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be as you wish. An image to generate peace and love between two people. Make two images under the ascendant of the question,55 and make fortunate the ascendant and tenth house, and remove malefics from the ascendant, and make the lord of the tenth house fortunate and applying to the lord of the ascendant by a trine or sextile aspect. Here, however, I wish to make clear what is necessary concerning aspects. I say that the trine is an aspect of perfect love, and the reason for this is that each sign of a fiery nature aspects one another with a trine aspect and signs of earthy nature aspect one another with a trine aspect, and you may understand similarly the aerial and aquatic signs; and this aspect causes perfect friendship. The sextile is an aspect of moderate friendship, because the signs that aspect each other by this aspect agree in their active but not passive nature,56 and this is why this aspect is said to be of moderate amity. The square aspect is of moderate hatred, because they aspect each other from contrary natures. The opposition is an aspect of perfect hatred, because the signs that so aspect each other are contrary in all four natural qualities. But now let us return to our topic. Now I will explain how you should make a twofold image. If you do this for two friends, make the eleventh house of the first image the ascendant of the second image; and if you wish to generate friendship between man and wife, make the ascendant of the second image the seventh house of the first image. And make it so the lord of the ascendant of the one who will return the friendship makes a good aspect with reception to the lord of the ascendant of the other image. Then join the images and bury them in the place of the one who is to have friendship and they will be friends as before. An image to place love between two people. Make two images with Venus rising in the first face of Cancer and the Moon in the first face of Taurus in the eleventh house. When the images are made attach them so they are embracing each other and bury them in the place of one or the other. There will be affection and durable love between the two of them. These are called figures of alteration, and Ptolemy speaks of them in aphorism 33 of his Centiloquium.^ We will speak of this in the fourth book of our work; there we will explain more about this, if God wills.
55 This implies that the magician first casts a horary chart for the working, and uses that chart as the basis for the magical image. 56 The elements share one of their two qualities but not both—for example, Aries (fire) and Gemini (air) share the quality of warmth, but one is dry while the other is moist. 57 One of the classic handbooks of astrology used in the Middle Ages, the Centiloquium of Claudius Ptolemy consists of one hundred astrological apliorisms.