Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge
John turned to the Ars Notoria after being unable to afford traditional study resources, dedicating himself to its rituals. Over a month-long practice he experienced increasingly disturbing visions that revealed the text contained demonic invocations disguised as prayers. The visions culminated in an intervention by the Virgin, who declared the Ars Notoria to be deeply evil.
- ▪John abandoned his formal studies because he could not afford books and lectures, opting to use the Ars Notoria for instant knowledge.
- ▪He performed a continuous ritual for a lunar month, after which he began receiving ambiguous and threatening visions involving three figures and arrogant entities.
- ▪John eventually recognized that the Ars Notoria concealed demonic invocations within seemingly beautiful prayers, leading to a life‑threatening vision and a warning from the Virgin that the work was profoundly evil.
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| Original publisher | The Public Domain Review |
| Canonical URL | https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/ars-notoria/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:18:24 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-02T10:45:40.306Z |
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John records that the Ars notoria was especially attractive because he could not afford all the books needed for his studies, nor the many lectures. He seems to have abandoned his official course, wishing to take advantage of the promise of knowledge of all the sciences, and devoted himself to working with the Ars. He even used the Ars to teach his younger sister Latin and introduce her to magic. He believed he had worked out how to make the rituals work — and followed one (unnamed) ritual for a whole lunar month, ending correctly on the night before the new moon. That night, John experienced a disturbingly ambiguous vision, in which three figures (whom he at first thought to be the Trinity) ordered him to continue using the book for a further eight days.
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