Introduction to Magic: Rituals officiel and Practical Techniques for the Magus NEUF

For the first time in English, this classic Italian text collects the rites, practices, and esoteric knowledge of the powerful and mysterious UR Group for the use of aspiring mages. Included here are instructions for creating an etheric double, speaking words of power, and interacting with entities, as well as translations of such arcane texts as the Tibetan Thunderbolt Diamond Path, the Mithraic cults "Grand Papyrus of Paris," and the Greco-Egyptian "De Mysteriis."

Julius Evola (1898-1974) was one of the foremost authorities on the worlds esoteric traditions. He is the author of The Hermetic Tradition, The Yoga of Power, Revolt Against the Modern World, Eros and the Mysteries of Love, The Doctrine of Awakening, Mystery of the Grail Meditations on the Peaks, and Men Among the Ruins.

Introduction to Magic

Rituals and Practical Techniques for the Magus



Editors Note

Preface

Introduction

Part I

Pietro Negri * Sub Specie Interioritatis

Leo * Barriers

Abraxas * Knowledge of the Waters

Luce * Opus Magicum: Concentration and Silence

Ea * The Nature of Initiatic Knowledge

Part II

The Path of Awakening According to Gustav Meyrink

Luce * Opus Magicum: Fire

Abraxas * Three Ways

Leo * Attitudes

Commentaries on the Opus Magicum

Part III

Leo * First Steps Toward the Experience of the "Subtle Body"

Knowledge as Liberation

Abraxas * The Hermetic Caduceus and the Mirror

Luce * Opus Magicum: The "Words of Power" and the Characters of Beings

Pietro Negri * Knowledge of the Symbol

Part IV

Apathanatismos: Mithraic Ritual of the Great Magical Papyrus of Paris

Part V

Summary

Abraxas * Instructions for the "Awareness of Breath"

Oso * Notes on the Logos

Arom * First Experiences

Ea * The Problem of Immortality

Part VI

Leo * Beyond the Threshold of Sleep

Ea * On the Magical View of Life

Abraxas * The Second Preparation of the Hermetic Caduceus

Iagla * Experiences: the Law of Beings

The Path of Realization According to Buddha

Various Commentaries

Part VII

Luce * Instructions for Ceremonial Magic

Ea * The Doctrine of the "Immortal Body"

De Pharmaco Catholico

Part VIII

Abraxas * Magical Operations with "Two Vessels"--Reduplication

Tibetan Initiatic Teachings: The "Void" and the "Diamond-Thunderbolt"

Arvo * On the Counter-Initiation

Luce * Opus Magicum: Perfumes

Part IX

Arvo * Conscious Thought--Relaxation--Silence

Ea * Considerations on Magic and Its Powers

Abraxas * Magic of the Image

Pietro Negri * An Italian Alchemical Text on Lead Tablets

Part X

Luce * Opus Magicum: Chains

Leo * The Attitude Toward Initiatic Teaching

Ea * Freedom, Precognition, and the Relativity of Time

Commentary on the Opus Magicum

Part XI

Iagla * Serpentine Wisdom

Luce * Invocations

Excerpts from De Mysteriis

The Message of the Polar Star

Sirius * Mist and Symbols

Ea * On the General Doctrine of Mantras

Part XII

Alba * De Naturae Sensu

Leo * Aphorisms

Pietro Negri * Adventures and Misadventures in Magic

Various Commentaries