A Collection and Study of Medieval and Renaissance Magic

"The human body is an alchemical athanor for those who have become familiar with the occult truth, like a pot in which the earthly aspirations by which an ordinary mortal lives are digested and boiled. In the human body, which contains analogues of everything that is present in nature in all its fourfoldness, there is an instrument for the highest purification of the four elements themselves, so that you can gradually achieve a higher state."

— Giuliano Kremmerz "Corpus philosophorum totius magiae"

"The God of the Macrocosm and the God of the Microcosm act upon each other, and both are essentially one, for there is only one God and one law and one Nature, through which wisdom becomes manifest."

— Paracelsus, De Fundamento Sapientiae

"Man is the self-feeding furnace, the athanor in which the philosopher’s pure gold is ripened. Bring about in yourself the ideal of creation to make your Microcosm conform to the harmony of the Macrocosm, for such is the final objective of the wise man."

— Tarot Of The Magicians by Oswald Wirth

Resurrection of Osiris

The god reclines on a lion bier, with Isis in front of him and Nephthys behind him, gesticulating with grief and uttering magic spells to bring him back to life. Above him hovers a falcon holding in its talons the shen-ring of eternity and a feather fan.

Below are the Red Crown, the Double Crown, and the White Crown — the emblems of his power. Magic seems to take effect before our eyes as the shrouded one, the great god Osiris — his flesh of Nile silt, ram’s horns of divinity on his head — sits up in bed and turns to face his sister-wife. The god is reborn."

This is from Dan Attrell's translation of the Picatrix. I always like when translators collate the types of spells present in a text. It gives you a peek into what the writers thought was important.