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The PICATRIX – selected translation Grimoires Christian Judhaic Islamic Greek Egyptian Luciferian and Others

The PICATRIX – Grimoires Christian Judhaic Islamic Greek Egyptian Luciferian and Others

The Picatrix or Ghayat al Hakim, the “Aim of the Wise” is the most famous book of astrological magic of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. 

Attributed to the Arabic author Al-Majriti, the Picatrix was composed, according to the Arabic 

translation that follows, between AD 954 and 959. 

It was compiled, according to the preamble, from 200 previous works of magic, astrology and philosophy. 

Composed in Andalusia, Islamic Spain, it was translated into CastiUan and then Latin 1256 at the court of Alphonso the Wise of Castile. 

The Pkatrix differs from other medieval and Renaissance grimoires or books of 

magic in being much more philosophical in orientation. 

Typical grimoires like the Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon are almost entirely focused on practice, while Picatrix spends a great deal of time delving into the philosophical background behind magic.

 Picatrix also stands apart in its heavy reliance on astrology, both as a means of timing the creation of astrological talismans and as a universal method of classification. 

Our first translation from the Arabic Picatrix focuses on the relationship between the One and the multiplicity of existent beings.

Knowledge of this relationship, says Picatrix, is the key to magic. 

Our next translations, on the forms of the planets and selected planetary talismans, introduce us to the use of the planets in talismanic magic. 

The next translation, that of house based talismans, takes us to another level in complexity. 

requiring the full range of traditional astrological magical skill, but producing very powerful full chart talismans. 

The translations of ritual preparations and planetary invocations begin our study of 

Picatrix rimal, a necessary concomitant to the physical production of talismans. 

Finally the selected translations ends with two very interesting and specific rimals, that of the 

operation of Jupiter and of the invocation of Perfect Nature. 

Once again the focus is on the relationship between the One and the many, in this case the mage seeks to become a mirror of that relationship uniting himself with his Almuten 

Figures, the planetary ruler of his chart, in order to replicate the unity of the Macrocosm and Microcosm with the practical purpose of doing works of magic.