Three Books of Occult Philosophy

by Henry Cornelius Agrippa

THREE BOOKS
OF
Occult Philosophy,

WRITTEN BY
Henry Cornelius Agrippa,
OF
NETTESHEIM,

Counseller to Charles the Fifth,
Emperor of Germany:
AND
Iudge of the Prerogative Court.

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Translated out of the Latin into the
English Tongue, By J.F.

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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 Index of all the Chapters
which are contained in this Work.

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Book I.

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CHAP. 1.
How Magicians Collect vertues from the three-fold World, is declared in these three Books.		pag.1
Chap. 2.	What Magick is, what are the Parts thereof, and how the Professors thereof must be qualified.	pag.2
Chap. 3.	Of the four Elements, their qualities, and mutual mixtions.	pag.6
Chap. 4.	Of a three-fold consideration of the Elements.	pag.7
Chap. 5.	Of the wonderfull Natures of Fire, and Earth.	pag.9
Chap. 6.	Of the wonderfull Natures of Water, Aire, and Winds.	pag.11
Chap. 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.	pag.18
Chap. 8.	How the Elements are in the Heavens, in Stars, in Divels, in Angels, and lastly in God himself.	pag.20
Chap. 9.	Of the vertues of things Naturall, depending immediatly upon Elements.	pag.22
Chap. 10.	Of the Occult Vertues of things.	pag.24
Chap. 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.	pag.26
Chap. 12.	How it is that particular Vertues are infused into particular Individuals, even of the same Species.	pag.27
Chap. 13.	Whence the Occult Vertues of things proceed.	pag.29
Chap. 14.	Of the Spirit of the World, what it is, and how by way of medium it unites occult Vertues to their subjects.	pag.32
Chap. 15.	How we must find out, and examine the Vertues of things by way of similitude.	pag.34
Chap. 16.	How the operations of several Vertues pass from one thing into another, and are communicated one to the other.	pag.36
Chap. 17.	How by enmity and friendship the vertues of things are to be tryed, and found out.	pag.37
Chap. 18.	Of the Inclinations of Enmities.	pag.40
Chap. 19.	How the Vertues of things are to be tryed and found out, which are in them specifically, or in any one Individuall by way of speciall gift.	pag.43
Chap. 20.	The naturall Vertues are in some things throughout their whole substance, and inother things in certain parts, and members.	pag.44
Chap. 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.	pag.45
Chap. 22.	How inferior things are subjected to superior bodies, and how the bodies, the actions, and dispositions of men are ascribed to Stars, and Signs.	pag.48
Chap. 23.	How we shall know what Stars naturall things are under, and what things are under the Sun, which are called Solary.	pag.50
Chap. 24.	What things are Lunary, or under the power of the Moon.	pag.54
Chap. 25.	What things are Saturnine, or under the power of Saturn.	pag.55
Chap. 26.	What things are under the power of Jupiter, and are called Jovial.	pag.57
Chap. 27.	What things are Under the power of Mars, and are called Martial.	pag.58
Chap. 28.	What things are under the power of Venus, and are called Venereall.	pag.59
Chap. 29.	What things are under the power of Mercury, and are called Mercuriall.	pag.60
Chap. 30.	That the whole sublunary World, and those things which are in it, are distributed to Planets.	pag.61
Chap. 31.	How Provinces, and Kingdoms are distributed to Planets.	pag.62
Chap. 32.	What things are under the Signs, the fixed Stars, and their Images.	pag.63
Chap. 33.	Of the Seals, and Characters of Naturall things.	pag.65
Chap. 34.	How, by Naturall things, and their vertues, we may draw forth and attract the influences, and vertues of Celestial bodies.	pag.69
Chap. 35.	Of the Mixtions of naturall things one with another, and their Benefit.	pag.70
Chap. 36.	Of the Union of mixt things, and the introduction of a more noble form, and the senses of life.	pag.72
