Arbatel: Magic of the Ancients by Joseph Peterson

Arbatel is one of the most influential magical texts. Its many aphorisms are designed to guide us through a transition from an ordinary life to a magical life. It teaches that God created angels to help people, but that we need to learn how to attract and call upon them for help, both spiritual and material. The angels can not only help, protect, and heal, but the higher sciences can only be learned directly from them. Arbatel also insists on the need to avoid superstition, and being constantly tricked and manipulated by evil forces which are always working against us. This new edition includes the first English translation published since Turner`s in 1655, and a fresh analysis utilizing important new research by Carlos Gilly, Antoine Faivre, and others. It illuminates many obscure points in the text, and explains the magical techniques employed and its influence on esoteric literature, including the grimoires and the theosophical movement. This text includes illustrations, bibliography, index, and the original Latin text. This is a 127 page hardcover book.