The Book of Abramelin
- Date of account
- Hebrew work attributed to the fifteenth century; major translations and editions later
- Location
- European manuscript and occultist transmission, especially Germany and France
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Book of Abramelin presents a ritual program for attaining knowledge and conversation with one’s holy guardian angel, followed by magical operations and lettered squares. It claims transmission through Abraham of Worms, but its manuscript history, language, dating, and relation among versions are debated. The work matters for comparing ritual magic with visionary or revelatory authority because later occultists treated it as an operational manual, while historians examine it as a composite text in Jewish, Christian, and grimoire contexts. The famous English edition significantly shaped modern reception.
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