Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Lesser Key of Solomon, Goetia: The Book of Evil Spirits; Contains Two Hundred Diagrams and Seals for Invocation and Convocation of Spirits, Necromancy, Witchcraft and Black Art
The combination of all these and re?ection on their significance.
These unusual impressions (1-5) produce unusual brain-changes; hence their summary (6) is of unusual kind. Its projection back into the apparently phenoms nal world is therefore unusual.
Herein then consists the reality of the operations and effects of ceremonial magic,1 and I conceive that the apology is ample, as far as the effects refer only to those phenomena which appear to the magician himself, the appearance of the spirit, his conversation, possible shocks from imprudence, and so on, even to ecstasy on the one hand, and death or madness on the other.
But can any of the effects described in this our book Goetia be Obtained, and if so, can you give a rational explanation of the circumstances? Say you so?
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