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Stephen Skinner & David Rankine Ars Pauliria . Ars Alm del Theurgia-Goetia Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis Liber Malorum Spirituum seu Goe . . The Goetia of Dr Rudd The Angels & Demons of Liber Malorum Spirituum seu Goetia Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis with a study of the techniques of evocation in the context of the angel magic tradition of the seventeenth century being a transcription of Dr Rudd's 'Liber Malorum Spirituum seu Goetia' from Harley MS 6483, with other pertinent extracts from manuscripts Harley MS 6482, Sloane MS 3824 and Wellcome MS 3203 Stephen Skinner & David Rankine GOLDEN HOARD PRESS 2007 Dedicated to Helene Hodge and Sorita D'Este the two magical ladies who have helped to make it all possible Acknowledgements Illustrations of the Lemegeton seals and sigils (including Figures 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, and 15) from Harley MS 6483; of Peter Smart's engraving of Solomon's Brass Vessel (Figure 5) and Rudd's version of the Tabula Sancta (Figure 14) from Harley MS 6482; the Spirit Compass Rose (Figure 10) from Sloane MS 3825; of a magician evoking a spirit from within a Circle from Cotton MS Tiberius A VII, folio 44 (the dust jacket and Figure 2); of the magician 'Canoaster', with grimoire, admonishing two demons from Additional MS 39844, folio 51 (Figure 3); and the variant forms of the Circle from Sloane MS 3824 (Figure 17) have been reproduced with the kind permission of the Trustees of the British Library. The illustrations (including Figures 10, 11 and 17) from Wellcome MS 3203 have been reproduced with the kind permission of the Wellcome Trust, for which we are also duly grateful. Our thanks to Adam McLean for the illustration of the Seals of the Patriarchs (Figure 4) from his Magical Calendar. We are also grateful for the painstaking work of restoring and cleaning the seals by Dianthus and Valentina Kim and Er Choon Haw. To Peter Forshaw for assistance with Latin and German texts. And last but not least to Joseph Peterson for having done the definitive version of the Lemegeton in the first place. 8 Contents Acknowledgements 8 Contents 9 List of Tables 11 List of Illustrations 13 Introduction 14 History and Origins Liber Malorurn Spirituum seu Goetia 20 Theurgia-Goetia 53 The Pauline Art 57 The Art Almadel 59 The Notory Art or Ars Notoria 60 ArsNova 63 The Lemegeton 63 Evocation Methods Physical Methods for Binding a Demon 65 Names of the 72 Demons 68 Names of the 72 Adversarial Angels 71 The Invocations 73 The Equipment of Evocation 76 The Ceremony or Procedure 91 The Manuscripts Content & Provenance 95 Liber Malorum Spirituum seu Goetia 101 The 72 Spirits of the Goetia 103 The Conjurations 176 Of the Magical Circle 186 Of the Names of the Hours 188 The Consecrations·& Benedictions 193 The Directory for the Seven Days of the Week 198 Theurgia-Goetia 212 The Four Emperors 215 The Sixteen Dukes 223 The Eleven Wandering Princes 278 Conjurations 301 The Art Pauline 308 Book 1 - Spirits of the 24 Hours of the Day & Night 311 Book 2 - Spirits of the Degrees of the Zodiac 326 The Art Almadel 342 9 The Goetia of Dr Rudd Appendices 348 Appendix 1: The Theurgia-Goetia in Sloane 3824 349 Appendix 2: Tables of Demons from the Lemegeton 366 Demons of the Goetia Powers and Specialties of the Demons of the Goetia Ranks of the Demons of the Goetia Demons of the Goetia by Rank, Planet and Zodiacal Sign Good and Evil Aerial Spirits (of the Compass) from Theurgia-Goetia Good and Evil Aerial Spirits (Wandering Prirces) from Theurgia-Goetia Good and Evil Aerial Spirits (Emperors) from Theurgia-Goetia Spirits of the 24 Hours from Ars Paulina (part 1) Angels of the Degrees of the Zodiac from Ars Paulina (part 2) Angels of the Altitudes (Choras) from Ars Almadel Appendix 3: Thomas Rudd's Synthesis of the 72 Demons and Dr John Dee's Tabula Sancta cum Tabulis Enochi 389 Appendix 4: Thomas Rudd's Description of 61 Demons 393 Appendix 5: Some of the Sources and Constituents of the Lemegeton 399 Appendix 6: Seals from Sibley's Goetia 402 Appendix 7: The 72 Shem ha-Mephorash Angels 405 Appendix 8: The Ecclesiastical Planetary Hours 413 Appendix 9: 'Ars Nova': An Explanation of Certain Names 414 used in the Figures of the Goetia Appendix 10: Derivation of some of the Words of Conjuration 422 Appendix 11: Narrative of Dr Rudd, Sir John Heydon and a Spirit 424 Appendix 12: The Variant forms of the Heptameron style Circle 428 Appendix 13: Observations on Metals and Binding Times 429 Appendix 14: Equipment Diagrams from Sibley's Goetia 431 Appendix 15: The Form of Commanding Spirits given in Scot 436 Bibliography 438 Index 442 10 List of Tables Goetia MIS Demons of the Goetia 366 M16 Powers and Specialties of the Demons of the Goetia. 