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Picatrix Before the Legend: How an Arabic Work of Astral Magic Became a European Grimoire

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Picatrix Before the Legend: How an Arabic Work of Astral Magic Became a European Grimoire

Secret Magic Editorial Team August 15, 2026

The name Picatrix now carries the aura of a secret European grimoire: a book of planetary images, talismans, strange suffumigations, celestial spirits, and occult correspondences….

From Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm to Picatrix: How an Arabic Book of Astral Magic Entered Medieval Europe

Hermeticism

From Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm to Picatrix: How an Arabic Book of Astral Magic Entered Medieval Europe

Secret Magic Editorial Team August 12, 2026

The book now called Picatrix is often introduced as a mysterious medieval grimoire, but that description hides the most important fact about it. The Latin…

Marsilio Ficino’s Three Books on Life: Melancholy, Planetary Music, and the Boundaries of Renaissance Magic

Hermeticism

Marsilio Ficino’s Three Books on Life: Melancholy, Planetary Music, and the Boundaries of Renaissance Magic

Secret Magic Editorial Team August 12, 2026

Marsilio Ficino’s Three Books on Life is one of the strangest and most revealing works of the Italian Renaissance because it refuses to stay inside…