The Book of Ceremonial Magic

...in the history of human aberration original: "aberration"; a departure from what is normal, right, or sensible; nor has it been an enjoyable task to try and make this clear, once and for all.

A woodcut-style illustration of a mythical creature representing a serpent before the biblical curse. The creature has a woman's head with long hair, a long neck, a feathered or scaled body, two bird-like legs with talons, wings, and a curled tail.

Footnotes

xxv:1 The work in its current form quotes Ezekiel, Daniel, the Gospel of John original: "the fourth Gospel", and mentions Saints Peter and Paul. Many of these anachronisms chronological errors where things from the future appear in the past are found in the magical diagrams original: "pentacles" that accompany the text.