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^ Picatrix ^
a stone shaped like a lentil with many different colors
could be found in India and sometimes in the Iranian
mountains, used in the old time as a drug to cure some eye
diseases and all bright and glorious red stones of top quality.
As for metals it rules the pure gold and its plants are all
tall and glamorous looking plants like palm trees and
grapevines, also saffron, narcissus, and roses. The Sun also
shares rulership with Saturn over wheat, kermes and olives.
Its drags are aloes wood, sandalwood, silicon and glue beside
everything else requiring fumdcrafting talent and contains in
its nature a great heat.
Its scent, a high quality aloe wood, tor its animals every
supportive strong, helpful and courageous aninmls like fugitive
kinds of camels, noble horses, mountain rams and all birds
whicft kings prefer like gyrfalcon and vultures, it also rules
over great snakes, peacocks, cows and sheep. It also shares
with Mars rulership over tigers and it has for colors;
medium redness and golden yellowness and thus is its symbol:
O
VEN US is the source of the power of desire; it rales over the
theories of poetry, grammar and literary science as well as
writing compositions. It rules the Arabic language as well as
the external body part the left side of the nose and its interior
organ is the sperm tube and the stomacii which is considered
the source of all desire, restorative for the rest of the bodv that
which we enjoy with delicious food and drink and makes
everything taste better.