Over the centuries many books have been written claiming that loyal readers and followers of the text will be bestowed with magical powers. The Ars Notoria promised intellectual superpowers!
Just fascinating, I was struck with the idea of ‘entanglement’‼️ its theory coming from an ancient book, but so relevant in today’s discourse on computers and entanglement, amazing to see the same theory from so many centuries ago. Also a wonderful link to esoteric archives, the book and so much more free for the curious 👀🤔 thank you for your post.🙏😀
This article by M.R. Reese is outdated and lacking credible references.
The Ars Notoria: The Notory Art of Solomon, Shewing the Cabalistical Key of Magical Operations, The liberal Sciences, Divine Revelation, and The Art of Memory which is found in The Lesser Key of Solomon (also called the Lemegeton, not Clavicula Salmonis Regis) is Robert Turner's own title to his 1657 English translation of an abridged Latin edition posthumously published in the Opera Omnia (Collected Works, c. 1620), vol. 2 (pages 603-660) of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486 – 1535), the German occult writer. This Latin edition, originally titled Ars Notoria, quam Creator Altissimus Salomoni revelavit (The Notory Art, which the Almighty Creator Revealed to Solomon) was not authored by Agrippa but is an anonymous work edited along with other assorted works by the Beringos brothers who compiled and published these works, featuring Agrippa as the leading author of material found therein. The Latin edition is an imperfect and incomplete composite of three parts: (1) the fourteenth-century long and glossed version of the Ars Notoria (called Version B), (2) the mid-fourteenth-century angelic magic treatise called the Ars Brevis (The Short Art), and (3) special blended material of both. The Ars Brevis is a derivative text of the Ars Notoria containing an alternate version of the notory art ritual of prayers and figures from a Catholic perspective, including the performance of votive masses and prayers to the Virgin Mary. The short version of the Ars Notoria (called Version A by the French historian Julien Véronèse) is dated to the thirteenth-century and is the original text. Matthias Castle has published the complete English translation of the Ars Notoria, the Ars Brevis, and three other related works in his Ars Notoria: The Notory Art of Solomon: A Medieval Treatise on Angelic Magic & the Art of Memory (2023).
The strange prayers found in the Ars Notoria are given a false impression that they are written in "Greek, Chaldean, and Hebrew", but in fact they are not. These strange prayers are akin to voces magicae ("magical calls") in that they are incomprehensible words and syllables that sound like indecipherable speech. These strange prayers may have been formulated by the esoteric and Judaic tradition of interpreting sacred scripture by means of the exegetical method called notarikon. In fact, this may be the origin of the name “ars notoria,” which is translated as “notory art”. To learn about what notarikon is, check out Matthias Castle's blog under "Ars Notoria: Why is It Called the Notory Art?" Outside of the estoeric realm, the notory art is a method of shorthand writing. Certainly there is a commonality found between these two distinct subjects. Aside from these strange prayers, the other prayers are written in Latin as is the rest of the text.
Modern scholarship on the work of John of Morigny has been updated such that his entire work is now called Liber Florum Caelestis Doctrinae (The Book of Flowers of Heavenly Teaching). The Latin edition and commentary were published by Claire Fanger and Nicholas Watson in 2015. The title Liber Visonum (The Book of Visions) is the first book of three belonging to John's new compilation tradition.
The magnetic telegraph experiment is found at the conclusion of the central work on angelic magic, Ars Notoria: The Notory Art of Solomon, Shewing the Cabalistical Key of Magical Operations, The liberal Sciences, Divine Revelation, and The Art of Memory translated by the Englishman Robert Turner in 1657. The magnetic telegraph experiment is Robert Turner's own inclusion and was never a part of nor has anything to do with the Ars Notoria. You can read more about this experiment at Matthias Castle's blog under "The Occult Wonders of the Magnetic Telegraph."
Great article. The ancients had a definite grasp of the concept of what we presently refer to as "quantum entanglement theory ". They knew how words can be used to create thought forms which has shaped our present (illusion) we call reality!!!
