Grimoires, planets and ritual
The learned magic of Agrippa, the Solomonic grimoires and the Golden Dawn: the three worlds, the planets and their magic squares, the Lesser Banishing Ritual and the Middle Pillar, the Tree of Life, talismans and the consecration of tools; the Picatrix, the great handbook of astral magic behind the talisman; and the pentagram itself, from the Pythagoreans to the Golden Dawn.
11 lessons · about 3.5 hours of reading · 1 free
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The Renaissance cosmology that makes ceremonial magic make sense.
Days, hours, metals, angels and the magic squares (kameas).
The Golden Dawn's foundational daily ritual, step by step.
The Key of Solomon, the Lemegeton and how to read a grimoire.
The Hermetic Qabalah's map of the universe and the soul.
A Golden Dawn exercise for building and circulating inner light.
Design, timing and consecration, following Agrippa and the Solomonic tradition.
The seven planetary squares from Agrippa — how each is built, why every line adds to the same number, and how to use them in a working.
How ceremonial magicians prepare a wand, sword, cup or pentacle for sacred use — and why the preparation matters more than the object.
The great handbook of astral magic — the Arabic Goal of the Sage, its disputed author, its translation at the court of Alfonso X, what its four books teach about talismans, planetary prayers and the mansions of the Moon, and how it reached Ficino and Agrippa.
One shape through five thousand years — the Sumerian star, the Pythagoreans' sign of health, the golden ratio hidden in it, Gawain's endless knot, Agrippa's man, Lévi's upright and inverted stars, the Golden Dawn's elements at its points, and the goat.
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