The Key to the Secrets of King Solomon (an Encyclopedia Grimoria Volume)
Historical Blindness
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The Origins of Solomon's Wisdom
The hydromantia is a work that appears to bridge the hermetic sage and exorcist Solomon of late antiquity with the all-out sorcerer and alchemist Solomon of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. In these sections Solomon is not only a practitioner of astrology but also of other forms of magic such as hydromancy the summoning of demons in a water basin to create a kind of crystal ball would show him things he desired to see here we have the notion of his control of demons that had evolved from the view of Solomon as exorcist combined with a form of divination evolved from the views of Solomon as astrologer syncretized by this treatise. The image ofSolomon
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