The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage by S. L. MacGregor Mathers

Around the flip of the century, while Aleister Crowley used to be figuring out his procedure of Magick, the resource that he became to for fundamentals was once the approach of Abramelin of Egypt. From Abramelin he took his recommendations of protections, purifications, evocations, vestments, and dromena all the way down to particular details.
This procedure of Abramelin the Mage is understood from a different 15th century manuscript preserved within the Bibliothèque de L'Arsenal in Paris. In it, Abraham of Würzburg, a cabalist and gourmand of magics, describes a journey that he made from the then civilized international, vacationing sorcerers, magicians, and cabalists, estimating their powers and virtues. This quest is in itself as interesting because the comparable excursions of Gurdjieff.
The excessive element of Abraham's travels used to be present in a small city at the banks of the Nile, the place he encountered the good magician Abramelin, whose whole approach Abraham thereupon units out intimately. This quantities to an entire path in ceremonial magic (both white and black), which the coed can pursue via himself.
Abramelin, whose procedure is primarily based on Hellenistic theurgy of the Iamblichan style, yet with Jewish increments from the Cabala, explains the skills had to develop into a magician, purifications, and asceticisms to be practiced month via month, experiences and actions approved in this interval, collection 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 improve such powers as clairvoyance, divining metals and treasures, fending off evil magic, therapeutic sickness, levitation, transportation, rendering oneself invisible, growing illusions and glamour, studying minds, putting compulsions, operating black magic, and a number of different abilities.
We don't make sure that Abramelin's thoughts paintings, nor that the implications are fascinating, yet we provide this as a real medieval direction in magic, essentially the most vital books within the historical past of occultism. it's of paramount significance to either the historian and the practitioner.