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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE SACRED MAGIC
THE SACRED MAGIC
OF
ABRAMELIN THE MAGE
BOOK II
TRANSLATED BY
S.L. MAC GREGOR MATHERS
THE SACRED MAGIC OF ABRAMELIN THE MAGE
BOOK II
THIS ADOBE ACROBAT EDITION CONTAINS THE COMPLETE AND UNALTERED TEXT OF THE
CORRESPONDING SECTIONS IN THE SECOND (1900) EDITION PUBLISHED BY JOHN M. WATKINS,
LONDON.
PREPARED AND TYPESET BY BENJAMIN ROWE, DECEMBER 16, 1998.
THE SECOND BOOK
OF THE
HOLY MAGIC,
WHICH GOD GAVE UNTO MOSES, AARON, DAVID, SOLOMON, AND OTHER
SAINTS, PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS; WHICH TEACHETH
THE TRUE DIVINE WISDOM.
BEQUEATHED BY ABRAHAM UNTO LAMECH HIS SON.
TRANSLATED FROM THE HEBREW.
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THE SACRED MAGIC
THE SECOND BOOK OF THE SACRED MAGIC.
PROLOGUE.
ed therewith. But with all this, not one
among them hath been able to comprehend or know the Radical Principles,
because the Creator of all things reserveth that unto Himself; and, like a
jealous God, He hath indeed wished that we should enjoy the fruit thereof,
but He hath not wished to permit us to touch either the Tree or its Root. It is
then not only proper, but further also we are compelled to conform ourselves
unto the Will of the Lord, walking in that Path, by the which also our
predecessors went, without seeking out through a vain curiosity how it is that
God reigneth and governeth in His Divine Wisdom; because such would be a
very great presumption and a bestial conceit. Let us then content ourselves
with only knowing how many blessings He hath granted unto us Sinners, and
what extent of power He hath given unto us mortals over all things, and in
what way it is permitted unto us to use them. Let us then content ourselves
with this, laying aside all other, curiosity, observing without any comment that
which shall be set down in this Book with
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delity. And if ye do follow my
advice, ye shall be infallibly comforted thereby. 1
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HE Wisdom of the Lord is an inexhaustible fountain, neither hath there
ever been a man born who could penetrate its veritable origin and
foundation. The Sages and Holy Fathers have drunk long draughts
thereof, and have been fully satis
OF ABRAMELIN THE MAGE
THE FIRST CHAPTER.
WHAT AND HOW MANY BE THE FORMS OF VERITABLE MAGIC.
HOSO should wish to recount all the Arts and Operations which in
our times be reputed and preached abroad as Wisdom and Magical
Secrets; he should as well undertake to count the waves and the
sands of the Sea; seeing that the matter hath come to such a pass that every
trick of a bu
oon is believed to be Magic, that all the abominations of impious
Enchanters, all Diabolical Illusions, all Pagan Idolatries, all Superstitions,
Fascinations, Diabolical Pacts, and lastly all that the gross blindness of the
World can touch with its bands and feet is reckoned as Wisdom and Magic!
The Physician, the Astrologer, the Enchanter, the Sorceress, the Idolater, and
the Sacrilegious, is called of the common People a Magician! Also he who
draweth his Magic whether from the Sun, whether from the Moon, whether
from the Evil Spirits, whether from Stones, Herbs, Animals, Brutes, or lastly
from thousand divers sources, so that the Heaven itself is astonished thereat.
There be certain who draw their Magic from Air, from Earth, from Fire, from
Water, from Physiognomy, from the Hand, from Mirrors, from Glasses, from
Birds, from Bread, from Wine, and even from the very excrements themselves;
and yet, however, all this is reputed as Science!
I exhort you, ye who read, to have the Fear of God, and to study Justice,
because infallibly unto you shall be opened the Gate of the True Wisdom
which God gave unto NOAH and unto his descendants JAPHET, ABRAHAM, and
ISHMAEL; and it was His Wisdom that delivered LOT from the burning of
Sodom. MOSES learned the same Wisdom in the desert, from the Burning
Bush, and he taught it unto AARON his brother. JOSEPH, SAMUEL, DAVID,
SOLOMON, ELIJAH, and the Apostles, and Saint JOHN particularly (from whom
we hold a most excellent book of Prophecy 2 ) possessed it. Let every one then
know that this, this which I teach, is that same Wisdom and Magic, and which
is in this same Book, and independent of any other Science, or Wisdom, or
Magic, soever. It is, however, certainly true that these miraculous operations
have much in common with the Qabalah; it is also true that there be other
Arts which have some stamp of Wisdom; the which alone would be nothing
worth were they not mingled with the foundation of the Sacred Ministry,
whence later arose the Mixed Qabalah. The Arts are principally twelve. Four in
number,
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among the numbers in the Mixed Qabalah. The second is
the most perfect one, the which operateth by Sign and Visions. Two of the
even numbers, namely
, which operate with the Stars and the Celestial
Courses which we call Astronomy. Three consisteth in the Metals, and
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and
2
in the
Planets. 3 As to all these Arts, the which be conjoined and mingled together
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:
3, 5, 7, 9,

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