The primary method of transcribing this method was by manuscript and handwritten text given the expensive nature of book publishing and the fact that vanishingly few publishers would want their names sent to the Inquisition for starting up a Renaissance Llewellyn, there was really no other choice but to copy, write, and transcribe grimoires from book to blank book.
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Combining hearsay with experimental or anecdotal data, plus plenty of appeals to authority (Plato, Aristotle, Vergil, and Solomon were some of the faves back then), as well as flawless incorporation of spiritual and material knowledge yielded sometimes awkward but applicable logical results in magic. The big issue is that academic rigor nowadays is much different from academic rigor back then. They were more academic than hedgewitchy formularies or herbals, and less philosophical than outright religious tractates on angels or heresies, but were still fairly academic texts. Grimoires, then and now, were part of a thriving (and often underground) tradition of magic that was derived from older grimoires before them and helped derive newer ones after them. Grimoires (literally “grammars”, methods and rules for learning and applying magic that often contain exact ritual specifications in addition to magical and ritual frameworks) aren’t discrete texts that arose independently in occult vacuums. Actually, no, it’s so bad, it’s not even wrong.
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This is such a bad question that I honestly don’t know how to reply except “no, stop it, you’re doing it wrong”. None of the attached philosophy or editing, just the good ol’ original text without any of the extra embellishment. Essentially, what he’s asking is like asking for the original Gospel of John, Dao De Jing, or something similar, the very first copy taken down by hand without any of the translation, editing, or whatnot. From his later replies in the thread, he didn’t necessarily want the original manuscripts, just the “original text” instead of something that had been “edited into oblivion”.
After having been suggested the Clavicula Solomonis, the OP did some searching on Amazon, but decided he didn’t want ”Knock-off / Edited / Bad copies of the book”, trying to find “the acutal book itself”. The gist of the thread was that the OP was looking for “propper grimoires”, at first for display purposes like home decor but later to actually read and investigate. They admitted they were new, but I contented myself with downvoting and upvoting replies appropriately in the thread. Like, not enraged Tea Party-like flaming anger, but there was just so much wrong with the OP’s views that I had a hard time knowing where to begin. I was looking over some of the threads in /r/occult on Reddit recently and came across a perplexing, bemusing thread that…not gonna lie, it made me too angry to reply to it.