Magick 101: the Book of Raziel

Magick 101: The Book of Raziel By: Rev. Jonathan Barlow Gee

(2022 edition)

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What is the Book of Raziel? ““Bereshit B: Verse 361 ‫ּבִריְ הּוא‬ ְ ‫ׁשא‬ ָ ‫ליּה ֻקְד‬ ֵ ‫חית‬ ֵ ‫ ָנ‬,‫עֶדן‬ ֵ ‫ּתא ְד‬ ָ ‫ּבִגְנ‬ ְ ‫אָדם‬ ָ ‫הָוה‬ ֲ ‫כד‬ ַ ‫ּד‬ ְ ,‫מָנא‬ ְ ‫הא אֹוִקי‬ ָ ‫ ְו‬.‫ּדאי‬ ַ ‫פר ַו‬ ֶ ‫ס‬ ֵ ,‫פר‬ ֶ ‫ס‬ ֵ ‫ֶזה‬ ‫פי‬ ֵ ‫ ִּגּלּו‬,‫פין‬ ִ ‫לי‬ ִ ‫ביּה ְּג‬ ֵ ‫ ּו‬.‫ׁשין‬ ִ ‫ּדי‬ ִ ‫אין ַק‬ ִ ‫ּל‬ ָ ‫ע‬ ִ ‫על ָרזִי‬ ַ ‫מָּנא‬ ַ ‫מ‬ ְ ,‫ׁשא‬ ָ ‫ּדי‬ ִ ‫כא ַק‬ ָ ‫א‬ ָ ‫ל‬ ְ ‫מ‬ ַ ,‫על ְיָדא ְדָרִזיא"ל‬ ַ ,‫פָרא‬ ְ ‫ס‬ ִ ‫עין‬ ִ ‫ב‬ ְ ‫ׁש‬ ַ ‫אה ְו‬ ָ ‫מ‬ ְ ‫ׁשית‬ ִ ‫ל‬ ְ ,‫מֵּניּה‬ ִ ‫ׁשן‬ ָ ‫ּפְר‬ ָ ‫ת‬ ְ ‫מ‬ ִ ‫הוֹו‬ ֲ ,‫תא‬ ָ ‫מ‬ ְ ‫כ‬ ְ ‫ח‬ ָ ‫תֵרין ִזיֵני ְד‬ ְ ‫עין ּו‬ ִ ‫ב‬ ְ ‫ׁש‬ ַ ‫ ְו‬,‫ׁשא‬ ָ ‫ּדי‬ ִ ‫מה ַק‬ ָ ‫כ‬ ְ ‫ח‬ ָ ‫ ְו‬,‫אין‬ ִ ‫ּל‬ ָ ‫ע‬ ִ .‫אה‬ ָ ‫ּל‬ ָ ‫ע‬ ִ ‫ּדָרֵזי‬ ְ ‫פין‬ ִ ‫לי‬ ִ ‫ְּג‬ IT IS WRITTEN: "This is the book OF THE GENERATIONS OF ADAM," and there literally is a book. We have already explained that when Adam was in the Garden of Eden, the Holy One, blessed be He, sent a book down to him with Raziel, the holy angel who is in charge of the supernal sacred secrets (Heb. razin). In THE BOOK were supernal inscriptions, holy Chochmah and 72 branches of sacred wisdom. SHE IS BESTOWED on 670 inscriptions of the supernal secrets.””

According to the (2022 AD) article on wikipedia, ““Sefer Raziel HaMalakh, (Hebrew: ‫ספר‬ ‫רזיאל ה מלאך‬, "the book of Raziel the angel"), is a grimoire of Practical Kabbalah from the Middle Ages written primarily in Hebrew and Aramaic. Liber Razielis Archangeli, its 13th-century Latin translation produced under Alfonso X of Castile, survives. … The likely compiler of the medieval version is Eleazar of Worms, as Sefer Galei Razia, which developed to what we have now as Sefer Raziel HaMalakh. … The book became notorious in German Renaissance magic, named together with Picatrix as among the most abominable works of necromancy by Johannes Hartlieb. The prayer of Adam is paraphrased by Nicholas of Cusa in two sermons (Sermo I, 4, 16.25; Sermo XX, 8, 10-13) and further made use of by Johann Reuchlin in his De Arte Cabbalistica. Konrad Bollstatter in the 15th century also shows awareness of the Latin version of the "Prayer of Adam" an interpolation in Cgm 252, although he replaces Raziel with Raphael and Seth with Sem.”” The epistemological history of the book of Raziel is tedious. Older (Latin and English) editions that purport to be copies of the actual “book of Raziel” tend to vastly vary from younger editions (in Aramaic and Hebrew) that purport to be the same thing. Differences between Christian and Hebrew traditional apocrypha and grimoires - even when supposedly describing the same source material - is nothing new to scholastic QBLHists (cf. the Slavonic “book of the Watchers” - abridged from the Ethiopian and Qumran “Book of Enoch” - as well as cf. the mid-17th century “Goetia” or “lesser key of Solomon” abridged from the first century BC, Alexandria, Egyptian “Wisdom of Solomon” text). In almost all cases, wherever Hebrew source texts have survived in Noncanonical formats, they have been altered by intervening Christian scribes. In many such cases - the Book of Raziel being one - later Hebrew scholars have proposed to provide a restored (although often no less contrived) edition of such, originally Christian-era, Noncanonical texts. This is not to say that the Book of Raziel is not an originally Hebrew traditional text - as it is mentioned in The Zohar and The Sword of Moses - merely that the earliest known copies surviving today date back no sooner than to when The Liber Razielis was first translated from Latin into Castilian by King Alphonso X (1221 to 1284 AD).

