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A
Complete Book
of
Magic
Science
A
Complete Book
of
Magic Science
Containing the
method
of constraining
and exorcisjng spirits
to appearance,
the consecration
of Magic Circles,
and
The
Form of a
Bond
of
Spjrits.
Transcribed From
An
Ancient
Manuscript Grimoire
by
Frederick
Hockley
Edited
&
With
An
Introduction
by
Dietrich Bergman
The Teitan Press
2008
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CONTENTS
Introduction
IX
Published
in
2008 by
The Teitan Press
P.O. Box 2050
York Beach, ME, 03910-2050, USA
www.teitanpress.com
All Rights Reserved.
Printed in the United States of America.
First Edition
Limited to 450 Numbered Copies.
This is copy No.
~
ISBN 978-0-933429-10-9
Copyright
©2008
The Teitan Press.
Part the
First
The Observations,
Preparations,
Consecrations,
Circles,
&
Pentacles
to
be used
in
Invocating.
Observations
&
Method
First
Morning
Prayer
The
Blessing
of
the
Light
Consecration
of
the Sword
Benediction
of
the
Lamens
Benediction
of
the Pentacles
Benediction
of
the
Garment
Benediction of
the Perfumes
Exorcism of
Fire
Invocations
of
the Days
Characters
&
Perfumes
of
the
Lords of the
Seven
Planets
Part the Second
Containing
Invocations,
Conjurations,
and Exorcisms of
the
Bond
of
Spirits.
Oration to
be
said when
putting
on the Vestures
Prayer
57
58
7
9
12
14
15
16
18
21
22
27
41
This paper meets the
requirements
of
ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of
Paper)
Names
&
Offices
of
the Spirits, Messengers, and
Intelligences
of
the Seven Planets
Prayer
Invocation
Part
the Third
Form of a
Bond
of
Spirits
Given
by Turiel
Messenger
of
the
Spirits
Interrogations
Licence to Depart
[Oath
of
Turiel]
Notes
99
77
INTRODUCTION
The history of the magical textbooks known as
grimoires might well be described as one long saga of
subterfuge
and deceit. The true
identity
of the authors
of
even
the most celebrated of these books is
seldom
known, with the works instead attributed to long-dead or
mythical notables.
There
were
of course quite legitimate reasons for this
deception: in times past the mere possession of
a
grimoire
would
have been
enough
to
consign
one to the pyres of
the Inquisition. To have been identified as the
author
of
one might
easily
have led to
arrest
and an interrogation
so vigorous
that condemnation to the Inquisitorial flames
would
probably have
come
as a welcome relief.
One
consequence of
this
authorial
anonymity has
been that it has made life much easier for fraudsters, who
having discovered that there
was
a lucrative
'under-the-
counter'
market
for such
literature, decided to line their
poc~ets
by inventing and
selling spurious
grimoires.
Some of these were little more than bogus magical chap-
books that quickly faded into obscurity,
whilst
others
proved remarkably resilient,
gaining
fame
and
notoriety
despite their often unambiguous failings.
Perhaps the best-known
example
of such a
sham
work
is the
so-called
'Grimoire of Pope Honorius,'
a
bizarre
conflation
of texts ranging
from
'The Key of Solomon the
King'
to the
'Rituale
Romanum'
of the
Catholic
Church, all
bonded together
with a generous
larding of names of the
notorious demons of the Christian and Semitic traditions.
Needless to
say
the book had nothing to do with Pope
Honorius, and
is
generally
held to be
a
late
eighteenth
century forgery,
designed to
cash in on a certain
popular
fascination with grimoires, and
the
fame of
the
authentic
thirteenth
century 'Sworn
Book
of Honorius,' whose
88
90
101
103
107
Vlll
name it mimicked.
Given that a number of patently
sham
grimoires do
exist,
and that
it would
be
relatively simple
to
create a
fake
by
combining and rewriting some
legitimate texts,
it
is surely not unreasonable to treat any
work
in this
genre
with a healthy degree of
skepticism, at
least until its bona-
fides have been firmly
established.
