Picatrix Liber Atratus: Books 3 and 4 (Complete Picatrix Liber Atratus Edition) by Christopher Warnock

Author:Christopher Warnock [Warnock, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spiritual & Religion
Publisher: Renaissance Astrology
Published: 2012-03-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Rules Necessary in this Science

Those who intend to involve themselves in this science ought to know that it is by the works and experiments they do in this world that profound and secret sciences are known, and by works and experiments doubts are solved.[368] This is because when anyone accomplishes his desires, his doubts are settled. You should indeed be greedy in all the things, and about all the things, that we have taught you so far, and you should be faithful in the operations themselves, and continually observe the ways of the sages and the habits of the ancients in the operations of this science. From unlawful foods and pleasures you should stay as far as you possibly can; indeed, you ought to think of the salvation of your soul and the love of God as assiduously as you can, because desire and love attract spirits and incline you to follow spiritual effects, and complete and reveal all their properties furthering the thing that is desired.

If that orientation be toward God, Who is the beginning and end of all things and the perpetual and eternal Lord of Lords, then that love will be durable and perfect. If that love instead is fixed on corporeal things, that love will be unstable and a corruptible and terminating love. The will is divided into different kinds, for there is a love which is accompanied by health and honor is that love which is fixed on God the sublime and exalted, and to this kind belongs the love of fathers, teachers, and holy men; likewise the love of piety and the love of children. There is a love which is advantageous and helpful, and this is the love of people who delight in helping one another freely. The will, when it is most acute, is called love, and as we have said above, when we put another ahead of God, that ought rightly to be called corruptible love.

We base our entreaties on God Himself, that He may so illuminate your mind and spirit that His profound sciences may be opened to you, and that He may protect and defend you from the conspiracies of the common people and of evildoers, and that you will not reveal any of your secrets to the ignorant, because it is thus that they become the murderers of holy men and prophets.

Now the properties that are proposed and the examples that are given in the books of the prophets concerning this science, if you were to try to deduce them by experiment, would seem to be of a fraudulent nature, nor would you be able to deduce the effects promised by them in eternity. If you understand them, however, in the manner we have said (that is, with the right attitude and steady faith and an understanding of the causes of effects), then they will be seen to be noble, high, and precious, and of a nature remote from the merely animal in man. If we ought

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