A Cunning Man's Grimoire: The Secret of Secrets Stephen Skinner Occult Grimoire

Description: Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic Volume 9 This manuscript is sometimes referred to as the "Secret of Secrets" because this title was written on one of its early unfoliated leaves. Despite that, this manuscript has no relation to the Secretum Secretorum of pseudo-Aristotle, which was one of the most widely read texts in the Mediaeval period. It seems very unlikely that anyone would have confused the present text with that classic of kingly advice. It is instead a grimoire, a manual of practical magic, a real sorcerer's handbook. Despite this title, it also does not contain the ultimate secrets of grimoire magic, but is in fact a composite grimoire drawn from a number of different sources. It is not the sort of grimoire which has a complete method for calling up a set register of spirits, like the Goetia, nor does it have a wide range of pentacles or talismans like the Key of Solomon. It is however quite special as it was also a practising Cunning man's grimoire, an interesting blend of learned magic and local village magic. It also contains a lot of critical astrological information (including its own set of astrological tables) which are an important part of magic, but which don't feature to a large extent in other grimoires. It goes way beyond Planetary days and hours, to detailed aspects of timing which would have been more a part of Astral/Image magic rather than Solomonic magic. It contains magical operations connected with the 28 Mansions of the Moon, which were usually absent from Solomonic grimoires. The 28 Mansions of the Moon belong to a different magical tradition which owes its origins to Arabic and Indian roots, rather than the Greek roots of Solomonic magic. This manuscript therefore literally stands at the crossroads of several different magical streams. ISBN: 978-07387-6072-8

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