The Grimoire of St. Cyprian

by Skinner, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780738723488
• ISBN10: 0738723487
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-08
• Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd

Summary

There have been many grimoires attributed to St. Cyprian of Antioch due to his reputation as a consummate magician before his conversion to Christianity, but perhaps none so intriguing as the present manuscript.This unique grimoire addresses the summoning and use of the four Archangels, Michael, Raphael, Gabriel and Uriel as well as their opposite numbers, the four Demon Kings, Paymon, Maimon, Egyn and Oriens. The latter are shown in their animal and human forms along with their sigils, a resource unique amongst grimoires. The text is a mixture of magical scripts, Greek, Hebrew, cipher, Latin, (and reversed Latin) made plain by the editors.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 7
Contents	p. 9
List of Figures	p. 11
Introduction
Saint Cyprian	p. 13
The Iberian Book of Saint Cyprian	p. 15
The Scandinavian Black Books of Wittenberg	p. 16
The Heptameron	p. 19
Metatron	p. 19
The Four Demon Kings	p. 21
Dating the Manuscript	p. 25
Cryptography	p. 25
Provenance	p. 27
The Manuscript	p. 27
Key to the Symbols	p. 28
The Clavis Inferni	p. 33
Appendices
Table of Magical Scripts	p. 83
The Cyprian Alphabet	p. 84
Other grimoire citations of St Cyprian	p. 85
The Seven Candlesticks of Revelation by Albrecht Dürer	p. 86
Bibliography	p. 89
Index	p. 95
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