Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra Melin the Mage by Abraham the Jew

CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT & POWERFUL GRIMOIRES OF WESTERN MAGICAL TRADITION
OCCULTISM, MAGICK, MEDIEVAL GRIMOIRE, MAGICAL THEOREMS, HIDDEN SECRETS, RELIGION OF MAGIC, SPIRITUALITY, CEREMONIAL MAGIC, SPIRITISM, CLAIRVOYANCE, WITCHCRAFT, HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS, DIVINATION, ASTROLOGY, AND MUCH MORE. THIS IS THE BOOK THAT SPAWNED ALEISTER CROWLEY'S MOVEMENT
THE BOOK OF THE SACRED MAGIC DELIVERED BY ABRAHAM THE JEW UNTO HIS SON LAMECH A GRIMOIRE OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
IT CONTAINS THE THREE BOOKS OF HOLY MAGIC IN ONE VOLUME, A VERY LARGE COMPENDIUM OF OCCULT ARTS


This book is hailed as one of the greatest books of magic ever made.

Around the turn of the century, when Aleister Crowley was working out his system of Magick, the source that he turned to for basics was the system of Abramelin of Egypt. From Abramelin, he took his concepts of protections, purifications, evocations, vestments, and dromena down to specific details. This system of Abramelin the Mage is known from a unique 15th-century manuscript persevered in the Bibliotheque de l`Arsenal in Paris.

Samuel Liddell (or Liddel) MacGregor Mathers (8 or 11 January 1854 – 5 or 20 November 1918), born Samuel Liddell Mathers, was a British occultist. He is primarily known as one of the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a ceremonial magic order of which offshoots still exist. He became so synonymous with the order that Golden Dawn scholar Israel Regardie observed in retrospect that "the Golden Dawn was MacGregor Mathers.

The Book of Abramelin named Abraham or Abra-Melin, who taught a system of magic IN Germany and is presumed to have lived from c.1362–c.1458. The system of magic from this book regained popularity in the 19th and 20th centuries partly due to Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers' translation, The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage; and partly to its importance within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and later within the mystical system of Thelema (created in 1904 by Aleister Crowley).

The book exists in the form of twelve manuscripts and an early printed edition. The provenance of the text has not been definitively identified. The earliest manuscripts are two versions from about 1608, are written in German, and are now found in Wolfenbüttel. Another two manuscripts are in Dresden and date from about 1700 and 1750, respectively.

The first printed version, also in German, dated to 1725 and was printed in Cologne by Peter Hammer. A partial copy in Hebrew is found in the Bodleian Library in Oxford and dates from around 1740. An 18th-century manuscript copy exists in French in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris, an institution founded in 1757. Another 17th-century manuscript in Italian exists in the 'Legato Martinengo' of the Queriniana Library in Brescia, Italy. It was part of the collection of the Count and Qabbalist Leopardo Martinengo of Barco and Torre Pallavicina. The manuscript, unknown for centuries to international researchers until 2009, has been found by academic researcher Maria Elena Loda in the esoteric section. At the moment, it is the only known manuscript translation in the Italian language of the Abramelin grimoire.