As the title testifies, students were sworn to secrecy before being given access to this magic text, and only a few manuscripts have survived. Bits of its teachings, such as the use of the magic whistle for summoning spirits, are alluded to in other texts. Another key element of its ritual, the elaborate “Seal of God,” has been found in texts and amulets throughout Europe. Interest in The Sworn Book of Honorius has grown in recent years, yet no modern translations have been attempted―until now. Purporting to preserve the magic of Solomon in the face of intense persecution by religious authorities, this text includes one of the oldest and most detailed magic rituals. It contains a complete system of magic including how to attain the divine vision, communicate with holy angels, and control aerial, earthly, and infernal spirits for practical gain. Largely ignored by historians until recently, this text is an important witness to the transmission of Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism to European Hermeticists. Joseph H. Peterson has translated many esoteric and religious source works including The Clavis or Key to the Magic of Solomon, Arbatel , and John Dee’s Five Books of Mystery . Peterson is an active member of the American Academy of Religion and the American Folklore Society. He has an extensive collection of rare esoteric documents, which he shares at his award-winning websites esotericarchives.com and avesta.org. He lives near Rochester Minnesota. The Sworn Book of Honorius Liber Iuratus Honorii By Joseph Peterson Ibis Press Copyright © 2016 Joseph H. Peterson All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-0-89254-215-4 Contents Introduction, Abbreviations, Text and Translation, Prologue, The oath, Book I. Preparing the seal of God, and the Divine vision, Composition of the Seal of God, Beatific vision, First purification, Second purification, Placating the Divine Majesty, Separation, Names of the living God, Completion of the work, Book II. Angels, Natures and offices of planetary angels, Construction of the circle and rituals for invoking and binding them, Book III. Spirits of the air, Nature of spirits of the air, Manner of working with them, Book IV. Spirits of the Earth, Manner of working with them, Calling them forth, Book V. General exposition, Consecration of the ink, Details on the masses, Beginning of undertaking the work, Instructions for making the magic whistle, Appendix I. Corrections and Addenda to Hedegård 2002, Appendix II. Variants of some of the figures, Bibliography, Index of Spirit names, Index of Divine names, General Index, CHAPTER 1 II Incipit liber. In nomine igitur omnipotentis Domini nostri Iesu Christi, vivi et veri Dei, ego Honorius opera Salomonis in libro meo taliter ordinavi, quod premisi capitula, ut pateant clarius que secuntur. (2) Capitula primi operis Primum capitulum de composicione magni nominis Dei, quod apud Hebreos dicitur Semenphoras et est 72 literarum, quod est principium in hac arte. (3) 2um de visione divina. 3um de cognicione potestatis divine. 4um de absolucione peccatorum. 5um ne homo incidat in peccatum mortale. 6um de redempcione trium animarum de purgatorio. (4) Capitula secundi operis Septimum de cognicione celorum. 8um de cognicione angelorum cuiuslibet celi. 9um de cognicione cuiuslibet angeli et nominis et potestatis eius. (5) 10um de cognicione sigillorum cuiuslibet angeli et virtutis eorum. 11um de cognicione superiorum cuiuslibet angeli. 12um de cognicione officii cuiuslibet angeli. (6) 13um de invocacione et associacione cuiuslibet angeli. 14um de impetracione voluntatis per quemlibet angelum. 15um de impetracione omnium scienciarum. 16um de hora mortis sienda. (7) 17um de omnibus presentibus, preteritis et futuris sciendis. 18um de cognicione planetarum et stellarum. 19um de cognicione virtutum planetarum et stellarum et quid habent influere. (8)um 20 de influenciis planetarum et stellarum mutandis. 21um de mutacione diei in noctem et noctis in diem. 22um de cognicione spirituum et animalium aereorum. (9) 23um de cognicione spirituum ignis et eorum nominum et superiorum et sigillorum et potestatum et virtutum eorum. 24um de cognicione nominum et virtutum superiorum spirituum. (10) 25um de cognicione sigillorum et virtutum eorum. 26um de cognicione permixtionis et permutacionis elementorum et corporum ex hiis mixtorum. (11) 27um de cognicione omnium herbarum, plantarum et omnium animalium existencium super terram et virtutum eorum. (12) 28um de cognicione humane nature et omnium factorum hominis, que sunt cogitata et que sunt abscondita et ignota in ipsa. (13) 29um de cognicione aquaticorum spirituum et virtutum [et] superiorum ipsorum. 30um de cognicione terrenorum et infernorum spirituum. (14) 31um de visione purgatorii et inferni et animarum ibidem existencium. 32um de obligacione corporis et anime ad revertendum. 33um de sacracione huius libri. (15) Capitula tercii operis Tricesimum