GRIMOIRES - TALISMANS - MAGIC SQUARES Talismans are magical figures designed to achieve certain effects by spiritual means - usually by evoking the power of a particular angel or demon. Among the most widely used of such talismans are the magic squares, which contain the power of the planets, and are believed to evoke specific planetary spirits. Each of the seven traditional planets has an associate magical square, in which a number of quadratures contain numbers which give the same total, whether added vertically or horizontally. The following four magical squares are derived from a work of the Paracelsian arcanist, Israel Hiebner, Mysterium Sigillorum Herbarum et LapidumO 1651. From top, reading left to right. The obverse and reverse of the magical square talisman for the planet Saturn: for Jupiter