I have looked for a while now without success so I turn to you good people.  The Greater Key of Solomon has "characters" which are to be carved or drawn on the magical tools (wands, staffs, swords, etc).  I have been unable to translate them and find no reference as to what the characters mean.  

Any help would be appreciated.

stan

Came back to edit this post since yesterday I just had those silly girlish giggles all day long!  Never was my intention to make light of this subject.  For all who are this advanced, my hats off to you.  I have studied this on occassion but do not have the reasons to pursue this. Not yet...perhaps later in my life.  I cannot begin to stress how important it is that before jumping in, one needs to understand all that they are about to perform. Lest we make a great big blunder!  While on the "esotericarchive" website I found much literature.  There is a link there on the site for "The Vericles Clavicles" hit that, then scroll to the bottom, and you will hit the next button on the bottom of the page. This clicks over to the translated in detail version of this article. In those pages you will find the names for the different symbols.   Again wasn't sure if this is exactly what you were asking for.  Hard for me to talk about since I still retain some of the memory.  Not to be attempted until one has studied their way to that point.  Having seen many younger than me trying these feats.  I was just being a bit protective.  Just my nature.  Still trying to not write in sillyness, but that is the joker in me.  My partner has scolded me on many a days for this.  I say it is to remind me not to get so serious about myself that I loose sight.  Again I am no where near this level. Perhaps spiritualy yes, but not fully awake yet.  Need more of that coffee. ;)  This is a website that I hope will help those who study.  My appologies for yesterday.

Safe Journey

I would like to have read the earlier post before you edited it, but found no offense in what you wrote.  The text you link to is one that I have and it does not contain the information.  

I have been researching for numerous years, but I am sure you have a greater understanding of the text than I.  Could you direct me to what you believe to be the translations of the inscriptions.  

I am using the S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers translation of the Greater Key of Solomon, Book 2, Chapter 8, regarding the items.

I would never take these 3500 year old religious ceremonies lightly any more than I take Egyptian or Summerian ceremonies lightly.  Sometimes we get mis-directed by those who are not seekers, but my question is for personal information and we are not bound to understand prior to belief.  We do not need to know the meaning of (or even the pronunciation of) some of the barbaric names used in rituals either, but I do my best to find out as much as I can whilst developing the art.

Comming back to add here since I do not wish to bump in thread.  Reviewed and of course a formula. Cannot help the reason you are not finding the meaning is that this info is passed in oral form.  The reason one half is held back.  The power lies in the one who performs it. Symbols just help one to focus.  Going back inside for a while. Found myself rather disappointed in my ability to translate this stuff.  I look at all relgions trying to find the missing link to all.  Try as I may logic excapes me.  More layman's terms.  Perhaps it is the fact that logic and reason being the reason we overlook. Dunno.  I have seen this in Crowley's writings...but where?  This leaves me even more disheartened.  Like the greatest brain fart ever.  I'll never belong to the club...lol.  Always thought outside the box.  Never one to bend to rules and such.  Still tender hearted in reguards to love.  Not taking well to my path. Serve yes, but I still like my companionships.  More homesick then ever.  Trying to help those when I can.  In this I am afraid I will not be able to help.  It is like all but a few things excape me.  Now I go and wrestle with myself yet again. I am only a simple minded woman.

Safe Journey

Thank you, Crow, and a safe journey to you as well.  

My path is long, but I have learned much.  I have much more, though, left to learn.  And Agrippa noted as did Abramelin that it is best to keep some of our information for ourselves lest it fall into the wrong hands.  I think that bodes back to the time of the witch hunts and before when the knowledge that we have available was considered heretical.  Now we are mostly just thought of as strange or eccentric even though what we may be studying is the information that brought about the formations of most of the world religions.

But my path is my path, not yours.  blessed be.

stan