Ritual Magic

E. M. Butler, a scholar of German literature, surveys the history of ritual magic through its texts, from ancient sources and Solomonic grimoires to the Faust tradition and nineteenth-century writers such as Eliphas Lévi. Written with literary insight and some skepticism, the book examines the structure and aims of magical rituals. Published in 1949, it was one of the first academic studies of the grimoire tradition and remains readable and informative.