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Authors: Robert Masello

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Portrait of Nostradamus at the Age of Fifty-nine. Sixteenth-century print.
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Indicates illustrations taken from Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy by Grillot de Givry, translated by J. Courtenay Locke, Dover Publications, Inc., 1971. Used by permission.

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Indicates illustrations taken from Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy by Grillot de Givry, translated by J. Courtenay Locke, Dover Publications, Inc., 1971. Used by permission.

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Indicates illustrations taken from Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy by Grillot de Givry, translated by J. Courtenay Locke, Dover Publications, Inc., 1971. Used by permission.

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Indicates illustrations taken from Picture Book of Devils, Demons and Witchcraft by Ernst and Johanna Lehner, Dover Publications, Inc., 1971. Used by permission.

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Indicates illustrations taken from Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy by Grillot de Givry, translated by J. Courtenay Locke, Dover Publications, Inc., 1971. Used by permission.

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Indicates illustrations taken from Picture Book of Devils, Demons and Witchcraft by Ernst and Johanna Lehner, Dover Publications, Inc., 1971. Used by permission.

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Indicates illustrations taken from Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy by Grillot de Givry, translated by J. Courtenay Locke, Dover Publications, Inc., 1971. Used by permission.

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Indicates illustrations taken from Witchcraft, Magic & Alchemy by Grillot de Givry, translated by J. Courtenay Locke, Dover Publications, Inc., 1971. Used by permission.

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A
BOUT THE
A
UTHOR

Robert Masello is a writer and story editor on the original Showtime television series
Poltergeist: The Legacy.

An award-winning journalist and author living in Los Angeles, he has written eleven previous books, which have been translated into six languages. Among these books are three novels of the occult (
The Spirit Wood, Black Horizon,
and
Private Demons
) and a nonfiction work entitled
Fallen Angels . . . and Spirits of the Dark.

All rights reserved, including without limitation the right to reproduce this ebook or any portion thereof in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.

Copyright © 1996 by Robert Masello

ISBN 978-1-4976-3806-8

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

Preface

I. Black Magic and Sorcery

The Magus
The Sacred Circle
Pentagram and Hexagram
The Great Grimoires
Conjurations from the True Grimoire
The Liber Spirituum
The Unholy Pact
The Occult Philosophy
Agrippa the Magician
Magic Candles, Magic Hands
Curses and Incantations
Love and Death
The Evil Eye
The Black Mass
Bell, Book, and Candle

II. Raising the Dead

Necromancy
Grave Encounters
Demons in the Coliseum
Friar Bacon
The Bell of Girardius
Dr. Dee and Mr. Kelley
The Lodge of the Mysteries
The Monks of Medmenham
Eliphas Lévi
La Voisin

III. Mystical Orders

The Seeker and the Sorcerer
The Gnostics
Simon Magus
The Cabbala
Defenders of the Faith
The Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross
The Freemasons
The Grand Copt
The Order of the Golden Dawn
The Great Beast
Dion Fortune
Mme. Blavatsky

IV. The Secret Doctrine

The Alchemists’ Art
The Origins of Alchemy
The Philosophers’ Stone
The Elixir of Life
The Alkahest
Paracelsus
Robert Fludd
Alexander Seton
The Scourge of Milan
The Man Who Could Not Die

V. Fate and the Future

The Divinatory Arts
The Sibylline Books
The Hand of Fate
Reading the Stars
The Little Animal in the Sky
Tycho Brahe
The Devil's Picture Book
Mother Shipton and the Cheshire Prophet
Nostradamus

Glossary

Bibliography

Illustration Credits

Copyright

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