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The Sworn Book of Honorius

minorattestedc. 13th–14th c.Christianity

One of the oldest surviving medieval grimoires; rites of necromancy bound under oath of secrecy.

Influence77

Antiquity49

Wisdom67

Mystery59

✦Signature powerForbidden KnowledgePower the world tried to bury, and could not.

Relics & objects

Sacred and cursed things that belong to the world of The Sworn Book of Honorius.

The Forbidden FruitCursed The Holy GrailSacred

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Illustrated storyThe ApocalypseThe end, told from the Gnostic side, where the world does not end in fire but in disclosure. The stolen light is counted back thread by thread; the Archons are stripped of what was never theirs; Sabaoth, the son who turned, sits in judgment on his father; and Yaldabaoth, who said there is no other god beside me, is thrown down into the abyss he mistook for the foundation of the world. The counterfeit heaven rolls up like a scroll. The deficiency closes. And the Fullness is a Fullness again, with nothing missing, not even the one who fell.Begin reading →Illustrated storyThe AdversaryThe most famous villain in the world was not born a villain, and was not born once. The Devil is a composite, assembled across a thousand years from a loyal prosecutor in God’s court, a taunt aimed at a Babylonian king, a garden snake, a refusing angel of fire, and a red dragon at the end of time. This is the biography of how the accuser became the enemy: Satan, Lucifer, Iblis, the serpent, the dragon, and what we built when we built him.Begin reading →