Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Three Books of Occult Philosophy

Henry Cornelius Agrippa, A theologian, physician, magician and occult writer, astrologer, and alchemist (1486-1535)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- An Encomium On The Three Books Of Cornelius Agrippa Knight

- The Life Of Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Knight

- To My Most Honorable, And No Less Learned Friend, Robert Childe, Doctor Of Physick

- Poem

- To The Reader

- To R.p.d. Iohn Tritemius, An Abbot Of Saint James In The Suburbs Of Herbipolis

- John Tritemius, Abbot Of Saint James Of Herbipolis, Formerly Of Spanhemia

- To The Revernd Father In Christ, And Most Illustrious Prince, Hermannus

- Judicious Reader

- Chapter 1. How Magicians Collect Vertues From The Three-fold World, Is Declared In These Three Books

- Chapter 2. What Magick Is, What Are The Parts Thereof, And How The Professors Thereof Must Be Qualified

- Chapter 3. Of The Four Elements, Their Qualities, And Mutuall Mixtions

- Chapter 4. Of A Three-fold Consideration Of The Elements

- Chapter 5. Of The Wonderfull Natures Of Fire, And Earth

- Chapter 6. Of The Wonderfull Natures Of Water, Aire, And Winds

- Chapter 7. Of The Kinds Of Compounds, What Relation They Stand In To The Elements

- Chapter 8. How The Elements Are In The Heavens, In Stars, In Divels, In Angels, And Lastly In God Himself

- Chapter 9. Of The Vertues Of Things Naturall, Depending Immediatly Upon Elements

- Chapter 10. Of The Occult Vertues Of Things

- Chapter 11. How Occult Vertues Are Infused Into The Several Kinds Of Things By Idea's

- Chapter 12. How It Is That Particluar Vertues Are Infused Into Particular Individuals, Even Of The Same Species

- Chapter 13. Whence The Occult Vertues Of Things Proceed

- Chapter 14. Of The Spirit Of The World, What It Is, And How By Way Of Medium It Unites Occult Vertues To Their Subjects

- Chapter 15. How We Must Find Out, And Examine The Vertues Of Things By Way Of Similitude

- Chapter 16. How The Operations Of Severall Vertues Pass From One Thing Into Another, And Are Communicated Ne To The Other

- Chapter 17. How By Enmity And Friendship The Vertues Of Things Are To Be Tryed, And Found Out

- Chapter 18. Of The Inclinations Of Enmities

- Chapter 19. How The Vertues Of Things Are To Be Tryed And Found Out, Which Are In Them Specifically

- Chapter 20. That Naturall Vertues Are In Some Things Throughout Their Whole Substance

- Chapter 21. Of The Vertues Of Things Which Are In Them Only In Their Life Time

- Chapter 22. How Inferiour Things Are Subjected To Superiour Bodies

- Chapter 23. How We Shall Know What Stars Naturall Things Are Under, And What Things Are Under The Sun

- Chapter 24. What Things Are Lunary, Or Under The Power Of The Moon

- Chapter 25. What Things Are Saturnine, Or Under The Power Of Saturne

- Chapter 26. What Things Are Under The Power Of Jupiter, And Are Called Jovial

- Chapter 27. What Things Are Under The Power Of Mars, And Are Called Martial

- Chapter 28. What Things Are Under The Power Of Venus, And Are Called Venereall

- Chapter 29. What Things Are Under The Power Of Mercury, And Are Called Mercuriall

- Chapter 30. That The Whole Sublunary World, And Those Things Which Are In It, Are Distributed To Planets

- Chapter 31. How Provinces, And Kingdomes Are Distributed To Planets

- Chapter 32. What Things Are Under The Signes, The Fixed Stars, And Their Images

- Chapter 33. Of The Seals, And Characters Of Naturall Things

- Chapter 34. How By Naturall Things, And Their Vertues We May Draw Forth, And Attract The Influencies

- Chapter 35. Of The Mixtions Of Naturall Things One With Another, And Their Benefit

- Chapter 36. Of The Union Of Mixt Things, And The Introduction Of A More Noble Form, And The Senses Of Life

- Chapter 37. How By Some Certain Naturall, And Artificiall Preparations We May Attract Certain Celestiall, And Vitall Gifts

- Chapter 38. How We May Draw Not Only Celestiall, And Vitall, But Also Certain Intellectual And Divine Gifts From Above

- Chapter 39. That We May By Some Certain Matters Of The World Stir Up The Gods Of The Word, And Their Ministring Spirits

- Chapter 40. Of Bindings, What Sort They Are Of, And In What Wayes They Are Wont To Be Done

- Chapter 41. Of Sorceries, And Their Power

- Chapter 42. Of The Wonderfull Vertues Of Some Kinds Of Sorceries

- Chapter 43. Of Perfumes, Or Suffumigations, Their Manner, And Power

- Chapter 44. The Composition Of Some Fumes Appropriated To The Planets

- Chapter 45. Of Collyries, Unctions, Love-medicines, And Their Vertues

- Chapter 46. Of Naturall Alligations, And Suspensions

- Chapter 47. Of Rings, And Their Compositions

- Chapter 48. Of The Vertue Of Places, And What Places Are Sutable To Every Star

- Chapter 49. Of Light, Colours, Candles, And Lamps, And To What Stars, Houses, And Elements Severall Colours Are Ascribed

- Chapter 50. Of Fascination, And The Art Thereof

- Chapter 51. Of Certain Observations, Producing Wonderfull Vertues

- Chapter 52. Of The Countenance, And Gesture, The Habit, And Figure Of The Body

- Chapter 53. Of Divination, And Its Kinds

- Chapter 54. Of Divers Certain Animals, And Other Things Which Have A Signification In Auguria's

- Chapter 55. How Auspica's Are Verified By The Light Of Naturall Instinct, And Of Some Rules Of Finding Of It Out

- Chapter 56. Of The Sooth Sayings Of Flashes, And Lightenings, And How Monstrous, And Prodigious Things Are To Be Interpreted

- Chapter 57. Of Geomancy, Hydromancy, Aeromancy, Pyromancy, Four Divinations Of Elements

- Chapter 58. Of The Reviving Of The Dead, And Of Sleeping, And Wanting Victuals Many Years Together

- Chapter 59. Of Divination By Dreams

- Chapter 60. Of Madness, And Divinations Which Are Made When Men Are Awake

- Chapter 61. External Senses, And Also The Inward, And The Mind

- Chapter 62. Of The Passions Of The Mind, Their Original, Difference, And Kinds

- Chapter 63. How The Passions Of The Mind Change The Proper Body, By Changing The Accidents, And Moving The Spirit

- Chapter 64. Causeth Nauseousness

- Chapter 65. How The Passions Of The Mind Can Work Out Of Themselves Upon Anothers Body

- Chapter 66. That The Passions Of The Mind Are Helped By A Celestiall Season

- Chapter 67. How Mans Mind May Be Joyned With The Mind, And Intelligencies Of The Celestials

- Chapter 68. How Our Mind Can Change, And Bind Inferiour Things To That Which It Desires

- Chapter 69. Of Speech, And The Vertue Of Words

- Chapter 70. Of The Vertue Of Proper Names

- Chapter 71. Of Many Words Joyned

- Chapter 72. Of The Wonderful Power Of Inchantments

- Chapter 73. Of The Vertue Of Writting, And Of Making Imprecations, And Inscriptions

- Chapter 74. Of The Proportion, Correspondency, Reduction Of Letters To The Celestiall Signs