What is the Book of Raziel About?

(The Book of Raziel in other texts: Ancient - the Zohar, and Modern - Ginzberg, LOTJ).

The content of the Book of Raziel itself is no less complicated and potentially confusing.

If one were to enter into reading this format of apocryphal myth as if it were simply a novel fiction with a narrative structure, one would immediately be swamped by unfamiliar terms describing unusual considerations of a highly theoretical nature and likely walk away totally stumped as to their meaning. The key to understanding the contents of the Book of Raziel is to understand the context of the Book of Raziel inside the greater - still essentially narrative novel - storyline of the Hebrew Bible. In this context we find the legends describe how Adam - while yet freshly fashioned in paradise - was placed into a contest against Satan and all the choirs of angels. This contest is not mentioned in the canonized Latin Vulgate of the Old Testament nor in Sefer Genesis of the Hebrew Torah; we know of it now from modern, Noncanonical midrash on these scriptures (including primarily Ginzberg’s “Legends of the Jews”), where it is described as follows: ““Satan demanded a trial of wit with Adam, and God assented thereto, saying: "I have created beasts, birds, and reptiles, I shall have them all come before thee and before Adam. If thou art able to give them names, I shall command Adam to show honor unto thee, and thou shalt rest next to the Shekinah of My glory. But if not, and Adam calls them by the names I have assigned to them, then thou wilt be subject to Adam, and he shall have a place in My garden, and cultivate it." Thus spake God, and He betook Himself to Paradise, Satan following Him. When Adam beheld God, he said to his wife, "O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker." Now Satan attempted to assign names to the animals. He failed with the first two that presented themselves, the ox and the cow. God led two others before him, the camel and the donkey, with the same result. Then God turned to Adam, and questioned him regarding the names of the same animals, framing His questions in such wise that the first letter of the first word was the same as the first letter of the name of the animal standing before him. Thus Adam divined the proper name, and Satan was forced to acknowledge the superiority of the first man.””

- From: THE FALL OF SATAN, “The Legends of the Jews: Volume I”, Louis Ginzberg, 1909.

In an earlier passage from the same text, the author seems to contradict this timeline for events as, in “the fall of Satan,” he states Adam’s “wife” was present for the contest, while in the earlier chapter, “the ideal man,” Ginzberg claims the contest occurred when Adam was “barely an hour old.” In both cases we find the story of Adam giving names to all the animals of the newly formed earth and thus demonstrating his great “wisdom” or his fine attunement to the will of his creator.

““The wisdom of Adam displayed itself to greatest advantage when he gave names to the animals. Then it appeared that God, in combating the arguments of the angels that opposed the creation of man, had spoken well, when He insisted that man would possess more wisdom than they themselves. When Adam was barely an hour old, God assembled the whole world of animals before him and the angels. The latter were called upon to name the different kinds, but they were not equal to the task. Adam, however, spoke without hesitation: "O Lord of the world! The proper name for this animal is ox, for this one horse, for this one lion, for this one camel." And so he called all in turn by name, suiting the name to the peculiarity of the animal. Then God asked him what his name was to be, and he said Adam, because he had been created out of Adamah, dust of the earth. Again, God asked him His own name, and he said: "Adonai, Lord, because Thou art Lord over all creatures"--the very name God had given unto Himself, the name by which the angels call Him, the name that will remain immutable evermore.””

- From: THE IDEAL MAN, “The Legends of the Jews: Volume I”, Louis Ginzberg, 1909.

This great “wisdom” of Adam’s in naming things was, according to The Zohar, rewarded

by God; “the Holy One, blessed be He, sent a book down to him with Raziel, the holy angel who is in charge of the supernal sacred secrets (Heb. razin).” Ginzberg describes this event, in brief, thus: ““God appeared unto [Adam] and said: "My son, have no fear of Samael. I will give thee a remedy that will help thee against him, for it was at My instance that he went to thee." Adam asked, "And what is this remedy?" God: "The Torah." Adam: "And where is the Torah?" God then gave him the book of the angel Raziel, which he studied day and night.”” It is an interesting point that Ginzberg, speaking on behalf of God, makes no distinction now between the Book of Raziel and the Torah itself.

