The Key of Solomon

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A Specific for Pain in the Eyes.

‘In the name of the Lord, God of Israel, who sits upon the Cherubim. The Holy One, blessed be He, shone forth in the Garden of Eden, and the Angels after Him. When they had entered into the midst of the Garden of Eden, their faces were sad, and they said one to the other, “Why is the Holy One, blessed be He, troubled? He is angered on account of the low state of The letters A and B here are placeholders for the name of the patient and their parent. A, son of B, who has a sore or bad water Likely a reference to cataracts or fluid buildup in the eye. in his eye.” Thereupon the angels addressed the Holy One, saying: “As You have it in Your power to heal him, may it be Your will to restore him to health!”’ And I will conjure this sore or this water in the eye of A, son of B, by the name Lord of Hosts original: ADONAI ZEBAOTH, God of Israel, and by the name I Am That I Am original: EHYH ASHER EHYH; the divine name revealed to Moses at the burning bush., and by the name Metatron In mystical tradition, the highest of the angels and the celestial scribe., and by the seventy-two Names of the Holy One, and by the name Adribun, and by the name Shabhi (according to another reading, Shabti), and by the name Shmuiel, the Great Prince, and by the name of the angel Shamshiel, and by the name of Elias, Enoch, the prophet, and by the name Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, and by the name of Hadarmiel, Pishon, Mitmon, Sigron, the Holy Angels, and in the name of all the angels of the Upper Region, and in the name of the holy Burning Ones, Living Creatures, and Wheels original: SERAPHIM, HAYOTH and OPHANIM; these are the three highest ranks of angels in the celestial hierarchy., and in the name of the Ten Generations, and in the name of the Ten Scrolls of the Law, and in the name of the Ten Sephiroth The ten divine attributes or emanations through which the infinite God interacts with the universe., and in the name of the angels that minister in the presence of the Exalted Holy One, blessed be He; and in the name of bread, water, and wine, and all that the Holy One, blessed be He, has created in His world; (I adjure To command or charge someone under oath or under the threat of a penalty. you) whatever you be, whether film or spot or water, or white, or malady, or grit, or thorn, any sort of darkness, or worm, that you go forth or die, and depart out of the eye, or from these eyes; or as regards any other thing that can be blotted out, that it go forth out of these eyes, from the eye to the flesh, and from the flesh to the bone, and from the bone to the skin, and from the skin to the hair, and from the hair to the earth, in the name of the Lord original: ADONAI, God of Hosts.’

Let him do this three times a day, and each time let him sprinkle with his third finger Traditionally the ring finger, which was believed to have a direct vein to the heart and was often used for applying medicinal salves or holy water. of the water, and drop one drop ‘in the Name’ it seems to me—adds the copyist—the author meant ‘in the eye’; let him do this nine days or twenty-one days, and with the help of God he will be healed. The End.

Concerning the influence of the planetary system upon the life of man, we have, on folio 52 b, the following:

Saturn governs the bones of man's body, the milt An old term for the spleen., the right ear, and the urinary parts.

Jupiter governs the liver, the left ear, and the ribs of man's body.

Mars governs the gall, the right nostril, the sinews, and the kidneys of man's body.

The Sun governs the heart and the right eye during the day, and the opposite Meaning the left eye. during the night, as well as the brain in the head, the arteries, and the right side of the body.