Picatrix (Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm, "The Aim of the Sage")

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The great Arabic handbook of astral magic — talismans made under specific configurations of the heavens, the spirits of the planets, and a theory of how celestial virtue is drawn down into matter. Translated into Latin at the court of Alfonso X and read, quietly, by most of the Renaissance.

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