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The Philosophy of Natural Magic

By Henry Cornelius

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Originally published in 1531-3, De occulta philosophia libri tres, (Three books of Occult Philosophy) proposed that magic existed, and it could be studied and used by devout Christians, as it was derived from God, not the Devil. Agrippa had a huge influence on Renaissance esoteric philosophers, particularly Giordano Bruno. This edition is a pastiche of a portion of a translation of Agrippas' libri tres by an unidentified translator; excerpts from a book on Agrippa by Henry Morley with extensive background; and some self-promotional material by the publisher, L. W. de Lawrence. The Latin version (in scanned PDF format) can be found here.

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GenreLiterary Classics, Biography and Memoir

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Publish dateMar 31, 2020

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1Introduction

48Chapter 43. Of Perfumes Or Suffumigations; Their Manner And Power

2Agrippa

49Chapter 44. The Composition Of Some Fumes Appropriated To The Planets

3Sublime Occult Philosophy

50Chapter 45. Of Collyries, Unctions, Love-Medicines, And Their Virtues

4Preface

51Chapter 46. Of Natural Alligations And Suspensions

5Early Life Of Cornelius Agrippa

52Chapter 47. Of Magical Rings And Their Compositions

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6Chapter 1. How Magicians Collect Virtues From The Three-Fold World Is Declared In These Three Books

53Chapter 48. Of The Virtue Of Places, And What Places Are Suitable To Every Star

7Chapter 2. What Magic Is, What Are The Parts Thereof, And How The Professors Thereof Must Be Qualified

54Chapter 49. Of Light, Colors, Candles And Lamps, And To What Stars, Houses And Elements Several Colors Are Ascribed

8Chapter 3. Of The Four Elements, Their Qualities, And Mutual Mixtions

55Chapter 50. Of Fascination, And The Art Thereof

9Chapter 4. Of A Three-Fold Consideration Of The Elements

56Chapter 51. Of Certain Observations, Producing Wonderful Virtues

10Chapter 5. Of The Wonderful Natures Of Fire And Earth

57Chapter 52. Of The Countenance And Gesture, The Habit And The 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

11Chapter 6. Of The Wonderful Natures Of Water, Air And Winds

58Chapter 53. Of Divinations, And The Kinds Thereof

12Chapter 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

59Chapter 54. Of Divers Certain Animals, And Other Things, Which Have A Signification In Auguries

13Chapter 8. How The Elements Are In The Heavens, In Stars, In Devils, In Angels, And Lastly In God Himself

60Chapter 55. How Auspicias Are Verified By The Light Of Natural Instinct, And Of Some Rules Of Finding It Out

14Chapter 9. Of The Virtues Of Things Natural, Depending Immediately Upon Elements

61Chapter 56. Of The Soothsayings Of Flashes And Lightnings, And How Monstrous And Prodigious Things Are To Be Interpreted

15Chapter 10. Of The Occult Virtues Of Things

62Chapter 57. Of Geomancy, Hydromancy, Aeromancy, And Pyromancy, Four Divinations Of Elements

16Chapter 11. How Occult Virtues Are Infused Into The Several Kinds Of Things By Ideas Through The Help Of The Soul Of The World, And Rays Of The Stars; And What Things Abound Most With This Virtue

63Chapter 58. Of The Reviving Of The Dead, And Of Sleeping Or Hibernating (Wanting Victuals) Many Years Together

17Chapter 12. How It Is That Particular Virtues Are Infused Into Particular Individuals, Even Of The Same Species

64Chapter 59. Of Divination By Dreams

18Chapter 13. Whence The Occult Virtues Of Things Proceed

65Chapter 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 Men's Bodies

19Chapter 14. Of The Spirit Of The World, What It Is, And How By Way Of Medium It Unites Occult Virtues To Their Subjects

66Chapter 61. Of The Forming Of Man, Of The External Senses, Also Those Inward, And The Mind; And Of The Three-Fold Appetite Of The Soul, And Passions Of The Will

20Chapter 15. How We Must Find Out And Examine The Virtues Of Things By Way Of Similitude

67Chapter 62. Of The Passions Of The Mind, Their Original Source, Differences, And Kinds

21Chapter 16. How The Operations Of Several Virtues Pass From One Thing Into Another, And Are Communicated One To The Other

68Chapter 63. How The Passions Of The Mind Change The Proper Body By Changing Its Accidents And Moving The Spirit

22Chapter 17. How By Enmity And Friendship The Virtues Of Things Are To Be Tried And Found Out

69Chapter 64. How The Passions Of The Mind Change The Body By Way Of Imitation From Some Resemblance; Of The Transforming And Translating Of Men, And What Force The Imaginative Power Hath, Not Only Over The Body But The Soul

23Chapter 18. Of The Inclinations Of Enmities

70Chapter 65. How The Passions Of The Mind Can Work Of Themselves Upon Another's Body

24Chapter 19. How The Virtues Of Things Are To Be Tried And Found Out, Which Are In Them Specially, Or In Any One Individual By Way Of Special Gift

71Chapter 66. That The Passions Of The Mind Are Helped By A Celestial Season, And How Necessary The Constancy Of The Mind Is In Every Work

25Chapter 20. The Natural Virtues Are In Some Things Throughout Their Whole Substance, And In Other Things In Certain Parts And Members

72Chapter 67. How The Mind Of Man May Be Joined With The Mind Of The Stars, And Intelligences Of The Celestials, And, Together With Them, Impress Certain Wonderful Virtues Upon Inferior Things

26Chapter 21. Of The Virtues Of Things Which Are In Them Only In Their Life Time, And Such As Remain In Them Even After Their Death

73Chapter 68. How Our Mind Can Change And Bind Inferior Things To The Ends Which We Desire

27Chapter 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

74Chapter 69. Of Speech, And The Occult Virtue Of Words

28Chapter 23. How We Shall Know What Stars Natural Things Are Under, And What Things Are Under The Sun, Which Are Called Solary

75Chapter 70. Of The Virtue Of Proper Names

29Chapter 24. What Things Are Lunary, Or Under The Power Of The Moon

76Chapter 71. Of Many Words Joined Together, As In Sentences And Verses; And Of The Virtues And Astrictions Of Charms

30Chapter 25. What Things Are Saturnine, Or Under The Power Of Saturn

77Chapter 72. Of The Wonderful Power Of Enchantments

31Chapter 26. What Things Are Under The Power Of Jupiter, And Are Called Jovial

78Chapter 73. Of The Virtue Of Writing, And Of Making Imprecations, And Inscriptions

32Chapter 27. What Things Are Under The Power Of Mars, And Are Called Martial

79Chapter 74. Of The Proportion, Correspondency, And Reduction Of Letters To The Celestial Signs And Planets, According To Various Tongues, And A Table Thereof

33Chapter 28. What Things Are Under The Power Of Venus, And Are Called Venereal

80END MATTER BY MORLEY

34Chapter 29. What Things Are Under The Power Of Mercury, And Are Called Mercurial

81Henry Morley's Criticism

35Chapter 30. That The Whole Sublunary World, And Those Things Which Are In It, Are Distributed To Planets

82Agrippa And The Rosicrucians

36Chapter 31. How Provinces And Kingdoms Are Distributed To Planets

83Exposition Of The Cabala

37Chapter 32. What Things Are Under The Signs, The Fixed Stars, And Their Images

84The Mirific Word

38Chapter 33. Of The Seals And Characters Of Natural Things

85Reuchlin The Mystic