The Key of Solomon

The 'Operation' of SIMON MAGUS.

The 'Operation' of SIMON MAGUS should be carried out on a Thursday or a Tuesday in the evening. In the first place, you should have a candle of virgin wax Wax from a hive that has never been used to house a new swarm; traditionally required for purity in ritual magic. burning; then make a circle with a sword (as is shown below), and mark the four sides with the mark of Solomon and the seals of Jupiter and Venus (as you will see further on); then write the names of the four sides of the world, that is East, West, North, and South. Having done this, stand in the middle of the circle, and say three times, neither more nor less, this form of conjuration:

'I adjure you, O Lucifer, and all thy associates, by the Living God, by the Angels above and below, by So and So, and in the name of A and B, &c.; I furthermore adjure you by Belzebuk Beelzebub, your Lord; I moreover adjure you by Satan, in whose hands are the Keys of Gehinnom The Hebrew term for the underworld or Hell.. I adjure you by Lucifer, your King; I adjure you by the mighty deep; I adjure you by the Law of the Lord, that you shall have no power to stand in the air, nor beneath the air; nor on the earth, or beneath the earth; nor in the water, or under the water; nor in the heavens, or beneath the heavens; nor in any place of the world; but that thou shalt come forthwith unto this place, thou, O Lucifer, with thy associates, or that thou shalt send three of thy servants, who shall tell me the truth concerning all that I shall inquire of them, in the name of AGLA, AGLAII, AGLTA, AGLAUT, AGLTUN AGLA is a magical acronym for the Hebrew "Atah Gibor Le-olam Adonai" (Thou art mighty forever, O Lord)., and in the name of ALPHA, Omega original: "VΩ", HE, VJV, JUD, HE, MAHL, ALIHAI, God, the Lord of Hosts, the Most High original: "ELOKIM, ZEBAOTH, ELYON", &c.'

Beware, too, that you fall not asleep; for immediately Lucifer with his companions will come, or he will send three of his messengers or associates who will say unto you, 'What dost thou want or desire and wherefore hast thou brought us?' Then at once ask of them three things that you wish, and they will tell you. After the reply bid them farewell in the manner known.

It is meet that you should perform this on Thursday or Tuesday while the moon is on the increase Waxing moon, and it should only be practised, if possible, in the months February, May, August, or October, when the sun and moon are equal in number [of hours (?)], otherwise at full moon. Now this is an unfailing experiment, tested by many; but it is requisite that you should be perfectly clean and pure in body and soul. Do not ask more than three questions; for if you ask more, they will not reply nor answer. Understand, too, that whatever grade or kind of spirits they may be, they never answer more than three questions.

I, the writer (so it was written), have tested this 'Experiment', and found it true.

The concluding statement in connexion with another such 'Operation' (folios 56 a-56 b), headed An Operation tested and true original Hebrew: "נסיין מנוסה ואמיתי" (Nisyon Menuseh ve-Amiti) contains these remarkable words: 'This Operation has been learnt from a certain demon who placed herself at the service of the writer (so it was written), and taught him this process, which is true.'