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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
In the last half of 1509 and the first months of 1510, Cornelius
Agrippa, known in his day as a Magician, gathered together all the
Mystic lore he had obtained by the energy and ardor of youth and
compiled it into the elaborate system of Magic, in three books,
known as Occult Philosophy, the first book of which-Natural
Magic-constitutes the present volume. Partial List of Contents:
Natural Magic; What Magic Is; Four Elements; Three-fold
Consideration of Elements; Kinds of Compounds; Occult Virtues of
Things; Of the Spirit of the World; How Inferior Things are
Subjected to Superior Bodies; What Things are Lunary; What Things
are under the power of: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury; What
Things are Under the Signs; Of the Union of Mixed Things; Of
Bindings; Of Sorceries; Of Perfumes or Suffumigations; Magical
Rings; Of Light Colors; Of Divination; Of divers certain Animals;
Of Geomancy; Of the Reviving of the Dead; Of Divination by Dreams;
Of Madness; Passions of the Mind; Of Speech; Of many Words joined
together; Virtue of Writing. (Note: this is the same book as The
Philosphy of Natural Magic only it was originally published under
both names.)
Of Geomancy, Magical Elements, Astrological Geomancy, the Nature of
Spirits, Magic of the Ancients. Contents: Commendatory Poems; Of
Geomancy; Of Occult Philosophy, or Of Magical Ceremonies: The
Fourth Book, Henry Cornelius Agrippa; Heptameron: or, Magical
Elements, Peter de Abano; Isagoge: An Introductory Discourse on the
Nature of such Spirits as are exercised in the Sublunary Bounds;
their Original, Names, Offices, Illusions, Posers, Prophecies,
Miracles; and how they may be Expelled and Driven away, Georg
Pictorius Villinganus; Of Astronimical Geomancy, Gerard
Ceremonensis; Of the Magick of the Ancients, Arbatel.
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