♥♥ The Lesser Key of Solomon by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers ♥♥

This edition of the Lesser Key of Solomon is based on manuscripts from the British Museum, edited by two prominent occultists (mostly Mathers and probably Aleister Crowley). This is a considerably cleaned up and modernized version of the Lesser Key, which is obviously intended to be used as a working document for serious magicians, rather than a rigorous transcription of the source manuscripts.

♥♥ The Lesser Key of Solomon by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers ♥♥

However, the information presented here is linked with the other Goetic grimoires and this version is considered one of the best of this literature. Also available on this site is The Greater Key of Solomon the King.

♥♥ The Lesser Key of Solomon by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers ♥♥

The Lesser Key of Solomon, also known as Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis or simply Lemegeton, is an anonymous grimoire on demonology. It was compiled in the mid-17th century, mostly from materials a couple of centuries older. It is divided into five books—the Ars Goetia, Ars Theurgia-Goetia, Ars Paulina, Ars Almadel, and Ars Notoria.

♥♥ The Lesser Key of Solomon by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers ♥♥

The text is more properly called "Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis, or, The little Key of Solomon". The title most commonly used, "The Lesser Key of Solomon," does not in fact occur in the manuscripts. A.E. Waite, in his 1898 Book of Black Magic and of Pacts does use the terms "so-called Greater Key" and "Lesser Key" to distinguish between the Clavicula Salomonis and Lemegeton, so he may have been the first one to coin it.

This translation of the FIRST BOOK of the "Lemegeton" which is now for the first time made accessible to students of TALISMANIC MAGIC was done, after careful collation and edition, from numerous Ancient Manuscripts in Hebrew, Latin, and French, by G. H. Fra. D.D.C.F., by the order of the Secret Chief of theRosicrucian Order. 1The G. H. Fra., having succumbed unhappily to the assaults of the Four Great Princes(acting notably under Martial influences), it seemed expedient that the work should be brought to its conclusion by another hand. The investigation of a competent Skryer into the house of our unhappyFra., confirmed this divination; neither ourFra. nor hisHermetic Mul. were there seen; but only the terrible shapes of the evilAdepts S.V.A. 2 and H., whose original bodies having been sequestered by Justice, were no longer of use to them. On this we stayed no longer Our Hand; but withdrawing Ourselves, and consulting the Rota, and the Books M. and Q. did decide to ask Mr. Aleister Crowley, a poet, and skilled student of Magical Lore, and an expertKabbalist , to complete openly that which had been begun in secret.

♥♥ The Lesser Key of Solomon by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers ♥♥