Three Books of Occult Philosophy/Book 1

by Henry Cornelius Agrippa

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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. I.

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OW Magicians Collect vertues from the three-fold World, is declared in these three Books.

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Chap. 2. What Magick is, what are the Parts thereof, and how the Professors thereof must be qualified.

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Chap. 3. Of the four Elements, their qualities, and mutual mixtions.

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Chap. 4. Of a three-fold consideration of the Elements.

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Chap. 5. Of the wonderfull Natures of Fire, and Earth.

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Chap. 6. Of the wonderfull Natures of Water, Aire, and Winds.

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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.

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Chap. 8. How the Elements are in the Heavens, in Stars, in Divels, in Angels, and lastly in God himself.

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Chap. 9. Of the vertues of things Naturall, depending immediatly upon Elements.

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Chap. 10. Of the Occult Vertues of things.

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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.

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Chap. 12. How it is that particular Vertues are infused into particular Individuals, even of the same Species.

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Chap. 13. Whence the Occult Vertues of things proceed.

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Chap. 14. Of the Spirit of the World, what it is, and how by way of medium it unites occult Vertues to their subjects.

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Chap. 15. How we must find out, and examine the Vertues of things by way of similitude.

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Chap. 16. How the operations of several Vertues pass from one thing into another, and are communicated one to the other.

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Chap. 17. How by enmity and friendship the vertues of things are to be tryed, and found out.

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Chap. 18. Of the Inclinations of Enmities.

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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.

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Chap. 20. The naturall Vertues are in some things throughout their whole substance, and inother things in certain parts, and members.

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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.

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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.

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Chap. 23. How we shall know what Stars naturall things are under, and what things are under the Sun, which are called Solary.

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Chap. 24. What things are Lunary, or under the power of the Moon.

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Chap. 25. What things are Saturnine, or under the power of Saturn.

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Chap. 26. What things are under the power of Jupiter, and are called Jovial.

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Chap. 27. What things are Under the power of Mars, and are called Martial.

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Chap. 28. What things are under the power of Venus, and are called Venereall.

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Chap. 29. What things are under the power of Mercury, and are called Mercuriall.

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Chap. 30. That the whole sublunary World, and those things which are in it, are distributed to Planets.

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Chap. 31. How Provinces, and Kingdoms are distributed to Planets.

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Chap. 32. What things are under the Signs, the fixed Stars, and their Images.

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Chap. 33. Of the Seals, and Characters of Naturall things.

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Chap. 34. How, by Naturall things, and their vertues, we may draw forth and attract the influences, and vertues of Celestial bodies.

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Chap. 35. Of the Mixtions of naturall things one with another, and their Benefit.

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Chap. 36. Of the Union of mixt things, and the introduction of a more noble form, and the senses of life.

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Chap. 37. How, by some certain naturall, and artificiall preparations we may attract certain Celestiall, and vitall gifts.

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Chap. 38. How we may draw not only Celestial, and vital, but also certain Intellectual, and divine gifts from above.

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Chap. 39. That we may by some certain matters of the world stir up the Gods of the world, and their ministring spirits.

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Chap. 40. Of bindings, what sort they are of, and in what wayes they are wont to be done.

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Chap. 41. Of Sorceries, and their power.

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Chap. 42. Of the wonderfull vertues of some kinds of Sorceries.

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Chap. 43. Of perfumes, or Suffumigations, their manner, and power.

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Chap. 44. The composition of some fumes appropriated to the Planets.

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Chap. 45. Of Collyries, Unctions, Love-Medicines, and their vertues.

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Chap. 46. Of naturall alligations, and suspensions.

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Chap. 47. Of Rings, and their compositions.

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Chap. 48. Of the vertue of places, and what places are sutable to every Star.

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Chap. 49. Of Light, Colours, Candles, and Lamps, and to what Stars, Houses, and Elements severall colours are ascribed.

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Chap. 50. Of Fascination, and the Art thereof.

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Chap. 51. Of certain observations producing wonderfull Vertues.

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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.

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Chap. 53. Of Divination, and its kinds.

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Chap. 54. Of divers certain Animals, and other things which have a signification in Auguria's.

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Chap. 55. How Auspica's are verified by the light of Naturall instinct, and of some rules of finding of it out.

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Chap. 56. Of the Soothsayings of Flashes, and Lightnings, and how monstrous and prodigious things are to be interpreted.

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Chap. 57. Of Geomancy, Hydromancy, Aeromancy, and Pyromancy, four Divinations of Elements.

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Chap. 58. Of the reviving of the dead, and of sleeping, and wanting victuals Many Years together.

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Chap. 59. Of divination by dreams.

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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.

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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.

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Chap. 62. Of the Passions of the Mind, their Original, difference, and kinds.

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Chap. 63. How the passions of the mind change the proper body, by changing the Accidents, and moving the spirit.

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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.

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Chap. 65. How the Passions of the Mind can work out of themselves upon anothers Body.

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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.

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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.

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Chap. 68. How our mind can change, and bind inferior things to that which it desires.

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Chap. 69. Of Speech, and the vertue of Words.

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Chap. 70. Of the vertue of proper names.

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Chap. 71. Of many words joyned together, as in sentences, and verses; and of the vertues, and astrictions of charms.

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Chap. 72. Of the wonderful power of Inchantments.

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Chap. 73. Of the vertue of writing, and of making imprecations, and inscriptions.

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Chap. 74. Of the proportion, correspondency, reduction of Letters to the Celestiall Signs, and Planets, according to various tongues, with a Table shewing this.

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