Author: Hypsistos
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Giambattista della Porta’s Natural Magic is often misremembered as a mere encyclopedia of Renaissance parlor tricks and early science, but reading it reveals a rigorous, operative manual for the physics of the vincula (bond). Porta systematically maps the architecture of sympathy and antipathy; how the virtues of stones, plants, and…
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Everyone knows the Greek Magical Papyri (PGM). Fewer know that Egypt produced its own handbook of ritual magic, written in Demotic Egyptian with Greek glosses: the Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden. It is raw, practical, and unpolished: divination by lamp and vessel, erotic bindings, medical recipes, and invocations…
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Before Hermeticism, before theurgy, there was Mesopotamia. Mesopotamian Magic by Abusch is the definitive scholarly collection on Babylonian exorcism, incantations, and the Šuilla prayers. Essential for understanding the theurgic roots of Western magic. The Šuilla prayers (lifting of the hand) and Namburbi rituals (averting evil) are the oldest recorded theurgic practices.…
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Most know Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Few have seen the Fourth. Although you can get the text from Amazon quite easily now, there’s just something charming about this scanned edition from 1655. This text is a phantom. Published decades after Agrippa’s death, it compiles: Scholars debate its authorship. Some say…
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Paracelsus was a famous physician, alchemist, and natural philosopher. He took an interest in Hermetics, magic and the spirit world. Many tales have been told about this man, but we won’t discuss those today… Today we will focus on the four elements. In his treatise A Book on Nymphs, Sylphs,…
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Liber Hermetis is a rare Latin astrological text from the late antique or early medieval period, claiming to be a translation of a Greek original attributed to Hermes Trismegistos. The surviving manuscript (14th century) is incomplete; only Part II (on fixed stars, degrees, and planetary significations) is fully preserved. Part I…
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De Imaginibus was carved in the ninth century by Thābit ibn Qurra, a Sage of Harran. He did not invent this art, he transcribed it from the Sabians: star-worshippers who preserved what Hermes taught. The chain is unbroken. Basically, every planet radiates a specific power. That power can be captured…
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Abulafia was not a kabbalist in the scholastic sense. He was a theurgist of the Hebrew current; a prophet who rediscovered the lost technology of divine names. His method: breath, letter-combination, and the unwavering focus of the awakened mind. His method does not rely on gematria or sefirotic mapping; it…
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The forbidden Kyranides, another extremely rare magical document. Supressed directly by the Vatican, as mentioned by the Author in this scanned text, the book rarely saw the light of day in any market, in any point of history. Attributed directly to Hermes, the Kyranides teaches sympathetic magic and medicine. It is…
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The Steganographia – A very rare magical document, only 500 copies were ever printed in English. Trithemius was a devout Christian abbot who developed a natural art of hidden communication using angelic names and planetary hours as a cryptographic system. His prologues explicitly reject superstition and affirm faith. The Steganographia is a bridge between medieval magic and…