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The lesser Key of Solomon, Goetia, the book of evil spirits : $b contains two hundred diagrams and seals for invocation and convocation of spirits, necromancy, witchcraft and black art

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The lesser Key of Solomon, Goetia, the book of evil spirits : $b contains two hundred diagrams and seals for invocation and convocation of spirits, necromancy, witchcraft and black art

Magic; Occultism

_Sadai._—Thou great God of all wisdom and knowledge:

    _Jesal_ (should be Iesod).—Instruct Thy poor and most humble
    servant:

    _Cherubim._—By Thy holy cherubim:

    _Gabriel._—By Thy Holy Angel Gabriel, who is the Author and
    Messenger of good tidings:

    _Levanah._—Direct and support us at this present and for ever.


       THE EXPLANATION OF THE TWO TRIANGLES[40] IN THE PARCHMENT.


    _Alpha And Omega._—Thou, O great God, Who art the beginning and the
    end:

    _Tetragrammaton._—Thou God of Almighty power, be ever present with
    us to guard and protect us, and let Thy Holy Spirit and presence be
    now and always with us:

    _Soluzen._—I command thee, thou Spirit of whatsoever region thou
    art, to come unto this circle:

    _Halliza._—And appear in human shape:

    _Bellator_ (or Ballaton).—And speak unto us audibly in our
    mother-tongue:

    _Bellonoy_ (or Bellony).—And show, and discover unto us all treasure
    that thou knowest of, or that is in thy keeping, and deliver it unto
    us quietly:

    _Hallii._ _Hra._—And answer all such questions as we may demand
    without any defect now at this time.


                  AN EXPLANATION OF SOLOMON’S TRIANGLE


_Anephezeton._—Thou great God of all the Heavenly Host:

_Primeumaton._—Thou Who art the First and Last, let all spirits be
subject unto us, and let the Spirit be bound in this triangle, which
disturbs this place:

_Michael._—By Thy Holy Angel Michael, until I shall discharge him.

(HERE ENDETH THIS FIRST BOOK OF THE LEMEGETON, WHICH IS CALLED THE
GOETIA.)

Footnote 40:

  Evidently meaning both the Hexagram and the Pentagram of Solomon.
  (_See Figures 155 and 156._)




               _Ye Conjuratiouns of ye Booke Goetia in ye
               Lemegeton which Solomoun ye Kynge did give
            unto Lemuel hys sonne, rendered into ye Magicall
       or Angelike Language by our Illustrious and ever-Glorious
                    Frater, ye Wise Perdurabo, that
              Myghtye Chiefe of ye Rosy-Cross Fraternitye,
            now sepulchred in ye Vault of ye Collegium S.S.
                       And soe may we doe alle!_


_ATTE YE BATHES OF ART._

                 Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo, et mundabor:
                 Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor.

                  *       *       *       *       *

_ATTE YE INDUYNGE OF YE HOLY VESTURES._

_In the mystery of these vestures of the Holy Ones, I gird up my power
in the girdles of righteousness and truth in the power of the Most High:
Ancor: Amacor: Amides: Theodonias: Anitor: let be mighty my power: let
it endure for ever: in the power of Adonai, to whom the praise and the
glory shall be; whose end cannot be._


_YE FYRSTE CONJOURATIOUN._

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The lesser Key of Solomon, Goetia, the book of evil spirits : $b contains two hundred diagrams and seals for invocation and convocation of spirits, necromancy, witchcraft and black art

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