This article is part of the Divination Hub . “Have also a ring of silver on the middle finger of the left hand, wherein is engraved the character of the spirit…” ---Joseph H. Peterson (ed.), Lemegeton , 2001   “Thou shalt have a ring of silver, and on the same finger, which is the least finger of thy left hand, thou shalt wear the same ring when thou workest by the crystal.” --- Drawing Spirits into Crystals  attributed to Johannes Trithemius, Joseph H. Peterson (ed.), Esoter

This article is part of the Divination Hub . Introduction Modern representations of palmistry are largely shaped by the nineteenth-century French tradition and its later Victorian and American adaptations, which emphasized character analysis and so-called “scientific” methods of interpretation. These modern systems have come to dominate popular understandings of palmistry and have obscured its historical origins and intellectual complexity. They project contemporary assumptio

This article is part of the Divination Hub . The American scholar Hardin Craig (1875 – 1968), editor of The Works of John Metham (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1916), provides a good first assessment of the literature on Western palmistry. His first impressions are mostly accurate, such as noting how many chiromancers list many ancient and modern authorities on the subjects of chiromancy and physiognomy, many of whom either did not write about them at all, wr

Utopian Scholastic was a short-lived but extraordinary consumer aesthetic of the 1990s. At its core, it was about turning knowledge itself  into something wondrous. Brightly colored encyclopedias, multimedia CD-ROMs like Microsoft Encarta, and PC games like Myst  – invited children and young adults to imagine that learning was not just useful, but magical – a gateway to a better future.  Historically, it emerged in the 1980s as a unified visual movement adopted by mainstream

This text is a part of the Medieval Magic Hub . “And immediately an angel will appear through the altitude . . . And he will appear in...

This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . This article is divided into two parts.  The first part explores the Hebrew version of the...

This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . John of Morigny (last quarter of the 13 th  century – 14 th  century) was a French...

This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . In the first part of this two-part blog series, I covered the Ars Notoria, quam Creator...

This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . In this two-part blog series, I will be covering the last derivative texts of the Ars...

[The Special Blended Material of the Redacted Ars Notoria (Version B) and the Redacted Ars Brevis (The Short Art)] [Special Rubric] Say...

Here is the first part of Robert Turner’s 1657 English translation of the abridged Latin edition called Ars Notoria, quam Creator...

The second part of the ANQCASR continues here. AN = Ars Notoria. AB = Ars Brevis. Note that the variant passages are found in the Ars...

Here is the first part of the Latin text called Ars Notoria, quam Creator Altissimus Salomoni revelavit (The Notory Art, which the...

Does this seventeenth-century occult experiment for sending secret messages to someone far away using a loadstone and special compass really work?  Is sympathetic magic at work in the magnetic telegraph?    After the conclusion of the central work on angelic magic, Ars Notoria: The Notory Art of Solomon, Shewing the Cabalistical Key of Magical Operations, The liberal Sciences, Divine Revelation, and The Art of Memory translated by the Englishman Robert Turner in 1657, there f

This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . The fifteenth-century magical text of Italian origin called the Pauline Art [of Seven...

This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . The Ars Notoria (Notory Art ) reveals evidence of scribal tampering and rewriting, and the...

This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . The magical figures of the Ars Notoria hold a strange fascination over the viewer. The...

This text is part of the Divination Hub . “There are other books having to do with such calculation, such as the books of Pythagoras, who...

This text is part of the Divination Hub . As mentioned in the previous post, onomancy (Greek ὄνομαμᾰντείᾱ; Latin onomamanteia ) is the...

This text is part of the Medieval Magic Hub . New Latin Edition of the Ars Brevis, a Derivative of the Ars Notoria The Ars Brevis is a...