Renaissance occult philosophy and ceremonial magic
Henry Cornelius Agrippa's Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, and Geomancy: A Collection of Magical Treatises
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A compilation of six Renaissance magical treatises including the Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy (spuriously attributed to Agrippa), Peter de Abano's Heptameron on planetary magic, geomantic texts, Georg Pictorius on the nature of spirits, and the Arbatel of Magic. Covers practical ceremonial magic, geomancy, and angelic invocations.
Also known asFourth Book of Occult Philosophy · Agrippa's Fourth Book with Heptameron and Arbatel
This edition1978
EditionEnglish translation from 1655 edition, reprinted 1978
Ceremonial MagicRenaissance MagicPlanetary magicGeomancyspirit conjurationHermetic magicSpirit summoning and bindingplanetary invocationsSolomonic MagicAngelic Magicangelic invocationsCeremonial Invocationsmagical timingHermeticismNeo-PlatonismGrimoires
Contents6 chapters
- 01I Of Geomancy
- 02II Of Occult Philosophy, or Of Magical Ceremonies: The Fourth Book
- 03III Heptameron: or, Magical Elements
- 04IV Isagoge: An Introductory Discourse on the nature of such Spirits as are exercised in the sublunary Bounds; their Original, Names, Offices, Illusions,...
- 05V Of Astronomical Geomancy
- 06VI Of the Magick of the Ancients
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