Göklerden Hayat Devşirmek: Tılsımlar ve Yıldızların Gücü

The Natural Philosophers do not want an image to be fashioned from just any metal or stone, but from a specific one. In such a material, the celestial nature has already naturally begun a power for the very thing that is desired, and has, as it were, almost perfected it, just as a flame is latent in sulfur. This power is finally perfected only when this material is vigorously agitated by art under a similar celestial influence, and through that agitation, it grows warm. Therefore, art awakens the power that was begun there, and while it shapes it into a figure similar to its own celestial figure, it then fully exposes it to its own Idea; once it is thus exposed, the heavens perfect it with the same power by which they began it. The crafting of figures has no efficacy anywhere except where the material agrees in both substance and effect with the star from which the craftsman hopes to receive this power. Therefore, they advise using no materials for images except those very ones which are known to you to already possess nearly the same power that you desire. Thus, they command us to most diligently examine the powers of small stones and metals, and meanwhile to remember that among stones, the Carbuncle flashing in the darkness, and especially the Pantaura, are subject to the Sun; the Sapphire to Jupiter; and the Emerald to Venus, Mercury, and the Moon.