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Feb 7, 2016: Added Celestial Alphabet font and Transitus Fluvii ("Passing the River") fonts
Feb 16, 2015: Added transcript of Folger MS. V.B.26 Book of Magic
Jun 6, 2014: Added Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor (edited and translated by Jane Kupin, 2014. Used with permission)
Jul 5, 2013: Added excerpts from Clavicula Salomonis de Secretis (Latin).
Mar 17, 2012: Adding Invoking Angels: Theurgic Ideas and Practices, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries (Magic in History) to the top of my list of recommended reading. Outstanding in every way.
06/29/2010: Added early printed edition of the Key of Solomon, Duveen 388.
06/08/2010: Added some comments to agrippa4 pointing out comparisons with Liber Iuratus.
Added translations of chapters CXVIII-CXXII in Liber Iuratus.
Added notes and fixed translations from Heptameron.
04/11/2010: Finished adding missing chapters from the Sworn Book.
04/02/2010: Started adding missing chapters from the Sworn Book.
04/01/2010: Added footnote to Grimorium Verum corrections.
03/27/2010: Expanded introduction and added translation of the note to reader from weyer.htm.
Feb 27, 2010: Added chapter on love magic missing from Mathers' Key of Solomon.
Feb. 22, 2010: Added some corrections to the Key of Solomon, including figure 57.
Oct. 18, 2009: Added Latin text of Ars Notoria, and completed correlation with Liber Iuratus Honorii.
Jun. 21, 2009: Added some corrections to 6/7Moses.
Mar. 8, 2009: Finished transcription of Le Petit Albert (1782).
Nov. 23, 2008: Added translations of parts of Liber Juratus chapters CIV-CXI (concerning the spirits of the planets) which were omitted from the Royal manuscript.
Oct. 11, 2008: Multiple corrections to Arbatel.
July 11, 2008: Added Pseudo-Psellos: De Operatione Daemonum (On the Operation of Daemons).
June 8. 2008: Added reconstructed Sigillum Dei Aemeth, based on Sl. 313 and description in the manuscripts. Executed in the excellent Schreibweise font from Andrew Leman at E-phemera, which was developed from a sample of a German manuscript dating from 1492.
May 26, 2008: Translated parts of the description of the 'Seal of God' (Aemeth) in Liber Juratus.
May 18, 2008: Added additional excerpts to Kircher's Cabala (the names of 42 angels); added the same to the "index of angel names"
Mar 16, 2008: Created pdf of Theosophia Pneumatica.
Corrected broken links.
Feb 25, 2008: Added Arbatel Von der Magie der Alten (German translation)
Dec 21, 2007: Multiple corrections to Arbatel.
Oct. 29, 2007: Added printed edition of Grimorium Verum to list of publications. This is an all-new translation.
Jul 4, 2007: Corrected typo in Steganographia, Book 3.
Jun 21, 2007: Corrected typos in gv.htm, gv_bi.htm, and gv_tri.htm.
May 20, 2007: Added overview of lore on the magic wand.
Apr 20, 2007: Added list of recommended reading.
Corrections to La Vera Clavicola del Re Salomone (Italian edition of Grimorium Verum) (Milan, 1868)
Nov 23, 2006: Added Romanus-Büchlein Little Charm-book of the Roma (Gypsies). One of the main sourceworks for Hoodoo and American Folk magic. (German and English)
May 8, 2006: Added La Vera Clavicola del Re Salomone (Italian edition of Grimorium Verum) (Milan, 1868)
Feb 10, 2006: Added illustrations and corrections to The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses. This has already become one of the most requested documents at this site!
Jan 1, 2006: Added The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses (complete text, but most illustrations omitted)
Dec 16, 2005: Added English translation to Agrippa's Female Pre-Eminence. Expanded Le Petit Albert.
Nov 17, 2005: Added Proclus: Metaphysical Elements
Sep 28, 2005: Added Armand Delatte's Anecdota Atheniensia.
Sep 2, 2005: Added Agrippa: Declamatio de nobilitate et precellentia Foeminei sexus (Latin)
Aug 6, 2005: Added Bruno: De Imaginum Compositione Liber I (Francofurti, 1591)
Jul 8, 2005: Added images of the planets from Bruno: De Imaginum Compositione (Francofurti, 1591)
July 7, 2005: Added Book of Protection
Jun 24, 2005: Expanded Name index; Updated style.css; edited style slightly of Goetia
Apr 27, 2005: Updated top 20 list
Apr 26, 2005: Added list of angels and demons from the Magic Treatise of Solomon (Harleian MS. 5596)
Apr 14, 2005: Updated Key of Solomon text, footnotes, and introduction.
Added Psalter with footnotes on magic uses of each Psalm in Clavicula.
