The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin: Peter Hammer edition

Record summary

The 1725 German Abramelin manuscript or edition is a particularly identifiable early modern witness to the Abramelin tradition and differs materially from the later French and English versions that shaped modern occultism. It presents a long preparatory devotional discipline, a guardian-angel encounter, and subsequent operations involving magic squares. This lead matters because translation and editorial history strongly affect what readers think the book says. Researchers should verify the manuscript’s catalogue data, language, provenance, and relation to Mathers’s nineteenth-century English publication.