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Henry Cornelius Agrippa's Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, and Geomancy: A Collection of Magical Treatises

Name: Henry Cornelius Agrippa's Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, and Geomancy: A Collection of Magical Treatises
Author: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim1655

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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

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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