was portrayed less as personal gain than as the deliberate and malicious intent to harm others, and a renunciation of The Devils Pact and the Christian faith. A representative view was expressed by Johann Trithemiusabbot and scholar, in his work, Liber Octo Quaestionum:. Witches are a most pestiferous class, who enter on pacts with Demons, and, after making a solemn profes- sion of faith, dedicate themselves, in lasting obedience, to some particular Demon. No one can describe the evils of which this The Devils Pact of beings is guilty. Hence they must nowhere be tolerated, but utterly and everywhere exterminated. Demonologists and witch-hunters distinguished be- tween two kinds of pacts: the private pact and the sol- emn public pact. The private pact was a vow made by a witch, sometimes with the help of another witch. It was assumed that eventually the initiate would declare his or her allegiance to the Devil publicly. The public pact was made in a ceremony, either in a Christian church or at a Sabbatwhich always took place outdoors. If held in a church — an act of sacrilege — the Devil himself was not always present; at a sabbat, he was. According to Demonologists, the initiates renounced their Christian faith and baptism, swore allegiance to Satan and The Devils Pact to sacrifice to him unbaptized children, pledged an annual tribute to him and gave him a token piece of their clothing. They signed a written pact in their own blood. All aspects of the ceremony were done in reverse, since Satan is the reverse of God. Crosses were held upside down and then trampled, pacts were written backwards, the initiates signed their names with their left hands and the Devil made his mark on the left side of the body. Until the 14th century most witches were prosecuted only for the alleged The Devils Pact they did to people and their animals — not just for worshiping and The Devils Pact pact with the Devil. The church began to press the idea that witch- es should be prosecuted for heresy as well. In order to prove this heresy in a witch trial, the existence of a formal pact with the Devil had to be established. Most inquisitors had little trouble with this — they simply tortured the accused until he or she confessed. Seldom was a document The Devils Pact produced; it was said that the Devil conveniently took most of his pacts with him in order The Devils Pact protect his servants. One notable exception to this was the trial of Father Urbain Grandierparish priest of St. Grandier was accused of caus- ing the nuns in Loudun to become possessed. The pact stated:. We, the The Devils Pact Lucifer, seconded by Satan, Beelze- bub, Leviathan, Elimi, Astarothand others, have The Devils Pact accepted the pace of alliance with Urbain Grandier, who is on our side. And we promise him the love of women, the flower of virgins, the chastity of nuns, worldly hon- ors, pleasures, and riches. He will fornicate every three days; intoxication will be dear to him. He will offer to us once a year a tribute marked with his blood; he will trample under foot the sacraments of the church, and he will say his prayers to us. By virtue of this pact, he will live happily for twenty years on earth among men, and finally will come among us to curse God. Done in hell, in the council of the devils. Notarized the signature and mark of the chief Devil, and my lords the princes of hell. Grandier was convicted and burned. Louis Gaufridi, a man who confessed to being a witch inrecited his pact verbally for the inquisitors:. I, Louis Gaufridi, renounce all good, both spiritual as well as temporal, which may be bestowed upon me by God, the Blessed Virgin Mary, all the Saints of Heaven, particularly my Patron St. John-Baptist, as also S. Peter, S. Paul, and S. Francis, and I give myself body and soul to Lucifer, before whom I stand, together with every good that I may ever possess save always the benefits of the sacraments touching those who The Devils Pact them. And according to the tenor of these terms have I signed and sealed. With all my heart and most unfeignedly and with all my will most deliberately do I wholly renounce God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost; the most Holy Mother of God; all the Angels and especially my Guardian Angel, the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, His Precious Blood and the merits thereof, my lot in Paradise, also the good inspirations which God may give me in the future, all the prayers which are made or may be made for me. The Devils Pact prosecution of witches solely for having pacts with the Devil increased slowly on the European continent, though convictions still required evidence of maleficia. Witch-hunting handbooks such as the Malleus Maleficarum discussed pacts in great detail. The public cared little about pacts and more about what harm a witch did to her neighbors. Such maleficia were presumed possible with- The Devils Pact a pact. In Matthew Hopkins began his infamous hunt of witches in England and obtained sworn evidence of written pacts. Back to Demonology Glossary. A representative view was expressed by Johann Trithemiusabbot and scholar, in his work, Liber Octo Quaestionum: Witches are a most pestiferous class, who enter The Devils Pact pacts with Demons, and, after The Devils Pact a The Devils Pact profes- sion of faith, dedicate themselves, in lasting obedience, to some particular Demon. The pact stated: We, the all-powerful Lucifer, seconded by The Devils Pact, Beelze- bub, Leviathan, Elimi, Astarothand others, have today accepted the pace of alliance with Urbain The Devils Pact, who is on our side.