Renaissance occult philosophy and ceremonial magic

Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Magic

Name: Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Magic
Author: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim1533

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Comprehensive Renaissance encyclopedia of magic written 1509-1510, published 1533. Systematically covers natural magic (Book I), celestial magic (Book II), and ceremonial magic (Book III). Synthesizes classical, medieval, and Renaissance magical theory including extensive correspondence tables, Kabbalistic doctrine, astrological magic, talismanic theory, and practical instructions. Most influential magical text in Western tradition.

Also known asDe Occulta Philosophia · Occult Philosophy · Three Books of Occult Philosophy

This edition1898

EditionEnglish edition edited by Willis F. Whitehead, published by Hahn & Whitehead, Chicago, 1898. Based on 1651 English translation. Includes biography by Henry Morley. This edition primarily focuses on Book I (Natural Magic).

Natural magicCeremonial MagicCelestial magicHermetic magicsigil creationRenaissance Magicnumber theoryuse of perfumessuffumigationsScholasticismplanetary invocationsChristian Kabbalahlove medicinesPlanetary magicperfumes and suffumigationsfour elements

Contents67 chapters

01BOOK ONE, — NATURAL MAGIC. CHAPTER I. How Magicians Collect Virtues from the Three-fold World,
02CHAPTER III. Of the Four Elements, their Qualities, and Mutual Mixtions
03CHAPTER V. Of the Wonderful Natures of Fire and Earth
04CHAPTER VI. Of the Wonderful Natures of Water, Air and Winds
05CHAPTER VII. Of the Kinds of Compounds, ivhat Relation they stand in to the Elements, and what Relation there is betwixt the Elements themselves and t...
06CHAPTER VIII. now the Elements are in the Heavens, in Stars, in Devils, in Angels, and lastly in God himself
07CHAPTER IX. Of the Virtues of things Natural, depending immediately upon Elements
08CHAPTER X. Of the Occult Virtues of Things
09CHAPTER XI. How Occult Virtues are Infused into the several kinds of Things by Ideas, through the Help of the Soul of the World, and Bays of the Stars...
10CHAPTER XII. How it is that Particular Virtues are Infused into Particular Individuals, even of the same Species
11CHAPTER XIII. Whence the Occult Virtues of Things Proceed
12CHAPTER XIV. Of the Spirit of the World, What It Is, and how by way of medium It Unites occult Virtues to their Subjects
13CHAPTER XV. How we must Find Out and Examine the Virtues of Things by way of Similitude
14CHAPTER XVI. Sow the Operations of several Virtues Pass from one thing into another, and are Communicated one to the other
15CHAPTER XVII. How by Enmity and Friendship the Virtues of things are to be Tried and Found Out
16CHAPTER XVIII. Of the Inclinations of Enmities
17CHAPTER XIX. How the Virtues of Things are to he Tried and Found Out, which are in them Specifically, or in any one Individual by way of Special Gift
18CHAPTER XX. The Natural Virtues are in some Things throughout their Whole Substance, and in other Things in Certain Parts and Members
19CHAPTER XXII. How Inferior Things are Subjected to Superior Bodies, and hoiv the Bodies, the Actions, and Dispositions of Men are Ascribed to Stars an...
20CHAPTER XXIII. How we shall Know what Stars natural Things are Under, and what Things are Under the Sun, which are called Salary
21CHAPTER XXV. What Things are Saturnine, or Under the Poiver of Saturn
22CHAPTER XXVI. What Things are Under the Power of Jupiter, and are called Jovial
23CHAPTER XXVII. What Things are Under the Power of Mars, and are called Martial
24CHAPTER XXVIII. What Things are Under the Power of Venus, and are called Venereal
25CHAPTER XXIX. What Things are Under the Power of Mercury, and are called Mercurial
