The Magus/Book 1/Part 2/Chapter 46

WE will now fhew thee the obfervations of celeftial bodies, which are required for the practice of thefe things, which are briefly as follow:---

To make any one fortunate, we make an image at that time in which the fignificator of life, the giver of life, or Hylech, the figns and planets, are fortunate: let the afcendant and mid-heaven, and the lords thereof be fortunate; and alfo the place of the Sun and Moon; part of fortune and lord of conjunction or prevention, made before their nativity, by depreffing the malignant planets, i. e. taking the times when they are depreffed. But if we would make an image to procure mifery, we muft do contrary to this; and thofe which we before placed fortunate, we muft now make unfortunate, by taking the malignant ftars when they rule. And the fame means we muſt take to make any place, region, city, or houfe unfortunate. But if you would make any one unfortunate who hath injured you, let there be an image made under the afcenfion of that man whom thou wouldft make unfortunate; and thou shalt take, when unfortunate, the lord of the houfe of his life, the lord of the afcendant and the Moon, the lord of the houfe of the Moon, the lord of the houfe of the lord afcending, and the tenth houfe and the lord thereof. Now, for the building, fuccefs, or fitting of any place, place fortunes in the afcendant thereof; and in the firft and tenth, and fecond and eighth houfe, thou shalt make the lord of the afcendant, and the lord of the houfe of the Moon, fortunate. But to chafe away certain animals (from any place) that are noxious to thee, that they may not generate or abide there, make an image under the afcenfion of that animal which thou wouldft chafe away or deftroy, and after the likeness thereof; for inftance, now, fuppofe thou wouldst wish to chafe away fcorpions from any place: let an image of a fcorpion be made, the fign ​Scorpio afcending with the Moon; then thou shalt make unfortunate the afcendant, and the lord thereof, and the lord of the houfe of Mars; and thou fhalt make unfortunate the lord of the afcendant in the eighth houfe; and let them be joined with an afpect malignant, as oppofite or fquare, and write upon the image the name of the afcendant, and of the lord thereof, and the Moon, the lord of the day and hour; and let there be a pit made in the middle of the place from which thou wouldft drive them, and put into it fome earth taken out of the four corners of the fame place, then bury the image there, with the head downwards, faying---" This is the burying of the Scorpions, that they may be forced to leave, and come no more into this place."---And fo do by the reft.

Now for gain, make an image under the afcendant of that man to whom thou wouldst appoint the gain; and thou fhalt make the lord of the fecond houfe, which is the houſe of fubftance, to be joined with the lord of the afcendant, in a trine or fextile afpect, and let there be a reception amongſt them; thou fhalt make fortunate the eleventh, and the lord thereof, and the eighth ; and, if thou canft, put part of fortune in the afcendant or fecond; and let the image be buried in that place, or from that place, to which thou wouldft appoint the gain or fortune. Likewife, for agreement or love, let be made an image in the day of Jupiter, under the afcendant of the nativity of hiro whom you would wish to be beloved; make fortunate the afcendant and the tenth, and hide the evil from the afcendant; and you muſt have the lords of the tenth, and planets of the eleventh, fortunate, joined to the lord of the afcendant, from the trine or fextile, with reception; then proceed to make another image, for him whom thou wouldft ftir up to love; whether it be a friend, or female, or brother, or relation, or companion of him whom thou wouldft have favoured or beloved, if fo, make an image under the afcenfion of the eleventh houfe from the afcendant of the firft image; but if the party be a wife, or a huſband, let it be made under the afcenfion of the feventh; if a brother, fifter, or coufin, under the afcenfion of the third houfe; if a mother, of the tenth, and fo on :---now let the fignificator of the afcendant of the fecond image be joined to the fignificator of the afcendant of the firft, and let there ​be between them a reception, and let the reft be fortunate, as in the firft image; afterwards join both the images together in a mutual embrace, or put the face of the fecond to the back of the firft, and let them be wrapped up in filk, and caft away or fpoiled.

Alfo, for the fuccefs of petitions, and obtaining of a thing denied, or taken, or poffeffed by another, make an image under the afcendant of him who petitions for the thing; and caufe the lord of the fecond houfe to be joined with the lord of the afcendant, from a trine or fextile afpect, and let there be a reception betwixt them; and, if it can be fo, let the lord of the fecond be in the obeying figns, and the lord of afcendant in the ruling: make fortunate the afcendant and the lord thereof; and beware that the lord of the afcendant be not retrograde, or combuft, or cadent, or in the houfe of oppofition, i. e. in the feventh from his own houfe; let him not be hindered by the malignant planets, but let him be ftrong and in an angle; thou fhalt make fortunate the afcendant, and the lord of the fecond, and the Moon: and make another image for him that is petitioned to, and begin it under the afcendant belonging to him as if he is a king, or prince, &c. begin it under the afcendant of the tenth houfe from the afcendant of the firft image; if a father, under the fourth; if a fon, under the fifth, and fo of the like; then put the fignificator of the fecond image, joined with the lord of the afcendant of the firft image from a trine or fextile, and let him receive it; and put them both ftrong and fortunate, without any hinderance; make all evil fall from them; thou shalt make fortunate the tenth and the fourth, if thou canft, or any of them; and when the fecond image fhall be perfect, join it with the firft, face to face, and wrap them in clean linen, and bury them in the middle of his houfe who is the petitioner, under a fortunate fignificator, the fortune being ftrong; and let the face of the firft image be towards the north, or rather towards that place where the thing petitioned for doth remain; or, if it happens that the petitioner goes forward to obtain the thing defired or petitioned for, let him carry the faid images with him. Thus we have given, in a few examples, the key of all Talifmanical operations whatfoever, by which wonderful effects may be wrought either by images, by rings, by glaffes, by feals, by tables, or any ​other magical inftruments whatfoever; but as thefe have their chief grounds in the true knowledge of the effects of the planets, and the rifing of the conftellations, we recommend an earneft attention to that part of Aftrology^[1] which teaches of the power, influences, and effects of the celeftial bodies amongſt themfelves generally; likewife, we would recommend the artift to be expert in the afpects, motions, declinations, rifings, &c. &c. of the feven planets, and perfectly to understand their natures, either mixed or fimple; alfo, to be ready and correct in the erecting of a figure, at any time, to fhew the true pofition of the heavens; there being fo great a fympathy between the celeftials and ourfelves; and to obferve all the other rules which we have plentifully recited: and, without doubt, the induftrious ftudent fhall receive the fatisfaction of bringing his operations and experiments to effect that which he ardently defires. With which, wifhing all fuccefs to the contemplator of the creature and the Creator, we will here clofe up this Second Part of our Work, and the conclufion of our Book of Talifmanical Magic.