Sepher Rezial Hemelach is the longawaited first English translation of this famous magical text a translation from the ancient Hebrew in the rare and complete 1701 Amsterdam edition. According to Hebrew legend, the Sepher Rezial was presented to Adam in the Garden of Eden, given by the hand of God, and delivered by the angel Rezial. The myth thus suggests that this is the first book ever written, and of direct divine provenance. A diverse compendium of ancient Hebrew magical lore, this book was quite possibly the original source for later, traditional literature on angelic hierarchy, astrology, Qabalah, and Gematria. Moses Gaster mentions this in his introduction to The Sword of Moses (1896) suggesting that the Sepher Rezial could be a primary source for many magic and qabalistic books of the Middle Ages. Sepher Rezial Hemelach is a compilation of five books: "The Book of the Vestment," "The Book of the Great Rezial," "The Holy Names," "The Book of the Mysteries," and "The Book of the Signs of the Zodiac." It includes extensive explanatory text on the holy names of God, the divisions of Heaven and Hell, the names and hierarchy of the angels and spirits, as well as symbolic interpretations of both the Book of Genesis and Sepher Yetzirah. It also includes material on astronomy, astrology, gematria, and various magical talismans, most notably those used for protection during childbirth. In his introduction, Steve Savedow details the history, bibliographical citations, and lineage of this famous work. He lists the old and rare manuscripts still in existence, and provides a bibliography of other reference works for study of the Western esoteric tradition.
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This book is dedicated to the memory of Belle Ginsburg, beloved matriarch of the Ginsburg-Savedow family. I would like to express my appreciation to the following members of my family for their patience, support, and encouragement: my beautiful companion and best friend, Cathy Harbin, and her son, Brian, and daughter, Danielle (the little angel); my parents, Jacqueline and Barry; my three lovely daughters, Sarah, Mary, and Melissa, and their mother, Elaine; my sister and her family, Patti, Tom, Samantha, and Christopher; my brother, Michael, and his wife, Linda; my brother, Randy, and his son, Scott; my adopted parents, Valora and Loren.
ACCORDING TO HEBREW LEGEND, the Sepher Rezial was presented to Adam in the Garden of Eden. It was given by the hand of God, through the medium of the angel Rezial. It is, therefore, suggested that this is the first book ever written. The text is an extensive compendium of ancient Hebrew magical lore, and quite probably the original source for much traditional literature on angelic hierarchy, astrology, qabalah, and Gematria.
Solomon is said to have won much of his wisdom from the Book of Raziel, a collection of astrological secrets cut on a sapphire, which the angel Raziel kept. The idea of a divine book containing cosmic secrets appears first in the Slavonic Book of Enoch (xxxiii), which states that God had written books of wisdom (or, according to another version, dictated them to Enoch), that He then appointed the two angels Samuil and Raguil (or Semil and Rasuil) to accompany Enoch back from heaven to earth, and commanded him to give these books to his children and children's children. This may well be the origin of the Book of Raziel which, according to Jewish tradition, was given by the Angel Raziel to Adam, from whom it descended through Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Levi, Moses and Joshua until it reached Solomon. According to the Targum on Ecclesiastes X.20: Each day the angel Raziel standing upon Mount Horeb proclaims the secrets of men to all mankind, and his voice reverberates around the world. A so-called Book of Raziel, dating from about the twelfth century, was probably written by the Kabbalist Eleazar ben Judah of Worms, but contains far older mystical beliefs.
According to Targum Koheles (10, 20), acollection of midrash taken from the book of Ecclesiastes, the angelRaziel stood on the peak of Mount Horeb (Chorev). Every day he shoutedout the secrets to all to hear. To preserve this wisdom, the angelRaziel inscribed those secrets in a book and gave it to Adam. See chapters from Sefer Raziel.
A copy of the Sefer (Hebrew for book) was given to Seraph, then Metatron, then Adam (the first man). Accordingto the tradition of the Book of Raziel, the angels (called Cherubim)were upset that the secret knowledge was given to Adam. They descendedto earth to steal the book back from Adam.
According to Targum Koheles (10, 20), a collection of midrash taken from the book of Ecclesiastes, the angel Raziel stood on the peak of Mount Horeb (Chorev). Every day he shouted out the secrets to all to hear. To preserve this wisdom, the angel Raziel inscribed those secrets in a book and gave it to Adam.
A copy of the Sefer (Hebrew for book) was given to Seraph, then Metatron, then Adam (the first man). According to the tradition of the Book of Raziel, the angels (called Cherubim) were upset that the secret knowledge was given to Adam. They descended to earth to steal the book back from Adam.
Search inside this book on Amazon.com. The first English translation from ancient Hebrew of the rare and complete 1701 Amsterdam edition, of this famous magical text. According to Hebrew legend, the Sepher Rezial was given to Adam in the Garden of Eden, by the hand of God. The myth suggests that this diverse compendium of ancient Hebrew lore was the first book ever written. Includes an explanatory text on the holy names of God, the divisions of Heaven and Hell, and the names and hierarchy of the angels and spirits. Paperback: 302 pages. Publisher: Weiser Books (December, 2000). Language: English
2 The Treatise of tymes of the year of the day and of the anything ought to be done by this booke (ff 34r-46r) 5. The Treatise of Abstinence (ff 46r-51r) 6. Samaim which nameth all the heavens and her angels and the operations or workings of them (ff 51v-53v) 7. The booke of properties of the ark of magicke and of his figures and of the ordinance of same (ff 53v-57v) Liber Salomonis refers to itself as Cephar Raziel (ff 2v, 3r, 4r, 12r, 34r), Sephar Raziel (fo. 2r), booke of Raziel (ff 20r, 46r, 57r), and booke of Razeelus (fo. 3v). Solomon is indicated as the recipient and redactor not the author of the book in the narrative which introduces the text (ff 2v-3v), though most instructions begin, Salomon Others begin, Hermes (ff 9r, 11r, 18v, 24r, 28v, 30r, 31r, 32r, 33v), Adam (fo. 16r), Nathaniel (fo. 47r), Moyses (ff 4r, 4v), and Raziel (ff 6r, 16v, 22r, 26r, 28v, 31v, 34v, 36r, 37r, 38v).
4 In a note to me (January 28, 2007), Sophie Page offered an informed and most welcome emendation to my view in the form of an abridged segment from her article, Uplifting Souls and Speaking with Spirits: The Liber de essentia spirituum and the Liber Razielis, in Claire Fanger (ed.), Invoking Angels: Mystical Technologies in the Middle Ages (forthcoming): The most explicit transmission of Jewish magical material into the Christian Latin tradition of magic was the translation of works associated with the name Raziel, an angel present in Jewish angelology and Arabic astrological texts who was said to have revealed a book of secrets to Adam. Various esoteric and magical treatises attributed to Raziel and based on the practical use of divine and angelic names circulated among late medieval Jews. The earliest known reference in Latin is a citation by the Christian convert Petrus Alfonsus [OR Alfonsi] (1062-1110) of a certain Secretum secretorum, which claimed to have been revealed to Seth, the son of Adam, by the angel Raziel. 2ff7e9595c
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