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

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.

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