♛新年度魔典讀書會第一期－阿拉伯人的占星魔法《Picatrix》♛

 

♛♕♛新年度魔典讀書會第一期♛♕♛

 

阿拉伯人的占星魔法《Picatrix》

《Picatrix》介紹

 

《Picatrix》是阿拉伯最重要的魔典之一，包含大量占星魔法實踐，原名《Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm》（賢者的目標）公元九世紀成書，表達了「諸國聖賢窮其一生堅持不懈所追尋的終極目標」，以新柏拉圖主義哲學為主調，收錄了當時各國魔法實踐名作為一體。在1256年經由阿方索十世指派Picatrix由阿拉伯語翻譯西班牙語，此後將書以譯者名字改名為《Picatrix》，奠定了古典魔法中占星魔法的核心基礎。

 

✪一月魔典讀書會——《Picatrix》原著目錄（包含四冊書）

 

一書

How you may know your degree in the universe

What magic is and what its properties are

What the heavens are and what their substance is

The general theory and arrangement of the heavens for making magical images

Examples of the theory of images, and of those things needful for making magical images

In what degree everything exists in the universe, and how it is known that man is a lesser world and corresponds to the greater world

In what degree everything in the universe exists, and many other profound things, hidden by the wise, that we intend to reveal in this book of ours

 

二書

How it is possible to learn this science

The images of heaven and their secrets

All the works of the planets, the Sun, and the Moon

The motion of the eighth sphere and the fixed stars

The division of this science among nations, and which part of it each nation possesses

The virtues of images, and by what means they may be had, and how images may receive the powers of the planets, and how works are done by images, and this is the foundation of the science of magic and images

How to work dialectically in the science of magical images, and what part this ought to have in this science

The order of natural things, and how they may enter into this science

Examples of the figures and forms of images that call down the assistance of the planets

The stones proper to each planet and the formation of figures

The images of the faces of the signs and their effects

The figures and degrees of the signs and their effects according to the opinion of the Hindus, and how they proceed in the contemplations of this science, and in what manner the virtues of superior bodies are attracted according to the opinions of the same, with notable secrets

 

三書

Chapter One The parts of the planets that exist in plants, animals and metals

Chapter Two Of the parts of the signs in the aforesaid three existences, that is, plants, animals, and minerals 

Chapter Three Of the figures, colors, garments, and incenses of the planets, as well as the colors of the faces of the signs.

Chapter Four Why the secrets of this science may not be understood except a little at a time

Chapter Five In which is demonstrated the virtue proper to animals and noteworthy things necessary in this science, and how the spirits of the planets are attracted by figures and suffumigations

Chapter Six The magistery of drawing planetary spirits with natural things, and what a magical image is and how it can have this power

Chapter Seven Attracting the virtues of the planets, and how we may speak with them, and how their influences are divided among planets, figures, sacrifices, prayers, suffumigations, and propositions; and the state of the heavens necessary to each planet

Chapter Eight The way of prayer with which the Nabateans used to pray to the Sun and Saturn, and how they would speak to them and their spirits and draw forth their influences

Chapter Nine How to attract the powers of each planet and the powers of their spirits, naming them according to their parts, and how to accomplish this by speaking their names

Chapter Ten A demonstration of the confections of planetary spirits, and preventing dangers from ceremonies and effects, and of the wonders of magic, and of the food, suffumigations, unguents, and odors that one who invokes planetary spirits ought to use; and the proper effects, and works that are not done except in appearance

Chapter Eleven The effects of magical images in diverse things, as well as in alterations of sight, so that things are seen other than as they are; and causing sleep and waking, and making poisons and their remedies

Chapter Twelve Rules Necessary in this Science

 

四書

Chapter One By what virtue and force spirit proceeds, and what are the properties of spirits, bodies, sense, intellect, and soul, as well as the differences between them

Chapter Two What vigor the spirit of the Moon brings to this inferior world, and what ought to be done with each of the seven planets

Chapter Three What the Chaldeans held to be the profundities and secrets of this science, and what they said about it

Chapter Four The images and reasonings that greatly further this science

Chapter Five The ten sciences that are necessary to this art, and how this science is helped by them, and what is the foundation of the science of magic 

Chapter Six How the suffumigations of the stars ought to be made, and certain compositions necessary to this science

Chapter Seven The things of the magical art found in the book The Chaldean Agriculture which Abudaer Abemiaxie translated from the Chaldean language into Arabic  Description of Another Operation Which Kills by the Sound When It Is Heard from Ibn Washiyya's Book of Poisons

Chapter Eight The virtues of other things which Nature does by her own properties

Chapter Nine Images whose virtues perform marvels, that were found in a book that was discovered in the church of Coredib and the book of Queen Folopedre; and a description of all the rules necessary in working with magical images

 

✪一月魔典讀書會——《Picatrix》大綱（包含以下內容總結）

 

三書九章 亞里士多德《Liber Antimaquis》的七星眾靈

四書二章 七星符

二書十一章 行星符號、符圖及礦石雕刻

三書八章 納巴泰人的祭星禱文

一書四章 28宿諸天符及其擇日條件

一書五章 28道擇日思路

二書十二章 十度符圖及用途

二書十三章 印度十度符及用途

二書十三章 星座符

四書二章 月座符

（因部分實踐章節包含毒藥和解藥配方存在安全隱患，故聲明讀書會不討論任何危險內容）

 

✪Doi讀書會大綱

 

原著一些有趣視角：

二書三章 日月在希臘、波斯、印度社會不同地域氣候影響形成的象征對民間擇日的影響

二書五章 阿拉伯人視角下對全球天體和夢境的理解

二書六章 阿拉伯人宇宙觀中恒星與行星的協作

 

【1】

Picatrix中的28月宿與早期曆法

S. Weinstock, 1949. The Journal of Hellenic Studies,Vol. 69 (1949), pp. 48-69.’Lunar Mansions and Early Calendars’

Illuminating the Lunar Mansions (manāzil al-qamar) in Šams al-maʿārif

 

拉丁語版錯誤歸於Al-Majriti原因

西語譯本對阿拉伯原著中存在大量錯誤理解

西語、拉丁語版28月宿度數發生嚴重錯誤

David P., 1981. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, pp. 27-56, ‘BETWEEN THE GHAYA AND PICATRIX I: THE SPANISH VERSION’

 

【2】

Picatrix的詞源推敲

J. Thomann. Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 53 (1990), pp. 289-296. ‘The Name Picatrix: Transcription or Translation?’

【3】

Picatrix中的符號溯源

L. Benedek. CHARACTERS AND MAGIC SIGNS IN THE PICATRIX AND OTHER MEDIEVAL MAGIC TEXTS

Kahane, Henry,1966. ‘Picatrix’ and the Talismans.

【4】

阿拉伯語原著作者的其他作品

F. Maribel, 1996. Studia Islamica, No. 84, pp. 87-112.Bāṭinism in Al-Andalus. Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī (d. 353/964), Author of the "Rutbat alḤakīm" and the "Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm (Picatrix)"

【5】

為什麽日本和尚都懂Picatrix占星魔法？

J. Kotyk,2018. Japanese Buddhist Astrology and Astral Magic:Mikkyō and Sukuyōdō.

【6】

其他reference

Isis , Winter, 1965. Notes on picatrix

The indian and pseudo-indian passages in Greek and Lation astronomical and astrological texts

David, P., 1976. The Indian and Pseudo-Indian Passages in Greek and Latin Astronomical and Astrological Texts.

Griebeler A., 2020. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, , 86-105. The Serpent Column and the talismanic ecologies of Byzantine Constantinople.

 

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