Grand Grimoire: Imperial Ritual of Magic

The Grand Grimoire: Imperial Ritual of Magic is a grimoire that’s unusually difficult to classify. Although relatively recent by grimoire standards, it reads like a compiled handbook, pulling material from multiple earlier streams of Western occult literature—echoes of the Key/Clavicle of Solomon, the Black Pullet, and works attributed to Trithemius, among others. In that sense, it resembles composite “course grimoires” such as the Petit Albert or the so-called Egyptian Secrets attributed to Albertus Magnus: not a single unified text, but a curated collection assembled for use.

This edition should also be distinguished from older “Grand Grimoire” traditions most popularly associated with the conjuration of Lucifuge Rofocale. Here, the emphasis leans heavily toward magical talismans, and it includes planchette-based spiritist methods aligned with mediumship. The structure suggests it may once have circulated within an organized occult group or instructional setting: it outlines fourteen degrees of attainment.