Chap. 37.	How, by some certain naturall, and artificiall preparations we may attract certain Celestiall, and vitall gifts.	pag.73
Chap. 38.	How we may draw not only Celestial, and vital, but also certain Intellectual, and divine gifts from above.	pag.75
Chap. 39.	That we may by some certain matters of the world stir up the Gods of the world, and their ministring spirits.	pag.77
Chap. 40.	Of bindings, what sort they are of, and in what wayes they are wont to be done.	pag.78
Chap. 41.	Of Sorceries, and their power.	pag.79
Chap. 42.	Of the wonderfull vertues of some kinds of Sorceries.	pag.81
Chap. 43.	Of perfumes, or Suffumigations, their manner, and power.	pag.85
Chap. 44.	The composition of some fumes appropriated to the Planets.	pag.88
Chap. 45.	Of Collyries, Unctions, Love-Medicines, and their vertues.	pag.90
Chap. 46.	Of naturall alligations, and suspensions.	pag.92
Chap. 47.	Of Rings, and their compositions.	pag.94
Chap. 48.	Of the vertue of places, and what places are sutable to every Star.	pag.95
Chap. 49.	Of Light, Colours, Candles, and Lamps, and to what Stars, Houses, and Elements severall colours are ascribed.	pag.97
Chap. 50.	Of Fascination, and the Art thereof.	pag.101
Chap. 51.	Of certain observations producing wonderfull Vertues.	pag.102
Chap. 52.	Of the Countenance, and Gesture, the Habit, and Figure of the Body, and to what Stars any of these do answer; whence Physiognomy, and Metoposcopy, and Chiromancy, Arts of divination, have their grounds.	pag.105
Chap. 53.	Of Divination, and its kinds.	pag.108
Chap. 54.	Of divers certain Animals, and other things which have a signification in Auguria's.	pag.110
Chap. 55.	How Auspica's are verified by the light of Naturall instinct, and of some rules of finding of it out.	pag.117
Chap. 56.	Of the Soothsayings of Flashes, and Lightnings, and how monstrous and prodigious things are to be interpreted.	pag.123
Chap. 57.	Of Geomancy, Hydromancy, Aeromancy, and Pyromancy, four Divinations of Elements.	pag.125
Chap. 58.	Of the reviving of the dead, and of sleeping, and wanting victuals Many Years together.	pag.127
Chap. 59.	Of divination by dreams.	pag.131
Chap. 60.	Of Madness, and Divinations which are made when men are awake, and of the power of a Melancholy humor, by which Spirits are sometimes induced into mens bodies.	pag.132
Chap. 61.	Of the forming of Man of the external Senses, and also the Inward, and the mind: of the threefold appetite of the Soul, and passions of the Will.	pag.136
Chap. 62.	Of the Passions of the Mind, their Original, difference, and kinds.	pag.139
Chap. 63.	How the passions of the mind change the proper body, by changing the Accidents, and moving the spirit.	pag.141
Chap. 64.	How the passions of the mind change the body by way of imitation from some resemblance; Also of the transforming, and translating of men, and what force the imaginative power hath not only over the body, but the soul.	pag.142
Chap. 65.	How the Passions of the Mind can work out of themselves upon anothers Body.	pag.145
Chap. 66.	That the Passions of the Mind are helped by a Celestiall season, and how necessary the Constancy of the mind is in every work.	pag.147
Chap. 67.	How mans mind may be joyned with the mind and Intelligences of the Celestials, and, together with them, impress certain wonderfull vertues upon inferiour things.	pag.149
Chap. 68.	How our mind can change, and bind inferior things to that which it desires.	pag.150
Chap. 69.	Of Speech, and the vertue of Words.	pag.151
Chap. 70.	Of the vertue of proper names.	pag.153
Chap. 71.	Of many words joyned together, as in sentences, and verses; and of the vertues, and astrictions of charms.	pag.155
Chap. 72.	Of the wonderful power of Inchantments.	pag.157
Chap. 73.	Of the vertue of writing, and of making imprecations, and inscriptions.	pag.159
Chap. 74.	Of the proportion, correspondency, reduction of Letters to the Celestiall Signs, and Planets, according to various tongues, with a Table shewing this.	pag.160

