The Key of Necromancy, Vol. II Translated & Edited by Nicolás Álvarez Ortiz (Enodia Press, 2020) Paperback Edition

Nicolás Álvarez Ortiz. The Key of Necromancy, Vol. II. Enodia Press, 2020. 189 pages.  Condition: Fine Description from the publisher: The Key of Necromancy is a two-volume work that attests to the continuity and changes that underwent the German magical literature through the late 17th to mid-18th century. It stands as an example of the unique techniques and spirit lists that circulated around the Holy Roman Empire that would later consolidate in what today is known as the Faustian Tradition.This text is composed of three different, previously untranslated, texts, sharing key similarities and at the same time each unique in their own way. The Nigromantisches Kunst-Buch, a text related to the Ars Goetia in technique and attributed to King Solomon, details the conjuration and entrapment of spirits into a bottle; The Experimentir Buch, a magical manual containing instructions on consecrating the Liber Spirituum.or Book of Spirits, the creation of ritual implements and pentacles; and fina