Picatrix, Bilgenin Ereği

Among its conditions, without which nothing is completed, is that the maker must focus their entire spiritual energy on the work and refine their intention so that the powers of the soul may be linked to the powers of the heavens. Plato spoke well in his Book of Aphorisms when he said: "If the speech matches the intention of the speaker, it moves the intention of the listener" by purposeful aim. This is the foundation upon which the union of intention, prayer, and humility before the First Origin is built when seeking what is hoped for from the Lords of Prayer. The realization of what is explained here is found in abundance in his discourse on talismans, which is the most sublime branch of astrology. He claimed that there is no life for a body that has no spirit. By this, he meant talismans crafted without their intended celestial proportions; such objects cannot receive the diffusion of the planetary spiritualities and are therefore like dead bodies without souls. However, if they receive the celestial spiritualities by being placed according to the true celestial proportions corresponding to the desired goal, they become living bodies that perform miraculous deeds. Aristotle also said in his treatise: The best way a talisman can be made is through the action of the seven wandering stars. The most noble and enduring is that which is faced by a benefic planet that assists in bringing down a "spirituality" from the heavens to the Earth.