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《所罗门的小钥匙》（拉丁语：Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis，英语：The Lesser Key of Solomon，另一个广为人知的名称是Lemegeton）是一部神秘学著作，托名由古以色列国王所罗门所编写。该书记载众多法术与召唤恶魔之法。
本书的标题在早期的手抄本中常写为Lemegeton, Clavicula Salomonis, or The Little Key of Solomon[1][2]或其他类似形式[3]。标题中的clavicula为拉丁语clavis（钥匙）的指小词。注意本书不应与另一本知名的神秘学著作Clavicula Salomonis（《所罗门的钥匙》）相混淆，后者常被简称为Clavicula。
书名中的Lemegeton并非拉丁语，其本义不详。该词亦在本书的第五部Ars Notoria中出现，原文为：“...sicut etiam ait Salomon in tractu Lemegeton, hoc est in tractu spiritualium & secretorum experimentorum.”（“……所罗门王在他的《论Lemegeton》，亦即《论心灵与玄秘的实验》中，如是说道。”）[1]
《所罗门的小钥匙》成书于17世纪，为编者搜罗当时乃至中世纪的神秘学著作编纂而成。全书共分为五部分：Ars Goetia、Ars Theurgia Goetia、Ars Paulina、Ars Almadel、Ars Notoria[1]。篇名中的ars即拉丁语的“秘术”。
《小钥匙》第一卷是该书最负盛名的部分，其中记载了72位魔神与召唤它们的方法。文中对72魔神的记叙基于荷兰医师与神秘学者约翰·维耶尔所著De Praestigiis Daemonum（论恶魔的欺骗）的附录Pseudomonarchia Daemonum（万魔殿）。该附录提及了72位魔神，但只列出了其中的69位[4]。
篇名中的goetia来自古希腊语γοητεία，意为“法术”。与第二卷标题中的theurgia（神通术，来自古希腊语θεουργία）相比，goetia通常具有负面意义（如指代黑魔法）[5]。
《小钥匙》的第二卷记载了31位精灵（aerial spirits）与它们的召唤法。该部分参考了约翰尼斯·特里特米乌斯所著的Steganographia（隐写术）[1]。
《小钥匙》的第三卷分为两个部分：第一部分描述了与一天24小时对应的24位天使，第二部分则记载了与黄道十二宫及黄道带360度对应的天使。第一部分同《小钥匙》第二卷一样参考了特里特米乌斯的《隐写术》。第二部分列出的印记则借鉴了帕拉塞尔苏斯的Archidoxis Magica[1]。
传世的拉丁语神秘学文献中有一本同名的书籍，但该书除了标题之外与《小钥匙》的第三卷并无关联[1]。此外第三卷中多次提及1641这一年份，学者据此认为《小钥匙》成书于17世纪下半叶[1]。
《小钥匙》的第四卷讲解了一种名为Almadel的蜡制法坛的用法。该部分的拉丁文本可以追溯至12世纪，由已散佚的阿拉伯语原本翻译而来[1]。有学者认为Almadel是由阿拉伯语定冠词al-与梵语maṇḍala（曼荼罗）结合而成[7]。
《小钥匙》的第五卷题名意为“速记术”，指的是能让施法者在短时间内汲取大量知识的法术[6]。该部分的拉丁语文本早在13世纪就已成型。收录在《小钥匙》中的版本则完全基于神秘学家罗伯特·特纳（Robert Turner）于1657年翻译的英文版[1]。
- Crowley, Aleister (ed.), S. L. MacGregor Mathers (transcribed) The Book of the Goetia of Solomon the King. Translated into the English tongue by a dead hand (Foyers, Inverness: Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth, 1904) 1995 reprint: ISBN 0-87728-847-X.
- Greenup, A. W., "The Almadel of Solomon, according to the text of the Sloane MS. 2731" The Occult Review vol. 22 no. 2, August 1915, 96–102.
- Henson, Mitch (ed.) Lemegeton. The Complete Lesser Key of Solomon (Jacksonville: Metatron Books, 1999) ISBN 978-0-9672797-0-1. Noted by Peterson to be "uncritical and indiscriminate in its use of source material".[2]
- de Laurence, L. W. (ed.), The Lesser Key Of Solomon, Goetia, The Book of Evil Spirits (Chicago: de Laurence, Scott & Co., 1916) 1942 reprint: ISBN 978-0-7661-0776-2; 2006 reprint: ISBN 978-1-59462-200-7. A plagiarism of the Mathers/Crowley edition.[8]
- Peterson, Joseph H. (ed.), The Lesser Key of Solomon: Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis (York Beach, ME: Weiser Books, 2001). Considered "the definitive version"[9] and "the standard edition".[10]
- Runyon, Carroll, The Book of Solomon’s Magick (Silverado, CA: C.H.S. Inc., 1996). Targeted more toward practicing magicians than academics, claims that the demons were originally derived from Mesopotamian mythology.[11]
- Shah, Idries, The Secret Lore of Magic (London: Abacus, 1972). Contains portions of Ars Almandel and split sections the Goetia, missing large portions of the rituals involved.[2]
- Skinner, Stephen & Rankine, David (eds.), The Goetia of Dr Rudd: The Angels and Demons of Liber Malorum Spirituum Seu Goetia (Sourceworks of Ceremonial Magic) (London and Singapore: The Golden Hoard Press 2007) ISBN 978-0-9547639-2-3
- Thorogood, Alan (ed.), Frederick Hockley (transcribed), The Pauline Art of Solomon (York Beach, ME: The Teitan Press, 2016)
- Veenstra, Jan R. “The Holy Almandal. Angels and the intellectual aims of magic” in Jan N. Bremmer and Jan R. Veenstra (eds.), The Metamorphosis of Magic from Late Antiguity to the Early Modern Period (Leuven: Peeters, 2002), pp. 189–229. The Almadel is transcribed at pp. 217–229.
- Waite, Arthur Edward, The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts. Including the rites and mysteries of goëtic theurgy, sorcery, and infernal necromancy, also the rituals of black magic (Edinburgh: 1898). Reprinted as The Secret Tradition in Goëtia. The Book of Ceremonial Magic, including the rites and mysteries of Goëtic theurgy, sorcery, and infernal necromancy (London: William Rider & Son, 1911). Includes the Goetia, Pauline Art and Almadel.[2]
- White, Nelson & Anne (eds.) Lemegeton: Clavicula Salomonis: or, The complete lesser key of Solomon the King (Pasadena, CA: Technology Group, 1979). Noted by Peterson to be "almost totally unreadable".[2]
- Wilby, Kevin (ed.) The Lemegetton. A Medieval Manual of Solomonic Magic (Silian, Lampeter: Hermetic Research Series, 1985)
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