THE KEY OF SOLOMON
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THE KEY OF SOLOMON THE KING.
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THE
KEY OF SOLOMON THE KING
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S. LIDDELL MACGREGOR MATHERS
Author of " The Kabbalah Unveiled " The Tarot," 8fc.
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THE
KEY OF SOLOMON THE KING.
In presenting this celebrated magical work to the student of occult science some few prefatory remarks are necessary.
The Key of Solomon, save for a curtailed and incomplete copy published in France in the seventeenth century, has never yet been printed, but has for centuries remained in Manuscript form inaccessible to all but the few fortunate scholars to whom the inmost recesses of the great libraries were open. I therefore consider that I am highly honoured in being the individual to whose lot it has fallen to usher it into the light of day.
The fountain-head and storehouse of Qabalistical Magic, and the origin of much of the Ceremonial Magic of mediaeval times, the " Key" has been ever valued by occult writers as a work of the highest authority; and notably in our own day Eliphaz Levi has taken it for the model on which his celebrated
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