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Traditions/Ceremonial Magic
occult tradition

Ceremonial Magic

Grimoires, Solomonic magic, angelic names, ritual tools, planetary magic, Golden Dawn, and ceremonial practice.

Western esotericMedieval onward2 readable texts4 indexed sources
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Key of Solomon

Ceremonial MagicMystical / Esoteric

The Key of Solomon is indexed for Solomonic ritual magic, planetary hours, pentacles, purification, divine names, conjurations, and ceremonial tools.

Latin, French, Italian, and Hebrew magical manuscript traditions represented in English· medieval / early modern grimoire material; 1889 English edition

Lesser Key of Solomon: Goetia

Ceremonial MagicMystical / Esoteric

A public-domain Goetia edition for ceremonial magic, spirit catalogues, secret names, and ritual-language comparison.

English / Latin magical textual tradition· early modern grimoire material; 1916 public-domain edition
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Key of Solomon

grimoiremedieval / early modern
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Internet Archive Public Domain Mark / Mathers 1889 edition loaded

Indexed from the Mathers 1889 public-domain scan; OCR-normalized with page headers, binder directions, and back matter filtered.

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Lesser Key / Goetia

grimoireearly modern
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public-domain de Laurence edition loaded

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LEAD-BY-LEAD (fetched/verified): (1) Gutenberg #14209 'The Kybalion' (Three Initiates, 1908; PD-US) = DUPLICATE of existing text 'kybalion' — skip. (2) Gutenberg #61126 'Japan and the Pacific' (Inagaki) = OFF-TOPIC (geopolitics/history), not occult — likely a mis-seeded URL; exclude. (3) Gutenberg #12408 '周髀算經 / Zhoubi Suanjing' = OFF-TOPIC (ancient Chinese astronomy/math, Chinese language) — mis-seeded; exclude. (4) archive.org keyofsolomonking0000solo = a modern controlled-digital-lending reprint of the Key of Solomon; the PD Mathers 1889 edition is already imported — skip (modern reprint, borrow-only). (5) archive.org lesserkeyofsolom00laur = De Laurence 1916 Lesser Key = DUPLICATE of existing 'lesser-key-goetia' — skip. (6) esotericarchives.com = Joseph H. Peterson's editorial transcriptions/editions are COPYRIGHTED — exclude as a copy source (useful only as a pointer to grimoires whose ORIGINALS are PD). NET: the provided leads yield no clean new PD import.

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Occult/magic cluster coverage audit + embedding QA (6 traditions)

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All 14 existing cluster texts are public domain

EXISTING COVERAGE (all PD, no duplicates needed): ceremonial-magic = key-of-solomon (Mathers 1889), lesser-key-goetia (De Laurence 1916); hermeticism = corpus-hermeticum (Mead 1906), kybalion (1908/1912), emerald-tablet; kabbalah = sefer-yetzirah (Westcott 1887), kabbalah-ginsburg (1863/1920); wicca-witchcraft = wonders-of-the-invisible-world (Salem, 1862 reprint), aradia-gospel-witches (1899); folk-magic-white-magic = ancient-legends-mystic-charms-ireland (Wilde 1919), discoverie-of-witchcraft (Scot, 1886 reprint); theosophy-new-thought = secret-doctrine-vol-1 (Blavatsky 1893), edinburgh-lectures-mental-science (Troward 1904), nuggets-of-the-new-thought (Atkinson 1902). EMBEDDING/SEARCH QA (the 'uneven embeddings' flagged at task creation): folk-magic-white-magic ~0% embedded, theosophy-new-thought ~0%, wicca-witchcraft ~14%, kabbalah ~21.7%, hermeticism ~57%, ceremonial-magic ~68.3% — recommend running embedding/search backfill (admin_backfill_embeddings / admin_rebuild_search_index) across the low-coverage texts; this is the highest-value fix for this cluster (content breadth is already strong).

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Questions this area should answer
  • How do angelic and demonic names move through grimoires?
  • What is ritual method versus theology?
  • Where do Solomonic claims need verification?