Guide III · the whole operation

THE SOLOMONIC GUIDE

the manual, computed for where you stand

The old books do not hedge. An operation performed off its hour does not work poorly - it does not work. And then they leave you with hours that stretch and shrink with the season and your latitude, and no means of finding yours. We find them: to the minute, from real sunrise where you actually stand. Then we print the procedure, so that you need never ask again.

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Clavicula plate: a traced sigil ringed by a divine name, four angel names and a scripture versicle, struck in gold on cream stock
The clavicula plate - divine Name, angels, versicle, after Book I ch. XVIII.
I · The thing nobody solves for you

Your next eight hours, to the minute

The Key's hours are unequal - twelve between sunrise and sunset, twelve between sunset and sunrise - so their length moves with the season and with your latitude. No table in a book can give you yours. These are computed from real sunrise at your coordinates. From the specimen, cast for Manila:

WindowMagical nameWhich hourLength
Fri 31 Jul · 05:40–06:44Yayn1st of the day64 min
Fri 31 Jul · 13:07–14:11Thaine8th of the day64 min
Fri 31 Jul · 20:19–21:15Thanu3rd of the night56 min
Sat 01 Aug · 02:52–03:48Agla10th of the night56 min

The guide also prints the whole procedure, so you can solve any hour, anywhere, on any date it does not cover. That part needs nothing but a sunrise time and arithmetic.

II · Why believe any of it

Everyone else asks you to take their word for it

Every claim is split three ways and the three are never allowed to blur:

Rite

The old books hold that an operation performed off its hour does not merely work less well - it does not work at all.

Instrument

The hours themselves are computed from sunrise at your coordinates. Checkable against any almanac.

Honest gap

That the hours are real arithmetic is checkable. That they carry virtue is not. We compute the first and refuse to sell the second.

Your document is stamped with how many of the Key's seven conditions were actually observed, how many cannot be verified, and the line nothing is claimed. No reading you can buy anywhere prints its own score.

Engraved plate of 1801 listing the characters of good and evil spirits
Francis Barrett, The Magus, London 1801 · Wellcome Collection scan, Creative Commons Public Domain Mark
III · Ten pages

Everything in the file

IV · Who it is for

We would rather you skipped it than regretted it

Buy it if

  • You have read a grimoire and wanted the arithmetic checked, not the drama amplified
  • You want the hours right for your own coordinates, not a generic table
  • You collect documents - five print ratios, framed as easily as filed
  • You are buying one gift that will actually be kept

Skip it if

  • You want a spell that works; the sheet states outright that nothing is claimed
  • You want instructions to follow - the text is reported, never prescribed
  • You cannot supply a city; without coordinates the hours cannot be solved
V · The order

What happens after the button

You send the details

Three fields. No account, no quiz, no upsell page.

It is cast, then read

Your document is generated and checked by hand before it goes out.

It arrives as a file

Print-grade. Yours to keep, reprint and hand on - no platform, no login, no expiry.

To cast yours, we need
  • The name to trace, and what the work is for
  • Your city - we need the latitude and longitude to solve your hours
  • Your UTC offset, so the windows land on your clock
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A kit can be cast on someone else's name and city - the hours computed where they live, not where you do.

The correction guarantee

If any number in your document is wrong - a longitude, an hour, a citation, a cell on the square - tell us and you get a full refund, and the correction is published in the journal with your order number on it.

What is deliberately not guaranteed: an outcome. No sigil, hour or placement is claimed to cause anything, and no refund is owed for a life that carried on as normal.

VI · Before you ask

Three questions people actually ask

Are you telling me to perform a ritual?

No. The Key's conditions are quoted, in the text's own words with chapter citations, so you can see exactly what the operation asked of its operator. Whether you perform any of it is entirely your decision, and the charge panel is left blank because Book II says to leave it blank. Nothing in the document is instruction.

Why do you need my city?

Because the hours are unequal. Daylight is divided into twelve and night into twelve, so an hour of the day runs long in summer and short in winter, and both depend on your latitude. A table printed in a book is somebody else's sky. Yours is solved from real sunrise and sunset where you are.

Does it work?

Nothing is claimed. Your sheet is stamped with how many of the Key's seven conditions were actually observed and how many cannot be verified at all - so you are told the score rather than sold a result. The arithmetic of the hours is checkable; the virtue attached to them is not, and the document says so on its face.

The Solomonic Guide · $18.98

Ten pages, with the hours solved for where you stand.

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Cast from the same sources: The Chart Guide · The Sigil Guide · all three for $32.98.