Translated and Annotated by Christopher Warnock & John Michael Greer
Description:
Picatrix, known in Arabic as the Ghayat al-Hikam, the Goal of the Wise, is the most important grimoire of astrological magic. Written in Arabic circa AD 1000 and translated into Latin in 1256, the Picatrix explains both the philosophy and practice involved in the creation of astrological talismans. This clear and coherent English translation of books I & II of the four books of the Pingree critical edition of the Latin Picatrix is a key text for both the practitioner and scholar of medieval and Renaissance magic and includes instructions for hundreds of talismans for love, wealth, health, success and protection.
Here follow the chapters of the first book:
Chapter One:
How you may know your place in4 the universe.
Chapter Two:
What magic is and what its properties are.
Chapter Three:
What the heavens arc and of their substance.
Chapter Four:
The general theory and composition of the heavens for
making magical images.
Chapter Five:
Of examples of the theory of images, and of those things
needful for making magical images.
Chapter Six:
How everything relates to the universe, and how it is known
that man is a lesser world and corresponds to the greater
world.
Chapter Seven:
How everything in the universe is related, and of many other
profound things, hidden by the wise, that we intend to reveal
in this book of ours.
MsSVig
Desc
Picatrix, known in Arabic as the Ghayat al-Hikam, the Goal of the Wise, is the most important grimoire of astrological magic. Written in Arabic circa AD 1000 and translated into Latin in 1256, the Picatrix explains both the philosophy and practice involved in the creation of astrological talismans. This clear and coherent English translation of books I & II of the four books of the Pingree critical edition of the Latin Picatrix is a key text for both the practitioner and scholar of medieval and Renaissance magic and includes instructions for hundreds of talismans for love, wealth, health, success and protection.
Here follow the chapters of the first book:
Chapter One:
How you may know your place in4 the universe.
Chapter Two:
What magic is and what its properties are.
Chapter Three:
What the heavens arc and of their substance.
Chapter Four:
The general theory and composition of the heavens for
making magical images.
Chapter Five:
Of examples of the theory of images, and of those things
needful for making magical images.
Chapter Six:
How everything relates to the universe, and how it is known
that man is a lesser world and corresponds to the greater
world.
Chapter Seven:
How everything in the universe is related, and of many other
profound things, hidden by the wise, that we intend to reveal
in this book of ours.
MsSVig