Francis Barrett's The Magus is commonly held to be one of the rarest and most complete books on the occult sciences. It is famous also for its demon portraits. It is offered here in it's entirety.
The complete title is as follows:
THE MAGUS, OR CELESTIAL INTELLIGENCER; BEING A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY. IN THREE BOOKS; Containing the Antient and Modern Practice of the Cabaliftic Art, Natural and Celeftial Magic, &c.; fhewing the wonderful Effects that may be performed by a Knowledge of the Celestial Influences, the occult Properties of Metals, Herbs, and Stones, AND THE APPLICATION OF ACTIVE TO PASSIVE PRINCIPLES. EXHIBITING THE SCIENCES OF NATURAL MAGIC; Alchymy, or Hermetic Philosophy; ALSO THE NATURE CREATION, AND FALL OF MAN; His natural and fupernatural Gifts; the magical Power inherent in the Soul, &c.; with a great Variety of rare Experiments in Natural Magic: THE CONSTELLATORY PRACTICE, or TALISMANIC MAGIC; The Nature of the Elements. Stars, Planets, Signs, &c.; the Conftruction and Compofition of all Sorts of Magic Seals, Images, Rings, Glaffes, &c.; The Virtue and Efficacy of Numbers, Characters, and Figures, of good and evil Spirits. MAGNETISM, AND CABALISTICAL OR CEREMONIAL MAGIC; In which, the fecret Myfteries of the Cabala are explained; the Operations of good and evil Spirits; all Kinds of Cabaliftic Figures, Tables, Seals, and Names, with their Ufe, &c. THE TIMES, BONDS, OFFICES, AND CONJURATION OF SPIRITS. TO WHICH IS ADDED Biographia Antiqua, or the Lives of the most eminent Philosophers, Magi, &c.
The Whole illustrated with a great Variety of CURIOUS ENGRAVINGS, MAGICAL AND CABALISTICAL FIGURES, &c. BY FRANCIS BARRETT, F.R.C. Professor of Chemistry, natural and occult Philosophy, the Cabala, &c., &c. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LACKINGTON, ALLEY, AND CO., TEMPLE OF THE MUSES, FINSBURY SQUARE. 1801.
The Complete Table of Contents is as follows:
Introduction
Of the Influences of the Stars
The Use and Abuse of Astrology, &c.
An Oration to God
Of Natural Magic in general
The First Principles of Natural Magic
BOOK I.--PART I. CHAP. I. Natural Magic defined; of Man; his Creation, Divine Image, and Fall; and of the spiritual and magical Virtue of the Soul
CHAP. II. Of the Wonders of Natural Magic, displayed in a Variety of sympathetic and occult Operations, in Animals, Minerals, and Vegetables, treated of miscellaneously
Of the Serpent
CHAP. III. Of Amulets, Charms, and Enchantments; an Amulet for the Flux of Blood
CHAP. IV. Of Unctions, Philters, Potions, &c.
Their magical Virtue
CHAP. V. Of Magical Suspensions and Alligations; shewing by what power they are efficacious in Natural Magic
CHAP. VI. Of Antipathies
CHAP. VII. Of the occult Virtues of Things which are inherent in them only in their Lives, and such as remain in them after Death
CHAP. VIII. Of the wonderful Virtues of some Kinds of precious Stones
CHAP. IX Of the Mixtures of Natural Things one with another, and the Production of Monsters
CHAP. X. Of the Art of Fascination, Binding, Sorceries, Magical Confections, Lights, Candles, Lamps, &c. being the conclusion of Natural Magic
ALCHYMY.
The Secret of the Philosophers' Stone
Epistle to Museus
Epistle to the Reader
Of Alchymy, and its Divine Origin
Discovered to Man by Uriel
Zoroaster made Gold from the Seven Metals
Zoroaster was the Father of Alchymists
The Authors who have wrote upon it
The comparison of Alchymists
What an Adept is
Van Helmont's Account of Alchymy
Kircher's Account of Alchymists
The Description of the Philosophers' Stone
Account of a real Transmutation
Account of Flammel, the Alchymist
History of Butler's Universal Medicine
What is not universally understood generally referred to the Black Art
Of the Preparation necessary to qualify a Man for the Search of the Philosophers' Stone
Of the Prima Materia
Ten Lessons, teaching the Transmutation of base Metals into Gold
Lesson XI. XII. XIII. and XIV. teaching the Manner of extracting the Prima Materia of the Lapis Philosophorum; and the Use it is of in purifying imperfect Metals, to Change them into good Gold
PART II.
