Talismans, Fumigations and Rings

About this book

How did Renaissance magicians try to catch the powers of the stars? With smoke and scent, with knots and herbs, with rings made in the right hour and with the right place. This beautifully illustrated notebook is the fourth in a series that divides Agrippa's work by theme. It contains Book I, chapters 37–48: how natural and artificial preparations were believed to draw down heavenly and even divine gifts, the ancient ideas of bindings and sorceries, the strange lore of hippomanes, fumigations and the incense of each planet and zodiac sign, eye ointments, unctions and love potions, amulets tied or hung on the body, the making of rings, and the powers of places.

What is inside

• 12 complete chapters of Agrippa's text, nothing shortened
• every chapter in four parts: In Agrippa's words · In plain words · Terms (with the Latin) · Historical note — where the idea comes from and what modern science says
• 12 original illustrations in an antique archival style
• 2 printable charts: the fumigations of the seven planets and twelve signs (with the seven-aromatic blend of Hermes), and the places of the planets with the old procedure for making a ring
• foreword, closing words and a 64-term glossary

Who it is for

Readers of Hermeticism, alchemy, Renaissance history and the Western esoteric tradition who want the original text made readable — and honestly explained.

About the series

1 Magic and the Four Elements · 2 Occult Virtues, Sympathies and Antipathies · 3 The World of the Planets · 4 Talismans, Fumigations and Rings · 5 Light, Fascination and Divination · 6 Dreams, the Soul and the Imagination · 7 The Power of Words and Letters. Each notebook sold separately.

A historical text, not a manual or medical advice. None of the old recipes described should ever be tried.