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This is a reading of Picatrix Book 3, Chapter 6 which pertains to the Hermetic/pseudo-Aristotelian concept of the “Perfect Nature” which is a kind of illumination experienced by the perfected sage at the summit of all learning in both the sciences and in philosophy – in other words, the knowledge of and conversation with one's higher genius. The passage draws on texts from the pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica and describes a peculiar magical incubation ritual followed by another invocation ritual and a communal feast, with some speculations on what exactly is Perfect Nature and how it connects to the science of astral magic.
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This is a reading of Picatrix Book 3, Chapter 6 which pertains to the Hermetic/pseudo-Aristotelian concept of the “Perfect Nature” which is a kind of illumination experienced by the perfected sage at the summit of all learning in both the sciences and in philosophy – in other words, the knowledge of and conversation with one's higher genius. The passage draws on texts from the pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica and describes a peculiar magical incubation ritual followed by another invocation ritual and a communal feast, with some speculations on what exactly is Perfect Nature and how it connects to the science of astral magic.
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![The Ritual of Perfect Nature [Picatrix 3.6]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aihFCuBEOyg/hqdefault.jpg "The Ritual of Perfect Nature [Picatrix 3.6]
This is a reading of Picatrix Book 3, Chapter 6 which pertains to the Hermetic/pseudo-Aristotelian concept of the “Perfect Nature” which is a kind of illumination experienced by the perfected sage at the summit of all learning in both the sciences and in philosophy – in other words, the knowledge of and conversation with ones higher genius. The passage draws on texts from the pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica and describes a peculiar magical incubation ritual followed by another invocation ritual and a communal feast, with some speculations on what exactly is Perfect Nature and how it connects to the science of astral magic.
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![Plotinus and the Platonic Tradition [Interview w/ Ellery Beard]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/akBomxcqBPo/hqdefault.jpg "Plotinus and the Platonic Tradition [Interview w/ Ellery Beard]
Topics: Plotinus, Platonism, Neoplatonism, The Platonic Tradition, Forms, Immortality of the Soul, Emanation, Parmenides, Causality, Theology of Aristotle, Iamblichus, Porphyry, Marsilio Ficino, Pico Della Mirandola, etc.
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![On Power [Lecture]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/atC43shyjno/hqdefault.jpg "On Power [Lecture]
Topics: Power as perceived within the Western Esoteric tradition; Philosophical musings on ability, authority, skill, aptitude, fitness, etc.; humanism; the seven planets as they relate to power; using power appropriately; and other informal thoughts on power conceived as monolith vs. traditionally conceived as pluriform.
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![72 Cabalistic Conclusions [A Christian Interpretation of Kabbalah from the Renaissance]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/b7dYwu_nX58/hqdefault.jpg "72 Cabalistic Conclusions [A Christian Interpretation of Kabbalah from the Renaissance]
Here are the concluding 72 Theses of Giovanni Pico Della Mirandolas 900 Conclusiones in which he attempted to highlight the merits of Cabala as he understood it (in its purely Christian interpretation) in preparation for a debate before the Pope at Rome in 1486. A small handful of Picos theses were deemed heretical before he was allowed to hold the debate in public, and he was promptly excommunicated from the Church after writing an Apologia defending himself against the accusations of his committee. Today these 900 theses stand as a monument to the breadth (more so than the depth) of Renaissance thought, and they provide us with a window into the mind of the Latin Wests very first Christian cabalist, a man who sought to appropriate the Hebraica veritas in order to use it as a weapon against its original proponents, all in an attempt to immanentize the end times.
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![Honoring the Outermost: Saturn, Ficino, and Astral Magic [2/2]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bDSuMox1bZY/hqdefault.jpg "Honoring the Outermost: Saturn, Ficino, and Astral Magic [2/2]
Script, narration, and video by Dan Attrell
Music by Dave Suppa (available for download here: https://davidsuppa.bandcamp.com/album/saturn-ficino-and-astral-magic-2)
For a voice only version of this documentary without music or visuals: https://youtu.be/fRKr9NAwX9A
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Attrell, Dan, and David Porreca. Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2019. (https://amzn.to/2TcdBnA) Azzolini, Monica. The Duke and the Stars The Duke and the Stars: Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013). Dieter, Blume. “Michael Scot, Giotto and the Construction of New Images of the Planets. ” Images of the Pagan Gods 14. London: Warburg Institute, 2009. 129-142. Blume, Dieter. “Picturing the Stars: Astrological Imagery in the Latin West.” In A Companion to Astrology in the Renaissance, edited by Brendan Dooley. Leiden: Brill, 2014. (https://amzn.to/39wEzA5) Boudet, Jean-Patrice, Anna Caiozzo, and Nicolas Weill-Parot. Images et magie: “Picatrix” entre Orient et Occident. