Freemasonry, Christian theosophy and Illuminism

The Grand Grimoire

The Red Dragon

A demonological grimoire associated especially with Lucifuge Rofocale, and with the pact.

Dates: eighteenth–nineteenth-century textual tradition
Dating: tradition or corpus

Place in the tradition

It is the book that most shaped the popular image of what a grimoire is — the bargain, the blasted heath, the signature — which is not what most of the tradition actually contains.

a note on the record

History and later legend

Anonymous, with an invented provenance. Its dating is a textual tradition rather than a publication.

the written record

Principal works

eighteenth–nineteenth-century textual tradition

The Grand Grimoire

The pact with Lucifuge Rofocale, and the apparatus for compelling it.