The Laws of the Angels - Hilchot Malachim (with Sod Ha-Yichud)

This is an ancient treatise on the hosts of heaven - the heavenly army of angels - and their ways (“laws”). In less lofty, and more practical, terms, this work is a “field guide” to angels and, to some extent, “demons.” Like my prior work, The Ways of Metatron - a Book of Enoch, herein is the first published English edition of these materials, translated from the original 13th Century Hebrew and Aramaic.

This work, The Laws of the Angels, amongst other topics, explains why the generation of the flood, despite its vast knowledge of sorcery and the workings of the occult, was unable to avoid its decreed doom - as set forth in The Ways of Metatron. The limitations of sorcery and the occult are but one topic addressed in the instant work. For those who are interested in such things, the mechanics of so-called “magic” - that is, how it works - are set forth here as well.

-Editor

You now have in your possession a very interesting document. [A] … book of speculative theosophical musing on the functions, roles and being of angels. The work is clearly Kabbalistic, drawing upon gematria in more than one place to argue its position, quoting from Sefer Yetzirah directly, and extending a tremendous amount of power to angelic powers that many theologians would find a bit hard to accept. But it does so through consistently referencing Biblical citations.

[I]t explores a fairly wide array of matters relating to angels, from what sorts of roles angels play cosmologically, what angels are made of, how they appear, and even their roles within the inner psyche of each and every person.

-Jason Augustus Newcomb (Forward)