Petitot 1771

Place: the Harmonic Palace, a Bardic College research facility

Magical and Amuletic scroll of Franz Anton Buechler 

[Germany, 17th century]

Lavishly illustrated with 56 various amulets and sigils drawn from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s De Occulta Philosophia and Johann Baptista Großchedel’s ‘Magical Calendar’, as well as medieval grimoires and the Clavicula Salomonis, this scroll was designed to invoke powerful spiritual and angelic protections for its owner, 17th-century magician Franz-Anton Buechler.

This Icelandic manuscript of magic, known as the “Huld” manuscript, presumably derives its name from the word “hulda” meaning secrecy, and was compiled from three older sources by Geir Vigfússon in 1860. These ten selected pages from the manuscript feature “stafir,” or what we might call sigils today.

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David Allen Hulse, The Eastern Mysteries—An Encyclopedic Guide to the Sacred Languages & Magickal Systems of the World

reciprocal system of theory

General map of Western Philosophy from Pre-Socratic through Modern era

Eileen Agar (Argentine-British 1899-1991), Ladybird, 1936. Gelatin silver print with gouache and ink, 76 × 51 cm. 

Roberto Assagioli’s Consciousness Egg

The Self is a transpersonal center, a source of essential being, an inner counsellor guiding us to truth, meaning, and purpose. The Self is represented as a star, and appears at the top and bottom at the top of the diagram.