Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires: The Classical Texts of Magick Deciphered

by Aaron Leitch

Overview

The magickal methods and esoteric knowledge of medieval Europe (476 to 1453 C.E.) form the ancestral backbone of modern ceremonial magick. To understand medieval magick, it's necessary to know the primary repositories of this knowledge—the grimoires of spells, incantations, and ritual instructions for working with angels and conjuring spirits. And to understand the grimoires, you must delve into the life and times of the magicians who wrote them.

Scholar and magician Aaron Leitch sheds light upon the greatly misunderstood subject of the medieval mage in this comprehensive reference manual. In addition, he provides valuable comparisons among the magical practices described in the grimoires and various shamanic methods of working with the spirit world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738703039
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date:	08/08/2005
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	8.53(w) x 10.91(h) x 1.09(d)

About the Author

Aaron Leitch has been a scholar and spiritual seeker for over three decades. He is an ordained Gnostic Priest and a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Societas Rosicruciana in America, and the academic Societas Magica. His writings cover such varied fields as religion and mythology (from ancient Middle Eastern to Renaissance European), Solomonic mysticism, shamanism, Neoplatonism, Hermeticism and alchemy, traditional Wicca and Neopaganism, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and more. He is the author of Secrets of the Magickal Grimoires, The Angelical Language, Volumes I and II, and the Essential Enochian Grimoire. He also has edited and/or contributed to various projects concerning the Western occult mysteries. Visit his blog at AaronLeitch.wordpress.com and his Facebook at www.facebook.com/kheph777.