The Book of Treasure Spirits is now available for order from Avalonia - and
includes conjurations of goetic spirits, old gods, demons and fairies which were
done to uncover hidden treasure and to force thieves to return stolen goods. It
even includes a conjuration said to have been done for King Edward IV, King of
England!

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THE BOOK OF TREASURE SPIRITS
A Grimoire of magical conjurations to reveal treasure and catch thieves by
invoking spirits, fallen angels, demons and fairies.

Introduction and Commentary by David Rankine
PB, £14.99, 186pp, ISBN 978-1-905297-27-6

Available from:
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Conjurations of Goetic spirits, old gods, demons and fairies are all part of a
rich heritage of the magical search for treasure trove. During the Middle Ages
and Renaissance the British Monarchy gave out licenses to people seeking
treasure in an effort to control such practices, and this is one reason why so
many grimoires are full of conjurations and charms to help the magician find
treasure.

Published here for the first time, from a long-ignored mid-seventeenth century
manuscript in the British Library (Sloane MS 3824), is the conjuration said to
have been performed at the request of King Edward IV, with other rites to reveal
treasure, to have treasure brought from the sea, and to cause thieves to bring
back stolen goods. Conjurations to call any type of spirit are also included,
recorded by the noted alchemist and collector Elias Ashmole, as is an extract on
conjuration practices from the Heptameron, transcribed into English for
practical use by a working group of magicians, before its first English
publication by Robert Turner in 1655.

These conjurations demonstrate the influence of earlier classic grimoires and
sources, with components drawn from the Goetia, the Heptameron, and Reginald
Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft. The material includes spirit contracts for the
fallen angels Agares and Vassago, and the demon Padiel, as well as techniques
like lead plates for binding, and summoning into a glass of water, which hark
back to the defixiones of Hellenistic Greece and the demonic magic of the
Biblical world.

This material forms part of a corpus of conjurations all written in the same
hand and style of evocation, linking Goetic spirits and treasure spirits with
the archangels and planetary intelligences (Sloane MS 3825), and demon kings and
Enochian hierarchies (Sloane MS 3821), making it a unique bridge of style and
content between what are often falsely seen as diverse threads of Renaissance
magic.

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