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Introduction
Speculum Astronomiae
Chapter 11
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ALBERTUS MAGNUS
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As I have previously stated, the science of images is placed under the part
of elections, but not all of them, but only the those that are astronomical,
since the images are made in three ways. The first is is a way that is
abominable, as it uses suffumigations and invocations like the Imagines of
Toz Graeci and Germath Babylonensis, which have stations for the worship
of Venus, like the Imagines of Belenuz and Hermes which are exorcized by
the 54 names of the angels, who are said to be subordinate to the images of
the Moon in her circuit, which are probably the names of demons, and there
Hieronymous Bosch
are inscribed on them are seven names in the proper order for good things
and in the reverse order to drive things away.
For good things they are suffumigated with lignum aloes, saffron and balsam, and for evil things with
galbanum, red sandalwood and resin... This is the wickedest idolatry, observing, in order to be worthy of
trust, the 28 Mansions of the Moon and the hours of the day and night and the names of the days, hours
and Mansions...
There is another way that is a little less troublesome, but still detestable, which is done by writing
characters by which certain names are exorcised, as are the four rings of Solomon, and nine candles, and
three figures of spirits, which are called the princes of the four places of the World, and the Almadal of
Solomon, and the sigils of those possessed by evil spirits.
Further, there are the seven names from the book of Muhameth, and another fifteen names from the same
book, and in turn names from the Libro Institutionis said to be by Raziel, that is the names of earth, sea, air
and fire, of winds of the cardinal [directions] of the Earth, and of the seals of the planets and their angels,
each of which has a different name depending on which triplicity it is in and whether it is day or night...
The third way of [making] astrological images, which elimates this filth, and doesn't use suffumigations
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and invocations, nor exorcizes nor characters or sigils, but gets its powers
from the arrangement of the Heavens; as if there was made an image for the
destruction of a particular thing in a particular place, when we have been
asked a horary question that is radical, with nothing either large or small
cadent, and the significators signify destruction, make the image under an
Ascendant similiar to the thing [you wish to destroy] or under the Ascendant
of the question, and make lord of the house of death [8th] or a malefic afflict
the Ascendant and its lord with a an opposition or square without reception,
and afflict the lord of the house of the lord of the Ascendant and the Moon,
and the lord of the house of the Moon and the Part of Fortune and the lord of
the hour, and make the benefics cadent from the Ascendant and the angles Celestial Scorpion
and the triplicity of the Ascendant, and make the Moon rising in the sign and
face of the Ascendant;
After which, when the image has been made according to these and other conditions, it should be buried
in the middle of the place from which you wish to expel the particular thing, placing earth from the four
corners of the place in the belly of the image. If, on the other hand, you wish to make an image for joy and
success, make it at a time contrary to what we have said, additionally the image should be made at a time
that has been elected, and it will have its effects according to the powers of the Heavens by the command
of God, because the images found in the sensible world are from the four elements and are obedient to the
images of the Heavens, some of which are close to the things and names of the created [world] and some
of which are far away and miraculous and to which we can rise intellectually through profound thought.
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Specializing in Horary Astrology, Electional Astrology Astrological Magic and Astrological Talismans.
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