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Book II

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CHAP. I.
OF the neceſſity of Mathematicall learning, and of the many wonderfull works which are done by Mathematicall Arts only.		pag.167
Chap. 2.	Of Numbers, and their power, and vertue.	pag.170
Chap. 3.	How great vertues Numbers have, as well in Naturall things, as in Supernaturall.	pag.172
Chap. 4.	Of Unity, and the Scale thereof.	pag.174
Chap. 5.	Of the Number of Two, and the Scale thereof.	pag.177
Chap. 6.	Of the Number of three, and the Scale thereof.	pag.179
Chap. 7.	Of the Number of Four, and the Scale thereof.	pag.183
Chap. 8.	Of the Number Five, and the Scale thereof.	pag.188
Chap. 9.	Of the Number ſix, and the Scale thereof.]]	pag.191
Chap. 10.	Of the Number Seaven, and the Scale thereof.	pag.193
Chap. 11.	Of the Number of Eight, and the Scale thereof.	pag.206
Chap. 12.	Of the Number of Nine, and the Scale thereof.	pag.208
Chap. 13.	Of the Number Ten, and the Scale thereof.	pag.210
Chap. 14.	Of the Number eleven, and the number twelve; with a double Scale of the Number twelve Cabiliſticall, and Orphicall.	pag.216
Chap. 15.	Of the Numbers which are above twelve, and of their powers, and vertues.	pag.222
Chap. 16.	Of the notes of numbers, placed in certain geſturings.	pag.226
Chap. 17.	Of the various notes of numbers obſerved amongſt the Romans.	pag.228
Chap. 18.	Of the notes or figures of the Græcians.	pag.230
Chap. 19.	Of the notes of the Hebrews, and Caldeans, and certain other notes of Magicians.]]	pag.232
Chap. 20.	What numbers are attributed to letters; and of divining by the ſame.	pag.233
Chap. 21.	What numbers are conſecrated to the Gods, and which are aſcribed, and to what Elements.	pag.237
Chap. 22.	Of the tables of the Planets, their vertues, forms, and what Divine names, Intelligences, and Spirits are set over them.	pag.239
Chap. 23.	Of Geometrical figures and Bodies, by what vertue they are prwerful in Magick, and which are agreeable to each Element, and the Heaven.	pag.253
Chap. 24.	Of Musicall Harmony, of the force and power thereof.	pag.255
Chap. 25.	Of sound, and Harmony, and whence their wonderfulness in operation.	pag.257
Chap. 26.	Concerning the agreement of them with the Celestial bodies, and what harmony and sound is correspondent of every Star.	pag.259
Chap. 27.	Of the proportion, measure, and Harmony of mans body.	pag.263
Chap. 28.	Of the Composition and Harmony of the humane soul.	pag.277
Chap. 29.	Of the Observation of Celestials, necessary in every Magical Work.	pag.278
Chap. 30.	When Planets are of most powerfull influence.	pag.280
Chap. 31.	Of the Observation of the fixt Stars, and of their Natures.	pag.281
Chap. 32.	Of the Sun, and Moon, and their Magicall considerations.	pag.283
Chap. 33.	Of the twenty eight Mansions of the Moon, and their vertues.	pag.285
Chap. 34.	Of the true motion of the heavenly bodies to be observed in the eighth sphere, & of the ground of Planetary hours.	pag.289
Chap. 35.	How some artificiall things as Images, Seals, and such like, may obtain some vertue from the Celestial bodies.	pag.290
Chap. 36.	Of the Images of the Zodiack, what vertues, they being engraven, receive from the Stars.	pag.292
Chap. 37.	Of the Images of the Faces, and of those Images, which are without the Zodiack.	pag.293
Chap. 38.	Of the Images of Saturn.	pag.298
Chap. 39.	Of the Images of Jupiter.	pag.399
Chap. 40.	Of the Images of Mars.	pag.300
Chap. 41.	Of the Images of the Sun.	pag.ibid.
Chap. 42.	Of the Images of Venus.	pag.301
Chap. 43.	Of the Images of Mercury.	pag.302
Chap. 44.	Of the Images of the Moon.	ibid.
Chap. 45.	Of the Images of the head and Tayl of the Dragon of the Moon.	pag.303
Chap. 46.	Of the Images of the Mansions of the Moon.	pag.304
Chap. 47.	Of the Images of the fixed Behenian Stars.	pag.307
Chap. 48.	Of Geomanticall Figures, which are the middle betwixt Images and Characters.	pag.309
Chap. 49.	Of Images, the figure whereof is not after the likeness of any Celestial figure, but after the likness of that which the mind of the worker desires.]]	pag.311
Chap. 50.	Of certain Celestial observations, and the practise of some Images.	pag.312
Chap. 51.	Of Characters which are made after the rule and imitation of Celestials, and how with the table thereof they are deduced out of Geomantical figures.	pag.316
Chap. 52.	Of Characters which are drawn from things themselves by a certain likeness.	pag.320
Chap. 53.	That no Divination without Astrology is perfect.	pag.323
Chap. 54.	Of Lottery, when, and whence the vertue of Divining is incident to it.	pag.325
Chap. 55.	Of the soul of the World, and of the Celestials, according to the traditions of the Poets, and Philosophers.	pag.327
Chap. 56.	The same is confirmed by reason.	pag.329
Chap. 57.	That the soul of the world; and the Celestial souls are rationall, and partake of divine understanding.	pag.330
Chap. 58.	Of the names of the Celestials, and their rule over this inferiour world, viz. Man.	pag.331
Chap. 59.	Of the seven governers of the world, the Planets, and of their various names serving to Magicall speeches.]]	pag.434
Chap. 60.	That humane imprecations do naturally impress their powers upon externall things; And how mans mind through each degree of dependencies ascends into the intelligible world, & becomes like to the more sublime spirits, and Intelligences.	pag.337

