THE KEY OF SOLOMON: Clavicula Salomonis, the Grimoire of Solo-monic Ritual Magic, Sacred Pentacles, and Ceremonial Practice

The Key of Solomon presents the complete Clavicula Salomonis in the widely used translation by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers, first published in 1889 and now in the public domain. This edition gathers both books of the historical grimoire in full: the ritual preparations, prayers and conjurations for calling and commanding spirits, the constructing and consecrating of pentacles, the fashioning of the magic circle and its instruments, and the closing chapters on characters, alphabets and the sacrifices attributed to spirits. Mathers's own preface and introduction are included, alongside a set of pentacle tables set out in full. An original editor's note opens every chapter, placing its instructions in the context of the wider Solomonic tradition and the surviving manuscripts Mathers drew on, and a twenty-three-entry glossary explains the Hebrew names, planetary terms and technical vocabulary that recur throughout the text. No passage has been abridged, paraphrased or modernized; the translation follows its established public domain source in full. Set in a classic serif type with the body fully justified for a clean, book-like page, this edition is suited to readers of historical occult literature, students of Western ceremonial magic, and collectors building a library of primary Solomonic texts. This is a historical text presented for study and interest; the publisher makes no claim that any procedure described in it achieves any result, and some of the practices it describes are dangerous or unlawful and should not be attempted.