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Ceremonial magic (also known as magick, ritual magic, high magic or learned magic) [1] encompasses a wide variety of rituals of magic. The works included are characterized by ceremony and numerous requisite accessories to aid the practitioner. It can be seen as an extension of ritual magic, and in most cases synonymous with it.
Magic, sometimes spelled magick, [1] is the application of beliefs, rituals or actions employed in the belief that they can manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces. [2] It is a category into which have been placed various beliefs and practices sometimes considered separate from both religion and science.
This category comprises articles related to ceremonial magic, including magia ceremonialis, goety and theurgy in the Renaissance era as well as the synthetic body of esoteric teachings and practices in modern times, that is involved with magic rituals and other disciplines, such as Hermetic Qabalah, meditation and divination.
Keith Thomas: "Spiritual magic or theurgy was based on the idea that one could reach God in an ascent up the scale of creation made possible by a rigorous course of prayer, fasting and devotional preparation." [6] Pierre A. Riffard: "Theurgy is a type of magic. It consists of a set of magical practices performed to evoke beneficent spirits in ...
The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse (1886) A Solomonic circle with a triangle of conjuration in the East. A magic circle is a circle of space marked out by practitioners of some branches of ritual magic, which they generally believe will contain energy and form a sacred space, or will provide them a form of magical protection, or both.
The Ars Notoria (in English: Notory Art) is a 13th-century Latin textbook of magic (now retroactively called a grimoire) from northern Italy.It claims to grant its practitioner an enhancement of their mental faculties, the ability to communicate with angels, and earthly and heavenly knowledge through ritual magic.
Seal of Solomon, frontispiece of Volume I (Dogme). Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (English: "Dogma and Ritual of High Magic") is the title of Éliphas Lévi's first published treatise on ritual magic, which appeared in two volumes between 1854 (Dogme) and 1856 (Rituel).
Magic and Ritual in the Ancient World. Brill, 1995. ISBN 90-04-10406-2; Sherwin, Byron L. The Golem Legend: Origins and Implications. University Press of America, 1985. ISBN 0-8191-4402-9; Swart, Jacobus G. The Book of Sacred Names. Sangreal Sodality Press, Johannesburg, 2011. ISBN 978-0-620-50702-8; Swart, Jacobus G. The Book of Seals ...
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