26CHAPTER XXX. That the Whole Sublunary World, and those Things which are in It, are Distributed to Planets
27CHAPTER XXXI. How Provinces and Kingdoms are Distributed to Planets
28CHAPTER XXXII. What Things are Under the Signs, the Fixed Stars, and their Images
29CHAPTER XXXIII. Of the Seals and Characters of Natural Things
30CHAPTER XXXV. Of the Mixtions of Natural Things, one with another, and their Benefit
31CHAPTER XXXVI. Of the Union of Mixt Things, and the Introduction of a More Noble Form, and the Senses of Life
32CHAPTER XXXVII. How, iy some certain Natural and Artificial Preparations, We may Attract certain Celestial and Vital Gifts
33CHAPTER XXXVIII. How we may Draw not only Celestial and Vital hut also certain Intellectual and Divine Gifts from Above
34CHAPTER XXXIX. That we may, by some certain Matters of the World, Stir Up the Gods of the World and their Ministering Spirits
35CHAPTER XL. Of Bindings; what Sort they are of, and in what Ways they are wont to be Done
36CHAPTER XLI. 0/ Sorceries, and their Power
37CHAPTER XLII. Of the Wonderful Virtues of some kinds of Sorceries
38CHAPTER XLIII. Of Perfumes or Suffumigations; their Manner and Poioer
39CHAPTER XLIV. The Composition of some Fumes appropriated to the Planets
40CHAPTER XLV. Of Gollyries, Unctions, Love-Medicines, and their Virtues
41CHAPTER XLVI. Of natural Alligations and Suspensions
42CHAPTER XLVII. Of Magical Rings and their Compositions
43CHAPTER XL VIII
44CHAPTER XLIX. Of Light, Colors, Candles and Lamps, and to what Stars, Houses and Elements several Colors are Ascribed
45CHAPTER L. Of Fascination, and the Art thereof
46CHAPTER LI. Of certain Observations, Producing wonderful Virtues
47CHAPTER LII. Of the Countenance and Gesture, the Habit and the Figure of the Bodnj, and to ivhat Stars any of these do Answer — whence Physiognomy, an...
48CHAPTER LIII. Of Divination, and the Kinds thereof
49CHAPTER LIV. Of divers certain Animals, and other things, which have a Signification in Auguries
50CHAPTER LVI. Of the Soothsaying s of Flashes and Lightnings, and how Monstrous and Prodigious Things are to be Interpreted
51CHAPTER LVII. Of Geomancy, Sydromancy, Aeromancy, and Pyromancy, Four Divinations of Elements
52CHAPTER LVIII. Of the Reviving of the Dead, and of Sleeping or Hibernating (wanting victiwds) Many Years together
53CHAPTER LIX. Of Divination by Breams
54CHAPTER LX. Of Madness, and Divinations which are made when men are awake, and of the Power of a Melancholy Humor, by luhich Spirits are sometimes ind...
55CHAPTER LXI. 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 ...
56CHAPTER LXII. Of the Passions of the Mind, their Original Source, Differences, and Kinds
57CHAPTER LXIII. How the Passions of the Mind change the proper Body by changing its Accidents and moving the Spirit
58CHAPTER LXIV. How the Passions of the Mind change the Body by ivay of Imitation from some Resemblance; of the Transforming and Translating of Men, and...
59CHAPTER LXV. Hcnv the Passions of the Mind can Work of themselves upon Another's Body
60CHAPTER LXVI. That the Passions of the Mind are Helped by a Celestial Season, and hoiu Necessary the Constancy of the Mind is in every Work
61CHAPTER LXVII. How the Mind of Man may &e Joined with the Mind of the Stars, and Intelligences of the Celestials, and, together with them, Impress cer...
62CHAPTER LXVIII. How our Mind can Change and Bind inferior Things to the Ends ivhich ive Desire
63CHAPTER LXIX. Of Speech, and the Occult Virtue of Words
64CHAPTER LXX. Of the Virtue of Proper Names
65CHAPTER LXXI. Of many Words joined together, as in Sentences and Verses; and of the Virtues and Astrictions of Charms
66CHAPTER LXXII. Of the wonderful Potver of Enchantments
67CHAPTER LXXIII. Of the Virtue of Writing, and of Making Imprecations, and Inscriptions

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