Bereshit B: Verse 363 ‫הֵוי ָגִניז ְיָקָרא‬ ֱ ,‫אָדם‬ ָ ‫אָדם‬ ָ :‫ליּה‬ ֵ ‫מר‬ ַ ‫א‬ ֲ ‫ ַו‬,‫ׁשא‬ ָ ‫ּדי‬ ִ ‫כא ַק‬ ָ ‫א‬ ָ ‫ל‬ ְ ‫מ‬ ַ ‫ּביּה הדרניא"ל‬ ֵ ‫לַג‬ ְ ‫מיז‬ ִ ‫תְר‬ ְ ‫א‬ ִ ,‫תא‬ ָ ‫ע‬ ֲ ‫ׁש‬ ַ ‫ּבה‬ ָ ,‫מיר ְוָגֵניז‬ ִ ‫ט‬ ָ ‫ּמיּה‬ ֵ ‫ע‬ ִ ‫הָוה‬ ֲ ‫ ַו‬.‫ּת‬ ְ ‫אְנ‬ ַ ‫ּבר‬ ַ ,ְ‫מָר‬ ָ ‫ּביָקָרא ְד‬ ִ ‫מְנַדע‬ ִ ‫ל‬ ְ ,‫ּלאֵי‬ ָ ‫ע‬ ִ ‫ל‬ ְ ‫היב ְרׁשּותָא‬ ֵ ‫תיְי‬ ְ ‫א‬ ִ ‫לא‬ ָ ‫ּד‬ ְ ,ְ‫מאָר‬ ָ ‫ּד‬ ְ .‫עֶדן‬ ֵ ‫ּתא ְד‬ ָ ‫מִּגְנ‬ ִ ‫אָדם‬ ָ ‫פק‬ ַ ‫ּדְנ‬ ִ ‫עד‬ ַ ,‫פָרא‬ ְ ‫ס‬ ִ ‫ההּוא‬ ַ At that point, the holy angel Hadarniel hinted to him and said, "Adam, Adam conceal the glory of your Master, AND DO NOT REVEAL IT TO THE ANGELS, for permission was given you alone, AND NOT EVEN TO THE SUPERNAL ANGELS, to know the glory of your Master." Therefore, he concealed it with him until he left the Garden of Eden.

- From: The Zohar/Bereshit B/Chapter 62, “This is the book of the generations of Adam" This apparent paranoia about the angels becoming jealous of Adam in paradise, even following the fall of Satan from the heavens, was apparently well founded for, again from

Ginzberg’s 1909 “Legends of the Jews” chapter, “the holy book,” we find that…

“After some time had passed, the angels visited Adam, and, envious of the wisdom he had drawn from the book, they sought to destroy him cunningly by calling him a god and prostrating themselves before him, in spite of his remonstrance, "Do not prostrate yourselves before me, but magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His Name together." However, the envy of the angels was so great that they stole the book God had given Adam from him, and threw it in the sea. Adam searched for it everywhere in vain, and the loss distressed him sorely. Again he fasted many days, until God appeared unto him, and said: "Fear not! I will give the book back to thee," and He called Rahab, the Angel of the Sea, and ordered him to recover the book from the sea and restore it to Adam. And so he did.””

- From: THE HOLY BOOK, “The Legends of the Jews: Volume I”, Louis Ginzberg, 1909.

Adam and Eve lived in paradise and Adam kept the Book of Raziel until Satan - heaven’s exile - possessed the snake and spake to Eve to tempt she and Adam into their own exile as well. This part of the story is recounted thoroughly in Genesis 3, and I will not belabor it except to quote one verse from ha Torah: ‫ח ַּ֚גם‬ ֙ ‫לַק‬ ָ ‫דֹו ְו‬ ֗ ‫לח ָי‬ ַ֣ ‫ׁש‬ ְ ‫ּפן־ִי‬ ֶ | ‫ּתה‬ ָ֣ ‫ע‬ ַ ‫ָרע ְו‬ ֑ ‫טֹוב ָו‬ ֣ ‫עת‬ ַ ‫ַד‬ ֖ ‫ל‬ ָ ‫ּמּנּו‬ ֶ֔ ‫מ‬ ִ ‫חד‬ ַ֣ ‫א‬ ַ ‫ּכ‬ ְ ‫ה‬ ֙ ‫הָי‬ ָ ‫ם‬ ֙ ‫אָד‬ ָ ‫ה‬ ָֽ ‫הן‬ ֵ֤ ‫הים‬ ִ֗ ‫אֹל‬ ֱ ‫הָ֣וה‬ ֹ ‫מר | ְי‬ ֶ ‫ַוֹּ֣יא‬ :‫לם‬ ָֽ ‫ע‬ ֹ ‫ל‬ ְ ‫חי‬ ַ֥ ‫כל ָו‬ ַ֖ ‫א‬ ָ ‫חִּ֔יים ְו‬ ַ ‫ה‬ ַֽ ‫עץ‬ ֵ֣ ‫מ‬ ֵ Now the Lord God said, "Behold man has become like one of us, having the ability of knowing good and evil, and now, lest he stretch forth his hand and take also from the Tree of Life and eat and live forever."

- Gen. 3:22.

