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post Sep 15 2006, 01:27 AM
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I've read many posts about grimoires, especially the Necronomicon, but what about the Grand Grimoire? I've read that its a very effective grimoire and even found a hard leather copy of this book listed at $2,000+. So what's the deal with this book? No one's even posted about it so here it is. I have a downloaded version of the book, though i dont trust the full information, its said to be something similar to the Necronomicon. Any one own a copy? any ideas of what this book is primarly about?

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post Sep 16 2006, 09:16 AM
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QUOTE(DeathStalker @ Sep 15 2006, 09:27 AM) *
I've read many posts about grimoires, especially the Necronomicon, but what about the Grand Grimoire? I've read that its a very effective grimoire and even found a hard leather copy of this book listed at $2,000+. So what's the deal with this book? No one's even posted about it so here it is. I have a downloaded version of the book, though i dont trust the full information, its said to be something similar to the Necronomicon. Any one own a copy? any ideas of what this book is primarly about?


First of all, just because a book is labeled Grimorie dosn't mean it's worth much. Few books are truely worthy of this label.


The Grand Grimoire explains a system for entering into a pact with three Infernal Spirits, Lucifer, Ashtaroth & Beelzebuth, through the authority of the Prime Minister of Hell, Lucifuge Rofocale. In this, the demonology of the Grand Grimoire is unique; while some of the chief spirits are identical to those in Grimoirium Verum, and others to Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis vel Regis, the Grand Grimoire stands alone in the literature of demonology with its central figure, Lucifuge Rofocale. The name 'Rofocale' appears to be an anagram for 'Focalor' of the Lemegeton, according to Elizabeth Butler in her Ritual Magic (1949) who goes on to tell us that "by introducing the name of Lucifuge the author has done a service to demonology for which it should be grateful." In his monumental work Of Black Magic & Of Pacts (1898), Arthur E. Waite states that the Grand Grimoire "must be regarded as the veritable Magnum Opus" and he goes on to say that that Eliphas Levi later adopted the personage of Lucifuge in his works.





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