CLAVICULA SALOMONIS

HEBRAEORUM REGIS

Issued by the Hell Fire Club in a Royal Binding

in Antique Style

Of only twelve exquisite and talismanic copies

To be sold via the website

http://www.hellfireclubbooks.co.uk/home.html

from
March 2009
Moon in Taurus

Inspired by the Song of Solomon

&
Ezekiels vision of the Temple Restored

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The Book of The Key of Solomon

(Sepher Maphteah Shalomoh)

Being
 An exact facsimile of an original Book of Magic in Hebrew

By

Hermann Gollancz
Goldsmid Proifessor of Hebrew, University College London

1903

Reprinted by the Teitan press in a limited edition

And here sumptuously bound by hand

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Each copy of the twelve is constructed from a total of exactly 258

individual hand operations (signifying by this the sum of the Hebrew
word H.I.R.A.M. legendary architect of the Temple of Solomon) from
the first stages of binding to the final gilding of the book in 22 carat
gold, we are proud to present

The

CLAVICULA SALOMONIS
HEBRAEORUM REGIS

Or

The Key of Solomon the King

Only twelve copies have been bound by hand and talismanically

inscribed with the respective Zodiacal Spirit Seal from the manuscript
copy of the Hebrew ‘Key’.
Each Talisman being written upon a piece of genuine virgin calf
vellum 198mm x 99mm, inscribed ‘Clavicula Salomonis Hebraeorum
Regis’ amidst scrolls, and designated
 ‘..one of only twelve copies handbound for the Hell Fire Club..’

And signed by the binder with his title as Prior of the Knights of
St. Francis. Each Talisman is hand drawn in royal blue ink made from
vegetable dyes, surrounded by an elegant border of leaves and scrolls,
four Masonic squares and compasses, all in deep wine-red letterpress
ink. The design of the vellum limitation label (which is carefully tipped
into the inner page) reflects that on the front of the book and the inner
covers. We have made individual lead blocks from the gold tools used
on the leather, the blocks were set into an antique printing press known
as an ‘Albion Press’ and using a single motion of the printing arm to
make each printed impression.

No images of these talismans have been made, they

will only be visible to the owners of each book.

The Physical Manifestation

Of
The Key of Solomon

Each of the twelve copies is fully bound in Royal Blue oasis

goatskin, dozens of individual operations spanning many hours of
skilled work have gone into the form of the book, following this are over
two hundred tooled impressions, making this the finest presentation of
Solomons Key yet envisioned.
 Period tools from the last quarter of the 18th century (roughly
contemporary with the age of the original manuscript) have been used
to decorate the work. These tools show some signs of age and
consequaently the impressions they leave are individual to them, thus
these twelve copies are both unique individually, and distinct and
irreplaceable as a group.

Genuine 22 carat gold, hand tooling both gilt and reflected in

blind tooling (the making of reflected impressions in leather by
impressing tools without gold), the use of the ancient art of letterpress
printing have worked together to create a veritable talisman of the
wisdom and arcane science behind the Temple of Solomon and the
entire Western Mystery Tradion, in this name of H.I.R.A.M. invoked by
the construction of the book itself.

The spine of the book is decorated after the fashion of an antique

Zohar, the leather carefully worked onto five raised bands which are
laced into the boards of the book. These provide six distinct panels
which each bear a royal crown in gold. Either side of the raised bands
are a total of ten friezes gilt, deep borders of leaves and flowers of
paradise. Double lines gilt to head and tail finish the decoration. To the
book are rich woven silk headbands formed of alternate black and gold
threads spun onto fine cane threads invented in historical bindings to
protect the top and bottoms of the pages from the ravages of time.

To the large front board is hand gilt a total of 49 individual

impressions in 22 carat gold, a sumptuous panel (or ‘outer court’ of the
Temple) of scrolls, leaves, and flowers of paradise. The centre bears a
‘Tree of Life’ branching out into four flowers indicating the four
directions, the Four Worlds of the spiritual universe and the four Rivers
of Eden.
Set into the border of this golden paradise are four squares and
compasses, indicating the North, South, east and West of the Temple.
To the corners, reaching out into the deep of space are four
irradiated stamens of ‘flowers of paradise’, with their petals and leaves
furled back against the scrolls.

Upon opening the book we see a beautiful inner panel of moiré

silk representing the waters of paradise, all surrounded by a gilt border
of parallel lines all following around the leather jointed panel, gilt
squares and compasses, finished to the corners with irradiated flowers
of paradise. The inner cover is made handsome with a full leather joint
pared finely to add both luxury and durability to the book, a style of
binding reserved for the few.
Set as a jewel to the inside of this silk panel is a further panel of of
leather blind tooled with a border which reflects as in a pool the gilt
impressions on the cover. To the centre of this leather panel is hand gilt
in 22 carat the ancient Templar sign of the Triple-Tau surmounted by a
royal crown.
The Triple-Tau is formed both by the letters of ‘Templum
Hierosalymos’ (Temple of Jerusalem) and acts as a secret key to the
geometry of the ancient Seal of Solomon, or the hexagram. This Triple-
Tau Key produces a marvellous array of 5 geometric figures (symbols of
the elements as brought from Egypt by Pythagoras). Placed one within
the other these provide a visual model of the heavens and the observed
motions of the planets. This Key forms an essential part of the inner
teachings of the Holy Order of The Royal Arch of Jerusalem, appearing
on the members jewel with the inscriptions:

CLAVIS AD THESAURUM
(the key to the treasure)

RES IPSA PRETIOSA

(the precious thing itself)

NIL NISI CLAVIS DE EST

(nothing is wanting but the key)

SI TALIA JUNGERE POSSIS SIT TIBI SCIRE SATIS

(if you can join these things together you will know enough)

