FREE LESSONAgrippa
A map of the three worlds
Use the first page to draw Agrippa’s chain of causes, then turn the arrows around to see the course of study he proposes.
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Every reading is a beginning. FREE LESSON FREE LESSONAgrippa
A wonder made with numbers
Follow the flying dove and the curved mirror through page 168 to see where Agrippa places mathematics among the magical arts.
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FREE LESSONAgrippa
Preparing the reader
Read two everyday occupations on page 346 as an explanation of how Agrippa believes religious discipline prepares a person for knowledge.
6 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONLucidarium
An hour has more than one name
Explain how hourly and daily government work together.
12 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONThe Key
Two clocks in one day
Reconstruct the planetary-hour sequence, explain its weekday pattern, and connect particular planets with the purposes assigned to them.
16 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONArbatel
Meet the seven Olympic governors
Connect each governor with its planetary sphere and attributed offices, and explain how the work distinguishes a natural process from a miraculous intervention.
16 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONRaziel
The celestial key: one world, seven planets and twelve realms
Explain the key's parts and use the book's planetary and geometrical relationships to distinguish a general power from its changing condition.
20 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONDee
Who sees, who asks, who writes?
Explain how seer, questioner and recorder contribute different parts of an angelic conference.
12 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONOberon
The glass and stone as instruments of vision
Explain how consecration, a visible appearance, a truthful answer and permission to depart form different parts of the glass-or-stone encounter.
18 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONAbramelin
The angel before the powers
Explain why the guardian angel is first a guide and teacher, and how the promised conversation changes the practitioner’s relationship with the rest of the book.
16 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONLemegeton
Anatomy of a spirit entry
Read a Goetic entry as a structured profile rather than a single symbolic label.
12 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONThree Souls
Deliverance for suffering souls
Explain how prayers 2, 4, 16 and 17 connect the speaker's reform, biblical deliverance and relief for souls beyond ordinary reach.
20 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONThe Munich Manual
Reading a book whose beginning is missing
Distinguish the surviving manuscript, its catalogue title, and the ritual voice that speaks within its pages.
15 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONSecrets of Solomon
A character belongs to someone
Explain why the opening character identifies an operator and depends on a relationship, rather than working as an isolated picture.
12 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONL’Art Magique
Three doors into one art
Explain the opening three-part program and how characters, promised effects and conditions of access depend on one another.
12 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONThe Grand Grimoire
The book that borrows a crown
Identify the separate claims of antiquity, Solomonic authorship and practical reliability that authorize this printed grimoire.
14 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONThe Demotic Papyrus
A vessel large enough for a world
Explain how the first invocation transforms a vessel into a place of revelation, and distinguish the operator, witness and divine presence.
12 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONThe Infernal Key
A key beneath seven lights
Explain how the opening image places the manuscript’s promised power beneath a higher authority.
12 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONWeyer’s spirit catalogue
A catalogue published against magic
Read the spirit catalogue through Weyer’s declared purpose, and distinguish the copied promises from the editor who exposes them.
14 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONThe Little Treasury
A treasury of useful wonders
Explain how the Petit Albert connects ordinary desires with a theory of hidden natural powers.
12 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONFludd’s Harmonies
Enter the Temple of Music
Identify the different subjects inside Fludd’s Temple of Music and distinguish a teaching diagram from a building plan.
14 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONThe Tarot
The whole pack upon one table
Read the Juggler as a diagram of Papus’s whole system, and distinguish its symbolic teaching from its later fortune-telling use.
13 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONPalmistry
The hand as a little cosmos
Explain why Saunders begins a book about hands with planets and the zodiac, and distinguish the observed hand from its proposed cosmic meaning.
14 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONTetrabiblos
Two kinds of foreknowledge
Distinguish astronomical calculation from Ptolemy’s conditional art of judging effects.
12 min readOpen lesson
FREE LESSONChariot of Antimony
Five foundations of the work
Explain the five foundations and distinguish Basil’s main voice from Kerckring’s annotations.
12 min readOpen lesson
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