book of deadly names as revealed to king solomon pdf free

The inner strength of the practitioner ( quwwa) is decisive. The outcome of these confrontations, or should we say clashes, is therefore not guaranteed it results from a power struggle, at the heart of the therapy, between the practitioner and the possessing jinn, who may refuse the practioner its allegiance. It illustrates the importance of having strong, ‘incorruptible’ spiritual powers when facing jinn.

His piety and his asceticism, constitute another shield. The texts presented here include the devices he must put in place to protect himself. In therapeutic practices where success depends on a confrontation with the possessing jinn through speech so that it submits and is convinced to give up its hold on a human, the collection of knowledge that the practitioner has of the world of the jinn is not enough. Above all, the exorcism based on the use of “ al-mandal,” which appears in the title of the book, involves incantations ( ʿazāʾim) and geometric figures, such as circles, squares and rectangles. Names ( asmāʾ) are prominent in the magic ‘methods’ displayed in the course of the different texts they are used in: magic formulae-written and oral-to protect possessed persons and exorcists ( ḥirz), and to prevent places and people from being possessed, to chase the jinn away or to summon them to a place ( ṣarʿ, mandal), in incantations, and on rings. Some passages in these texts introduce a jinn called al-Aḥmar (the Red) as the Chief of all the chiefs. The exorcists’ knowledge of the appearance of the jinn of each tribe and their habits (food, type of settlement, etc.) is therefore crucial.

The jinns are the causes of the various diseases and possessions of people or places that can be cured using Solomonic magic, which addresses itself to the Chief of each tribe. Passing over the textual variations, we can say that it is a book on exorcism of the twelve tribes of jinn who agreed with Solomon that they would submit themselves to invocations formulated in accordance with Solomonic magic. Al-Mandal al-sulaymānī is known from several manuscripts which will be presented here.

Book of deadly names as revealed to king solomon pdf free