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The Book of Shadows or the real Black Book. Raokryom, Jonathan Shahar
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Who hasn’t heard since childhood legends and legends about the Black Book, consisting entirely of black pages. At night, by candlelight, white letters appear in it. After reading a book in three nights, a person either becomes a magician of the highest level, or goes crazy, unable to withstand new energies and discoveries. This book is kept by sorcerers, and the main copy is hidden in the Sukharev Tower of the Kremlin, and Ivan the Terrible used it.
For thousands of years, philosophers and mystics, poets and courtiers have been looking for this book. But it was hidden, and only selected secret societies had access to it. Tradition says that the book belonged to Indian Brahmins. They passed it on to the Arab Sufis, the Sufis to the learned Kabbalists, and those to the secret societies of Europe. Having passed through the territory of Spain, Romania, Wallachia and Ukraine, the keepers of the book settled in Chernigov. Jonathan Shahar, having become a member of a secret society, read this book and received permission from the Teacher to publish it. Many seekers have given up hope of even reading this book, let alone seriously studying, understanding, and publishing the information it contains. For the first time in the world, this text, which was seen only by the initiated, is becoming available to the mass reader. In the book called the “Book of Shadow” or “Black Book” the path to Comprehension of the Divine through His shadow properties is given. It contains philosophy, mysticism and magical workshops of the most ancient cultures of our planet.
The book is intended for a wide range of readers also interested in issues of religion and the history of ancient cultures.
In 1278 in Spain, in Barcelona, a book was written and published that was never destined to be read by the mass reader. For many years it remained the property of a few. It was not yet known as the Black Book. This mystical guide was compiled by the famous mystic Abraham Abulafia. There is a legend that he wrote this voluminous tome in six days. However, the question remains unclear: from what source did Abulafia receive the material for presentation in the book? All this time he did not eat, drink or communicate with anyone. This book was called “Sefer Ha-Tzel”, which can be translated as “Book of Shadow”.
What did the author mean by this name? The simple meaning is that everything in creation symbolically reflects one or another aspect of the Creator’s qualities. And only man himself was created in such a way that he is a symbol of the Most High Himself. However, we should not forget that the symbol is not the quality itself, but the image and likeness of the Saint - not Himself. “Shadow” repetition of certain qualities has the ability to tune in to these qualities themselves. Then a feedback relationship arises between the Creator and creation. This is how any learning process happens in reality. But objects and phenomena cannot carry out this process themselves. Only a person has the necessary qualities for this. Therefore, repeating the actions of the Creator to the extent that it is accessible to human understanding and awareness (that is, symbolically), a person tunes the whole world to the wave of All-Perfect Unity.

