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5.0 out of 5 stars
Essential sourcebook for early Jewish magic,
By Dominus Liminis "Metatron" (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Scholastic Magic (Hardcover)
Scholastic magic contains a detailed overview of early Jewish revelatory magic, focusing on the evocation of angels for revelation. The book centers around the Hekhalot and Sar Torah literature. The Sar Torah ("Prince of the Torah") literature, closely related to the Hekhalot-Merkabah texts, taught an early form of practical Qabalah, whereby angels (especially archangels such as Metatron) are summoned to reveal wisdom and the secret meanings of the Torah to the mystic. Aside from a detailed analysis of this literature, Scholastic Magic, more importantly, contains many translations from those particular texts, a good part of which are not found anywhere else. A particularly valuable one (pg. 136) is the magnificent Sar ha-Panim ritual, a ritual to evoke the Angel of the Presence. A translation was already published in M. Gaster's edition of the Sword of Moses, but the one in Scholastic Magic has copious footnotes and includes magical names missing from Gaster's translation.
To sum it up, Scholastic Magic is a magnificent book, and essential for anyone interested in Jewish magic, angelology, and practical Qabalah. |
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Scholastic Magic by Michael D. Swartz (Hardcover - October 14, 1996)
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