Sepher Raziel
The seven books of the angel's secrets
AN OCCULT HALL ILLUSTRATIONEnter its world.
The English Sepher Raziel in Sloane MS 3846 describes an interdependent world of celestial movements, natural materials, spiritual agents and sacred language. Its seven treatises supply different parts of that world: a stone’s attributed virtue, a planet’s condition and a divine name do not perform the same function.
Thirteen editorial lessons develop these teachings through particular passages, from the celestial key and natural wings to monthly angelic companies and the material preparation of a sacred copy. Thirteen is our editorial course arrangement, not the number of the historical treatises. The hosted Hebrew 1881 Sefer Raziel is a related but different witness: these English lessons do not claim matching pages in it. The Adam-and-Solomon narrative is the work’s account of its own authority.
- The key's geometry and seven planets
- Beryl, ruby, onyx and crystal
- Seven heavens and their offices
- The nine counsels
- Four seasonal names of the Sun
Thirteen veils
One free introduction · 12 member lessons
Why this number?
13 lessons form our expanded editorial path through this collection. The course count is a modern study arrangement, not the number of chapters, beings or stages stated by the historical authors.
Your way through.
Follow the teachings step by step, work through concrete examples, and connect each explanation with its cited passage.
The celestial key: one world, seven planets and twelve realms
Explain the key's parts and use the book's planetary and geometrical relationships to distinguish a general power from its changing condition.
20 min · Free introduction
Beryl and the wings of natural things
Explain the wing metaphor through specific stone entries and distinguish material description, attributed capacity, image and timing.
19 min · Member lesson
From angelic companies to the name in the book of life
Explain how Book VI distributes angelic offices and then shifts to divine address, and how Book VII presents Adam's speech across creation.
20 min · Member lesson
The nine counsels: knowledge, discretion and restraint
Explain how the opening precepts connect belief, conduct, truthful speech, deliberation and the responsible limits of inquiry.
19 min · Member lesson
Why the same Sun has four seasonal names
Explain the seasonal naming system through the Sun, the earth, the directions and the book's own tree and human-age comparisons.
19 min · Member lesson
Body, spirit and will in the twelve houses
Explain the three human significators and the ranked houses at the close of the celestial key.
12 min · Member lesson
A whole plant divided among seven planets
Explain the plant-part correspondences and the theory of likeness and opposition in Book III.
12 min · Member lesson
Twelve months, an added Adar and their angelic companies
Distinguish the monthly companies from planetary and weekday offices, including the additional month.
12 min · Member lesson
Why the book’s material body is prepared
Explain how the opening instructions treat copying as part of the book’s religious work.
12 min · Member lesson
Seven books, one interdependent work
Explain why the English Raziel insists that its seven treatises must be read as a coordinated whole.
16 min · Member lesson
Cleanness and the moving heavens
Trace the relation between celestial purity, angelic office and human prayer in the opening of Raziel’s fifth book.
16 min · Member lesson
The teacher and the hidden archive
Compare ordinary study with the legendary recovery of concentrated wisdom in Raziel’s account of Solomon.
16 min · Member lesson
The name and the seven dispositions
Explain why the Semiforas passage joins its claim of extraordinary power to restraints on use and qualities of the petitioner.
16 min · Member lessonThe source beside you.
Members can explore the complete edition. Begin with the free introduction and its selected source pages.
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Sepher Raziel
The complete historical editions and page-turning readers belong to the member library. Free introductions include the source excerpts used in their teaching.
Books & dates
Sepher Raziel · historical English witnessAnonymous · 1564
Sefer Raziel HaMalakh — Hebrew edition, 1881Sefer Raziel HaMalakh · 1881
Guided readings and teaching diagrams are original Occult Hall commentary. Imagined scenes are modern illustrations, separate from the historical source pages.
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