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The Greater Key of Solomon

BOOK TWO

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PREFATORY NOTE TO BOOK TWO.

THIS work of SOLOMON is divided into Two Books. In the first thou mayest see and

know how to avoid errors in Experiments, Operations, and in the Spirits theirselves.

In the second thou art taught in what manner Magical Arts may be reduced to the

proposed object and end.

It is for this reason that thou shouldst take great heed and care that this Key of

Secrets fall not into the hands of the foolish, the stupid, and the ignorant. For he who

is the possessor hereof, and who availeth himself hereof according to the ordinances

herein contained, will not only be able to reduce the Magical Arts herein unto their

proposed end, but will, even if he findeth certain errors herein, be able to correct

them.

Any Art or Operation of this kind will not be able to attain its end, unless the

Master of the Art, or Exorcist, shall have this work completely in his power, that is to

say, unless he thoroughly understand it, for without this he will never attain the effect

of any operation.

For this reason I earnestly pray and conjure the person into whose hands this Key

of Secrets may fall, neither to communicate it, nor to make any one a partaker in this

knowledge, if he be not faithful, nor capable of keeping a secret, nor expert in the

Arts. And I most humbly entreat the possessor of this, by the Ineffable Name of God

in Four Letters, YOD, HE, VAU, HE, and by the Name ADONAI, and by all the other

Most High and Holy Names of God, that he values this work as dearly as his own soul,

and that he makes no foolish or ignorant man a partaker therein.

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Chapter I

AT WHAT HOUR AFTER THE PREPARATION OF ALL THINGS NECESSARY, WE SHOULD

BRING THE EXERCISE OF THE ART TO PERFECTION

THE Days and Hours have already been treated of, in general, in the First Book. It is

now necessary to notice in particular at what hour accomplishment and perfection

should be given to the Arts, all things necessary having been previously prepared.

Should it then happen that thou hast undertaken any secret operation for con-

versing with or conjuring Spirits, in which the day and the hour are not marked, thou

shalt put it in execution on the days and hours of Mercury, at the sixteenth or twenty-

third hour, but it will be still better at the eighth, which is the third of the same night,

which is called and means before the morning, for then thou shalt be able to put in

practice all the Arts and Operations which should he performed, according as it shall

please thee by day or by night, provided that they have been prepared at the hours

suitable to them, as hath been already said. But when neither hour nor time of opera-

tion or invocation is specified, it is then much better to perform these experiments at

night, seeing that it is more easy to the Spirits to appear in the peaceful silence of

night than during the day. And thou shouldst inviolably observe, that wishing to

invoke the Spirits, either by day or by night, it is necessary that it should be done in a

place hidden, removed, secret, convenient, and proper for such Art, where no man

frequenteth or inhabiteth, as we shall relate more fully in its place.

If then thou shouldst operate touching anything which hath been stolen, in what-

ever way it be performed and whatever way it may have been prepared, it is necessary

to practice it on the days and hours of the Moon, being if possible in her increase, and

from the first unto the eighth hour of the day.

But if it be by night, then it should be at the fifth or at the third hour; but it is bet-

ter by day than by the night, for the light justifieth them, and maketh them much

more fit for publication. But if the Operations be regarding Invisibility, they should

be put in practice at the first, second, and third hours of Mars by day. But if by night,

until the third hour. If they be Operations of seeking love, grace, or favor, they should

be performed until the eighth hour of the same day, commencing with the first hour

of the Sun; and from the first hour of Venus unto the first hour of the same day of

Ve n u s .

As for Operations of destruction and desolation, we should practice and put them

into execution on the day of Saturn at the first hour, or rather at the eighth or fif-

teenth of the day; and from the first until the eighth hour of the night.

Experiments of games, raillery, deceit, illusion, and invisibility, ought to be done

at the first hour of Venus, and at the eighth hour of the day; but by night at the third

and at the seventh.

