Ars Notoria The Grimoire Of Rapid Learning By Magic With The Golden Flowers Of Apollonius Of Tyana Stephen Skinner Daniel Clark by Stephen Skinner & Daniel Clark 9780738764528, 0738764523 instant download after payment.

The Ars Notoria, or 'Notary
Art,' is a Mediaeval grimoire designed to assist monks (or anyone) to learn
whole subjects in as short a time as a month, through the intervention of
angels. It has procedures for vastly improving memory and understanding, such
that a single reading of a complex text will enable the aspirant to absorb and
understood it. The procedure consisted of short prayers (to set the scene)
followed by orations or invocations made up of lists of the secret names of
angels (some say demons) who will assist the aspirant in these feats of memory.
These are read or chanted whilst the aspirant looks at a "nota,” a
complex design which encapsulates the essence of the desired subject. These nota
are unlike the sigils of any other grimoire, and were drawn with exquisite
attention to detail.

 The oldest manuscript of the Ars
Notoria dates from 1225, and is printed here in full. Despite the passage
of almost 800 years, the Ars Notoria has never been published before
with both its text and all its notae (plural of nota) complete.
This edition has four other full-colour complete sets of notae from the
three following centuries. The commentary explains where the Ars Notoria
fits into the history of magic (it was not part of the Lemegetori),
charts the development of the notae, and the lives of the magicians who
were associated with it.

 The Ars Notoria is a mediaeval
grimoire, or magician's manual, which was widely distributed and very popular
in the 13th-16th centuries. Although virtually unknown today, it is still very
relevant because it consists of techniques still usable and useful today.

 Solomon reputedly received the book
from the hand of the angel Pamphilius, and it was later translated by
Apollonius of Tyana who called it the Golden Flowers.