The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage
- Date of account
- French translation 1898; earlier manuscript traditions
- Location
- Egypt in the claimed narrative setting; Paris in the nineteenth-century edition
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage was presented in an 1898 French translation by S. L. MacGregor Mathers as a medieval Egyptian-derived instruction for attaining contact with a “Holy Guardian Angel” and commanding spirits. It offers a clearly identifiable textual lead for comparing apparition, evocation, and claimed transmission from Egypt into European occultism. The historical provenance is controversial: the surviving work is usually treated as a much later composition or compilation, not straightforward medieval Egyptian evidence. The angelic and demonic encounters belong to ritual literature and its reception history.
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