378 M17 Ranks of the Demons of the Goetia. 380 M18 Demons of the Goetia by Rank, Planet and Zodiacal Sign 381 Theurgia-Goetia M20 Good and Evil Aerial Spirits (of the Compass) 382 M21 Good and Evil Aerial Spirits (Emperors) 383 M20a Good and Evil Aerial Spirits (Wandering Princes) 384 Ars Paulina M22 Spirits of the 24 Hours from Ars Paulina Part 1 385 M23 Angels of the Degrees of the Zodiac in Ars Paulina Part 2 387 ArsAlmadel M24 Angels of the Altitudes (Choras) 388 Shem ha-Mephorash Angels A24 The 72 Shem ha-Mephorash Angels, their Hebrew Root, 405 Name, Degrees and Nature A25 The 72 Shem ha-Mephorash Angels with their 408 corresponding Invocatory Psalm 11 The Goetia of Dr Rudd List of Illustrations 1. Angel with the Keys of Hell releasing a demon by Albrecht Durer 70 2. Magician with a sword evokes a spirit from within a Circle 74 3. Magician with grimoire in his hand admonishes two demons 75 4. The Seals of the Patriarchs Adam, Moses, Elias, Joshua, Ezekiel, Daniel, Solomon and Jeremiah from The Magical Calendar 83 5. Peter Smart's engraving of Solomon's Brass Vessel 88 6. Hours of the Day and Hours of the Night with their ruling angels 188 7. The Division of the Day and Night and the Planetary Regimen 190 8. The Pentagram of Solomon 194 9. The Figure of a Circle for the first hour of Sunday in Spring 197 10. The Spirit Compass Rose of the Theurgia-Goetia 212 11. The 'Secret Table of Solomon' [actually The Seal of Solomon] 225 12. The Table of Practice 310 13. The Almadel 343 14. Rudd's enhanced version of Dee's Tabula Sancta cum Tabulis Enochi 390 15. Demonic Seals from Sibley's Goetia 402 16. Angelic Seals from Sibley's Goetia 404 17. Four variant forms of the simple Circle 428 18. Plates from Sibley's Goetia: Triangle of Solomon; Secret Seal of 431 Solomon; Solomon's Circle; Brazen Vessel 19. Plates from Sibley'S Goetia: Pentagram of Solomon; Hexagram of 434 Solomon; Solomon's Magical Ring 13 The Goetia of Dr Rudd "Like angels, they [the demons] have wings and fly from one end of the world to the other, and know the future; and like men they eat, propagate, and die" -Hagaddah 16b; Ab. R. N. xxxvii. Introduction This book is based on Dr Thomas Rudd's manuscript version of the Lemegeton, or Lesser Key of Solomon as it appears in British Library Harley MS 6483. This version is mentioned by Joseph Peterson in his excellent The Lesser Key of Solomon, but he understandably dismisses it as being the least reliable version, due to its apparent lateness (1712-13) and to its inclusion of additional material from Peter de Abano's Heptameron. However although he reproduces three of the sigils from Rudd's manuscript in Appendix 4 of his work, Joseph Peterson does not discuss the immense practical significance of Harley MS 6483.1 The Lemegeton is divided into five books, of which the most discussed is the first book, the Goetia. To fully appreciate the revolutionary nature of this particular version of the Goetia, one needs to place it in the context of Rudd's other work. Harley MS 6482, also by Rudd, contains amongst other material the Nine Keys2 and Tabula Sancta cum Tabulis Enochi (see Appendix 3) and discusses the interconnected-ness of the different categories of spiritual creatures'. Here I there is a highly significant reference to the Goetic demons and their connection with Enochian magic, and the associated use of the Shem ha Mephorash angels. In Harley MS 6483 the genius of Rudd becomes clear, for the 72 double-seals given by him for working with the 72 Goetic demons also contain the 72 corresponding Shem ha-Mephorash angels, and their associated Biblical verses from Psalms. The Shem ha-Mephorash angels are, as we will show, used to control the Goetic demons, transforming the nature of Goetic magic into a much more accessible and somewhat safer form of practice. We have included Rudd's translation of the Biblical verses and their provenance on the same pages as their respective seals for the benefit of the reader. Some of this material comes from Harley MS 6482, but needs to be seen together with Rudd's manuscript Harley MS 6483, to fully contextualise it. I Peterson, Joseph. (editor), The Lesser Key ofS olomon: Lemegeton Clavicula Salomon is, Weiser Books, Maine, 200 1, page xii and Figures 12-14, l7, 20, 22 on pages 263-8. 2 See The Keys to the Gateway of Magic by Stephen Skinner & David Rankine, for the full text of The Nine Keys and a discussion of its significance. 14