Dehn, Georg; Von Worms, Abraham

The Book of Abramelin : A New Translation

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xii Foreword xiii Translator's Note xx Introduction xxii Opening Hymn xxix THE TEXT 1 BOOK ONE 3 Chapter One. The Reason for This Inheritance 5 Chapter Two. How I Learned from Others 7 Chapter Three. Countries and Lands I Visited 11 Chapter Four. I Find Abramelin 13 Chapter Five. Other Masters I Have Found 19 Chapter Six. The Beginning of Wisdom 22 Chapter Seven. God Returned Me to My People 27 Chapter Eight. Magical Things I Have Done 29 Chapter Nine. Be Careful in Everything You Do 33 Chapter Ten. What Our Fathers Have Been Given 35 Chapter Eleven. Helping Other People 37 Chapter Twelve. Be Careful about These Two Things 39 BOOK TWO 43 Chapter One. For Serious Diseases 45 Chapter Two. About Antagonisms and War 49 Chapter Three. For Friendship, Marriage, and Love Affairs 53 Chapter Four. For Birthing 58 Chapter Five. Against Water, Fire, Tempest, Ghosts, the Devil 60 Chapter Six. To Burst Open Cliffs and Walls 63 Chapter Seven. Protecting Houses and Buildings from Earthquake and Thunder 65 Chapter Eight. Addressing Courts and Potentates 66 Chapter Nine. In Times of Hunger and Starvation 67 Chapter Ten. To Make Oneself Invisible to One's Enemies 68 The End of the Second Book 69 BOOK THREE 75 Foreword 75 Chapter One. [The Types of Magic...] 77 Chapter Two. What One Should Consider before Beginning 80 Chapter Three. The Age and the Qualities that You Need 82 Chapter Four. Most So-Called Magic Books Are Fraudulent 83 Chapter Five. [No Special Days for the Sacred Magic] 86 Chapter Six. The Planetary Hours and How Most Astrologers Are in Error 87 Chapter Seven. What One Should Do in the First Six Months When Learning This Art 90 Chapter Eight. What Should Be Done in the Second Half Year 94 Chapter Nine. How to Behave in the Third and Final Half Year 95 Chapter Ten. The Arts a Person Can Study, Practice, and Do, Which Will not Hinder the Work 97 Chapter Eleven. How to Choose the Location to Call All the Spirits. How to Prepare the Accessories 98 Chapter Twelve. How the Person or Magus Should Consecrate Himself, the Prayer Room, and Its Accessories 101 Chapter Thirteen. How the Good Spirits Should Be Called 105 Chapter Fourteen. How the Unredeemed Spirits Can Be Called and Overcome 108 Chapter Fifteen. What to Request from the Spirits 111 Chapter Sixteen. How to Retire the Spirits 115 Chapter Seventeen. How to Answer Questions and How to Deal with Requests 115 Chapter Eighteen. Other Things One Should Do Regarding the Spirits 115 Chapter Nineteen. The Names of Spirits You Can Call 119 Chapter Twenty. How to Carry Out the Work 124 Progress toward Book Four 129 BOOK FOUR 143 Chapter One. How You Can Discover All Past and Future Things 145 Chapter Two. To Have Reports about All Sorts of Doubtful Things 147 Chapter Three. To Make Every Spirit Appear 148 Chapter Four. To Create Visions 148 Chapter Five. To Obtain Servant Spirits either Free or Sealed and How to Send Them Away 149 Chapter Six. For Working Mines 151 Chapter Seven. To Have the Spirits Make Alchemy Work 152 Chapter Eight. To Make and Prevent Storms 152 Chapter Nine. To Make People into Animals and Animals into People 153 Chapter Ten. To Prevent and Remove All Other Magic 154 Chapter Eleven. To Obtain Lost Books, Hidden Manuscripts, and Such 155 Chapter Twelve. To Research and Hear from People the Hidden Plans and Plots of a Person 157 Chapter Thirteen. To Make a Dead Person Walk for Seven Years 158 Chapter Fourteen. For Invisibility 159 Chapter Fifteen. That the Spirits Bring All Sorts of Things to Eat and Drink 160 Chapter Sixteen. To Recover Treasures 163 Chapter Seventeen. Traveling in the Air 165 Chapter Eighteen. Healing Sickness 168 Chapter Nineteen. To Achieve All Sorts of Friendships 170 Chapter Twenty. For All Types of Animosity 173 Chapter Twenty-one. To Take on Different Appearances 175 Chapter Twenty-two. To Make Sickness in People 176 Chapter Twenty-three. To Collapse Walls and Houses 177 Chapter Twenty-four. For the Return of Things 178 Chapter Twenty-five. To Stay and Move around under Water for as Long as You Want 179 Chapter Twenty-six. To Spring Open All Sorts of Closed Things and to Relock Them without a Key. 179 Chapter Twenty-seven. To Make All Kinds of Things Appear 180 Chapter Twenty-eight. In Times of Trouble, to Have as Many Coins as You Need 184 Chapter Twenty-nine. To Make All Sorts of People and Armor Appear 185 Chapter Thirty. To Have the Spirits Perform All Kinds of Music, Singing, and Juggling 187 APPENDICES A. The Editor's Quest 191 B. The MaHaRIL and Abraham from Worms: A Historical Analysis 221 C. Where Was Abramelin's Hermitage? 229 D. Lamech A Kabbalistic Investigation. 234 E. The Word Squares 236 E Spirit Names Comparisons between Sources 243 G. Abraham's Links to Modern Jewish Scholarship 261 Bibliography 265 About Georg Dehn and Steven Guth 269