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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Born in Heliopolis, Egypt, Frater U.·. D.·. has been working within the magical tradition for decades. He lived in Africa and Asia and trained wit h yoga and tantra masters, as weU as studying languages a nd literature at the universities of Bonn and Lisbon. He is recog� nized as the founder of Pragmatic Magic, and has written articles for many magazines, i n
Unicorn, T helema: Magazine for Magic and Tantra, Anubis (Germany), The Lamp of T hoth, a nd Chaos International (Great Britain ). His published works i nclude Practical Sigil Magic. Among his t ranslations are the books of Peter Carroll and Ramsey Dukes and AIeister Crowley's Book of Lies. At present, he lives near Bonn, Germany, working as a free cluding
lance writer, translator, and workshop speaker.
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High Magic: Theory & Practice © 2005 by Frater U. D.· .. AJl rights reserved. No part of this book may be ·.
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OTHER BOOKS BY FRATER U:. D:. Secrets of Western Sex Magic ( Llewellyn Publications)
Practical Sigil Magic ( Llewellyn Publications)
High Magic II ( Llewellyn Publications)
Where Do Demons Live? ( Llewellyn Publications) • •
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A n In troduction, o r c' Welcome to the Club!" WHAT IS MAGIC?
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THE LESSER BANISHING RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM
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PRACTICAL StGIL MAGIC ( I ) ... 39 INTRODUCTION TO RITUAL MAGIC ( I ) ... 55 INTRODUCTION TO RITUAL MAGIC ( II ) ELEMENTAL MAGIC
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PLANETARY MAGIC (I ) ... 103 INTRODUCTION TO RITUAL MAGIC ( Ill ) PLANETARY MAGIC (II)
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INTRODU'CTION TO RITUAL MAGIC ( IV )
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INTRODUCTION TO RITUAL MAGIC ( V ) ... 199 MYSTICISM OR MAGIC?
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IN.TRODUCTION TO RITUAL MAGIC ( VI ) THE MAGIC GAZE ( I )
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INTRODUCTION TO RITUAL MAGIC (VIII) ... 259 INTRODUCTION TO MONEY MAGIC (I)
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TABULA SMARAGDINA HERMETIS 1.
Verum, sine mendacio, certum et verissimum.
2. Quod est inferius, est sicut quod est superius, et quod est superius, est sicut quod est inferi us, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius.
3. Et sicut omnes res fuerunt ab uno, meditatione uni us: sic omnes res natae fuerunt ab hac una re, adaptatione ..
4. Pater eius est Sol, mater eius est Luna; portavit illud ventus in ventre suo; nutrix ei us terra est.
5. Pater omnis thelesmi totius mundi est hie. 6 . Vis eius integra est, si versa fuerit in terra m. 7. Separabis terram ab igno, subtile a spisso, suaviter cum magno ingenio.
8 . Ascendit in coelum, iterumque descendit in terram, et recipit vim superiorum et inferiorum. Sic habebis gloriam totius mundi. Ideo fugiat
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9. Hie est totius fort itud inis fortitudo fortis; quia vincet omnem rem subtilem, omnemque solidam penetrabit.
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1 2. Itaque vocates sum HERMES TRISMEGISTUS, habens tres partes Philosophiae totius mundi.
1 3 . Completum est quod dixi de operatione Solis.
THE EMERALD PLATE OF HERMES TRISMEGISTOS I. True, without error, certain and most true.
2. That which is above is as that which is below, and that which is below is as that which is above, to perform the miracles of the One Thing.
3. And as all things are from One, by the meditation of One, so all things arise from this One Thing by adaptation.
4. The sun is its father, the moon its mother, the wind carries it in its belly, its nurse is the earth.
5. This is the father of all creation. 6. Undivided and absolute is its power if it is turned to earth. 7. Separate the earth from fire, the fine from the coarse, gently, with great ingenuity.
8. lt ascends from the earth to the heavens and descends again to the earth, and re ceives the power of the superiors and of the inferiors. Thus thou hast the glory of the whole world. And all obscurity will flee before thee.
9. This is the force of all forces, overcoming every subtle and penetrating every solid thing.
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1 1 . Hence are all the adaptations of which this is the manner. 1 2. Therefore I am called Thrice-Great Hermes, having the three parts of the phi losophy of the whole world.
1 3. That which I have to tell is completed, concerning the operations of the sun. (English translation based on Frater U.
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Magic, a word that's been shrouded in mystery for thousands of years. How many minds have already pondered this subject? Magic is probably one of the most difficult, most di versified, and most fascinating of all the occult sciences nent, as an initiate or as
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unknowing person! Magicians were (and still are) often con
sidered to be loathsome creatures with no desire whatsoever to conform to an external temporal power. They were viewed as people wil1ing to commit the crime of not accept , ing the concepts of "reality, and "the healthy limits of morals and decency , as forced upon them by religion and society, priests and world leaders; as people who refuse to serve any gods or goddesses apart from their own, no matter whether they call them Hermes or Hekate, Baal or Baphomet, Lilith or Lucifer, idealism or materialism, ratio nalism or irrationalism, I or myself the list goes on. The magician, whether male or female, was always a psychonaut, a soul searcher, someone who wanted to peek behind the «Veil of Isis''; a person who could never rest until he or she discovered (or at least had a good idea about) ((what holds the world to gether deep down inside." Zoroaster was considered a magician, as were Moses, SaJomo, Milarepa, and even Jesus Christ. Raimundus Lullus belonged to this crowd of different thinkers and, more importantly, different doers. Jacques de Molay, Agrippa von Nettesheim, Theophrastus Bombastus Paracelsus, Doctor Faustus, Athanasius Kircher,
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Cagliostro, the Comte de Saint Germain ... .. the list could go on forever, packed full with truly historic figures, and an infinite number of mythical ones as well. Despite all the persecution by the church and government, this list never ends, not even in modern times, this so-called '