Includes the Early Life of Agrippa, His Seventy-Four Chapters on Natural Magic. In 1509/1510, Cornelius Agrippa, known in his day as a magician, gathered together all the mystic lore he had obtained by the energy and ardor of youth.

In the last half of 1509 and the first months of 1510, Cornelius Agrippa, known in his day as a magician

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Occult Philosophy or Magic- Natural Magic, Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Volume 1

Which Includes the Early Life of Agrippa, His Seventy-Four Chapters on Natural Magic

In the last half of 1509 and the first months of 1510, Cornelius Agrippa, known in his day as a magician, gathered together all the mystic lore he had obtained by the energy and ardor of youth and compiled it into the elaborate system of magic, in three books, known as Occult Philosophy, the first book of which Natural Magic constitutes the present volume.

Partial list of contents:

  • Natural Magic
  • What Magic Is
  • Four Elements
  • Three-fold Consideration of Elements
  • Kinds of Compounds
  • Occult Virtues of Things
  • Of the Spirit of the World
  • How Inferior Things are Subjected to Superior Bodies
  • What Things are Lunary
  • What Things are under the power of: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury
  • What Things are Under the Signs
  • Of the Union of Mixed Things
  • Of Bindings
  • Of Sorceries
  • Of Perfumes or Suffumigations
  • Magical Rings
  • Of Light Colors
  • Of Divination
  • Of divers certain Animals
  • Of Geomancy
  • Of the Reviving of the Dead
  • Of Divination by Dreams
  • Of Madness
  • Passions of the Mind
  • Of Speech
  • Of Many Words Joined Together
  • Virtue of Writing.

The Occult Philosophy.

Judicious Reader: This is true and sublime Occult Philosophy. To

understand the mysterious influences of the intellectual world upon the

celestial, and of both upon the terrestrial; and to know how to dispose and

fit ourselves so as to he capable of receiving the superior operations of

these worlds, whereby we may be enabled to operate wonderful things by a

natural power—to discover the secret counsels of men, to increase riches,

to overcome enemies, to procure the favor of men, to expel diseases, to preserve

health, to prolong life, to renew youth, to foretell future events, to

see and know things done many miles off, and such like as these. These

things may seem incredible, yet read but the ensuing treatise and thou

Shalt see the possibility confirmed both by reason and example.

—J. F., the translator of the English edition of 1651.