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Translated into Latin from Baudelaire's L'art pour l'art. Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While symmetrical for the logo of MGM, the better word order in Latin is "Ars artis gratia". ars longa, vita brevis: art is long, life is short: Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1, translating a phrase of Hippocrates that is often used out of context. The "art ...
Most of the text is in Latin, with the exception of two appended materials in German and Italian. [2] One of the most famous sections of the Munich Manual is the Bond of Solomon, a ritual that supposedly allows the magician to bind demons for the purpose of either guarding him, providing treasures, or answering questions on any matter. [3]
72 seals from The Lesser Key of Solomon. The term sigil derives from the Latin sigillum (pl. sigilla), meaning "seal". [2] In medieval magic, the term sigil was commonly used to refer to occult signs which represented various angels and demons which the practitioner might summon.
This is a list of Wikipedia articles of Latin phrases and their translation into English. To view all phrases on a single, lengthy document, see: List of Latin phrases (full) The list is also divided alphabetically into twenty pages:
Archdemon, a powerful demon in some spiritual writings; Argenteum Astrum; Aries, an astrological sign; Ariolation, soothsaying or prophecy; Ariosophy; Arithmancy; Armanen runes, runes created by the Nazi occultist Guido von List, which he claimed to represent a series of alleged Aryan mythical kings; Armomancy, divination through a person's arm ...
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In demonology, sigils are pictorial signatures attributed to demons, angels, or other beings. In the ceremonial magic of the Middle Ages, sigils were used in the summoning of these beings and were the pictorial equivalent to their true name.
Cei-u – used by the DC Comics superhero, Johnny Thunder, to summon his magical genie-like Thunderbolt. Fus Ro Dah – used as a shout by those with the Voice in the Elder Scrolls video game series. Hex! Hex! – used by Bibi Blocksberg in the popular German children's audio drama series, called Bibi Blocksberg and Bibi and Tina.