At all times of practicing and putting into execution Magical Arts, the Moon

should be increasing in light, and in an equal number of degrees with the Sun; and it

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is much better from the first quarter to the Opposition, and the Moon should be in a

fiery Sign, and notably in that of the Ram or of the Lion.

Therefore, to execute these Experiments in any manner whatsoever, it should be

done when the Moon is clear, and when she is increasing in light.

In order to put in execution those of Invisibility after everything is properly pre-

pared, the Moon should be in the Sign of the Fishes, in the hours proper and fitting,

and she should be increasing in light.

For experiments of seeking love and favor, in whatever way it may be desired, they

will succeed, provided that they have been prepared at the proper hours, and that the

Moon be increasing in light and in the Sign of the Twins.

So exact a preparation of days and hours is not necessary for those who are

Adepts in the Art, but it is extremely necessary for apprentices and beginners, seeing

that those who have been little or not at all instructed herein, and who only begin to

apply themselves to this Art, do not have as much faith in the experiments as those

who are adepts therein, and who have practiced them. But as regards beginners, they

should always have the days and hours well disposed and appropriate unto the Art.

And the wise should only observe the precepts of the Art which are necessary, and in

observing the other solemnities necessary they will operate with a perfect assurance.

It is, nevertheless, necessary to take care that when thou shalt have prepared any

experiment thyself for the days and hours ordained, that it should be performed in

clear, serene, mild, and pleasant weather, without any great tempest or agitation of the

air, which should not be troubled by winds. For when thou shalt have conjured any

Spirits in any art or experiment, they will not come when the Air is troubled or agi-

tated by winds, seeing that Spirits have neither flesh nor bones, and are created of

different substances.

Some are created from Water.

Others from Wind, unto which they are like.

Some from Earth.

Some from Clouds.

Others from Solar Vapors.

Others from the keenness and strength of Fire; and when they are invoked or

summoned, they come always with great noise, and with the terrible nature of fire.

When the Spirits which are created of water are invoked, they come with great

rains, thunder, hail, lightning, thunder-bolts, and the like.

When the Spirits which are created of Clouds are invoked, they come with great

deformity, in a horrible form, to strike fear into the invocator, and with an exceeding

great noise.

Others which are formed from wind appear like thereunto and with exceeding

swift motion, and whensoever those which are created from Beauty appear, they will

show themselves in a fair and agreeable form; moreover, whensoever thou shalt call

the Spirits created from Air, they will come with a kind of gentle breeze.

When the Spirits which are created from the Vapors of the Sun are invoked, they

come under a very beautiful and excellent form, but filled with pride, vanity, and con-

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ceit. They are clever, whence it comes that these last are all specified by SOLOMON in

his book of ornament, or of beauty. They show great ostentation and vainglory in

their dress, and they rejoice in many ornaments; the boast of possessing mundane

beauty, and all sorts of ornaments and decorations. Thou shalt only invoke them in

serene, mild, and pleasant weather.

The Spirits which are created of Fire reside in the east, those created of Wind in

the south.

Note then that it will be much better to perform the experiments or operations in

the direction of the East, putting everything necessary in practice towards that point.

But for all other operations or extraordinary experiments, and for those of love,

they will be much more efficacious directed towards the north.

Take heed further, that every time that thou performest any experiment, to reduce

it unto perfection with the requisite solemnities, thou shalt recommence the former

experiment if interrupted therein, without the preparation of hours or other

solemnities.

If by chance it should happen that having performed an experiment with due

observance of days, hours, and requisite solemnities, thou shalt find it unsuccessful, it

must be in some manner false, ill-arranged and defective, and thou must assuredly

have failed in some matter; for if thou doest ill in one single point, these experiments

or these Arts will not be verified.

Thus upon this Chapter dependeth this whole Key of Arts, Experiments, and

Operations, and although every solemnity be rightly observed, no experiment will be

verified, unless thou canst penetrate the meaning of this Chapter.

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