Criticism
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The key to a unifying theory of all magic may well be Picatrix’s concept of Reception.
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Picatrix Rubeus page 153: “This sage, when he taught, used to offer this advice, that any sage who wanted to work magic, and preserve himself with the powers of the spirits, ought strictly to give up all cares and all other sciences beside this one, because when all the senses and the mind, and all contemplations…
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Pro Tip: Contrary to what you may have heard, Jupiter talismans are fantastic for weight loss. Remember that Jupiter creates beauty moreso than Venus, and that Jupiter is a temperate planet and balances out all excesses and extremes. Even contemporary science reveals that symmetrical faces and bodies are deemed beautiful over unbalanced ones.Jupiter also governs exercise, and eases pain generally.
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Hoodoo and related folk magics are good for fast results. Talismanic magic is good for strong, enduring results. Wiccan magic is good for seeing what people look like naked, whether you want to or not. Thelemic magic is good for coming off as a hipster pseudo-intellectual. Chaos magic is good for coming across as creepy and vaguely insane. This delphic wisdom has been…
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Picatrix Rubeus, page 54: “If you labor unceasingly in knowledge and in matters of the intellect and in perception of those things that are, then no matter what happens, you will be able to search out and understand sorcery and magic. Plato says as much in the book he wrote called Timaeus, which goes on at…
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Picatrix Rubeus page 243: “The Chaldeans, indeed, were those magi who made themselves preeminent in this science and these workings; and they are held to have been entirely perfect in this science. They themselves assert that Hermes first constructed a certain house of images, from which he used to measure of the flow of the…
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Picatrix Rubeus page 286: “Ninth: know what things are good and natural for the powers, because by this your own virtues will be known to them, and they will delight in you; for they will delight in you to the same degree that you delight in them. These precepts Zucrat the sage taught to his…
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Picatrix Rubeus pages 249-250: “Some of the sages, discussing this art, have said: Every working and every magistery has a door through which, by understanding, they may be entered; and each of them has a stair, by which an ascent may be made to the thing desired. They have also said this: None may attain…
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Picatrix Rubeus page 128: “The great sage Plato, however, wrote two books about magic, that is, the Greater and the Lesser. In the Greater he wrote about the effects of the figures of heaven, from which he described great marvels, such as walking upon water, and changing into the form of any animal you desire, or…
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