THE BOOK OF SAN CIPRIANO (I)
Maybe not a book has never been more coveted and sought to awaken or more passions and desires to possess, to the point that many people fall into madness, seriously ill or be ruined financially, just to try to get a copy of it or to implement the rituals contained therein. We are talking about the Book of San Cipriano, popularly known as Ciprianillo.
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The Book Cipriano is a grimoire, ie a book containing magic formulas, attributed to St. Cyprian of Antioch, the holy magician par excellence, and a fundamental part deals with the disappointment of treasures, including also, in many of their issues , a list of treasures of the Kingdom of Galicia and parts of Portugal, with detailed locations of where to find them.
seems to be no evidence of rich people who do thanks to Ciprianillo, but certainly what happened was that those who became rich through these means, they kept quiet to prevent theft, such as today happens to lottery winners. No But many of the happy owners of the book initially, then were not so, as health capital and looking exhausted the magnificent treasures promised. This was especially true in Galicia, where there are many cases of people who acquired a copy, paying large sums of money together, often by selling all his possessions. The writer and historian Vicente Risco orensano relates in his work "The legendary treasure of Galicia" published in 1950 in the "Journal of Dialectology and Popular Traditions," which in the 20 and 30 of the twentieth century came to pay 500 pesetas Galicia . for a book purchased in Portugal or Brazil might be worth 3 or 4 pts. All this speculation Galician economy led historian Bernardo Barreiro to publish, in 1885, in his "Witches and Astrologers of the Inquisition and the Book of San Cipriano" a very partial version of the same, so that all the people could acquire a popular price and also see the absurdity of its contents, destroying his reputation and that people stop searching for treasure.
legends circulating in Galicia which placed the book in a department reserved the Library of the University (as others from the Cathedral) of Santiago, where he was chained to any unwary it could open and read its contents (and assume that the book could not escape from there.) Bernardo Barreiro himself that when he worked in the Archives of Simancas (Valladolid) went up there countrymen to ask for a copy of the famous book and, at the response that there was no Book of San Cipriano, people showed suspicious and it was very difficult to convince them of that, though they were told, even by employees that if there were any Ciprianillo, they would already be rich and would not be working at that site.
The figure of San Cipriano
The saint who is credited with writing the book is, St. Cyprian of Antioch, who lived in the S. DC III (Has nothing to do with St. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, which is often confused). The story of the life of St. Cyprian best known (although there are citations in the ninth century) is the collection in the various works published under the title Flos Sanctorum (including the Jesuit Father Pedro de Ribadeneyra published in Madrid 1599 - 1601). According to these accounts, San Cipriano was born in Antioch, Syria and Arabia, his parents, idolaters and possessors of great wealth, he was stationed, his qualities, the worship of false gods. He was a man of great culture, traveled extensively (for Greece, Egypt, India and Chaldean) and became a connoisseur of magic. At thirty years becomes Christianity, through the preaching of Antipas, Bishop of Antioch and because of an episode that happened: a young man named Justina Aglaide falls in love and asks her in marriage, she refuses to be consecrated to Jesus Christ. Aglaide uses Justina Cyprian to yield to their wishes, so try all possible tricks to no avail. Cipriano then invokes Lucifer to tell you why they are frustrated all the spells that makes Justina, and Lucifer replied that the Christian God is the Lord of all creation, while he was also subject to his power, so that could do nothing against whom hiciese the sign of the Cross.
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San Cipriano disowned him and he converted to Christianity, abandoning the practice of magic, but not before, according to popular tradition, collected in a book all his magical knowledge. Cyprian and Justina subsequently led a life of prayer and preaching of Christianity, until the judge ordered them to execution Eutolmo putting them in tubs of fish on fire, from which emerged unharmed. Given such a miracle, Athanasius, pagan high priest and former pupil of Cipriano, thinking it was a trick, plunged into the barrel, and was burned on the spot. Cyprian and Justina died beheaded on September 26 in Gallo riverbanks in the city of Antioch and his relics were divided between Rome (Church of St. John Lateran), Toulouse, and the cathedral of León. The fame of San Cipriano like magic spread throughout Christendom and later passed into folk memory, putting it on a par with other famous magicians of antiquity, like Simon Magus or Solomon, who also attributes the authorship of many magic books. To realize the popularity of the saint and the validity of his legend, which was broadcast on a popular for centuries until a few years ago, suffice it to say that circulated sheets of string with his life in verse.
