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 The book is an attempt to document various famous grimoires, explain the history behind them (refuting many of the legends surrounding them), discuss the theology contained therein (e.g. raising the question why good [[angel]]s would be summoned to kill an enemy), and to synthesize many famous grimoires into one system.
-Waite delves extensively into the [[Goetic demon]]s, explaining their nature and how to work with them, including numerous rituals for summoning them and other [[demon]]s, such as [[Lucifuge Rofocale]].
+Waite delves extensively into the [[Olympic spirit]]s and [[Goetic demon]]s, explaining their nature and how to work with them, including numerous rituals for summoning them and other [[demon]]s.
 Waite also hints at the existence of the [[Ascended Masters]].
+===Rituals===
+As a traditional grimoire, this book contains many rituals which were collected by Waite from older books.
+* [[Ritual to Attract a Lover]]
+* [[Spirit's Chain]]
+* Invocation for [[Archangel Uriel]]
+* Rite of [[Lucifuge Rofocale]]
+==Sources==
+Waite utilized material from a large number of popular books from the European tradition of magical grimoires:
+* ''[[Grimoire of Armadel]]''
+* ''[[Grimoire of Pope Honorius]]''
+* ''[[The Grand Grimoire]]''
+* ''[[Lesser Key of Solomon]]''
+* ''[[Key of Solomon]]''
+* ''[[Pseudomonarchia Daemonum]]''
+* ''[[Heptameron]]''
+* ''[[Book of Abramelin]]''
+* ''[[Three Books of Occult Philosophy]]''
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