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The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses: Or Moses' Magical Spirit-art
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 133.43
EAN: 9780892541300
Edition: New Exp
ISBN: 089254130X
Label: Ibis Press
Manufacturer: Ibis Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 338
Publication Date: 2008-04
Publisher: Ibis Press
Studio: Ibis Press
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Editorial Review:
For people interested in folk magic.
The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, arguably one of the most popular magick books ever published, contains two secret apocrypha ascribed to Moses, perhaps pseudepigraphically. The book consists of a collection of texts,which claim to explain the magick Moses used to win the biblical magick contest with the Egyptian priest-magicians, part the Red Sea, and perform other miraculous feats. It includes instruction in the form of invocations, magick words, and seals for calling upon the angels to affect worldly ends, from the sublime (calling down a plague of locusts and frogs upon your enemy) to the mundane (getting more money).
Many manuscripts and printed pamphlet versions circulated in Germany in the 1800s, and an English translation by Johann Scheible first appeared in New York in 1880 that had not been corrected or re-edited until now. In creating this restored, corrected edition, Joseph Peterson drew on Scheible's final edition of the text and his original sources. It will be of great interest to those who have suffered through prior editions and anyone looking for a traditional source of Western magick.
* Used in various modern traditions of American folk magick, from Pennsylvania Dutch hexmeisters and contemporary eclectic magicians, to voodoo practioners and African American root workers.
* Updated or fresh translations from original German, Latin, and Hebrew sources and restoration of censored or left out passages in earlier editions and 35 pages of text never before translated.
* Describes the biblical magick ascribed to Moses and its application.
* Extensively illustrated with over 100 magical seals, signs, and sigils.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Don't try this at home, kids
The *Sixth* and *Seventh* Books of Moses? Now, they can't *possibly* be genuine, can they?
And, of course, they are not. "The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses" is a collection of magical spells and amulets, first published in Germany in 1849. The work is based on earlier manuscripts and pamphlets, and the core of the material is derived from a Latin work, "Liber Razielis", known from the 16th century and perhaps compiled earlier. That work, in turn, is very loosely based on a Jewish ... Read More
Rating:  - A look at the history of magic and those who have practiced it in the Kabbalistic tradition
A look at the history of magic and those who have practiced it in the Kabbalistic tradition - that is what "The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses" offers to its readers. Exploring the Kabbalah and Talmud as magical texts as well as quoting other noted sources such as Albertus Magnus, Trithemus, and more, "The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses" is a complete and comprehensive guide to anyone who wants a better understanding of the esoteric history of the world. In this new edition, author Joseph Peterson ... Read More
Rating: - The best translation and easy to follow version I have read
All I can say is, WOW! So many versions of this book are horrible -- but this one is nothing like the translations and publishers before. If you have ever read an older version of this book the seals are so small that you can't make them out so they can be easily reproduced. However, this book leaves other versions in the dust because the seals are large enough so you can make out every detail! Very impressive. The other thing I like about this version is it is prtined on nice quality paper and is a quality ... Read More
Rating: - Worth the wait!
The volume presented here under the title of `The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses', is in fact a collection of texts of German "folk" magic dating from the mid- eighteenth century. They were collected together under this title by Johann Scheible in the mid- nineteenth century; and it is the 8th edition of his German work, published in 1865, as well as an English version of Scheible's text published in the U.S. at the end of the 19th century, which form the basis for Peterson's English edition.
In this ... Read More
Rating: - An Excellent Book
This book is, hands down, the best on this subject I have ever seen. There have been other, incomplete and inferior versions of the Sixth and Seventh Books, with their unreadable seals and poorly done research, but when I saw that this book was from Joseph Peterson, I was certain that it would be the product of complete and scholarly research.
When I finally got the book, I was not disappointed. It was everything I expected and more.
I highly recommend this book for anyone studying ... Read More
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