Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Of Occult Philosophy Book I

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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa:

Of Occult Philosophy

,Book I. (part 1)

This HTML edition by Joseph H. Peterson, Copyright © 2000. All rights reserved.The copyright to theTwilit Grotto Esoteric Archivesis owned by Joseph H. Peterson and is protected by thecopyright laws of the United States and the Universal Copyright Convention.The materials on the Twilit Grotto Esoteric Archives (including all texts, translations, images, descriptions,drawings etc.) are provided for the personal use of students, scholars, and the public. Any commercial use orpublication of them without authorization is strictly prohibited. All materials are copyrighted and are not inthe public domain. Copying of materials on the Twilit Grotto Esoteric Archives Web pages is not permitted.Individuals distributing illegal copies will be pursued legally along with their Internet Service Providers.Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) is the most influential writer of Renaissance esoterica, and indeedall of Western occultism. His

de occulta philosophia

appeared in three books. Written from 1509 to 1510 (hewould have been 23 at the time), it circulated widely in manuscript form, and was eventually printed in 1533.It is a "systematic exposition of ... Ficinian spiritual magic and Trithemian demonic magic (and) ... treatisedin practical magic" (I. P. Couliano in

Hidden Truths

1987, p. 114).Without doubt, this book should be at the top of any required reading list for those interested in Westernmagic and esoteric traditions. In his

Mysteriorum Libri

, John Dee makes frequent mention of Agrippa's book,to the extent that he seems almost to have memorized it. Portions of Agrippa's work are also frequentlyfound appended to magical manuscripts or even liberally merged with the text.In 1801 Agrippa's text, in a slightly abridged form, was shamelessly plagiarized and published as his ownwork by Frances Barrett (

The magus, or Celestial intelligencer

, London 1801). This work can still be foundin print. The latter was in turn plagiarized and published as his own work by L.W. de Laurence (

The Great Book of Magical Art, Hindoo Magic & Indian Occultism

, (Chicago, 1915)!The translator was probably John French, not J. Freake; cf. Ferguson, I, 13 and DNB.This edition is a transcription of the Gregory Moule edition (Moule: London, 1651.) Text in [] added by JHP,primarily to facilitate searches, but also includes some corrections based on the original Latin (Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1992.) Note the Willis F. Whitehead edition (Chicago, Hahn & Whitehead, 1898) was used in theinitial stages of this transcription, but it was found to be less accurate, so I went back and redid thetranscription to reflect the earlier edition. His editorial efforts, aside from modernizing spelling, mainlyconsists of substituting euphemisms for sexual references or deleting them entirely (for examples seechapters 15 and 16).The Hebrew lettering in the English edition is full of errors; therefore I have used the Latin Edition (Leiden:E.J. Brill, 1992) to restore these per Agrippa's original intent. Unfortunately, this does not help track errorspropagated from the defects in the early English editions.For the drawings I have relied on the 1533 Köln (Cologne) Latin edition.You will need aHebrew fontinstalled to read some parts of this book.

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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.Translated out of the Latin into theEnglish tongue, By

J.F.

London:

Printed by

R.W.

for

Gregory Moule

, and are tobe sold at the Sign of the three Bibles neer theWest-end of

Pauls

. 1651.

BOOK ONE - NATURAL MAGIC

[Contents]

IntroductionAgrippa to the reader.Agrippa to Trithemius.Trithemius to Agrippa.Chap. 1.How Magicians Collect vertues from the Three-fold World, is Declared in these Three Books.Chap. 2.What Magic is, What are the Parts thereof, and How the Professors thereof must be Qualified.Chap. 3.Of the Four Elements, their Qualities, and Mutual Mixtions.Chap. 4.Of a Three-fold Consideration of the Elements.Chap. 5.Of the Wonderful Natures of Fire and Earth.Chap. 6.Of the Wonderful Natures of Water, Air and Winds.

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Chap. 7.Of the Kinds of Compounds, what Relation they stand in to the Elements, and what Relationthere is betwixt the Elements themselves and the Soul, Senses and Dispositions of Men.Chap. 8.How the Elements are in the Heavens, in Stars, in Devils, in Angels, and lastly in God himself.Chap. 9.Of the vertues of things Natural, depending immediately upon Elements.Chap. 10.Of the Occult vertues of ThingsChap. 11.How Occult vertues are Infused into the several kinds of Things by Ideas, thrugh the Help of the Soul of the World, and Rays of the Stars; and what Things abound most with this vertue.Chap. 12.How it is that Particular vertues are Infused into Particular Individuals, even of the sameSpecies.Chap. 13.Whence the Occult vertues of Things Proceed.Chap. 14.Of the Spirit of the World, What It Is, and how by way of medium It Unites occult vertues totheir Subjects.Chap. 15.How we must Find Out and Examine the vertues of Things by way of Similitude.Chap. 16.How the Operations of several vertues Pass from one thing into another, and areCommunicated one to the other.Chap. 17.How by Enmity and Friendship the vertues of things are to be Tried and Found Out.Chap. 18.Of the Inclinations of Enmities.Chap. 19.How the vertues of Things are to be Tried and Found Out, which are in them Specifically, or inany one Individual by way of Special gift.Chap. 20.The Natural vertues are in some Things throughout their Whole Substance, and in other Thingsin certain Parts and Members.Chap. 21.Of the vertues of Things which are in them only in their Life Time, and Such as Remain inthem even After their Death.Chap. 22.How Inferior Things are Subjected to Superior Bodies, and how the Bodies, the Actions, andDispositions of Men are Ascribed to Stars and Signs.Chap. 23.How we shall Know what Stars natural Things are Under, and what Things are under the Sun,which are called Solary.Chap. 24.What Things are Lunary, or Under the Power of the Moon.Chap. 25.What Things are Saturnine, or Under the Power of Saturn.Chap. 26.What Things are Under the Power of Jupiter, and are called Jovial.Chap. 27.What Things are Under the Power of Mars, and are called Martial.Chap. 28.What things are Under the Power of Venus, and are called Venereal.Chap. 29.Things are Under the Power of Mercury, and are called Mercurial.Chap. 30.That the Whole Sublunary World, and those Things which are in It, are Distributed to Planets.Chap. 31.How Provinces and Kingdoms are Distributed to Planets.Chap. 32.What Things are Under the Signs, the Fixed Stars, and their Images.Chap. 33.Of the Seals and Characters of Natural Things.Chap. 34.How, by Natural Things and their vertues, We may Draw Forth and Attract the Influences andvertues of Celestial Bodies.Chap. 35.Of the Mixtions of Natural Things, one with another, and their Benefits.Chap. 36.Of the Union of Mixt Things, and the Introduction of a More Noble Form, and the Senses of Life.Chap. 37.How, by some certain Natural and Artificial Preparations, We may Attract certain Celestial andVital Gifts.Chap. 38.Chapter xxxviii. How we may Draw not only Celestial and Vital but also certain Intellectualand Divine Gifts from Above.

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