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The practical magic described in The Book of Abramelin involves a detailed ritual lasting six to eighteen months, depending on the version. This ritual is designed to achieve communion with one's Holy Guardian Angel and involves strict purity practices, prayer, and the use of magic word squares. [10]
The largest manuscript of the Sword of Moses begins with a description of the heavenly realms and angels, and soon moves onto describing various prayers, invocations, and ritual procedures that the reader is to perform before he is able to use the "Sword"; this term refers to a huge list of magical names later in the text, divided into 136 sections, each with a different magical use.
Magic tablet from Pergamon with Greek voces magicae surrounding each of the figures. Voces magicae (singular: vox magica, "magical names" or "magical words") or voces mysticae [1] are pronounceable but incomprehensible magical formulas that occur in spells, charms, curses, and amulets from Classical Antiquity, including Ancient Greece, Egypt, and Rome.
In ceremonial magic, a magical formula or a word of power is a word that is believed to have specific supernatural effects. [1] They are words whose meaning illustrates principles and degrees of understanding that are often difficult to relay using other forms of speech or writing.
The forms of divination mentioned in Deuteronomy 17 are portrayed as being of foreign origin; this is the only part of the Hebrew Bible to make such a claim. [5] According to Ann Jeffers, the presence of laws forbidding necromancy proves that it was practiced throughout Israel's history.
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The Merseburg charms are the only known surviving relics of pre-Christian, pagan poetry in Old High German literature. [3]The charms were recorded in the 10th century by a cleric, possibly in the abbey of Fulda, on a blank page of a liturgical book, which later passed to the library at Merseburg.
These scholars say that the Hebrew word kashaph (כשפ), used in Exodus 22:18 and 5 other places in the Tanakh comes from a root meaning "to whisper". Strong, therefore, concludes that the word means "to whisper a spell, i.e. to incant or practice magic". The Contemporary English Version translates Deuteronomy 18:11 as referring to "any kind ...