Balder Ex-Libris

Authors : Warnock Christopher - Greer John Michael
Title : Secrets of planetary ritual Sabian planetary invocations from Picatrix
Year : 2012

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Introduction. Secrets of Planetary Ritual is a full English translation of the planetary rituals of the Harranian Sabians as contained in David Pingree’s Latin critical edition of Picatrix Book Three, chapters 7 & 9. Harran, located in the southeast of modern day Turkey, has a history going back thousands of years as a spiritual center. At the junction of numerous trade routes in Asia Minor it first came into prominence as the city of the Mesopotamian Moon god Sin. As a center of worship of the Moon several great lunar temples were built there. Harran is also associated with Abraham, a prophet of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. "Then Abraham came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Harran: and from there, when his father was dead, God sent him into this land, in which you now live." Acts 7:4. From an esoteric standpoint, however, it is the association of Harran with the Sabians that is of greatest importance. The Sabians of Harran were renowned as pagans, the last remnants of the civilization of the Greeks and Romans. ...