The Old Book of Magic

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A Precise History Of
MAGIC
lis Procedure, Rites And Mysteries
AS CONTAINED IN
Ancient Manuscripts
Embellished With Engravings Of
Wonderful Charms And Talismans
By Dr. L. W. de Laurence
AUTHOR OF, THE GREAT Book OF MAGICAL ART, HINDU
MAGIC AND EAST INDIAN OCCULTISM.—THE MASTER KEY.—
THE SACRED Book OF DEATH AND HINDU SPIRITISM.—THE
MYSTIC TEST Book OF THE HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS.–THE
WoNDERS OF THE MAGIC MIRROR—CRYSTAL GAZING AND
CLAIRvoyANCE.—AsTRAL AURAS AND CoLoRs.—THE IMMA
NENCEOFGOD,KNowTHYSELF.—GoD,THEBIBLE, TRUTH AND
CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY..—MEDICAL HYPNOSIS AND MAGNETIC
HYPNOTISM.–MANUAL OF DISEASE AND MODERN MEDICINE.—
VALMoNDI; THE OLD Book OF ANCIENT MYSTERIES.—THE
DEAD MAN's HoME, ETC., ETC.
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Chicago, Ill., U.S. A.
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This Volume is an authentic and an official work, compiled
from Ancient Jtlanuscripts, and gives in full detail many rare and
Secret Mysteries. The same is embellished with several full page
illustrations of Magic Ceremonies; together with nearly one hun
dred and fifty rare old engravings of Ancient Talismans, etc.
There is also, for the first time, given to the student, in this work,
a complete reproduction of the Original Mysteries and Ancient
Manuscripts of the “DIVINE RAPHAEL,” better known as the
“Metropolitan Astrologer” and editor of the Prophetic Almanac,
and other Sidral works.
This book also contains the Mystic Rites, Ceremonies, and
Incantations, used by the Ancient Theurgists and old Philoso
phers to burst asunder the bounds of natural order, and to obtain
an intercourse with the world of spirits; for let it known, to
those whose eyes follow these words, that millions of spiritual
creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we are awake and
when we are asleep. .
The rapid sale, over the world, of my books, and the
unprecedented requests for Catalogues, describing the same,
has caused me to publish this work although I have had these
Ancient Manuscripts in my possession many, many years, hav
ing purchased them at a very great cost; but as my former books
are in such vigorous demand, I have deemed it expedient to
present the philosophical world with this compendious Volume;
wherein is contained Instructions, Secrets and Mysteries that
were known only to the old Masters some four hundred years
ago.
The inconsistencies of many authors, and the foolish claims
of book sellers, who are selling works said to have been written
by RAPHAEL, always brings a quiet and sarcastic smile to the face
of those that know that the market today is flooded with false
and spurious editions of this great man’s writings.
This Volume is an authentic one, and the student may depend
upon it, from the first to the last page, as I have carefully
expunged everything not valuable, original, and worthy of the
student’s attention, so that he may, with as little difficulty as
possible, be capable of learning the Astral and Celestial Worlds
in their most essential parts. As to the Magical and Occult Parts
of this work; such as Magic Rites, Charms, and Incantations,
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they are most fully explained so as to enable my Students and my
Disciples tocomplete the full development of their Occult studies.
There are things taught in this Volume which will enable the
student to operate many strange and wonderful things so that
even this part of the work may not be devoid of utility; but may
help the student to invoke powers that will render him great aid.
The student of Spiritual Mysteries and Astral Powers will find
ample herein to gratify his desire; for in the perusal of these
Rare And Ancient Manuscripts, many of which are replete with
those secrets now so much sought after, the student will realize
the great worth of this Volume which will be found acceptable
to the legitimate student of Magic And Celestial Science.
No modern Expositor of Astrology can bear in comparison
with the “DIVINE RAPHAEL,” and among ancient expositors, he
stood the highest in authority, all yielding to his great knowledge.
Hence, no greater name than RAPHAEL’s has ever embellished
the science of Astrology and no Volume such as this one, contain
ing his Original Mysteries, has ever been before published. The
very same deals with Magic, Charms, Talismans, Astral In»
fluences, The Spirit World, Demonology And Witchcraft.
