THE BOOK OF THE SACRED MAGIC OF ABRA=MELIN, THE MAGE AS DELIVERED BY ABRAHAM THE JEW UNTO HIS SON LAMECH.
Book Details + Condition: The De Laurence Company (Chicago). Third Printing, 1948. Hardcover Quarto, with original lightly pebbled red cloth boards, titled in gold on spine panel, with magic square design on front panel. 268 pages; Illustrated. Translated by S.L. MacGregor-Mathers "from an old and rare French manuscript in the Bibliotheque de l'Arsenal at Paris". Prepared for publication in the United States under the "editorship" of L.W. de Laurence. Subtitled "A Grimoire of the Fifteenth Century", THE BOOK OF THE SACRED MAGIC OF ABRA=MELIN THE MAGE is considered by many to be the most important and powerful grimoire of Western magical tradition. Translated by MacGregor Mathers, one of the founding members of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, it was used regularly by members of the Order and was a great influence on a young Aleister Crowley, who purchased his famous Boleskine House in Scotland specifically to work the rituals presented in this volume, which required a minimum of six months (six moons) of isolated preparation. Crowley chose to abandon this plan in order to assist Mathers during the Golden Dawn schism of 1901. Crowley would later incorporate the ritual into his own mystical system and felt it to be a required operation for any serious student of magic.
Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; chafed spine ends; minor foxing to text block, and to first and last few pages; inked name and info to ffep, with magickal name to rear blank endpaper; 38 pp with highlighting and red ink, all in the beginning of the book.
