The Lesser Key of Solomon, also known as Clavicula Salomonis Regis or Lemegeton, is an anonymous grimoire (or spell book) on demonology. It was compiled in the mid-17th century, mostly from materials a couple of centuries older. It is divided into five books—the Ars Goetia, Ars Theurgia-Goetia, Ars Paulina, Ars Almadel, and Ars Notoria.784Please respect copyright.PENANACAQ5luLocK
Ars Goetia784Please respect copyright.PENANAiwV9bhHgnc
The most obvious source for the Ars Goetia is Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum in his De praestigiis daemonum. Weyer does not cite, and is unaware of, any other books in the Lemegeton, indicating that the Lemegeton was derived from his work, not the other way around. The order of the spirits was changed between the two, four additional spirits were added to the later work, and one spirit (Pruflas) was omitted. The omission of Pruflas, a mistake that also occurs in an edition of Pseudomonarchia Daemonum cited in Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft, indicates that the Ars Goetia could not have been compiled before 1570. Indeed, it appears that the Ars Goetia is more dependent upon Scot's translation of Weyer than Weyer's work in itself. Additionally, some material was used from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy, the Heptameron by pseudo-Pietro d'Abano, and the Magical Calendar.
Weyer's Officium Spirituum, which is likely related to a 1583 manuscript titled The Office of Spirits, appears to have ultimately been an elaboration on a 15th-century manuscript titled Le Livre des Esperitz (of which 30 of its 47 spirits are nearly identical to spirits in the Ars Goetia).
In a slightly later copy made by Thomas Rudd, this portion was labelled "Liber Malorum Spirituum seu Goetia", and the seals and demons were paired with those of the 72 angels of the Shemhamphorasch, who were intended to protect the conjurer and control the demons he summoned. The angelic names and seals were derived from a manuscript by Blaise de Vigenère, whose papers were also used by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers in his works for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Rudd may have derived his copy of Liber Malorum Spirituum from a now-lost work by Johannes Trithemius, who taught Agrippa, who in turn taught Weyer.
This portion of the work was later translated by S. L. MacGregor Mathers and published by Aleister Crowley under the title The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King. Crowley added some additional invocations previously unrelated to the original work, as well as essays describing the rituals as psychological exploration instead of demon summoning.784Please respect copyright.PENANAgCCMdLAXIS
The Seventy-Two Demons
The demons' names (given below) are taken from the Ars Goetia, which differs in terms of number and ranking from the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum of Weyer. As a result of multiple translations, there are multiple spellings for some of the names, which are given in the articles concerning them.
1) King Bael784Please respect copyright.PENANAZexWuz7XhU
2) Duke Agares784Please respect copyright.PENANAudUNYEQANa
3) Prince Vassago784Please respect copyright.PENANAOyLWMy3YP3
4) Marquis Samigina784Please respect copyright.PENANAj00QOqXqyK
5) President Marbas784Please respect copyright.PENANAL4GHhd6d5q
6) Duke Valefor784Please respect copyright.PENANAHcDt2GdaXd
7) Marquis Amon784Please respect copyright.PENANABFu74WZTHS
8) Duke Barbatos784Please respect copyright.PENANAVmjaeAeMJT
9) King Paimon784Please respect copyright.PENANAnLqgj9pgEG
10) President Buer784Please respect copyright.PENANABTINlWSaPJ
11) Duke Gusion784Please respect copyright.PENANAGEx9II1Qeb
12) Prince Sitri784Please respect copyright.PENANAN1pxtLtn4C
13) King Beleth784Please respect copyright.PENANATh3TGcAdkH
14) Marquis Leraje784Please respect copyright.PENANAY4xwqMxukU
15) Duke Eligos784Please respect copyright.PENANAJf8oQORtiJ
16) Duke Zepar784Please respect copyright.PENANAWG6anpKUry