WISDOM, STRENGTH, BEAUTY, PEACE, CONCORD, TRUTH

Both front and rear inner covers of the Book of the Key of
Solomon bear these panels tooled in blind and gilt, symbolising the
doors, and doors within doors, of Ezekiels vision of the Temple of
Solomon restored.
The blind tooling of these interior panels a response to the concept
of ‘reflection’, of the upper and lower world meeting which is inherent
in the geometry of the hexagram or Seal of Solomon.
Opening the books covers we are reminded of the mystical
utterances of Solomons Song:
‘..your temple is like a split pomegranate’ (shir ha shirim asher li
shalomoh 4:3) which the Rabbis of the esoteric tradition interpreted as
referring to the rapturous experience of the Shekinah (or feminine
‘presence of God’) within the Holy of Holies in the most secret part of
the Temple, a cube of covered cloths reserved for the High Priest
himself, where an occult communication with the divine would occur…

“…and he brought me there and behold a man whose face was

like burnished copper, with a cord and measuring rod in his hands. And
the man spake unto me ‘Son of man, see with your eyes, and with your
ears hear, and set your heart to all that I am showing you…and he
brought me to the interior of the Temple and measured the pillar of the
entrance…and he measured its length to the face of the Temple, and he
said to me ‘this is the Holy of Holies’… “

Facing the interior panels is a sea of blue watered silk moiré, like
the sound of rushing waters was the voice of the angel who spoke to the
prophet in his vision of the Temple restored.
Turning this page we delve into a dark and mist-filled space, the
Holy of Holies itself, incense filled, dimly lit by streams of gold and
astral fire, forms melting in the gloom. Each sheet of this beautiful inner
paper handmarbled specially for this binding.

Beyond this darkness is the interior vision of the spirit: in this

case one of the twelve zodiacal spirits, its talisman drawn upon finest
calf vellum, laid against a sheet of pure brilliant white representing the
purity of vision, and exaltation of the High Priest.

Within this book, this great talisman of the Science of H.I.R.A.M.

and the Wisdom of King Solomon is present the legendary ‘KEY OF
SOLOMON’ itself. A full facsimile of this now famous Hebrew
manuscript impossible to obtain in the original edition.
 The manuscript presented here provides numerous diagrams and
occult seals not found anywhere else. Some of the material (the
manuscript has been dated to the 1700’s) stems from known sources of a
western nature providing an interesting insight into the ‘Hebrew’
magical tradition. Our document displays an ‘Almadel’ or complex
tablet for conjuring angelic messengers, a type of magical device known
from the early middle ages, as well as some material clearly influenced
by the Heptameron of Pietro d’Abano.
Discovered by the original editor Hermann Gollancz in his fathers
library and published in two separate short works (1903 and 1914) now
unobtainable, the present publication reproduces both of Gollancz’s
scholarly works upon the manuscript as well as an able introduction by
the modern esoteric scholar Stephen Skinner.

A Summary of the Contents

Nil Nisi Clavis de Est

‘… I beg and command any one into whose hands this compilation may
fall, that he will give it to no-one unless he be of a modest disposition,
able to keep a secret, energetic in the pursuit of the work. And I adjure
him by the living god, the creator of the universe, that in the same
manner he would guard his own soul, he will guard this book and not
reveal it to any unfit person…’

BOOK ONE

Preparatory Prayers and Invocations

On the Composition of the Divine Seal

Preparation of the Operator in this Art

BOOK TWO
 Concerning the Nine Days of Preparation

Of the Blessing of the Salt

On the Place for Performing the Act &the Prayer

Concerning the Magical Weapons and Fumigations

Concerning the Almadel or Great Seal for Invoking Angels

BOOK THREE

On the Seals of the Twelve Constellations

The Magical Circles

The Conjuration of Barkiel

BOOK FOUR

Book of the Images or Degrees of the Almadel

Concerning the Images of the Night

Conjurations of the Powers by means of the Almadel

BOOK FIVE

The Book of Light

 Concerning the Spirits of the Air ruling the Days

Fumigations for the Conjurations of the Stars

On the Pantacles and the Garments

Conjuration of the Spirits

Names and Seals from the Book of Rasiel

BOOK SIX

Book of the Seal of Beleth

Conjurations of Beleth

Concerning the Nine Talismans Revealed to Solomon

Angels of the Twelve Stations and their Conjurations

The Seven Planets and their Human Forms

BOOK SEVEN

Book of the 28 Houses of the Moon

Book of the Magical Operation of Simon Magus

(this operation has been learnt from a certain
Demon who placed herself at my service)
 Summary of Appendices
and a
Collection of Magic Secrets,
Attended by Numerous Diagrams
pages of Talismans
and Magical Seals

A recipe for love by the Master Adriano

Recipe for seeing a Spirit in a Mirror

To escape from a Prison in a Magical Craft

On going through the Air in a Cloud

Seal of the Terrestrial Spirits

On binding and Subduing the Spirits

Demonstration of the Magic Circle

On Keeping a Spirit Enclosed in a Ring

On Seeing Spirits and Conversing with these

On becoming Invisible to Enemies

On Obtaining an Answer from the Spirits

The Operation of BARAKON

A Lengthy and Barbarous Conjuration of the Spirit to appear in a

human form and give answer to all that the operator desires.

Operation to discover theft

 Manuscriptial Appendix

Concluding the Manuscript is an appendix of occult operations

containing amongst items of great interest:

The Magical Square of Pagtatron

Tradition from Rabbi Shalom

To Have a King or a Ruler do your Will

The Mystic Alphabet or Characters of the Angels

And the 360 Forms of
The Creator
Of
The Universe

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