The Smoking Gun in the Ars Notoria: A Medieval Grimoire Opens with the Zoroastrian Creed
Word-for-word textual evidence that the most famous "Solomonic" prayer manual is reciting Yasna 12 The Claim Open Robert Turner's 1657 English translation of the Ars Notoria — the medieval magical manuscript Latin Christendom called "the Notory Art of Solomon" — to page three.
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Word-for-word textual evidence that the most famous "Solomonic" prayer manual is reciting Yasna 12 The Claim Open Robert Turner's 1657 English translation of the Ars Notoria — the medieval magical manuscript Latin Christendom called "the Notory Art of Solomon" — to page three. The very first oration the practitioner is told to speak, before any other prayer, before any contemplation of the notae , before any of the famous angelic invocations, ends with this petition: "compleat, fulfil, restore, and implant a sound Understanding in me, that I may glorifie thee and all thy Works, in all my Thoughts, Words, and Deeds ." The Latin underneath reads: per omnia opera cognitationum mearum & verborum meorum — through all the works of my thoughts and my words. The translator has rendered it expansively, but the structure is unmistakable.
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Yasna · Avesta · Hebrew Bible · New Testament