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Book III.

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CHAP. I.
OF the necessity, power, and profit of Religion.		pag.345
Chap. 2.	Of concealing of those thing which are secret in Religion.	pag.346
Chap. 3.	What dignification is required, that one may be a true Magician and a worker of miracles.	pag.340
Chap. 4.	Of the two helps of Ceremoniall Magic, Religion and Superstition.	pag.352
Chap. 5.	Of the three Guides of Religion, which bring us to the path of Truth.	pag.355
Chap. 6.	How by these guides the soul of man ascendeth up into the Divine nature, and is made a worker of Miracles.	pag.357
Chap. 7.	That the knowledge of the true God is necessary for a Magician, and what the old Magicians and Philosophers have thought concerning God.	pag.358
Chap. 8.	What the Ancient Philosophers have thought concerning the Divine Trinity.	pag.361
Chap. 9.	What the true and most Orthodox faith is concerning God and the most holy Trinity]]	pag.365
Chap. 10.	Of divine emanations, which the Hebrews call Numerations, others attributes; The Gentiles gods and Deities; and of the ten Sephiroths and ten most sacred names of God which rule them, and the interpretation of them.	pag.366
Chap. 11.	Of the Divine names, and their power and vertue.	pag.370
Chap. 12.	Of the influence of the divine names through all the middle causes into these inferior things.	pag.379
Chap. 13.	Of the members of God, and of their influence on our members.	pag.382
Chap. 14.	Of the Gods of the Gentiles, and souls of the Celestial bodies, and what places were consecrated in times past, and to what Deities.	pag.384
Chap. 15.	What our Theologians think concerning the Celestiall souls.	pag.389
Chap. 16.	Of Intelligences and spirits, and of the threefold kind of them, and of their diverse names, and of Infernal and subterraneal spirits.	pag.390
Chap. 17.	Of these according to the opinion of the Theologians.	pag.395
Chap. 18.	Of the orders of evil spirits, and of their fall, and divers natures.	pag.397
Chap. 19.	Of the bodies of the Devils.	pag.402
Chap. 20.	Of the annoyance of evil spirits, and the preservation we have by good spirits.	pag.405
Chap. 21.	Of obeying a proper Genius, and of the searching out the nature thereof.	pag.408
Chap. 22.	That there is a threefold keeper of man, and from whence each of them proceed.	pag.410
Chap. 23.	Of the tongue of Angels, and of their speaking amongst themselves, and with us.	pag.412
Chap. 24.	Of the names of Spirits, and their various imposition; and of the Spirits that are set over the Stars, Signs, Corners of the Heaven, and the Elements.	pag.414
Chap. 25.	How the Hebrew Mecubals draw forth the sacred names of Angels out of the sacred writ, and of the seventie two Angels, which bear the name of God, with the Tables of Ziruph, and the Commutations of letters and numbers.	pag.417
Chap. 26.	Of finding out of the names of spirits, and Genius's from the disposition of Celestial bodies.	pag.428
Chap. 27.	Of the calculating Art of such names by the tradition of Cabalists.	pag.430
Chap. 28.	How sometimes names of Spirits are taken from those things over which they are set.	pag.435
