Source books · Grimoires and ritual magic
The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts
How this book fits
- Traditions
- Grimoires and ritual magic The Golden Dawn
- Role in the tradition
- Formative source A translation, edition, compilation or system that shaped how later readers received the tradition.
- Public attention
- Notable Wikipedia has an article about it in 3 languages.
Read it
- revised as The Book of Ceremonial Magic ↗ sacred-texts.com checked against the Internet Archive's copy of March 23, 2026, because the site refuses scripts · archived copy
From Wikipedia
The Book of Ceremonial Magic by Arthur Edward Waite was originally called The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts. It was first published in a limited run in 1898, and distributed more widely under the title The Book of Ceremonial Magic in 1910.
From the Wikipedia article The Book of Ceremonial Magic, revision 1338400022, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q16844443: “book by Arthur Edward Waite”.
In this study
In the chronology, in Arthur Edward Waite's account.
A historical and critical survey of the grimoires rather than an instruction manual.