The real manhood of man can only be gained by having a full
and clear knowledge of Occultism and Ancient Magic. This is
the ideal which all earnest Occult students is striving to attain,
and this ideal has plainly been recognized by all intelligent leaders
of human progress. The time has come for men and women
“to put away childish things,” and to relinquish the beliefs and
practices of the priest, the minister and the materialists.
Ancient Magic is a terrible power. It is based upon the pre
scientific world-conception, which in its primitive stage is called
animism, imputingto nature a spiritual life analogous to our own
spirit, and peopling the spirit world with individual personalities.
The Old Magic stands in contrast to material science; it trans
cends human knowledge by supernatural methods and is based
upon the fact of operating many wonderful things by the assist
ance of Invisible Powers and Intelligent Spirits who can be
forced by Magical Invocations into an alliance with the operator.
The real Occult student knows that evil influences, of every
kind, can be avertedand warded ofiby Charms or Talismans, and
that the aid of, both good and Evil Spirits, can be procured by
proper Incantations and Conjurations.
The world-conception of true ‘Occultism and Magic is long
lingering, and its influence will not subside instantaneously with
the first frown of material science. The MiddleAges were‘full of
Magic, and the belief in it has not died out to this day, and
never will.
Dr. L. W. de Laurence.
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CHAPTER I
“Millions of spiritual creatures walkthe earth Unseen,
both when wewake, and when we sleep."
MAGICAL CEREMONIES AND INCANTATIONS.
MAGIC CEREMONIES, CHARMS, AND INCANTATIONS. THE
ANCIENT PRACTICE OF INVOKING THE SPIRITS
OF THEDEAD.
This, THE OLD BOOK OF MAGIC, has, after many years of
travel and research, been compiled, by the writer, from a selection
of the most approved Ancient Authors, and from Ancient Manu
scripts in the Libraries at the British Museum, Bristol Cathedral,
and Wells; the Bodleian Library, and Ashmolean Museum at
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Oxford; together with a variety of rare Occult Secrets from
Ancient Manuscripts in the possession of the Adepts and Old
Masters as well as other valuable Sources of authentic Informa
tion.
Having proceeded to'this high and mysterious part of our
subject, it will not be amiss to caution the inexperienced reader,
that the following observations are compiled from an attentive
study of the Oldest Masters, and the choicest Ancient Manu
scripts which could be procured; and, it is contrary to reason to
suppose that so many eminent men, in all ages, would have
written on the subject merely for the purpose of deluding or
deceiving the unwary or the credulous. Therefore, I will avouch
for the actual possibility of all I hereafter shall relate. My chief
object, in this work, being a development of the sublime studies
which occupied the attention of the ancient philosophers, and
which have hitherto been as a Sealed Book to the greater part
of the community, or at best involved beneath a cloud of enigmas,
which it shall now be my business to solve, dispute, and also to
give a general explanation relative to the mysterious History and
doctrines of Cabalistical and Ceremonial Magic.
OF INTELLIGENCES AND SPIRITS
THEIR ORDERS AND INFERNAL AGENTS
According to the theory and belief of the Ancient Thurgists,
an Intelligence is an intelligible substance, free from all gross
terrestrial matter, immortal, and of supernatural influence, and
the nature of all Intelligences, Spirits, and Angels, is the same.
From this term, however, the internal spirits are exempted. Of
the Angels there are three kinds: the first of which we call
supercelestial, and minds altogether separated from a body, being,
as it were, intellectual spheres worshipping only one supreme
power, as it were, their most firm and stable unity or centre.
Wherefore they even call them Gods, by reason of a certain
participation of the Divinity, for they are always full of Supreme
Power, are always about the Supreme Forces, infusing the light
received from them into the inferior orders, making an equal
distribution of power and duty.
The Celestial Intelligences follow in the second order,
which are called mundane angels, viz. being appointed, besides
the divine worship, for the spheres of the world, and for the
government of every zone and star; whence they are divided
into so many orders as there are zones in the spirit world, and
as there are stars in the heavens. Thus. the ancients termed
those Saturnine who ruled the sphere of Saturn; others fovial,
Martial, and so on throughout the whole order of the heavens.
And the ancients also placed in the starry heavens angels who