17) Count/President Botis784Please respect copyright.PENANA0EeYInzPVy
18) Duke Bathin784Please respect copyright.PENANA8k388flz6n
19) Duke Sallos784Please respect copyright.PENANAaBZhdG2TVH
20) King Purson784Please respect copyright.PENANAbgqw5iyPso
21) Count/President Marax784Please respect copyright.PENANAMfewquihAn
22) Count/Prince Ipos784Please respect copyright.PENANAxvo2zBs7rs
23) Duke Aim784Please respect copyright.PENANAGqyh558EWP
24) Marquis Naberius784Please respect copyright.PENANApFo9m13JGo
25) Count/President Glasya-Labolas784Please respect copyright.PENANA0av3FNCCRf
26) Duke Buné784Please respect copyright.PENANAdKUGqhHjQi
27) Marquis/Count Ronové784Please respect copyright.PENANA37aVt4Ty4b
28) Duke Berith784Please respect copyright.PENANAydH2o0vvFP
29) Duke Astaroth784Please respect copyright.PENANAgs0mhTJmiD
30) Marquis Forneus784Please respect copyright.PENANA6AOBkGufbg
31) President Foras784Please respect copyright.PENANAafpPwmC9fd
32) King Asmoday784Please respect copyright.PENANAFneVFXfFVX
33) Prince/President Gäap784Please respect copyright.PENANAZn5PrrH8Yz
34) Count Furfur784Please respect copyright.PENANAdWDSJAVAYb
35) Marquis Marchosias784Please respect copyright.PENANAgYrd0K4e6w
36) Prince Stolas784Please respect copyright.PENANAsNg9lEtni0
37) Marquis Phenex784Please respect copyright.PENANABqY1ui4KJ7
38) Count Halphas784Please respect copyright.PENANA7u9y72gqrU
39) President Malphas784Please respect copyright.PENANATsSzMoQc3q
40) Count Räum784Please respect copyright.PENANAtNHKqBUw1Q
41) Duke Focalor784Please respect copyright.PENANAm7A8I7sfNs
42) Duke Vepar784Please respect copyright.PENANAeqJQeE5uzn
43) Marquis Sabnock784Please respect copyright.PENANAzGX1s10NSe
44) Marquis Shax784Please respect copyright.PENANAiOlsyfqqvq
45) King/Count Viné784Please respect copyright.PENANApCAOSFBCZT
46) Count Bifrons784Please respect copyright.PENANAlwtSyPw7zS
47) Duke Vual784Please respect copyright.PENANABZeevulEDm
48) President Haagenti784Please respect copyright.PENANAwBl9Q3oYWV
49) Duke Crocell784Please respect copyright.PENANAKYRyW66SgD
50) Knight Furcas784Please respect copyright.PENANA0OCCvXVuGQ
51) King Balam784Please respect copyright.PENANAldtoYJIZuj
52) Duke Alloces784Please respect copyright.PENANAKyQnFPgJPE
53) President Caim784Please respect copyright.PENANA4WC2tnkQ9t
54) Duke/Count Murmur784Please respect copyright.PENANAWMBcSTpnk1
55) Prince Orobas784Please respect copyright.PENANAFIi3T5GTav
56) Duke Gremory784Please respect copyright.PENANAp6HyGv5lAf
57) President Ose784Please respect copyright.PENANAfXQJLCBe0k
58) President Amy784Please respect copyright.PENANAwqaDwgqooP
59) Marquis Orias784Please respect copyright.PENANA5I3lpKdV4Y
60) Duke Vapula784Please respect copyright.PENANAt9NeMG7PCf
61) King/President Zagan784Please respect copyright.PENANA1zncNeCEGp
62) President Valac784Please respect copyright.PENANA36pe9lSX8E
63) Marquis Andras784Please respect copyright.PENANAmxZJzYryh5
64) Duke Flauros784Please respect copyright.PENANA1n1wvYZbBz
65) Marquis Andrealphus784Please respect copyright.PENANAVVoT02HNAA
66) Marquis Kimaris784Please respect copyright.PENANA3Fr6tlGD2T
67) Duke Amdusias784Please respect copyright.PENANA6FXGdKKEhb
68) King Belial784Please respect copyright.PENANAW3WkPokE1O
69) Marquis Decarabia784Please respect copyright.PENANATmylaDNR67
70) Prince Seere784Please respect copyright.PENANAlLVRyEMBAQ
71) Duke Dantalion784Please respect copyright.PENANARmRKaehpaa
72) Count Andromalius
The demons are described as being commanded by four kings of the cardinal directions: Amaymon (East), Corson (West), Ziminiar (North), and Gaap (South). A footnote in one variant edition instead lists them as Oriens or Uriens, Paymon or Paymonia, Ariton or Egyn, and Amaymon or Amaimon, alternatively known as Samael, Azazel, Azael, and Mahazael (purportedly their preferred rabbinic names).[10] Agrippa's Occult Philosophy lists the kings of the cardinal directions as Urieus (East), Amaymon (South), Paymon (West), and Egin (North); again providing the alternate names Samuel (i.e. Samael), Azazel, Azael, and Mahazuel. The Magical Calendar lists them as Bael, Moymon, Poymon, and Egin, though Peterson notes that some variant editions instead list '"Asmodel in the East, Amaymon in the South, Paymon in the West, and Aegym in the North"; "Oriens, Paymon, Egyn, and Amaymon"; or "Amodeo [sic] (king of the East), Paymon (king of the West), Egion (king of the North), and Maimon."784Please respect copyright.PENANA8Hdj2mZ4gf
