I recently read a story in which an alchemist was given a huge sum of money by the king of this story for the secret process to turn anything into gold. After teaching the king the entire process, he said the the most important thing was that he must not think the work "Abracadabra" at any time during the process
From the book: A dictionary of Symbols by J.E.Cirlot
. . .This word was in frequent use during the Middle Ages as a magic formula. It is
derived from the Hebrew phrase abreq ad hâbra, meaning ‘hurl your thunderbolt
even unto death’. . . This magic word has also been related to the Abracax (Abraxas, Abrasax) of the
Gnostics. It is in reality one of the names of the sun-god, Mithras (4)."
From the book: A dictionary of Symbols by J.E.Cirlot
. . .This word was in frequent use during the Middle Ages as a magic formula. It is
derived from the Hebrew phrase abreq ad hâbra, meaning ‘hurl your thunderbolt
even unto death’. . . This magic word has also been related to the Abracax (Abraxas, Abrasax) of the
Gnostics. It is in reality one of the names of the sun-god, Mithras (4)."
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