Abramelin the Mage (15th Century)
Abramelin was a semi-mythical Egyptian mage or magician who taught a powerful form of Kabbalistic magic in his famous grimoire, “The Book of Abramelin”. It has been argued by the German esoteric scholar Georg Dehn that the author of “The Book of Abramelin” was most likely Rabbi Yaakov Moelin, a 14th/15th Century German Jewish Talmudist and authority on Jewish law. Internally, the book dates itself to 1458.
In the grimoire, the narrator Abraham of Worms (who is in the process of passing his magical and Kabbalistic secrets on to his son, Lamech) tells how he acquired his knowledge of magic from Abramelin (or Abra-Melin) the Mage, who he found living in the desert outside Arachi, an Egyptian town near the River Nile. Having extracted promises from Abraham to "serve and fear" the Lord, and to "live and die in His most Holy Law" Abramelin gave Abraham the "Divine Science" and "True Magic" embedded within the two manuscripts, which he was to follow and give only to those whom he knew well and trusted.
This magic involved an elaborate ritual whose purpose is to obtain the "knowledge and conversation" of the magician's "Holy Guardian Angel", who would then appear and teach the magician magical secrets. The chief goals of these secrets were to compel the magician's personal demon (an inverse counterpart of the guardian angel) to serve the magician, in his magical goals, such as the ability to find buried treasure, cast love spells, the ability of magical flight and the secret of invisibility.
The practical magic of Abramelin centres around a set of talismans composed of magical word squares, an anointing oil (known as "Abramelin Oil"), a holy lamp, a wand made of an almond branch, a recipe for incense (known as "Abramelin Incense"), various robes, a square or seven-sided plate of silver or bees-wax, etc.
From - witchcraftandwitches.com
~Citrine~
Abramelin was a semi-mythical Egyptian mage or magician who taught a powerful form of Kabbalistic magic in his famous grimoire, “The Book of Abramelin”. It has been argued by the German esoteric scholar Georg Dehn that the author of “The Book of Abramelin” was most likely Rabbi Yaakov Moelin, a 14th/15th Century German Jewish Talmudist and authority on Jewish law. Internally, the book dates itself to 1458.
In the grimoire, the narrator Abraham of Worms (who is in the process of passing his magical and Kabbalistic secrets on to his son, Lamech) tells how he acquired his knowledge of magic from Abramelin (or Abra-Melin) the Mage, who he found living in the desert outside Arachi, an Egyptian town near the River Nile. Having extracted promises from Abraham to "serve and fear" the Lord, and to "live and die in His most Holy Law" Abramelin gave Abraham the "Divine Science" and "True Magic" embedded within the two manuscripts, which he was to follow and give only to those whom he knew well and trusted.
This magic involved an elaborate ritual whose purpose is to obtain the "knowledge and conversation" of the magician's "Holy Guardian Angel", who would then appear and teach the magician magical secrets. The chief goals of these secrets were to compel the magician's personal demon (an inverse counterpart of the guardian angel) to serve the magician, in his magical goals, such as the ability to find buried treasure, cast love spells, the ability of magical flight and the secret of invisibility.
The practical magic of Abramelin centres around a set of talismans composed of magical word squares, an anointing oil (known as "Abramelin Oil"), a holy lamp, a wand made of an almond branch, a recipe for incense (known as "Abramelin Incense"), various robes, a square or seven-sided plate of silver or bees-wax, etc.
From - witchcraftandwitches.com
~Citrine~
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