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The Philosophy of Natural Magic, by Henry Cornelius Agrippa, L. W. de Laurence ed. [1913], at sacred-texts.com


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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTORY.

 

Editor's Preface

15

Early Life of Agrippa

17

Cornelius Agrippa to the Reader

27

Agrippa to Trithemius

30

Trithemius to Agrippa

33

 

 

THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL MAGIC

 

Chapter I. How Magicians Collect Virtues from the Three-fold World, is Declared in these Three Books

37

Chapter II. What Magic Is, What are the Parts thereof, and How the Professors thereof must be Qualified

38

Chapter III. Of the Four Elements, their Qualities, and Mutual Mixtions

42

Chapter IV. Of a Three-fold Consideration of the Elements

44

Chapter V. Of the Wonderful Natures of Fire and Earth

45

Chapter VI. Of the Wonderful Natures of Water, Air and Winds

48

Chapter VII. Of the Kinds of Compounds, what Relation they stand in to the Elements, and what Relation there is betwixt the Elements themselves and the Soul, Senses and Dispositions of Men

56

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Chapter VIII. How the Elements are in the Heavens, in Stars, in Devils, in Angels, and, lastly, in God himself

58

Chapter IX. Of the Virtues of things Natural, depending immediately upon Elements

61

Chapter X. Of the Occult Virtues of Things

62

Chapter XI. How Occult Virtues are Infused into the several kinds of Things by Ideas, through the Help of the Soul of the World, and Rays of the Stars; and what Things abound most with this Virtue

65

Chapter XII. How it is that Particular Virtues are Infused into Particular Individuals, even of the same Species

67

Chapter XIII. Whence the Occult Virtues of Things Proceed

68

Chapter XIV. Of the Spirit of the World, What It Is and how by way of medium It Unites occult Virtues to their Subjects

72

Chapter XV. How we must Find Out and Examine the Virtues of Things by way of Similitude

74

Chapter XVI. How the Operations of several Virtues Pass from one thing into another, and are Communicated one to the other

77

Chapter XVII. How by Enmity and Friendship the Virtues of things are to be Tried and Found Out

78

Chapter XVIII. Of the Inclinations of Enmities

81

Chapter XIX. How the Virtues of Things are to be Tried and Found Out, which are in them Specifically, or in any one Individual by way of Special Gift

85

Chapter XX. The Natural Virtues are in borne Things throughout their Whole Substance, and in other Things in Certain Parts and Members

86

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Chapter XXI. Of the Virtues of Things which are in them only in their Life Time, and Such as Remain in them even After their Death

88

Chapter XXII. How Inferior Things are Subjected to Superior Bodies, and how the Bodies, Actions, and Dispositions of Men are Ascribed to Stars and Signs

91

Chapter XXIII. How we shall Know what Stars Natural Things are Under, and what Things are Under the Sun, which are called Solary

95

Chapter XXIV. What Things are Lunary, or Under the Power of the Moon

99

Chapter XXV. What Things are Saturnine, or Under the Power of Saturn

101

Chapter XXVI. What Things are Under the Power of Jupiter, and are called Jovial

104

Chapter XXVII. What Things are Under the Power of Mars, and are called Martial

105

Chapter XXVIII. What Things are Under the Power of Venus, and are called Venereal

106

Chapter XXIX. What Things are Under the Power of Mercury, and are called Mercurial

107

Chapter XXX. That the Whole Sublunary World, and those Things which are in It, are Distributed to Planets

108

Chapter XXXI. How Provinces and Kingdoms are Distributed to Planets

109

Chapter XXXII. What Things are Under the Signs, the Fixed Stars, and their Images

111

Chapter XXXIII. The Seals and Characters of Natural Things

114

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Chapter XXXIV. How, by Natural Things and their Virtues, we may Draw Forth and Attract the Influences and Virtues of Celestial Bodies

118

Chapter XXXV. Of the Mixtions of Natural Things, one with another, and their Benefit

119

Chapter XXXVI. Of the Union of Mixed Things, and the Introduction of a More Noble Form, and the Senses of Life

121

Chapter XXXVII. How, by some certain Natural and Artificial Preparations, We May Attract certain Celestial and Vital Gifts

123

Chapter XXXVIII. How We May Draw not only Celestial and Vital but also certain Intellectual and Divine Gifts from Above

125

Chapter XXXIX. That We May, by some certain Matters of the World, Stir Up the Gods of the World and their Ministering Spirits

127

Chapter XL. Of Bindings; what Sort they are of, and in what Ways they are wont to be Done

