Tag: Amulets

• The Worldview of Astrological Magic: XIV: The Rūḥāniyyāt Part II: Angels, Souls, and Ensoulment

  

  As mentioned in the previous lesson, “the” tradition or worldview of astrological magic is perhaps more accurately characterized as a complex blend or syncretism of many different traditions and worldviews. In much the same way as a river is fed by many streams, the tradition of astrological magic borrows much from a variety of sources.…

  Rain & Pallas

  June 1, 2026

  Astrological Magic, Astrological Talismans, Devotion & Theurgy, Inner Sanctum, Planetary Magic, Ritual Practice, Theories of Astrological Magic

  Abu’l-Barakat, Al-Kindi, Al-Razi, Albertus Magnus, Amulets, Angels, Arab polytheism, Aristotle, Astrological Magic, Astrological Talismans, Aziz Al-Azmeh, Carriers of the Throne, Celestial Correspondences, Celestial Spheres, Cosmology, Daimones, De Quindecim Stellis, Elevation Model, Emanationism, Ensouling, God, Governance Model, Hadith, Hypostases, Identity Model, Ikhwan al-Safa, Image Magic, Intelligence, Islam, Islamicate Occult Sciences, Israfil, Jibra’il, Jinn, Katarchic Astrology, Liana Saif, Macroanthropos, Maslama al-Qurtubi, Matter, Mika’il, Munkar, Nakir, Nature, Near East, On the Stellar Rays, Picatrix, Planets, Plato, Quran, Revelation, Ridwan, Ruhaniyyat, Rulership, Sachiko Murata, Secondary Creation, Spirits, Spirits of Time, St. Augustine, Stephen Burge, Sublunary Creation, Timaeus, Universal Nature, Universal Soul

• The Worldview of Astrological Magic: XIII: The Rūḥāniyyāt: “Images are Spirits of Time” Part I

  

  As mentioned in the previous lesson, “the” tradition or worldview of astrological magic is perhaps more accurately characterized as a complex blend or syncretism of many different traditions and worldviews. In much the same way as a river is fed by many streams, the tradition of astrological magic borrows much from a variety of sources.…

  Rain & Pallas

  May 20, 2026

  Astrological Magic, Astrological Talismans, Devotion & Theurgy, Inner Sanctum, Planetary Magic, Ritual Practice, Theories of Astrological Magic

  Abbasid Empire, Akkadia, Amulets, Ancient Near-EAst, Angels, Apotropaion, Apuleius, Assyria, Big Day, Big Weather Spirit, Bird Man, Brethren of Purity, Celestial Spirits, Chaldean Oracles, Connectors, Daimones, Demonization, Demons, Diotima, Egyptian Magic, Enuma Elish, Etana, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Hybridity, Hygromanteia, Iamblichus, Ikhwan al-Safa, Images, Inana, Ishkur-Adad, Ishtar, Islamic Occult Sciences, Iynges, Jinn, Jupiter, Kitab al-Istimakhis, La-tarak, Lares, Liana Saif, Lion-Centaur, Lucidarium Artis Nigromantice, Lulal, Macrocosm, Marduk, Maslama al-Qurtubi, Mesopotamia, Microcosm, Monsters, Nabu, Nergal, Old Babylonian, Orphic Hymns, Pazuzu, Perfect Nature, Personified Day, Personified Time, Picatrix, Plato, Pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica, Quran, Ruhaniyyat, Samas, Sennacherib, Seven Sages, Sin, Spirits of Time, Spiritual Beings, Sumeria, Symposium, Teletarchs, Tiamat, Time Spirits, Ugallu, Utukku, Zwischenwesen

• The Worldview of Astrological Magic: Part XI – The Macrocosm in the Microcosm: Astrological Magic as Medicine

  

  As mentioned in the previous lesson, “the” tradition or worldview of astrological magic is perhaps more accurately characterized as a complex blend or syncretism of many different traditions and worldviews. In much the same way as a river is fed by many streams, the tradition of astrological magic borrows much from a variety of sources.…

  Rain & Pallas

  January 11, 2026

  Astrological Magic, Astrological Talismans, Devotion & Theurgy, Inner Sanctum, Planetary Magic, Ritual Practice, Theories of Astrological Magic

  Al-Buni, Albertus Magnus, Amulets, Ancient Amuletic Medicine, Animated Statues, Anthropology of Medicine, Astromonica, Babylonian Astral Magic, Babylonian Ritual Texts, Book of Minerals, Book of the Treasure of Alexander, Bronze Age, Camillo Leonardi, Critical Days, Cuineiform texts, De Mysteriis, Decanic Magic, Decans, Dodecatemoria, Egyptian Magic, Egyptian Medicine, Erica Reiner, Firmicus Maternus, Galen, Galenic Medicine, Ghayat al-Hakim, Giorgio Anselmi, Hemerologies, Hippocrates, Hippocratic Medicine, Iamblichus, Iatromathematics, Image Magic, Israel Hibner, Khawass, Kyranides, Liana Saif, Liber Hermetis, Marsilio Ficino, Maslama al-Qurtubi, Melothesia, Mesopotamian Medicine, Mysterium Sigillorum, Occult Virtues, Old Babylonian Period, Paolo Vitellozzi, Picatrix, Robert Zoller, Sacred Book of Hermes to Asclepius, Shams al-Ma’arif, Speculum Lapidum, Sphragides, Sphragis, Spiros Piperakis, Stone Plant and Tree System, Sympatheia, Technical Hermetica, Three Books on Life, Triplicity Talismans, Zodiac Man

• The Worldview of Astrological Magic: Part X – Nature Loves to Hide: Celestial Correspondences & Occult Virtues

  

  As mentioned in the previous lesson, “the” tradition or worldview of astrological magic is perhaps more accurately characterized as a complex blend or syncretism of many different traditions and worldviews. In much the same way as a river is fed by many streams, the tradition of astrological magic borrows much from a variety of sources.…

  Rain & Pallas

  October 25, 2025

  Astrological Magic, Astrological Talismans, Devotion & Theurgy, Inner Sanctum, Planetary Magic, Ritual Practice, Theories of Astrological Magic

  Abu Ma’shar, Addressative Magic, Agrippa, Al-Biruni, Al-Kindi, Albertus Magnus, Amulets, Antediluvian Pre-History, Aristotelian Physics, Astral Medicine, Astral Properties, Astrological Images, Babylonian Astral Magic, Bolus of Mendes, Brethren of Purity, Bronze Age, Celestial Correspondences, Cosmic Unity, David Pingree, De Imaginibus, De Quindecim Stellis, De Virtutibus Herbarum, E.R. Dodds, Emanationism, Empedocles, European Middle Ages, Evolution, Francesca Rochberg, Ghayat al-Hakim, Giovanni della Porta, Great Chain of Being, Great Introduction to Astrology, Harranian Sabians, Hellenistic Astrology, Henads, Hildegaard von Bingen, Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ, Islamicate Occult Sciences, Israel Hibner, Johannes Trithemius, Kyranides, Marsilio Ficino, Maslama al-Qurtubi, Mesopotamian Ritual Texts, Neuroscience, Nicholas Culpeper, Nicholas Weill-Parot, Occult Virtues, Old Babylonian Period, On the Stellar Rays, Peter de Abano, PGM, Picatrix, Plato, Platonism, Plotinus, Proclus, Psychologism, Sacred Book of Hermes to Asclepius, Seira, Seleucid Uruk, Speculum Astronomiae, Sympatheia, Thabit ibn Qurra, Theophilus of Edessa, Theurgy, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Yavanajataka