The book of black magic and ceremonial magic: The secret tradition in Goetia : including the rites and mysteries of Goetic theurgy, sorcery and infernal necromancy [Hardcover]

Arthur Edward Waite (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Causeway Books; 1st Edition in this form edition (1973)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0883560135
• ISBN-13: 978-0883560136
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,402,850 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting filososofies, rites and well illustrated, October 29, 1997

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This review is from: The book of black magic and ceremonial magic: The secret tradition in Goetia : including the rites and mysteries of Goetic theurgy, sorcery and infernal necromancy (Hardcover)

Not just another grimoire but a nice book for reading if you are interested in this kind of sorcery. Particulary nice illustrations of amulets, but if you have made plans of exercising these sacret rituals you'd better think twice, unless you are a skilled mage. Yet for the unskilled among us a nice book to get a picture of the rites as they were performed in and after the inquisition.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smite thine enemies!, April 20, 1998

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This review is from: The book of black magic and ceremonial magic: The secret tradition in Goetia : including the rites and mysteries of Goetic theurgy, sorcery and infernal necromancy (Hardcover)

This book, (for the skilled practitioner) is a great source of knowledge, but more importantly, raw power! You will have your enemies growing tarantulas out of their mouths in no time! (hehe)

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars GAIN WAITE LOSE SUBSTANCE, April 7, 2004

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This review is from: The book of black magic and ceremonial magic: The secret tradition in Goetia : including the rites and mysteries of Goetic theurgy, sorcery and infernal necromancy (Hardcover)

The petty pedagogue Waite explores the world of bewitched bovines and grimy grimoires. Great selections here tell you how to be a general mediaeval magician about town, and the book has value in its display of rituals made from bad Hebrew, bastardized Latin and garbled Greek--with a bunch of pater nosters added for flavor. Waite was a closet Xtian dressed up in magic robes, and helped dilute the nonsense of the Golden Dawn, into even more nonsense. A pretender to scholarship, a collector of old recipes that only a magical moron would use in today's sorceries. Yes by all means get the book, read it, and have a good chuckle. Want to read some intelligent magical stuff?
Bonewitz's Real Magic, Bardon's Initiation into Hermetics, and the introductory portions of Crowley's Book Four and Magick in Theory and Practice. Alakazam!