The Book of ceremonial Magic

instruments required in the work, also analogous to the Clavicle. (c.) The composition of
the virgin parchment on which the characters and seals are to be inscribed, shewing
distinct variations from the Clavicle. (d.) The processes of evocation and the discharge.
Beyond the fact that the evoked Spirits are Lucifer, Beelzebuth, Astaroth and the inferiors
and ministers of these, this first and chief part is not more repulsive, as it is indeed
scarcely more unintelligent, than most of the processes in its prototype.
The second part contains the usual curiosities common to all the later Grimoires,
including the Admirable Secrets of the pretended Albertus Magnus, the Little Albert, &c.
In so far as it presents any considerable variations, such variations are usually in the
direction of Black Magic. Some are venereal in the more objectionable sense of the term,
others merely revolting, while yet others, as that of the Magic Garters, are derived from
the Clavicle. Finally, there are certain processes which might claim to be those of White
Magic 1 and are concerned with the ceremonial induction of simple clairvoyance.
We may therefore conclude that the Grimorium Verum proper is not more diabolical than
the first part of the Lemegeton, which indeed contains the ceremonial for the evocation of
precisely the same spirits.
Footnotes
96:1 This is only a conjectural translation. It is impossible to render such a passage as
modo operator per necessaria et contenta facit scia tamen oportit Dæmonum potentia
dum taxat per agantur.
96:2 It will be scarcely necessary to advise the reader that a Dominican Jesuit is an
absurdity, which might be paralleled by "secular monk," "unordained priest," and so
forth. The order of St. Dominic and the Society of Jesus are totally distinct. A Catholic
critic might almost be justified in observing that so gross a blunder would be possible
only to a Jew or a heretic; certainly he would have more reason than would be
discoverable in the hypothesis of Papus, that priests are the authors of the Grimoires.
96:3 On the reverse of the title:--The True Clavicles of Solomon. Memphis. Published by
Alibeck the Egyptian.
97:1 That is, mystic characters for engraving on magical instruments, vessels and
vestments. The statement is utterly untrue, for the characters given by the Grimoire are
few in number and exceedingly imperfect as well.
97:2 Mr. Mathers reads Iohé Grevis. Iroe Gecis is another variation. It is a corruption in
any case.
98:1 "Here beginneth the Sanctum Regnum, called the Royalty of Spirits, or the little
Keys of Solomon, a most learned Hebrew nigromancer and Rabbin, containing various