Arbatel consists primarily of a set of pious aphorisms, and the description of seven Olympian (or Olympick) spirits.
From the Robert Turner translation:
They are called Olympick spirits, which do inhabit in the firmament, and in the stars of the firmament: and the office of these spirits is to declare Destinies, and to administer fatal Charms, so far forth as God pleaseth to permit them: for nothing, neither evil spirit nor evil Destiny, shall be able to hurt him who hath the most High for his refuge.
Arbatel was transcribed in its entirety into the Grimoire of Arthur Gauntlet, and influenced a number of later texts.
The grimoire The Grimoire of Arthur Gauntlet contains this grimoire.
The grimoire The Book of Oberon excerpts this grimoire.
Paracelsus influenced this grimoire.
This grimoire influenced the grimoires Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis Wagner-Volksbuch The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses Grimoire of Armadel The Black Pullet
This grimoire mentions the creatures Satyr Pygmie Nymph Melusina
Robert Turner translated this grimoire.
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Publication of Das Kloster (includes this grimoire)1849
Publication of the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses (this grimoire influenced The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses)1880
First US Publication of the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses (this grimoire influenced The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses)