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A Collection of Magical Secrets and a Treatise of Mixed Qabalah
Edited by Stephen Skinner & David Rankine
Translated from the original French by Paul Harry Barron

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Between the worlds of the Renaissance magician and the modern witch
lie the Books of Secrets. Bridging the complexity of Grimoires and the
practicality of folk magic, A Collection of Magical Secrets is a
treasure trove of simple charms made with easily available materials
for healing, love spells, good fortune, gaining familiar spirits,
making magical rings, regaining stolen property, and communicating
with spirits and angels. A wide range of sympathetic magic techniques
such as dreaming, poppets, using bread, herbs, mirrors and sieves, are
utilised to ensure the success of the charms.

A Treatise of Mixed Cabalah contains four parts, three of which fit
together to develop a greater knowledge of the practical Qabalah. This
includes a ritual sequence of prayers and actions for increasing
knowledge, practical instructions for the construction, consecration
and use of wax pentacles for absent healing, a technique for angelic
dream incubation and a system of divination with 112 possible answers.

The two parts of this book were previously bound together in a late
eighteenth century French manuscript, Wellcome Ms 4669, with The
Clavicule of Solomon and The Universal Treatise of the Keys of
Solomon. These are reproduced along with The Keys of Rabbi Solomon, in
the most significant grimoire publication of modern times, The
Veritable Key of Solomon by Stephen Skinner & David Rankine. The
inclusion in the beautifully copied manuscript of these two diverse
parts captures the essence of a time when books about magic were
starting to become more available to the masses. Despite their recent
production date of 1796, both of these parts draw on techniques with
their roots in the practices of the ancient world, reaffirming the
continuity of practice over the millennia also seen in the Key of Solomon.

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Publisher's Additional Notes:

Many of the simple charms in the first part, A Collection of Magical
Secrets, resemble the writings of Albertus Magnus and also the
nineteenth century French pseudo-grimoires of black magick, such as
the Grimoire of Pope Honorius III, the Red Dragon and Grimoirum Verum.
The charms referred to as coming from Agrippa include a wider range of
material. As well as many healing cantrips, there are a number of
examples of how to gain a familiar spirit, plus the inevitable charms
for winning in love and gambling. There are a large quantity of charms
for regaining stolen or lost property, showing a wide range of
sympathetic magick techniques such as dreaming, poppets, bread and
sieves. Amongst the material in the first part, is also a conjuration
of a Prince of the Thumb, an angel onto the olive oil-anointed
thumbnail of a virgin child or pregnant woman, along with associated
practices.

The first part of Concerning Miscellaneous Cabalah is a description of
the ten Sephiroth of the Tree of Life with their main qualities, i.e.
name, divine name, archangel, order of angels, heaven, as well as
which biblical character was ruled by the archangel. This is followed
by a ritual sequence of prayer and actions for maintaining purity and
leading a good life, performed over a series of days for increased
knowledge of Cabalah or other revelations from the angels.

The second part of Concerning Miscellaneous Cabalah is largely
concerned with practical instructions for the construction,
consecration and use of the seals. This is followed by sections on
Properties of the Verses and Scriptures, and Verses for Illnesses &
Infirmities.

The section on the properties of the Verses and Scriptures mirrors the
type of use of the Psalms described in Sefer Shimmush Tehillim,
although some of the uses are different. The third part of Concerning
Miscellaneous Cabalah is a technique for angelic dream incubation. The
prayers and seals are given for the planetary angels, with a very
concise and lucid set of instructions on their use. The fourth part of
Concerning Miscellaneous Cabalah is a system of divination based on
112 answers.

The material was originally bound with the material which was used by
Stephen Skinner and David Rankine in their groundbreaking work "The
Veritable Key of Solomon" (Golden Hoard & Llewellyn 2008), which is
the first new Key of Solomon grimoire material to be published in more
than a hundred years since the compilation by MacGregor Mathers, one
of the founding fathers of the Golden Dawn, was first published 1889.
It is likely to appeal to both scholars of the Key of Solomon and the
grimoire traditions, as well as those interested in Qabalah and a
range of other subjects of interest to practitioners of the western
esoteric traditions of magic.

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