Occult knowledge and practice can be divided into three main
branches: Astrology, which aims to guide human fortune by means of
foreknowledge; Alchemy, which tries to secure power through the
agency of the philosopher's stone; and Ritual Magic, which seeks to
control the spirit world. In this classic book (first published in
1949), Butler explores ritual magic using a wide range of texts
from the pre-Christian rites of the Akkadians and Chaldeans to the
Solomonic Clavicles of medieval Europe. Throughout, there is
extensive quotation from the documents themselves, providing the
reader with an authentic sense of the richness and power of these
texts.
Butler also examines the careers of noted magicians of the
fifteenth to nineteenth centuries, the history of ceremonial magic
in England, the myth of Satanism, and the rituals involved in the
Faustian pact with the devil. Ritual Magic is essential reading for
all interested in the history of magic and in the way magic
traditions have altered as they move from culture to culture and
from century to century.
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