A San Cipriano, well, he became a patron of magic arts of wizards and witches, and his name was linked to numerous practical magic spells such as prayers, as evidenced by the famous prayer of St. Cyprian, and spells to protect it in any form. The scholars also consider the history of San Cipriano as one of the most direct antecedents of the development of the history of other famous magicians, such as Faust, whose first-century dating stories XVI.
In Catalonia, the devotion to the saint must have been very popular since published eight booklets Palau appointment of the Prayer of St. Cyprian, sometimes accompanied by prayer to Santa Cruz de Caravaca, written in Catalan and Castilian. In these small works reproduce the cover of the published in Manresa, Manresa the Society Editorial.
San Cipriano's book and books of magic
San Cipriano's book fits perfectly into the category of the grimoires or books of necromancy, which means it is a book of magic ritual dedicated to black magic. Although much of it is dedicated to white magic (healing the sick.), The fact is that they all appear, even a small part of black magic, which makes them fall directly within that category.
We would like to some refinements in this book, of course personal, but we consider important to clarify key concepts in magic that are a source of great confusion and errors. Of course we are not theologians or any title in dogma, faith and religion, but if we have a lot of research, reflection, thought and drew conclusions which want to transmit with the sole aim of providing useful light to those who seek it. The truth must be sought and this is ours.
The boundaries between black and white magic are very vague and subject to much debate because both are not really magic. Energy is one and only intent or purpose makes the difference between black and white good and bad light and dark, but that has nothing to do with God. He is the creator and is above our small or large and attempts to imitate, it is not manipulated, not directly involved in human work. If it were otherwise, exchange life meaningless because in the case indicate the victim of black magic work, which has been robbed of their connection with divinity without your permission. That would be to grant more power to the power of evil that the creators themselves and then how could be released from work if you do not already have freedom of choice ...
What we call Good and Evil, Light and Darkness, Love and Justice, are qualities that we identify the operator to make it more accessible to our small and limited human mind, but are actually attempts to imitate a higher something huge and not listed in our entelechy, since no one has ever seen, from this material plane, and most who achieved is the vision or revelation of a collective unconscious image created on the astral plane, and by which we identify something as unfathomable, that if by chance we could receive a micronésima of disintegrated immediately be serious because of the strength of vibration. The power of atomic force would be a soap bubble next to it. For the Hebrew mystics were in fact who spread the faith in Occdente, God is referred to as AIN SOFT (the unmanifested, which is not seen, something formless and self-existent) for Santeria is the "unspeakable" and mystics of ancient times NOT tag, because in his divine image appears mink wrapped in a cloud. So we want to acknowledge that magic is energy generated from the divine creative work and therefore their power belongs to a lower level than its creator, nothing that occurs across it is directly related to the operator.
Some say that magic aimed to benefit the magician and curtailing the freedom of others and invoking spirits of hell to make it available to the necromancer, it the work of black magic. It occurs to me by that definition a question: what if not?, Any work of magic power say the "Wizard habiliades as any practice whether physical, mental or spiritual power to the practitioner or else what would be done?, another thing is the intention or purpose of the practice. Coharta say that individual freedom: Where is the boundary between my wish and desire of the other "... What would be the end of magic occult arts but to get through what apparently can not get my own personal magnetism. As for the invocation of infernal spirits, as every practitioner of magic naturally turns to those beings that resonate better ... but the magic itself is one and how everything in this dense plane has two polarities, positive, negative, how to scream depend on the side that we are participants.
