--- product_id: 18052202 title: "The Book of Gold: A 17th Century Magical Grimoire of Amulets, Charms, Prayers, Sigils and Spells Using the Biblical Psalms of King David" brand: "david rankinepaul harry barron" price: "210.79 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/18052202-the-book-of-gold-a-17th-century-magical-grimoire-amulets store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # The Book of Gold: A 17th Century Magical Grimoire of Amulets, Charms, Prayers, Sigils and Spells Using the Biblical Psalms of King David **Brand:** david rankinepaul harry barron **Price:** 210.79 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Book of Gold: A 17th Century Magical Grimoire of Amulets, Charms, Prayers, Sigils and Spells Using the Biblical Psalms of King David by david rankinepaul harry barron - **How much does it cost?** 210.79 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/18052202-the-book-of-gold-a-17th-century-magical-grimoire-amulets) ## Best For - david rankinepaul harry barron enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted david rankinepaul harry barron brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Book of Gold: A 17th Century Magical Grimoire of Amulets, Charms, Prayers, Sigils and Spells Using the Biblical Psalms of King David ## Images ![The Book of Gold: A 17th Century Magical Grimoire of Amulets, Charms, Prayers, Sigils and Spells Using the Biblical Psalms of King David - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71PB7822TfL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars A nice edition to the tradition of psalmic magic *by E***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 2, 2011* The Book of Gold is truly a golden edition to the library of any magicians with an interest in Psalmic Magic or the Grimoire Traditions. This work is expertly translated and the commentary and appendices alone make it worth the price. Finally a work that catalogs the use of the Psalms throughout various manuscripts of the grimoire tradition in an easy to reference way!This book will make a great supplement to the practices of a wide variety of magicians from ceremonialists to folk magicians. If you use the Psalms in your work, first you need to get a copy of Sepher Shimmush Tehillim (Magical Use of the Psalms), which is usually included in the  The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses , then you need to buy this book!So why only three stars then? Because there are two problems with the book that I received. Firstly, and more likely to effect the average reader is the fact that many of the directions for working with the psalms will instruct you to read or write the Psalm out until a certain line of the Psalm.For example for Psalm 12 it says "If you have fallen asleep in a desert, read this Psalm until 'ne quando dicat'".Okay, so beyond the question of how someone who is sleeping is meant to read a psalm, basically they are giving you the line in the Psalm (in Latin)where you are meant to stop reading. This is excellent for those who have a working knowledge of Latin or an interlinear Bible at their fingertips and want to spend time cross referencing. However, for those who would like to use the psalms in English, this adds an annoying extra step of research to the process of doing the actual work. I'm all for doing research when it is called for, but I am assuming that David and Paul translated and edited this manuscript so that people could actually use it. Which begs the question, if you want to make it easily usable, which much the rest of it is, why not just translate the line into English as you have the rest of the manuscript? Or at least give the English translation in the commentary following the Psalm. Is that so much to ask?The regularity with which translators and editors of various Grimoire manuscripts choose to include the Latin wording and conjurations without offering a translation has a tendency to quickly become annoying. Sorry, but we aren't all proficient in Latin and I really would appreciate avoiding the extra step of translating the parts that you have chosen not to illuminate us on. I'm not saying that the Latin should be omitted. I mean, hey, who doesn't love that oh so magical dead language? But at least include translations in the commentary. I'm not speaking just specifically of this author (who does this with some regularity) or this work, but in general. However, this work stands as an example of this type of an approach, which can be somewhat inconvenient at best or make the translator come across as linguistically elitist at worst.My second issue with my copy of the work is that I have just received it and nearly every third page is either completely or partially unglued. I mean, pages are literally falling out of the book. I know that this isn't the fault of the author or publisher, but the printer. However, the physical quality of the book does play upon my review as well. I plan to exchange it an hope that the poor binding is a fluke. I have purchased other works from Avalonia in the past and not had this problem, so it is most likely a simple error.That all said, I most certainly enjoy this work and give kudos to David Rankine and Paul Harry Barron for putting it together and translating (most of) it. I would recommend it to friends and students in the future. I'll just make sure to recommend that they procure an interlinear Douay-Rheims Bible while they're at it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Worth Its Weight in Gold *by R***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 8, 2013* I don't usually pay this much for a book. However, The Book of Gold is worth more than it's weight in gold. It's not the type of book you sit and read cover to cover for the enjoyment. My past experience praying the Psalms has been good--using them as described in The Book of Gold raises that practice to a whole new level! One thing the reader should be aware of if you're going to use the Psalms as suggested in the book is that, like the Hebrew, Psalms 9 and 10 are combined into one Psalm. Therefore, if you are referring to a Christian Bible, each Psalm after Psalm 9 in the Book of Gold corresponds to the next Psalm in the Bible. (for example Psalm 10 in The Book of Gold is Psalm 11 in the Christian Bible.) This is very powerful stuff and should be used wisely. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Great treasure *by R***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 4, 2016* It work perfectly in the simple areas that I used it. There many more things I would have like to do, but the requirement are too odd for me to do. 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