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Sefer Raziel HaMalakh
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “medieval kabbalistic grimoire”. Today it says “grimoire of practical kabbalah from the middle ages written primarily in hebrew and aramaic”.
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Grimoire of practical Kabbalah Page 44b in the 1701 edition of Sefer Raziel HaMalakh , featuring various magical sigils (or סגולות, seguloth , in Hebrew ). Sefer Raziel HaMalakh ( Hebrew : ספר רזיאל המלאך , "the book of Raziel the angel") is a grimoire of Practical Kabbalah from the Middle Ages written primarily in Hebrew and Aramaic . Liber Razielis Archangeli , its 13th-century Latin translation produced under Alfonso X of Castile , survives.
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medieval kabbalistic grimoire
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grimoire of practical kabbalah from the middle ages written primarily in hebrew and aramaic
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