The Ring of Power : Collection of Treatises on the Occult Sciences

These pages are taken from an 18th-century manuscript of the Clavicles [or "Keys"] of Solomon , a treatise attributed to the biblical king. Throughout Antiquity and until the Renaissance, Solomon was reinvented as a magician, believed to have used a magic ring to command demons to build the Temple. The kind of ring in question here, which the adept can forge by combining a metal and a stone "suitable for the planet whose influences one wants to receive", will ensure a “marvellous success.” Symbols of the circle and attachment, rings are among the earliest magical attributes (the ring of Gyges, conferring invisibility to him, was mentioned by Plato) and the most enduring, right up to the title of Tolkien's great novel The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), with the evil Sauron and his “One Ring” “to rule them all … and in the darkness bind them.”téléchargeabl