Dates of the Operation
The six months or the eighteen? Sources labeled
Cautions
From the author App maker
On shortened workings. You will find modern versions of this Operation compressed into one week, one month, six weeks, three months, and other random amounts of time. Understand plainly: those are not the Abramelin operation. The Operation as given in the traditional text is six months at the shortest — eighteen in the older manuscripts — in three stages of increasing observance. A working shortened to fit a holiday or a whim does not carry the name, the structure, or the weight of the thing itself. Do not call it Abramelin.
On seclusion. It is my opinion, as the maker of this app, that maintaining ordinary social contact and connection with others during the performance of this working is not the Operation either. The traditional working requires withdrawal and seclusion: the operator retires from company, guards solitude, and keeps the Operation apart from the traffic of everyday life. You cannot keep one foot in the world and claim to have walked the whole of this road.
These are cautions, not curses. If you cannot give the Operation what it asks, do not perform a smaller thing and give it the great name. Wait until you can do the work as it is written — or leave it alone.
Rules of the Operation
Temple Setup
The Final Weeks
The Magic Squares
The Spirits
Bardon’s Earth-Zone Spirits — Stejnar’s Abramelin Claim
Stejnar’s claim — not established fact Single disputed source
The 360 “heads of the zone girdling the earth” are Franz Bardon’s own entities, from The Practice of Magical Evocation (1956), Part II §3, figures 25–384. The claim that they are identical with the spirits of the 1725 Peter Hammer German edition of Abramelin is Emil Stejnar’s — reported by Richard Orion Tschudi in “The discovery of Emil Stejnar” (hermetics.org, 2001).
Every repetition of this claim found traces back to Stejnar; no independent verification exists. Dieter Rüggeberg — Bardon’s own publisher — published a book-length rebuttal, Bardon and Stejnar: Truths and Misconceptions (2010), attacking Stejnar’s credibility, and notes that Stejnar himself admitted he could not explain the errors in the names.
Why this stands apart Source note
Stejnar’s “Abramelin” is the German textual tradition (Peter Hammer, Cologne, 1725), whose spirit catalog differs heavily from the French-manuscript catalog Mathers translated. Only 41 of these 359 names also occur in Mathers’ list — so this table is kept completely separate from the Spirits tab, and its names are not cross-linked to it.
A note on the “jumbled names”: Stejnar’s earth-zone table does not use his cipher — the names are near-identical or variant spellings (116 of 359 spelled exactly the same); only a few differ substantially. The cipher belongs to his separate moon- and sun-sphere claims.
Known glitches in Stejnar’s table, carried over here and flagged per row: the 27° Virgo row is corrupted in the source (“Transfer interrupted!”) — no entry survives, hence 359 rows rather than 360; several PME figure numbers are duplicated or anomalous; one figure number is missing; one Abramelin name is printed with “?”. Treat the table as Stejnar’s working notes, not a clean edition.