{"product_id":"the-key-of-solomon-the-king-clavicula-salomonis-paperback-9781108044219","title":"The Key of Solomon the King (Clavicula Salomonis) (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108044219","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Key of Solomon the King (Clavicula Salomonis)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA fascinating work of Renaissance esoterica, edited and translated by one of Victorian England's most enthusiastic occultists.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eS. L. MacGregor Mathers (Edited and translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108044219, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 February 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e148 pages, 15 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e24.4 x 17 x 0.8 cm, 0.24 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book, translated and edited by the occultist Samuel Liddell Mathers (1854–1918) and published in 1889, introduced to Victorian England an important work of Renaissance esoterica. Purportedly the deathbed testament of King Solomon to his son, distilling all the angelic wisdom he received in his lifetime, it provided its readers with detailed instructions in conjuring, divining and summoning God's power to work 'experiments', or spells. For Mathers, it represented 'the fountain-head and storehouse of Qabalistical Magic' and formed a central part of his efforts to lend scholarly respectability to occult research. Mathers edited the text using available manuscripts at the British Museum, and it continues to offer authoritative and fascinating insight into both Renaissance occultism and its Victorian revival. Features of this edition include introductions from three distinct manuscripts, a table of the planetary hours and their magical names, and spells for producing invisibility, creating magic carpets and identifying thieves.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Preliminary discourse from Lansdowne MSS. 1203\u003cbr\u003e Introduction from Lansdowne MSS. 1203\u003cbr\u003e Note by editor\u003cbr\u003e The Key of Solomon: Book I: 1. Concerning the divine love which ought to precede the acquisition of this knowledge\u003cbr\u003e 2. Of the days, and hours, and of the virtues of the planets\u003cbr\u003e 3. Concerning the arts\u003cbr\u003e 4. The confession to be made by the exorcist\u003cbr\u003e 5. Prayers and conjurations\u003cbr\u003e 6. Stronger and more potent conjuration\u003cbr\u003e 7. An extremely powerful conjuration\u003cbr\u003e 8. Concerning the medals or pentacles, and the manner of constructing them\u003cbr\u003e 9. Of the experiment concerning things stolen, and how it should be performed\u003cbr\u003e 10. Of the experiment of invisibility, and how it should be performed\u003cbr\u003e 11. To hinder a sportsman from killing any game\u003cbr\u003e 12. How to make the magic garters\u003cbr\u003e 13. How to make the magic carpet proper for interrogating the intelligences, so as to obtain an answer regarding whatsoever matter one may wish to learn\u003cbr\u003e 14. How to render thyself master of a treasure possessed by the spiritis\u003cbr\u003e 15. Of the experiment of seeking favour and love\u003cbr\u003e 16. How operations of mockery, invisibility, and deceit should be prepared\u003cbr\u003e 17. How extraordinary experiments and operations should be prepared\u003cbr\u003e 18. Concerning the holy pentacles or medals\u003cbr\u003e Book II: Prefatory note\u003cbr\u003e 1. At what hour after the preparation of all things necessary, we should bring the exercise of the art to perfection\u003cbr\u003e 2. In what manner the master of the art should keep, rule, and govern himself\u003cbr\u003e 3. How the companions of disciples of the Master of the Art ought to regulate and govern themselves\u003cbr\u003e 4. Concerning the fasting, care, and things to be observed\u003cbr\u003e 5. Concerning the baths, and how they are to be arranged\u003cbr\u003e 6. Of the garments and shoes of the art\u003cbr\u003e 7. Of places wherein we may conveniently execute the experiments and operations of the art\u003cbr\u003e 8. Of the knife, sickle, poniard, dagger, lance, wand, staff, and other instruments of magical art\u003cbr\u003e 9. Of the formation of the circle\u003cbr\u003e 10. Concerning incense, suffumigations, perfumes, odours, and similar things which are used in magical arts\u003cbr\u003e 11. Of the water, and of the hyssop\u003cbr\u003e 12. Of the light, and of the fire\u003cbr\u003e 13. Concerning the precepts of the art\u003cbr\u003e 14. Of the pen, ink, and colours\u003cbr\u003e 15. Of the pen of the swallow and of the crow\u003cbr\u003e 16. Of the blood of the bat, pigeon, and other animals\u003cbr\u003e 17. Of virgin parchment, or virgin paper, and how it should be prepared\u003cbr\u003e 18. Of wax and virgin earth\u003cbr\u003e 19. Concerning the needle and other iron instruments\u003cbr\u003e 20. Concerning the silken cloth\u003cbr\u003e 21. Concerning characters, and the consecration of the magical book\u003cbr\u003e 22. Concerning sacrifices to the spirits, and how they should be made\u003cbr\u003e Ancient fragment of the Key of Solomon, translated from the Hebrew by Eliphaz Lévi, and given in his 'Philosophie Occulte' serie II, page 136\u003cbr\u003e The Qabalistical invocation of Solomon. 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