Is it possible to make a work of love magic without harm?, No and Never. Only if one's partner goes to the wizard asking them again and request the two, is the only case in which no manipulation, yet they risk their own ways to twist them since no one can guarantee that they are partners for life. My personal opinion is that if they mate for life, what need have recourse to other arts to unite them so little?? have confidence in their love they need to resort to foreign hands through his assignment will handle their lives? ...
Richard Kieckhefer in his book "The Magic in the Middle Ages, Drakontos Stock, Editorial Crítica, 1992, says The goals pursued in the grimoires are basically influence the minds and desires of others (whether people, animals or spirits to do or stop doing something), to act on the physical nature of humans and animals to make them right or wrong , influencing things, elements of weather or undefined future contingencies, and finally, creating illusions, discover secrets or see past, present or future. To achieve this, use a visual (circles magical talismans, etc.), One oral (the completion of conspiracies, this one is directed to the spirit to do something, unlike prayer calls only), and one action (making sacrifices, offerings, sympathetic magic, etc.).
The word grimoire is an obscure word for not really know its origin, for some it is a genuine English word, which after the French grimoire derived, according to others is the opposite also related to the word grammar, grammaire, with the idea a set of rules, in this magical event. The word necromancy, which is believed to have derived the black magic by confusion of terms comes from the Latin and this in turn from the Greek words Necros and Mantica, ie divination by invoking the dead (as did Circe in Homer's Odyssey). In the Middle Ages the term came to designate the diabolical magic, as they believed it was impossible that the dead back to life by spells, but they were demons who came to the call, in human form or animating dead bodies . Necromancy is related to the Goetia Goetia or what is the magic that is performed by invoking evil spirits or demonic theurgy unlike that practiced by invoking angels or good spirits.
terms of content, is built largely around the concept of covenant with superhuman powers, both demonic and heavenly (in-fluenced by the Kabbalah and the Jewish religion). This idea of \u200b\u200bcovenant has a genesis learned that spread through Europe to the s. IX. The grimoires often divided into three parts, the preparation itself and utensils necromancer magic (often involving the use of raw materials very difficult to obtain, parts of animals, precious metals, etc., Built in a very specific times and days) and the realization of the magic circle to defend the powers that are invoked (both land and fabrics) and, finally, the implementation of ritual and magic recipes to carry out (often with absurd content, making many famous occultists affirm that such prescriptions were allegorical).
combine the magic grimoires astral, typically Arabic and Persian and Greek origin (acting by the power of the stars in heaven and its effectiveness depends on certain celestial signs, days, hours, planetary positions, all linked to Fumigation and spraying), with exorcisms (typically Christians and Jews) natural magic (which the ancients regarded occult science, which is referring to the use of natural substances) and the evil magic (in hellish beings involved), categorizations which in practice were not easy to do and that led to scholars of the Middle Ages to become embroiled in discussions of whether a type of magical practices were evil or not.
Regarding the origin of the grimoires, it is uncertain. It is known that in ancient Egypt and there were books that compile spells. Its more clear precedents come from the Babylonian magic, which influenced Jewish magic. In the last centuries of the Roman Empire widely circulated works magic many of them might be Jewish, who left their mark later in the medieval grimoires. In Europe started its broadcast from s. XII, due to a number of changes in the world of culture and European intellectual life, as the flourishing of the courts and universities and cultural centers outside the cathedral schools and monasteries, which promoted an intellectual thirst search in sources outside the orthodox or classical knowledge treasured by the Islamic world, which occurred in areas of convergence where the two worlds coexisted in harmony. Islam inherited from ancient Greek, along with classical learning, astrology and alchemy, which are incorporated into this century to European knowledge and also within the knowledge of Arabic, spread the Jewish magical knowledge.
s. In XIV, already referred some magic books, based on the cycles that are then more famous, like Solomon. In the s. XV, the advent of the Renaissance, the Byzantine Empire fell to the invasion of Constantinople by the Turks and the expulsion of Jews from the Iberian Peninsula, causes a general diffusion of knowledge and knowledge classic Jewish magic. The period of maximum splendor of the ritual practice of magic for the period between 1480 and 1680, when they were released many classics of magic (eg the works of J. Trithemius, HC Agrippa, John Dee, Peter of Abano and Giordiano Bruno).
