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Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin

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Abramelin is divided into three parts. The first part is the story of how Abraham, the ostensible author, came upon a man named Abramelin and this, his system of magick. Abraham spends plenty of time describing all of his endeavors, including having done magickal favors for a number of Emperors. He admonishes his son Lamech not to use this system for vain purposes. In the second part Abraham gives details of a ritual for invoking and communing with one's Holy Guardian Angel. This is the Great Work which Crowley mentions, and which he used as the basis for his Liber Seketh. In the third part, he gives a number of talismans, in the form of magic squares, which are used for various purposes, from scrying to changing the weather. If you only use one book of magic in your entire study, this is it. Thelemites, this book should be required reading, this is where Crowley got his ritual, the Great Work.

This book is really a good reference for magickal squares and related stuff.I think, The main similarity of the magick systems for all kinds are this squares.I saw arabic and hebrew magickal squares before, by the help of this book I see the ones in Latin.The story part of Abramerlin is a little bit long and the book consist of some small booklets and the story of the mage.The latin meanings of squares are also given in the book which are both related with both demons and angels.Original MS writer is very related with Jewish and Kaballah but the book is very different from GoldenDawn teachings.He has given the wisdom or the disipline for using the book but I think it is very hard to practice.The translator of this book is S.L.Mathers who has got a good knowledge of occult.if you are intrested in TODO books(ex:Learn magick in 21 days) this is not for you.But if you like to study about sigils and symbols and their true meanings book will help you with your works.The one famous square SATOR,AREPO,TENET,OPERA,ROTAS cannot be seen on this book but one similar can be found with its discriptions.I love the book.It has a good concept and has a value of ancient studies.

I won't go in to the contents of this book, but look at the quality of this publication. It is printed -I suspect even photocopied- onto really cheap, thin paper. The copy I had was badly glued together and not straight. Some footnotes are incomplete as if they were of the printable area. The margins of the pages vary throughout the book and text shines trough. It is not worth its price.

If you want this book, do order it from a different publisher. Dover has published it for instance.... You'll save money and get a good quality paperback.

While a good book and a must read for those with a serious interest in Aleister Crowley, they have made the ceremony invoked to contact the holy gurdian angel so unnattainable as to be unnecessary. Stick with accepting the Book of the Law as your way of life. Author Lon Milo Duquette made rituals actualizing from Aleister Crowley simple in his book, and Regardie has simple stuff in the Golden Dawn big book. Still an essential read, but why must this be so unattianable as to require esotic materials? I call for a simplifying of ritual magic that is much needed.