{"id":170,"date":"2008-06-01T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:11:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:11:04","slug":"the-sixth-and-seventh-books-of-moses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/the-sixth-and-seventh-books-of-moses.html","title":{"rendered":"The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/f\/f9\/Model-catalog-020.jpg\/377px-Model-catalog-020.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"360\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/9\/96\/Model-catalog-021.jpg\/377px-Model-catalog-021.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"360\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a style=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=F4Y6AAAAMAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover\">The 6th and Seventh Books of Moses, or Moses&#8217; Magical Spirit-Art<\/a>, Volume 1, sold by Model, is only the first 64 pages of the book<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=F4Y6AAAAMAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover\"> linked at Google<\/a>, but includes the important stuff:  the seals.  While the book is very likely created in the 1800s by the original &#8216;translator,&#8217; compiled from a variety of sources, the books sustained interest for magical purposes <a href=\"http:\/\/inominandum.livejournal.com\/185247.html\">into the 20th century<\/a> through Kabbalistic groups like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kheper.net\/topics\/Hermeticism\/GoldenDawn.htm\">the Golden Dawn<\/a>.  Symbolic magic was popular during the occultism surge of the early 1900s, and by the 1920s and 1930s had become a less-shocking part of common society than it had in earlier times.<\/p>\n<p>Model Publishing Company steps beyond just reprinting an old magic book by offering copies of the seals printed on &#8220;Old Time Parchment&#8221; &#8212; probably modern paper artificially tanned and aged to look much older than it was.   Purchasing seals wasn&#8217;t a hokey or unnecessary addition to practicing the magic found in the Books of Moses &#8212; like much of the magic seen in this catalog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indioproducts.com\/webstore\/index.php?cPath=580_652\">modern versions are still available today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-6757698966740311512?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 6th and Seventh Books of Moses, or Moses&#8217; Magical Spirit-Art, Volume 1, sold by Model, is only the first 64 pages of the book linked at Google, but includes the important stuff: the seals. While the book is very likely created in the 1800s by the original &#8216;translator,&#8217; compiled from a variety of sources, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[181,179,333],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}