The Sepher Ha-Razim is a Jewish mystical text supposedly given to Noah by the angel Raziel, and passed down throughout Biblical history to Solomon, for whom it was a great source of his wisdom, and purported magical powers. Note that this is a different book than the Sefer Raziel HaMalach, which was given to Adam by the same angel, but they stem from the same tradition, and large parts of Sepher ha-Razim were incorporated into the Sepher Raziel under its original title. This is an unorthodox text; while traditional Jewish laws of purity are part of the cosmogony, there are "praxeis which demand we eat cakes made from blood and flour" (Morgan 9). It is thought to be a sourcebook for Jewish magic, calling upon angels rather than God to perform supernatural feats. The text itself was once con