L’Art Magique
An early French witness to the Verum tradition
AN OCCULT HALL ILLUSTRATIONEnter its world.
L’Art Magique is MS.983, catalogued as circa 1709 with uncertainty. Its handwritten date MCCCIX may be an error for 1709; it is not reliable evidence for a medieval origin. The broad title’s famous names do not identify a single historical author.
This is a composite witness: the opening pseudo-Solomonic grimoire is followed by magical elements attributed to Peter of Abano and an Onimancie concerning Uriel. Our thirteen lessons concentrate on the opening Verum-related material. The full reader includes all three surviving sections; it is not a facsimile of the later 1817 printed Grimorium Verum.
The reader includes 149 scans from the available digitization. A standalone modern cover sheet and a duplicate back-cover photograph are omitted, and the opening library mark is masked. The historical text and drawings remain; some blank leaves were not photographed in the available scan sequence.
- 149 reading scans from the available MS.983 digitization
- Thirteen lessons on the early Verum-related material
- Individual illustrations, source pages and explanatory diagrams
- The full composite volume includes Abano and Uriel material
Thirteen hidden doors
One free introduction · 12 member lessons
Why this number?
13 lessons form our expanded editorial path through this collection. The course count is a modern study arrangement, not the number of chapters, beings or stages stated by the historical authors.
Your way through.
Follow the teachings step by step, work through concrete examples, and connect each explanation with its cited passage.
Three doors into one art
Explain the opening three-part program and how characters, promised effects and conditions of access depend on one another.
12 min · Free introduction
The sign and the promise
Distinguish identity, material form and obligation in the manuscript’s account of a personal character and a pact.
12 min · Member lesson
Ranks above, borrowed forms below
Distinguish rank, delegated authority and visible form in the account of Lucifer, Beelzebub and Astaroth.
12 min · Member lesson
The rulers do not work alone
Trace the named dukes beneath the three rulers and distinguish a superior relationship from an assigned office or identifying character.
14 min · Member lesson
Eighteen offices for an imagined world
Explain how the eighteen entries divide imagined powers among resources, natural events, movement, perception, and coercion while preserving the witness's inconsistent ordering.
15 min · Member lesson
The spirits who promise to teach
Compare the kinds of expertise attributed to Heramael, Trimael, Sustugriel, and Hael and distinguish promised teaching from a demonstrated body of knowledge.
15 min · Member lesson
The messenger before the visitor
Distinguish the human identifier, Scirlin’s mediating role and the spirit addressed in the following conjurations.
14 min · Member lesson
An encounter has an ending
Distinguish the functions of invocation, the stated purpose of attendance and dismissal in this manuscript’s account of an encounter.
14 min · Member lesson
Each material has a different task
Distinguish the material functions of the implements from the prayers that assign them a ritual capacity.
14 min · Member lesson
Wealth is a relationship
Explain why Claunech’s promise combines hidden resources, personal agreement, and a superior’s favor.
10 min · Member lesson
A spectacle is not a changed world
Distinguish displayed marvels, altered day and night, and extraordinary movement in the manuscript’s catalogue.
10 min · Member lesson
Winds, waters, and built places
Explain how the catalogue separates atmospheric power, the sea, and the stability of human settlements.
10 min · Member lesson
Three routes to knowing
Distinguish possessing books, understanding languages, and obtaining political intelligence in the manuscript.
10 min · Member lessonThe source beside you.
Members can explore the complete edition. Begin with the free introduction and its selected source pages.
The complete book awaits.
L’Art Magique
The complete historical editions and page-turning readers belong to the member library. Free introductions include the source excerpts used in their teaching.
Books & dates
L’Art Magique · complete available manuscript facsimileL’Art Magique · c. 1709?
Guided readings and teaching diagrams are original Occult Hall commentary. Imagined scenes are modern illustrations, separate from the historical source pages.
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