So God exiled Adam and Eve from Eden. Adam immediately repented and began to fast, to pray and to mourn their loss of access to the tree of immortality. But, according to myth, what troubled Adam more than his and his wife’s banishment to inevitable death was his fear of losing all he knew from when he had dwelt in God’s orchard. The Zohar explains this existential terror of Adam over losing his “wisdom” thus: Bereshit B: Verse 364 ,‫אין‬ ִ ‫ּל‬ ָ ‫ע‬ ִ ‫ליּה ָרזִין‬ ֵ ‫לָיין‬ ְ ‫תַּג‬ ְ ‫א‬ ִ ‫ ְו‬,‫מֵריּה‬ ָ ‫ּד‬ ְ ‫ּבִגיְנַזָיא‬ ְ ‫מא‬ ָ ‫ּכל יֹו‬ ָ ‫מׁש‬ ֵ ‫ּת‬ ַ ‫ׁש‬ ְ ‫מ‬ ִ ‫ ּו‬,‫ּביּה‬ ֵ ‫עֵּיין‬ ַ ‫מ‬ ְ ‫הָוה‬ ֲ ,‫תא‬ ָ ‫מי‬ ֵ ‫בַקְד‬ ְ ‫הא‬ ָ ‫ּד‬ ְ .‫מֵּניּה‬ ִ ‫פָרא‬ ְ ‫ס‬ ִ ‫ההּוא‬ ַ ‫ּפַרח‬ ָ ,‫מאֵריּה‬ ָ ‫ּד‬ ְ ‫ּפּקּוָדא‬ ִ ‫על‬ ַ ‫בר‬ ַ ‫ע‬ ֲ ‫ ַו‬,‫טא‬ ָ ‫ח‬ ָ ‫ּד‬ ְ ‫ּכיָון‬ ֵ .‫אין‬ ִ ‫ּל‬ ָ ‫ע‬ ִ ‫ׁשי‬ ֵ ‫ּמ‬ ָ ‫ׁש‬ ַ ‫לא ָיְדעּו‬ ָ ‫ּד‬ ְ ‫מה‬ ַ ,‫לִדין‬ ָ ‫ח‬ ֲ ‫לִדין‬ ָ ‫ח‬ ֲ ‫פיּה‬ ֵ ‫בִדין ּגּו‬ ְ ‫ע‬ ָ ‫מָיא‬ ַ ‫ ּו‬,‫ליּה‬ ֵ ‫עד ָקְד‬ ַ ‫מי ִגיחֹון‬ ֵ ‫ּב‬ ְ ‫עאל‬ ָ ‫ ְו‬,‫כי‬ ֵ ‫ב‬ ָ ‫ ּו‬,‫על ֵריׁשֹוי‬ ַ ‫ח‬ ַ ‫פ‬ ֵ ‫ט‬ ֹ ‫אָדם‬ ָ ‫הָוה‬ ֲ ‫ַו‬ .‫ּתֵּני ִזיֵויּה‬ ַ ‫ׁש‬ ְ ‫א‬ ִ ‫ְו‬ At first, he used to study and use the secrets of his Master daily. Supernal secrets that none of the supernal angels knew were revealed to him. When, however, he transgressed the command of his Master BY EATING OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE, the book flew away from him. Adam used to beat

upon his head and weep. He went into the waters of the River Gichon up to his neck, BECAUSE HE REPENTED AND MORTIFIED HIMSELF, UNTIL his body became wrinkled and porous and his radiance changed.

- Zohar/Bereshit B/Chapter 62 "This is the book of the generations of Adam" Here, finally, we enter the purview of the actual content of the Book of Raziel as we know it today. In the (1701 AD) Amsterdam manuscript in Aramaic Hebrew and in its (2000 AD) English translation by Steve Savedow, the “prayer of Adam” for God to return to mankind this lost, “secret wisdom” - compiling, ostensibly, all Adam’s names for all the most important attributes of heaven and Eden’s menagerie - is lengthy in the extreme. A slightly abbreviated version exists in Ginzberg’s “Legends” as well, but I will not belabor the point to block quote either here. It is enough to quote “Legends”: ““On the third day after he had offered up this prayer, while he was sitting on the banks of the river that flows forth out of Paradise, there appeared to him, in the heat of the day, the angel Raziel, bearing a book in his hand. …

Raziel, the angel, then read from the book, and when Adam heard the words of the holy volume as they issued from the mouth of the angel, he fell down affrighted. But the angel encouraged him. … In the moment when Adam took the book, a flame of fire shot up from near the river, and the angel rose heavenward with it. Then Adam knew that he who had spoken to him was an angel of God, and it was from the Holy King Himself that the book had come, and he used it in holiness and purity.””

- from: The Legends of the Jews: Volume I Louis Ginzberg, 1909.

