Sigils, Seals and Pentacles: Illustrated Guide to the Graphic Design of Ceremonial Magic

Sigils, seals and pentacles are occult devices used in ceremonial magic as part of the invocation and evocation of angels, demons and other spirits. They were developed out of ritual magic—a mixture of Greco-Egyptian Hermeticism, Arabic Astrology and Jewish Cabala—in the 10th century Medieval Europe. These forms of magic practice were raised to the level of a science and studied as such during the Renaissance. Magicians recorded their designs in magical training books called grimoires, such...