Freemasonry, Christian theosophy and Illuminism

Grimorium Verum

A practical spirit-conjuration grimoire, presented pseudonymously as ancient Solomonic magic.

Dates: probably eighteenth century in recognisable form
Dating: tradition or corpus

Place in the tradition

One of the clearest cases of a genre convention: an eighteenth-century book claiming a false imprint and a false antiquity, because that was what the form required.

a note on the record

History and later legend

Its title pages carry a fabricated place and date of publication. Anonymous.

the written record

Principal works

probably eighteenth century in recognisable form

Grimorium Verum

Spirit hierarchies, seals and conjurations, framed as a Solomonic inheritance it does not have.