The

Book Of Black Magic

And Of Pacts

INCLUDING THE RITES AND MYSTERIES OF GOETIC THEURGY Goetic theurgy: A system of magic focused on the summoning of spirits or demons, often contrasted with "Theurgy" (divine magic)., SORCERY, AND INFERNAL NECROMANCY, ALSO THE RITUALS OF BLACK MAGIC

ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE

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"Others are accustomed to summon evil demons, swearing them in by the power of divine names, and this is that species of Necromancy which is called malevolent; or they turn to Theurgy, which is governed (as some suppose) as if by good Angels and the divine power, although it is very often carried out under the names of God and the Angels through the evil illusions of Demons." original: "Alii daemones malos virtute divinorum nominum adjuratos, advocare solent, atque haec est illa Necromantiae species quae dicitur malefica: vel in Theurgiam, quae quasi bonis Angelis, divinoque numine regitur (ut nonulli putant) cum saepissime tamen sub Dei, et Angelorum nominibus malis Daemonum illusionibus peragitur." — ROBERT FLUDD Robert Fludd (1574–1637) was a prominent English physician and mystical philosopher..

Tenth Edition

The de LAURENCE CO., Chicago, Ill., U. S. A.

1910