Leo Ruickbie doth schreibble :
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> I've been raking through the grimoires looking for something on
> capturing spirits/souls, especially then imprisoning them in objects. So
> far I've not turned up anything interesting. Does anyone have any
> refs/pointers to specifically European magical techniques? Also, I know
> there are some practising magicians on this list: has anyone actually
> tried this?
That's exactly what we do when we create a talisman, Leo.
Although, one could argue that we are no more 'imprisoning'
spirits than a radio 'imprisons' voices or music ;)
Have you looked at Lazzarelli's take on the *Crater Hermetis*
and the ensouled statues?
See, for example:
*Sympathy of the Devil:
Renaissance Magic and the Ambivalence of Idols*
by Wouter J. Hanegraaff
http://tinyurl.com/y3y45a
*Golem:
Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions
on the Artificial Anthropoid*
by Moshe Idel
(Preview @GoogleBooks)
http://tinyurl.com/27ebbpg
*Spiritual and Demonic Magic
from Ficino to Campanella*
by Daniel Pickering Walker
(Preview @GoogleBooks)
http://tinyurl.com/2dh78hq
*Three Books on Life*
by Marsilio Ficino (.PDF)
His Book "On Obtaining Life
from the Heavens"
translated by
Carol V. Kaske and
John R. Clark
http://tinyurl.com/d3udqt
*Ars Paulina*
~ in ~
*The Lemegeton*
@EsotericArchives.com
http://tinyurl.com/d58se
*Pagan Mysteries of the Renaissance*
by Edgar Wind
Yale University Press, 1958.
http://tinyurl.com/37stmfx
<some discussion of Botticelli's 'ensouled' paintings
in Wind's PMR>
*Magia Sexualis*
by Paschal Beverly Randolph
http://tinyurl.com/2akl4bd
<some discussion of /procedures for 'ensouled' paintings
in Randolph, too>
Cors in Manu Domine,
~ Khem Caigan
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"Heat and Moisture are Active to Generation;
Cold and Dryness are Passive, in and to each Thing;
Fire and Air, Active by Elementation;
Water and Earth, Passive to Generation."
*Of the Division of Chaos*
-Dr. Simon Forman
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