The Clavis or Key to the Magic of Solomon (Dr. S. Skinner & D. Clark) - Esoteric Book Review

You are so awesome!! Thank you ... I went on a book shopping spree because of you 😩... Now I just wish there was 5 of me so we can read everything I just ordered 😂🤷🏾‍♀️

This is one of the YouTube suggestions that I'm really glad about. Look forward to going through your playlists

Personally I get the different versions of books. Different authors and translations can give different view points on a subject.

I love your book collection. I have had two copies of the key of solomon, i don't anymore. This one looks amazing to me. It is sooooo much clearer than some of the originals. This is a must have book for me, bit not on the top of my list. The magick in the key of solomon definitely works, but alot of it is dangerous. What i would say to people that think they just want to play with the key of solomon without having an extremely good reason is that i have had a spirit follow me most of my life, the keys work, and there are reasons why there are warnings in it. There are so many stories of people going insane, or their life falling apart, or being tormented by spirits after messing with the magick inside that book. I for one am smart enough now that I'm older, to have respect for solomons keys. There is even a story of a magician that preformed one of the rituals out of the keys and he was found the next day with nearly every bone in His body broken. I have some stories of my own, bit that's neither here nor there.

Amazing video/ audio is amazingly clean. We would love to see some of your content come to Vezbi. Have a wonderful new Year friend and hope to hear from you.

Thanks for the reviews!

Always a pleasure to watch your reviews - nice to see the this one! Such a shame that Golden Hoard doesn't make better quality/better looking books in their standard production. I totally understand your point regarding his matter-of-fact writing.

I have become an avid fan, almost overnight, of Dr Skinner’s work. We are so fortunate to be around at the same time as him. Ars Notoria is riveting 😊 Will I try it?

I am very much enjoying your channel. Noah at "Everyone who reads it must Converse" turned me on to it. We're a part of the #BookTube community, but we're also magicians; in fact, I have another channel called "Portland Tarot" but I've not created any new content since early 2019. Keep up the Great Work. --Allen

Your book reviews have been giving me a much better sense of why I've been so enamored over the years with the book-learning aspect of magick rather than the practical, hands-on aspects. Something about the written word and the images that can accompany it two-dimensionally feels magickal in and of itself, almost as if "spelling" out the words on the page allowed the author to cast spells on whoever put their attention and intention into understanding it. The covers contain an even more subtle kind of spell that draws readers in to attract their attention and intention to the workings within. However, I notice that like myself, you also seem to have an appreciation for how this is being achieved through the medium of the internet. I've been building up energy for a major working for the past 7 years or so, and I feel that it's coming to a head based on my current pattern of omens. I've beaten myself up for the majority of that period for being an "armchair wizard", studying everything and experimenting with nothing (except copious amounts of psychedelics in various settings). However, I'm recently coming to realize that this approach, while traditionally problematic, may have set me up well for the current climate of magickal discussion and literature. Obviously, for this to be an effective approach, I will need to transition into real practice soon. I'm starting with your LBRP recommendations. Thank you for approaching these topics in a way that curious folks from Christian backgrounds can appreciate and not be intimidated by. I think I will be adopting some of that approach in my own upcoming material, though if I do, I will certainly drop some links to your material giving credit where credit is due.

excellent book review. fortunately no annoying music.

This book contains so much more information than the veritable key of Solomon. Although for some reason, I am also glad I have the key too. I completely agree with you on Dr. Skinner's rigid opinions on the source materials. For example, the book on Splendor Solis is an absolute treasure, however, I feel Dr. Skinner's opinionated and secular inputs on the plates takes away more than it adds, to the point that I find it irritating and completely reject it. But really, I am also very grateful to him for painstakingly bringing so much raw information out into the public, and for giving us all a chance to hold in our hands a piece of magical history. Love this review too, as always, thank you so much Denis :)

I have the 2018 First Edition second impression. It has matte paper finish with no images separated. The embossed logo on the front of the cloth binding is much smaller than yours. Almost as if they listened to you 😂

i recieved the ars notoria in the post today and im very pleased with it. occult manuscript facimiles are sort of my thing at the minute so this is right up my street. solomonic magic isnt really for me but it is very interesting. this looks very very nice!

Nice review! I appreciated the flip-through. The handwritten pages are immediately legible to me though I understand some kids today can't read cursive because they weren't taught it. Unfortunate! 😱

Have you had a look at 'The Occult Book' by John Michael Greer? It's quite a nice timeline of the esoteric and it's presented very well that almost anyone could pick it up and enjoy without any prior knowledge of Magick.

You are one of a kind 👏

What was your actual opinion on the books binding? And yes you can rest assured that I think that it is a beautiful object of art . 🌟

your right some of the illustrations is like child has done them, but i very much love them more creative and artistic

It's a source work for ceremonial magick: indeed I have all the volumes that I read from vol A to Z and if you do read them (without pinpointing minor irrelevant errors and put it in a scientific, historical, academic AND magical perspective; it does make a lot of sense. I like it because it's from a scientific point of view without falling in the boring academically verbiage that detached itself from the subject (because in fact it is aimed for practitioners and not armchair magician) yet he manages to put it in the academical field: that is a major scientific and humanist contribution to the field.. this sourcework serie is a monument in terms of scientific and academic work and still the only REAL workable tool. Indeed that legitimates the REALITY of magical technology. The future students of magic will be grateful I can tell you.