/r/Grimoires
Welcome to /r/Grimoires! A community for the discussion, study and application of grimoires and spell books.
By the most basic definition a grimoire is a spell book, or text book of magic and/or the occult. The word grimoire comes from French, and developed sometime around the mid to late 1700's. For the purposes of this sub a grimoire is any instructional or informational text concerning magic, witchcraft, occultism or mystery religions, magical objects, magical creatures or entities, the performance or creation of rituals, devotions, spells, charms and/or curses.
Though the term grimoire was popularized during the 18th century, texts which may carry that label date back to ancient times, and include some of the first pieces of literature, going back to Egypt and Mesopotamia. Grimoires are often associated with Occult, Paganism and Witchcraft, but there are grimoires from many cultures, both Modern, Classic and Ancient, Western and Eastern, New World and Old World, Christian and Secular (and all are welcome here).
Discussions, insights, questions about the grimoires you are reading are always welcome.
Information about creating grimoires. Videos, blogs and articles about calligraphy, illumination, book binding.
You are also welcome to share you personal Grimoire, Book of Shadows, Book of Mirrors (etc.).
Resources are always welcome, occult reading lists, links to .pdf copies of known grimoires etc.
...Keep in mind that this is a new sub, so we are relativity relaxed while we find our niche, so feel free to contribute anything that you think might be to be relevant to r/grimoires.
The Hermetically Open Project – in 2016 Dan Brown (author of The Da Vinci Code) made a sizable donation to the Ritman Library to have 4,600 occultist texts and Grimoires digitized and made publicly available. In early 2018 this collection started becoming available through the Ritman Library's portal Embassy of the Free Mind.
Sacred Texts is an internet archive of religious, and spiritual texts, the bulk of which are in the public domain. It is a great place to go for modern translations and the more well known or wildly published grimoires.
The Cornell University Witchcraft Collection Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections has a collection of over 3'000 texts and manuscripts on witchcraft, open to the public. Over 100 of which is available through digital download.
Other subreddits:
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Examples: This PDF lists a ton of awesome and beautiful magic books, grimoires, runic alphabets, ciphers, etc. online at the Icelandic university.
https://skemman.is/bitstream/1946/28823/8/MA%20Thesis%20-CryptographicCorpusFINALJason%20%281%29.pdf
Example of one such tome: https://handrit.is/manuscript/view/is/JS08-0395/401?iabr=on#page/180v/mode/2up
Another: https://handrit.is/manuscript/view/is/Lbs04-2334/403?iabr=on#page/200v/mode/2up
I'm familiar with The Magus. I know of Kirchner's magic alphabets, etc.
Reason?
I am studying a specific document from the early 1830's New England/New York that is written in borrowed characters and symbols but not one source. It appears to be one character from one alphabet and one from another, etc. which leads me to believe there was most likely a family grimoire or magic book (like the one linked above) that was copied from a copy, etc.
I'm just not as adept and finding these online collections (chanced upon the Icelandic ones above) and so any assistance one may provide would be helpful.
I know it's possible the NYPL has some as well as various universities both in the US and Canada, etc. but as I said, I'm looking for any guidance.
I don't understand the symbolism, particularly of the meaning of 2 and a half coils of the snake.
It was folded and it's a copper sheet.
I am looking to get into medieval Christian theurgy but don't quite know where to start as finding information about the practice has been difficult. Does anyone know of any medieval European grimoires that I could work with?
The book has a ring embedded with red liquid and a stone like thing with the a red liquid as well. How much to you think i can sell it for and where?
Hi everyone.
Im a novice here, I want to start studying this kind of books about magic which mixes Christianity and Witchcraft. I have come across both this books, now I have only readed the Ciprianillo, but i would like to know how similar it is to the grimoire of Pope Honorious. How do these books compare one another, what are the differences, etc etc, and how to approach the study of these grimoires
Hello I want to start using spells and grimoires now in my life and have always been very interested in spells. Can anyone point me in right direction of a good grimoire or chat to me on messenger about getting into this x
I would like some grimoires with practical spells I could use in the mordern day and age and preferbly the grimoire should have a wide variety of spells and unlike some grimoires which base their spells upon one thing for example the book pure magic while not all it did base majority of its spells around the poppet.
I am new to magic and want to know if the encyclopedia of 5000 spell's spells actually work or is just to learn the basics
I’m looking to begin studying magic in general, any tips on common books I would be able to acquire to learning the basics of it all?
Do you start where you left off in your finished Grimoire (even if it’s literally in the middle of a subject) or do you start a new one but copy over some of the informtion from your finished book? I am trying to figure out if I should just start a new book where I left off in the old or if I should copy over info from the old so that it “flows”. Thank you for the advice.
Hello all! I am in the middle of searching for an extremely powerful Grimoire. I need it to bring about very very strong things. I figured there was no better place than here! Very important, thank you all!! Any kind works but I am hoping to communicate with beings and deal with them. Thank you all.
If you like a bit of a deep dive into grimoire history, you may like this. I talk about b bibliotheque bleue grimoires as well as the history of The Discoverie of Witchcraft, Lesser Key of Solomon and on into the 20th century.
Hi all.
So I head of “Book of Mirrors” for the first time and I cannot seem to find much information about the subject or examples. Can someone please explain how a “Book of mirrors” works and some picture examples if you have one and don’t mind sharing for someone just learning about it? Thanks so much.
Hey guys, I have just released a video where I go over many old occult books. There will be a part 2 to this so I hope you guys enjoy!
The great liberator
Hi,
I have my eye on a couple of amazing looking journals to be my Grimoire for a collection of my work and research to be put in, a passion project as I want to make it look really good with calligraphy and drawings.
Anyhow,
I really like the idea (still an idea mind) to use a script, I know it won't be Theban, mainly as it's very well known. But I have others I am contemplating.
(I say it's an idea in mind because as much as I love the idea of the Grimoire being fully in scripts, main, one for spells, runes, and alchemy symbols [I said it was a passion project XD but I also recognise it's going to take time, esp. not to make errors, I understand that no matter how well I memorise, it could take me time to translate what I wrote, reducing the efficiency.)
So to the actual point (professional rambler), I love the ones I've found, but I actually am interested in having at least one that's cursive friendly. Like the Theban alphabet I've failed to join them up, and I get it, practically, they look more like runes/ sigils, but does anyone know of alphabets that can be learnt to be cursive with examples, or how to potentially learn to make any cipher alphabet script to be cursive with a how-to guide & tips? I'd like to continue practicing before I can finally afford my Grimoire, to help be a step ahead skills wise.
I tend to generally write far more with cursive and it feels far more fluid and natural than just putting down each symbol without any linking, and for me it just looks really pleasing, and helps me get in the zone when I'm writing my notes. It feels faster to use cursive too, than writing letters out individually.
Thank you for reading (what surely could have been written more concisely.) ✨