Feb 3, 2005: Added translation of the spell for inducing love in a dream, which Mathers omitted from his edition of the Key of Solomon.
Dec 20, 2004: Updated Top 20 list
Dec 17, 2004: Updated Key of Solomon
Nov 13, 2004: Added The Magical Calendar (Calendarium Naturale Magicum Perpetuum) by Johann Baptista Großchedel. (excerpts)
Nov 7, 2004: Added Theosophia Pneumatica. Expanded introduction to Weyer.
Nov 6, 2004: Corrected typo in Ars Paulina. Also added table of corrections to info on my books.
Oct 31, 2004: Updated Name index. Also expanded descriptions of Key of Solomon manuscripts.
Oct 23, 2004: Added Douze Anneaux (Lansdowne MS 1202)
Oct 16, 2004: Added original 1575 Latin version of Arbatel, Note versions of sigils from original Latin edition are slightly different from those found in later editions. Added footnotes and "Seal of Secrets" from MSS. Sloane 3851.
Oct 4, 2004: Corrected typos in Arbatel.
Oct 1, 2004: Added additional examples of figures from Key of Solomon manuscripts.
Sep 17, 2004: Added another version of Sigillum Dei Aemeth, from a Latin manuscript of the Key of Solomon in the Bodleian Library, MS. Aubrey 24, fol. 60r.
Aug 29, 2004: Added English translation to Lans. 1202. Clavicules du Roi Salomon, Par Armadel. Livre Troisieme.
July 27, 2004: Added E.S. Drower: Peacock Angel (1941)
June 20, 2004: Added another version of Sigillum Dei Aemeth, from an Italian manuscript of the Key of Solomon in the Bodleian Library, MS. Mich. 276.
May 15, 2004: Added examples of all of the pentacles to Key of Solomon as well as additional footnotes.
April 19, 2004: Updated Liber Juratus Added section numbers, parallel modernized version, and some corrections.
April 18, 2004: Updated Ars Notoria, adding part of Latin text, and some footnotes citing parallels with Liber Juratus.
April 16, 2004: Updated Key of Solomon with lots of footnotes and drawings.
Feb 15, 2004: Added excerpts from Lans. 1202. Clavicules du Roi Salomon, Par Armadel. Livre Troisieme. Concernant les Esprits & leurs pouvoirs. (The Key of King Solomon, by Armadel. Book 3: Concerning the Spirits and their Capabilities.)
Feb 1, 2004: Added Dionysius the Areopagite: The Celestial Hierarchies
Jan 18, 2004: Added Dionysius the Areopagite: Mystical Theology
November 17, 2003: Added excerpts from Le Petit Albert (Secrets merveilleux de la magie naturelle et cabalistique du petit Albert)
November 13, 2003: Corrected typos in dee/invocat.htm.
October 31, 2003: Corrected typos in solomon/gg1421.htm.
October 24, 2003: Added Kircher directory
October 17, 2003: Added Zoroaster's Egg (Ovum Zoroastraeum) from Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652)
October 13, 2003: Expanded article on the Necronomicon.
October 10, 2003: Added some corrections and drawings from Dee's original manuscript to TFR part1.
August 11,2003: Added notice of new French critical translation of Picatrix.
Aug 1, 2003: Updated agrippa/agripp1b.htm.
December 20, 2002: Added Il Grand Grimoire (Italian)
October 15, 2002: Added Latin edition of Peter de Abano: Heptameron.
October 6, 2002: Added French translation of John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica.
September 27, 2002: Added earliest versions of Angelic or "Enochian" script.
August 6, 2002: Added Abraham of Worms: Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin.
July 4, 2002: corrected typos in The Veritable Clavicles of Solomon ... by Rabbi Abognazar
December 8, 2001: Added The Veritable Clavicles of Solomon, Translated from Hebrew into the Latin Language by Rabbi Abognazar (Lansdowne MS. 1203).
November 27, 2001: Added The Clavicle of Solomon, revealed by Ptolomy the Grecian.
October 24, 2001: Added magic circle from Add. 10862.
October 15, 2001: Added Pentacles and magic circle from the Greek Key of Solomon.
September 15, 2001: Added Pentacles from the Hebrew Key of Solomon (Mafteah Shelomoh, Or. 14759, fol, 35a)
September 6, 2001: Fixed problem with search page, and reindexed the site.
July 29, 2001: Added John Dee's version of Sigillum Dei Aemeth.
May 13, 2001: Added Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Conclusiones sive Theses DCCCC.
May 8, 2001: Completed Giordano Bruno: De Vinculis in Genere.
April 29, 2001: Added A. W. Greenup: Sefer ha-Levanah -- The Book of the Moon to CD.
