Renaissance Magic Part II
“Before the Council of Trent, the inauguration of the Counter-Reformation and the establishment of European-wide inquisitorial activity in the mid 16th century; the practice of magic was pervasive at all levels of society across Europe. The particular form of magic prevalent amongst the Renaissance elite was learned astral magic utilising the daemones associated with the energeia of the planets, constellations, and fixed stars.
Along with the employment of assassins, spies and agents of influence, astrology and attack magic routinely provided an integral part of the hidden ways and means of statecraft. Effectiveness in the competitive arena of Renaissance politics required astrological prognostication and the commissioning of offensive magical operations from ritual specialists; and these, in turn, required the assistance of daemonic beings naturally suited to, and efficacious in, both defending against and inflicting violence. The Sola-Busca Tarocchi deck is specifically designed to encode just such a system of sorcery. The routine commissioning of acts of dark sorcery by state actors is universally attested in pre-modern cultures.
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