The Comprehensive Translations of Hermes on the Fifteen Fixed Stars

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Description by Renaissance Astrology:—

De Quindecim Stellis, or the Book of Hermes on the Fifteen Fixed Stars, is the most important medieval and Renaissance source on the magic of the Behenian fixed stars which circulated in a number of different manuscript variants. Now for the first time, all four major variants of De Quindecim Stellis: Quadripertitus, Tabula XV stellarum, Liber Enoch and Liber Thebit, with 7 variant sets of sigils, all appear in translation in one volume. Also included are major medieval and Renaissance sources reliant on De Quindecim Stellis including Marsilio Ficino and Cornelius Agrippa making this a truly comprehensive translation.

The translator, Regulus Hess, is a researcher into the magic and lore of the Middle Ages and in addition to the excellent translations of De Quindecim Stellis, has provided a commentary, notes on the texts and extensive footnotes that give an exhaustive scholarly perspective.

Also included is a commentary by Christopher Warnock who provides a practical yet rigorous methodology, based on a spiritual worldview, that allows advanced contemporary practitioners of traditional astrological magic, like their medieval and Renaissance predecessors, to use the extensive information provided in De Quindecim Stellis to elect and create authentic and powerful fixed star talismans. Warnock also points the way to reconcile the variant versions of De Quindecim Stellis and to avoid arguments over the “best” translation.

The illustrations in De Quindecim Stellis include not only seven beautiful sets of sigil variants, but also includes eight, hitherto unpublished, fixed star sketches by the talented esoteric artist Nigel Jackson.

CONTENTS

Translator’s Introduction—Regulus Hess
Notes on the Texts—Regulus Hess
De Quindecim Stellis Translations—Regulus Hess
❧ Quadripertitus
❧ Tabula XV stellarum
❧ Liber Enoch
❧ Liber Thebit
Translations of Traditional Sources Using De Quindecim Stellis—Regulus Hess
❧ Confessio Amantis—John Gower
❧ De vita libri tres, “Three Books on Life”—Marsilio Ficino
❧ Speculum lapidum—Camillo Leonardi
❧ De harmonia mundi—Francesco Giorgi
❧ De occulta philosophia libri III, “Three Books of Occult Philosophy”—Cornelius Agrippa
A Practical Commentary on De Quindecim Stellis—Christopher Warnock
Tables of Latin Names of Stones and Herbs
2022 Fixed Star Zodiacal Longitude
Bibliography
Fixed Star Sketches—Nigel Jackson