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Adjuration

           

   

Original Artwork © John Jude Palencar            
from the Time-Life book 'Wizards and Witches.'           

 
 		  


An urgent demand or command made upon another to do something, or to abstain from doing something, rendered more solemn and more appealing by coupling with it the name of God or of some sacred person or thing.


 Derived from the Latin word adjuro, meaning to swear, in occultism it is a formula used for conjuring or exorcising evil spirits, by which the demon or spirit is commanded, in the name of the Christian God, to do or say what the magician or exorcist demands and/or requires. To adjure is to charge someone to do something as though on oath.

           

    
   
 

Sorcerer, by Frank Frazetta. . .  —  Buy this art print at AllPosters.com.
 
     


In adjuring a demon one may bid him to depart or to desist from doing something in the name of the Lord. Indeed, when used under due conditions, that is "in truth, in justice, and in judgment", adjuration is a positive act of religion, for it presupposes on the part of the speaker faith in God.


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Sources: (1) Spence, Lewis, An Encyclopedia of Occultism, Carol Publishing Group; (2)  Dictionary of the Occult, Caxton Publishing; (3) The Catholic Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia Press.
 

 
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-- Dream Interpreter CD-ROM: Spiritual, Psychological and Traditional Interpretations of Dreams.

-- Horoscope Interpreter CD-ROM
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-- The Book Of Shadows CD-ROM.

-- The URANTIA Book CD-ROM: The History of Earth.

-- Time Passages Astrology (PC & Mac).

-- Ultimate Divination 4 CD-ROM Set: Astrology, Tarot, Palmistry, I Ching.

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-- Cracking the Code to the Extraordinary; Mystery Schools Ancient Knowledge and Self-Empowering Tools DVD.

-- Dark Mirror of Magick DVD (Record of an actual magical operation of historical significance).

-- Discovering Witchcraft: The Mysteries.

-- Haxan; Witchcraft Through the Ages DVD.

-- Healing the Luminous Body; The Way of the Shaman DVD.

-- In Search of History - Witchcraft.

-- Intention, Belief, Emotion, and Will; Consciousness and The Scientific Basis for Magick and Miracles DVD.

-- Of Men & Demons.

-- Secrets of Angels, Demons & Masons DVD.

-- The Magick of Solomon - A History of Western Magick DVD.

-- The Supernatural DVD Boxed Set - Witchcraft, Vampires, Nostradamus.

-- Witchcraft & Magick; Real Events and Infamous Myths DVD.

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-- Introduction to Paganism.

-- Magick and You.

 -- Natural Majick: A Beginners Guide to Energy Divination and Majickal Applications.

 -- Practical Magick.

 -- Witchcraft - Paganism - Wiccan Studies and Eclecticism in the Craft.

 -- Witchcraft - Paganism - Wiccan Studies and Eclecticism in the Craft (Advanced).

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-- A Book of Pagan Rituals.

-- Advanced Candle Magick: More Spells and Rituals for Every Purpose (Practical Magick Series).

-- An ABC of Witchcraft Past and Present.

-- Angel Magic: The Ancient Art of Summoning & Communicating With Angelic Beings (World Religion and Magic Series).

 -- At the Heart of Darkness: Witchcraft, Black Magic and Satanism Today.

-- Basic Magick: A Practical Guide.

-- Circles of Power: Ritual Magic in the Western Tradition.

-- Collectanea Hermetica.

-- Evocation of Spirits (Truth About Series).

-- Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to Cabalistic Magick (Llewellyn's Sourcebook).

-- Goetic Evocation: The Magician's Workbook.

-- Hermetic Magic: The Postmodern Magical Papyrus of Abaris.

-- High Magic's Aid.

-- Magical Rites from the Crystal Well.

-- Making Magick: What It Is and How It Works.

-- Modern Magick: Eleven Lessons in the High Magickal Arts.

-- Natural Magic.

-- Paths of Wisdom: The Magical Cabala in the Western Tradition (Llewellyn's High Magick Series).

-- Practice of Magical Evocation.

-- Pragmatic Magics: Grimoire of Sorcery.

-- Praxis Spagyrica Philosophica Of Plain and Honest Directions on How to Make the Stone.

-- Ritual Practices to Gain Power: Angels, Incantations, and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism.

-- Summoning Forth Wiccan Gods and Goddesses: The Magick of Invocation and Evocation.

-- Summoning Spirits: The Art of Magical Evocation.

-- Summoning the Familiar: Powers and Rites of Common Life.

-- Summoning the Fates: A Woman's Guide to Destiny.

-- The Book of Black Magic.

-- The Candle Magick Workbook.

-- The Golden Dawn: A Complete Course in Practical Ceremonial Magic/Four Volumes in One (Llewellyn's Golden Dawn Series).

-- The History of the Celtic Religion and Learning: Abaris, the Hyperborian, Priest of the Sun.

-- The Magician’s Companion.

-- The Magician’s Reflection.

-- The Manual of Harmonics of Nicomachus the Pythagorean.

-- The Middle Pillar: The Balance Between Mind and Magic.

-- The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library: An Anthology of Ancient Writings Which Relate to Pythagoras and Pythagorean Philosophy.

-- The Ritual Magic Workbook: A Practical Course of Self-Initiation.

-- Tree of Life, a Study in Magic.

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