The Zohar tells an even shorter ending to this series of events, but in considering verse 365 from the work Bereshit Beth therein, we should also note the slight change of nomenclature in reference to the angel sent to answer Adam’s prayer for all mankind’s salvation. This is explained by another passage from even earlier in Ginzberg, chronologically prior to the creation of Adam in the first place. The Zohar explains, thus: Bereshit B: Verse 365 ,‫אָדם‬ ָ ‫ּדל‬ ַ ‫ּת‬ ַ ‫ׁש‬ ְ ‫מ‬ ִ ‫הָוה‬ ֲ ‫ביּה‬ ֵ ‫ ּו‬.‫פָרא‬ ְ ‫ס‬ ִ ‫ההּוא‬ ַ ‫ליּה‬ ֵ ‫תיב‬ ֵ ‫א‬ ָ ‫ ְו‬,‫אל‬ ֵ ‫פ‬ ָ ‫לְר‬ ִ ‫ּבִריְ הּוא‬ ְ ‫ׁשא‬ ָ ‫מז ֻקְד‬ ַ ‫ ָר‬,‫היא‬ ִ ‫ה‬ ַ ‫תא‬ ָ ‫ע‬ ֲ ‫ׁש‬ ַ ‫ּב‬ ְ ‫לא‬ ָ ‫ּכ‬ ָ ‫ּת‬ ַ ‫ס‬ ְ ‫א‬ ִ ‫ל‬ ְ ‫הָוה ָיַדע‬ ֲ ‫ביּה‬ ֵ ‫ ּו‬,‫הם‬ ָ ‫בָר‬ ְ ‫א‬ ַ ‫ל‬ ְ ‫טא‬ ָ ‫מ‬ ָ ‫ּד‬ ְ ‫עד‬ ַ .‫לדֹות‬ ְ ‫אינּון ּתֹו‬ ִ ‫כל‬ ָ ‫ל‬ ְ ‫כן‬ ֵ ‫ ְו‬.‫ּבֵריּה‬ ְ ‫ׁשת‬ ֵ ‫ל‬ ְ ‫ליּה‬ ֵ ‫אַנח‬ ֲ ‫ַו‬ .‫אה‬ ָ ‫ּל‬ ָ ‫ע‬ ִ ‫ּביָקָרא‬ ִ ,‫מֵּניּה‬ ִ ‫ּכל‬ ַ ‫ּת‬ ַ ‫ס‬ ְ ‫א‬ ִ ‫ ְו‬,‫פָרא‬ ְ ‫ס‬ ִ ‫ליּה‬ ֵ ‫הב‬ ַ ‫תְיי‬ ְ ‫א‬ ִ ,ְ‫חנֹו‬ ֲ ‫ל‬ ַ ‫כן‬ ֵ ‫ ְו‬.‫מר‬ ָ ‫ּת‬ ְ ‫א‬ ִ ‫הא‬ ָ ‫ ְו‬.‫מאֵריּה‬ ָ ‫ּביָקָרא ְד‬ ִ At that point, the Holy One, blessed be He, signaled to the angel Raphael to return the book TO ADAM. Adam occupied himself with it. He left it to his son Seth and to all the generations after him until Abraham came along.

Abraham knew how to use the book to examine his Master's glory. This has already been explained. This book was also given to Enoch, and through it, he perceived the supernal glory.

- Zohar/Bereshit B/Chapter 62 "This is the book of the generations of Adam" To understand why The Zohar specifies the name of the angel who brought back the Book of Raziel to Adam in exile as being Raphael instead of being the angel Raziel himself as is supposed in the “Legends” of Ginzberg we must search even earlier in the “Legends” themselves, to a time before the creation of Adam, when there were many angels who were still in dispute about whether or not God should even beget man. According to this: ““For not a few of the angels their opposition bore fatal consequences.

When God summoned the band under the archangel Michael, and asked their opinion on the creation of man, they answered scornfully: "What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that Thou visitesth him?" God thereupon stretched forth His little finger, and all were consumed by fire except their chief Michael. And the same fate befell the band under the leadership of the archangel Gabriel; he alone of all was saved from destruction. The third band consulted was commanded by the archangel Labbiel. Taught by the horrible fate of his predecessors, he warned his troop: "You have seen what misfortune overtook the angels who said 'What is man, that Thou art mindful of him?' Let us have a care not to do likewise, lest we suffer the same dire punishment. For God will not refrain from doing in the end what He has planned. Therefore it is advisable for us to yield to His wishes." Thus warned, the angels spoke: "Lord of the world, it is well that Thou hast thought of creating man. Do Thou create him according to Thy will. And as for us, we will be his attendants and his ministers, and reveal unto him all our secrets."

Thereupon God changed Labbiel's name to Raphael, the Rescuer, because his host of angels had been rescued by his sage advice. He was appointed the Angel of Healing, who has in his safe-keeping all the celestial remedies, the types of the medical remedies used on earth.””

- from: The Legends of the Jews: Volume I Louis Ginzberg, 1909.

So we see, from Ginzberg’s explanation, why the angel “Raphael” (whose name meant “the rescuer”), and not the angel “Raziel” (whose name meant “keeper of the secrets” Razin), was seen in The Zohar as being tasked with returned to Adam his book of days, however this is why, also, the same work that would later come to embody the full Torah would have been called, in Eden, by the title, the “Book of Raziel” (for a book of secrets). ““Upon the death of Adam, the holy book disappeared, but later the cave in which it was hidden was revealed to Enoch in a dream. It was from this book that Enoch drew his knowledge of nature, of the earth and of the heavens, and he became so wise through it that his wisdom exceeded the wisdom of Adam. Once he had committed it to memory, Enoch hid the

book again. … The book, which was made of sapphires, [Noah] took with him into the ark, having first enclosed it in a golden casket. All the time he spent in the ark it served him as a time-piece, to distinguish night from day. Before his death, he entrusted it to Shem, and he in turn to Abraham.

From Abraham it descended through Jacob, Levi, Moses, and Joshua to Solomon, who learnt all his wisdom from it, and his skill in the healing art, and also his mastery over the demons.””

- from: The Legends of the Jews: Volume I Louis Ginzberg, 1909.

