Living Pictures of Art Magic

p 116: LIVING PICTURES
In "Sexual Magic", Maria de Naglowska says:

Under certain conditions, by scrupulously accomplishing the magical work that will be explained in this chapter, one can animate, that is to say render truly alive, certain portraits and statues, in order to influence one or many senses of a chosen man or woman. The influence, that one thus projects, can be mental or physical, indifferently.
The doctrine of Living Magical Pictures is not new. In the middle ages, certain painters knew it very well and applied it to their art; but, also, one finds cases where the human magnetic fluid is concentrated in an old portrait, forgotten in the corner of a salon of some feudal chateau through the monotonous years, until it is discovered to reveal scenes of violent passions. One also speaks of certain sacred paintings, made on the walls of Christian temples. They can become suddenly animated and exhibit real wonders.
Obviously, the will of the wise man initiated in the mysteries of the great magical art can better and more surely create this than a fortuitous discovery. The mages and sorcerers of the preceding centuries knew it and they studied this problem thoroughly.They teach, in their rediscovered writings, that an oil paint, made with the oil of the poppy, is an excellent fluid condenser and a gold guilded frame is a perfect insulator.
Fixed on the wall of a church, where persons kneeling in prayer often see it, or hung on the silk drapes of a salon, where it is exalted in dreams and violent passions, and artistic work may become, little by little, the true center of life. The oil holds the human fluids and the guilded frame prevents leakage of them.We must not forget that some charlatans and other men of bad faith have shamefully profited from this averred truth to gain money by deceiving credulous clients; but this does not negate that which is nevertheless true.We possess many authentic grimoires in our lodge which tract of this subject. When we read these ancient writings, it seems to us that sometimes the green eye of the true magic of the Evil One flashes its terrible gaze at us.
For example, we find, in certain receipts, that a mixture of colors, to which has been added the blood of a fetus, which has been pulled out of the belly of its mother by the operation of the cross, is of a sublime efficacy. Of other receipts we see, that if one mixes into the paint some drops of the blood of a pure virgin, who is offered, after this, to the pleasure of a succubus, one may give formidable power to a living picture.
There are some drugs, recommended to painters, which contain a human magnetic charge, to be used during solitary excitation. Their effect is particularly malefic. Living pictures have been used through the dark ages to perpetrate mysterious assassinations: An enemy, masked by the gentleness of the gift offered, sends out death in a succubique picture, and the person receiving the gift, who hangs the portrait in his room, will die soon after.The Holy Inquisition enforced an end to these terrifying abuses by burning the manuscripts of the mages and persecuting the sorcerers. The entire science of magic could have disappeared in this ferocious reaction of Catholicism but, fortunately for us and for the future of humanity, they found some philosophies which concealed the secret and were thus protected from the vengeful hands. These were works that cultivated the magical art for pure motives of initiated wisdom.It is thus that one of our brothers, living in Spain in the first half of the 18th century, was able to recover manuscripts containing some receipts and counsels of great importance. This brother devoted ten years of his life to these studies and researches.
[And so on ... Please refer to the book. ]