The Greek Magical Papyri
The Greek Magical Papyri preserve working texts from Roman Egypt where Greek, Egyptian, Jewish and Christian divine names meet inside…
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The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden
This long papyrus writes ritual knowledge in Demotic Egyptian with Old Coptic glosses, preserving a practitioner’s collection at the threshold…
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Coptic Magical Texts
Coptic magical manuscripts preserve prayers, amulets, curses, healing texts and invocations written by communities for whom saints, angels and Christ…
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The Cyranides
The Cyranides maps a universe in which birds, fish, plants and stones share concealed correspondences that can be combined into…
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Sefer HaRazim
The Book of Mysteries arranges angels through seven firmaments and assigns them powers over earthly needs, hidden knowledge, enemies, health…
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The Sword of Moses
The Sword of Moses presents a chain of divine and angelic names as a weapon of language, preceded by a…
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Sefer Raziel HaMalakh
Sefer Raziel gathers cosmology, angelic names, astrology, amulets and divine mysteries beneath the legend that the angel Raziel gave Adam…
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The Picatrix
Picatrix is a vast synthesis of astrology, talismans, images, planetary spirits, philosophy and ritual theory, presented as the culminating knowledge…
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Liber Razielis Archangeli
Liber Razielis carries Raziel’s name into Latin Europe, joining angelic books, astrology, talismans, prayers and natural magic under Solomonic or…
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The Sworn Book of Honorius
The Sworn Book claims to preserve the secret art of magicians threatened by ecclesiastical destruction, compressing their knowledge into a…
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