Lesser-Key-Of-Solomon

THE LESSER KEy OF SOLOMON
reformest, and makest all things by thy own Spirit; compleat, fulfil, restore,
and implant a sound Understanding in me, that I may glorifie thee and all
thy Works, in all my Thoughts, Words, and Deeds. 0 God the Father,
confirm and grant this my Prayer, and increase my Understanding and
Memory, and strengthen the same, to know and receive the Science,Memory,
Eloquence, and Perseverance in all manner of Learning, who livest and
reignest World without end. Amen.
Here beginneth the first Treatise of this Art, which Master Apollonius
calleth, The golden Flowers, being the generall Introduction to all Natural
Sciences; and this is Confirmed, Composed, and Approved by the Authority
ofSolomon, Manicheeus, and Euduchreus.
I
Apollonius Master of Arts, duly called, to whom the Nature of Liberal
Arts hath been granted, am intended to treat ofthe Knowledge ofLiberal
Arts, and of the Knowledge of Astronomy; and with what Experiments
and Documents, a Compendious and Competent Knowledge ofArts
may be attained unto; and how the highest and lowest Mysteries ofNature
may be competently divided, and fitted and applied to the Natures ofTimes;
and what proper dayes and hours are to be elected for the Deeds and Actions
of men, to be begun and ended; what Qualifications a man ought to
have, to attain the Efficacy ofthis Art; and how he ought to dispose ofthe
actions of his life, and to behold and study the Course ofthe Moon. In the
first place therefore, we shall declare certain precepts of the Spiritual Sciences;
that all things which we intend to speak of, may be attained to in
order. Wonder not therefore, at what you shall hear and see in this subsequent
Treatise, and that you shall finde an Example of such inestimable
Learning.
Some things which follow, which we will deliver to thee as Essayes of
wonderful Effects, and have extracted them out of the most ancient Books
of the Hebrews; which, where thou seest them, (although they are forgotten,
and worn out of any humane Language) nevertheless esteem them as
Miracles: For I do truly admire the great Power and Efficacy ofWords in
the Works of Nature.
Ofwhat efficacy words are.
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here is so great Vertue, Power and Efficacy in certain Names and
Words of God, that when you reade those very Words, it shall imme-