Description
6 Early Grimoires of Magical Lore is the second publication in the series German Occult Manuscripts in Translation. This unique collection comprises mostly unknown grimoires from the16th and 17th century, now made accessible in English:
- Semiphoras und Schemhamphoras Salomonis Regis (1686) (Semiphoras and Schemhamphoras of King Solomon) – A kabbalistic grimoire containing extensive information about angel hierarchies.
- Specimen Magiae Alba, oder Rufung des Engels Gabrielis (1846) (Specimen of White Magic or Invocation of the Angel Gabriel) – An old grimoire dedicated to evoking the Angel Gabriel.
- Die Rufung des heiligen Christoph oder Das sogenannte Christopheles-Gebet (1846) (The Invocation of Saint Christopher or The So-Called Christopher Prayer) – A money-magic grimoire.
- De Septem Secundeis (A Little Book on the Seven Secundei) – Translated from the 1545 Latin original by Johannes Tritemius of Spanheim. This manuscript links planetary angels to epochs in history.
- Wahrhafter Jesuiten-Höllenzwang (True Jesuit Hell-Compulsion) – Also a money-magic grimoire, ascribed to the Jesuits, but likely from the early 16th century. Republished in 1851 by Johann Scheible.
- Doctor Faust’s großer und gewaltiger Meergeißt (Doctor Faust’s Great and Mighty Sea Spirit) – A notorious dangerous grimoire for obtaining great wealth, attributed to Faust, published in Amsterdam in 1692, in which Lucifer and three sea spirits are conjured to retrieve treasures from the waters.
