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Some of you have never drawn a spirit into a good clear pellucid crystal, of the bigneſs of a small orange, and it shows.
Do you think the pure gold plate and ivory dish are necessary for trifemius table LOL
No.
The Trithemius method as described in Barrett’s The Magus is surprisingly easy to accomplish by its most bare of components.
This is my set up
I’ve heard from other magicians that they achieved results with the table drawn on paper and using a cup of water as the scrying implement.
So long as you have a table of practise, a scrying device (I prefer a crystal ball but a mirror, obsidian or a vessel of water will do) your pretty much good to go and will more than likely achieve some results.
As long as I am in the swing of sharing my wood crafting, this is my DSIC Table of practice. I finished the Seven spheres a couple of months ago, so I decided to get into the classic more deeply.
Made of wood, pyrographed, edges are bronzed.
I have to say, I am enjoying making the tools almost as much as using them.
Think what you will about me, I know you can make do with drawings on paper, even printed paper, I like things of substance, I like decorating the tools so I guess the two hobbies, magic and the need to make stuff go hand in hand:)
A post about the Table of practice below this one is coming, because I have questions for my fellow magicians, about the modified Table of practice from the Seven spheres.
For just as the good and bad aerial spirits created by God on high to assist and profit us (through an understanding of which, all the secrets of this art are revealed) are infinite beyond number and utterly incomprehensible, so likewise all the ways, methods, distinctions, characteristics and operations of this our art which we call Steganography (which keeps secrets and arcana and mysteries completely safe from exposure to any mortal, however studious or clever) cannot be accessed in full. This science is a chaos of infinite depth which no one can comprehend completely. For however expert and adept you may be in this art, you will always have learned less than what you do not know.
Johannes Trithemius’s Steganographia
Trithemius on the unknowability of encryption. Read the translated text here.
Definitely late to the DSIC party, but definitely looking forward to trying this out! It'll be a good way to work on scrying and evocation in one fell swoop.
Page from Francis Barrett’s The Magus: The Magic and Philosophy of Trithemius of Spanheim, originally published in Johannes Trithemius’ Secret Things and Doctrine of Spirits: The Art of Drawing Spirits into Crystals, based upon concepts by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Peter de Abano (text by Francis Barrett, artist unknown, 1801 CE).
(via Twilit Grotto - Esoteric Archives)
