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[[Occultist]] and author [[Éliphas Lévi]] wrote extensively about the grimoire in his book ''La Clef Des Grands Mysteres'' (''The Grand Mysteries''). He proposed that the book was ascribed to Honorius II as a manual for controlling spirits. | [[Occultist]] and author [[Éliphas Lévi]] wrote extensively about the grimoire in his book ''La Clef Des Grands Mysteres'' (''The Grand Mysteries''). He proposed that the book was ascribed to Honorius II as a manual for controlling spirits. | ||
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"It was the manual of the bad priests who practised Black Magic during the darkest periods of the middle ages. You will find there bloody rites, mingled with profanations of the Mass and of the consecrated elements, formulae of bewitchment and malevolent spells, and practices which stupidity alone could credit or knavery counsel ... A man capable of evoking the | "It was the manual of the bad priests who practised [[Black Magic]] during the darkest periods of the middle ages. You will find there bloody rites, mingled with profanations of the Mass and of the consecrated elements, formulae of bewitchment and malevolent spells, and practices which stupidity alone could credit or knavery counsel ... A man capable of evoking [[the Devil]], according to the rites of the "grimoire" of Honorius, has gone so far upon the road of evil that he is disposed to all kinds of hallucinations, and all lies." | ||
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