Product Description

The magickal methods and esoteric knowledge of medieval Europe (476 to 1453 C.E.) form the ancestral backbone of modern ceremonial magick. To understand medieval magick, it’s necessary to know the primary repositories of this knowledge - the grimoires of spells, incantations, and ritual instructions for working with angels and conjuring spirits. And to understand the grimoires, you must delve into the life and times of the magicians who wrote them.
Scholar and magician Aaron Leitch sheds light upon the greatly misunderstood subject of the medieval mage in this comprehensive reference manual. In addition, he provides valuable comparisons among the magical practices described in the grimoires and various shamanic methods of working with the spirit world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #469844 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 456 pages

About the Author
Aaron Leitch (Florida) has been a scholar and spiritual seeker for over a decade. His explorations have taken him into many fascinating areas of human spirituality, their history, and their modern practice. His writings (both in print and on the web) cover such varied fields as Middle Eastern Religion and Mythology, Shamanism, Neoplatonism, Hermeticism and Alchemy, Traditional Wicca and Neopaganism, The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Thelema, Angelology, Qabalah, Enochiana, Psychology and Consciousness Expansion, Cyberspace, and Modern Social Commentary.

Customer Reviews

The best book to get you started!
Honestly, this will soon be a new classic. If you are new to ceremonial magic you will really be leaps and bounds ahead when you read this. It will make you leaps and bounds ahead of the game.

Much Love & Many Blessings,
Thorn Nightwind

Excellant reference book
Arron's book is excellant . I have been using it in conjunction with Kraigs Modern Magick & Theory.

Whereas Kraigs is more of a step by step, Aaron divides his by category but get you to the same place

The two companion each other perfectly.

What I liked best about it is that it takes the confusion out of which grimore focuses on which subject matter. Also, if you are a classic magician like Poke Runyon, this will assist in helping you to keep that tradition.

It is very well researched and has a good bibliography in the back.

Whether an arm chair mage or practicing magician, this is definately one that deserves to be on your book shelf. I wish this one of the first books I had bought, along with Kraigs, it would had fulfilled most of my questions.


Kudos

Destined to become a classic text
Aaron Leitch's book is an incredible source book, giving overviews of the historical grimoires such as the Picatrix, the Lemegeton and the Red Dragon. Aaron also covers topics that are generally included in a grimoire, which can give you, the reader, ideas for yours if you have one. A very useful book, it gives me quite the advantage in my research, as most of the information provided is hard to find, and once found, must then be sifted and sorted. Secrets of The Magickal Grimoires is everything that the historical grimoires offer, but condensed and revised for a modern age of reader. If I had five thumbs, they'd all be up.