The Picatrix (Gayat al Hakim) Planetary Talismanic Magic ed by Steven Ashe.pdf

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Steven Ashe was born in 1960 and has been actively
involved in the literary and practical Qabalah since 1979.
He has an B.A. (Hons) Degree in Interactive Multimedia
Communication.
In addition to his list of published works, including
articles for Prediction Magazine, Pan Sothis, Thelemic
Magic (Volumes 1 & 2): of Oxford 1994, 1995, he has
produced a series of Audio CDs upon the modus operandi
of the Hermetic Qabalah and Golden Dawn Ritual Magic
www.lulu.com/Qabalah
www.lulu.com/Picatrix
His published works include
The Testament of Solomon,
monumental
Complete Golden Dawn Initiate
and the
audio lecture CDs
The Hermetic Qabalah
and
The
Qabalah: The Book of Calls
from the same publisher.
In addition to his production of an audio CD recording of
Aleister Crowley's The Book of the Law Steven has
advised upon the editorial oversight of
The Picatrix
the
rarest of all medieval grimoires which informed the
publications of Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus and
Francis Barrett - reproduced in the original Arabic as a
luxury talismanic item for the serious collector of arcane
manuscripts. His first published full length work upon
advanced Qabalistic lore 'Qabalah
of 50 Gates'
is
considered to be one of the most exciting experimental
works of Qabalistic philosophy in the English language.
The Picatrix
yat al Hakim - The Goal of the Wise
Fraternity of the Sanctum Regnum © 2010
:ISBN
978-1-4452-6526-1
The Picatrix
yat al Hakim
Planetary Talismanic Magic
Edited by
Steven Ashe
Fraternity of the Sanctum Regnum 2010
O
F UNCERTAIN AUTHORSHIP
, T
HE
P
ICATRIX
,
YAT AL
H
AKIM OR
'G
OAL OF THE
W
ISE
'
IS AN
A
RABIC
BOOK OF CELESTIAL AND TALISMANIC MAGIC WRITTEN
SOME TIME DURING THE
11
TH
C
ENTURY WHICH DRAWS
ON COMBINED SOURCES INCLUDING THE ANCIENT
G
REEK
PHILOSOPHERS
,
PRE
-I
SLAMIC
A
RABIAN SOURCES
,
I
SMAILISM AND THE MAGICAL PHILOSOPHERS OF TRIBAL
GROUPS PRESENT IN THE
A
RABIAN PENINSULAR SUCH AS
THE
N
ABATAEANS AND
Q
AHTANITES
. T
HE ANONYMOUS
AUTHOR INFORMS US IN HIS PROLOGUE THAT HE HAS
RESEARCHED AND SYNTHESISED MORE THAN TWO
HUNDRED WORKS IN HIS EFFORTS TO COMPLETE HIS
VOLUME
. T
HREE SOURCES OF INFLUENCE ARE MOST
EVIDENT HOWEVER
,
THESE BEING THE
N
EO
-P
LATONISM
OF
J
ABIR
I
BN
H
AYANN
,
THE
I
KHWAN AL
-S
AFA AND A
WORK KNOWN AS
N
ABATAEAN
A
GRICULTURE
.
The Picatrix represents the earliest literary attempt to
synthesize the formalities of esoteric practice associated
with sympathetic magical operations such as the
production of talismans and the invocation of spiritual
powers by means of lyrical exposition. The appearance
of the work and its translation into Spanish during the
13th Century and then into Latin had a major influence
upon practitioners of Western Magic such as Cornelius
Agrippa, Paracelcus and Giordano Bruno – the latter
thematically incorporating much of the associative
magical planetary correspondences into works such as his
Cantus Circaeus.
Much of the esoteric instruction detailed in the Picatrix is

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