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Jewish Magical Documents
Mordecai Margalioth's reconstruction of magical texts from the early centuries C.E., published in 1966 under the title, Sepher-ha-Razim, have been translated nd annotated by Michael A. Morgan, with the sub-title, The Book of Mysteries (Society of Biblical Literature, Scholars Press, 1983). What follows here is a series of excerpts from the Morgan translation, including the complete preface, and portions from six of the seven sections, which Morgan has designated as the Seven Firmaments. There are indications of the numbers of the lines which Morgan has taken over from Margalioth.
Sepher ha-Razim
(Preface)
This is a book, from the Books of the Mysteries, which was given to Noah, the son of Lamech, the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mehallalel, the son of Kenan, the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, by Raziel the angel in the year when he came into the ark (but) before his entrance.
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