《所羅門的小鑰匙》(拉丁語:Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis,英語:The Lesser Key of Solomon,另一個廣為人知的名稱是Lemegeton)是一部神秘學著作,託名由古以色列國王所羅門所編寫。該書記載眾多法術與召喚惡魔之法。
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本書的標題在早期的手抄本中常寫爲Lemegeton, Clavicula Salomonis, or The Little Key of Solomon[1][2]或其他類似形式[3]。標題中的clavicula爲拉丁語clavis(鑰匙)的指小詞。注意本書不應與另一本知名的神秘學著作Clavicula Salomonis(《所羅門的鑰匙》)相混淆,後者常被簡稱爲Clavicula。
書名中的Lemegeton並非拉丁語,其本義不詳。該詞亦在本書的第五部Ars Notoria中出現,原文爲:“...sicut etiam ait Salomon in tractu Lemegeton, hoc est in tractu spiritualium & secretorum experimentorum.”(“……所羅門王在他的《論Lemegeton》,亦即《論心靈與玄秘的實驗》中,如是說道。”)[1]
Crowley, Aleister (ed.), S. L. MacGregor Mathers (transcribed) The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King. Translated into the English tongue by a dead hand (Foyers, Inverness: Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, 1904) 1995 reprint: ISBN0-87728-847-X.
Greenup, A. W., "The Almadel of Solomon, according to the text of the Sloane MS. 2731" The Occult Review vol. 22 no. 2, August 1915, 96–102.
Henson, Mitch (ed.) Lemegeton. The Complete Lesser Key of Solomon (Jacksonville: Metatron Books, 1999) ISBN978-0-9672797-0-1. Noted by Peterson to be "uncritical and indiscriminate in its use of source material".[2]
Peterson, Joseph H. (ed.), The Lesser Key of Solomon: Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis (York Beach, ME: Weiser Books, 2001). Considered "the definitive version"[9] and "the standard edition".[10]
Runyon, Carroll, The Book of Solomon’s Magick (Silverado, CA: C.H.S. Inc., 1996). Targeted more toward practicing magicians than academics, claims that the demons were originally derived from Mesopotamian mythology.[11]
Shah, Idries, The Secret Lore of Magic (London: Abacus, 1972). Contains portions of Ars Almandel and split sections the Goetia, missing large portions of the rituals involved.[2]
Skinner, Stephen & Rankine, David (eds.), The Goetia of Dr Rudd: The Angels and Demons of Liber Malorum Spirituum Seu Goetia (Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic) (London and Singapore: The Golden Hoard Press 2007) ISBN978-0-9547639-2-3
Thorogood, Alan (ed.), Frederick Hockley (transcribed), The Pauline Art of Solomon (York Beach, ME: The Teitan Press, 2016)
Veenstra, Jan R. “The Holy Almandal. Angels and the intellectual aims of magic” in Jan N. Bremmer and Jan R. Veenstra (eds.), The Metamorphosis of Magic from Late Antiguity to the Early Modern Period (Leuven: Peeters, 2002), pp. 189–229. The Almadel is transcribed at pp. 217–229.
Waite, Arthur Edward, The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts. Including the rites and mysteries of goëtic theurgy, sorcery, and infernal necromancy, also the rituals of black magic (Edinburgh: 1898). Reprinted as The Secret Tradition in Goëtia. The Book of Ceremonial Magic, including the rites and mysteries of Goëtic theurgy, sorcery, and infernal necromancy (London: William Rider & Son, 1911). Includes the Goetia, Pauline Art and Almadel.[2]
White, Nelson & Anne (eds.) Lemegeton: Clavicula Salomonis: or, The complete lesser key of Solomon the King (Pasadena, CA: Technology Group, 1979). Noted by Peterson to be "almost totally unreadable".[2]
Wilby, Kevin (ed.) The Lemegetton. A Medieval Manual of Solomonic Magic (Silian, Lampeter: Hermetic Research Series, 1985)
^Bremmer, Jan N.; Veenstra, Jan R. The Holy Almandal - Angels and the Intellectual Aims of Magic. The Metamorphosis of Magic from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. Peeters Publishers. 2002: 189––229. ISBN 978-9042912274.