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The '''''Lesser Key of Solomon''''', also known as '''''Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis''''' ('''''Clavicle of Solomon''''') or simply '''''Lemegeton''''', is an anonymous [[grimoire]] on demonology. It was compiled in the mid-17th century, mostly from materials a couple of centuries older. | The '''''Lesser Key of Solomon''''', also known as '''''Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis''''' ('''''Clavicle of Solomon''''') or simply '''''Lemegeton''''', is an anonymous [[grimoire]] on demonology. It was compiled in the mid-17th century, mostly from materials a couple of centuries older. | ||
The text is more properly called "''Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis''", or, "The little Key of Solomon". The title most commonly used, "The Lesser Key of Solomon," does not in fact occur in the manuscripts. [[A.E. Waite | The text is more properly called "''Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis''", or, "The little Key of Solomon". The title most commonly used, "The Lesser Key of Solomon," does not in fact occur in the manuscripts. [[A.E. Waite]], in his 1898 ''[[Book of Black Magic and of Pacts]]'' does use the terms "so-called Greater Key" and "Lesser Key" to distinguish between the ''Clavicula Salomonis'' and ''Lemegeton,'' so he may have been the first one to coin it. | ||
It is divided into five books: | It is divided into five books: | ||