Creating Chaos. On the Origins of Solomonic Magic

Authors

  • Ezio Albrile Italy

Abstract

It can be assumed that the protagonists of the Gnostic texts are the Archons, mythical beings who manipulate the human mind and modify its perception. To gain a better comprehension of their astral nature, within the Nag Hammadi Library several texts mention a particular type of sources. More precisely, they make reference to a group of irretrievably lost books, whose Hermetic and Magic content can be reconstructed only through comparative hypotheses. Among these texts, the Book of Solomon has a great posterity and can be seen as the archetype of all the treatises dealing with Salomonic magic. One of these  precious books, which we have found in a Greek manuscript codex belonging to the National University Library of Turin (Ms. C. VII. 15: Opuscula varia astronomica), is the nearest inspirational source of Medieval magical grimoires. 

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2017-12-01

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Albrile, E. (2017). Creating Chaos. On the Origins of Solomonic Magic. International Journal of Ancient Astrology and Magic Research, (17), 5–40. Retrieved from https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/mhnh/article/view/15788

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No. 17 (2017)

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ARTICLES

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