Evocation is the magical art of calling forth spirits, angels or demons to bring spiritual inspiration, do the bidding of the magician or provide information. Magic/magick and sorcery are the influencing of events, objects, people and physical phenomena by mystical or paranormal means. ... The English word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus, meaning breath. ... The Annunciation - the Angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will bear Jesus (El Greco, 1575) An angel is a supernatural being found in many religions. ... St. ...

The first use of the term evocation was for the religious/magical practice of calling the tutelary deities of a city out of it so attackers could succeed in their conquest. In more recent usage, evocation refers to the calling out of lesser spirits (beneath the deific or archangelic level), sometimes conceived of as arising from the self. This sort of evocation is contrasted with invocation, in which spiritual powers are called into the self from a divine source. A tutelary spirit is a god, usually a minor god, who serves as the guardian or watcher over a particular site, person, or nation. ... This list of deities aims at giving information about deities in the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world. ... Look up deity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An Archangel is a superior or higher-ranking angel. ... An invocation (from the Latin verb invocare to call on, invoke) is: A supplication. ...

The calling forth of spirits is a vital element of most traditions of magic all over the world. In the Western esoteric tradition, the classical example of this idea is in the magic of the grimoires. In medieval European magic the grimoires were sourcebooks of magical procedure, rooted in late classical sources and the work of early Arabic and Jewish magicians. Manuals such as the Greater Key of Solomon the King, The Lesser Key of Solomon (or Lemegeton), the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage and many others provided instructions that combined intense devotion to the divine with the summoning of a personal cadre of spiritual advisers and familiars. The term Western mystery tradition (also Western Esoteric tradition) refers to the collection of the mystical esoteric knowledge of the western world. ... This design for an amulet comes from the Black Pullet grimoire. ... The Key of Solomon is a grimoire or book on magic attributed to King Solomon (as several others were). ... The Lesser Key of Solomon or Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis (the Clavicula Salomonis, or Key of Solomon is an earlier book on the subject), is an anonymous 17th century grimoire, and one of the most popular books of demonology. ... Abramelin, or Abra-Melin, is the claimed eponym of the author of a famous grimoire which calls itself The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage. ... In early modern English witchcraft, a familiar spirit, commonly called familiar (from Middle English familiar, related to family) or imp is a spirit who obeys a witch, conjurer, or other users of the supernatural, and serves and helps that person. ...

The grimoires provided a variety of methods of evocation. The Spirits are, in every case, commanded by names of the divine power - most commonly cabalistic and hellenic 'barbarous names'. The magician uses wands, staves, incense and fire, daggers and complex diagrams drawn on parchment or upon the ground. In some magical systems, spirits are evoked into a crystal ball or mirror, in which a human volunteer (a 'seer') is expected to be able to see the spirit and hear its voice, passing the words on to the evoker. Sometimes such a seer might be an actual medium, speaking as the spirit, not just for it. In other cases the spirit might be 'housed' in a symbolic image, or conjuring into a diagram from which it cannot escape without the magician's permission. // Monotheistic faiths believe that there is a supreme being, who is necessarily unique, so the different names given to that being in different languages could in principle all be translated in English as God. ... WAND is an NBC affiliate in Decatur, Illinois, serving the Decatur–Springfield–Champaign area. ... Incense is a preparation of aromatic plant matter, often with the addition of essential oils extracted from plant or animal sources, intended to release fragrant smoke for religious, therapeutic, or aesthetic purposes as it smolders. ... A crystal ball is a crystal or glass ball believed to aid clairvoyance. ... In spirituality, a medium or spirit medium (plural mediums) is an individual who claims the ability to receive messages from spirits (discorporate entities), or claims that he or she can channel such entities — that is, write or speak in the voice of these entities rather than in the mediums...

While many later, corrupt and commercialised grimoires include elements of 'diabolism' and one (The Grand Grimoire) even offers a method for making a pact with the devil, in general the art of evocation of spirits is done entirely under the power of the divine. The magician gains authority among the spirits only by purity, worship and personal devotion and study. Evocation is just one technique in the kit of the western magician. Diabolism is a true Faith. ... The Grand Grimoire is a grimoire originally written in Italian some time in the 13th century and supposedly published in Cairo by a person known as Alibek the Egyptian. ... The Devil is the name given to a supernatural entity, who, in most Western religions, is the central embodiment of evil. ...

Important contributors to the concept of evocation include Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Francis Barrett, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, Aleister Crowley, Franz Bardon, Kenneth Grant and Peter Carroll. Cornelius Agrippa, as portrayed in Libri tres de occulta philosophia Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (born of noble birth in Cologne September 14, 1486, died in Grenoble February 18, 1535) was a magician and occult writer, astrologer, and alchemist. ... Francis Barrett (born probably in London around 1770-1780) was an English occultist. ... Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, in Egyptian costume, performs a ritual of Isis in the rites of the Golden Dawn. ... Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an occultist, Freemason, prolific writer, mystic, hedonist, and sexual revolutionary. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the British occultist. ... Peter J. Carroll (born 8th January 1953, 1:30am; 50 degrees 50 minutes N, 0 degrees 25 minutes W) is a modern occultist, author and co-founder of the Illuminates of Thanateros. ...