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Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses
The ''Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses'' is an 18th- or 19th-century magical text allegedly written by Moses, and passed down as hidden (or lost) books of the Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch. A grimoire, a text of magical incantations and seals, it purports to instruct the reader in the spells used to create the miracles portrayed in the Judaeo-Christian Bible. The work was printed with annexes or reputed Talmudic magic names, words and incantation, many taken from Christian biblical passages. It shows diagrams of "Seals": magical drawings accompanied by incantations intended to perform various tasks, from controlling weather or people to contacting the dead or Christian religious figures. Copies have been traced to 18th-century German pamphlets, but an 1849 printing, aided by the appearance of the popular press in the 19th century, spread the text through Germany and Northern Europe, to German immigrants in the United States and eventually helped popularize the texts among African Americans in the South and Caribbean, and Anglophone West Africa. It influenced European Occult Spiritualism, as well as popular religious movements in the American South (Hoodoo), the Caribbean (Rastafarian), and West Africa.〔Owen Davies. (Owen Davies's top 10 grimoires ). ''The Guardian''. 8 April 2009.〕 An older magical text, a 4th century Greek papyrus entitled ''Eighth Book of Moses'', otherwise unrelated to the Sixth and Seventh Books, was found in Thebes in the 19th century and published as part of the Greek magical papyri 〔() Hans Dieter Betz, ''The Greek Magical Papyri in translation'' pg 172〕
==History==
No first version of this work has been established, but early versions began to appear as inexpensive pamphlets in German in the 18th century.〔 Elements of the "Seventh Book", such as “The Seven Semiphoras of Adam” and “The Seven Semiphoras of Moses” appear to have come from the seventh book of the earlier European copies of the late Roman era Liber Salomonis.〔Don Karr. (The Study of Solomonic Magic in English ), (2009).〕 The work came to wide prominence when published as volume 6 of ''Bibliothek der Zauber-Geheimniss- und Offenbarungs-Bücher, etc.'' in 1849 in Stuttgart by antiquarian Johann Scheible.
Historian Owen Davies traces copies of the work from the 18th century in Germany.〔 After circulating there, the work was popularized in the United States first in the communities of the Pennsylvania Dutch.〔
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