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5/10/24

Reconstruction of The Claviculae Salomonis - The fifth pentacle of the Sun


Claviculae Salamonis is a medieval grimoire. The original text has not been found and the oldest translations are in Latin.
It has survived only in copies. Each version of the text has its own errors and distortions and some of them do not correspond to each other at all.

At the end of the 19th century the grimoire was restored and put together by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, his text also came into the hands of Czech hermeticists and basically its equivalent was published by Trigon from the Universalia library in the 1990s.

The original text by Mathers is available on esotericarchives.com with notes by Joseph. H. Peterson, who presents the pentacles from another manuscript.

Mathers' main contribution is the purification and correction of the Hebrew and the creation of the Hebrew text in the pentacles. In all the manuscripts I have seen so far, the pentacle texts have been in Latin, Italian, or German.