The Grimorie - A work in progress II

At the beginning it was believed a work like this could be completed in two perhaps three years. But how do you  fit a life time in 3yrs? And how do you explain what a Grimorie  really means. I would imagine the only way is to start at the beginning . It begins for the term Grimorie in or around the 14th century, A book of majic, Spells, incantations, a family diary written about such things, that they held sacred & secret. Things that could not be possible or believed without the inception of Divine intervention. Great men like John Dees, Heinrich Agrippa,Pope Honorius,Giordano Bruno,wrote some of the most famous of Grimories  & last but not least :
                      - The Marquis De Sade -
 ( The Arbatel of Majic ) it's believed he had his quill in this but was never proven.  

The 16th century brings the church to absolute power & with it The great inquisitions 
( The Burning Times ) 

The church deemed these works and all who wrote them Heretics, devil worshipers, practitioners of witch craft, Black Majic, the Occult, and were buried at the stake,  or worse beheaded, And their work ordered destroyed !

Many of these great works survived due in part to others who hid them from sight. Others were plucked from their pedestals of marble and gouged for their ruby's, & precious stones striped of their fancy silver & gold hinges & corners,wile their parchment lay in some undisclosed location or destroyed. What made these great writings so feared? Why did the Vatican the Greatist  religious leader in the world at that time, along  with king's , noblemen , & Entire kingdoms fear their power ?  As time moves forward to the 19th century one of the most feared dictators in the world is believed to be an occultist & is seen frequently in the company of the best known Occultists & psychics in the world it's also believed that He is in possession of some of these great works that were confiscated by his troops & brings the world to it's knees in fear terror & disbelief !  

An Introduction to Ritual

- Ritual is most often associated with gods and with religion. -

When Thaumaturgists perform ritual, they are invoking the Goddess and her consort, the God, bringing their presence down into the sacred space. When Catholics perform ritual, they are calling their God to be present at the ceremony, in the form of the Eucharist. However, ritual itself can be independent of specific gods or even specific religious practices.

The Importance of Ceremonial Majic

 THE ordinary fields

 of psychological inquiry, largely in possession of the pathologist, are fringed by a borderland of occult and dubious experiment into which pathologists may occasionally venture, but it is left for the most part to unchartered explorers. Beyond these fields and this borderland there lies the legendary wonder-world of Theurgy, so called, of Magic and Sorcery, a world of fascination or terror, as the mind which regards it is tempered, but in either case the antithesis of admitted possibility. There all paradoxes seem to obtain actually, contradictions coexist logically, the effect is greater than the cause and the shadow more than the substance. Therein the visible melts into the unseen, the invisible is manifested openly, motion from place to place is accomplished without traversing the intervening distance, matter passes through matter. There two straight lines may enclose a space; space has a fourth dimension, and untrodden fields beyond it; without metaphor and without evasion, the circle is mathematically squared. There life is prolonged, youth renewed, physical immortality secured. There earth becomes gold, and gold earth. There words and wishes possess creative power, thoughts are things, desire realizes its object. There, also, the dead live and the hierarchies of extra-mundane intelligence are within easy communication, and become ministers or tormentors, guides or destroyers, of man. There the Law of Continuity is suspended by the interference of the higher ;    

                                  " Law of Fantasia."