所罗门全书(神秘学).docVIP

THE KEY OF SOLOMON BOOK II edited by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers This digital edition by Joseph H. Peterson, Copyright ? 1999, 2004. All rights reserved. If you value this and other texts on this website, please do not copy except for private use (fair use). For this edition I have added a considerable number of footnotes, denoted by -JHP. To avoid confusion I have added -SLM in some places to denote Mathers original footnotes. I have omitted Mathers drawings from this e-text, since they are available in a low cost paperback edition from Weiser. I have however, supplied some examples from various manuscripts which were not taken from Mathers edition. -JHP PREFATORY NOTE1 NOTES: 1. This Prefatory Note is only found in 3981 Harleian MSS., 3091 Sloane MSS., and 288 Kings MSS. 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 themselves. 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