The sixth and seventh books of Moses

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Edition by Johann Scheible, Philadelphia 1853

The sixth and seventh book of Mosis is the title of several grimoires with different content from folk magic and superstition, as well as questionable household remedies. The title wrongly refers to the prophet Moses and the first five books of the Tanach , the Torah . He tries to imply the power of Moses when he defeated the Egyptian magicians ( Ex 7,8 ff.  EU ).

precursor

As early as the 4th century AD, a book appeared under the title The eighth and tenth book of Moses , a papyrus that is one of the Papyri Graecae Magicae . This papyrus contains a long ritual, instruction from an archangel, a prayer of Moses addressed to the moon goddess Selene , and a reference to a key of Moses in which additional rites and secret names can be found. The designation as “8. and 10. Book of Moses “is explained by the fact that these numbers were considered perfect in late ancient symbolism. Other writings were also ascribed to Moses, such as The Sword of Moses , a compilation of spells in Hebrew from the Middle Ages.

Early writings

In the 18th century the first books appeared in the form of magical recipe books, in which allegedly Moses' magic arts at the court of the Pharaoh were described. In 1797 a 6th and 7th Liber Mosis was offered for 10 Reichstaler. It can be assumed that this text formed the basis for the 6th and 7th books of Mosis , which was published in 1849 in a volume by the Scheible publishing house in Stuttgart. It was reprinted in 1851 and 1853 with additions. In this form, it has seen new editions since then. The selling point for the books was always that they contained the secret knowledge of Moses, which had been suppressed in the Bible. The magical-sympathetic collection of recipes from Book II of Abraham von Worms , published in 1725 by Peter Hammer [= Scheible, fictitious], as a literal takeover for the sixth and seventh books of Moses, explains Abraham von Worms editor Georg Dehn with the two books joint publisher Scheible. Scheible reprinted both Abraham von Worm's book and the sixth and seventh books of Moses several times. The sixth and seventh books of Moses are mentioned for the first time in 1734 by Peter Hammer, Cologne [= Scheible, fictitious].

Today's issues

At the beginning of the 20th century, a comparable 8th and 9th Book of Moses or Unveiled Secrets of Magic was created , which is still today as a book with the two additions “500 tried and unveiled secrets, remedies and advice from the field of household and agriculture und Gewerbe und Künste ”as well as“ Natural and sympathetic home and remedies for humans and cattle ”is available as a book. The 11th, 12th and 13th Books of Moses, which also exist today, are modern collections that were created from various ancient scriptures.

The book was banned in Germany in 1956 and the publisher Ferdinand Masuch was convicted of fraud and violating the law to combat sexually transmitted diseases. The occasion was a home remedy from the book that recommended syphilis patients to dig themselves up to their necks in horse manure and thereby sweat out the disease. The judgment was overturned in the second instance.

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See also

expenditure

  • Sixth u. seventh book Mosis or The magical-sympathetic house treasure, that is Mosi's magical spirit art, the secret of all secrets, literally according to an old manuscript with astonishing illustrations. Without a place and without a year; Reprint Berlin 1976; Reprint of the new edition without a year, also Bohmeier-Verlag, Leipzig, 2003; ISBN 3-89094-376-4 ; further grimoires included :
    • The seven times sealed book of the greatest secrets or magical-sympathetic household treasure in tried and tested means against many diseases and ailments of the body, along with miraculous secrets to achieve the most diverse purposes (with a preface by the editor)
    • Secret Art School of Magical Miracle Powers, or The Book of True Practice in Ancient Divine Magic, as communicated through the sacred Cabbala and through Elohym [...]
    • Romanus book or God the LORD keep my soul [...]
    • Angel help for protection and protection in major emergencies (with appendix miraculous holy blessings [...] ) and from p. 21 The holy sales booklet or Die Glücks-Ruthe (printed by CR Hülsemann, Leipzig)
    • The true fiery dragon [...] According to a manuscript from 1522 found in France, together with a postscript from the large book of King Solomon, with some delicious receipts, found at Peter Michel, the last Karthauser in Erfurt (with a foreword by the author and a preface by the translator).

literature

  • Wolfgang Bauer (ed.): The sixth and seventh book of Moses, its true value and what the people are looking for in it ; Karin Kramer-Verlag, Berlin 1996; ISBN 3-87956-118-4 .
  • Christoph Daxelmüller: Magic Practices . A story of ideas of magic ; Munich, Zurich: Artemis and Winkler, 1993; ISBN 3-7608-1077-2 .
  • Adolf Jacoby: Concise Dictionary of German Superstition , Volume 6, 584.
  • Will-Erich Peuckert : The sixth and seventh book of Mosis , in: Journal for German Philology 76/1957, page 163-187.
  • Anton Eigner, Otto Prokop : The sixth and seventh book of Moses. On the question of the criminogenicity of books and especially amateur medical junk literature. In: Medical Occultism. Paramedicine. Edited by Otto Prokop, 2nd edition Stuttgart 1964, pp. 239-281.
  • Kurt E. Koch : Against the 6th and 7th books of Moses ; Schwäbisch Gmünd: Bibel and Scripture Mission Koch, 2002; ISBN 978-3-924293-40-6 .

Web links

Wikisource: The sixth and seventh books of Mosis (saga)  - sources and full texts

credentials

  1. ↑ Georg Dehn (Ed.): Book Abramelin ; Edition Araki, first complete, critically revised edition (2nd edition 2001), p. 27f.
  2. ↑ Doing business - not witchcraft. In court: Two publishers of the dark arts , Die Zeit of June 12, 1958, accessed August 2, 2014
  3. ↑ Compare Adolf Spamer : Romanusbüchlein. Historical-philological commentary on a German magic book , (from the estate) edited by Johanna Nickel, Berlin 1958 (= German Academy of Sciences in Berlin: Publications of the Institute for German Folklore, 17).