128

Chapter XLI. Of Sorceries, and their Power

129

Chapter XLII. Of the Wonderful Virtues of some Kinds of Sorceries

131

Chapter XLIII. Of Perfumes or Suffumigations; their Manner and Power

136

Chapter XLIV. The Composition of some Fumes appropriated to the Planets

139

Chapter XLV. Of Collyries, Unctions, Love-Medicines, and their Virtues

141

Chapter XLVI. Of Natural Alligations and Suspensions

144

Chapter XLVII. Of Magical Rings and their Compositions

146

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Chapter XLVIII. Of the Virtue of Places, and what Places are Suitable to every Star

148

Chapter XLIX. Of Light, Colors, Candles and Lamps, and to what Stars, Houses and Elements several Colors are Ascribed

151

Chapter L. Of Fascination, and the Art thereof

154

Chapter LI. Of certain Observations, Producing wonderful Virtues

156

Chapter LII. Of the Countenance and Gesture, the Habit and the Figure of the Body, and to what Stars any of these do Answer; whence Physiognomy, and Metoposcopy, and Chiromancy, Arts of Divination, have their Grounds

159

Chapter LIII. Of Divination, and the Kinds thereof

162

Chapter LIV. Of divers certain Animals, and other things, which have a Signification in Auguries

165

Chapter LV. How Auspicias are Verified by the Light of Natural Instinct, and of some Rules of Finding of It Out

173

Chapter LVI. Of the Soothsayings of Flashes and Lightnings, and how Monstrous and Prodigious Things are to be Interpreted

178

Chapter LVII. Of Geomancy, Hydromancy, Aeromancy, and Pyromancy, Four Divinations of Elements

181

Chapter LVIII. Of the Reviving of the Dead, and of Sleeping or Hibernating (wanting victuals) Many Years together

183

Chapter LIX. Of Divination by Dreams

188

Chapter LX. Of Madness, and Divinations which are made when men are awake, and of the Power of a Melancholy Humor, by which Spirits are sometimes induced into Men's Bodies

189

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Chapter LXI. Of the Forming of Men, of the External Senses, also those Inward, and the Mind; and of the Three-fold Appetite of the Soul, and Passions of the Will

193

Chapter LXII. Of the Passions of the Mind, their Original Source, Differences, and Kinds

197

Chapter LXIII. How the Passions of the Mind change the proper Body by changing its Accidents and moving the Spirit

199

Chapter LXIV. How the Passions of the Mind change the Body by way of Imitation from some Resemblance; of the Transforming and Translating of Men, and what Force the Imaginative Power hath, not only over the Body but the Soul

201

Chapter LXV. How the Passions of the Mind can Work of themselves upon Another's Body

204

Chapter LXVI. That the Passions of the Mind are Helped by a Celestial Season, and how Necessary the Constancy of the Mind is in every Work

206

Chapter LXVII. How the Mind of Man may be Joined with the Mind of the Stars, and Intelligences of the Celestials, and, together with them, Impress certain wonderful Virtues upon inferior Things

208

Chapter LXVIII. How our Mind can Change and Bind inferior Things to the Ends which we Desire

209

Chapter LXIX. Of Speech, and the Occult Virtue of Words

210

Chapter LXX. Of the Virtue of Proper Names

212

Chapter LXXI. Of many Words joined together, as in Sentences and Verses; and of the Virtues and Astrictions of Charms

214

Chapter LXXII. Of the wonderful Power of Enchantments

216

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Chapter LXXIII. Of the Virtue of Writing, and of Making Imprecations, and Inscriptions

218

Chapter LXXIV. Of the Proportion, Correspondency, and Reduction of Letters to the Celestial Signs and Planets, According to various Tongues, and a Table thereof

219

 

 

BY HENRY MORLEY.

 

Criticism on Agrippa's Natural Magic

224

Agrippa and the Rosicrucians

226

Exposition of the Cabala

234

The Mirific Word

245

New Table of the Cabala and Tarot (specially compiled)

246

Reuchlin the Mystic

250

Agrippa Expounds Reuchlin

258

The Nobility of Woman

261

Order of the Empyrean Heaven

275

Symbols of the Alchemists

282

 

 

BY DR. L. W. DE LAURENCE.

 

The Eternal Principle

286

A Message To Mystics, The Magic Mirror

288

 

ILLUSTRATIONS AND ETCHINGS.

Title Page of 1651 Edition

36

Grand Solar Man

90

Calamus

98

Characters of Nature

116

Divine Letters

117

Cabalistical Table of Co-ordinate Characters

223

Tree of the Cabala (three full-page etchings)

239, 241, 243

The Empyrean Heaven

274

Rosicrucian Symbol of the Spirit of Nature

277

Symbols of the Alchemists

283


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