Black-hilt knife
A ritual tool in Key of Solomon. The circle-making knife of the Key of Solomon's Book II, separately prepared and stored from its white-hilt counterpart.
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Book 4 Cup
A ritual tool in Crowley, Book 4. The receptive counterpart to the wand, figured as understanding, purification, and the capacity to receive and organize experience.
Book 4 Lamen
A ritual tool in Crowley, Book 4. A breastplate worn over the heart that combines the operator's symbols into a single image of forces already at work.
Book 4 Pantacle
A ritual tool in Crowley, Book 4. A flat wax disc of Earth and Malkuth, imagined as the practitioner's body, field of experience, and storehouse of everything that may be worked upon.
Book 4 Sword
A ritual tool in Crowley, Book 4. The weapon of analytical reason: a steel blade with copper hilt and back-to-back lunar crescents on the guard.
Book 4 Wand
A ritual tool in Crowley, Book 4. The principal weapon of Book 4: directed will, wisdom, speech, and the magical oath made concrete.
Book of conjurations
A ritual tool in Crowley, Book 4. The practitioner's continuous record of thought, speech, and action, treated as both magical diary and book of spells.
Brass vessel
A ritual tool in Ars Goetia. The legendary container of the seventy-two spirits, closed with the Secret Seal of Solomon and reproduced as part of the Goetia's ritual mythology.