Magick

Richard Kieckhefer’s Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century offers a rare opportunity to look closely at an actual medieval magical manuscript rather than a later reconstruction of what medieval magic may have looked like. At the centre of the book is a Latin manuscript preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich. Kieckhefer provides an edition of the text together with extensive commentary, historical analysis, translations of representative passages and comparisons with ...

Summoning Spirits: The Art of Magical Evocation by Konstantinos is a practical introduction to ceremonial spirit evocation, written from the perspective of a practising occultist rather than that of a historian or theologian. The book is intended to guide readers through the preparation, theory and ritual techniques associated with contacting spiritual entities, making it especially relevant for students who want to understand how demonology intersects with practical magical traditions. Konstantinos presents evocation as a structured ...