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The chapters of Book One do not have a separate list of contents provided in the original text, while the chapters of Books Two and Three do. I have therefore included the summaries for the chapters of Book One here in parentheses.
(Book One should be considered as an introduction to the other two books, which contain the actual, original Magic as taught by Abra-Melin.)
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(Abraham’s reasons for leaving this work as a legacy to his son, Lamech.) . . . . . . page 4
(His father, Simon, had told him something of the Kabbalah original: "Qabalah"; a system of Jewish mysticism and esoteric biblical interpretation. Concerning the Magic of Rabbi original: "Rabbin" Moses of Mainz original: "Mayence", and how greatly inferior this was to the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin.) . . page 5
(The beginning of the travels of Abraham the Jew. His journey to Mainz in Vormatia Vormatia: the Latin name for the region around the city of Worms, Germany—the district under the rule of Worms—to study under Rabbi Moses for four years. He then forms a friendship with a young Bohemian Jew named Samuel. They resolve to travel together to Constantinople, intending to visit Palestine afterward. They begin their journey on February 13, 1397, passing through Germany, Bohemia, Austria, Hungary, and...