Ars Theurgia Goetia784Please respect copyright.PENANAzDdcTSOIcY
The Ars Theurgia Goetia mostly derives from Trithemius's Steganographia, though the seals and order for the spirits are different due to corrupted transmission via manuscript. Rituals not found in Steganographia were added, in some ways conflicting with similar rituals found in the Ars Goetia and Ars Paulina. Most of the spirits summoned are tied to points on a compass, four Emperors tied to the cardinal points (Carnesiel in the East, Amenadiel in the West, Demoriel in the North and Caspiel in the South), sixteen Dukes tied to cardinal points, inter-cardinal points, additional directions between those. There are an additional eleven Wandering Princes, totaling thirty one spirit leaders who each rule several to a few dozen spirits.784Please respect copyright.PENANABKphVznfJm
784Please respect copyright.PENANASaJ27ZGia7
Ars Paulina784Please respect copyright.PENANADhgDcY8e3k
Derived from book two of Trithemius's Steganographia and from portions of the Heptameron, but purportedly delivered by Paul the Apostle instead of (as claimed by Trithemius) Raziel. Elements from The Magical Calendar, astrological seals by Robert Turner's 1656 translation of Paracelsus's Archidoxes of Magic, and repeated mentions of guns and the year 1641 indicate that this portion was written in the later half of the seventeenth century. Traditions of Paul communicating with heavenly powers are almost as old as Christianity itself, as seen in some interpretations of 2 Corinthians 12:2-4 and the apocryphal Apocalypse of Paul. The Ars Paulina is in turn divided into two books, the first detailing twenty-four angels aligned with the twenty-four hours of the day, the second (derived more from the Heptameron) detailing the 360 spirits of the degrees of the zodiac.784Please respect copyright.PENANAPFwXDH6e2p
Ars Almadel784Please respect copyright.PENANAb5JE4cnjLh
Mentioned by Trithemius and Weyer, the latter of whom claimed an Arabic origin for the work. A 15th-century copy is attested to by Robert Turner, and Hebrew copies were discovered in the 20th century. The Ars Almadel instructs the magician on how to create a wax tablet with specific designs intended to contact angels via scrying.784Please respect copyright.PENANAxKXIAO6YTr
Ars Notoria784Please respect copyright.PENANAKm3IGxLUaW
The oldest known portion of the Lemegeton, the Ars Notoria (or Notory Art) was first mentioned by Michael Scot in 1236 (and thus was written earlier). The Ars Notoria contains a series of prayers (related to those in The Sworn Book of Honorius) intended to grant eidetic memory and instantaneous learning to the magician. Some copies and editions of the Lemegeton omit this work entirely; A. E. Waite ignores it completely when describing the Lemegeton. It is also known as the Ars Nova.784Please respect copyright.PENANA5wGTdyPAo8
784Please respect copyright.PENANAV5HSVPVv2c
It has also been said to be the origin of Pandora's box and where the seven deadly sins were born.
1 Gula (gluttony)784Please respect copyright.PENANAyPZhRwczoi
2 Luxuria (lust, fornication)784Please respect copyright.PENANA24Oy1M97Ca
3 Avaritia (avarice/greed)784Please respect copyright.PENANA7zmdBHQydL
4 Superbia (pride, hubris)784Please respect copyright.PENANA0odGhNKV2d
5 Invidia (Envy)784Please respect copyright.PENANAv8fKbpC51M
6 Ira (wrath)784Please respect copyright.PENANAWmjTF2IU7z
7 Acedia (sloth)784Please respect copyright.PENANAXyWFi4zVAu
If you look any further into it, beware your surrounding... You will uncover, the truth.
ns 172.70.131.152da2