Book of Shadow or Real Black Book
PUBLISHED BY BENJAMIN 13-05-2009, 00:52
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Anatoly Ivanovich Shevchenko does not need much introduction. He is an outstanding scientist, bioenergetic therapist, and specialist in the field of dowsing.
Anatoly Ivanovich began studying unusual phenomena in nature back in the Soviet Union, in the 80s of the twentieth century. His first meeting took place with dowsers who were looking for and successfully finding water and minerals in the desert. Then some secrets were told by grandmothers who secretly practice witchcraft in the villages.
Then there were courses on Vedic magic with Raokriom, after which serious training began in the basics of bioenergy at the Academies of Alternative Medicine.
Anatoly Ivanovich Shevchenko’s talent was most evident in his professional use of L-shaped frames. Anatoly Ivanovich participated in experiments by physicists, when specific physical quantities (for example, voltage in networks, magnetic field voltage, current strength, etc.) were measured using instruments and frames, and then the results were compared. Experiments confirmed 100% agreement of the data.
Next, the Ministry of Defense turned to Anatoly Ivanovich. He was asked to map American military bases by scanning a geographic map using L-shaped frames. Anatoly Ivanovich coped with the task here too. When the map he compiled in the 90s, people from B.N. Yeltsin was shown to the Americans, who were very surprised. Anatoly Ivanovich managed to discover and mark not only active and under construction military bases, but also abandoned military facilities.
With the collapse of the USSR, the Ministry of Defense stopped conducting such experiments, and Anatoly Ivanovich went to work as a bioenergy therapist. However, he continued to collaborate with the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (ANU) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN), which involved him in UFO and AAU research.
In 2007, Anatoly Ivanovich won the all-Ukrainian television competition “Battle of Psychics.” The press begins to write about him, programs about him are filmed on television. Anatoly Ivanovich is becoming known abroad, both in the CIS countries and in the European Union. Genealogical research confirms that Anatoly Ivanovich is a descendant of the great Ukrainian poet Taras Grigorievich Shevchenko, the legendary Kobzar. In 2008, the competition “Battle of Psychics” was won by a student of Anatoly Ivanovich. Thanks to the fact that Anatoly Ivanovich said that he began his journey from the Raokryom school, the authority of the school of Vedic magic soared to unprecedented heights throughout the world.
Much more can be said about Anatoly Ivanovich Shevchenko, but even what has already been stated is quite enough.
We turn to Anatoly Ivanovich with a question about the “Book of Shadow or Black Book”. This is what he tells us.
“The legends of the Black Book have accompanied me since childhood. As a young man, I always wanted to read this book. In those days they said something like this: “There is a Black Book written in white letters. It contains knowledge that allows a person to master the hidden forces of nature. Only a worthy person will be able to read it, to whom the book itself will fall into the hands in due time.”
Having mastered the basics of magic and bioenergy, I began to search for this book, applying my skills. My search led me to a grandmother who lived in a village near Kiev. She said that she has the Black Book and she will initiate me into its knowledge when the time comes, and will also pass the book on as an inheritance.
My research forced me to travel through all the republics of the Union. When I returned, it turned out that my grandmother had left this world, and my relatives took the copy of the book, sold the house and left for a new place of residence.
I no longer made any attempts to find the Black Book, and began to forget about my desire to read it when I learned that the Raokryom publishing house had published it.
I was overcome by doubts: was this the right book? I had to measure a lot on frames and check them in meditation. Finally, confirmation was received: it was her.
But even six months before the book appeared, I began to see her in my dreams. These dreams were accompanied by two unusual experiences while working with patients.
A man came to see me complaining of a magical attack. When I started working with him, I saw that the influence on him was organized using elements of Vedic magic. But not modern, but ancient, the one that was used five thousand years ago.
I worked with this effect for a very long time, actually removed it, but not completely. I had to suggest that the patient go to one of the Indian monasteries, with the abbot of which I had established contact. The work was very hard. While working, I saw Sanskrit numbers and letters organized into squares. These squares were surprisingly reminiscent of the constructions of higher mathematics and matrices used in mathematical programming. It was also interesting that these matrices were not built in our world, and were not superimposed on physical media (amulets, talismans, sheets of paper, murti of gods, objects of power).
In November 2008, another person came to the appointment with similar problems. The very first use of predictive techniques showed that the impact on him occurred through the use of Chinese magic. China keeps very ancient magic, which it inherited from a developed civilization that once flourished in the territory of what is now China. The effect of Chinese magic was generally unusual. All magical structures were based in the Antiworld. I use the term Antiworld not in the meaning in which science fiction writers or some mystics understand it, but in the meaning that modern physics researchers put into it. If all the worlds of the Universe are imagined as the leaves of the World Tree, then the root of this tree will be the Antiworld. The Antiworld is an unmanifested source of energy for all manifested worlds. It is filled with all types of energy, and they are inexhaustible in it. Nikola Tesla worked with this Antiworld. If a person holding an electric light bulb in his hands ends up in the Antiworld, then it will light up in his hands without any power plants, wires or cartridges. The magic known to Chinese specialists works with this Antiworld.
This form of high magic is all based on mathematical modeling. The models use irrational numbers. The most interesting thing is that standard magical techniques cannot detect this kind of influence - the chakras are not damaged, the egg and candle do not show the cause of the damage, the aura is even, the glow is bright, the volts are not buried anywhere.
But I still managed to remove this impact. True, the protection was so strong that for two weeks I had to lie, as they say, on the border of life and death.
These two incidents gave me some unusual thoughts. If China has such strong knowledge, then it may well take over the world in the future. Having turned to familiar clairvoyants with these thoughts, I received the answer that, according to the modern vision of the future, visible in the flow of astral light, China, indeed, in 10-15 years, may well occupy the territory from the Ural ridge to the southern borders of Canada. And he will achieve this peacefully - without war, through negotiations and magic.
Question: Will he seize the territories inhabited by the Slavic peoples? Will the Slavs retain their independence? And then everything depends on us. If strong magicians remain and increase among the Slavs by that time, then their Chinese colleagues will not risk crossing the Ural Mountains. And if we don’t have such magicians, we will have to learn Chinese.
Ancient Vedic magic is more powerful than Chinese, however, both have powerful knowledge left over from ancient civilizations, which is based on clear mathematical models and seems to modern humanity to be a science of the distant future.
How to obtain and master this Knowledge?
Having purchased the Black Book and opened it, I was struck by thunder. What is presented in the Black Book is the key to understanding and building the mathematical models I mentioned. Nowhere else have I come across a mathematical model of human possession by the spirit, the mutual transition of worlds, or methods of opening other spaces. The book was a revelation for me.
By completing the rite of passage outlined in the book, I gained a lot. I will not say what exactly, this is the personal side of the communication of my spirit with the universal spiritual world, and let me keep this a secret for now. I will show the results in the near future - when I create new magical technologies for work and can demonstrate them to you.
In conclusion, I will say one more thing. It was not in vain that the Forces from Above gave permission to publish this knowledge, which was classified as secret. Having mastered it now, humanity will be able to prevent the dangers that threaten it and prevent catastrophes in the future. This means that people have a chance for progress and a bright future, beyond any dream, will come true.