The use of such books was always in worship and church areas, since the classes could not read, abounding in any historical references to convictions of priests, monks and priests from their possession. Circulated in towns and cities secretly copied by hand, by the obvious danger that was in possession of such books, which meant that, over time, the various versions of a grimoire were different.
The dissemination and popularization of the grimoires occurred in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (especially in France), they fall into the hands of some master printers and decided to post them to see their economic performance, often hiding to avoid criticism, the editor , title of work, or more false impression. The most famous printers were Brothers Bering Lyon, of which his works have become classics that still continue reissuing. Given its great success, then other libraries began publishing gri-morphs of content and quality varied, often putting the shares, causing great confusion. In the Iberian Peninsula because of the effect of the Inquisition, is unlikely to have a large industry of grimoires editing. Some of the circulating here were imported from France and other countries, or even translations of those published in other lands.
Since mid-century XVIII, grimoires fell into disrepute, not being up to s. XIX emerges the taste for this kind of literature of ceremonial magic and the occult in general (despite the advent of rationalism and scientific culture) with the works of Francis Barrett, Eliphas Levi, Papus, CW Leadbeater, and Aleister Crowley Arthur E. Waite. At this time most famous grimoires reprinted from earlier centuries and published a grimoires new genre of "fantasy" (fabricated), mainly due to the establishment of commercial and intellectual property and the prohibition of copying books by other publishers and authors. This made them had to find unpublished material in libraries and old, given its short length, had to be edited in the most diverse compilations with titles (The Treasury of the Ancient of the Pyramids, The Black Hen, Secrets of Magical Arts, The Black Book of Magic, and some editions of the Book of San Cipriano, Treasure of the Sorcerer) as we shall see.
In the Iberian Peninsula there are quotes from grimoires from very early times, Menéndez Pelayo in his "History of the English heterodox," cites the book Invocation Demonum, Liber Salomonis, burnt in Barcelona in the s. Catalan XIV and another book of the same period The Free Poridat in s. XVI quotes the Book of Solomon. Julio Caro Baroja in "magic and Inquisition Lives" (Ed. Istmo, 1992), cites the Liber Salomonis Eymerich burned by the Inquisition in the s. XIV and also works burned the famous Marqués de Villena (though we must note that at the time any book with engravings unrecognizable by the inquisitors, for example. Books on astronomy, and were considered magical and burned without further contemplation ), and clavicle Salomonis sent to the stake by the Bishop of Barcelona. In the sixteenth and seventeenth abound convictions for possession of the clavicle of Solomon (in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Toledo, Burgos) and Cuenca in the possession of the Soul and Picatrix Salomonis: Imaginibus Liber Salomonis. The truth is that in the Iberian Peninsula this whole literary movement, as stated above, must be lower, given the relentless persecution of the Inquisition.
grimoires most famous and influential black magic were popularized through the editions published in France during the s. XIX (which came from eighteenth-century editions, often Italian) and in Spain, at the turn of century Nineteenth and twentieth commenting, then the most important, are most closely similar to the Ciprianillo:
The Great Grimoire of Pope Honorius, supposedly written by Pope Honorius III. There are several editions, German, French, the most famous of Paris of 1670 and following the Rome of 1760 (the English are based on it, including the Library of Rosendo Pons, to 1915). Has a Party in accordance with Catholic ritual of exorcism and prayers and a call to the seven spirits of hell (Surgat, Lucifer, Frimost, Astaroth, Silchard, Bechard, and Guland), followed by a list of different magic recipes with the typical goals (love, health) and an unusual percentage of prescriptions against vermin, which shows its age. This grimoire is akin to the Grimorium Verum (translated from Hebrew by Plaingiere, a Dominican Jesuit) and supposedly published in Memphis, Alibeck, the Egyptian, in 1517 (really from 1817). Their similarity is obvious, since that match some of the infernal spirits raised and some of the magic bullets found at the end of the two grimoires.
