title: The Black Arts: A Concise History of Witchcraft, Demonology, Astrology, and Other Mystical Practices Throughout the Ages (Perigee)
author:  Richard Cavendish 
description: We are all black magicians in our dreams, in our fantasies, perversions, and phobias... In <i>The Black Arts</i>, Richard Cavendish has not only gathered many fascinating facts from the past and from our own time; he has also presented the philosophy of the black magicians and gives many excellent interpretations of their symbols and rites. He has done all this in such a concise and readable style that the reader is hardly aware of how much effort has gone into this work and how original are many of its ideas and interpretations ...Works such as Cavendishs are a reminder that we are living in an era of amnesia. We have forgotten those vital truths that man once knew and by whose strength he lived. <b>Isaac Bashevis Singer, <i>Book Week</i></b><br /><br /> In <i>The Black Arts</i>, Cavendish captures the human striving and universality behind the magical search. He also demonstrates virtuosity for explaining ancient and more recent rituals, rites, and esoteric philosophies with splendid clarity  It stands nearly alone as a simultaneously comprehensive and inviting guide to the world of pre-modern esoterica.<b>Mitch Horowitz, from the new introduction</b>
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  The Infernal Sabbat – Chthonic Summons 
  
  Article by Michael Ford, Psychonaut 75 
  The Ritual of the Black Mass was originally a Ritual of 
  Rebellion against the church. In a time when if you were not ‘Christian’ of 
  ‘God fearing’, your life would be made unlivable, the Church became 
  renown for it’s religious aggression against those who did not uphold the 
  Governmental glory of the leaders who preached this religion. Beliefs 
  contrary to the bigotry and tyrannical attitudes of the church and its sterile 
  followers were not accepted. The Black Mass was created as a means of 
  liberation and rebellion through the reversed rites of blasphemy of 
  Orthodox thought. In the invocation of Satan, this archetype of self-
  liberatio