An exhaustive guide to the occult, featuring passages on folklore, occultist history, and magic ceremony.

First published in 1898, The Book of Black Magic and Pacts contains a large number of magic spells and occult writings taken from a variety of sources. This volume is one of the greatest overviews of the occult. Written by Arthur Edward Waite, influential scholarly mystic and co-creator of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck.

The contents of this volume feature:

• The Literature of Ceremonial Magic
• The Antiquity of Magical Rituals
• The Rituals of Transcendental Magic
• The Rituals of Black Magic
• The Initial Rites and Ceremonies
• Concerning the Descending Hierarchy
• The Mysteries of Infernal Evocation According to the Grand Grimoire
• The Method of Honorius
• Miscellaneous and Minor Processes
• Concerning Infernal Necromancy