CHAP I. Of the Four Elements, and their Natural Qualities
CHAP. II. Of the Properties and wonderful Nature of Fire and Earth
CHAP. III. Of the Water and Air
CHAP. IV. Of compound or mixed Bodies; in what Manner they relate to the Elements; and how the Elements correspond to the Souls, Senses, and Dispositions of Men
CHAP. V. That the Elements are in Stars, Devils, Angels, Intelligences, and in God himself
CHAP. VI. That the Wisdom of God works by second Causes is proved beyond Dispute in this Chapter
CHAP. VII. Of the Spirit of the World
CHAP. VIII. Of the Seals and Characters impressed by Celestials upon Natural Things
CHAP. IX. Of the Virtue and Efficacy of Perfumes; and to what Planets they are attributed
CHAP. X. Of the Composition of Perfumes attributed to the Planets
General Fumes of the Planets
CHAP. XI. Of the magical Virtue of Rings
CHAP. XII. That the Passions of the Mind are assisted by Celestials; and how necessary the constancy of the Mind is in every Work
CHAP. XIII. How a Man's Mind may be joined with the Celestial Spirits and Intelligences, and with them impress wonderful Virtues upon inferior Things
CHAP. XIV. Shewing the Necessity of Mathematical Knowledge; and of the great Power and Efficacy of Numbers in the Construction of Talismans, &c.
CHAP. XV. The great Virtues of Numbers, as well in natural as super-natural Things
CHAP. XVI. Of the Scales of Numbers; the Scale of Unity
CHAP. XVII. Of the Number Two, and the Scale
CHAP. XVIII. Of the Number Three, and the Scale
CHAP. XIX. Of the Number Four, and the Scale
CHAP. XX. Of the Number Five, and the Scale
CHAP. XXI. Of the Number Six, and the Scale
CHAP. XXII. Of the Number Seven, and the Scale
CHAP. XXIII. Of the Number Eight, and the Scale
CHAP. XXIV. Of the Number Nine, and the Scale
CHAP. XXV. Of the Number Ten, and the two Scales
CHAP. XXVI. Of the Numbers Eleven and Twelve, with the Scale of the Number Twelve
CHAP. XXVII. Of the Notes of the Hebrews and Chaldeans, and other Characters used by Magicians
CHAP. XXVIII. The magical Tables of the Planets, their Form and Virtue; with the Divine Names, Intelligences, and Spirits that are set over them
CHAP. XXIX. Of the Observation of the Celestials necessary in all magical Works
CHAP. XXX When the Planets are most powerful
CHAP. XXXI. Observations oil the fixed Stars, with their Names and Nature
CHAP. XXXII. Of the Sun and Moon, and their magical Considerations
CHAP. XXXIII. Of the Twenty-eight Mansions of the Moon, and their Virtues
CHAP. XXXIV. That some artificial Things, as Images, Seals, and the like, may derive Virtue from the Celestial Bodies
CHAP. XXXV. Of the Images of the Zodiac; what Virtues, being engraven, they receive from the Stars
CHAP. XXXVI. Of the Images of the Seven Planets; Images of Saturn
CHAP. XXXVII. Of the Images of Jupiter
CHAP. XXXVIII. Images of Mars
CHAP. XXXIX. Images of the Sun
CHAP. XL. Images of Venus
CHAP. XLI. Images of Mercury
CHAP. XLII. Images of the Moon
CHAP. XLIII. Images of the Dragon's Head and Dragon's Tail
CHAP. XLIV. Images of the Twenty-eight Mansions of the Moon
CHAP. XLV. That human Imprecations naturally impress their Powers upon external Things; and how Man's Mind, through a Degree of Dependencies, ascends into the Intelligible World, and becomes like the more sublime Spirits and Intelligences
CHAP. XLVI. The Conclusion of Talismanic Magic; in which is included the Key of all that has been written upon the Subject; shewing the Practice of Images, and the Composition of Talismans, by way of Example; and, likewise, the necessary Observations of the Celestials requisite for the Perfection of all Talismanic Operations
BOOK II.--PART I.
MAGNETISM
CHAP. I. Of the Magnetic or Attractive Faculty
CHAP. II. Of Sympathetic Medicines
CHAP. III. Of the Magnetic or Sympathetic Unguent; the Power of Sympathy, Armary, Unguent; and curing of Wounds, Ecstasies, Witchcraft, Mummies, &c.
CHAP. IV. Of the Weapon Salve
CHAP. V. Of the Imaginative Power, and the Magnetism of the Natural Spirits, Mummial Attraction, Sympathies of Astral Spirits, and their Bodies, upon which is founded the whole Art of Necromancy
CHAP. VI. Of Witchcraft in particular
CHAP. VII. Of the Vital Spirit
CHAP. VIII. Of the Magical Power, &c.
CHAP. IX. Of exciting or stirring up the Magical Virtue
CHAP. X. Of the Magical Virtue of the Soul, and the Medium it Acts by
The End of the Magnetism
CABALISTICAL MAGIC.
