The Book of ceremonial Magic

150:1 It should be observed. however, that favourable days and hours are occasionally
mentioned, but there is no attempt at a systematic valuation of the times and seasons
suitable to different operations.
150:2 The apparently barbarous names given in the table are corruptions of Hebrew
words, and the English editor of The Key of Solomon has restored their proper
orthography, as follows: Shabbathai, Tzedek, Madim, Shemesh, Nogah, Cochab,
Lebanah.
151:1 It offers no analogy with the system set forth in the Clavicle, nor can it be
definitely traced to any magical authority within my knowledge.
152:1 In the version that follows, which condenses and summarises the original, there is
an attempt to reduce them to order, and to make them consistent, if not intelligible.
152:2 The Key of Solomon says that the hours of Saturn and of Mars, and also the days in
which the Moon is in conjunction with these planets, are admirable for experiments of
hatred, enmity and discord. It will be seen in what sense this farrago of villainous
nonsense can be regarded as on God's side, as its impossible English editor would
doubtless wish us to believe.
153:1 The attribution in the original is throughout this portion not only erroneous, but
seems to involve impossible positions. It has been corrected partially, in accordance with
the Clavicle.
§ 2. A General Instruction concerning the Instruments required for the
Art
Most Goëtic rituals specify with considerable minuteness the instruments which are
required for the operations, and in these respects, but with variations peculiar to
themselves, and distinguishing them also from one another, they follow the authority of
the Key of Solomon. Peter de Abano tells us nothing concerning them, nor yet pseudo-
Agrippa, with the one exception of the sword, which, following a physical analogy,
seems to be universal in practical magic. In the Grimoires, however, though sometimes
the first weapon to be mentioned, its position is comparatively insignificant, as the knife
is a readier instrument. Speaking generally, there is little in the literature to justify the
complex modern elaborations of Éliphas Lévi and of Christian.
Among the necessary properties mentioned by the Book of True Black Magic are the
sword, the staff, the rod, the lancet, the arctrave or hook, the bolline or sickle, the needle,
the poniard, a white-handled knife and another knife, with a black handle, used to
describe the circle. The most important to make is that called the bolline; it must be
forged on the day and in the hour of Jupiter, selecting a small piece of unused steel. Set it
thrice in the fire and extinguish it in the blood of a mole mixed with the juice of the
pimpernel. 1 Let this be done when the Moon is in her full light and course. On the same
day and in the hour of Jupiter, fit a horn handle 2 to the steel,