According to Ginzberg, the Book of Raziel “is the book out of which all things worth knowing can be learnt, and all mysteries, and it teaches also how to call upon the angels and make them appear before men, and answer all their questions. But not all alike can use the book, only he who is wise and God-fearing, and resorts to it in holiness. Such an one is secure against all wicked counsels, his life is serene, and when death takes him from this world, he finds repose in a place where there are neither demons nor evil spirits, and out of the hands of the wicked he is quickly rescued.” According to Zohar the work contains a buried treasure of secrets within secrets.

Bereshit B: Verse 362 ‫אי‬ ֵ ‫ּל‬ ָ ‫ע‬ ִ ‫ל‬ ְ ‫ּסָרן‬ ְ ‫מ‬ ַ ‫ת‬ ְ ‫א‬ ִ ‫לא‬ ָ ‫ּד‬ ְ ,‫חן‬ ָ ‫ּת‬ ְ ‫פ‬ ְ ‫מ‬ ַ ‫אה‬ ָ ‫מ‬ ְ ‫מׁש‬ ֵ ‫ח‬ ֲ ‫לף ַו‬ ֶ ‫א‬ ֶ ‫מְנַדע‬ ִ ‫ל‬ ְ ,‫תא‬ ָ ‫מ‬ ְ ‫כ‬ ְ ‫ח‬ ָ ‫ּד‬ ְ ‫פא‬ ָ ‫לי‬ ִ ‫ ְּג‬,‫פָרא‬ ְ ‫ס‬ ִ ‫ּד‬ ְ ‫תא‬ ָ ‫עי‬ ִ ‫צ‬ ָ ‫מ‬ ְ ‫א‬ ֶ ‫ּב‬ ְ ‫מְנַדע‬ ִ ‫ל‬ ְ ,‫אי‬ ֵ ‫ּל‬ ָ ‫ע‬ ִ ‫כי‬ ֵ ‫א‬ ֲ ‫ל‬ ְ ‫מ‬ ַ ‫ׁשי‬ ֵ ‫ּכְּנ‬ ַ ‫ת‬ ְ ‫מ‬ ִ ‫הוֹו‬ ֲ ,‫אָדם‬ ָ ‫ּבי ְד‬ ֵ ‫לַג‬ ְ ‫טא‬ ָ ‫מ‬ ָ ‫ּד‬ ְ ‫עד‬ ַ ,‫פָרא‬ ְ ‫ס‬ ַ ‫ּב‬ ְ ‫ּביּה‬ ֵ ‫ּתימּו‬ ִ ‫ס‬ ְ ‫א‬ ִ ‫להֹו‬ ְ ‫כ‬ ָ ‫ ְו‬.‫ׁשי‬ ֵ ‫ּדי‬ ִ ‫ַק‬ .ָ‫ּכבֹוֶד‬ ְ ‫אֶרץ‬ ָ ‫ה‬ ָ ‫ּכל‬ ָ ‫על‬ ַ ‫אֹלִקים‬ ֱ ‫מִים‬ ַ ‫ׁש‬ ָּ ‫ה‬ ַ ‫על‬ ַ ‫מה‬ ָ ‫ רּו‬,‫מֵרי‬ ְ ‫א‬ ָ ‫הוֹו‬ ֲ ‫ ַו‬,‫ּולְמִׁשְמַע‬ In the middle of the book, there is an engraving of wisdom. It is prepared to receive the 1,500 keys that were not delivered to the supernal holy beings, FOR THE LAST 6,000 YEARS. All those SECRETS were concealed in the book before it came to the hands of Adam. AND WHEN HE RECEIVED IT, holy angels used to congregate around him, so as to know and hear of them. They used to say: "Be exalted, Elohim, above the heavens. Let Your glory be above the earth" (Tehilim 57:12).

- Zohar/Bereshit B/Chapter 62 "This is the book of the generations of Adam" Editions purporting to be the Book of Raziel Liber Salomonis - Sloane MS 3846 and 3826 (1564) Amsterdam (1701) - .‫רזיאל המלאך‬ Amsterdam (1701) Chabad-Lubavitch Library. Full-text PDF version, in .‫רזיאל המלאך‬ Hebrew, from HebrewBooks.org https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=23968&st=&pgnum=1&hilite= Steve Savedow (trans.), Sepher Rezial Hemelach: The Book of the Angel Rezial, Red Wheel/Weiser (2000), ISBN 978-1-57863-193-3.

Sepher Raziel manuscripts http://www.levity.com/alchemy/raziel.html British Library MS. Sloane 3826.

101 folios.

1. ff1-57 Liber Salomonis, called Sepher Raziel, containing Seven Treatises.

1. The first is said Clavis for that in it is determined of Astronomy and of the starres for without them we may do nothing.

2. The second is said Ala for that in it is determined of the vertues of some stones, of herbs and of beasts.

3. The third is said Tractatus Thymiamatus for that there is determined in it of Suffumigations and of allagacions of them and divisions.

4. The fourth is said the Treatise of tymes and the heere of the day and of the night for that in it is determined when any thing ought to be done by this booke.

5. The fifth is said the Treatise of Cleanesse for that there is determined in it of Abstinence.

6. The sixth is said Samaim for in that treatise it nameth all the heavens and her angels and the operations of working of them.

7. The seventh is the booke of virtues for that there is deternined in it of vertues and miracles for there be tolde the propertyes of the arte of magicke and of his figures and of the ordinances of the same.

