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Classical magic texts (aka Grimoires)

• Abramelin, Book of the Sacred Magic
• Agrippa,
  • Of Occult Philosophy I: Natural Magic
  • Of Occult Philosophy II: Celestial Magic
  • Of Occult Philosophy III: Ceremonial Magic
  • Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy
• Albertus Magnus (Pseudo-), Egyptian Secrets for Man and Beast
• Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor(The Book of Soyga), edited and translated by Jane Kupin, 2014. Used with permission.
• Almadel [DE]
• Arbatel of Magic (1575) (English+Latin) (Deutsch)
• Ars Notoria This medieval magic text centers around orations which can impart instant knowledge of divine and human arts and sciences.
• Book of Protection, Hermann Gollancz (1912)
• Armand Delatte: Anecdota Atheniensia: Containing the text of a large number of magical manuscripts, including the Magical Treatise of Solomon (in GREEK)
• Folger MS. V.B.26 Book of Magic (ca. 1577-1583)
• Ganell, Berengar: Summa Sacre Magice (contents)
• Ghent 1021A excerpts: Scrying with the 7 aerial kings
• Hermes The Book of the 12 Images of the Hours of the Night , courtesy of Mihai Vârtejaru (2021)
• Honorius of Thebes: Liber Juratus, or the Sworn Book of Honorius. This thirteenth century Grimoire is one of the foundation works of European magical practice. It was one of Dr. Dee's sources for the Sigillum Dei Aemeth.

Key of Solomon variants:

This is the most famous and influential handbook of magic.

• Key of Solomon Mathers' edition.

• The Key of Knowledge. A Sixteenth-Century English translation of the Key of Solomon.

• The Clavicle of Solomon, revealed by Ptolomy the Grecian. (Sloane 3847)

• Clavicules du Roi Salomon, Par Armadel. Livre Quatrieme. Des Esprits qui gouvernent sous les Ordres du Souverain Createur. (The Key of King Solomon, Book 4: The Spirits which govern under the Orders of the sovereign Creator.) (Excepts, French)

• The Veritable Clavicles of Solomon, Translated from Hebrew into the Latin Language by Rabbi Abognazar (Lansdowne MS. 1203).

• Mafteah Shelomoh / Clavicula Salomonis, A Hebrew Manuscript Newly discovered and now described, by Hermann Gollancz (1903)

• Sepher Maphteah Shelomoh (Book of the Key of Solomon) An exact facsimile of an original book of magic in Hebrew, ed. by Hermann Gollancz, (1914)

• VSG334 (pp. 25 ff.) (Latin, ca 1550)

• Zecorbeni sive Claviculae Salomonis Transcribed from Oxford, Bodleian Libraries MS. Aubrey 24.

• D388. Clavicula Salomonis filii David. Printed book, ca 1650.

• **The Lesser Key of Solomon (Lemegeton):**All five books. This famous 16-17th century grimoire was compiled from earlier texts. It was considered important by Crowley, Mathers, Waite, and others. The scrying methods correspond closely with Dee's.

• Liber Trium Animarum ("The Book of Three Souls") (Latin)

• The Magical Calendar(Calendarium Naturale Magicum Perpetuum) by Johann Baptista Großchedel. (excerpts)

• Messalah: The Book of the Seven Rings of the Planets of Messalah, edited and translated by Mihai Vârtejaru. Used with permission.

• Paracelsus: Archidoxis of Magic (excerpts, English)

• Peter of Abano (pseudo):

  • Heptameron, or Magical Elements (Latin with English translation)
  • Lucidarium in arte magica (Latin)

• Picatrix (The Goal of the Wise) pseudo-Majriti. (Summary)

• Reginald Scot's collection of magical textsA fine example of Elizabethan English

• Romanus-BüchleinLittle Charm-book of the Roma (Gypsies). One of the main sourceworks for Hoodoo and American Folk magic. (German and English)

• A. W. Greenup: Sefer ha-Levanah -- The Book of the Moon (Hebrew)

• Sefer Shimmush Tehillim - Book of the Magical Uses of the Psalms

• Ebenezer Sibly,A New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences, Book 4. (1795?)Methods used for raising up and consulting Spirits are laid open, including a general Display of the Mysteries of Witchcraft, Divination, Charms, and Necromancy. Also includes an alchemical process for raising the form of plants from their essences (ala Borelli).

• Sepher Raziel (English translation from Sl. 3846, colophon dated 1564)

• Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses. This has already become one of the most requested documents at this site.

