Key of SolomonCeremonial MagicMystical / EsotericLatin, French, Italian, and Hebrew magical manuscript traditions represented in EnglishShareKey of Solomon 107Mathers 1889 - EnglishMoreVersion - 1 availableMathers 1889LanguageEnglishEspañol‹Key of Solomon 3Key of Solomon 6Key of Solomon 8Key of Solomon 9Key of Solomon 10Key of Solomon 12Key of Solomon 14Key of Solomon 16Key of Solomon 19Key of Solomon 21Key of Solomon 22Key of Solomon 24Key of Solomon 26Key of Solomon 28Key of Solomon 30Key of Solomon 32Key of Solomon 34Key of Solomon 36Key of Solomon 38Key of Solomon 40Key of Solomon 42Key of Solomon 45Key of Solomon 46Key of Solomon 47Key of Solomon 48Key of Solomon 49Key of Solomon 50Key of Solomon 51Key of Solomon 53Key of Solomon 55Key of Solomon 57Key of Solomon 59Key of Solomon 60Key of Solomon 63Key of Solomon 65Key of Solomon 67Key of Solomon 69Key of Solomon 71Key of Solomon 73Key of Solomon 76Key of Solomon 79Key of Solomon 81Key of Solomon 83Key of Solomon 85Key of Solomon 87Key of Solomon 89Key of Solomon 91Key of Solomon 93Key of Solomon 95Key of Solomon 97Key of Solomon 99Key of Solomon 101Key of Solomon 103Key of Solomon 104Key of Solomon 106Key of Solomon 107Key of Solomon 109›The Key Of Solomon .Key of Solomon 107ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1The True God hath vanquished all the Demons as Truth triumphs over Error. That is past in the opinions of men, and the Wars of Michael against Satan are the symbols of movement, and of the progress of Spirits. 2Accredited idolatries are religions in their time. 3Superannuated idolatries are Superstitions and Sacrileges. 4The Pantheon of Phantoms, which are then in vogue, is the Heaven of the Ignorant. 5The Receptacle of Phantoms, whom Folly even wisheth for no longer, is the Hell. 6But all this existeth only in the Imagination of the Vulgar. 7For the Wise, Heaven is the Supreme Reason, and Hell is Folly. 8But it must be understood that we here employ the word Heaven in the Mystical sense which we give it in opposing to it the word Hell. 9In order to evoke Phantoms it is sufficient to intoxicate oneself or to render oneself mad; for Phantoms are ever the companions of drunkenness and of vertigo. 10The Phosphorus of the imagination, abandoned to all the caprices of over-excited and diseased nerves, fills itself with Monsters and absurd visions. 11We can also arrive at hallucination by mingling together wakefulness and sleep by the graduated use of narcotics; but such actions are crimes against nature. 12Wisdom chaseth away Phantoms, and enables us to communicate with the Superior Spirits by the contemplation of the Laws of Nature and the study of the Holy Numbers. 13(Here King Solomon addresseth himself to his son, Roboam): — 14Do thou, O my son Roboam, remember, that the Fear of Adonai is only the beginning of W isdom. 15Keep and preserve those who have not Understanding in the Fear of Adonai, which will give and will preserve unto thee my crown. 16But learn to triumph thyself over Fear by Wisdom, and the Spirits will descend from Heaven to serve thee. 17I, Solomon, thy father, King of Israel and of Palmyra, I have sought out and obtained in my lot the Holy Chokmah, which is the Wisdom of Adonai. 18And I have become King of the Spirits as well of Heaven as of Earth, Master of the Dwellers of the Air, and of the Living Souls of the Sea, because I was in possession of the Key of the Hidden Gates of Light. 19I have done great things by the virtue of the Schema Hamphorasch, and by the Thirty-two Paths of Yetzirah. 20Number, weight, and measure determine the form of things; the sub- stance is one, and God createth it eternally. 21Happy is he who comprehendeth the Letters and the Numbers. 22The Letters are from the Numbers, and the Numbers from the Ideas, and the Ideas from the Forces, and the Forces from the Elohim. The Syn- thesis of the Elohim is the Schema. 23The Schema is one, its columns are two, its power is three, its form is 24four, its reflection giveth eight, which multiplied by three giveth unto thee the twenty-four Thrones of Wisdom. 25Upon each Throne reposeth a Crown with three Rays, each Ray beareth a Name, each Name is an Absolute Idea. There are Seventy-Two Names upon the Twenty-four Crowns of the Schema. 26Thoushalt write these Names upon Thirty-Six Talismans, two upon each Talisman, one on each side. 27Thou shalt divide these Talismans into four series of nine each, according to the number of the Letters of the Schema. 28Upon the first Series thou shalt engrave the Letter Yod, symbolised by the Flowering Rod of Aaron. 29Upon the Second the Letter He, symbolised by the Cup of Joseph. 30Upon the third the Letter Vau, symbolised by the Sword of David my father. 31And upon the fourth the He final, symbolised by the Shekel of Gold. 32These thirty-six Talismans will be a Book which will contain all the Secrets of Nature. 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