2. ff58-65 The rule of the booke of Consecration or the manner of working with some orisions.

3. ff65-83 Magical Directions.

4. ff84-97 Liber Lunae.

5. ff98-101 The Invocation of Oberion concerning Physic Art. British Library MS. Sloane 3846.

Paper. Quarto. 186 folios. 17th Century.

Item 18. ff.129-157.

Liber Salomonis, called Cephar Raziel, containing seven treatises, said to be written by William Parry of Clifford's Inn in 1564. ff.129-157.

[The text in English is the same as in MS. Sloane 3826].

British Library MS. Sloane 3847.

Paper. Quarto. 188 folios. 17th Century.

[Items 1 and 2 see under Clavicula Salomonis - English] [Item 11] ff.161-188.

Praefatio in librum Razielis J.V. in nomine Dei omnipotentis vivi et veri, et eterni, et sine omni Fine qui dicitur Adonay - Saday -Assereye - Jucipio - scribere istum librum qui dicitur Cephar Raziel cum omnibus suis Pertinentiis, in quo sunt septem Tractatus completi, et septem libri.

Introductio Libris.

Clavis Libris.

Liber Primus de Astronomia.

De Lapidibus.

Liber Secundus.

De Herbis.

[This text in Latin is the same as MSS. Sloane 3846 and 3826 but breaks off incomplete in Chapter Three.]

[Preface begins]: "Dicit Salomon Gloria et laus cum multo honore sit Deo".

[First book begins]: "Clavis istius libri est cognoscere et scire locum septem corporum superiorum".

[The introduction lists the seven books of the Sephar Raziel as] 1. Clavis de Astromonia et de Stellis.

2. Ala de virtutibus quorundam Lapidum, Herbarum, Animalia.

3. Thimiamatum de Suffumigationis.

4. Temporum Anni [times of the year].

5. Munditio de abstinentia.

6. Samahym [names of God and Angels].

7. Virtutum quod ubi determinatur in eo_ [Virtues of the art of magic].

British Library MS. Sloane 3853.

Paper. Quarto. 268 folios. 17th Century.

1. Tractatus cui titulus, Thesaurus Spiritum, secundum Robertum Furconem et Rogerum Bacon, cum tabula contentorum et prologo praemissis. ff.3-45.

[Begins]: "Haec est doctrina omnium experimentorum".

2. Liber qui vocature Sephar Rasiel [Imperfect]. ff.46-53.

[Begins] "Incipio scribere istum librorum qui vocatur Sephar Rasiel".

3. Experimenta plurima magica. ff.54-63, 70-120.

4. The book of consecration. ff.64-69.

5. De spiritibus, solaribus, in figuris delineatis. ff.120v-127.

6. The divine Seal of Solomon. f.127v.

7. Invocationes, orationes, etc. f.129-137.

8. Tractatus qui vocatur, Speculum quatuor Regum. ff,138-141.

[Begins]: "Dic inprimis hanc orationem".

9. Processus magici, excitationes spirituum, etc. ff.142-174.

10. A magical book called the Dannet, containing various magical experiments. ff.176-219.

[Begins]: "This is the doctrine of all experiments in generall".

11. The book of the science "of nygromancie". ff.219v-241.

[Begins]: "Here beginnethe the boke of the sience of nygromancie by the which sience thou mayst worke yf thou wylt by daye as by nyght".

12. De sigillis planetarum, etc. f.243.

13. Conjurations, etc. ff.245v-252, 253-256.

14. Of the Offices of Spirits. ff.257-264.

15. Experimenta quaedeam magica. f.266.

British Library MS. Additional 15299.

[The following description appears in the British Library MS catalogue entry which is pasted into the beginning of this volume.]

"The Book Raziel (the Hidden Things of God). The Angel Raziel delivered this book to Adam after 130 years of his Repentance, which book contains Cabbala, by which they can cause Angels, according to his month and his day, to perform miracles, and cast out the evil spirits which occasionally enter in men, and it also contains the knowledge of conversing concerning the Sun, the Moon and the Stars, and to cause to be sick and heal again, and it speaks of many other powers of the vegetable world, precious stones, fishes, fowls, wild beasts, also to be enabled to foretell by the means of the stars and to explain the rod of Moses, wherewith he performed wonders. Vide Labia Dormientium lette 7.

No.31.

"This MS contains the book Jetzirah, with the commentary apparently, of R. Eleasar ben Juda de Garmiza, who lived in the middle of the 13th century. There are various other cabalistic Treatises in it. See the Note at f. 132 b.

See Wolfius Tom 1,. p.23."

MS Alnwick Castle 596.

The following work is a Book of great name among the Magi and Cabalists as the Title of Sepher Raziel or the Book of the Angel of the Secret. p1 For the Account of this Book see the Zohar of the Jews in Genesis. When Adam was in the garden of Eden J.H.V.H. sent him a Book of the Angel Raziel in which were engraved characters of the highest wisdom,.... p3 A Compendium of the Book called Sepher Raziel or the Angel of the Great Secret... p8 [recipe for cabalistic ink]. p11 Operation of the First Heaven. p20 Operation of the 2nd Army in the .... and attributed to Mercury.

[Opens in English then in Italian]. p25 Operationi del 2 do Exercito.

