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The Sword of Moses, an Ancient Book of Magic

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At first the cover was beautiful and then I read it. He even states clearly that he was lazy and did not want to translate the names because they were encoded. Without those words, it's nothing more than foolish reading. He totally removed the magical abilities from the text. Perhaps on a later date, he'll finish it.

I bought this book and was satisfied with the insightful introduction.However, the Sword of Moses ,in its original form is full of magical and divine names which compose the true core of the manuscript.I was very disappointed in noticing that Gaster, for some obscure reason, omitted nearly all these names. I hope some day a new version of the Sword gets published, containing the entire text.

I must agree that the author left out very important Divine Names vital to the book as a whole, yet I believe that he was justified in doing so. Perhaps what the actual manuscript contains is so powerful that it is meant to be hidden. I think this was a very intelligent choice by the author, though I'm sure by doing so many people find the book useless.

J Pedro Feliciano? Hi JOse' LOLROF this is Alister Crowley's smarter brother. Didn't you write "The Trumpet of Moses"?

You said you bought The Sword of Moses and were disappointed that Gaster, for some obscure reason, omitted nearly all the magical and divine names. And you hoped some day a new version of The Sword of Moses would be published, containing the entire text. Well the 1973 and the 1970 printing have the complete translation. Your 1989 paperback appearently was circumsized by an intoxicated Rabbi on the day of printing.

The translation done by Moses Gaster was published by London in 1896. I have a hardback copy printed by Weiser in 1973. It is complete. I have found it quite satisfactory.

I bought this book and was satisfied with the insightful introduction.However, the Sword of Moses ,in its original form is full of magical and divine names which compose the true core of the manuscript.I was very disappointed in noticing that Gaster, for some obscure reason, omitted nearly all these names. I hope some day a new version of the Sword gets published, containing the entire text.

I bought this book and was satisfied with the insightful introduction.However, the Sword of Moses ,in its original form is full of magical and divine names which compose the true core of the manuscript.I was very disappointed in noticing that Gaster, for some obscure reason, omitted nearly all these names. I hope some day a new version of the Sword gets published, containing the entire text.