• Sword of MosesTenth century Hebrew handbook of magic

• Testament of SolomonOne of the oldest magical texts attributed to King Solomon, dating First to Third Century A.D. Includes a catalog of demons summoned by King Solomon, and how they can be countered by invoking angels and other magical techniques.

• Theosophia Pneumatica

• Vadian manuscript (VSG 334) . One of the earliest texts of the Key of Solomon as well as Lucidarium of the Art of Necromancy. Used with permission.

Black Magic

• Clavicula Salomonis de Secretis (LATIN)
• Clavicules du Roi Salomon, Par Armadel. Livre Troisieme. Concernant les Esprits & leurs pouvoirs.("Concerning the Spirits and their Capabilities")
• Douze Anneaux (Lansdowne MS 1202)
• Grimoire pour les conjurations (18th ce)
• Le Grand GrimoireOne of the most famous and outrageous Grimoires of black magic. (French and English)
• L'art de commander les esprits ... du Grand Grimoire(1750?) Another edition. (French)
• Il Grand Grimoire (Italian)
• Le Grimoire du Pape Honorius, "Perhaps the most frankly diabolical of the rituals connected with Black Magic."
  • Véritable gremoire (Lyon, ca 1770?)
  • Le Grimoire du Pape Honorius. "Rome 1670" (French)
  • GREMOIRE du Pape Honorius, avec un recueil des plus rares secrets (Rome, 1670-B). Another edition, with quite different text and drawings. (French)
  • Gremoire du Pape Honorius. "Rome 1800" (French) Very similar to 1670-B, but missing one plate
  • Grimoire du Pape Honorius. "Rome 1760" (i.e. Lille, Blocquel) (French)
  • The True Grimoire of Pope Honorius ("1736") Edited and translated by Mihai V�rtejaru, 2003. Used with permission.
• Grimorium Verum: (Alibeck 1817, French) Called "par excellence the magical book of Europe."
  • (Italian, 1868)
  • (Italian, 1880)
• The Necromantic Rings of Solomon. Translated and edited by Mihai Vartejaru (2017)
• Le Petit Albert Secrets merveilleux de la magie naturelle et cabalistique du petit Albert
• Johann Weyer: Pseudomonarchia daemonum (Latin with English translation) This catalog of demons was perhaps the prototype for the Goetia.
• Verus Jesuitarum Libellus (Latin with Eng. transl.)

Sigillum Dei Aemeth

• UPenn LJS 226 (1410)
• Ganell's Summa Sacre Magice, Kassel 4� Ms. astron. 3, fol. 104r.
• My reconstruction based on description in Liber Iuratus and Ganell's drawing
• Athanasius Kircher Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652) Kircher's discussion of Sigillum Dei Aemeth (Latin)
• Leipzig mag. cod. 16, p. 175, from uni-leipzig.de (ca 1750)
• BNF ms. 14783 f6r
• Sloane 313, fol 4r. (late 14-early 15 ce)
• My reconstruction based on Sl. 313
• Sloane 3850, fol 70v
• Sloane 3853, fol 127v
• From Faust, Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis
• From an Italian manuscript of the Key of Solomon in the Bodleian Library, MS. Mich. 276, fol 13r.
• Redrawn but based on Mich. 276.
• From a Latin manuscript of the Key of Solomon in the Bodleian Library, MS. Aubrey 24, fol. 60r (1674)
• John Dee
• From Will Erich Peuckert, Pansophie (Berlin, 1956)
• La Véritable Magie Noire ("Rome", "1750")
• Oxford, History of Science Museum (16th ce?)

Miscellaneous

• Semamphoras table, from SSM and the Halle MS
• FONTS
• Occult symbols and esoteric GIF's
• Angel Registry:Index of Angel names, magical words, and names of God
• Theodore Besterman, Crystal-Gazing
• Chaldaean Oracles of Zoroaster (W.W. Wescott, 1895)
• Chaldaean Oracles (Stanley, 1661)
• Images from Bartholomeus Cocles, Chyromantie ac phisionomie anastasis (Bononie 1504)
• Dionysius the Areopagite: Mystical Theology
• Dionysius the Areopagite: The Celestial Hierarchies
• E.S. Drower: Peacock Angel (1941)
• Magical Psalter
• Magic wand lore
• Pseudo-Psellos, On the Operation of Daemons.
• Solomon and the Ars Notoria:From Lynn Thorndike, Magic and Experimental Science, 1923-58, Chapter XLIX.
• Iamblichus: Theurgia, or the Mysteries of Egypt
• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Of Being and Unity
• Pico: Conclusiones sive Theses DCCCC (Latin)
• Proclus: Metaphysical Elements
• The Sphere of Sacrobosco