It
was with such an attitude
that many-myself
included
-
approached
a slender volume entitled 'The
Secret Grimoire of
Turiel,'
that had
first appeared in
print
in 1960.
2
The book purported
to
be based
on a sixteenth
century
original,
and
detailed
a
hierarchy
of 'spirits,'
their
attributions, and the prayers
and invocations
that
could
be
used to bind them
over
to do
one's
bidding. An
exchange
between a magician
and
Turiel, who was
identified as
the
"Messenger of the Spirits of Jupiter,"
gave
the book
its
title.
The Introduction to
'The
Secret Grimoire
of Turiel' is
attributed to one
"Marius
Malchus,"
who is also said
to
have been
responsible for
finding
and
preserving the text,
or at least
a
transcription of it. The
story
that Malchus tells
of his
acquisition
of the manuscript has
all
the
elements
of an
exciting, if rather
unbelievable,
work
of
fiction.
Thus, Malchus
relates
that he bought the manuscript
from
a defrocked Priest,
who
he
encountered
by
chance
during
a short stay
in Las Palmas,
in
the Canary
Islands,
in 1927. The
former Priest offered
Malchus
two versions
of the
grimoire: a fragmentary
original
written in Latin
and
dated 1518,
and an English
translation that had been
L Also known as
'Liber
Sacer,'
'Libet
Sacratus,' or
'Liber
Iuratus
Honorii,' under
which
latter
title
a critica
l
edition
of the Latin
text has
recently been edited by Gosta Hedegard, and published
by Almovist
&
Wiksell
International, Stockholm, 2002.
2. 'The
Secret Grimoire of Turiel,' Introduction by Marius
Malchus, The Aquarian Press, London, 1960.
It
has
subsequen
tly
been
reprinted a
number
of times,
as
well
as
published on the
Internet.
1
IX
made
from
that original. Malchus disdained the original
on
account of its poor condition, but purchased the
translation,
which
he later discarded after
copying it into a
more
conveniently sized
notebook. He
went
on to
express
the opinion that the
transcription
that he had made
was
most likely the only
copy of
the
work in existence:
that is
until he
published it.
Even
the most
credulous enthusiast
must
surely feel
a twinge of
doubt
at
this
story. Apart from
the
cliched
devices of
an exotic setting and
mysterious defrocked
Priest,
the tale
conveniently-if
unconvincingly
-offered
an explanation-in-advance of why Malchus would
be
unable to
produce an early manuscript should anyone
call
upon
him to
do
so.
Malchus
himself seems
to
have
been
unknown in
both
occult and historical circles;
at
least under
that name, which is almost certainly a
pseudonym.3
It
all seemed more than a little suspicious, especially
as,
to
my knowledge, there are no refe(ences
to
'The Secret
Grimoire of Turiel' or a work with similar title, in any
of
the histories or
studies
of occult literature
that
appeared
prior
to
its
publication.
If
the work were genuinely old,
then it
had
indeed
been
an
unusually
well-kept secret.
3.
The
n
ame "Mari
us
Malchus"
seems
too
apt
to be genuine. Mar-
ius
was a
common
male
name
in
ancient
Rome,
possibly derived
from the name of
the
Roman God of War, Mars. Malchus
sounds
suspiciously
like
an adaptation of Ma lach
(i)
which is the Hebrew
word for
"my
messenger" or "my agent," and is commonly
used to
signify "angel"
in Hebrew Scripture. Aside from
being
the plural of the aforementioned word,
"Malachim"
was also
the name of the
"angelic
alphabet" outlined
by
Agrippa in his
sixteenth
century
work
'Three
Books of Occult Philosophy.'
Malchus is also the Greek form of Malluch, a name common
in
semitic
languages, and that of the
Jewish
servant
whose
ear
was
struck
off
by
St.
Peter,
as
he
attempted to help his Priestly master
in the
arrest of
Jesus,
and who, according
to
Saint
Luke, was at
once
miraculously healed by the Christ (Luke 22:50).

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