The True Esoteric History of the "Book of Shadow"

The Book of Shadow, or the True Black Book, is one of the most mysterious in the history of mankind.

The tradition of the Order of the Keepers of the Book of Shadow says that this knowledge was the knowledge of the kingdom of Agharti, which, together with Shambhala, is now hidden in the depths of the Tibetan mountains. The sages of Agharti passed on the knowledge to the Indian Brahmins, as well as to some schools of shamanism and monks. The Brahmins passed on this knowledge to the Arab tribes, which later spread to the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa.

There, this knowledge reached the Kabbalists, including such a famous one as Abraham Abulafia. Abraham Abulafia is considered the founder of practical applied Kabbalah. Before Abulafia, Kabbalah was a philosophical and ideological movement. Only after him did it become a practical science. Abulafia discovered how to embody thought forms (dreams) into the world, how to create symbols of natural phenomena and set them in motion. How to charge symbols with the power of natural energies and turn them into energy-information machines. What is the geometry of sound and how to use it. And much more.

Abulafia decided to convert the Pope to another faith, for which, armed with knowledge, he went to Soriano. However, the head of the Franciscan order, Cardinal Girolamo, seeing that Abulafia would succeed, preferred to poison the Pope, and imprisoned Abulafia. There he promised Abulafia and all his followers life and immunity in exchange for Knowledge. Having learned, Girolamo released Abulafia, and the Vatican after that turned into an indestructible financial and political system with global influence.

Returning to Sicily, he set out his knowledge in the "Book of Shadow". "The Book of Shadow" is a book where the knowledge of ancient civilizations is encrypted in the form of signs, numbers and letters of text in the form of mathematical models (mainly projections of complex multidimensional spatial figures and high-order numerical matrices). Abulafia published the book in Spain in 1278, in the city of Barcelona. The book was a book with black pages (the paper was made from hemp fabrics treated with acids and soot), the text was written with quartzite ink (quartzites do not glow in complete darkness and in daylight, but they shine brightly, reflecting a weak light source (a candle flame, for example)). Abulafia gave the book to the Cistercian monks. From there, its copies spread both to the Orders of the Knights of the Vatican and to the secret societies of Europe. Abulafia said that the will of the Higher Powers is that every person on Earth could possess this Knowledge, and make people happy, and nature more beautiful. Realizing that for many centuries this knowledge would serve the Vatican and secret societies, and give them power over the world, Abulafia bequeathed to his followers to ensure that the knowledge was made public.

However, for many centuries this knowledge remained secret, it was possessed by small groups of people. It was after Girolamo received the Knowledge that the character of Catholicism in particular and the Christian world in general changed radically. Cathedrals were built in new forms. Previously unknown symbols appeared on the walls of religious buildings. The forms of the liturgy changed. In fact, nothing remained from the original Christianity.

