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(KABBALAH) .  Raziel HaMalach.  FIRST EDITION. [A celebrated cornucopia of mystical texts and magical recipes]. Complex Kabbalistic charts and diagrams throughout. This copy with uncommonly wide margins. ff. 18, (1), 19-45. Light wear, lower inner corners restored and expertly repaired with occasional loss supplied in facsimile. Pencil marginalia. Modern full calf. 4to. Vinograd, Amsterdam 731. Amsterdam, Moses ben Abraham Mendes Coitinho, 1701. First edition Raziel Hamalach - Sepher Segulah: A sacred book, possession of which guards one’s home from fire and acts as a protection for related negative concerns (as stated on the title-page). The first section of the Raziel Hamalach, known as the Sepher HaMalbush, relates that soon after Adam HaRishon was exiled from the Garden of Eden, he prayed to God with remorse over his fall from grace, whereupon the Angel Raziel appeared in order to console Adam by imparting to him the wisdom of the Book of Raziel from which Adam’s descendants would be equipped to foretell their future. An intricate formula with complex instructions follows, indicating preliminary actions to be performed prior to studying the text. Included here are detailed spiritual laws of Nature, knowledge of the energy contained within the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, the power of Man’s soul within the confines of physicality; in other words, how to harmonize physical and spiritual existence in this material world.