CHAP. I. Of the Cabala, &c
CHAP. II. What Dignity and Preparation is necessary to Him who would become a true Magician
CHAP. III. That the Knowledge of the true God is necessary for a Magician
CHAP. IV. Of Divine Emanations, and Ten Sephiroths, and Ten most sacred Names of God which rule them, and their Interpretation
CHAP. V. Of the Power and Virtue of the Divine Names
CHAP. VI. Of Intelligences and Spirits; and of the threefold Kinds of them, and their different Names; and of Infernal and Subterraneous Spirits
CHAP. VII. Of the Order of Evil Spirits; their Fall, and different Natures
CHAP. VIII. The Annoyance of Evil Spirits, and the Preservation we have from Good Spirits
CHAP. IX. That there is a threefold Keeper of Man; and from whence each proceeds
CHAP. X. Of the Tongues of Angels, and their speaking amongst themselves, and with us
CHAP. XI. Of the Names of Spirits, and their various Imposition; and of the Spirits that are set over the Stars, Signs, Corners of the Heavens, and the Elements
CHAP. XII. How the Cabalists draw forth the Names of Angels from Sacred Writ; and of the Seventy-two Angels that bear the Names of God; with the Tables of Ziruph, and the Commutations of Names and Numbers
CHAP. XIII. Of finding out the Names of Spirits and Genii, from the Disposition of the Celestial Bodies
CHAP. XIV. Of the calculating Art of such Names, by the Tradition of the Cabalists
CHAP. XV. Of the Characters and Seals of Spirits
CHAP.XVI. of Cabalists
CHAP. XVII. There is another Sort of Characters, of Spirits received by Revelation
CHAP. XVIII. Of the Bonds of Spirits, and their Adjurations and casting out
CHAP. XIX. By what Methods Magicians and Necromancers call up the Souls of the Dead
CHAP. XX. Of Prophetic Dreams
PART II.
The Perfection and Key of the Cabala, or Ceremonial Magic
The Calculations of the Names of Good and Evil Spirits
Of Magic Pentacles, the Manner of constructing them
A Pentacle for Victory over Enemies
............... against Serpents, Poisons, &c.
Deprecations
The Consecration of all Magical Instruments and Materials used in this Art
Consecration of Water
Consecration of Fire
Consecration of Oil
Consecration and Benediction of Lights
Lamps, Wax, &c
Consecration of Ground, Circle, Place, &c.
Of the Invocation of Spirits; the binding of, and constraining them to appear
Description and Use of a Book of Virgin Parchment, or abortive Vellum, in which the Names of Spirits are registered
Consecration of the aforesaid Book
Invocation of good Spirits in particular
The Invocation Prayer
The particular Form of Lamens
Of receiving Oracles in Dreams
Of the Methods of raising Evil Spirits, or Familiars, or the Souls of the Dead, by a Circle
The Suffumigations used in raising Ghosts, Shadows, and departed Spirits; and what Places are appropriate to this
PART III.
The particular Composition of the Magic Circle and of the Forms of the Exorcisms, Benedictions, p. xviii and Conjurations, for every Day and Hour in the Week; and the Manner of working fully described
A Table of the Magical Names of the Hours, by Day or Night
Angels of the Seasons, &c.
Exorcism of Fire
The Habit of the Exorcist
The Pentacles of Solomon
An Exorcism of the Spirits of the Air
A Prayer to be said in the Four Parts of the Circle
An Oration
Of the Appearance of the Spirits
Considerations and Conjurations for every Day in the Week
The Consideration and Conjuration for Sunday
The Conjuration, &c., of Monday
The Conjuration, &c., of Tuesday
The Conjuration, &c., of Wednesday
The Conjuration, &c., of Thursday
The Conjuration, &c., of Friday
The Conjuration, &c., of Saturday
PART IV.
Translation of Trithemius; the Translator's Letter
The Conjurations of Spirits into a Crystal; the Description of this Instrument; and the Form and Ceremony of a Vision
Table for the Inspection of Names of Spirits governing the Planetary Hours by Day and Night
The End of the Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer
THE BIOGRAPHY.
Zoroaster, the Son of Oramasus
Hermes, surnamed Trismegistus
Apollonius, of Tyana
Peter De Abano
Apuleius, the Platonic
Aristotle
Artimedorus, of Ephesus
The Babylonians
Henry Cornelius Agrippa
Albertus Magnus
Roger (alias Friar) Bacon
Raymond Lully
George Ripley
John and Isaac Holland
Theophrastus Paracelsus
John Rudolph Glauber
Doctor Dee, and Sir Edward Kelly
The Conclusion .
The book is printed on 24lb. parchment paper and bound with metal chicago screws. It measures approx. 8.5" x 11" and is decorated with all the original engravings and illustrations.
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