Lux Esoterica (Nifiluz)

The Covenant of the Sages: The Oath of the Liber Juratus In the thirteenth century, as the university libraries of Europe began to absorb the translations of Arabic and Jewish astrological texts, a class of clerical scholars emerged who sought to reconcile these new sciences with the Christian faith. These scholars, who came to be known as the "clerical underworld," practiced a form of ritual magic that was highly sophisticated, literate, and deeply anchored in church liturgy. To protect their teachings from the fires of the Inquisition, a legendary assembly of eighty-nine magical masters gathered to compile their secrets into a single, definitive volume: the Liber Juratus Honorii , or the Sworn Book of Honorius . Attributed to Honorius of Thebes, a mythological figure combining the attributes of a priest and a magician, the Sworn Book begins with a dramatic prologue. It describes a global persecution of the magical arts by the Church authorities, who were accused of ignor...