The Lesser Key of Solomon

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The book is mentioned in Goethe’s Faust I, in the scene where the poodle transforms himself into the devil Mephistopheles. [7] Peterson, Joseph H., ed. (2001). The Lesser Key of Solomon: Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis. York Beach, Maine: Weiser Books. ISBN 9781578632206. Image of Furfur from Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal. Furfur (also Furtur) is a powerful Great Earl of Hell, being the ruler of twenty-six legions of demons. [19] He is a liar unless compelled to enter a magic triangle where he gives true answers to every question, speaking with a rough voice. Furfur causes love between a man and a woman, creates storms, tempests, thunder, lightning, and blasts, and teaches on secret and divine things. He is depicted as a hart or winged hart, and also as an angel. "Furfur" or "furfurēs" in Latin means "bran". However, it seems more likely that the name is a corruption of "Furcifer", the Latin word for "scoundrel". Slightly less likely considering the context, but still possible, is that the name originated from "fūr", Latin for "thief". a b c MacGregor, Mathers (trans.) (1995), Crowley, Aleister; Liddell, Samuel (eds.), The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King, York Beach: Samuel Weiser, ISBN 0-87728-847-X

Valefar (or Malaphar, Malephar, Valafar, Valefor) is a Duke of Hell. [10] He tempts people to steal and is in charge of a good relationship among thieves. Valefar is considered a good familiar by his associates "till they are caught in the trap." [11] He commands ten legions of demons. [6] He is represented as a lion with the head of a man, or as a lion with the head of a donkey. [6]Count/President) Botis (or Otis) is a Great President and Earl of Hell, commanding sixty legions of demons. He tells of all things past and future, and reconciles friends and foes. He is depicted as an ugly viper, but when he changes shape, he puts himself in human shape, with big teeth and two horns. When in human shape he carries a sharp and bright sword in his hand. Mebane, John S. (1992). Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age: The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. pp.44, 45. ISBN 9780803281790. Aamon [5] (or Amon, Nahum) is a Marquis of Hell who governs forty infernal legions. He appears as a wolf with a serpent's tail who can breathe fire, or as a man with a raven's head, sometimes depicted with canine teeth. He tells of all things past and future. He procures feuds, and reconciles controversies between friends and foes. The Qur'an relates that Solomon died while he was leaning on his staff. As he remained upright, propped on his staff, the jinn thought he was still alive and supervising them, so they continued to work. They realized the truth only when Allah sent a creature to crawl out of the ground and gnaw at Solomon's staff until his body collapsed. The Qurʾan then comments that if they had known the unseen, they would not have stayed in the humiliating torment of being enslaved.

Demonology, the study of demons, has a long tradition among those who wish to summon them and those seeking protection from them, and "The Lesser Key of Solomon" gives information on both practices. The best-known version, such as the one sold by Akademi Bokhandeln, is only about summoning demons. The full text, however, as hosted by Esoteric Archives, contains five books covering a much wider range of occult knowledge — the Ars Goetia, Ars Theurgia-Goetia, Ars Paulina, Ars Almadel, and Ars Notoria.

Valac is a demon described in the goetic grimoires The Lesser Key of Solomon (in some versions as Ualac or Valak [1] and in Thomas Rudd's variant as Valu), [2] Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (as Volac), [3] the Liber Officiorum Spirituum (as Coolor or Doolas), [4] [5] and in the Munich Manual of Demonic Magic (as Volach) [6] [7] [8] as an angelically winged boy riding a two-headed dragon, attributed with the power of finding treasures. [6] [1] [4] [5] [3] [9] Variations [ edit ]