Abulafia foresaw this, and therefore bequeathed the "Book of Shadow" to be made public.

He said that within thirty years after the publication of the "Book of Shadow", secret knowledge would cease to serve hierarchical groups and would become the property of all mankind, which would cause life on Earth to quickly and dramatically change for the better.

The famous society "Ahnenerbe" found fragments of the "Book of Shadow" in the archives of secret orders of Europe. And they served as the basic knowledge for the beginning of the developments of the "Ahnenerbe" in the 30s of the twentieth century. But the research of the "Ahnenerbe" was also classified for many years and began to break into the world in large quantities only in 2011.

In 2007, the Order of the Guardians of the "Book of Shadow", apparently fulfilling the prophecy of Abulafia, approached the magician Raokriom with a proposal to translate the "Book of Shadow" into Russian and publish it. The representative of the Order, Jonathan Shahar (the word "shahar" has several meanings, the most mystical of which are "dawn" and "Sirius"), together with Raokriom prepared the book for publication. Work on it lasted a year, and it was published in 2008.

The publication of the "Book of Shadow" had the effect of an exploding bomb. None of the mystics believed that this text would ever be published. But it was published. At first, there were voices that the text was not authentic. Then experts studied the text and confirmed its authenticity. Now the authenticity of the text does not cause any complaints. The book became the winner of the international competition "Medvin" in the Debut section, as well as the international Kyiv book fair in 2008, and, as a winning book, was shown in the news releases of Eurovision, and was also awarded a prestigious diploma with an image of Nestor the Chronicler. All this became a serious event of international significance and went down in history.

By reading the glowing letters from the black pages aloud at night, the reader downloads into his subconscious a mathematical model of knowledge of ancient civilizations. Over time, the subconscious processes this model and gives it to the consciousness: in the form of insights, understandings and abilities. A person turns into an initiated Master.

A concept was put forward - to study the Books of Power at the Places of Power. So, one day, after reading the pages of the book out loud on Bald Mountain (in the fall of 2008), the night sky over Kiev was lit up by a powerful flash (it was purple), blinding all the drivers driving around the city for several minutes.

Representatives of foreign occult orders, and simply interested researchers, flocked to Kiev for copies of the book.

The first edition of the "Book of Shadow" was made of elite materials, high-quality paper, black sheets, letters from two layers of paint - ground and glowing in the dark, special materials for the cover - brought to Kyiv from several European countries (Germany, Holland, Italy).

This genuine Book could only be purchased in the Mystical Garland system or from its legal representatives.

Anticipating the demand for the book, manufacturers of "Chinese fakes" became active - their fakes were not made of elite materials, the letters did not glow from the flame of candles, the texts were incomplete. "The Book of Shadow", having appeared in our world, cast a kind of shadow into the underground world of dense-material chthonic forces - "The Shadow of the Book of Shadow" was published - I mean the work of Amanar with red glowing pages and black letters.

The interest in the "Book of Shadow" was so great that the first edition quickly sold out, and in 2012 the publishing house "Veligor" repeated the publication of Abulafia's book, only without the black pages with glowing letters, but with all the information, including important additions for the researcher.

There are only a few rare copies of the first edition left, which can be offered to connoisseurs of this rare book.

And the world... it has already begun to change. Including thanks to the knowledge of the "Book of Shadow". We will see the full result in 2028.
 

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I've changed the tag of your post from "Seeking Recommendation" to "Book Report" because it's about a specific book and you're not looking for books on a given subject. Although I'll have to say that fantasy fiction about some mysterious magical book is perhaps better suited for your "Hunter for the Books of Power" journal.
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There is too much to parse here in your post but I think that 'magic' books are only as powerful as the magician who knows how to use them and has the required training, practice, and experience; in and of themselvelves they will do diddly squat, least of all a work on Jewish mysticism by the frankly semi-deranged founder of ecstatic Kabbala with a messianic bee in his bonnet, allegedly re-discovered by a pseudoscientific Nazi organisation that hated everything Jewish. The colourful provenance of an old manuscript of grimoire doesn't automatically make it valuable or at least useful for today's practitioners, sorry.
 
