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S.L. MacGregor Mathers

Born

in Hackney, London, England, The United Kingdom

January 08, 1854

Died

November 20, 1918

Genre

Spirituality, Religion, Paranormal

Influences

William Robert Woodman

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Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, born Samuel Liddell Mathers and having allegedly added MacGregor as a claim to a Highland heritage for which there is little other evidence, was an English occultist best remembered as a founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

His translations of medieval grimoires and other obscure occult texts, while often criticized for their accuracy or incompleteness, served to make this otherwise inaccessible material more widely available to English-speaking audiences, and remain among the most popular of his works.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 6,128 ratings · 313 reviews · 240 distinct works • Similar authors

	Goetia the Lesser Key of Solomon the King: Lemegeton, Book 1 Clavicula Salomonis Regis by S.L. MacGregor Mathers (Translator), Aleister Crowley (Editor), Hymenaeus Beta (Editor) 3.94 avg rating — 2,521 ratings — published 1650 — 157 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Key of Solomon the King: Clavicula Salomonis 3.96 avg rating — 1,311 ratings — published 1400 — 167 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kabbalah Unveiled 3.95 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 1684 — 101 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Grimoire of Armadel by S.L. MacGregor Mathers, William H. Keith Jr. (Contributor) 3.86 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 1980 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tarot 3.75 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 26 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sorcerer & His Apprentice: Unknown Hermetic Writings of S.L. MacGregor Mathers & J.W. Brodie-Innes (Roots of the Golden Dawn Series) by S.L. MacGregor Mathers, J.W. Brodie-Innes, R.A. Gilbert (Editor) 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1983	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tarot: A Short Treatise on Reading Cards 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Magick: The Greater Key Of Solomon Book One - Including A Clear And Precise Exposition Of King Solomon’s Secret Procedure, Its Mysteries And Magic Rites, Original Plates, Seals, Charms And Talismans. 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kabbalah, The Essential Texts From The Zohar 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1887 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of the Sacred Magic Of Abramelin The Mage really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Lesser Key of Solomon (1 book)
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S.L. MacGregor Mathers (Translator),

Aleister Crowley (Editor),

Hymenaeus Beta (Editor)

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“This being true for the ordinary Universe, that all sense-impressions are
dependent on changes in the brain we must include illusions, which are after all
sense-impressions as much as “realities” are, in the class of “phenomena dependent
on brain-changes.”
― S.L. MacGregor Mathers, Goetia the Lesser Key of Solomon the King: Lemegeton, Book 1 Clavicula Salomonis Regis

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“Furthermore, I wish to make thee understand that God hath destined to each one of us a Spirit, which watches over us and takes care of our preservation; these are called Genii, who are elementary like us, and who are more ready to render service to those whose temperament is conformed to the Element which these Genii inhabit; for example, shouldest thou be of a fiery temperament, that is to say sanguine, thy genius would be fiery and submitted to the Empire of Baël.”
― S.L. MacGregor Mathers, The Key of Solomon the King: Clavicula Salomonis

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“(12.) SITRI.--The Twelfth Spirit is Sitri. He is a Great Prince and appeareth at first with a Leopard's head and the Wings of a Gryphon, but after the command of the Master of the Exorcism he putteth on Human shape, and that very beautiful. He enflameth men with Women's love, and Women with Men's love; and causeth them also to show themselves naked if it be desired.”
― S.L. MacGregor Mathers, The Three Magical Books of Solomon

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