The Key of Solomon, which contains all the names, orders, and offices of
all the Spirits that ever Solomon conversed with, together with the
Seals and Characters belonging to each Spirit, and the manner of calling
them forth to visible appearance:
In 4 parts.
(1) THE FIRST PART is a Book of Evil Spirits, called GOETIA, showing how
he bound up those Spirits and used them in several things, whereby he
obtained great fame.
(2) THE SECOND PART is a Book of Spirits, partly Good and partly Evil,
which is named THEURGIA-GOETIA, all Aërial Spirits, etc.
(3) THE THIRD PART is a Book governing the Planetary Houses, and what
Spirits belong to every Degree of the Signs, and Planets in the Signs.
Called the Pauline Art.
(4) THE FOURTH PART is a Book called the ALMADEL OF SOLOMON, which
contains Twenty Chief Spirits who govern the Four Altitudes, or the 360
Degrees of the Zodiac.
These two last Orders of Spirits are Good, and called THEURGIA, and are
to be sought after by Divine seeking.
These Most Sacred Mysteries were revealed unto Solomon.
Now in this Book LEMEGETON is contained the whole Art of King Solomon.
And although there be many other Books that are said to be his, yet none
is to be compared hereunto, for this containeth them all. Though there
be titles with several other Names of the Book, as THE BOOK HELISOL,
which is the very same with this last Book of Lemegeton called ARS NOVA
or ARS NOTARIA, etc.
These Books were first found in the Chaldee and Hebrew Tongues at
Jerusalem by a Jewish Rabbi; and by him put into the Greek language and
thence into the Latin, as it is said.