Overview

A fascinating addition to the magical literature of the Elizabethan era, this lavishly illustrated grimoire is a must-have for magic practitioners, collectors, and historians. The Book of Oberon is the meticulous transcription and translation of a sixteenth-century manuscript acquired by the esteemed Folger Shakespeare Library. Unlike the more theoretical magic books of the era, this collection of spells, secrets, and summonings was compiled gradually by unknown authors for working practical magic. Now published in a premium hardcover edition retaining the original's red lettering of significant words and holy names, The Book of Oberon includes rituals for summoning a long list of spirits and faeries (including Oberion, Fairy King and close relation to Shakespeare's Oberon); original drawings; common prescriptions used by cunning folk; instructions for dealing with Goetic demons that were censored in other texts; one of the oldest known copies of the magical manual The Enchiridion; and much more. This is a significant contribution to the annals of magical history, bringing to light the kind of grimoire that was commonplace in its era but is rarely published today.

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Author:   Daniel Harms ,  James R. Clark ,  Joseph H Peterson
Publisher:   Llewellyn Publications,U.S.
Imprint:   Llewellyn Publications,U.S.
Edition:   Annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 18.60cm , Height: 4.20cm , Length: 26.30cm
Weight:   1.406kg
ISBN:  

9780738743349

ISBN 10:   0738743348
Pages:   600
Publication Date:   08 April 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents NOTE: The table of contents has been added to give a quick overview of the parts of the text but has been worded differently in some cases for clarity. Introduction 1 Abbreviations and Typographic Symbols 31 Part 1: Theurgia 33 Preparatory Prayers 33 Excerpts from Heptameron 50 Excerpts from the Enchiridion, for protection 53 Excerpts from Heptameron resumed 74 Prayers before you call or consecrate: The Lord’s Prayer, Hail Mary, Creed, psalms 76 Sprinkling the lustral water 81 Blessing of the fumigations and exorcism of the fire 82 Concerning the garment and pentacle, and their use 82 The oration to be said while putting on the garment 83 To consecrate all instruments 83 The Athanasian Creed 85 The Gospel of Saint John 87 How you can speak with your own good angel whenever you wish 88 Prayer for one's angel 92 The method of the glass or stone 93 Another method to have a spirit in a glass, with sufflations and olive oil 102 Experiment of invisibility 107 The licence (or releasing) of any spirit 111 Consecration of the circle 112 Consecration of the holy water 113 In order that the spirits don’t have the power to harm you 113 Concerning Baron 114 A bond for a spirit who is rebellious and won't appear 120 Prayer of purification 121 A vincle or call 123 A conjuration of obedience 125 A band to bind them into the triangle or ring 125 To speak with a spirit in thy bed 132 For winning at games 133 Table of planetary hours 134 Planets which be good and evil 135 Signs that be good to work 136 John's gospel 136 Protection against thieves 137 Confession 138 Seven Angels 144 If you wish to test experiments 145 Epilepsy spell 146 Excerpts from Cardano of the intelligences, numbers, and names of the planets 147 The parchment, ink, pen, and writing 148 Seven planets, twelve signs, thirty days 149 The nature of the seven planets 150 Seven precious stones which were in the crown of Zepheraziel 153 Excerpts from Sepher Raziel on stones, herbs, and beasts 153 Of suffumigations called incenses 155 To defend treasure from finding 157 To constrain and bind devils 158 To see spirits, etc. 158 That one shall prosper in his affairs 159 To win favour of princes, etc. 159 To see devils or spirits 159 To bind and loose spirits 159 Upupa 160 To subdue spirits 160 Suffumigating 161 Semoferas 162 Four great names 166 A name to get victory 166 To remove wrath and sorrow 166 For victory 166 The consecration of the ring 167 Days most expedient to work any marvels on 168 A malediction for the fire 169 If he come, rewrite his name... 170 Another for the fire for the four kings 170 A suffumigation that rejoiceth spirits 172 Tables of planets and signs 173 A table of every thing of every sphere by himself 175 To make a thief not to depart 178 The names of the seven sisters of the fairies 179 Experiment for a theft 179 To be said at the beginning and ending of every work 184 Prayers of purification and consecration 187 Officium de spirittibus (""The offices of spirits"") 191 Mycob, the queen of the fairies, and the seven fairy sisters 207 The four kings of spirits of the air and their subservients 208 The names and shapes familiar to the spirits of the planets, their fumigations, and conjurations 215 Sun / Sunday 215 Moon / Monday 218 Mars / Tuesday 220 Mercury / Wednesday 223 Jupiter / Thursday 225 Venus / Friday 228 Saturn / Saturday 230 Directional and planetary incenses 233 List of Pagan gods 234 Spirits that make books and write books 235 A conjuration most necessary to the angels of each day to the obtaining of any spirit thou callest 236 The order of the circle work 239 The blessing of the fumigations and fire 246 Opening and entering the circle 266 The consecration and fumigation of the circle 279 Fumigations that rejoiceth spirits 279 The necessaries for this art of Necromancy 290 The beginning of circle work 291 Rules and preparation 292 An invocation unto the four kings to urge and constrain a spirit 297 After you have done 314 A good constriction for a spirit 315 For the ground 315 This must be laid in the earth to urge a late dead man to appear and speak 318 For hidden treasure 319 The spirit of the North, who is called King Egin... 340 Conjuration of Baron 346 An experiment of Rome 351 In order to know about things lost, or accumulated... 