So It was by chance I came across the text by Nineveh Shadrach about the Arabic Version of the Key of Solomon. Titled "The Book of Deadly Names"
Just for fun while picking through I tossed his name into YouTube and listened to a couple podcasts he was on.
Now when I first heard something on YT with him, he claimed to have discovered the manuscript at the University of Toledo. Or I could swear I heard that, but now can't find the source of that little audio bite.
This is where I might be committing a occultist faux paus. I notice that in the text… he doesn't source where the manuscript came from. And his story doesn't quiet add up.
First.) Where did he find the original manuscript?
Second.) His story doesn't make sense… supposedly he told the guys over at "Light in the Void radio" that it "fell off a shelf suddenly unprompted" yet according to his own description it a manuscript from 1428 that was preserved by spainards and found in a spanish palace in Ocana, Spain. Which begs the question… what kind of university Archivist leaves a centuries old manuscript on shelf to be knocked over? Youtube link of audio interview
Time Stamp of Origin Story of Book
Ok well maybe I'll suspend my disbelief on that but it made me genuinely curious and I couldn't resist to reaching out to The UofT because I am semi-local to them to see if they still have the manuscript.
According to an email exchange I had with an archivist there, no record of said manuscript. (I'll provide that if needed, because now I can't locate thr source where he said allegedly that's where he found it).
I enlisting a help of a spanish friend to reach out The University of Castilla in Spain which is in the Toledo province (Ocana spain is located in that province, so I'm check to see if my brain… jumbled the data). To see if I'm mistaken in what I heard and he ment that University. (Which geographically makes more sense but still doesn't excuse him knocking a 600 hundred year old manuscript off a shelf.. ).
Now my intended goal wasn't to call him our in anyway but I guess the truth seeker in me wants to know. Where did this mysterious manuscript come from, why did the author omit where he discovered it in the text? Seems like that be a nice little tid bit to add in the foreward. If it is an entire fabrication why did the author lie about it? Sense the there is already a ton of Solomonic lore and Lore on the Djinn that he could of wrote the thing stating it was oral tradition or a middle eastern view of the same texts.
Whats odd also the book contains copied pages from the alleged manuscript, none of which from glances appear worn or faded. But I'm not an expert on 13th century manuscripts written in African style Arabic … maybe the ink doesn't always fade.
The Archdoxes of Magic is of similar age and it held up the test of time. (I have a copy of that manuscript second edition 1975, scans of the 1656 english first edition) so it's not unheard of a manuscript this age standing up to time.
I would love to know If anyone else has done any leg work on this particular text? Proved or disapproved.
The claims made by the author are interesting and further more if it's all false hoods at least one prominent Black Magician has used the work as a "source" for a Grimoire and would in a sense expose them as a bit of a fraud and the coven they work with. (Seriously if it the original is false it has deep implications for a few popular Left hand path authors…)
The idea that Geotia Demons of Solomon may of actually been Genies of Sumerian lore might help undercover the truth behind these entities outside the Abrahamic context so this manuscript (if real) needs a deeper look. I was curious if any one here has encountered anything about it?
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I have got radio silence from the University in Spain, any spanish anons wanna investigate?