[Sections in Italian, Latin, and English]. p35 Operationi del 3zo Exercito.

[Italian, Latin]. p47 Operazioni de 4to Exercito.

[Italian, Latin and English]. p56 The Operations of the 5th Army.

[English, Latin]. p62 The Operations of the 6th Army.

[English, Italian and Latin]. p69 Operazioni de 7mo Cielo.

[Italian and Latin]. p75 [Lists of qualities of the sevenfold].

[List of various Angel names]. p88 Oratio.

[Latin] p90 l'Orazioni.

[Latin] p92 Tavola [Contents of Ms. in Italian]. p93 Haec Sunt 72 Nomina Dei. [List of 72 names with qualities and powers].

[Latin and Italian].

MS. Alnwick Castle 585. f.ii "This Book was bought at Naples from the Jesuit's Colledge when that Order was suppressed and all their goods seized upon by the King and confescated. It was brought from there by a Gentleman in a publick Employment in the English service and at his death was purchased in London with other MSS of the Jesuits Colledge".

1. Cephar Raziel. [In Italian p.1-43]. p1 Erudition hujus Libri. Zoar: Sectione in principio Genesi I. p1 Comprendio de Libro dello Cephar Raziel, id est Angelus Magni Secreti Communicato ad Adamo, ed esposto da Salomonie in Ebreao... p2 Incomincia. p3 Disse Salomone in guest libro guello che disse l'Angelo Raziele as Adamo. p6 Operazione de primo Cielo. p8 Seguone l'operazione del i° cielo. p11 Operazioni del 2° esercito, qual'e nel Cielo di Labana, ed attribuiscon a Mercurio. p12 Operazioni del 2° Esercito. p14 Opperazioni del terzo esercito. p17 Le operazioni de IV esercito, il quale sta' nel cielo di labana, ma' é atribuito al Sole. p18 Operazioni del IV Esercito. p21 Operazioni del IV Esercito, il quale ben che stia nel Cielo di Labana, non di meno e' attribuito a'Marte. p22 Operazioni del quinto esercito. p25 operazioni del VI essercito, il quale ben che stia ne Cielo di Labana, non di meno, e' attribuito à [Jupiter]. p26 Dell' operazioni del VII esercito. p29 Operazioni del VII Cielo. ill 7° Cielo si chiama Arabotht. p37 Il Complimento. p40 Questae l'orazione. p41 Siegrie il Nome Magno.

2. Compendium totius Sme Kabala cuius misterius consistit in divinis nominibus vita hora fundamentum smus hoc nomen.

Begins : "Haec sunt 72 Nomina Dei". p1-8 [In Latin].

3. Regole di Mr Gio Adamo Wetter.

[Table of the days of months].

[Tables with inverted pyramids of numbers].

Kabala Hermetis [With number square and inverted pyramid of numbers. Some sigils at end.

Text in Italian].

4. Vero modo d'acquistare la Kabola Angelica. p1 [Angels of past, present and future]. p2 Cio finito di rai con gran divezionè. p3 Invocazione dell' Asistenza. p5 Devi sapere. ciô che s'édetto / che in agni nome d'Angliolo si deve leggere: Hic est spiritus: e si segna con la Croce. p6 Oratio. [p1-6 In Italian. 18th Century] [four short tracts bound together].

British Library MS. Additional 16390.

Paper. Small quarto. 17th Century.

Two tracts in Hebrew (i) "The Seven Names". (ii) The eight chapters of Maimonides, or introduction to Aboth [imperfect].

At the end is added an extract from the Hebrew cabalistic work, entitled Raziel, in Italian.

Yale University - Beinecke Rare Books Library Osborn MS fa.7 Astrological treatise. England; late sixteenth century. Paper; 33ff. 303 x 205 mm.; 1 column, 36 lines.

I-III (8), IV (10, -10). Catchwords on every page. Cursive script. Astrological signs are drawn in the margins. Bound in limp vellum.

Presented to the Beinecke Jan 23, 1967, by James M. Osborn.

Comments: Folio 1r has two staffs of music. The text claims to be the Book of Virtue which the Angel Raphiel gave to Adam, with Solomon's Hebrew additions. Incipit: "In the name of allmyghtie God livinge trewe & everlasting and without all end, wch ys said Adonay Saday ... I begin to write this booke wch ys said Cephar razyell with all his portenaunce in wch be 7 treatises complete." The seven treatises are: 1) Clavis, 2) virtues of stones, herbs and beasts, 3) Tractatus thimiamatum, 4) treatise of time, 5) treatise of cleanness, 6) Samaym, and 7) Book of Virtue.

Dresden. MS N.96.

Cabala Alba. Dieses ist das Buch Adam, oder Razielis, durch welches du wissen und verstehen kannst, alles mit einander, alle Wunder Dinge, welche geschehen sind, und noch gemachet werden konnen... Dieses Buch hat der Engel Raziel den Adam ubergeben.

- Fortsetzung des Buches Adae seu Razielis.

18th century. With figures. 187 and 175 leaves. Quarto.

Compiled from:

https://www.terrynazon.com/raziel/raziel1.html

Magick 101: The Book of Raziel By: Rev. Jonathan Barlow Gee

(2022 edition)