The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage translation
- Date of account
- 1898
- Location
- London
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
S. L. MacGregor Mathers published an English translation of The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage in London in 1898, based chiefly on a French manuscript tradition attributed to Abraham of Worms. The text describes a prolonged devotional and magical operation intended to attain knowledge of a guardian angel and command spirits. It matters for comparing medieval or early modern ritual transmission with Victorian ceremonial revival. Researchers must examine manuscript lineage, translation choices, dating, and Mathers’s editorial interventions; the book is not evidence that the prescribed operation produced supernatural results.
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