Ghayat al-Hakim (Picatrix)

The Ghayat al-Hakim, known in its Latin translation as the Picatrix, is a medieval Arabic primary text of astrological magic, and this record holds it at the tier appropriate to a primary esoteric tradition text rather than outside scholarship verifying its claims: it is the tradition's own statement of a system, including the twenty-eight lunar mansions, not independent confirmation that the system it describes works as claimed. As a primary text it is authoritative for what this specific text itself prescribes, checkable against the translation, not for a modern scholarly history of how astrological magic developed or was practiced across the medieval Islamic and Latin worlds. Use it for the content of this text's own lunar mansion and astrological magic system; a claim about the broader history of this practice needs a dedicated modern scholarly source.