The interest in the history of magic, witchcraft and the occult has seen a discernible rise in the last 25 years. In many cases, our picture of its story through the ages has been made much clearer. This is certainly true for Solomonic Magic, a form of magic in which the magician takes their rituals from Grimoires in order to evoke spirits and bind them to do their bidding. However, new research and perspectives have urged us that we might need to revise our understandings of this powerful and alluring variety of magic. It’s time for a revisit.
The Folks you need to know as mentioned in the Show!
• Alexander Eth • Alexander Cummins • Don Karr • Brian Johnson • Dan Harms
No doubt you are already aware that I have done a two part series of episodes as An Introduction to Solomonic Magic featuring Alexander Eth of Glitch Bottle Podcast! PART I • PART II
What is a Liber Spirituum? Great Question! I have produced a whole 30 minute video on my Patreon which goes through everything you need to know about and how to create a Liber Spirituum!
Show Notes & Book Recommendations
- Solomonic Magic: Methodologies, Texts & Histories by Dr. Gal Sofer – A stunning book and well worth getting if Solomonic Magic is important to you
- Hygromanteia, Liber Bileth, & Solomonic Networks with Dr. Gal Sofer – Glitch Bottle Podcast interview with the author of the above book. You need to hear this one if you want more context on our constantly changing understandings of Solomonic Magic. WATCH • LISTEN
- Hygromanteia: The Magical Treatise of Solomon – This website has a version of our previous understanding of Solomonic Magic’s history
- The Magical Treatise of Solomon, or Hygromanteia trans. Ioannis Marathakis – Still an exceptional work and well worth having in your collection. I absolutely love this grimoire
- The Study of Solomonic Magic in English by Don Karr
- Solomon the Esoteric King: From King to Magus, Development of a Tradition by Pablo Torijano Morales
- In the Room of the Circles: The Inquisition and Books of Magic in Early Modern Venice by Federico Barbierato – A great book that showcases the amazing cultural exchange that is present books of magic being translated and sold in Venice
- The Routledge History of Medieval Magic edited by Sophie Page – Has a chapter on if Solomonic Magic is even a thing
- My episode on Spiritualism & Mediumship with Dr. Jack Hunter is probably worth a revisit
- Manifesting Spirits: An Anthropological Study of Mediumship and the Paranormal by Dr. Jack Hunter
- Thinking of setting up your own séance? There’s some interesting info here
- Of Magical Ceremonies from the 4th Book of Occult Philosophy
- I did a three part series of Patreon episodes on how to go through the motions that one would when doing evocatory ritual Magic- Fake it ’til you Make it!
- An Excellent Booke of the Arte of Magicke: The Magical Works of Humphrey Gilbert and John Davis
- Magister Officiorum: The Ceremony of Solomonic Magic by Julio Cesar Ody – An exceptional work, you need this book! Julio’s episode of WMiT? is probably worth a revisit also
- The Night School by Jake Stratton-Kent • The Sworn and Secret Grimoire • Cyprian’s Office of Spirits – It took some getting used to but I have come around and think that these two works are quite brilliant and useful
- Are you able to read Italian? Care to learn about the oldest Clavicula that we have discovered so far? Matteo Cova has you covered
- Some academics are no longer afraid to say that they believe in Magic. Dr. Francis Young is a treasure. Some of these things are so
- The Deep Black of Forever: Stellar Necromancy and the Western Mystery Tradition by Victor Trevor
- Dan Harms’ old blog Papers Falling from an Attic Window is full of amazing reviews and posts
- The Long Life of Magical Objects: A Study in the Solomonic Tradition by Allegra Iafrate
What Magic is This? 
One thought on “Solomonic Magic: Addendum”