Hygromanteia: The Byzantine Magical Treatise of Solomon Behind the Key of Solomon
Explore the Hygromanteia, a Byzantine Greek Solomonic manuscript tradition: its rituals, diagrams, cultural setting, and relationship to the Key of Solomon.
Key of Solomon
Ritual Timing in the Key of Solomon
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the calendars, planetary days, hours, lunar conditions, and practical scheduling found in Solomonic texts, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later…
The Pentacles of the Moon: Dreams, Cycles, and Reflection
A detailed, source-conscious guide to lunar pentacles and the changing worlds of memory, dream, travel, bodily rhythm, imagination, and reflected light, with manuscript history, symbolic…
The Pentacles of Mercury: Language, Learning, and Exchange
A detailed, source-conscious guide to Mercurial pentacles as images of speech, writing, memory, trade, calculation, interpretation, and movement, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later reception,…
The Pentacles of Venus: Attraction, Harmony, and Relationship
A detailed, source-conscious guide to Venusian pentacles and the themes of attraction, beauty, friendship, pleasure, reconciliation, and consent, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later reception,…
The Pentacles of the Sun: Illumination, Reputation, and Center
A detailed, source-conscious guide to solar pentacles as images of clarity, vitality, recognition, lawful center, and the visibility of authority, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis,…
The Pentacles of Mars: Conflict, Courage, and Protection
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the martial pentacles and the difficult balance between defense, aggression, courage, and controlled force, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later…
The Pentacles of Jupiter: Kingship, Mercy, and Expansion
A detailed, source-conscious guide to Jupiterian pentacles as images of lawful authority, generosity, prosperity, justice, and social order, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later reception,…
The Pentacles of Saturn: Boundaries, Time, and Authority
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the Saturnian pentacles and their themes of limitation, protection, endurance, confinement, and serious authority, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later…
The Planetary Pentacles of the Key of Solomon
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the seven planetary groups of pentacles and the way text, geometry, scripture, and astrology converge in them, with manuscript history,…
The Key of Solomon Explained: Structure, History, and Influence
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the Clavicula Salomonis manuscript family and its later printed reputation, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later reception, common misconceptions, and…