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The Grand Grimoire + other famous tomes


i thought some may be interested to know a basic outline of the grand grimoire and a few other of the more famous grimoires

generally grimoires are considered dark magic tomes which focus mainly on summonings and things of the sort such as necromancy. but this is a common mis-concpetion, a grimoire is just a magic tome with more dangerous things(which are often but not always darker).

The Grand Grimoire:
-this tome contains some of the darkest magic ever in existence. It does in fact contain a spell to summon the devil to make a pact with (which may account for the whole "I'll sell my soul for... cliche). It also contains a spell i find quite humourous for invisibility, basically involves boiling a live cat, pulling it apart, and testing each bone held between the molars untill the one causing invisibility is found.

The Lesser Key Of Solomon:
-AKA Lemegeton
--i refer specifically to one part of this book called "Ars Goetia" which gives specific instructions on how to summon the 72 higher demons of hell

Pseudomonarchia Daemonum:
-is a written account of a person who has summoned the demons within Ars Goetia

Black Pullet Grimoire:
-this book focuses on the creation of rings, amulets and talismans. and also contains the process of summoning a Djinn

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You seem quite knowledgable of this topic. How many other unholy tomes do you
know of?

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I think you should try Howard Philip Lovecraft's writings about such books like: Necronomicon, The Book of Eibon, Cultes des Goules, De Vermis Mysteriis or Unaussprechlichen Kulten. Information about those can be found at:

http://www.hplovecraft.com/creation/tomes.asp

enjoy.

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Naturum de Montum, or the Necronomicon Ex Mortis (Book of the Dead of the Dead...or Dead for Dummies.)

He asked us, "Be you angels?"
and we said, "NAY, we are but men," ROCK!

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Marvel comics has an analoge for Lovecraft`s Necronomicon, called the Darkhold, they have another tome called the book of the Vishanti used by Dr.Strange.

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Oh, and of course the most famous one: Clavicula Salomonis. That is the Key of Solomon, from which spun the lesser key.

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*Howard Philip Lovecraft's writings about such books like: Necronomicon, The Book of Eibon, Cultes des Goules, De Vermis Mysteriis or Unaussprechlichen Kulten.*

Weeeelll, these aren't real, though :)

Actually, the most notorious of all is the grimoire of Honorius.

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None of them are *real* -- Even the ones that were written are just collections of superstitious B.S. penned by primitive goat-fracking idiots who thought the sun and moon were gods.

Babble all you want about them, but they're all the same worthless collections of ceremonies designed to appease mythological beings (whether they're gods, daemons, or fey) and they all accomplish absolutely nothing.

The "real" ones are just as effective as the Lovecraftian tomes or the Marvel Comics varieties. You might as well try to summon up the ability to fly with a Better Crocker Cookbook as with one of those so-called grimoires.

The REALLY scary, effective grimoires are penned by people like Oppenheimer, Einstein, Tesla, Edison, Mengele, and Von Braun.

No dark user of "magic" has ever done anything so evil and devastating as the "magic" created by Oppenheimer and Einsten. No demon-summoner has ever summoned demons like Mengele. No evil wizard has ever decimated his country's enemies as effectively as Wernher Von Braun.

No witch has ever done as much for the world as Tesla and Edison.

Magic doesn't scare me when science is so very good at being so very tangible.

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I love your point, but magick is science, it's nature, it's the natural world, and witches, magicians, etc. are encouraged to study science as much as possible, maybe not pointless chemistry, physics, and calculus... which I aced in high school, so that makes me a super witch

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oh, and ugh, all those scientists did nothing but cause destruction and death in, this physical realm.

Magick is all about achieving enlightenment and other worlds, not inventing bombs that does nothing but effect this world, and pointless space trips to the moon.

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I didn't mean they are REAL in the sense that they "work" (although my opinions on this matter aren't really the point). I simply meant that most of the grimoires you see in movies are ficticious. On the other hand, the Key of Solomon for ex. is an historic document. Got it?

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I dare you to talk your crap about how fake Ceremonial Magick is after you've been placed in the triangle of art and had something from Malkuth invoked into you! FACT...

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*I dare you to talk your crap about how fake Ceremonial Magick is after you've been placed in the triangle of art and had something from Malkuth invoked into you! FACT...*

Excuse me... I am in FACT a magician myself, so obviously I didn't mean the grimoires do not work. I only tried to explain what I meant by "real" in my last post :) My opinion is they DO work, but that was beside the point. No one but me has really got anything to do with what I do in private.

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o wow there are people that really believe in this stuff? lol wild. You can 'invoke malzawhatsit' into me whenever you want pal lol

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No doubt, son. Reading this thread has made me about piss myself, it's so... I don't even know the proper word. Sad? Pathetic? No, no... those are not sufficient.

Y'all can invoke and chant and dance naked under the light of the moon while wearing a loincloth made from the foreskins of aborted fetuses all you want, but in the end, you're still going to end up looking like the world's biggest jag-off. I participated in some sort of Wiccan ritual with this really fine girl, and you know what? Nothing happened. Although I did end up plowing her after the fact, so... you make the call.

Also, before any of you decide you're going to hex me, or conjur some mean ol' demon to smite my happy ass, I'm beating you to the punch: Hippity hoppity, boil dem bones, ride dem brooms, no demons can harm me! ALAKAZAAM!

There. I just did an anti-jackass ritual for you.

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I have the most powerful tome EVER- The magic 8 ball


But too be fair I see the timmys have invaded with the "religion gonna take all yo monee".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TzcANOHiDo

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You seem quite knowledgable of this topic. How many other unholy tomes do you know of?

I suggest this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Going-Rogue-American-Sarah-Palin/dp/0061939897/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271296811&sr=8-1

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