Continue morning and evening prayers, but ritually cleanse your hands and face with pure water before entering the altar space. Prayers should be prolonged and intensified. The whole body should be washed every Sabbath eve.

Yes, it’s probably all of those and a whole lot more – and it is time well spent taking a new look and identifying where we are missing opportunities to enhance our tradition, practice and devotion. If you want a balls-out devotional practice, hardcore, dedicate pagan initiation of the higher self as opposed to some namby-pamby, every other month paganism, then this might be where you find it. Abramelin the Mage

END OF THE FIRST BOOK.

The book exists in the form of twelve manuscripts and an early printed edition. The provenance of the text has not been definitively identified. The earliest manuscripts are two versions that date from about 1608, are written in German and are now found in Wolfenbüttel. [ms 1] [ms 2] Another two manuscripts are in Dresden, and date from about 1700 and 1750 respectively. [ms 3] [ms 4]

The first printed version, also in German, dates to 1725 and was printed in Cologne by Peter Hammer. [4] A partial copy in Hebrew is found in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and dates from around 1740. [ms 5] An 18th century manuscript copy exists in French in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris, an institution founded in 1757. [ms 6] Another 17th-century manuscript in Italian exists in the 'Legato Martinengo' of the Queriniana Library in Brescia, Italy. It was part of the collection of the Count and Qabbalist Leopardo Martinengo of Barco and Torre Pallavicina. The manuscript, unknown for centuries to international researchers until 2009, has been found by academic researcher Maria Elena Loda in the esoteric section. At the moment, it is the only known manuscript translation in the Italian language of the Abramelin grimoire. [5] [6]So I would say that a vision quest, as well as, initiatory vigils are very important they are slightly different then the abramelin operation itself. And in his great weakness it may be that for awhile the new Will and Aspiration are not puissant, yet being undisturbed by those dead weeds of doubt and reason which he hath uprooted, they grow imperceptibly and easily like a flower. The Book of Abramelin contains three parts, the first is the re-telling of Abraham’s encounter with Abramelin, and the second two book outlines a process known as the Abramelin Operation. The Abramelin Operation is best described as a step-by-step guide through a 6-18 month-long ritual one can perform to conjure and speak with an individual’s Holy Guardian Angel, abbreviated as HGA.

Overall, the work is consistent with Kabbalistic and Goetic ritual practices of the time. Many modern Kabbalah practitioners believe that the initiates of the Abramelin era used the ritual as a tool to transform the mind into something more closely resembling the mind of God. Like some Tantric rituals from Tibetan Buddhism, the eventual visualization of the Holy Guardian Spirit may be more of a deeply meditative, transformative thought exercise than a literal summoning ritual. Conjuring the Guardian Spirit: A Step-by-Step GuideThe Abramelin Operation is a very intense and lengthy process with sets of rules one must follow the following description of the process has been oversimplified and condensed. If one wishes to perform this ritual at their own risk, obtaining a copy of The Book of Abramelin is recommended.