The Grand Grimoire Author:King Solomon So rare is this great work, so much has it been sought after in these parts, that by reason of its scarcity, one may well call it, with the Rabbinical authors, the veritable Magnum Opus; it is they who have bequeathed to us this priceless original, which innumerable charlatans have impotently endeavoured to counterfeit, in imitation of the genui... more »ne book, which they have never succeeded in discovering, and for the appropriation of the money of simpletons who have recourse to the first that offers himself instead of to the fountain-head. The present copy has been transcribed from the genuine writings of the mighty King Solomon, which have been met with by pure chance, this sublime monarch having passed all the days of his life in he most laborious researches and in pursuit of the most obscure and hopeless secrets; but in the end he succeeded in all his undertakings, penetrating even into the most remote haunts of Spirits, whom he bound one and all, and forced them to obey him by the power of his Talisman or Clavicle. Of a truth, what other man, save this invincible genius, would have had the hardihood to reveal the withering words which God makes use of to strike terror into the rebellious Angels and to compel them into obedience?« less