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45 reading choices in 23 collections
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Natural qualities, celestial proportion and sacred knowledge meet in Agrippa’s three connected worlds of occult philosophy.
Two historical editions of all three books. Choose English or Latin; each opens at its first scan.
John Dee's records of actions with Edward Kelley and other participants
Follow Dee’s angelic inquiry through its conversations, visionary instruments, Great Table, names, offices and the thirty Airs.
The 1659 edition is divided into two reading parts. It contains the later conferences selected by Casaubon, not all of Dee’s surviving diaries.
Anonymous work; first printed at Basel
Explore Olympic governors, the ordering of secrets, sevenfold preparation, spiritual offices and the discernment of extraordinary promises.
The complete Arbatel section, printed pages 177–217, from the 1655 collected volume.
Attributed to M. L. Cyprianus; anonymous manuscript hand
Read a compact illuminated manuscript in which celestial authority, crowned powers, binding words and planetary signs shape a carefully ordered encounter.
Twenty-three photographed views include manuscript openings, a folding leaf and binding views. Some scans already show two facing pages.
Johannes Weyer, reproducing and criticizing a Solomonic spirit catalogue
Weyer’s critical account of demonic deception includes the spirit catalogue known as Pseudomonarchia daemonum.
One 1577 volume divided into three reading parts. The Pseudomonarchia spirit catalogue appears in the third part alongside the later books and index.
Anonymous composite manuscript; opening grimoire attributed to Solomon
Study a richly drawn French manuscript of spirit courts, personal signs and material arts, alongside the magical elements of Peter of Abano and an invocation of Uriel.
This is the composite L’Art Magique manuscript, with Verum-related material, Peter of Abano material and an invocation of Uriel. It is not the 1817 printed Grimorium Verum.
Anonymous prayer collection preserved in Berengar Ganell's Summa sacre magice
Ganell’s surviving Latin manuscript preserves a large collection of sacred magic, including the prayers known as the Book of Three Souls.
Read the fourteen-scan Three Souls section on its own, or open the 319-scan surviving Summa containing it. The section also appears inside the larger manuscript; historical losses are not reconstructed.
Attributed to Peter of Abano; the attribution is not accepted as established authorship
Study named hours, angelic governments, protective signs, sacred speech and the order of a ritual world beside the surviving manuscript.
Choose the surviving manuscript section or its Latin transcription. The transcription includes an English introduction, not a full English translation.
Pseudonymous compilation attributed to Albert le Petit
Explore a French treasury of hidden natural powers: planetary materials, elemental inhabitants, guarded treasure, exposed deceptions and rural protective charms.
Two consecutive reading parts of the same 1765 edition, preserving the original order.
Richard Saunders
Saunders brings the reading of hands together with physiognomy, forehead lines, planetary correspondences and a treatise on moles.
Claudius Ptolemy; English translation by J. M. Ashmand from the paraphrase attributed to Proclus
Follow Ptolemy’s planetary qualities and zodiacal geometry into fixed stars, weather, birth charts and human relationships through a historical English edition.
The numbered text is present in this 1822 copy; its folded planisphere is missing.
Robert Fludd (1574–1637)
Explore Fludd’s music, numbers, geometry, optics, celestial and human worlds, sacred philosophy and experiments across thirteen hosted reading parts.
Thirteen reading parts from one bound two-volume set, 1617–1626. Together they contain 2,473 scans. These are parts of the set, not thirteen different editions.
Anonymous tradition presented through the authority of Solomon and the angel Raziel
A Hebrew compilation of angelic names, cosmological diagrams, sacred learning and protective traditions gathered under the name of Raziel.
This is the 1881 Hebrew compilation, a different witness from the English Raziel discussed in the lessons.
Anonymous compilers; MS V.b.26
Enter an Elizabethan working collection of fairy courts, visionary instruments, sacred names, planetary governments and written spirit pledges.
Two parts contain all surviving historical manuscript pages. The opening pages 1–14 are unlocated, and the original numbering skips from 32 to 35.
Anonymous Egyptian compilation; edited and translated by F. Ll. Griffith and Herbert Thompson
Enter an ancient Egyptian magical handbook of visionary vessels, divine guests, dream answers, hidden names and the solar boat.
Three historical volumes: text and translation, the editors’ hand-copy of the papyrus, and indices.
Anonymous compilation attributed to Solomon
Read the Lesser Key’s spirits through their distinct offices, ranks, knowledge, transformations and forms of ritual address, with extended studies of the Goetia.
The hosted 1904 volume is the Goetia, the first book of the five-part Lesser Key.
Anonymous French compilation claiming Solomonic authority
Explore commands, negotiated pacts, infernal offices, treasure and angelic mirrors in a complete French Dragon Rouge witness.
Anonymous manuscript tradition attributed to King Solomon
Follow planetary time, the seven pentacle families, sacred space, instruments and the responsibilities of a working company through the Key of Solomon.
Anonymous compilers; Clm 849
Read a medieval book of conjurations through extraordinary teachers, imagined banquets, impossible travel, dreams and instruments of vision.
A facsimile of the surviving manuscript, including its binding and appended material. Historical leaves 1 and 2 are missing.
Presented as Abraham's instruction to his son Lamech; historical authorship uncertain
Explore apprenticeship, angelic guidance, spiritual hierarchy, letter squares, guarded knowledge and the varied arts of the Abramelin tradition.
This 1898 copy lacks printed pages 20–21, 32–33 and 36–37. The available historical pages are presented in reading order.
Anonymous Latin compilation attributed to Solomon
Explore a manuscript joining spirit courts, cosmic governors, pentacles and a human-shaped microcosm, with closer studies of its distinct forms of authority.
Papus (Gérard Encausse) · translated by A. P. Morton
Follow Papus’s tarot through its figures, number patterns, court cards, septenaries and reading arrangements, with the complete historical English edition beside you.
Attributed to Basil Valentine; with Theodore Kerckring’s annotations and The True Book attributed to Synesius
Study spiritual foundations, hidden material powers, apparatus and the arguments of authors and commentators in a seventeenth-century alchemical volume.
Includes annotations, apparatus plates and the appended work attributed to Synesius. This copy lacks its portrait frontispiece, and the first apparatus plate is clipped at the scan edge.