The Secret City: London's Hidden History of Magic, Mystery, and the Occult.

  Buy Now (Book Link) While the Knights Templar practised a high-minded, quasi-corporate form of magic, a different, more dangerous kind of sorcery was being practised in the shadows of medieval London. This was the world of the grimoire, the forbidden textbook of ceremonial magic, which offered its readers the ultimate prize: the power to summon and command spirits, angels, and demons. These were not books for the faint of heart. They were complex, dangerous, and often heretical, promising immense power but at the risk of eternal damnation. In the clandestine libraries and secret scriptoriums of London, these texts were copied, studied, and put into practice by a hidden network of magicians, scholars, and ambitious clerics. A Science of the Supernatural The Grimoire Tradition: A Science of the Supernatural The grimoire tradition was not a collection of superstitious folk remedies; it was a highly systematised and quasi-scientific approach to magic. These texts, with names like the...