Renaissance occultist and doctor Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa presents his system, whereby supernatural sorceries and magical are explained - this edition includes thirteen pertinent sketches and charts. Across seventy-four chapters, Agrippa describes what constitutes magic, how one can partake in its practice, how ritual procedures must occur before and during magic's use, and how the elements of Fire, Water, Earth and Wind combine and interplay to create possibilities for sorcerers. Geomancy, Hydromancy, Aeromancy, and Pyromancy are the four arcane arts that, when combined with skill and knowledge of ritual ceremony, can be perfected with the result of great power. For Agrippa, magics and sorceries were manifestations of virtuous abilities; the correct use of them could encourage closeness with benevolent forces either mystical or divine in origin. The astrological implications of magical mastery are discussed, with planets such as Venus or Jupiter having influence upon certain worldly things.

This book is a milestone in Western magical practice. Often erroneously called a forgery, it is in fact six separate books in one, the first two being by Agrippa (1486-1535). One of them, Of Magical Ceremonies, is Agrippa's clearest step-by-step formulation of how to perform an evocation, much more openly expressed than in his Three Books of Occult Philosophy. In addition there is the key grimoire, Of the Magick of the Ancients by Arbatel, which clearly defines the different types of magic, focusing on the invocation of angels and of the Olympic spirits. The Heptameron by Peter de Abano is a complete, self-contained set of instructions for conjuration of spirits according to the day of the week. Also included is Villinganus' work on the nature of spirits, illusions, prophecies, and miracles, and how they may be used. Two complete geomancies (one by Agrippa) complete the volume, which has been reset in modern type and edited with a commentary by Stephen Skinner.

Agrippa's penetrating study of 'Occult Philosophy' is widely acknowledged as a significant contribution to the Renaissance philosophical discussion concerning the powers of magic and its relationship with religion. In a discriminating revival Agrippa pursued the 'natural' magic of Ficino and Pico, while relating it to Reuchlin's synthesis of magic and religion. Agrippa broadens the ideas he found in his sources to forge a much more comprehensive conception of the occult.
The critical edition of "De occulta philosophia clarifies a number of controversies about the interpretation of this magical work. More generally, this Renaissance 'magus' proves to be driven by a deep scholarly curiosity, which seeks to come to grips with the intellectual and religious problems of his time.

You can satisfy your woman. Dr Agrippa s simple five-step method shows how to last as long as you want during sexual intercourse, without drugs or gadgets. The key concept behind the method is that in paying special attention to giving a woman pleasure and to being genuinely present to her, we escape from the anxieties and fantasies in our heads that make us come too quickly. The reward is real sex and greatly enhanced pleasure for both the man and the woman. Dr Agrippa also covers the essential female sexual anatomy that all good lovers need to know (including the controversial G-spot). If you apply the advice in this book you will gradually learn to achieve complete control. With practice you can pass the point at which the risk of coming prematurely is gone and you actually have to go faster to make yourself come when you want to. Along the way you ll have given and been given a great deal of pleasure and your relationship with your woman will be all the better for it. For completeness there is a chapter on mechanical and drug methods of dealing with premature ejaculation - which however the author doesn't think you'll need once you've mastered the method in this book.