Chap. 29.	Of the Characters and Seals of spirits.	pag.437
Chap. 30.	Another manner of making Characters, delivered by Cabalists.	pag.439
Chap. 31.	There is yet another fashion of Characters, and concerning marks of spirits which are received only by revelation.	pag.445
Chap. 32.	How good spirits may be called up by us, and how evil spirits may be overcome by us.	pag.447
Chap. 33.	Of the bonds of spirits, and of their adjurations, and castings out.	pag.451
Chap. 34.	Of the Animasticall order, and the Heros.	pag.453
Chap. 35.	Of the Mortall and Terrestrial Gods.	pag.455
Chap. 36.	Of man, how he was created after the Image of God.	pag.457
Chap. 37.	Of mans soul, and through what means it is joyned to the body.	pag.465
Chap. 38.	What Divine gifts man receiveth from above, from the several orders of the Intelligences and the heavens.	pag.466
Chap. 39.	How the superior Influences, seeing they are good by nature, are depraved in these inferior things, and are made causes of evil.	pag.469
Chap. 40.	That on every man a divine Character is imprinted, by the vertue of which man can attain the working of miracles.	pag.471
Chap. 41.	What concerning man after death, diverse Opinions.	pag.473
Chap. 42.	By what wayes the Magicians and Necromancers do think they can call forth the souls of the dead.	pag.488
Chap. 43.	Of the power of mans soul, in the mind, reason and imagination.	pag.492
Chap. 44.	Of the degrees of souls, and their destruction, or Immortality.	pag.496
Chap. 45.	Of Soothsaying, and Phrensie.	pag.499
Chap. 46.	Of the first kind of phrensie from the Muses.	pag.500
Chap. 47.	Of the second kinde from Dionysius.	pag.503
Chap. 48.	Of the third kind of phrensie from Apollo.	pag.504
Chap. 49.	Of the fourth kinde of Phrensie, from Venus.	pag.507
Chap. 50.	Of rapture, and extasie, and soothsayings, which happen to them which are taken with the falling sickness, or with a swoune, or to them in an agonie.	pag.508
Chap. 51.	Of Propheticall Dreams.	pag.511
Chap. 52.	Of Lots and marks possessing the sure power of Oracles.	pag.515
Chap. 53.	How he that will receive Oracles must dispose himself.	pag.517
Chap. 54.	Of cleanness, and how to be observed.	pag.520
Chap. 55.	Of abstinence, fastings, chastity, solitariness, the tranquillity and ascent of the mind.	pag.522
Chap. 56.	Of Penitency, and Alms.	pag.526
Chap. 57.	Of those things which being outwardly administred conduce to Expiation.	pag.527
Chap. 58.	Of adorations, and vows.	pag.529
Chap. 59.	Of sacrifices and oblations, and their kinds and manners.	pag.53
Chap. 60.	What imprecations and rites the ancient, were wont to use in sacrifices, and oblations.	pag.537
Chap. 61.	How these things must be performed, as to God, so as to inferiour dieties.	pag.538
Chap. 62.	Of consecrations, and their manner.	pag.540
Chap. 63.	What things may be called holy, what consecrated, and how these become so betwixt us and the Dieties; and of sacred times.	pag.542
Chap. 64.	Of certain Religious observations, ceremonies, and rites of perfumings, unctions, and such like.	pag.548
Chap. 65.	The Conclusion of the whole work.	pag.555

FINIS.