Raphael's Ancient Manuscript of Talismanic Magic

About this book

Planetary squares and protective seals fill a handbook that promises the practical power of signs. Names, diagrams and numbers are arranged according to old traditions of talismanic magic.

This edition associates Raphael's astrological material with L. W. de Laurence's publishing enterprise, which repeatedly repackaged and retitled earlier occult texts. The illustrations preserve a history of how ceremonial formulas moved into affordable manuals. The talismans remain its most distinctive feature: apparently precise printed shapes to which the tradition assigned extraordinary powers.