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"To Create a Homonculous Servant"
A fragmentary book found in the hollow beneath Venard Alley
off Chestnut Street – The location probably corresponding to a secret
sub-basement of Herbert Warren Williams ship’s chandlery, which had previously
been some sort of chapel -The chapel having relocated in the late 19th century and the
building having been destroyed in the earthquake and fire of 1906.
Cover and Title Page
The book is bound in a light brown fabric with the title
embossed in gold. The condition is terrible – Partially burnt with only 3 pages
remaining even in part. These pages seem to be from the beginning and are
largely a jumble of apparently meaningless Latin words which represent a cipher
for which no key is available.
Annotated - Br. H.W.W. for presentation on Beltane
Year of Our Dark Lord 1906
The title page gives the author as Gottfried
Mulder and identifies the publisher as Graf von Neuberg – Frankfurt -
1843
Details
Strange
Characters found scattered throughout the text seem to be from two separate
alphabets or symbol sets. Each set seems to contain a couple of dozen
variations at least. They are likely a magical alphabet like the “Angelic
Script” dating from 16th century occult sources. (Angelic Script is
a derivation of Hebrew and Greek). These are, however, unfamiliar.
The legible portion of the
book also contains a magic circle which is definitely from “The Key of
Solomon”, a classic grimoire alleged to derive from Solomon but actually dating
from the 15th century or thereabouts. The annotation below appears
to comment on the circle.
Classic
Solomonic symbology.
Perhaps best that
I have replaced it with the variant concocted by D.
The annotations throughout are assumed to be the work of
Herbert Warren Williams.
The symbols to the right appear to be significant although
the odd cartouche-like addition within the pentagram and the twig-shaped figure
beside them are unfamiliar. They are described in the handwritten pages as “The
Elder Sign”.
The triangle itself is one of a myriad of “Magic Triangles”
from classic occult sources like the “Key of Solomon”.
The book does not contain enough undamaged material to
reconstruct the presumed spell "Create Homonculous Servant". Additional Information
Some significance may attach to the bell-tower which was said to be
part of the chapel in North Beach. The old lady who lives beside Venard
Alley, and who remembered the chapel, repeated the nonsensical phrase
"Beware Saint Toad's Cracked Chimes."
