Spirit Evocation
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Image of magic and Gothic decay from the third part of Raphael’s The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century.Most of the more interesting material here, such as the conjuration of Oberon/Oberion, seems to have been ‘borrowed’ from the manuscripts of Frederick Hockley.
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Djinn = demon. In the Jewish folkloric tradition, King Solomon (Shlomo ha-Melekh) imprisoned demons in a vessel of brass. In the Muslim tradition, King Suleiman imprisoned djinn in a vessel of brass. They’re the same exact thing, seen through the filter of each religion’s cosmology. The main differences between the Big Three on malefic entities…
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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 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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