The Key to the Secrets of King Solomon (an Encyclopedia Grimoria Volume)
Historical Blindness
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The Origins of Alchemy
By the Middle Ages Solomon had already picked up these extra biblical magical trappings like a snowball gathering mass as it rolls downhill growing from a wise king and builder to a magician endowed with the ring that allows him to bend spirits to his will. medieval alchemists and Renaissance magicians many of them Christian focused on Solomon as the originator of some of their esoteric beliefs. Zosimos combined hermetic ideas with the Gnostic view prevalent during the time that the secrets of the universe including alchemy had been shared with humanity by the fallen angels who lay with human women mentioned in Genesis.
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