Source books · Grimoires and ritual magic
Grimorium Verum
How this book fits
- Traditions
- Grimoires and ritual magic
- Role in the tradition
- Primary source Written from inside the tradition: scripture, revelation, a grimoire, a manifesto or a practical treatise.
- Public attention
- Major Wikipedia has an article about it in 10 languages.
Read it
- Read at esotericarchives.com ↗ esotericarchives.com checked September 11, 2026
From Wikipedia
The Grimorium Verum is an 18th-century grimoire attributed to one "Alibeck the Egyptian" of Memphis, who purportedly wrote it in 1517. Like many grimoires, it claims a tradition originating with King Solomon.
From the Wikipedia article Grimorium Verum, revision 1369923872, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q3184260: “eighteenth-century grimoire”.
In this study
In the chronology, among the works with no securely known author.
Spirit hierarchies, seals and conjurations, framed as a Solomonic inheritance it does not have.