ceremonial magic
Formal occult practice
Ceremonial magic is a tradition of elaborate ritual practices aimed at invoking spirits, achieving spiritual transformation, or gaining hidden knowledge.
Unlike folk magic or simple spellcraft, it emphasizes formal procedures: specific robes, consecrated tools, precise incantations, and geometric symbols like pentagrams drawn on the floor.
The practice draws heavily from medieval grimoires and Renaissance occultism, blending elements of Kabbalah, astrology, and Christian mysticism.
He spent years studying ceremonial magic before attempting his first evocation.
- wandThin ceremonial stick
- ceremonial robesFormal attire for rituals
- grimoireTextbook of sorcery
- Book of ShadowsWiccan ritual text
- magusPractitioner of ancient arts
invocation · divination · banishing · sacred space · neoplatonism · sigil · alchemy · hierophant · consecration · theurgy · Solomonic · Kabbalah · Hermeticism · chalice · adept · thaumaturge · occult · pentacle
- occultwitchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, tarot, occult
- magical practiceswitchcraft, sorcery, hoodoo, voodoo, Wicca
- Occult Traditionsoccultism, esotericism, Hermeticism, Kabbalah, Gnosticism
- paganismWicca, pagan, heathen, polytheist, polytheism
- occult textsgrimoires, grimoire, Kabbalah, Book of Shadows, Necronomicon
- Solomonic magicpentacle, sigils, conjuration, evocation, spirit summoning
ceremonial magicfolk magic
Traditional supernatural practices
natural magic · hoodoo · rootwork · brujería
ceremonial magicatheism
Rejection of deities
secular humanism · empiricism · rationalism · skepticism · naturalism