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The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage
How this book fits
- Traditions
- Grimoires and ritual magic The Golden Dawn
- Role in the tradition
- Formative source A translation, edition, compilation or system that shaped how later readers received the tradition.
- Public attention
- Major Wikipedia has an article about it in 16 languages.
Read it
- Read at sacred-texts.com ↗ sacred-texts.com checked against the Internet Archive's copy of July 22, 2026, because the site refuses scripts · archived copy
- Read at esotericarchives.com ↗ esotericarchives.com checked September 11, 2026
From Wikipedia
The Book of Abramelin tells the story of an Egyptian mage named Abraham, or Abra-Melin, who taught a system of magic to Abraham of Worms, a Jew from Worms, Germany, presumed to have lived from c. 1362 to c. 1458. The system of magic from this book regained popularity in the 19th and 20th centuries, partly due to Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers's translation, The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage.
From the Wikipedia article The Book of Abramelin, revision 1368469941, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q22257011: “book by Abraham of Worms; an autobiography written in the form of an epistolary novel”.
In this study
In the chronology, in Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers's account.
Introduced English occultists to the Abramelin system: prolonged purification, communion with the Holy Guardian Angel, and subsequent command of spirits.