The Key of Solomon the King (Clavicula Salomonis)

Mathers’s translation of the Key of Solomon made one of the best-known medieval and Renaissance magical texts available to modern readers. The book is significant for its role in the history of ceremonial magic, and it contains ritual instructions, pentacles, consecrations, astrological timings, and methods for working with spirits and protective talismans.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers (Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, 1854–1918) was a major British occultist and one of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. As a translator, he rendered several key magical and mystical texts into English, helping to make grimoires and esoteric sources available to modern occult readers.