Just fascinating, I was struck with the idea of ‘entanglement’‼️ its theory coming from an ancient book, but so relevant in today’s discourse on computers and entanglement, amazing to see the same theory from so many centuries ago. Also a wonderful link to esoteric archives, the book and so much more free for the curious 👀🤔 thank you for your post.🙏😀
This article by M.R. Reese is outdated and lacking credible references.
The Ars Notoria: The Notory Art of Solomon, Shewing the Cabalistical Key of Magical Operations, The liberal Sciences, Divine Revelation, and The Art of Memory which is found in The Lesser Key of Solomon (also called the Lemegeton, not Clavicula Salmonis Regis) is Robert Turner's own title to his 1657 English translation of an abridged Latin edition posthumously published in the Opera Omnia (Collected Works, c. 1620), vol. 2 (pages 603-660) of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486 – 1535), the German occult writer. This Latin edition, originally titled Ars Notoria, quam Creator Altissimus Salomoni revelavit (The Notory Art, which the Almighty Creator Revealed to Solomon) was not authored by Agrippa but is an anonymous work edited along with other assorted works by the Beringos brothers who compiled and published these works, featuring Agrippa as the leading author of material found therein. The Latin edition is an imperfect and incomplete composite of three parts: (1) the fourteenth-century long and glossed version of the Ars Notoria (called Version B), (2) the mid-fourteenth-century angelic magic treatise called the Ars Brevis (The Short Art), and (3) special blended material of both. The Ars Brevis is a derivative text of the Ars Notoria containing an alternate version of the notory art ritual of prayers and figures from a Catholic perspective, including the performance of votive masses and prayers to the Virgin Mary. The short version of the Ars Notoria (called Version A by the French historian Julien Véronèse) is dated to the thirteenth-century and is the original text. Matthias Castle has published the complete English translation of the Ars Notoria, the Ars Brevis, and three other related works in his Ars Notoria: The Notory Art of Solomon: A Medieval Treatise on Angelic Magic & the Art of Memory (2023).
The strange prayers found in the Ars Notoria are given a false impression that they are written in "Greek, Chaldean, and Hebrew", but in fact they are not. These strange prayers are akin to voces magicae ("magical calls") in that they are incomprehensible words and syllables that sound like indecipherable speech. These strange prayers may have been formulated by the esoteric and Judaic tradition of interpreting sacred scripture by means of the exegetical method called notarikon. In fact, this may be the origin of the name “ars notoria,” which is translated as “notory art”. To learn about what notarikon is, check out Matthias Castle's blog under "Ars Notoria: Why is It Called the Notory Art?" Outside of the estoeric realm, the notory art is a method of shorthand writing. Certainly there is a commonality found between these two distinct subjects. Aside from these strange prayers, the other prayers are written in Latin as is the rest of the text.
Modern scholarship on the work of John of Morigny has been updated such that his entire work is now called Liber Florum Caelestis Doctrinae (The Book of Flowers of Heavenly Teaching). The Latin edition and commentary were published by Claire Fanger and Nicholas Watson in 2015. The title Liber Visonum (The Book of Visions) is the first book of three belonging to John's new compilation tradition.
The magnetic telegraph experiment is found at the conclusion of the central work on angelic magic, Ars Notoria: The Notory Art of Solomon, Shewing the Cabalistical Key of Magical Operations, The liberal Sciences, Divine Revelation, and The Art of Memory translated by the Englishman Robert Turner in 1657. The magnetic telegraph experiment is Robert Turner's own inclusion and was never a part of nor has anything to do with the Ars Notoria. You can read more about this experiment at Matthias Castle's blog under "The Occult Wonders of the Magnetic Telegraph."
Great article. The ancients had a definite grasp of the concept of what we presently refer to as "quantum entanglement theory ". They knew how words can be used to create thought forms which has shaped our present (illusion) we call reality!!!
Loved this!!!