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The First Mirror of Lilith is a ritual to invoke Lilith and ask her questions through the assistance of necromancy using a mirror engraved with Solomonic symbols and text. The ritual recalls Lilith's identity as a mirror spirit found in the Zohar in Pekudei: Verse 920. In this verse, any man who vainly looks into a mirror during the night of a new moon risks awakening the demon Asirta, who in turn, will summon Lilith to torment him.

The only known Renaissance-era ritual involving Lilith comes from the fifteenth-century Munich Manual of Demonic Magic. Among the book's magical workings, many of which are unique to this manual, is a ritual called the First Mirror of Lilith (primum speculum Lilit). This operation is a form of divination using necromancy. By constructing and consecrating a mirror to Lilith, the magician may discover information concerning murders, thefts, and other hidden matters.

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