Another would be the Dragon Rouge, which circulated several versions, including "The True Red Dragon which is the art of commanding the spirits Hell, air and land, to appear dead, to read in the stars, to discover the hidden treasures, springs, mines, etc. And The Black Hen enlarged edition with the secrets of Queen Cleopatra. Secrets for a person to become invisible when you want, the secrets of Artephius, etc.. " There are French editions, the most famous of Nimes in 1825 and in Castilian among others, the editorial Maucci about the alleged 1910 and 1905 by Venice Shaiah Enediel. This edition shares with the Grand Grimoire and some books of San Cipriano, much of its contents, how do dowser's wand, making the magic circle pacts with the devil (actually with the lieutenant of Lucifer Lucifuge Rofocale), the mirror of Solomon, the Ring of Gyges, and other items that appear in other grimoires, astrology, physiognomy, etc.. Share seals in Great Grimoire of Pope Honorius.
Another is Le Grand Grimoire (Grand Grimoire), which are known numerous editions, the most famous French women from 1750 to 1845. There is a English edition of 1820. It is the ultimate European grimoire and has served as a model for many others and is the one most like some versions of Ciprianillo. Preparation is the wizard and its instruments, cabalistic circle, invocation and pact with Lucifer, List of infernal spirits, and a list of magical secrets (the hand of glory, a mirror of Salo-mon, etc.). A book published in Castilian virtually identical to this one is titled Secrets of Hell and Lucifer is the Emperor and his minister Rofocale Luci-Fugo. Contains the large key pacts to dominate the spirits, the Secret to talk to the Dead, the Kabbalah to win the Lottery and magic to discover the hidden treasures. It also contains the responses to Reverse to return the stolen and punish those who love us wrong or we have caused any damage or injury, taken from a manuscript of 1522. The best known edition of the Mage Bruno, published by the press The Neo-tipi Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1910, alleged in a French reissue of Nimes, in the year 1823 or 1835.
mention other grimoires To finish the English editions also exist, those attributed to Albertus Magnus, Bishop of Regensburg and the end of the holy s. XIII, The Admirable Secrets of Albertus Magnus (known popularly as "Big Albert"), which is basically a treatise on natural magic, with the virtues of animals, plants and stones, very popular book that there were many editions from the s . Century until today. In Castilian has had several editions, including that of Alejandro Martinez Barcelona, \u200b\u200b1889. Another work attributed to him is "wonderful secrets of Natural and Kabbalistic Magic of Little Albert" (popularly known as "Little Albert"), Grimoire very popular among French witches (the most famous edition of the Brothers Bering, 1729 ), with its recipes for white and black magic (with sections of physiognomy and palmistry, charms, recipes for love, to get a mandrake, the hand of glory, etc.).
In another of the most prolific sources of grimoires, the clavicles of Solomon, has been from the s. XIX numerous editions, of which mention the version edited by Bruno Wizard around 1916 entitled "clavicles of Solomon or the Secret of Secrets Iroe translated from Hebrew by the Wizard, a copy of the edition made in Antwerp, M.DCC.XXI (1721)", and that given its similarity to the Verum Grimorium and San Cipriano some books could be considered a grimoire of black magic, also including pacts with demonic spirits.
Between the end of s. Nineteenth and the first quarter century XX, there were a number of issues grimoires (including the Book of San Cipriano) in Spain, especially Barcelona and Madrid, at first by publishers and booksellers (Manuel Rosendo Saurí and Pons in Barcelona and Madrid Francisco Pueyo, among others) and then by publishers, as Maucci of Barcelona. After the Civil War away these publications, cultural and religious censorship of the dictatorship and proliferation issues in Argentina and Mexico (Ferrari and editorials Sunday as Caymi and Saturn). With Democracy are reissued in Spain these works (in editorials as Edicomunicación SA, Humanitas, soil, etc.) But almost always, with few exceptions, without explaining the source of the reprinted editions and the newness, in particular in Books of San Cipriano, publishing translations of Portuguese editions.
