Hell compulsion

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A hell compulsion (also ghost compulsion ) is the title or the designation of several magic books . The best known are the compulsions of Hell, which were attributed to Johann Faust . Already in ancient oriental magic, the word “compulsion” is associated with the idea that one can force the demons of hell to carry out the wishes of the magician through rites and invocations .

Age and content

Some hell constraints go back to the Middle Ages . However, above all those infernal compulsions that Faust is supposed to have written suggest that they are ancient works, but in fact most of them were created in the 17th, 18th or 19th centuries. Usually it is a compilation of various older magic scripts with a curious mixture of forgeries and corruptions to pretend that one can work “magically” with these works. The writings are mostly richly illustrated and contain seals and characters from earlier grimoires , but also citations from invented ghosts and strange magic symbols. Some of them are also provided with indecipherable signatures of the lords of hell and deliberately incomprehensible spells .

Selection of Faust's hell constraints

  • Dr. Faust's fourfold compulsion to hell. Rome 1501. A spirit compulsion and compulsion of the four elements with the so-called Tabella Rabellina.
Practice Magica Faustiana
  • Faust's threefold compulsion to hell. 1501. It contains magical seals and their use for the invocation of seven spirits.
  • Ghost Commando. Rome 1501. A parodic version of black and white magic, quotations from good and bad spirits, and invocations .
  • Dr. Faust's Miracle, Art and Wonder Book. A compulsion to hell with evocations and seals for wealth, honor, wisdom etc. 1504.
  • Faust's compulsion to hell. Conjuring Lucifer and some devils with their seals. 1509.
  • Egyptian black art. 1520. A spirit compulsion with many amulets . Leans heavily on the Clavicula Salomonis .
  • Practice Magica Faustiana. Passau 1527. A compulsion to hell, largely in Latin, with magical circles and seals.
  • Dr. Faust's great and tremendous compulsion to hell. Frankfurt 1609. At first, prayers and incantations alternate, then follow the seals of the princes of Hell.
  • Doctor Faust's great and mighty sea spirit. Amsterdam 1692. An invocation of Lucifer and 3 sea ​​spirits to get treasures from the waters.
  • Black Raven. Instructions are given on how to cite planetary and astral spirits with their seals.

Note: As described above in the Age and Content section , the dates given on the title pages of the fonts do not match the actual time of origin.

More hell constraints

  • Libellus Magnus or the main compulsion of spirits. According to Latin prayers and sayings, invocations and invocations of a spirit are described, through whose help one can come to treasure and health. The text is said to come from 1403 and was engraved in silver plates that were put together to form a book.
  • Ludwig von Cyprian of the worldly hell-compulsion. A compulsion of the heavenly and hellish spirits according to the order of each day. LM Glogau Sohn, Hamburg 1509.
  • Trinum Perfectum Albae et Nigrae. Four infernal compulsions of ceremonial magic based on the Jesuit infernal compulsions, Rome / Vienna 1534.
  • True Jesuit hell compulsion ( Verus Jesuitarum libellus ). Constructed in a similar way to the constraints of hell by Faust, with incantations, seals and quotations from spirits.
  • Papal Magical Jesuit Process ( Jesuitico Pontificius Processus Magicus ). A handwritten ghost compulsion. The book is based on the fist writings and the Jesuit hell constraints. Only three spirits are listed ( Astaroth , Mephistopheles and Lucifer ). The writing contains the fetching of treasures, the creation of a magic circle, invocations, commands and dismissals of the spirits, as well as a table of hours, 1720.
  • Compulsion of Albiruth. A ghostly compulsion to be able to wish for a treasure from the Jesuit library in Mindelheim.

Secondary literature

See also

Web links

Wikisource: Dr. Faust's Höllenzwang (Sage)  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilhelm Engelmann : The wrong and fictitious printing locations. Repertory of German, Latin and French fonts that have been published under the wrong company since the invention of the art of printing. Volume 1, 2nd, probably and improved edition Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1864, pp. 183-184 ( preview in Google book search).
  2. ^ Meyer's Large Conversational Lexicon . Leipzig 1906, Volume 6, p. 360 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Georg Conrad Horst: Magic = library. 6 volumes. Florian Kupferberg (publisher), Mainz 1821–1826.
  4. ↑ D. Faustus: Quadruple Hell Compulsion. In: esotericarchives.com. Joseph H. Peterson. 2006, accessed February 20, 2012.
  5. ↑ Faust: Faust's threefold compulsion to hell: Dr. Faust's Magia naturalis et innaturalis. Schikowski, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-87702-081-X .
  6. ↑ Magia naturalis et innaturalis, or triple hell compulsion, last testament and the art of sealing. The other part, called His Last Testament (= library of magic, mystery and revelation books and the miracle and household treasure literature of all nations. 4th section). Passau 1505; Ed. J. Scheible, Stuttgart 1849 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  7. ↑ Julius Tamianus: Julii Tamiani Send letter to Hieronymum Pistellum, which, at the instigation of the Satan's weighting undertaken not far from Jena, the beginning and progress of magic, just as the Magorum's opinions are investigated, including those used by common means. To Magiluna in Arabia [ie, Jena?]. 1716 is reported. In addition to a paquetgen to the daring author of the so-called courts of God and ingenious headings, so he has to receive Franco. State and Research Library Gotha, Reel: 89, Item No. 946.
  8. ^ A b Directory of a Collection of Magical Books. Handwriting chart. B 1481, Gotha State and Research Library.
  9. ^ Directory of a collection of magical books. Handwriting chart. B 1481. S. 17r., Gotha State and Research Library.
  10. ↑ The Black Raven. Translation into English by Karl Heinz Welz. 1990. In: hermetics.org. Knight of Runes. 1993, accessed on February 21, 2017 (PDF; 185 kB; English).
  11. ^ Libellus Magnus - a nineteenth-century manuscript of conjurations. Verus Jesuitarum Libellus, or, The True Magical Work of the Jesuits. Transl. And ed. by Stephen J. Zietz. In: hermetics.org, accessed on February 21, 2017 (PDF; 272 kB; English).
  12. ↑ Ludwig von Cyprians Hellenzwang. In: books.google.de, accessed on February 21, 2017.
  13. ^ Johann Scheible: Handwritten treasures from monastery libraries. Scheible-Verlag, Cologne am Rhein 1743. With Peter Hammer 's heirs.
  14. ↑ Verus Jesuitarum libellus. In: esotericarchives.com, accessed February 21, 2017.
  15. ^ Jesuitico Pontificius Processus Magicus.
  16. ↑ Kurt Benesch : Magic of the Renaissance. Fourier Verlag, Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-921695-91-0 .