Difference between revisions of "Liber Officiorum Spirituum"

The most detailed version is a direct, but poor, translation from English to Latin. This version was either copied or translated by Englishman John Porter in 1583 and was owned by artist Richard Cosway. Upon his death in the 1820s, it passed hands to a bookshop owned by John Denley, bought by an [[occultist]] named George W. Graham on behalf of a [[ritual magic|magical]] organization known as "the Society of the Mercurii." In the hands of the Mercurii, it came into the possession of Robert Cross Smith in 1822, who had John Palmer copy it. With Smith's death in 1832, the copy was passed on to Frederick Hockley. At some later date, Hockley acquired the first half of Porter's original manuscript, and attempted to compile both Porter's and Palmer's versions into a single version.

The next to last entry, "[[Oberion]]," shifts the focus from demons to fairies. After the eighty-one demons, the book details Mycob (wife of Oberion) and their seven daughters. It then repeats the four kings of the air, listing twelve demons under each of them. After this, it begins describing the spirits of the days of the week and the incenses and conjurations needed to summon them, lifting material from ''[[Grimoire of Pope Honorius|The Sworn Book of Honorius]]'' and [[Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa]]'s ''[[Three Books of Occult Philosophy]]''. It follows with a list of Greek and Roman gods, a note about which spirits rule [[Hell]], and an entry to summon spirits "that make books and write books," before giving instructions on how to summon the angel over each day of the week, including instructions for magic circles, consecrations, use of [[holy water]] and [[exorcist|exorcisms]] of fire. This portion uses elements of scripture, Sarum Missal, the Key of Solomon, Arbatel, Honorius, Agrippa, Raziel, and what would become the Tridentine Mass. It also shares some prayers found in the ''[[Munich Manual of Demonic Magic]]''.