The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses: The Occult Text That Spread Across the World
A surviving 1880 English volume promises “Moses’ magical spirit-art,” invoking Cabala, the Talmud, seals, sacred names, and hidden knowledge beyond the familiar five books of Moses. But its pages lead backward not to an authenticated ancient manuscript, but to German magical publishing, earlier unstable witnesses, and identifiable nineteenth-century sources.
This episode follows Johann Scheible’s 1849 Stuttgart compilation, Joseph Ennemoser’s 1844 writing embedded within later editions, the cataloged 1880 English translation, and L. W. de Laurence’s documented 1910 Chicago edition. Along the…
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