FootnoteMicahel Quinn: “While the Smith family’s belief in astrology can be demonstrated only circumstantially and inferentially, the Smiths left direct evidence of their practice of ritual magic. In addition to the magic dagger, among Hyrum Smith’s possessions at his...
FootnoteSibly’s New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences… Sibly describes Pah-li-Pah as “one of the celestial powers”. Pah-li-Pah is the second of seven angels of ceremonial magic. The reverse side of the “Saint Peter Bind Them” parchment has a complex...
FootnoteThe Smiths’ source for Jubanladace is Scot’s Discourse Concerning Devils and Spirits (Quinn, p. 110; Scot, p. 43). The central disk of the “Jehovah, Jehovah, Jehovah” parchment has four Maltese crosses and a Latin phrase as suggested by Reginald Scot (Scot,...
Footnotehttp://www.fromoldbooks.org/Sibly-Astrology/pages/magical-signs/ “The dimensions of the circle is [sic] as follows: a piece of ground is usually chosen nine feet square, at the full extent of which parallel lines are drawn one within another, having sundry...
