Ritualists, occultists, and collectors will love this complete, four-color edition of the Mysteries of Magic (also known as The Clavis ) by Ebenezer Sibley and Rabbi Solomon. The Clavis was created during the high point of calligraphic Victorian grimoires, and it became one of the most important grimoires in circulation during the 19th century. This attractive hardcover edition includes commentary and transcription by Dr. Stephen Skinner andDaniel Clark, and it also features content derived from Frederick Hockley's manuscripts. This book is a very significant magical text with details of practice that are not found in other grimoires, and this edition-with its more than 200 pages of additional commentary and explanation-will be a treasure to those who have a passion for the historical underpinnings of occult magic.
Partial Table of Contents:
Preface: Ebenezer Sibley
Part 1. Clavis or Key
Part 2. The Pentacles
Part 3. Four Experiments with Specific Spirits
Part 4. The Wheel of Wisdom
Part 5. A Secret and Complete Book of Magic Science
Part 6. Crystallomancy
Part 7. Miscellaneous Examples and Experiments
Part 8. Geomancy
Part 9. Magical Experiments
Part 10. Magical Tables
Introduction
Background to Magic
The Present Manuscript
Analysis of the Magic in the Clavis
The French Source
English Sources
Versions of the Clavis Manuscript
Short Biographies of the Main Players
Ebenezer Sibley
John Denley
Robert Cross
Frederick Hockley
Major F G Irwin
Robert Thomas Cross aka Raphael
Transcriptionof the Full Text of the Clavis
Appendix 1. Contents of all known Manuscripts of Sibley's Clavis
Appendix 2. Mélusine and the Wyvern
Bibliography
Index