The Last Derivative Texts of the Ars Notoria: The Early Modern Composites, Part II
In the first part of this two-part blog series, I covered the Ars Notoria, quam Creator Altissimus Salomoni revelavit (The Notory Art,...
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Matthias Castle
Jul 209 min read
The Last Derivative Texts of the Ars Notoria: The Early Modern Composites, Part I
In this two-part blog series, I will be covering the last derivative texts of the Ars Notoria from the Early Modern period. The two main...
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Matthias Castle
Jul 2022 min read
Ars Notoria: The Notory Art of Solomon, Shewing the Cabalistical Key of Magical Operations, the Liberal Sciences, Divine Revelation, and the Art of Memory (1657), part 2
[The Special Blended Material of the Redacted Ars Notoria (Version B) and the Redacted Ars Brevis (The Short Art)] [Special Rubric] Say...
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Matthias Castle
Jul 2068 min read
Ars Notoria: The Notory Art of Solomon, Shewing the Cabalistical Key of Magical Operations, the Liberal Sciences, Divine Revelation, and the Art of Memory (1657), part 1
Here is the first part of Robert Turner’s 1657 English translation of the abridged Latin edition called Ars Notoria, quam Creator...
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Matthias Castle
Jul 2019 min read
Ars Notoria, quam Creator Altissimus Salomoni revelavit (Latin text, part 2)
The second part of the ANQCASR continues here. AN = Ars Notoria. AB = Ars Brevis. Note that the variant passages are found in the Ars...
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Matthias Castle
Jul 2057 min read
Ars Notoria, quam Creator Altissimus Salomoni revelavit (Latin text, part 1)
Here is the first part of the Latin text called Ars Notoria, quam Creator Altissimus Salomoni revelavit (The Notory Art, which the...
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Matthias Castle
May 264 min read
The Occult Wonders of the Magnetic Telegraph
Does this seventeenth-century occult experiment for sending secret messages to someone far away using a loadstone and special compass...
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Jan 213 min read
The Pauline Art [of Seven Figures]: A Fifteenth Century Derivative of the Ars Notoria
The fifteenth-century magical text of Italian origin called the Pauline Art [of Seven Figures] (Ars Paulina) claims its mythical origins...
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Matthias Castle
Dec 17, 20237 min read
Visual Guide to the Notory Art Figures of Angelic Magic, Part II
The Ars Notoria (Notory Art) reveals evidence of scribal tampering and rewriting, and the reason for this is probably a simple one. The...
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Matthias Castle
Dec 14, 20234 min read
Visual Guide to the Notory Art Figures of Angelic Magic, Part I
The magical figures of the Ars Notoria hold a strange fascination over the viewer. The magical figures are key to unlocking the doors to...
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Matthias Castle
Dec 8, 202323 min read
Onomancy: A Forbidden Art of the Ars Notoria, Part III
“There are other books having to do with such calculation, such as the books of Pythagoras, who gives many letters and figures, and for...
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Matthias Castle
Dec 3, 202321 min read
Onomancy: A Forbidden Art of the Ars Notoria, Part II
As mentioned in the previous post, onomancy (Greek ὄνομαμᾰντείᾱ; Latin onomamanteia) is the divinatory practice of taking the letters of...
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Matthias Castle
Nov 28, 202344 min read
New Latin Edition of the Ars Brevis, a Derivative of the Ars Notoria
New Latin Edition of the Ars Brevis, a Derivative of the Ars Notoria The Ars Brevis is a mid-fourteenth-century treatise on angelic magic...
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Matthias Castle
Sep 13, 20236 min read
Ars Brevis: The Votive Mass of All the Saints (7 of 7)
The Ars Brevis instructs the reader to perform votive masses as part of the magical experiment(s). There are two versions of the Ars...
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Matthias Castle
Sep 13, 20235 min read
Ars Brevis: The Votive Mass of the Angels (6 of 7)
The Ars Brevis instructs the reader to perform votive masses as part of the magical experiment(s). There are two versions of the Ars...
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Matthias Castle
Sep 13, 20236 min read
Ars Brevis: The Votive Mass of All the Most Holy Apostles (5 of 7)
The Ars Brevis instructs the reader to perform votive masses as part of the magical experiment(s). There are two versions of the Ars...
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Matthias Castle
Sep 13, 20232 min read
Ars Brevis: The Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary (4 of 7)
The Ars Brevis instructs the reader to perform votive masses as part of the magical experiment(s). There are two versions of the Ars...
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Matthias Castle
Sep 10, 20237 min read
Ars Brevis: The Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit (3 of 7)
The Ars Brevis instructs the reader to perform votive masses as part of the magical experiment(s). There are two versions of the Ars...
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Matthias Castle
Sep 10, 20235 min read
Ars Brevis: The Votive Mass of the Holy Cross (2 of 7)
The Ars Brevis instructs the reader to perform votive masses as part of the magical experiment(s). There are two versions of the Ars...
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Matthias Castle
Sep 10, 20235 min read
Ars Brevis: The Votive Mass of the Holy Trinity (1 of 7)
The Ars Brevis instructs the reader to perform votive masses as part of the magical experiment(s). There are two versions of the Ars...
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