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2011. Bullard, Melissa M. “The Inward Zodiac: A Development in Ficino’s Thought on Astrology,” Renaissance Quarterly 43, 4 (1990): 687-708. Burnett, Charles. “Herman of Carinthia and the Kitāb al-Isṭamāṭīs: Further Evidence for the Transmission of Hermetic Magic.” JWCI 44 (1981): 167-169. Callataÿ, Godefroid de, and Sébastien Moureau. “Again on Maslama Ibn Qāsim al-Qurtubī, the Ikhwān al-Safā’, and Ibn Khaldūn: New Evidence from Two Manuscripts of Rutbat al-hakīm.” Al-Qantara 37, 2 (2016): 329-372.Dillon, John. “Plotinus on whether the Stars are Causes.” Res Orientales 12 (1999): 87-92. Farmer, Stephen A. Syncretism in the West: Picos 900 Theses (1486): The Evolution of Traditional Religious and Philosophical Systems. Binghamton: ACMRS, 2016. (https://amzn.to/2XXiULf) Fierro, Maribel. “Bātinism in Al-Andalus: Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurtubī (died 353/964), Author of the ‘Rutbat al-Hakīm’ and the ‘Ghāyat al-Hakīm’ (Picatrix).” Studia Islamica 84 (1996): 87-112. Ficino, Marsilio. Opera Omnia (2 vols.). Turin: Bottega dErasmo, 1959-1962. Ficino, Marsilio. Three Books on Life: A Critical Edition and Translation with Introduction and Notes. Edited by Carol V. Kaske and John R. Clark. New York: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1989. (https://amzn.to/3hKBpM2) Garin, Eugenio. Astrology in the Renaissance: The Zodiac of Life. London: Penguin, 1988. (https://amzn.to/2OaPFQm) Green, Tamara. The City of the Moon God: Religious Traditions of Harrān. Leiden: Brill, 1992. (https://amzn.to/306Ww51) Herrera, Breanne. Howlett, Sophia. Marsilio Ficino and His World. New York: Palgrave, 2016. (https://amzn.to/3g99Coa) Idel, Moshe. Kabbalah in Italy 1280-1510. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. (https://amzn.to/2W1zszL) Idel, Moshe. Saturn’s Jews: On the Witches’ Sabbath and Sabbateanism. New York: Continuum, 2011. (https://amzn.to/3jO6MqN) Kristeller, Paul. Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1964. (https://amzn.to/2O6gNQy) Kristeller, Paul, and Virginia Conant (trans.). Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964. (https://amzn.to/2ue0sAq) Panofsky, Erwin. “Father Time” in Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1962. Pingree, David. “Al-Tabarī on the Prayers to the Planets.” Bulletin d’études orientales 44 (1992): 105-17. Pingree, David. “Some Sources of the Ghāyat al-Hakīm.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 43 (1980): 1-15.R. Klibansky, E. Panofsky, F. Saxl. Saturn and Melancholy. London: Nelson, 1964. Saif, Liana. The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult Philosophy. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. (https://amzn.to/2Fg4Sg9) Saif, Liana. “From Ġāyat al-hakīm to Šams al-ma‘ārif: Ways of Knowing and Paths of Power in Medieval Islam.” Arabica 64 (2017): 297-345. Voss, Angela. Marsilio Ficino. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2006. (https://amzn.to/2O86sDU) Walker, Daniel Pickering. Spiritual and Demonic Magic: From Ficino to Campanella. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1958/2000. Frances Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. Routledge: London and New York, 1964.Frances Yates, “The Hermetic Tradition in Renaissance Science” in C. S. Singleton, ed., Art, Science, and History in the Renaissance. Baltimore: JHU Press, 1968. Zafran, Eric. “Saturn and the Jews. ” JWCI 42, 1979: 16-27.
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![Mystical Theology - Pseudo-Dionysius [Audiobook]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cKQPploL-O0/hqdefault.jpg "Mystical Theology - Pseudo-Dionysius [Audiobook]
Pseudo-Dionysius - The Complete Works (Greek and English) (https://amzn.to/2Z54WXv)
Translation by: John Parker
Read by: Dan Attrell
Artwork: William Blake
[From Wikipedia:]
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, also known as Pseudo-Denys, was a Syrian Christian theologian and philosopher of the late 5th to early 6th century, who wrote a set of works known as the Corpus Areopagiticum or Corpus Dionysiacum.
The author pseudonymously identifies himself in the corpus as Dionysios, portraying himself as the figure of Dionysius the Areopagite, the Athenian convert of Paul the Apostle mentioned in Acts 17:34. This false attribution to the earliest decades of Christianity resulted in the work being given great authority in subsequent theological writing in both East and West.
The works of Dionysius are mystical, and show strong Neoplatonic influence. For example, he uses Plotinus well-known analogy of a sculptor cutting away that which does not enhance the desired image, and shows familiarity with Proclus. He also shows influence from Clement of Alexandria, the Cappadocian Fathers, Origen, and others.
According to pseudo-Dionysius, God is better characterized and approached by negations than by affirmations. All names and theological representations must be negated. According to pseudo-Dionysius, when all names are negated, divine silence, darkness, and unknowing will follow.
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![Wealth Magic from the Middle Ages [Picatrix]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/d5e_t5KL40E/hqdefault.jpg "Wealth Magic from the Middle Ages [Picatrix]
Businesses is down all across the world and some people just always seem to be asking me about my content: how is this practical? by which I assume, of course, that they mean how will this make me money?
So for all you special folks out there, Ive made you a short little video on just how, with a little bit of research and elbow grease, you too can strike it rich like the merchant kings of old. This, therefore, is a collection of instances in the Latin Picatrix wherein anything at all is mentioned about wealth. Hopefully everyone can learn something new along their way down the yellow brick road.
Topics: Astrology, Astral magic, Picatrix, Wealth and Prosperity, Jupiter, Medieval History, History of Magic
Artwork for Thumbnail: Lucrezia Borgia - Frank Cadogan Cowper (English, 1877-1958), 1907.
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