Three Books of Occult Philosophy/Poem

←To my most honorable, and no less learned friend, Robert Childe, Doctor of Physick

Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa, translated by John French Poem

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PRagmatick Schoolmen, men made up of pride, And rayling Arguments, who truth deride, And scorn all else but what your selves devise, And think these high-learned Tracts to be but lies, Do not presume, unless with hallowed hand To touch these books who with the world shall stand; They are indeed mysterious, rare and rich, And far transcend the ordinary pitch. Io. Booker.