c. 1230 CE (received text); legendary antiquity · Medieval Hebrew, Spain / France
Sefer Raziel HaMalakh
The angel's gift to Adam
סֵפֶר רָזִיאֵל הַמַּלְאָךְ — 'Book of the Angel Raziel.' Legend holds the angel Raziel gave it to Adam after the Fall so humanity could find its way home. The medieval text is a labyrinth of angelology, divine names, planetary seals, and protective charms.
Table of Contents
Begin reading →- 01Sefer Raziel HaMalakh — The Book of Raziel the Angel3mKeeper's
- 02The Hierarchies of Angels — Names from the Sefer Raziel Tradition5mKeeper's
- 03Practical Operations — Names, Squares, and the Working of the Sefer6mKeeper's
Primary — authentic public-domain translation · Keeper's — interpretive synthesis authored for this app
Given to Adam
The legend: as Adam wept outside Eden, the angel Raziel descended with a sapphire book containing the secrets of all creation. Adam read it, lost it, was given it again by Raphael. Enoch received it. Noah used it to build the Ark. Solomon wrote his wisdom with its help.
The Five Books
Book of Vestments (priestly garments). Book of the Garden (Eden's geometry). Book of the Great Light (planets and constellations). Book of the Great Name (divine names and seals). Book of the Mysteries (the angelic hierarchies).
Sefer Raziel as Amulet
From the 14th century onward, the printed Sefer Raziel itself was carried as protective amulet — kept in the room of a woman in labor, beside a sick child, in a house against fire. The book did not need to be opened. Possessing it was the protection.
The 72 Names of God
Drawn from Exodus 14:19–21 by reading three consecutive verses (each exactly 72 letters) in a specific zigzag. Each three-letter combination is a name of God with a specific power — abundance, healing, return, sealing of judgment. The Picatrix knows them too; the Zohar names them; the Kabbalists work them.
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