Author; S Liddell Mac Gregor Mathers Here presented is S.L. MacGregor Mathers' 1888 edition of that most famous and influencial book of the grimoire tradition - The Key of Solomon the King. The Late Medieval texts, from which Mathers compiled his edition, are set forth as two books - the first detailing detailing such things as the contruction of the Circle,...
Author; Joseph H Peterson Compiled from original manuscripts and fragments in the British Museum Library, Joseph Peterson's new presentation is the most complete and accurate edition of this famous magical grimoire, "The Lesser Key of Solomon the King." He goes to great length to establish the provenance of each part, and possible derivative works, including critical analyses of all major...
Author; Tobias Churton A comprehensive look at the life of Elias Ashmole, who represents the historic missing link between operative and symbolic Freemasonry• Explores the true role of occult and magical studies in the genesis of modern science• Explains the full meaning of the term magus, which Ashmole exemplifiedElias Ashmole (1617-1692) was the first to record a personal account of initiation...
Author: Christopher McIntosh An introduction to the spiritual movement that influenced Western esoteric tradition - from alchemy and Freemasonry to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.This scholarly work traces the mysterious Fraternity of the Rosy Cross, from its inception upon the discovery of Father Christian Rosenkreuz's perfectly preserved body in a seven-sided vault to present-day organizations in America. McIntosh...
Translated by; S.L. Mac Gregor Mathers The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage – the second edition Troy Book’s series of classic grimoires, was translated into English by Occultist S. L. Mac Gregor Mathers from a French document in 1897. Whilst the text purports to be of 15th century origin, the earliest known versions of the manuscript, which are in...
Author; Sara L. Mastros The Key of Solomon is a family of closely related historic grimoires legendarily attributed to Solomon, the biblical Magician King. Most famously, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers’s 1889 English edition presented forty-four Hebrew seals, commonly called the “planetary pentacles.” However, it offered very little guidance for how to work with them. Sara L. Mastros, a leading teacher and...
