Claves Intelligentiarum: A Complete Practical Manual of Conjuration of the Planetary Intelligences

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Claves Intelligentiarum: A Complete Practical Manual of Conjuration of the Planetary Intelligences by renowned author David Rankine throws open the gates of the grimoire tradition. For the first time the complete process of preparation, purification, conjuration, and the rationale for each step of the process is described in comprehensive detail, providing a much-needed entry point into the practice of grimoire conjuration.

This synthesis of Solomonic grimoire practices continues the evolution of the tradition by bringing those practices into the twenty-first century while remaining faithful to their roots. Additionally, the author includes new consecrations he created where they were missing from the tradition, as well as a new analysis of the triangle and its use. 

As well as supplying a thorough foundation to the conjuration of the Planetary Intelligences, this material can also be used as a template and be built on for future conjuration work. At its heart, Claves Intelligentiarum is an acknowledgement and encouragement of the evolution of personal practice within the grimoire tradition.

Our hardcover edition is limited to 400 copies, and is offset printed on blue buckkram with black stamping on front and spine.

Claves Intelligentiarum: A Complete Practical Manual of Conjuration of the Planetary Intelligences
David Rankine
ISBN 978-1-915933-67-6 (HB)
ISBN 978-1-915933-68-3 (PB)
ISBN 978-1-915933-69-0 (epub)
120 pages

David Rankine is an author, esoteric researcher, and magician who lives in Spain with his wife, artist and tattooist Rosa Laguna, and their daughter, Victoria. He has been making major contributions to the modern occult revival since the 1980s through lectures, workshops, presentations, articles, and books. His esoteric expertise covers a wide range of topics, including the Western Esoteric Traditions, especially the Qabalah, the Grimoire Tradition, Greco-Egyptian magic, and Ceremonial Magic, as well as British folklore and European mythology. His published work in recent years has been characterised by the publication of previously unavailable or inaccessible material on the grimoires and other areas of magic.

"Finally, what we’ve been waiting for! Rankine’s Claves Intelligentiarum is a vital peek-behind-the-veil of a practicing magician with decades of experience, lucidly distilled for practitioners to immediately begin crafting their own, idiosyncratic practice. Rankine’s tome not only is deeply rooted in the Solomonic grimoiric corpus, but demonstrates how this tradition is built on new adaptations of consecrations, conjurations and other updates suited to our modern world to conjure the Planetary Intelligences." -- Alexander Eth, Host, Glitch Bottle Podcast

“In this concise yet comprehensive book, David Rankine presents a straightforward procedure for making contact with the intelligences of the planetary spheres, modelled on the Solomonic ritual method and synthesized from components of traditional manuals of spirit conjuration as well as the author’s own experience across forty years of magical practice. Rankine clearly lays out at the beginning the methodological assumptions framing the techniques which are subsequently presented, and the author’s innovations upon the textual tradition are noted, and the theory informing them explained. Far from merely an uninspired pastiche of his sources, Rankine has composed a set of instructions with relevance to the modern-day practitioner and social realities, and provides apt advice regarding the material necessities of the operation. This is first and foremost a practical text, of interest to both newer and more experienced practitioners interested in experimenting with methods of planetary magic.” – Brian Johnson, author of Necromancy in the Medici Library

"After completing an encyclopedia of grimoires, David Rankine has offered us one his own! The Planetary Intelligences have captured the attention of many occultists. Agrippa provided their names and seals, but no specific protocol for conjuring them. Now, thanks to David, anyone that reads Claves Intelligentarium will know exactly what to do to conjure these beings. Just as importantly they will know why they are doing. If you are new to evocation, this is an ideal first grimoire, but even experienced magicians will walk away with new insights. I know I did." -- Jason Miller, author of Consorting with Spirits as well as many other books and courses. 

"David Rankine’s lucid interpretation of Agrippa’s summoning of the Planetary Intelligences enables effective communication with an overlooked cadre of angelic powers whose intellectual motion is actually responsible for all astrological emanations and astral magic transmitted from the heavens to Earth. At present, when the venerable traditions of European Conjuration are regularly disrespected by the fabrication of ersatz “grimoires” that owe more to fantasy fiction and undigested Crowlianity than serious efforts to bring the wisdom of Western Magic to modern readers, contributions such as Rankine’s Claves Intelligentiarum are all the more commendable and welcome."   – Jim Baker, author of The Cunning Man's Handbook

“Claves Intelligentiarum is without question a foundation of magic not only for beginners but experienced practitioners alike. David has drawn upon all the classical source text and brought together a system that is grounded in historical tradition and yet takes in the concerns of a modern lifestyle. It presents its readers with a fresh and unique view towards conjuration and goes even further as it presents a system which corrects certain errors carried over for the past several hundred years.” -- Daniel Clark, Ars Notoria

"Condensing decades of practical knowledge and wisdom into a highly sophisticated and finely tuned modern methodology, David Rankine’s Claves Intelligentiarum presents historically accurate and attested techniques perfect for those interested in beginning their journey into in the magic of the Planetary Intelligences and the broader Grimoire tradition. A truly adaptable and universal approach, presented by one of the foremost scholars and practitioners of our day." -- Mat Hadfield, The Hours