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I've changed the tag of your post from "Seeking Recommendation" to "Book Report" because it's about a specific book and you're not looking for books on a given subject. Although I'll have to say that fantasy fiction about some mysterious magical book is perhaps better suited for your "Hunter for the Books of Power" journal.
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There is too much to parse here in your post but I think that 'magic' books are only as powerful as the magician who knows how to use them and has the required training, practice, and experience; in and of themselvelves they will do diddly squat, least of all a work on Jewish mysticism by the frankly semi-deranged founder of ecstatic Kabbala with a messianic bee in his bonnet, allegedly re-discovered by a pseudoscientific Nazi organisation that hated everything Jewish. The colourful provenance of an old manuscript of grimoire doesn't automatically make it valuable or at least useful for today's practitioners, sorry.
That book was actually published by Russian publisher. However, like most of such books which were released in XXIst century, this is just another forgery with made up story. This book (in Russian) can be seen here:

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It really isn't worth the time to investigate this book.
 

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For a scholarly book on how magic tomes really came to be, I'd really like to recommend "Grimoires: A History of Magic Books" by Owen Davies - it's full of descriptions of pseudoepigraphic hoaxes, forgeries, plagiarizations, and fantastic Goth fiction; some famous grimoires were apparently compiled from several incomplete and heavily redacted sources, and the story of Matter's translation of a garbled French Abramelin text which many occultists used to consider the HGA gospel until Georg Dehn unearthed the German original is widely known. For a well-researched history of the fictional Necronomicon, check out "The Necronomicon Files: The Truth Behind Lovecraft's Legend" by Daniel Harms and John Wisdom Gonce..

A lot of nonsense has been written about the nazis and their supposed arcane supertechnologies but if you want a more sober investigation, I'd like to recommend Peter Levenda's "Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult"".

Abraham Abulafia, the father of ecstatic Kabbalah, was kind of a maverick and more or less marginalized because he didn't believe in the sephiroth (he famously accused the more mainstream Kabbalists of polytheism, saying that while the Christians believed in three gods, other Kabbalists apart from him were even worse because they believed in ten). Consequently, and what I remember from my reading, he wrote about 40 books but only a few were first printed as late as the 18th century and not very many later on, so it's entirely possible that a hitherto undiscovered manuscript will surface one day. And yes, Abulafia was heavily into prophecy but I don't think he was interested in any other subject than ultra-orthodox Judaism; in fact, he comes on like a religious nut. To think that he could have written anything that might be of spiritual import for non-Jews is hard to imagine.

Perhaps I shouldn't be so cynical here. After all, occult bibliophilia is a definite thing (there's even an occultlibrary subreddit!), and collectors of any stripe are forever hunting for rare items and are prepared to pay top dollar for them - which naturally attracts fraudsters as well. However, to believe that such a fabled occult book read "aloud at night, the reader downloads into his subconscious a mathematical model of knowledge of ancient civilizations" is rank superstition in my opinion. Even old Abulafia had to come up with his own meditation and breathing methods (holding his head between his knees, if I remember correctly) while reciting his self-concocted god names to allegedly achieve gnosis of the divine, just reading the Torah for the umpteenth time didn't cut it for him. Simply perusing a book at night and suddenly shit starting to happen is probably an armchair occultist's wet dream…

On the other hand, there are precedents for such tall backstories called historiolas, e.g. in the PGM, which are sort of testimonials at the beginning of spells, like "King X used this powerful spell to great effect, and…" which might make such incantations more powerful - if they are plausible enough for you. Geoff Gray-Cobbs trashy success stories in his NAP work for many practitioners (provided you're into early seventies sensationalist pulp fiction) as such historiolas, and I myself am ready to believe the personal accounts of authors I trust. However, I'm unable to set any store by your elaborate fairy tale, sorry.
 

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I searched up the Hebrew sources and none of the presented backstory was mentioned, yet this book 'exists' only in Russian.
I highly doubt any of this is legitimate.
To cut it short, Abulafia was the hippie of his era. He rejected rigid, hierarchical systems in favor of personal asceticism and a practice of letter meditation. He was devoted to prayer and fasting.
All this "bio-energy", "Tesla", "ancient civilizations" and "Chinese magic" is likely borrowed borrowed from New‑Age circus.
 
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