The Art of Cyprian’s Mirror of Four Kings
In The Art of Cyprian’s Mirror of Four Kings, Alexander Cummins illuminates the Cyprianic dimensions of the directional courts of the various cardinal kings and their messenger-king attendants in the grimoiric corpus.
The Art of Cyprian, found in MS Sloane 3850, contains instructions for the construction and use of a magic mirror attributed Saint Cyprian of Antioch. Along with the preparation of the mirror itself – which includes making and consecrating a particular ink for drafting certain figures of Solomon – come instructions detailing a conjuration of the ‘four worthy princes of the earth’, including a special appeal to the King of the East as their primus inter pares, and a dismissal of these same ‘four kings of the four parts of the world’.
The Art of Cyprian’s Mirror of Four Kings: An Early Modern Experiment of Cyprianic Conjuration
Dr Alexander Cummins
ISBN 978-1-914166-75-4
A Guide to the Underworld.
Published November 2021.
28 pages.
