Three Books of Occult Philosophy
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De occulta philosophia libri tres (Latin: Three Books about Occult Philosophy) is Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's penetrating study of Occult Philosophy, widely acknowledged as a significant contribution to the Renaissance philosophical discussion concerning the powers of ritual magic and its relationship with religion.— Excerpted from De occulta philosophia libri tres on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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THREE BOOKS OF Occult Philosophy, WRITTEN BY OF NETTESHEIM, Counseller to CHARLES the Fifth, EMPEROR of Germany: AND Iudge of the Prerogative Court. Translated out of the Latin into the
London: Printed by R.W. for Gregory Moule, and are to be sold at the Sign of the three Bibles neer the West-end of Pauls. 1651. |
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- An encomium on the three books of Cornelius Agrippa Knight
- The life of Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Knight
- To my most honorable, and no less learned friend, Robert Childe, Doctor of Physick
- Poem
- To the reader
- To R.P.D. Iohn Tritemius, an abbot of Saint James in the suburbs of Herbipolis, Henry Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheym sendeth greeting
- John Tritemius, abbot of Saint James of Herbipolis, formerly of Spanhemia, to his Henry Cornelius Agrippa of Nettes-heym, health and love
- To the Revernd Father in Christ, and most Illustrious Prince, Hermannus, ... Henry Cornelius Agrippa of Nettes-heym, sendeth greeting
- Judicious reader!
- Errata
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- Chapter 1: How magicians collect vertues from the three-fold world, is declared in these three books
- Chapter 2: What magick is, what are the parts thereof, and how the professors thereof must be qualified
- Chapter 3: Of the four elements, their qualities, and mutuall mixtions
- Chapter 4: Of a three-fold consideration of the elements
- Chapter 5: Of the wonderfull natures of fire, and earth
- Chapter 6: Of the wonderfull natures of water, aire, and winds
- Chapter 7: Of the kinds of compounds, what relation they stand in to the elements, and what relation there is betwixt the elements themselves, and the soul, senses, and dispositions of men
- Chapter 8: How the elements are in the heavens, in stars, in divels, in angels, and lastly in God himself
- Chapter 9: Of the vertues of things naturall, depending immediatly upon elements
- Chapter 10: Of the occult vertues of things
- Chapter 11: How occult vertues are infused into the several kinds of things by idea's, through the help of the soul of the world, and rayes of the stars: and what things abound most with this vertue
- Chapter 12: How it is that particluar vertues are infused into particular individuals, even of the same species
- Chapter 13: Whence the occult vertues of things proceed
- Chapter 14: Of the spirit of the world, what it is, and how by way of medium it unites occult vertues to their subjects
- Chapter 15: How we must find out, and examine the vertues of things by way of similitude
- Chapter 16: How the operations of severall vertues pass from one thing into another, and are communicated ne to the other
- Chapter 17: How by enmity and friendship the vertues of things are to be tryed, and found out
- Chapter 18: Of the inclinations of enmities
- Chapter 19: How the vertues of things are to be tryed and found out, which are in them specifically, or any one individuall by way of speciall gift
- Chapter 20: That naturall vertues are in some things throughout their whole substance, and in other things in certain parts, and members
- Chapter 21: Of the vertues of things which are in them only in their life time, and such as remain in them even after their death
- Chapter 22: How inferiour things are subjected to superiour bodies, and how the bodies, the actions, and dispositions of men are ascribed to stars, and signes
- Chapter 23: How we shall know what stars naturall things are under, and what things are under the sun, which are called solary
- Chapter 24: What things are lunary, or under the power of the moon
- Chapter 25: What things are Saturnine, or under the power of Saturne
- Chapter 26: What things are under the power of Jupiter, and are called Jovial
- Chapter 27: What things are under the power of Mars, and are called Martial
- Chapter 28: What things are under the power of Venus, and are called Venereall
- Chapter 29: What things are under the power of Mercury, and are called Mercuriall
- Chapter 30: That the whole sublunary world, and those things which are in it, are distributed to planets
- Chapter 31: How provinces, and kingdomes are distributed to planets
- Chapter 32: What things are under the signes, the fixed stars, and their images
- Chapter 33: Of the seals, and characters of naturall things
- Chapter 34: How by naturall things, and their vertues we may draw forth, and attract the influencies, and vertues of celestiall bodies
- Chapter 35: Of the mixtions of naturall things one with another, and their benefit
- Chapter 36: Of the union of mixt things, and the introduction of a more noble form, and the senses of life
- Chapter 37: How by some certain naturall, and artificiall preparations we may attract certain celestiall, and vitall gifts
- Chapter 38: How we may draw not only celestiall, and vitall, but also certain intellectual and divine gifts from above
- Chapter 39: That we may by some certain matters of the world stir up the Gods of the word, and their ministring spirits
- Chapter 40: Of bindings, what sort they are of, and in what wayes they are wont to be done
- Chapter 41: Of sorceries, and their power
- Chapter 42: Of the wonderfull vertues of some kinds of sorceries
- Chapter 43: Of perfumes, or suffumigations, their manner, and power
- Chapter 44: The composition of some fumes appropriated to the planets
- Chapter 45: Of collyries, unctions, love-medicines, and their vertues
- Chapter 46: Of naturall alligations, and suspensions
- Part 3.
- Part 4.
