Cover of the Summa Sacrae Magicae of Berengarius Ganellus, once owned by John Dee and recently discovered. It is divided into 5 books, and is listed on Trithemius’ catalogue of necromantic books.
view the entire volume here:
http://orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/viewer/image/1343812736802/1/
Month: February 2013
Terracotta Figure of Isis-Aphrodite
Roman Egypt (2nd Century AD)
The result of an amalgamation of the Egyptian goddess Isis and the Greek Goddess Aphrodite. She was concerned with childbirth, marriage and rebirth. She wears a calathos on her head emblazoned with the disk and horns of Isis. Figures of her are found in both domestic and funerary contexts.
Source:The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The hermetic Crab: Book of rosicruciae notes. Trithemius’ letter to aggripa & Agrippa biography
The hermetic Crab: Book of rosicruciae notes. Trithemius’ letter to aggripa & Agrippa biography
The fist correspondence here is a letter from John Trithemius(councilor, friend, and guide to paracelsus and agrippa) to Henry Cornelius Agrippa Von Nettesheim(philosophic initiate, member of the world council, and member of L’Ordre du Lis.)
Trithemius to Agrippa
I, John Trithemius, Abbot of St….