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Looking for more information about a spirit.

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    Consultor Espiritual Arabe
  • 26 de set. de 2020
  • 3 min de leitura


Looking for more information about a spirit. It's name is Floron, he is mentioned in two manuscripts.

One is clm 849, the Munich manuscript of demonic magic, which is in Kieckhefer "forbidden rites". Where it is linked to an operation called "The Mirror of Floron".

The other is Leipzig University Ms Cod. Mag. 78 (the image at the bottom are from these two manuscript)

I'm looking for information about it because it's mentioned many times in Italian literature.

The first mention as a spirit is in Tractatus De Sphaera of Cecco d'Ascoli (1269-1327), where Floron is mentioned as a familiar spirit of Cecco.

The spirit is also mentioned by Anonymous Roman in "Life of Cola di Rienzo" (half XIV century), where it's said that in the man's chamber after his death was found a steel mirror with character and figures and that in that mirror was the spirit of "Fiorone" (alternate name of Floron), and that mirror was destined to conjure that demon.

Giordano Bruno also mentions Cecco d'Ascoli many times, and in the "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast" (1584) this implies that he knew his writings. He also mentions Floron, saying (I'm translating from XVII century italian).

"...There were the mages of the chalybean mirror look for the oracles of Floron, one of the great princes of the arctic spirits..."

and that spirit is connected to the "northern constellation of the Bear".

In one of his commentary of "de immenso et innumerabilibus", Bruno says: «Nec mentitus est Cicco Aesculano Floron spiritus, qui de umbra lunae interrogatus quid esset, respondit: ut terra terra est...»

Some authors in the XX century in some roman magazines of culture wanted to identify Floron-Fiorone with the "Genius Loci" of Rome.

This is also alluded to by the italian poet Francesco Petrarca, when saying "that healthy genius..." in some mail with Cola di Rienzo.

It is also mentioned by Petrarca as "odorous spirit of Fiorone", "gentle spirit", and "of the same nature of the greek Demone of Socrates".

In some encyclopedia entries of Italian academy in the past, it says that a variant of Floron is "Fitone '' /"Fitonico ''.

By a third party source, it says that even Dante mentions Floron but i couldn't find the source of it.

By many scholars, it says that the mirrors found in these kinds of conjurations are reminiscent of the shape of Etruscan mirrors, also used in divinatory practices.

Also related to it is said to be the etruscan word Phleres/Phlere, which was engraved in these mirrors. This word means simulacrum or god, and that in time it was changed by the folk in Fiore/Fiorone.

In many texts, one among them is Lynn Thorndike "history of magic and experimental science" is said that for Cecco d'Ascoli, Floron was imprisoned in a mirror of steel through a powerful invocation, and knew many secrets of nature. This procedure reminds of the imprisoned in the triangle used later. Cecco also said that Floron is of the hierarchy of Cherubim.

Another source where Floron is mentioned is in the satyric poem Morgante by Luigi Pulci, an intellectual in the circle of Lorenzo de Medici in Florence.

In his poem, it's said that "Floro" and "Farès" are two fairy/sprites, and that "you will speak with them in a mirror where they are binded" and many "worthy things will say Floro".

An interesting coincidence is that in catholic religion, there are two saints, Floro and Lauro which are twins, and they "joke" a roman tribune by turning a temple into a church, and they are killed by throwing in a well. The parallel is that both the mirror and the water are reflecting surfaces used in catoptromancy.

As I said in the beginning, I'm looking for info, names that could be said in other manuscripts, since here many people are studying them directly.

My guess right now, as names, were links with the lemegeton "Flauros, Flavos", or perhaps the verum Fleruty/Fleuretty, since the root word of Floron is "flower, and the same could be for the french "fleur".


 
 
 

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mostlyacademicresearch
27 de mar. de 2023

Hello!


I too am interested in Floron, and the history of his particular brand of catoptromancy. Here is some of what I have found, in addition to your research. First off, there are other extant versions of the ritual for his mirror, beyond the two given in the Munich Manual and the one found in Leipzig Manuscript CM 78 which you mention here. In addition to these there is also the Leipzig Manuscript CM 32. This MS is titled "Præparatio Speculi Salomonis insignis & sigillium Josuæ," and contains the recipes for three magic mirrors, the first of which is inscribed with the name of Floron and “allows for knowing everything that is spoken anywhere.” I would love to g…


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