Astral High Magic

The 21st century has brought an incredible upsurge in interest in the esoteric. Along with a flood of contemporary books on magic and astrology, often introductory or New Age oriented, some have been drawn to the authentic, ancient magic of our illustrious predecessors. Thabit Ibn Qurra, the 9th century author of De Imaginibus, truly deserves the title of sage. A master of all the arts and sciences of his day, Thabit translated many books of science and philosophy from Greek and Syriac to Arabic. While still famed as a scientist, Thabit also was renowned as a master mage and astrologer. De…