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The author’s note emphasizes that the novel neither romanticizes magic nor treats it as a game, presenting authentic quotations, diagrams, and ritual elements while stressing they are intentionally incomplete. The narrative frame includes a monk’s detection of an infernal exhalation drifting upward, demanding decisive action against an extraordinarily powerful malign presence.","Black Easter  \nincluding The Day After Judgement  \nAlso inArrow by James Blish  \nA Case of Conscience Anywhen Jack of Eagles The Testament of Andros The Night Shapes Warriors of Day The Seedling Stars Vor  \nWith Norman L. Knight A Torrent of Faces  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nBLACK EASTER  \n(or Faust Aleph-Null) including  \nThe Day After Judgement  \nARROW BOOKS  \nArrow Books Limited  \n3 Fitzroy Square, London WIP 6JDAn imprint of the Hutchinson Publishing Group  \nLondon Melbourne Sydney Auckland Wellington Johannesburg and agencies throughout the world  \nBLACK EASTER  \nFirst published by Faber & Faber 1968 Arrow edition 1981  \n©James Blish 1967 and 1968  \nA short version of this novel was published under the title Faust Aleph-Null © 1967 by Galaxy  \nPublishing Corporation  \nTHE DAY AFTER JUDGEMENT  \nFirst published by Faber & Faber 1972  \nArrow edition 1981  \n©James Blish 1972  \nA condensed version of this novel was published in Galaxy magazine © Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation  \nText illustrations by Judith Ann Lawrence  \nThis book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publishers' prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.  \nSet in Linoterm Pilgrim by Book Economy Services Ltd, Cuckfield, Sussex Made and printed in Great Britain by the Anchor Press Ltd, Tiptree, Essex ISBN 009 925450 6  \nEbook edition prepared by Newton Unthank, 2018  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nWhy, this is Hell; nor am I out of it. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nIn memoriam C.S. Lewis  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAuthor's Note  \nThere have been many novels, poems and plays about magic and witchcraft. All of them that I have read—which I think includes the vast majority—classify without exception as either romantic or playful, Thomas Mann's included. I have never seen one which dealt with what real sorcery actually had to be like if it existed, although all the grimoires are explicit about the matter. Whatever other merits this book may have, it neither romanticizes magic nor treats it as a game.  \nTechnically, its background is based as closely as possible upon the writingsand actual working manuals of practising magicians working in the Christian tradition from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries, from the Ars Magna of Ramon Lull, through the various Keys of pseudo-Solomon, pseudo-Agrippa, pseudo-Honorius and so on, to the grimoires themselves. All of the books mentioned in the text actually exist; there are no'Necronomicons' or other such invented works, and the quotations and symbols are equally authentic. (Though of course it should be added that the attributions of these works are seldom to be trusted; as C.A.E. Waite has noted, the besetting bibliographic sins of magic are imputed authorship, false places of publication and back-dating.)  \nFor most readers this will be warning enough. The experimentally minded, however, should be further warned that, although the quotations, diagramsand rituals in the novel are authentic, they are in no case complete. The book, is not, and was not intended to be, either synoptic or encyclopedic. 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