Necromancy
Also known as Nagomancy, it is a form of divination by communication with the dead, one of the claimed black arts practiced by witches and magicians.
Necromancy is not to be confused with conjuring devils or demons for help. Necromancy is the seeking of the spirits of the dead. The spirits are sought because they, being without physical bodies, are no longer limited by the earthly plane.
Necromancy. The raising of the images of the dead, considered in antiquity and by modern occultists as a practice of Black Magic.
Necromancy
A form of Magick involving the body or spirit of a dead person. Generally a tool for summoning the spirits of the dead for purposes of divination.
[Necromancy, or raising up spirits of the dead.]
In our third book of Occult Philosophy, we have taught how and by what means the Soul is joyned to the Body; and, what hapeneth to the Soul after death.
Necromancy or Black Magic
The first distinction is clear. Any action or ritual designed to summon demons was forbidden. The Church never wavered on this point.
This is Necromancy, the application of Force to the domination of inferior living beings: Elemental, or organisms ready to synthetize themselves, and Elementary, remains of the dead, on the way to disorganization.
What I mean is that, whether conscious or unconscious, all this dealing with the dead is necromancy, and a most dangerous practice.
This dishonoured science has some right to be mentioned in a "Treatise on Demonology," because the earlier astrologers, though denying the use of all necromancy-that is, ...
Robed in garments of sable hue, the neophytes in their search for truth were led by their sinister guides through the confused passageways of necromancy.
Classic "dark arts" magick such as evocation, sorcery, necromancy, cursing and various enchantments do fall under the "black magick" category, but not for their intent.
derivation from the Latin word occultus ought to explain at once that it is the science of the hidden; but they often regard it contemptuously as nonsensical and unpractical, as connected with dreams and fortune-telling, with hysteria and necromancy, ...
The chapter on magic is also brief, focused on the Greek Magical Papyri texts whose origins he attributes to the New Kingdom medical and magical protection texts. He also discusses Egyptian aspects of necromancy, angel magic, ...
 See also: Magic, Spirit, World, Occult, Spirits
  
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