Unidentified book

[dosintheshell]

Good afternoon
I recently read an excerpt from a book "On the mystical shape of the godhead : basic concepts in the Kabbalah Gershom Scholem" and in the chapter "THE CONCEPT OF THE ASTRAL BODY" I found a line of text " find in the Book of Sorcery of Asmodai that if someone wishes to indulge in sorcery of the Left Side"

Can you please tell me what book this is about, I couldn't find any other references anywhere. What is the "Book of Sorcery of Asmodai"

Thank you in advance

 

[DiLoco_DelEted]

The Testament of Solomon?

 

[stalkinghyena]

I think this is it - or gets in the ball park:

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I'm still trying to get my own data together as to particular references about the Left Hand Side (Sitra Achrah) which seems to precede the concept of the Qlippoth proper - I think they intersected from different schools. Never heard it mentioned in my Gentile Quabbalah, must be too dangerous. I need more Scholem, but for now I got Sledge and Kaplan. Jeez, I thought Vama Marg was enough for me, but I got my big honkin Zohar, weeny Heb-Eng Tanakh but willied on a Talmud because I am afraid that if I keep this up I am going to end up wearing a Tefelin while headbanging to Meshuggah. And they ain't even Jewish.
(I got Mishnah on pdf)

 

[dosintheshell]

It says they are two different books.

"Conversely, the Zohar says nothing about the evocation of his personal guardian angel. Citations from admittedly fictitious sources, such as the Book of King Solomon andthe Book of Sorcery of Asmodai, may allude to the occult sources used by the author, for example, the Hebrew translation of the Picatrix, which waswidely circulated at the time"

Picatrix mb

"We find in the Book of Sorcery of Asmodai that if someone wishes to indulge in sorcery of the Left Side and immerse himself in it, he should stand in the light of a lamp, or in another place where his own images (tselamim) can be seen, and say the words prescribed for this kind of sorcery, and summon these unclean powers by their unclean names. He should then commit his images on oath to those he has summoned, and say that he is of his own free will prepared to obey their command. Such a man leaves the authority of his Creator and assigns his trust [i.e., the soul] to the power of uncleanness. And with these words of sorcery which he pronounces and[with which] he adjures the images, two spirits are revealed, and they are embodied in his images in human form, and they give him information both for good and evil purposes for particular occasions. These two spirits that were not comprised within a body 37 are now comprised in these images and are embodied in them."

But I don't remember any such references in it.

SEPHER HA-MAGGID,ohhhh
This is a modern book, I have also been looking for it for a long time in free access

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