356 Treatise on the experiment for a theft 357 To make an oil for seeing spirits from the air, as followeth 358 An experiment of two hazel rods of one year's growing 363 This is the office of angels, spirits, and devils... 364 To see spirits in the air or elsewhere 366 The secretness of secrets hid 368 A collection of talismans 370 Characters of the planets 381 The ten most sacred names of God 382 Hebrew for the planets 382 Seals without characters of the seven planets 383 Fumigations, excerpted from Petrus de Abano and Agrippa 385 Brief notes concerning the course of the Moon 385 The spirits of the planets and signs 387 Prayers before beginning 388 Circle work 391 Instruments of the Art 398 An experiment approved by Friar Bacon to have a spirit appear in a circle... 399 Bilgall—Conjuration of the Spirit 401 For enclosing a spirit in a ring 403 Experiment of Solomon for having whatever you may covet. Lapwing. 407 Annabath 409 Ascariell— Conjuration of the Spirit 410 For making a stolen item return again 416 An experiment to see in thy sleep whatsoever thou shalt desire 416 To know whether one suspect be the thief or no 417 Satan—Conjuration of the Spirit 418 Experiment concerning the spirit called Baron, Baaran, Bareth, or Baryth 426 Saint George 432 The figure of the mirror 433 Romulon—Conjuration of the Spirit 434 Mosacus—Conjuration of the Spirit 445 Orobas 453 Oberyon—Conjuration of the Spirit 454 Figures and Characters of Oberyon and His Followers 455 Another way to invoke Oberion 473 The circle for the great work, i.e., to call the four kings... 482 On the nigromantic doctrine for all useful experiments 483 Concerning the Baths 485 Part 2: The Key of Solomon 491 The Eye of Abraham, for theft 492 For the toothache 493 Experiment to overcome enemies 495 For all manner of headache 496 For to bind any ground or house or field that nothing shall be stole out... 497 To find treasure of the earth... 499 Ritual for hunting 500 For shooting 501 Rite using bread loaf to find a thief 502 Instructions to the Steward 505 This longeth to the priest to use after this manner following 507 For biting of a dog, adder, or snake 522 To cause sleep 523 Terebinthus 523 To cause conception 525 A special good for women in travail 525 For the ague 526 For one that is bewitched 526 To cause a spirit to appear in thy bed chamber 527 Magrano—Conjuration of the Spirit 528 An excommunication 528 A conjuration, proven, regarding a theft 533 Experiment for having the spirit Sibilla in the light of a candle 537 For to take fowls with your hands 540 For a maid's thought 541 For love in the day and hour of Venus 541 Against thieves 541 Against thy enemies 541 Against witchcraft 542 For axis or ague 542 For sorrow of the teeth 543 A charm for thndbr... 543 In the event of theft 543 In the event of thefts, proven 544 Experiment for thieves 544 To make one fair 545 For the toothache 546 To make a maiden to dance 546 To make one follow thee 547 For a woman's love 547 If thou wilt know if she is a maid 547 To make love between men and women 547 If any be angry with thee 547 Also to make thieves to stand as well by night as by day 547 An experiment for thieves 548 For ulcers or p raid es (?) bladder & yard 550 For fretting of the yard or any other part 550 [???] ... a reumen 551 Huius libra Guilielmus Braius professor 551 How to call the king of the pigmies 551 For the Swallow 554 The virtue of vervain 555 Bibliography 557 Index 569

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Daniel Harms is a librarian and writer living in central New York. His major area of research is magic from antiquity to the present, especially necromancy and fairy magic. He has been published in Fortean Times, the Journal for the Academic Study for Magic, and the Enquiring Eye, as well as chapters for Palgrave Macmillan and Penn State Press books. Harms is also the author of two books on horror fiction and folklore. James R. Clark has been working in various fields of philosophical and esoteric study for nearly two decades. His primary areas of focus are philosophy of number, Golden Dawn, and alchemy. James is a self-taught artist. He has illustrated The Essential Enochian Grimoire, the seventh edition of Israel Regardie's Golden Dawn, and The Book of Oberon. ~Joseph H. Peterson has been studying esoteric texts for decades, intrigued by the Renaissance intellectual and experimental approach to spirituality. After years of collecting and digitizing rare texts for his own research, in 1995 he created the avesta.org and esotericarchives.com websites to share them with a wider audience. He lives near Rochester Minnesota. ~

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