A Wisdom Archive on Key of Solomon

The Key of Solomon is a grimoire or book on magic attributed to King Solomon (as several others were). The copies we know are from the Middle Age and posterior, but undoubtedly the book contains several paragraphs and terms inspired by Talmudic texts and Jewish Kabbalah. It is of particular interest in the field of demonology. It is possible that the Key of Solomon inspired posterior works like the Lemegeton, also called The Lesser Key of Solomon, but there are many differences between both books. The only thing that mig ...

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KEY OF SOLOMON:   a famous grimoire, see also grimoire

 
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There have been a number of educated guesses regarding the likely content of The Solomon Key. While Dan Brown has offered some hints in interviews, in large part most ideas to the likely content of the upcoming book come from an interesting marketing strategy used by Brown and his publishers. On the original jacket cover of The Da Vinci Code were a number of ciphers and symbols, the meaning of which was made clear when a web quest was posted on Dan Brown's website which referenced these clues. This competition made clear that t ...

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In Medieval Jewish, Islamic and Christian legends, the Seal of Solomon was a magical signet ring said to have been possessed by King Solomon (or Sulayman in the Islamic version), which variously gave him the power to command demons (or jinni), or to speak with animals. In one of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, an evil djinn is described as being imprisoned in a copper bottle for 1,800 years by a lead seal stamped by the ring. Other, later books (Pseudomonarchia ... Including:

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The Ars Notoria (The Notable Art) is the fifth and last part of The Lesser Key of Solomon. It was indeed a grimoire known since the Middle Age. The book asserts that this art was revealed by the Creator by means of an angel to King Solomon. It contains a collection of prayers (some of them divided in several parts) mixed with kabbalistic and magical words in several languages (i.e. Hebrew, Greek, etc., and some inventions), how the prayers must be said, and the relation that these rituals have to the understanding of all ...

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The name Solomon (Shlomo) means "peaceful," from the Hebrew Shelomoh (Arabic Sulaiman). The name given by God to Solomon in the Bible is Jedidiah, meaning "loved by God", (2 Samuel 12:25), and some scholars have conjectured that Solomon is a "king name" taken either when he assumed the throne or upon his death. King Solomon, founder of the Solomonid dynasty, was the builder of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. The Song of Solomon is attributed to him by traditionalists, but not the Odes of Solomon, the Psalms of Solomon, the Wisdom of Solomonnor the Key of Solomon. T ...

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The Ars Theurgia Goetia ("the art of goetic theurgy") is the second section of The Lesser Key of Solomon. It explains the names, characteristics and seals of the 31 aerial spirits (called chiefs, emperors, kings and princes) that King Solomon invoked and confined, the protections against them, the names of their servant spirits, called dukes, the conjurations to invoke them, and their nature, that is both good and evil. Their sole objective is to discover and show hidden things, the secrets of any person, and obtain, car ...

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For the main article on this section, see Ars Goetia. The Ars Goetia ("the art of goetia), often simply called the Goetia, is the first section of the 17th century grimoire Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis, or The Lesser Key of Solomon. Much of the text appeared earlier, with some material dating to the 14th century or earlier. It contains descriptions of the seventy-two demons that King Solomon is said to have evoked and confined in a bronze vessel sealed ...

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