The book never says how to do any of it here. It says when, which is a stranger thing to write down.
What this is
The Key of Solomon is the best known of the Renaissance grimoires and survives in dozens of manuscripts. Mathers edited this English text from copies in the British Museum and published it in 1889, in an edition of five hundred. The forty-four Solomonic figures in the Library of Sigils come from it.
This passage is from the second chapter of the first book, before any operation is described. It is the chapter on when to work, and it assigns subjects to planets and to phases of the moon the way a timetable assigns rooms.
What the text was understood to do
To time a working of ruin, discord or death.
A note before the text. What follows is a historical document and a reading of it. It is recorded, not recommended.
The text, the reading of it, and where to find it.
The passage as S. L. MacGregor Mathers printed it in 1889, quoted in full and unaltered; the same passage in modern English; how the working was put together and what each part of it was for; the commentary; and the book, chapter and page it stands on.
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