PRAYER SAN CIPRIANO
PRAYER OF SAN CIPRIANO
. FIGHTING FOR ALL TYPES OF SPELLS, EVIL SPIRITS TO REMOVE THE BODY, TO KEEP DEMONJO, BLESS A HOUSE. LIGHTNING IS ALSO EFFECTIVE, hail, hurricanes, storms, ETC.
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not know your name holy and terrible, Almighty Lord, but now I know you are mighty God, great God, God Almighty, everlasting God. + I tied the clouds and prevented the rain fall on the face of the earth, and grass land dried up, and the trees did not bear fruit, and the crops withered in the fields. I passed through the midst of a flock and the cattle were dispersed and lost. I loved a man, a woman, a child, with only a glimmer in my eyes, my power for evil was great, but so far I have not known the secret science of good, + oh great and mighty Lord! + + Oh, God Almighty and everlasting! I pray thee, grant to your humble servant Cyprian that every man or woman who recite devoutly my prayer will be free of spells, possessions, spells, incantations and other black arts of witchcraft, and saved him from storms, earthquakes, hurricanes, lightning, fires. + Amen. Pentacle
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Cancels and fades, Our Almighty Creator God, + by the prayers of Angels and Saints good around you, all spells and bonds that have been made or done (by day or night) for men and women infamous evil against thy servant. And his enemies and opponents are damned ... And that is Decursed any curse done by invoking + virtues and powers of hell, whether made by figures carved in gold, silver, copper, tin, iron, lead or any other metal, either by bones of the dead, man, or four-legged animal, bird or night, also if done haunting pieces of wool, linen, silk, cotton or hemp, belonging to a dead or a living person, healthy or sick, or with hairs or nails Christian, Moor, Jew or heretic, or were buried in graves of giants, or Jews, or Saracens, or Christians, and those made of stone or wood, or weeds, or in water (sea or river), and also the curses through books or words or a statue, metal or wax, or signs painted on scrolls, and also the facts in the mountains or in valleys, in fortresses or Castle of the Moors, in fields or vineyards, forests or jungles, next to a tree or under a bush or under a stone in a cabin or cottage, on the wall of a church, convent and chapel, in the bed, or in the pit of a house, or in any other place on earth high or deep, which also occur in food or drink, or rot in tainted water, or use or have been consumed by fire. + Oh, Holy God, mighty, good and terrible! Make them disappear and are broken all the bad things said and done from east to west ... getting rid of all evil and danger, wind and hail, downpours and storm, of thunder and lightning, ghosts and visions, of ambushes and betrayals, daggers and knives and every evil thing. + Glory to! Father, + Glory to the Son, + Glory to! Holy Spirit. + Amen.
Record yourself on a plate of lead the pentacle 8 on one side and the other the pentacle 9. The operation will on Saturday. After the medal, take over, suspended from the neck.
act of entrusting the four evangelists. S1RVE FOR LUCK IN THE GAME AND BUSINESS
EVERY day, at bedtime, will be the sign of the Holy Cross, will pray an Our Father and Hail Mary. Then read the following verses:
+ Huic thalamo Adesto defender Lucas quickly. + Ne simus Jesmn praecare Marce doemonis oesu. + You damned fantasy cuc Precor ut Joannes. + This dormiam nocte dum custos meus Mattheus. + Jesu Filii David miserere mei. + Amen. + In nomine Patris + et Filii + Spin your Sancti et, + Amen.
The above verses written on virgin parchment, which is perfumed with incense. Take this talisman in a blue silk bag, caught the neck and reach the favorable indicators.
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