The Grand Grimoire with the Great Clavicle of Solomon by Unknown

Description

The Grand Grimoire with the Great Clavicle of Solomon is a book first published in the 18th century (commonly dated c.1702–1750). Framed as an inheritance from the Solomonic tradition, the text presents a practical manual of black magic and diabolic evocation: rites, invocations, the construction of talismans and wands, and the forms of pact-making used to compel spirits. The book reads like a ritual handbook rather than a philosophical treatise, emphasising step-by-step preparations, sacred names, sigils and ceremonial tools intended to bind and bargain with powerful intelligences. Steeped in the language and apparatus of European ceremonial magic, the Grand Grimoire borrows heavily from earlier Solomonic collections (the Key of Solomon and the Lesser Key) while adding its own “clavicle” (secret words and invocations) and practical instructions for summoning named infernal officers such as Lucifuge Rofocale. Historically it has been regarded with suspicion and fascination in equal measure: a text treated as folklore, a compendium for occult practitioners, and a cultural touchstone that fed later occultists, writers and popular imaginings of pacts with demons. Read today as a document of magical practice and belief, it is most useful to historians, folklorists and collectors of grimoires — and to anyone curious about the technical, ritual logic behind traditional European ceremonial magic.

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