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The Brass VesselMila'sExotic Plants & CuriositiesA living collection by Luminary OdditiesLesser Key · Greater Key · Solomonic manuscripts
Eight illustrated chapters follow the king’s gift of wisdom, his testament, the recovery of the hidden Key, and the release of the sealed spirits. The accounts draw on Clavicula Salomonis and the Lemegeton.
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storySolomon asks for wisdom and receives knowledge of heaven and earth. The Greater Key preserves two accounts of the revelation: an angel’s visit before sleep and a blazing star among the trees.
storyThe Lansdowne introduction assigns spirits to the heavens, elements and human lives, linking their natures with names, seals, times and earthly materials.
storySolomon entrusts his knowledge to Roboam as an inheritance more precious than wealth, commanding his son to study, preserve and honour its teachings.
storyThe Key is buried with Solomon in an ivory casket. Babylonian philosophers later recover the book, but an angel must reveal the meaning of its obscure words.
storyAt the Temple altar, Solomon receives learned prayers and notes through Michael. The Lesser Key’s introductory accounts place this revelation among several books of spirits and sacred learning.
storyThe Goetia describes seventy-two spirits through their names, ranks, offices, legions and changing appearances, then gathers them into the story of Solomon’s sealed vessel.
storySolomon confines the seventy-two spirits and their legions in a vessel of brass. In Babylon, treasure-seekers break it open and release its inhabitants.
storyThe Greater Key and the Lemegeton preserve different accounts of Solomon’s wisdom, hidden writings and command over spirits. Their shared attribution brings these stories together without erasing their differences.