The Heptameron Explained: Days, Angels, and the Ritual Week
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the influential ritual text attributed to Peter of Abano and organized through the seven days of the week, with manuscript…
Ars Notoria: Prayer, Memory, Knowledge, and Controversy
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the medieval notory art of prayers, figures, and aspirations to accelerated learning, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later reception, common…
The Four Altitudes of the Almadel
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the layered or quartered celestial regions described in Ars Almadel, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later reception, common misconceptions, and…
Ars Almadel Explained: The Wax Tablet and Four Altitudes
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the fourth book of the Lemegeton, its pierced wax device, and its fourfold celestial geography, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis,…
Planetary Hours and Angels in Ars Paulina
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the twenty-four hourly offices and the calculation of changing ritual time, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later reception, common misconceptions,…
Ars Paulina Explained: Hours, Zodiac, and Angelic Order
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the third book of the Lemegeton and its angelic systems of hours, zodiacal degrees, and personal celestial relationships, with manuscript…
The Aerial Spirits and Directions of the Theurgia-Goetia
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the directional system of the Theurgia-Goetia and the practical problems of mapping its princes and ministers, with manuscript history, symbolic…
Ars Theurgia-Goetia Explained: Aerial Spirits and Directions
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the second book of the Lemegeton and its elaborate directional map of aerial princes and ministers, with manuscript history, symbolic…
The Brass Vessel in the Goetic Tradition
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the vessel of containment, its legendary connection to Solomon, and its symbolic life in later demonology, with manuscript history, symbolic…
Goetic Seals: History, Construction, and Symbolic Meaning
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the seventy-two seals as manuscript characters, identifiers, and later occult icons, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later reception, common misconceptions,…
The Four Cardinal Kings of the Goetia
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the directional kings and the unstable ways names and jurisdictions appear across Solomonic sources, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later…
Kings, Dukes, Princes, Marquises, Presidents, and Earls in the Goetia
A detailed, source-conscious guide to the political vocabulary used to classify spirits and its relationship to early modern authority, with manuscript history, symbolic analysis, later…