By S. L. MacGregor Mathers
This process of Abramelin the Mage is understood from a distinct 15th century manuscript preserved within the Bibliothèque de L'Arsenal in Paris. In it, Abraham of Würzburg, a cabalist and gourmet of magics, describes a travel that he made up of the then civilized international, vacationing sorcerers, magicians, and cabalists, estimating their powers and virtues. This quest is in itself as attention-grabbing because the related excursions of Gurdjieff.
The excessive aspect of Abraham's travels used to be present in a small city at the banks of the Nile, the place he encountered the nice magician Abramelin, whose entire procedure Abraham thereupon units out intimately. This quantities to a whole path in ceremonial magic (both white and black), which the coed can pursue by means of himself.
Abramelin, whose procedure is primarily based on Hellenistic theurgy of the Iamblichan kind, yet with Jewish increments from the Cabala, explains the skills had to develop into a magician, purifications, and asceticisms to be practiced month by way of month, stories and actions authorized in this interval, number of position and time for operating magic, gear wanted, prayers and formulation, evocation of excellent and evil spirits, commanding spirits to do one's will, overcoming rebellious spirits, and related fabric. particular directions are provided to enhance such powers as clairvoyance, divining metals and treasures, heading off evil magic, therapeutic ailment, levitation, transportation, rendering oneself invisible, developing illusions and glamour, examining minds, putting compulsions, operating black magic, and a bunch of different abilities.
We don't ensure that Abramelin's recommendations paintings, nor that the consequences are fascinating, yet we provide this as a real medieval direction in magic, probably the most very important books within the heritage of occultism. it's of paramount value to either the historian and the practitioner.
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