March 3, 2001: Added Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Of Being and Unity
January 4, 2001: Finished adding drawings for Agrippa's Of Occult Philosophy.
December 31, 2000: Added Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: Second Book of Occult Philosophy (text only)
November 10, 2000: Added Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: Third Book of Occult Philosophy (text only)
October 7, 2000: Added Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa: First Book of Occult Philosophy
August 26, 2000: Corrected Kircher's explanation of Sigillum Dei Aemeth and rescanned gifs.
August 22, 2000: Added Henrich Cornelius Agrippa: Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy
July 7, 2000: Added Iamblichus: Theurgia, or the Mysteries of the Egyptians
June 11, 2000: Added Giordano Bruno's Cantus Circaeus
May 20, 2000: Added Verus Jesuitarum Libellus (Latin with Eng. transl.)
04/15/2000: Added Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (Latin with English translation)
03/11/2000: Added Ebenezer Sibly, A New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences, Book 4. (1795?)
03/03/2000: Added Mafteah Shelomoh / Clavicula Salomonis ... described
02/16/2000: Added Introduction to the Sword of Moses, and the Hebrew text.
12/31/1999: Added The Grimoire of Pope Honorius (French, 1760)
12/27/1999: Added John Dee's Tuba Veneris ('The Trumpet of Venus') (1580, Latin)
12/26/1999: Added English translation of Grimorium Verum.
12/21/1999: Added L'art de commander les esprits ... du Grand Grimoire (1750?).
12/01/1999: Added John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica.
11/30/99: Added Grimorium du Pape Honorius (French 1800 edition).
11/06/99: Added Grimorium Verum (French edition).
09/05/99: Added Compendium Heptarchiae Mysticae.
09/03/99: Added a summary of Picatrix (The Goal of the Wise) of pseudo-Majriti.
08/31/99: Completed Steganographia Book 2.
08/31/99: Corrected some typos and HTML tag error in Heptarchia Mystica.
08/27/99: Added parallel modernized spelling to The Key of Knowledge.
08/23/99: Added The Key of Knowledge A Sixteenth-Century English translation of the Key of Solomon.
08/19/99: Added additional magical symbols to the archive of downloadable esoteric gifs.
07/29/99: Added Le Grimoire du Pape Honorius.
07/06/99: Added Grimorium Verum, La Clavicola del Re Solomone Tessoro delle Scienze Occulte. (Italian)
06/14/99: Updated Angel Registry to include data from the Book of Enoch, Grimorium Verum, Testament of Solomon, and the Key of Solomon.
06/13/99: Added Sigillum Dei Aemeth from Sl.3853, as well as additional details and English translations from that edition of the Sworn Book of Honorius (Liber Juratus)
06/03/99: Added Giordano Bruno: Ars Memoriae
05/30/99: Added an introduction to the Lemegeton, and some footnotes to the Goetia.
05/23/99: Added The Key of Solomon, English edition by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers (text only).
05/09/99: Added Testament of Solomon.
05/01/99: Completed Steganographia Book 3.
04/29/99: Completed Steganographia Book 1.
04/21/99: Added Trithemius: The art of drawing spirits into crystals
03/31/99: Added John Dee's A Letter Containing a most briefe Discourse Apologeticall
03/27/99: Added Reginald Scot's collection of magical texts
03/23/99: Added archive of downloadable esoteric gifs
03/18/99: Added The Sphere of Sacrobosco
02/24/99: Added Chaldaean Oracles of Zoroaster
02/12/99: Added Giordano Bruno: Theses De Magia
02/12/99: Added Giordano Bruno: Magia Mathematica
12/02/98: Added Giordano Bruno: De Magia (LATIN)
11/29/98: Updated Angel Registry:.
11/25/98: Added Peter de Abano, Heptameron, or Magical Elements
11/13/98: Added Sword of Moses.
11/07/98: Completed Hermann Gollancz: Sefer Mafteah Shelomoh / Hebrew Key of Solomon
09/13/98: Added Lemegeton: Goetia Theurgia Goetia Ars Paulina Ars Almadel
09/11/98: Added Angel Registry: Index of Angel names, magical words, and names of God
08/06/98: Added SOLOMON AND THE ARS NOTORIA from Lynn Thorndike, MAGIC AND EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE
07/13/98: Updated Liber Juratus to include comments by Lynn Thorndike.
07/13/98: Added Apollonius tells your future.
07/12/98: Updated Lovecraft's use of the Necronomicon.
07/12/98: Added Excerpts from Josten's. edition of John Dee: Monas Hieroglyphica.
07/12/98: Added Ars Notoria.
07/12/98: Added Liber Juratus.
06/30/98: Added Dee's Holy Table.
06/04/97: Added Bruno: Umbris Idearum.

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