Libraries of the Sorcerers: Key of Solomon Class-Bundle

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Libraries of the Sorcerers: Key of Solomon Class-Bundle

$40.00

A self-contained one-off class-bundle exploring the history and practical application of the popular ceremonialist’s grimoire known as the Key of Solomon; consisting of a two-hour long-form illustrated lecture, the accompanying slide-deck, and a bibliography of further recommended study. No previous knowledge or experience of grimoiric magic necessary.

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There are many historical grimoiric texts referred to as Keys of Solomon, each in some way attributed to the providence of the wise sorcerer-king Solomon. Becoming something of a catch-all term for any and all books of magic across the early modern period, a huge range of different systems, handbooks, and collections of magical lore and techniques went by the recognised and popular title Clavicula Salomonis.

One more recent, and especially popular, version is the late-Victorian edition of the Key collected and edited by S.L. MacGregor Mathers of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which has come to form something of a cornerstone of modern ceremonial magic. This presentation explores the protocols and procedures of this edition through comparative notes and grounding in the Clavicula’s earlier historical variant manuscripts.

In the course of this analysis, we take stock of a range of instructions for constructing and consecrating wands, knives, robes, and many many other tools of magical paraphernalia, and examine the sigils and chains of barbarous words and names of spirits that effectuate and empower the conjuration of spirits, as well as noting the range and depth of Christian appropriations (and corruptions) of sacred Hebrew names of god, Jewish angelology, as well as ceremonialised operations of popular folk magic.

This class-bundle includes: 

An illustrated lecture of two hours duration
Lecture slide-deck
Bibliography of further recommended study on grimoiric magic

A full table of contents of the lecture itself runs:

•        History & Context
•        Versions
•        Mathers’ Key
•        (One Set of) Contents
•        Tools & Supplies
•        Preparations
•        Consecrations
•        Circling
•        Pentacles
•        Conjurations
•        Magical Artefacts
•        (Folk) Operations
•        Closing Remarks
•        Experiments & Approaches
•        Further Study

By purchasing this class recording, you agree that you understand that no part of the material dictated or provided throughout the duration of the presentation may be reproduced, distributed, or used in any other form (neither electronic nor mechanic, including photocopies and recordings), without the direct and written consent of the instructor, Dr Alexander Cummins.

“Necromancer (necromantes) he that practises that wicked Art, a Master of the Black Art, one that seeks to the dead; or consults with Satan in the shape of a dead man. The Hebrews describe him thus; he made himself hungry, and then lodged among the Graves, that the dead might come to him in a dream, and make known to him that which he asked, &c. Others there were that clad themselves with cloathes for that purpose, and spoke certain words, burned Incense, and slept by themselves, that such a dead person might come and talk with them in a dream.”
- Thomas Blount, Glossographia (London, 1661)